Reviews with content warning for Mental illness - How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual

Great memoir about growing up ace (and with OCD and a severe phobia, which I didn't expect). I recommend it to anyone who feels like they are different but don't know why. Overall, I think this book does a good job demonstrating why diversity is so crucial in media, especially media targeted toward kids. She perfectly describes the feeling of not having words to describe your experience and the only people in media that represent this aspect of you are sociopaths and serial killers. She also describes how she felt the first time she saw this part of herself represented in the media and how more representation will lead to more education and more accepting societies. Anyway, it was a great, fairly quick read

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challenging emotional informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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4.5

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challenging informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Rebecca Burgess talks about her OCD, panic attacks, art school, asexuality, therapy, relationships, finding herself.

I’m asexual and this was soooo relatable. There is a lot of good conversation about how representation in media (movies, music, art, etc) revolve around romance and how damaging it is, not just to asexual and aromantic people but to everyone.

And now Good Omens has been pushed up to my watch list.

I loved that she mentioned her roleplay with a friend because I also roleplay and it’s so fun once you find a good roleplay partner lol

The art style wasn’t exactly my favorite but I throughly enjoyed everything else about it

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inspiring relaxing medium-paced

4.75

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4.0

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4.0

Lovely graphic memoir about the author's experience coming to understand her asexuality and find her own happiness and love!

As more of a general note, I can't stress enough how important it is to read <i>lots</i> of different people's stories if you're trying to develop a wider understanding of a demographic. I feel like I learn totally unique and different things from each ace book I read.

And as a side tangental note...this is the first time I've seen online prose-style RPing depicted in any media ever? So that was neat too.

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4.5

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