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Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, and Abandoned Rock Operas
DID NOT FINISH: 21%
This was a very cute idea, I just had a lot of trouble reading the handwriting. I wish all the enteries were typed out as well.
As a trans man who's recently been encouraged by my therapist to get assessed for ASD, I was very excited to read this book. I was disappointed at how inaccessible it felt to me. I LOVE reading but struggle to get through any book with long chapters, and chapters in this book can go on for 50 pages. Even breaks in text within the chapters can be 20 pages apart. It surprised me because in the first 20 pages he speaks on how neurodivergent people often struggle with breaking down tasks into manageable steps, finding things like taxes, household chores, and reading extremely difficult, but this books seems to be aimed more at neurodivergent people than neurotypical people. I wish this was broken down more into short readable sections, not even made shorter as a whole, just less daunting to approach.
Dnf
CW:SA
This book immediately glorifies SA and having sex with underage boys as just a normal gay thing by having the adult narrator describe the main character's childhood and teenage body in sexual ways, specifying that he found him extremely attractive. There is then a romance between the main character and a German soldier, who is an adult as well, that is described in an extremely romanticized way. This is such a harmful troupe. The author then describes a graphic rape, enforcing another harmful troupe of queer characters experiencing trauma, including the graphic details of that trauma, for being queer in almost every narrative about us. I assume the author is queer but that does not justify writing about a child in this way. These things happen but they are not normal and they are not ok and they are certainly not romantic.
CW:SA
This book immediately glorifies SA and having sex with underage boys as just a normal gay thing by having the adult narrator describe the main character's childhood and teenage body in sexual ways, specifying that he found him extremely attractive. There is then a romance between the main character and a German soldier, who is an adult as well, that is described in an extremely romanticized way. This is such a harmful troupe. The author then describes a graphic rape, enforcing another harmful troupe of queer characters experiencing trauma, including the graphic details of that trauma, for being queer in almost every narrative about us. I assume the author is queer but that does not justify writing about a child in this way. These things happen but they are not normal and they are not ok and they are certainly not romantic.
