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17% complete! erin has read 9 of 52 books.
Don't let other people determine your self-worth. There are only a handful of people in this world whose opinion of me actually matters to me. The rest of the eleventy billion people on the planet don't get a vote, no matter how much they think they should.
— Unfuck Your Intimacy by Faith G. Harper (Page 146)
I swear to god I'm going to finish this today
ActivityPub is the new standard for connecting social networks together on the social web. This open, decentralized social networking protocol …
yeah I'm a fitness and self help book bitch now. I know.
But honestly I just kinda don't want to hate everything anymore. I promise to read a book about The Computer, anarchy, being gay or whatever soon.
While I have not had the chance to try any of these out, I feel I have more ideas about what the fuck to do when things suck. And that's the idea I suppose.
Harper's style is good for someone like me. It's conversational, funny, and unafraid to call bullshit. I don't want or need to be coddled, I need someone to tell me that I need to work on my shit, and maybe offer some suggestions for how I do that.
I'll be honest, I haven't been well. I get overwhelmed in crowds of more than 5, I cant handle bright lights and loud noises, and I spend more time alone than I ever have in my life. These things started getting worse than normal at the beginning of the year, so I thought I would do the smart thing and drop my unhealthy habits, like drinking. Lo and …
While I have not had the chance to try any of these out, I feel I have more ideas about what the fuck to do when things suck. And that's the idea I suppose.
Harper's style is good for someone like me. It's conversational, funny, and unafraid to call bullshit. I don't want or need to be coddled, I need someone to tell me that I need to work on my shit, and maybe offer some suggestions for how I do that.
I'll be honest, I haven't been well. I get overwhelmed in crowds of more than 5, I cant handle bright lights and loud noises, and I spend more time alone than I ever have in my life. These things started getting worse than normal at the beginning of the year, so I thought I would do the smart thing and drop my unhealthy habits, like drinking. Lo and behold, several of those were actually the mechanisms I used to cope with things like crowds, loud noises, and bright lights.
So now here I am, physically healthier than I've been in years, running 5ks, not smoking, drinking, or anything else, and I am absolutely always on the verge of losing my shit.
Enter therapy. Enter some hard truths about myself being stirred up. Enter "you need coming skills." Enter this little book.
I'll be trying to retain what I read and applying what I learned. Maybe someday I'll be able to handle going to a show again.
my therapist says I need to learn some coping skills so here we are
BE MINE, VALENTINE
It’s February 4th and Adachi has a question for Shimamura about Valentine’s …
This volume continued to be cute and gay and the main characters continued to be hopeless.
I actually started this book right away when I finished volume 2 over a year ago, but it fell by the wayside. I picked it back up recently and it hooked me again, so I finally finished it. I can't wait to start Volume 4 after I get a bit more "serious" reading done.
BE MINE, VALENTINE
It’s February 4th and Adachi has a question for Shimamura about Valentine’s Day—if, that is, she can …
Maybe I'll change my mind in the future about this review. Maybe I'll hate this book after I've learned more. But before this I knew very little about autism and had never read the experiences of an autistic person from their perspective. And this book was short and accessible and cleared up several misconceptions in my brain. I feel like, after reading this, I have a better idea of how much I don't know about autism, as well as a sort of foundation of knowledge to build on. The structure of a FAQ allowed me to open it up to read one question and one answer at a time. Sometimes I only had 5 minutes, but even then I could make a little progress between things.
Jumping back and forth between Harper and Biel was a little disorienting at times, but I appreciated getting both the perspective of a therapist …
Maybe I'll change my mind in the future about this review. Maybe I'll hate this book after I've learned more. But before this I knew very little about autism and had never read the experiences of an autistic person from their perspective. And this book was short and accessible and cleared up several misconceptions in my brain. I feel like, after reading this, I have a better idea of how much I don't know about autism, as well as a sort of foundation of knowledge to build on. The structure of a FAQ allowed me to open it up to read one question and one answer at a time. Sometimes I only had 5 minutes, but even then I could make a little progress between things.
Jumping back and forth between Harper and Biel was a little disorienting at times, but I appreciated getting both the perspective of a therapist AND an autistic person.
I have a lot of reading to do, and this was as good a place to start as any.
well I just learned a lot that I have to process
@masukomi@bookwyrm.social I loved that dumb little book too! it was too cute and stupid and sweet for me to judge it harshly, and I'm pretty sure I read it in two sittings.
A true community consists of individuals -- not mere species members, not couples -- respecting each others individuality and privacy, at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally -- free spirits in relation to each other -- and cooperating with each other to achieve common ends.
— S.C.U.M. manifesto by Valerie Solanas (Page 16 - 17)
making an attempt to get better. I'm tired of being depressed.
