This has nothing to do with the book I want to talk about today, but book titles like this one, “Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child”, annoy me. I know I’m not a parent, but your child is the same human you’ve known for most of your life, and guess what – they trust you enough to share an essential part of themselves with you, which isn’t easy for them. Anyway, depending on where you are seeing this, you know I’m doing two readathons: the Camp Nightmare at Lake Thrills and Chills and the Bootcamp readathon.
I finished three books so far. Speaking of that, some of my Kindle books don’t want to open. I fixed the issue before, but I can’t remember how I did it. I have been wanting to read Glitch Girl! By Rainie Oet for a while now, so it was a no-brainer first pick for June. This is the book that made me discuss in sprints last night whether or not ADHD should be seen as disability representation. The hosts who have ADHD said no.
However, here’s my point of view: a disability doesn’t mean that you aren’t able to do something. To me, it means that the way society is built isn’t allowing access to doing everyday tasks, which is evident from the way J was being misunderstood and denied things. It was really cool when her friend Sam came into the picture, showing her it was right to be herself, by them being themselves and handling gender issues and gender expression as they arose. A trigger warning here is the mention of a parent beating their child as a punishment, something that is very triggering for me.
Alex
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