@dolly96 Had a great thread in this amazing book, and writing talent, that got sidetracked all over the place by issues and had to be deleted.
https://www.annarajmon.com
”Elis” isn’t about issues, but rather about my favourite thing, as in:
”Here is some stuff from life, see if it is any use to you and what you make of it” but with a unique rider of “however to make it more interesting…” and a stellar talent.
Here is the reason why I think you should read Elis:
Let me set the scene for you:
I am autistic with CPTSD all over the place. I have pretty much always lived as a recluse mostly because being being around people totally blind to their non-verbal reactions and intentions causes intolerable levels of stress. The only way I can be in a public ward, even for a day, is heavily sedated.
l woke up from something called a Transurethral Resection of a Bladder Tumor, that nobody ever thought would biopsy as benign (for one thing it looked WAY too much like Donald J you-know-who, seriously, to be harmless).
I also woke up fitted with a catheter that, even if ALL THE ABOVE did not exist would still be not-so-subtle torture.
I saw this promoted and bought it to read as a chore, to see what it was about.
like many autistics I rarely laugh, except to give a polite response.
Within 10 minutes I was laughing out loud in a public ward and trying to “keep it down” even though the book is also very raw and real.
This is also why I think the book is too good to waste on pushing any issue or personal opinion, including my own.
So I will stop here.