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dynamic_argon t1_jcw84oq wrote

Reply to Who is the most memorable protagonist of a book that you ever read? by Triumphant-Smile

David Wong from the series John dies at the end. He is unabashedly human. With many flaws that go deep. He is very self ware of his problems and of those around him but I'd also poignantly funny and has pretty realistic reactions to the craziness of his life around him. Reading things from his perspective throughout the books always makes me laugh or smile

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Professional_Mud_316 t1_jcvxd04 wrote

Reply to Thoughts on self-help books? by Artsyshoelace

My daily lead-ball-and-chain existence consists of a formidable perfect-storm-like combination of adverse childhood experience trauma, autism spectrum disorder and high sensitivity, the ACE trauma in large part being due to my ASD and high sensitivity.

Ergo, it would be very helpful to people like me to have books written about such or similar conditions involving a coexistence of ACE trauma and/or ASD and/or high sensitivity, the latter which seems to have a couple characteristics similar to ASD traits.

While self-help books are informative and useful to me in other ways, they nevertheless typically fail to mention any of the three abovementioned cerebral conditions, let alone the potential obstacles they may or likely will pose to readers like me benefiting from the book’s information/instruction.

The Autistic Brain, for example, fails to even once mention the real potential for additional challenges created by a reader’s ASD coexisting with thus exacerbated by high sensitivity and/or ACE trauma.

As it were, I also read a book on adverse childhood experience trauma, Childhood Disrupted, that totally fails to even once mention high sensitivity and/or autism spectrum disorder. That was followed by The Highly Sensitive Man, with no mention whatsoever of autism spectrum disorder or adverse childhood experience trauma.

I therefore don't know whether my additional, coexisting conditions will render the information and/or assigned exercises from such not-cheap books useless, or close to it, in my efforts to live much less miserably. I wonder whether I, when reading such self-help books, should try considering/consuming their content as might a neurotypical or non-ASD person?

While many/most people in my shoes would work with the books nonetheless, I cannot; I simply need to know if I'm wasting my time and, most importantly, mental efforts.

The way I see it: ACE abuse thus trauma is often inflicted upon ASD and/or highly sensitive children and teens by their normal or ‘neurotypical’ peers — thus resulting in immense and even debilitating self-hatred and shame — so why not at least acknowledge it in some meaningful, constructive way?

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Clemmutine OP t1_jcvolsv wrote

Reply to comment by chortlingabacus in How to store books in a bookshelf by Clemmutine

I only have 1 book case to accommodate for 2 series of books (1 of the series is very long) that i have, plus some other random books i've read. But i'll have to think about re-arranging it.

And thank god, luckly the books will be able to fit tightly next to eachother once i (hopefully) get the entire collection. Glad to know the warping issue is solved.

Thank youu!!!!

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XwitchedX t1_jcvoazb wrote

Reply to How to store books in a bookshelf by Clemmutine

You could look into adding door/s to the bookcase. And they make "UV protection plexiglass"(the same things they use in jersey shadow boxes) and you could add that as the glass. It will be light weight, and protect the books at the same time❤️

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