Strong Female Character, Jury Duty & Facing Heaven

#6 Good Sh*t From This Week

Hi lovely lot,

Here’s your Sunday scroll.

NGL, I’ve felt a bit creatively drained this week. I’m loving freelance life, but my days are now so full of projects that I deeply care about, that when I shut my laptop for the evening, I’m left with nothing but birds chirping around my head. I’ll muster a bath and maybe some reality TV, but reading or consuming high-art has been tricky. Bless the invention of audio books! I’ve only got into them this past month, and they’re perfect for when your eyes need a break but you want to immerse yourself into a different world.

1. Fern Brady’s Strong Female Character

On the topic of audiobooks, I devoured Fern’s memoir ‘Strong Female Character’. It’s a sharp, hilarious, painful exploration of her life growing up as autistic, undiagnosed, and how class, misogyny, mental health and personal ambition intersects.

I don’t have autism, and found this book was very eye-opening - autistic women are failed every single day. It’s heartbreaking in parts, angering in others, and required reading for all. Fern wrote it, so of course it’s also fucking funny.

“The public perception of autistics is so heavily based on the stereotype of men who love trains or science that many women miss out on diagnosis and thought of as studious instead”