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Listening to the audiobook and finishing up chapter 6, and I'm glad there was a trigger warning. Part one is very intense, and incredibly difficult if you're a person who survived childhood abuse and/or have cPTSD. Highly recommend pacing yourself and using self-regulation tools if you are considering reading this.

Definitely written in the early 2000s with all the glory of chat rooms and newspaper ads as dating solutions, but so far the suggestions for communication, working around pain and limitations, and other very practical things are insightful and creative. I also very much appreciate the plentiful excerpts from real people with various disabilities for each topic.

I restarted since it has been a while and I have read much more anti-racist work now compared to when I started this. I am not sure if it was the writing style or how long it has been since I engaged with such academic language, but for the first time in a very long time I struggled to comprehend passages and found myself rereading several sections to get the meaning. Excellent research, I'm learning a lot.

I should have known a day would come when I related to an adult in a book more than the child. I related to Vola from the moment we met her, but her story just brought me to tears. Our main character, his fox, and the story as a whole are extremely compelling and I can't wait to continue reading.