None. I’m not ashamed. I’m dyslexic so I don’t read a lot of books.
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I never finished The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.
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To Kill a Mockingbird – I was meant to read it for an exam and I didn’t and I cheated. I was allowed to use a laptop to type my answers because I couldn’t see my writing, so I hid an electronic copy of the book on the laptop.
I feel no shame about not reading a book. That’s silly.
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I’d like all my effort noticed.
At a pub in Rotherham. I was a really bad waitress and I ended up being demoted to chopping the potatoes and I even got fired from that.
I had some gynaecological issues that were very sudden, about 18 months ago, and felt that I might be dying. I wasn’t but it was quite serious.
I was recently made to feel that it’s my mental health that’s the problem and not the system.
My internalised misogyny that still manages to cloud some of my thinking.
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