For Today I Am a Boy
Book • 2014
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is someone tortured?
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there's a short conversion therapy scene
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Is there domestic violence?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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in a story one character recounts, a father sues for custody of a severely autistic son and puts him into aba, thinking he can make him "normal"
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Are there fat jokes?
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there is fat fetishism, though, and the fat character is inactive and indulgent
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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a severely autistic boy attacks his aba therapist in a story one character recounts.
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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a deceased character's birth name is given alongside her real name, and is used by the pov character in her thoughts to distinguish the pre- and post-transition selves of the character.
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Is there a large age gap?
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a girl somewhere around her early teens goes out with old men. the pov character dates an old woman for a while. there's also a kiss between a 19 year old man and the pov character in her 30s late in the book, but the two have no romantic connection before or afterwards.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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yes, and it's a hate crime.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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no mental institutions, but an old folks' home that has a resident with dementia appears in the earlier part of the book
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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no, but there is suicide in the book.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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only in the pov character's imagination
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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a different racial slur does appear in the book, though
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Does a woman get slapped?
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not the pov character, and not as a major theme
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Is electro-therapy used?
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a character has gone through conversion therapy, though, and it's described
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Is there ABA therapy?
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in a story one character tells. the therapy is not discussed in any detail.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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people do go to the hospital at multiple points in the book, though
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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presumably, but it's not pointed out
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Are there ghosts?
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no ghosts, but the idea of a certain character watching the pov character from beyond the grave is a small part of the story
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Does someone miscarry?
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someone thinks herself to have miscarried, anyway. her doctor at the time said she was never pregnant.
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Does a kid die?
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she's probably not a kid, but there's a picture of a character as a teenager in her obituary.
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Does a baby cry?
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pretty sure it happens, but also this is a book, so it's only in text
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Is a baby stillborn?
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this is part of the miscarriage that probably didn't happen, and is also called back to later.
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