All My Friends Are Invisible: the inspirational childhood memoir

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This extraordinary childhood memoir is not only an important, thought-provoking and exhilarating read, it gives hope and community for all those who have ever felt ‘other’, and proves how vital it is to provide children with the safe space to be themselves. The book has no real plot and feels like you are reading fiction, and the ending is sudden and jarring, and would have been better for the book to end with Jonathan now in the present day reflecting on his childhood as he finishes the book. Traumatic memories are, by their nature, deeply harmful and traumatic and the human brain usually represses these memories. As someone who was abused at the same age as the author claims to also have been abused, I find it highly unbelievable that he could describe these events (which I’m not sure even constitute abuse) with such detail.

Having said that however, I feel my review needs to reflect that this book is said to be childhood memoir, and I feel it reads very much as a fictional novel.I believe that some chapters needed to include rest of that particular story/memory in them even if there wasn't a resolution.

I am astonished this has been published and beg anyone who is considering reading it to save their time - it truly is awful.The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. Maybe it's more mainstream now or maybe it was where I grew up but I was rather confused by the entire thing as what the issue was. When you find yourself living in a world that doesn't understand you, and you lack any connection to anyone or any place, you are faced with few options.