At its core it’s a heartwarming story of overcoming challenges using acceptance and love. I think there’s enough in this for ace and allo folk, those with and without OCD. Giving unparalleled insight into asexuality and asexual relationships, How To Be Ace shows the importance of learning to be happy and proud of who you are. Rebecca Burgess does a great job of informing and educating without preaching or casting hatred on ignorance. In this brave, hilarious and empowering graphic memoir, we follow Rebecca as they navigate a culture obsessed with sex - from being bullied at school and trying to fit in with friends, to forcing themselves into relationships and experiencing anxiety and OCD - before coming to understand and embrace their asexual identity. It also covers OCD, anxiety, and touches a bit on autism, so it manages to cover a lot of ground in 208 pages. Growing up, Rebecca assumes sex is just a scary new thing they will 'grow into' as they get older, but when they leave school, start working and do grow up, they start to wonder why they don't want to have sex with other people. How to Be Ace is both a good coming of age memoir and a great primer of what asexuality is and how the social pressures to have sex and find a romantic partner can be very damaging. Me though? I was only interested in comics." "When I was in school, everyone got to a certain age where they became interested in talking about only one thing: boys, girls and sex. GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS - YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION (YALSA) 2022
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