marsh_6055 shared a tip "It’s funny how closely this book paralleled my own experiences- it’s probably the closest thing I’ve ever come to a mirror of myself in media. I too wished for breast cancer, walked around topless as a kid because I saw men doing it, attached to Tamora Pierce’s Alanna as a child and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home as an older teen, have debated the great ‘am I bisexual or asexual or just traumatized or all three’ puzzle, decided early I never wanted children, and had similar poorly-functional short-term relationships when I was younger. I also encountered radfem reasonings when I came out, hung out with theater kids because my conservative school wouldn’t allow a GSA, feel intensely embarrassed about sharing my personal work, am involved irregularly in fandoms and regularly have nightmares about restrooms. But on the other hand, some of our experiences couldn’t be further from each other. I have never had trouble during a pap smear. My parents were not nearly so ‘live and let live’ as Maia’s parents, and I had to shoulder a lot more physical, emotional, financial, and sexual trauma than em. I love spivak pronouns, but they don’t fit me. Eye-catching clothing gives me intense dysphoria. I am actually repulsed by nearly all of the megafandoms mentioned in this book. I medically transitioned after doubting myself intensely. I believe it’s possible to have happy, longlasting, and mostly nonsexual intimate relationships, because I’ve successfully had one for six years. It solidifies my opinion that it’s impossible to find that exact mirror and pointless to search for it, because we are all so different, trans OR cis. I hope Maia gets a chance to have top and bottom surgery sometime soon and feel more comfortable in eir body."

rungemailles shared a tip "I’m a voracious reader, and I’ve binged my way through increasing amounts of LGBTQIA2S+ books over the past few years. But as much as I consumed queer content, I rarely found rep I truly identified with. This was a deeply emotional read for me. Maia’s journey might have been a bit different from mine, but eir representation of what it might feel like, what it might look like being nonbinary is so important for those of us out here who don’t yet have the words to express who we are"