1:42am June 6, 2014

Reblog if you’re an adult who proudly reads YA.

I should also add some commentary here:  

As a DD adult this choice gets not only questioned, but seen as evidence that I’m not a real adult.  I read YA and I read straight-up children’s books, including picture books.  They aren’t the only books I read, but they're most of the books I read, and that means something different as an adult with a developmental disability than it does as any random adult who can get away with it.  In the wrong situation, I could have all of my favorite books confiscated and donated, thrown away, gotten rid of, or otherwise destroyed.  Because that’s what Normalization is all about in practice, being “age-appropriate” and denying us any rights to anything “not adult enough”.  Including defacing or destroying property that belongs to us, not them.

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