That Story's Sick with Ruby Hinepunui Solly

On that note, joyful.

On that joyful note,

do you have any reading recommendations for us?

And I think that, I think that like reading is actually such a powerful way of showing people those experiences.

And I actually have a book list for people who messaged me like, I think I have bipolar.

And then I'm like, hello, person who has just been diagnosed with bipolar.

Here is my big bipolar resource list.

If I can't do it right now, because I'm like, I love that.

Yeah.

And then some of them are like, it's real funny when some of them are like, oh, I thought I might be, and then I went and read these books, and I actually think I'm not, but I'm really glad I read them.

That's kind of my favourite, is I'm like, yeah, that's great too.

Really good.

And some people will be like, that's actually all I needed.

I'm not gonna, I won't recommend those.

I should put that list online somewhere, really.

One I will recommend is Pascale Patet is my favourite poet, probably of all time.

Both of her parents had severe mental illnesses, and she's had her battles as well.

She's a French poet of Welsh, French and Indian descent and she wrote this book Mama Amazonica which is my favorite book of all time probably one of my top five and she she's looking at her mother in an asylum but she's imagining it as a jungle and all of these and all of the people are animals and the doctors and it's all like her imagining and she's seeing herself through her mother and that kind of genetic idea genetic and whakapapa ideas of disability It's something I go back to again and again.

And she's recently released a book about her father.

It's a novel and it's a fiction.

It's a bit of a Mary Sue, I think.

But it's called My Hummingbird Father and that's also fantastic.

And it really shows that thing of like, this isn't all horrific and this isn't all beautiful.

It's both of them at the same time.

And I think that's a part of disability that I really want other people to understand and see.