No Worries If Not: A Funny(ish) Story of Growing Up Working Class and Queer

Product Information

If you like fiction that makes you laugh so much, but also makes you think about yourself and others. No worries if not’ is something we say for many reasons,” says counselling psychologist Dr Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell. Some examples include “I matter and I am open to receiving the help of others” or “I am the manager and it’s my job to instruct my team. Almost always the tweets are self-deprecating: Everyone’s making fun of themselves for being so accommodating , so socially anxious , so unable to ask for what they need .

A rich white woman from the Upper East Side will communicate her desires differently from a black working class guy from the Bronx, and they’re nearly neighbors. Her raw, vulnerable honesty is really touching and powerful, and her more sombre poems are notably better crafted and more thought-provoking. In fact, No Worries If Not is full of truth-bombs that I whole-heartedly agree with: that council estates aren’t the hellholes they’re made out to be (I’m lower-middle class myself, but I mixed with a lot of kids from the council terraces right next to my primary school); that teaching children that there are options other than (compulsory) heterosexuality can save a great deal of pain and homophobia, both internalised and from other pupils; that attention- seeking should be renamed attention- needing; that first love is both wonderful and terrible; that some therapists/approaches ( cough mindfulness cough) can make things worse; and anti-depressants save lives.It really is a book for everyone - and in so many ways help you feel like you’re not alone and were never alone through life’s most difficult times. Think about it, if you’re apologising for things that aren’t your fault, how are people meant to know when actually you are, truly, very sorry? If originally the expression was used to clarify the stakes of a question, now it’s used to manipulate them. I'm going to try and not judge this book too harshly because it's a genre that I don't particularly enjoy.

If you’re sending a request that is, let’s face it, a little bit cheeky, then adding in ​ “no worries if not” won’t hurt. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.She learns the value of ‘sorry’, if you’re too busy throwing the word around like confetti, it loses it’s meaning. But this experience has also taught me to try harder not to apologise; to remember that I have worth and I have experience that people need. The pace of the book was mainly just right, however I found the flashback chapters interrupted the story unnecessarily.

So many of us can relate to using the word “sorry” a lot, and I definitely feel seen just reading this review. But if you do suffer from an unrelenting urge to punch ​ “no worries if not” into your keyboard, it’s also important to not let it become yet another thing you beat yourself up about. Also last week: I held a discussion thread about relationship doubts and got so many smart and thoughtful comments.As an elderly millennial, I tend to listen to parenting/ feminist/ menopause type pods but this is amazing!