Has anyone read Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You

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I bought the book a year or so mostly because I liked the title, and it featured a gay main character struggling with the idea of going off to college. Plus I skimmed and the writing looked good.

Then I actually read it yesterday, and it felt like the author had been living in my head all my life. I have no words for how strongly I related to the main character; I feel like it would be easier for me to hand the book to my therapist and say, this is my life, and I don't know what to do with it.

I am pretty certain the author intended for him to have Asperger's, but I didn't find anything via google. Has anyone else read this book?

yeah i read that years ago. i picked it up because i liked the title too. actually i read it in year 11 or 12 when i was having issues deciding what to do with my life as the end of school approached so i identified with the character not just because of their personality or sexuality. his sexuality was something that threw me a little. was he gay or asexual but homophilic or what? i dont know about him having aspergers but our personalites were similar in some ways so i dunno. it was well written. good book.