Judy Blume: One of my favorite authors from my childhood
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Aj_goodfellow — 6 years ago(January 13, 2020 01:50 AM)
I read AYTGIMM in the third grade and a bunch of girls came up to me.
“Why are you reading that book?” they demanded. “You shouldn’t be reading that book,” they informed me in a most incendiary tone.
They were like a gang. Like the Pink Ladies in Grease except with hair scrunchies and jelly shoes instead of pink jackets and lipstick.
I didn’t get it. “Why shouldn’t I be reading this book?” I wondered.
It wasn’t until I got to the part where Margaret gets her first period that I vaguely understood. They felt this was privy knowledge that a lowly boy such as myself should never know.
Could never
know, let alone understand.
This was one of the first lessons I learned in figuring out the difference between boys and girls. -
Alpha Raven Andromeda — 6 years ago(January 13, 2020 01:55 AM)
Oh okay. Why didn't you just say some of that to begin with rather than pretending to be a girl having your period relating to me? We aren't in grade school. We're both adults.
Well I'm sure Judy Blume would love to hear your story. -
Alpha Raven Andromeda — 6 years ago(January 13, 2020 03:16 AM)
I am way too old to revisit those novels. I do remember endless hours spent reading them. I had no idea Judy Blume was such an influential young adult novelist because I was one of the only teen girls that read so many of her books. The other girls in school preferred Sweet Valley High. I did read a few of those novels and thought they were cool but I could not identify with those characters lifestyle like I did with Judy's novels. If I had the mentality that I have as an adult now, back when I was a teen, I would have loved the Sweet Valley High series because I'm more into that now than dysfunctional women/teens/young adults characters in Judy's books. I still am happy she wrote all of those novels. It got me a very hard period of human development. I was soo bored and felt misunderstood and out of place.