Something that David and another memoirist named Augusten Borroughs both provoke in my mind is the idea of how writing memoirs affects the author's family. David wrote about this, describing how his family sort of walks on eggshells around him, avoiding any negative experiences that may be hyperbolized and later recorded in a memoir. Augusten has written many memoirs about particular family members and his childhood and the negative influences of both in his life.
I can only shiver to think of how my mom would react if I ever dared to publish some of the things she's said or done to me.
These men must be very brave; to blatantly write about such personal matters as their comings-of-age, their identity issues concerning their sexualities, and the people who rotate in their lives like the planets around the sun.
Maybe I'll be that brave one day.
Sorry, but that is all for today.
Much love to you all, dear, courageous ones.
I hate to cheapen what is very real and insightful, Dottie, but I could only think of one thing when you insisted you aren't a homophobe by citing all your homosexual friends. You know that guy who always insists he's not racist because he has a lot of black friends? I'm sorry, but that's all I could think.
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