TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joly,Jonathan
TI  - All my friends are invisible: when the world doesn't understand you, it's time to create your own : a memoir 
SN  - 9781529420616
U1  - 820 23
PY  - 2022///
KW  - Joly, Jonathan,
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Transgender people
KW  - Identity
KW  - Vloggers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Imaginary companions
KW  - Gender Identity
KW  - Identité sexuelle
KW  - Transgenres
KW  - Identité
KW  - Blogueurs vidéo
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Compagnons imaginaires
KW  - Dublin (Ireland)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Autobiography
N1  - A memoir - tp
N2  - A mesmeric, harrowing and uplifting childhood memoir that will open up much-needed conversations about identity and mental health. It was an ordinary day in 2016. In Gatwick Airport, Jonathan and his wife Anna were having breakfast with their two little children while waiting for their flight to be called. And then it happened, a familiar sensation that Jonathan hadn't had for decades: an out-of-body experience that transported him to another place, the safe place he used to escape to in his mind when he was a boy. Because growing up in conservative 1980s Dublin, where there was little tolerance for children who were 'different', Jonathan Joly was, indeed, a different sort of child: creative, expressive, and - on the inside - a girl. The limitations of the people around him to understand his differences led to years of tyrannical bullying and abuse, forcing him to withdraw within himself to the point of clinical absence --
ER  -