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so this is why so many adopted children are insufferable assholes; they actually DO think they are special!

Yeah, the "actually writing" part seems to be what's holding me back. That, and a lack of talent.

I would like to propose the following guidelines: If you don't have the skill to write your memoirs without buying a how-to book, don't write your memoirs. Chances are your life isn't interesting enough for anyone to want to read about anyway, and if it is, someone will probably write a biography about you. No need to do it yourself.

I think the chances are pretty strong that for every person who decides to write their memoir, however unskilled and shitty of a writer they are, there is at least one person who survives them who would, I don't know, be interested in their life.

Just because someone's a shitty writer doesn't mean they didn't leave some kind of mark on the world. Even the most boring life is unique.

If your grandma wrote a shitty, boring memoir, would you read it? To understand her that much more?

You Are Special, You Are Chosen--is this a book for Jewish kids?