Rae initially has a crush on Archie; from the moment she sees him, she can't stop thinking about him. In Episode 2, Archie asks Rae on a date and they kiss, but it is later revealed that Archie is gay. For the remainder of the series, Rae and Archie are close friends and nothing romantic happens between them. Hay cosas que se han quedado en el aire y no sé si lo que sale en la serie es información verdadera que sucede después de que Rae terminara el año 1989 o se lo inventan totalmente. ¡La autora debería haber dicho algo! In saying that, it was a particularly interesting read. Especially from the POV of someone so constantly bullied & harassed that she expected it, and made comments like "only one person had a go tonight". It's truly heartbreaking.

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Davies, Sophie (21 January 2013). "Rae Earl on My Mad Fat Diary". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 23 January 2013. To start: I'm a fat girl. So is the girl writing this diary. I related so well to everything she is going through. Like her problems are ALREADY relatable but being the same size as her makes it so I relate extremely well. Almost too well. Which brings me to my first problem.

El libro es el verdadero diario de la autora, Rae Earl, durante su adolescencia en 1989, una adolescencia con muchos subes y bajas, problemas de autoestima y aceptación, donde tuvo que soportar críticas de la sociedad hacia su cuerpo. La historia logra transmitir todos estos sentimientos, la frustración de no ser aceptada por la sociedad, el odio hacia uno mismo, el deseo de ser distinta. Kirsty Armstrong as Lois (series 2–3), a sweet girl in Stacey's clique. She is revealed to be Archie's "girlfriend". After Rae "outs" Archie to Lois, she threatens to tell her friends that Archie is gay if he doesn't tell everyone first.

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You need to go into this book separating it from the TV show. The show is sheer brilliance and the people reading this book because of it clearly agree or you wouldn't be making the effort. The book is the diary of a teenage girl - a 17 yo girl at that. We're all the centres of our own universe at that age. Al comienzo se me hizo una lectura bastante pesada, no podía conectar con la historia ni con Rae, a pesar de que empatizaba totalmente con ella. Además las entradas son, en su mayoría, cortas, y yo soy más predilecta a los capítulos largos. Pero, en la mitad del libro, me empezó a interesar más la trama con la aparición de un nuevo interés romántico. Earl is incredibly good value for money. Somehow during our chat, there’s even time for me to say hello to her husband, her mum, and very nearly, a doctor who’s the spit of Dev Patel in Lion currently making a house call to her poorly child.

My Mad Fat Diary is a British comedy-drama television series distributed by E4. It is adapted from Rae Earl's real-life diaries and subsequent book My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary. Tom Bidwell serves as the writer of the show. Semple, Brian (14 January 2013). "My Mad Fat Diary is a breath of fresh air for mental illness on TV". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. The recall process went on for months. Each time, she chose to audition with a comic scene. “Then something happened before my final audition and I thought, ‘Right, you can either go in there and show them what you can do or you can let [the part] go because you don’t want to show them you can be vulnerable.” Hesitation flits across Rooney’s expressive face, a reluctance, perhaps, to use tragedy for her own ends. “One of my friends passed away, literally, before I went in. She wasn’t very well and she just left before we thought she would.” Did Rooney consider not going in? “Of course. I wanted my mum. I wanted to go home and cry into a pillow. But when I had finished crying into a pillow, my friend still wouldn’t be there.” Earl created #Help’s protagonist Millie as a reflection of the kind of young teenager she was. “I was very like Millie, the sensible one, still silly and funny but you’d go to her for common-sense advice.” Earl was born and raised in Stamford, Lincolnshire. She attended Stamford High School. She obtained a degree from Hull University and won the university's Philip Larkin literary prize in 1994.

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I really liked the diary layout of the book, but I found the writing basic and non descriptive sometimes.

In some parts of the book I did really seem to connect with Rae, like when Harry asked her out because he felt sorry for her and when Bethany was being a downright cow. I really felt sorry for Rae then, because it must have been tough, and I could actually imagine myself in her position. It's these parts of the book that made it difficult to put down. The show also received praise for its honest portrayal of mental health. Brian Semple of The Independent calls the show "surprisingly honest, funny and even moving account of what it’s like for a teenage girl to live with serious mental health problems, free of many of the clichés that often inform how mental illness is portrayed on TV," going on to say that Rae "has a mental illness, but it doesn't define her. It's just something that she has to deal with and try to manage on a daily basis, just like the one in ten young people in the UK who have a mental illness." Semple refers to My Mad Fat Diary as a "breath of fresh air and will do a lot to change the way young people think about mental health." [12] The mental health charity Mind honoured the show in their annual Media Awards in the Drama category in 2014 [13] and 2016. [14] [15] Earl's style is enjoyable and I found myself amused often by both her humor and the ridiculous situations she has gotten herself into. Reading her memories I felt a bit like a was a teenager again, with all the problems and agonies I had, with the diaries I wrote (which are, unfortunately, not as funny as Rae's). I certainly wasn't bored reading this book, I just expected more from it. But that's it, isn't it? My expectations got the better of me again.