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Symptoms of Being Human is a book that will stick out in your mind long after you read the last page. She deserved so much more then what people gave her, and Bec and Solo were able to see right through it all. It was friends like Solo and Bec that really made me happy for Riley. The football players make her their target, constantly calling her names, verbally attacking her, and even going as far to attack her in a alley way. Riley hopes that her new public school would be better, but sadly it isn't. Being run out of her old high school because she was being harassed by the other students. My heart really went out to the way Riley was treated. It was interesting to see that something as simple as changing the way Riley would walk in the hallway would relieve that pent up pressure and anxiousness. Riley doesn't like being forced into a gender category and it tends to give her anxiety. Sometimes it points more towards the feminine side and other times the masculine side.

Riley describes her decision of dressing or behaving more like another gender by a compass. Initially Garvin gave us no hints of Riley's birth gender, it was subtle hints dropped through out Symptoms of Being Human that you go the impression that Riley was born a girl. Under the advice of a Therapist Riley beings anonymous blog to let out her feelings, soon it becomes a huge hit and her no follower blogs climbs to over 30,000 followers. Her mother and congressman father have no clue of their child's identity, and constantly push her towards being a girl. Riley is gender fluid. Some days she identifies as a girl and other days her internal compass points all the way to boy. Riley must make a choice: walk away from what the blog has created-a lifeline, new friends, a cause to believe in-or stand up, come out, and risk everything. But just as Riley’s starting to settle in at school-even developing feelings for a mysterious outcast-the blog goes viral, and an unnamed commenter discovers Riley’s real identity, threatening exposure. On the advice of a therapist, Riley starts an anonymous blog to vent those pent-up feelings and tell the truth of what it’s REALLY like to be a gender-fluid teenager. And between starting a new school and having a congressman father running for reelection in uber-conservative Orange County, the pressure-media and otherwise-is building up in Riley’s so-called “normal” life. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl.

The first thing you’re going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl? Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Add it to Goodreads / Pre-Order it on Amazon

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