Promotional graphic with a pink grid background featuring a book review for A Life in Too Many Margins by S.E. Thomson. On the left, the book cover shows a rainbow wheelchair trapped in a mousetrap labeled ‘discard asap.’ On the right, a dark text box with the heading ‘Reader’s Reviews’ shares Lily Whichard’s review: ‘Dark, hilarious, and painfully real. This book made me laugh at things I definitely shouldn't have, and then punched me right in the feelings. Finally, a story about being autistic, disabled, and queer that isn't "inspiration porn." Read it before everyone else does, so you can be smug about it later.’ Below are five stars. Hand-drawn hearts decorate the image, and the handle @toomanymargins appears at the top.

The eBook is getting good feedback. Want to write your own?
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A colorful poster with checkered squares and a small child in pink on a yellow background. Above it says NOT DAVID, below it says A Life in Too Many Margins.

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David's evolution is a thing to behold.
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A flat lay of a desk with a white keyboard, coffee cup, and notebooks in the background. Large text asks: “Why did you write this book?” Below, smaller text reads: “Because apparently, when you keep telling people your life stories, they either laugh so hard they cry, or cry so hard they laugh, and enough people told me I had to write a book that I eventually gave in. Turns out it’s way cheaper than therapy, though with more confusion over semicolons.” Tag: @toomanymargins.

Q&A #1 with me, S. E. Thomson, the author of A Life in Too Many Margins.
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A Life in Too Many Margins written at the top. A cassette tape in the middle. Under that it reads: Remember when Audiobooks came on 27 cassettes in a shoebox? Yeah, me neither. Now it's just a file, but only if you back my Kickstarter. http://readmybook.gay

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A young male presenting person with dark hair and eyes with a red shirt on. The text reads David Cortes and then http://toomanymargins.com The picture is in a rotating chain of other pictures you cannot see.

all three pictures from the last three slides. they are together on phone screens with the same name, David Cortes and address http://toomanymargins.com. The title reads A Life in Too Many Margins.

Reading and journeying with David as he grows up is an experience you won't forget.
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Autism Olympics (n): Where you're only valid if you're a completely incapable. No middle lane. Good luck. http://readmybook.gay

The stories I could tell....
Actually, I told a bunch in my book!
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Anyone else exhausted?
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Prologue Day 9,997 of pain. Week twelve of being told that this specific issue is all in my head. Hour seven of staring at the beige hospital blanket that has exactly three blood spatters on it. Why does every hospital blanket ever have at least one bloodstain on it? I'm in a hospital gown that ties like it's afraid of commitment and strapped to a heart monitor that won't shut up every time I, gods forbid, breathe irregularly for even a moment. Which is funny, considering breathing irregularly is the reason I am here. That, and getting ignored by a deeply underpaid parade of doctors with clipboards and God complexes. Plot twist: this time, as of five minutes ago, they finally believe me. Sort of. Or rather, they believe the fifth CT scan, which revealed that I am full of blood. That grey section on the scan is supposed to be black, and that means I'm screwed.

The first page 😉 #spoilers #za Life in Too Many Margins!

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Snack Therapy (n): When the only thing keeping you together is a very specific brand of crackers."

Right now it's Pop Tart Bites for me!
How about you?

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THE BOOK IS FINISHED!!
I can't believe it, I estimated a week but I didn't sleep last night and BOOM.
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