I spent the majority of my middle school years completely obsessed with my best friend. ![]() That’s just how buddies feel about each other, right? To single out one of your friends and have your every single thought revolve around them is a regular part of friendship, probably. And I, too, thought that falling in love with my friends was perfectly normal. He was secretly kind of an insane person (my boy gets his arm broken and laughs about it). ![]() He was bullied for being small and sickly. He had a mother that treated him like he was sick, going so far as to fake it to keep up with the pretension. I told myself that the reason I’d become so into Eddie was that he was interesting and when I later watched the miniseries I was simply enraptured by Dennis Christopher’s portrayal because he was such a good actor (I was technically right because Fade to Black absolutely rips), but looking back, it was definitely more.Īs I got older and went back to the book again, I realized I just saw myself when reading about Eddie Kaspbrak. While the story in general was something I thoroughly enjoyed, it was Eddie Kaspbrak that I developed an attachment to the nerdy little “sickly” kid that was the prime target for bullying but had the capability to turn into a feral little gremlin when provoked and whose internal dialogue was either hero worship for Big Bill or literally anything about Richie. ![]() I was instantly obsessed with a scary story that turned out to actually be about the power of friendship, a trope I’m still very much a fan of today. I think I actually started with Firestarter as it was a far less daunting task to read a book with a page count in the 400s, but IT ended up being my favorite. It was hard for me to get into reading as a kid and it wasn’t until someone slipped Goosebumps, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and some very age inappropriate Stephen King books my way that I was finally interested. PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO THE GAYLY HELPFUL FUNDRAISER FOR THE TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER
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