Introduction: The story of me, myself, and I -- Dating. Things I wish someone told me about dating -- 2005 was a great year for dating -- My first heartbreak -- My date with a GDI: the worst date ever -- I think I'm allergic to you -- Pimp yo profile -- 100 things that are worse than a broken heart -- Friends and frenemies. Toxic friendships -- Bullies should dress like Cruella de Vil...or Mufasa -- How to make friends -- "You can't sit with us" is no longer a funny graphic T-shirt -- Growing up(ward). The first time I got drunk -- 10 ways to trick people into thinking you have your shit together -- Confidence and insecurities -- Self-love -- Dealing with failure -- And you thought trolls lived under bridges -- A comprehensive step-by-step program on how to give zero fucks -- Depression -- Anxiety -- Finding year own family -- Finding love and being happy. Obligatory chapter about finding love and being happy.
Summary:
As an only child raised in a town of less than 8,000 people and without a Starbucks in sight, Meghan Rienks has always been pretty good at entertaining herself. Then one day (cue the dramatic voiceover) her life changed forever. On June 12th, 2010, Meghan was diagnosed with mononucleosis. Mono is basically just a really bad case of the flu, right? Wrong. To a party crazed sixteen-year-old, mono is social suicide. More than anything, it's just plain boring. So, Meghan opened up her 2009 MacBook, used the webcam for something other than a bad Andy Warhol style photobooth session, and recorded her first YouTube video. Since then, Meghan has shared the ups and downs of her life with the internet, documenting her teenage years for the whole world to see. Now that she's (mostly) through her awkward stage, Meghan's here to tell you that it gets better. You're not alone in the thoughts you think. Sometimes a bad hair day feels worse than a punch in the gut and asking a boy out seems about as difficult as achieving that perfect dewy glow. But despite what you've been told, your problems are not unique, your struggles have taken form in everybody else's life too, and somebody else has felt the way you feel right at this very moment. You're not special. But you're also not alone on the bumpy road to adulthood.
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