You're Not Special

In her first-ever (sort of) memoir the beloved actor and YouTube sensation gets personal about everything from mental health to drunken debaucheries with this “brave behind-the-webcam look at self-discovery” (Kirkus Reviews).As an only child raised in a town of less than 8000 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. In 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 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 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.