![]() When we did meet I was very similar to Gen - I was a mess and hooking up with inappropriate people and way more party-heavy. These girls are 22, and Allison and I didn’t meet until Allison was 24 and I was 25. But when you’re younger, you need those connections to bounce things off someone.ĭunn: It’s definitely similar to how our friendship was. As I’ve grown older, I can experience something and not immediately have to call another person and tell them about it. Raskin: Ava’s character is very heavily dependent on Gen in a way that I, at 30 years old, am not. Were there elements you felt strongly about including in the book?ĭunn: The STI storyline is something we really wanted to focus on.ĭunn: I was a journalist, mostly in high school, and I had the experience of not having a lot of queer community around. It makes it more intimate… It gives them room to be more flawed - in a private conversation with your friend, you’re going to be a little darker and a little shittier than if you were saying something publicly. Why write the book as a series of messages?ĭunn: I think part of it is you’re hearing directly from them so they’re unreliable narrators. We maybe should have outlined, but we didn’t! ![]() A lot of it was doing things in the moment that made us laugh. For a lot of the book we had a Google doc open and both typed in it.ĭunn: We knew some of the plot points we wanted to hit. We didn’t divide it up by character or anything. Raskin: It’s more standard than you might think. What was your writing process for the book? We jumped ahead to a milestone where friendships can either fade away or get stronger. John's acclaimed memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is available here.Raskin: We had a great time with I Hate Everyone but You, and to us it felt like the story of those characters wasn’t over because it was the story of their friendship and their friendship wasn’t over. Subscribe for free and stay up to date on the show and mental health issues. The Depresh Mode newsletter is available twice a week. International suicide hotline numbers available here: The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-80, 1-800-273-TALK What guests and issues would you like to have covered in a future episode? Write us at is available right away. Hey, remember, you’re part of Depresh Mode and we want to hear what you want to hear about. Thank you to all our listeners who support the show as monthly members of Maximum Fun. Visit Allison's website, follow her on Instagram and on Twitter Follow her mental health account and support her Patreon here. Subscribe to the Just Between Us Youtube channel and listen to the Just Between Us podcast on the podcatcher of your choice. Recently, however, all of her efforts to have a normal, stable life have been put to the test, first by the pandemic and also by the abrupt end of her engagement last fall to the man she figured she’d be with forever. She’s treated her OCD to help get the symptoms more under control but it’s a daily challenge to manage things.Īllison is pretty honest about that and other struggles on the very popular Just Between Us, the YouTube comedy and conversation series she co-hosts with creative partner Gaby Dunn. It’s meant not being able to pet a friendly dog she met because even though she adores dogs, the thought of contamination was too overwhelming. It’s meant knowing when she can be home to take a shower during the day. Allison Raskin has been attempting to manage her obsessive compulsive disorder for most of her life.
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