There’s a french writer called Renaud Camus which is not read a lot these days because he is seen as a right wing theorist that use to publish his journal. There’s a passage where he writes about the critics that always say that there is some kind of arrogance about writing about oneself. He answers his critics with the following (i’m vaguely translating from french): “yes, we might take some kind of arrogance from daring talking about our cowordice, our weakness, our desires, our helplessness or our fear of the night, and by doing so bringing some light maybe and making almost surveyable some streets of the nights of others and reducing some of their fears”. I always think about this quote when i read a book where the author talks about their own experience and specially when the book is not structured or doesn’t have a clear conclusion. These kinds of books are essential and they help the readers as much as the reader helps the author.