On May 9, she posted another update, 'Depression Part Two.' including a discussion of her suicidal feelings. On May 8, 2013, Brosh broke her long silence and posted a 'transition' post as a warning/prelude to a long post she was preparing. In March 2012, Allie Brosh issued a statement about her absence and answered questions on Reddit. The post was praised by critics and psychologists as an insightful description of the disease, and fans suffering from depression described Brosh's posts as 'the most relatable portrayal they'd ever seen of their own experiences.' She then vanished from her popular blog for over a year, causing concern among many readers. In October 2011 Brosh posted an entry that was an account of her experiences with depression. The book was released on October 29, 2013. In a post on her website, Brosh announced that she was putting together a Hyperbole and a Half book. In 2011 PC World included it on a list of the 'funniest sites on the web.' The blog has been liked more than 600,000 times on Facebook. As a result of her success, she has been invited to write a humor column on the Collaborative blog The Gloss.īrosh had resolved to become an author at age eight, filling three spiral-bound notebooks with 'a saga about a guy who fights various things.'Īmy Dobek of the University of Missouri–Kansas City Library says that 'it’s not so much the stories themselves that are side-splittingly funny – it’s the combination of her histrionic storytelling style and her primitively mad skills with MSPaint that put her, if I may say, over the top.'

Her blog is the source of several popular Internet memes, including a humorously 'improved' medical pain chart and the 'Alot,' a fantasy creature which Brosh imagines when writers mis-type the phrase 'a lot.' Her blog has shown up on reddit.

She frequently writes about the effects of ADHD and synesthesia on her interactions with the world. In the Hyperbole and a Half blog, Brosh combines observational and absurdist humor with Paintbrush graphics to relate events from her life in rural Idaho. Allie's younger sister Kaitlin was killed at the end of 2013 when her car was hit by a train.

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