This book is like listening to a motivational speaker talk about a really complicated, difficult and individual problem. I get the point, but whoever is speaking to me, just does not get it. The difference between this book and real lifed experiences is like the difference between an English textbook and the way people really speak.
It also particularly pissed me off, excuse the language, how alternative styles were weirdly stereotyped. Everytime a character did anything with a bit of subculture attached, it was sooooo alienating to the main character, who only ever gets to have "correct" emotions. As soon as someone's dying their hair, they are portrayed as if they are delinquents. I'm not kidding it happens twice.
There were some fun threads coming together at the end and some good foreshadowing that were totally lost when the whole thing was interrupted by a really fucking heavy topic being dropped in for one scene then never talked about again. I might have been willing to give this a 2* or so if that hadn't happened, but that was honestly just not the way to talk about that topic. Felt like pure shock value.
If you are going through shit like this, bullying, social anxiety, etc, I really sympathise with you. But don't go into this book expecting your feelings to be understood the way it promises.