Luly asked Emilie Autumn:

Hello again, Emilie! I don't know if you'll have time to answer yet another question, but I'll take my chances! Do you feel that your personal perspective on the message you want your story to carry has changed as you've grown? Do you think that you have now another aim with the story that you hadn't thought of when you first released the book? Thanks for answering our questions!

Emilie Autumn Hello my dear!
I'm happy to answer your question:).
My perspective has absolutely changed over the years, absolutely. And this change corresponds directly with my own personal health, physical and mental.
For example, when the book was first released, I had only two aims - to explain myself to a growing audience that thought they knew me but didn't truly, and then to expose the corruption of the modern day mental health care system and educate in order to inspire at least a tiny bit of change.

Now that I am healthier, I am much freer in my mind, much less self-centered because I no longer need to be self-centered for my own survival. I am now completely focused on others, and how I can be of assistance in this lifetime. I feel that my personal mission, my reason for being here, is to give strength wherever I can, to encourage individuality and confidence, and to create communities wherein people can help each other to rise up and reach for their own personal stars, however high they might be.

Oh, and I also feel that one of the book's true powers, which I didn't even realize when I was putting it all together, is the friendship it shows between women, and even the romantic love. Women working together is the highest magic, and I'm so pleased that this has become one of the story's most important themes.

All my love,
EA

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