Writing in Second Person Is Important for Disabled People

The book is narrated by a very angry Fiji mermaid in the middle of a cabinet of curiosities. She's narrating for the audience an experience where second person's invoked. The reader loses agency over time and that, that particular use of second person and loss of agency is something that I wanted to invoke as sort of an empathetic reaction to what it feels like to be disabled in certain ways. It made a lot of people, including a couple reviewers really uncomfortable. And I kind of am okay with that. In part because that's the difference between empathy and sympathy.