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What benefits would I get from writing an autobiography. With writing an auto biography there are many benefits as there are disadvantages. With writing an autobiography everybody now knows your life story. Depending on the author, it could go one way or the other. And the way the author writes the auto biography can determine how good it is. However the author does get the benefits and disadvantages of writing an autobiography, and no matter what, someone is going to like it.

Like said the are benefits and disadvantages. The first benefit would be that you are telling your life story. Say a writer had a tough life, people can connect with that, and like the book more, because it is “written towards them”. But the other side of it is that people can see how other people were raised, and they have a fascination with it, or there wouldn’t be so many autobiography’s. People like to learn how other people lived their life, in either similar or contrast to their own. Autobiographies wouldn’t be around if they didn’t. So one benefit of writing an auto biography is that you can share you life story for people to connect with.

Another great benefit of writing an autobiography is the fact that historically they are priceless. Just like how readers read autobiography today, they will be reading them 100 years from now (hopefully). They provide lots of a historical insight, as people learn from them. The provide mush insight for generations of the book was written. People can learn how the writer got to school, socialized, and what people did in their spare time. This is very important and something that is a huge benefit for writing an autobiography.

The last benefit is more psychological than it is physical. Writing an autobiography is very therapeutic. The writer can get any guilt off his chest, and really express him/her self emotionally. The books help better understand their own life story, and can have insight on their own life. This is incredibly useful. Writers can see into their own life, and re live it again both the good and the bad. Writing an autobiography can reconnect the writer to an earlier part of their life, and in a way relive it.

There are many benefits to writing an autobiography, but there are somethings that aren’t benefits. For example, everyone now knows everything’s about you. This means almost all privacy is lost because everyone knows your life story. So another disadvantage is that maybe the writer would have to re live a a traumatic experience that is difficult for them.

Writing an auto biography has many pluses and a few minuses. Depending on the author, the book can either be great or terrible. The pluses are that you are sharing your life story and contributing to history, but the writer loses privacy as he has put everything out in the book.