West knows that some readers may be unconvinced that she really is happy in her throuple. After she, Aham, and Roya went public with their relationship in 2022, West wrote on Substack that some people “deduced that I am being brainwashed and held prisoner”; in Adult Braces, she writes, “If you think I have been brainwashed and I am secretly miserable, I simply do not know what to tell you.” When the publication of the book prompted readers to criticize Aham and question their arrangement, she wrote on Substack, “my life isn’t subject to public audit.” That is fair enough. No one can really know what’s going on inside someone else’s head, or marriage. And baselessly speculating on strangers’ personal business is a bad idea. But in Adult Braces, West describes her life with Aham and Roya—in doing so, she invites reaction. And what she tells us is often disconcerting.