| Summary: | This article on brings together findings from humor studies, especially work on cringe comedy, and disability studies. It analyzes how <i>Flowers</i> uses elements of cringe to question societal norms of the “proper person” in connection to mental illness, but also how <i>Flowers</i> broadens the genre of cringe so that, at times, it becomes a cringe tragedy rather than a cringe comedy, thus taking seriously the pain of mental illness. As a third point, this analysis focuses on the way in which <i>Flowers</i> self-reflexively employs elements of narrativity to draw attention to the cultural constructedness and storyfication of mental illness throughout history.
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