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Hannelore's OCD
HappyGrar:
I had a job at a curry joint a few months back, my first job. I'll admit it was AMAZINGLY difficult to concentrate on everything at once, because I was busy with thoughts like "I wonder why the soda machine isn't working is it the CO2 is it leaking am I going to die from it no it takes massive quantities of CO2 to kill a human I read it on Wikipedia but that's not always accurate but a collectively-accessible knowledge database is pretty cool" and so forth. Customers would often wonder why I was staring off into space when I was supposed to be taking their orders. :-(
I think that if Hannelore did have to work, she probably wouldn't be able to. It kind of scares me a little, actually, because she'd probably end up being the world's cleanest hobo or something.
EDIT: I just remembered she had that internet gig tabulating things. But that's not exactly a traditional job.
Mr. Skawronska:
--- Quote ---You make it sound like she's a spoilt, rich bitch. She probably wouldn't be able to work. I've met people with less serious disabilities who don't work, and Hanners' OCD is very severe. If that's how she acts when she's on medication, she'd never hold down a job.
--- End quote ---
Spoiled and rich I'll go with, but she's not a bitch...at least not in the traditional sense of the word.
And that was my point, she couldn't hold down a job, and so if her parents weren't supporting her, her OCD might be more detrimental and desperate, making her less lovable and cute to us on the outside.
There's suffering that's contained and there's suffering that is rampant; One is endearing (See TV Tropes: Woobie) and one is just...well, suffering (See TV Tropes: Butt Monkey or Chew Toy)
I'm saying that if Hanners' parents weren't rich, she'd be in much more desperate straits because of her OCD, instead of merely amusing.
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SayWhat:
Just out of curiosity, but does anyone know the strip where we were told that Hanner's parents are the one's supporting her? I think I must have missed it, because I don't remember anything about Hanners being supported by her parents, so I'm a bit confused by the way the conversation is going.
Surgoshan:
I'm pretty sure it's never been stated, but I can't imagine that counting things is very lucrative.
JD:
It's never really been explicitly mentioned that she stopped counting things for a living.
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