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Damn you, Willis! (Dumbing of Age)
chaospersonified:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 22 May 2015, 02:18 ---I really don't get why everyone likes Dina so much. She's such a onenote character
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Today's comic is why I like Dina so much. She's happy now. Happy Dina makes for a happy me.
BenRG:
Problem-solving the Dina way: When overwhelmed by sensory input, muffle said senses. Ethan isn't getting his hoodie back any time soon! He won't mind, though; I've got the feeling that he's one of the world's nice guys.
Masterpiece:
What's wrong with her
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 29 May 2015, 09:38 ---What's wrong with her
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Nothing? I think she is autistic. She doesn't easily understand body language or facial cues, so tends to take everything she's told at face value and doesn't give off those cues herself, so she comes off to others as 'weird'. It also explains why she gets overwhelmed by large amounts of stimulus, like all the people at a party.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 29 May 2015, 09:38 ---What's wrong with her
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David Willis has never specified that she has a specific mental condition. However, those in the know believe that Dina is autistic.
If so, then, like a lot of autistics, she has difficulty dealing with crowds and specifically lots of people. Mostly this is due to her brain finding it difficult to process all the information about mood and other social cues coming from people's faces, body postures and tones of voice. Autistics tend to find this very difficult and, in a interacting crowd like this and the conflict with her own desire to interact socially, Dina is probably suffering a bit of a communications lobe overload at the moment. Covering her head so she doesn't have to deal with so much sensory information probably seems like a decent short-term fix. It also means that Ethan is going to have to deal without having his hoodie for a while but so be it.
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