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WCDT 2887-2891 (2-6 February 2015)
kerky:
--- Quote from: DrClef on 06 Feb 2015, 13:29 ---This is an AnthroPC Marten-Bot running "I AM A PERFECT BOYFRIEND.EXE" v. 2.0.
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Hm, maybe Marten never came back from the Space Station? Maybe just an Anthro-PC lookalike of him came back to Earth from that trip, they are keeping him in permanent stasis up there because the blood samples Hannelore had analyzed have lead the scientists to find out that due to a peculiar genetic constellation he will be the only human that will survive time-travelling into the past to warn Dr. Ellicot-Chatham that him developing AI to a whole new level will eventually destroy all of humanity?
BenRG:
--- Quote from: AprilArcus on 08 Feb 2015, 08:57 ---The only way I can get my head around it is by reminding myself that Claire is not very much like me — she's a virginal mess of stress and anxiety and frustration...
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I think that this is a key point: Claire seems to have been generally under-socialised at the point she started out as an Intern. She has no friends out side of the Library/CoD circles that we know about. Lacking previous close friendships means that she, at best, can sometimes only guess about appropriate behaviour based on others' actions. I suspect that she probably doesn't have anyone fully reliable to turn to in romance issues (not with the possible exception of her mother). Because of this, her behaviours will sometimes be eccentric to the objective eye.
In any case, I still think that her key motivator was her body image issues. She isn't confident in her appearance and she had to get this out of the way and on her own terms.
AprilArcus:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Feb 2015, 09:29 ---I think that this is a key point: Claire seems to have been generally under-socialised at the point she started out as an Intern. She has no friends out side of the Library/CoD circles that we know about. Lacking previous close friendships means that she, at best, can sometimes only guess about appropriate behaviour based on others' actions. I suspect that she probably doesn't have anyone fully reliable to turn to in romance issues (not with the possible exception of her mother). Because of this, her behaviours will sometimes be eccentric to the objective eye.
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How much of that do we chalk up to her having a difficult, socially isolating transition during her freshman/sophomore years, and how much to other factors? It's hard to imagine making it through four years of college (and a couple years of grad school?) without making at least a few close friends. Clinton definitely seems a little bit ASD; I wonder if Claire has some of those traits too.
Neko_Ali:
It's pretty hard to tell. I have always been a pretty quiet and reserved person with not that many friends my entire life, long before I realized I was trans, or had any idea that being transgender was a thing. Body image issues, which I did have as a teen, can only explain some of that. A large part was my upbringing... Moving around a lot I was always the outsider in school. My emotionally and mentally abusive father is another, possibly the biggest factor in my lack of confidence in dealing with other people. We can't say these sorts of things apply to Claire. And are probably over thinking things anyway. (On this forum? Say it isn't so...) But we have seen that she doesn't have any friends outside of the group and her family. In the beginning she was really wound up tight. Since she's started hanging out with the cast she's mellowed out quite a bit... but old issues just don't go away. And yes, for most trans people that I've known the 'getting naked first time with your partner' is a big thing, even if they already know and have said they are okay with it.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: AprilArcus on 08 Feb 2015, 09:39 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Feb 2015, 09:29 ---I think that this is a key point: Claire seems to have been generally under-socialised at the point she started out as an Intern. She has no friends out side of the Library/CoD circles that we know about.
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How much of that do we chalk up to her being trans and how much to other factors? It's hard to imagine making it through four years of college (and a couple years of grad school?) without making at least a few close friends. Clinton definitely seems a little bit ASD; I wonder if Claire has some of those traits too.
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I'd only be guessing but it is possible to spend years around people and only develop acquaintances rather than friendships. Some of it, at least, would be due to he trans status and possible fears for her safety. However, as a resident of Northampton, it is possible that she was never a resident student at Smif, enabling her to have less close interaction with her classmates that would have been if she'd been living in the halls of residence. This would inadvertently probably somewhat inhibit her making peer group connections.
(BTW - I know that some colleges insist that freshmen live in college dorms and then lets them make their own choices from sophomore year onwards but I don't know if it is the case with Smith/Smif.)
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