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WCDT Strips 2996-3000 (6th to 10th July 2015)
ReindeerFlotilla:
Speaking as someone who writes strips, if a strip does not say X and you state it is clearly saying X, you are wrong.
Speaking a someone who studies opportunities to advertise strips, Jeph pulls something 2.8 million uniques a month, summing to about 130,000 per day. Bear in mind these are just in terms of visitors who aren't using ad blockers. While he's certainly talked to fans via the strip in the past, not everything is a message to what happens here or over on reddit.
Since he's been less interest in dialogue, I'd be pretty disappointed in him if he went to all the trouble of nigh two weeks worth of strips, just set up a moment where Emily monologues to us.
But that's me.
Undrneath:
As someone who also has ADD or more specifically ADHD I will echo the sentiment that Emily exhibits many of the earmarks of someone who is highly intelligent with attention deficit issues. I have also embraced my "weirdness" though it can come with social anxiety problems because I don't know how to interpret social cues.
Ellemar:
--- Quote from: anahata on 09 Jul 2015, 03:26 ---Welcome, new person!
Also, how interesting that Jeph has never mentioned ADHD, but has managed to portray the behaviour (and the reactions of others to it) so accurately that it can be easily recognised by someone who knows.
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Thanks! Yeah, it's something that's not portrayed as nearly often as it should be. Since I love comics so much, I've been trying to find some with ADHD characters or even discussion, but the only ones that I've found
are like, one shot newspaper funnies, and those are always pretty derogatory and misinformed. Nice to kind of find it here though!
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--- Quote from: Ellemar on 09 Jul 2015, 02:24 ---This new update made me so happy, that I was moved enough to actually register in the forums so I could post about it. So, here's my first post ever. Sorry it's so long, and hope it makes sense.
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Thank you, Ellemar. I don't say this as much as I should, but I always find it rewarding and useful to read the perspective of someone who relates as closely to a character as you clearly have. It reminds me that these characters aren't just abstract ideas that Jeph has rattling round in his head.
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Yeah, it's something that he really excels at. As a long time fan of Jeph's comic, it means so much to me to have a character that I can at least somewhat relate to. I know it wasn't his intention, but this new portrayal of Emily made me love it even more.
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--- Quote from: Ellemar on 09 Jul 2015, 02:24 ---This new update made me so happy, that I was moved enough to actually register in the forums so I could post about it. So, here's my first post ever. Sorry it's so long, and hope it makes sense.
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As someone else diagnosed with ADHD, thanks so much for posting this. And welcome to the forums!
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You're very welcome! Folks like us have got to stick together ;) I almost didn't post it at all, because I was worried that it sounded dumb, but I figured there might be someone out there who would potentially benefit from it. And thanks! I'm a bit of a nervous poster, so I'll try and stick around!
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 09 Jul 2015, 12:26 ---As someone who also has ADD or more specifically ADHD I will echo the sentiment that Emily exhibits many of the earmarks of someone who is highly intelligent with attention deficit issues. I have also embraced my "weirdness" though it can come with social anxiety problems because I don't know how to interpret social cues.
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Hahaha we're all starting to come out of the woodwork now! I know what you mean about the social anxiety problems. That's huge part of the ADHD package for me as well.
Undrneath:
I have found that ADHD is both wildly over diagnosed and poorly understood in those of us that actually have it. It seems to me that every kid under the age of ten has at least been considered having ADD. While those of us that are legitimately diagnosed just have one prescription after another thrown at us, most of which are at ridiculous doses that turn us into zombies.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Ellemar on 09 Jul 2015, 12:29 ---Hahaha we're all starting to come out of the woodwork now! I know what you mean about the social anxiety problems.
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Being supportive of people peering nervously over the parapet is something we try hard to do well in this forum. Welcome, both!
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