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WCDT Strips 2996-3000 (6th to 10th July 2015)

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amykathleen:
1. I love Emily's facial expression in the last panel.  She's all sassy and it's great.

2. I'm happy to see a text-heavy strip in the new format.  I've missed the text-heavy style of QC since the format change.

Kugai:
Emily is Emily

And we wouldn't have her any other way

CM_albion:
Ok, didn't want to bring this up, since i don't like doing so. people all to readily assume i'm using it to excuse things when i do. I a have Autism, not severely, just the Aspergers side on things, but it does affect me in certain areas, mostly social. despite my best efforts, i am terrible with the body language of others, and i used to be a heck of a lot worse. when i was in Secondary school and early College, without hyperbole i was Emily level nutball because i just didn't get a read on the appropriate/inappropriate scale of social behaviours.

In time, i have learned that i have my quirks and that i can accept them, and so can others. but i also learned restraint. because that's the most important thing.   while the world does need to accept you, you also need to accept the world. you give a little, you play down your differences, you make the effort to act polite and respectable and with dignity, because if you don't you're like a immature child screaming that the world is not exactly how you want it.  it's fine to be yourself around friends, its the best place to be yourself, but generally, you need to make the effort to overcome your flaws. you do not say, "my flaws are a part of my positives, it's a complete package, take it or leave it."

I'm a mere 22 years old . But even then, i didn't get into the internet proper until i was 17-18. and all over the place i found people who insisted, Insisted, the world cater to them because they were special, and unique, and everyone should be themselves. it really rubbed me the wrong way. you don't sit back and demand the world come to you, you bloody well climb down of your high horse and meet the world half way!

ok.. i'm sure i got off topic in there somewhere, but my god i needed to vent that, i think it's been pent up a while.

danuis:
Page 3000: Cerebrus enters the room. War is beginning. Hanner's orbiting space station comes down. Economy gets bad. AI revolts in earnest. And the dog gets strung.

ReindeerFlotilla:

--- Quote from: CM_albion on 09 Jul 2015, 16:09 ---it's fine to be yourself around friends, its the best place to be yourself, but generally, you need to make the effort to overcome your flaws. you do not say, "my flaws are a part of my positives, it's a complete package, take it or leave it."

--- End quote ---

Why, exactly?

I'm 42 years old, and I've spent longer than you've been alive trying to overcome my flaws. I might even be a better person for it. It's done jack shit for my relations with others. If that's the goal, and it seems to be in this context, I can tell you straight up, it's not worth it.

Take me with my flaws or GTFO. If you insist on staying and rejecting my flaws, I'm leaving. I will burn that bridge and salt the earth around it so that nothing may grow there because it is a damned sight better than swallowing all the pain of a pretense of a relationship.

I'm not saying my way is the best way. I am saying yours isn't either. We all have different needs and different tolerances. I thought the road to happiness involved other people. For me, it does not. If it does for you, cool beans. No problem at all. But why should anyone, real or Emily, have to do it your way?

I certainly understand that you might have issue with people demanding special treatment, but Emily isn't doing that. I don't do that. Largely because I don't feel obligated to give anyone else special treatment, but also because it is futile. But experience has taught me that world doesn't give a damn what you do, so long as no one can prove it was a crime (sometimes they give you pass then too. Roman Polanski). Conform only to the minimum extent necessary, and immediately begin plans so that you can arrange to dispense with that, if possible. That's how I see it, simply because playing by the rules has generated nothing more than not playing.

Your fuel efficiency may vary.

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