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WCDT Strips 3221 to 3225 (16 - 20 May 2016)
President Peaches:
Well, the autism hypothesis has another data point in its support, never mind the fact that I'm a bit weirded out by the fact that she's a carbon copy of one of my classmates in college who has a service dog due to her severe autism. Quite nice, if you get over the emotional difficulties and make sure your attempts at communication are unambiguous. Otherwise she'll ignore you and her dog will stare at you like you're an alien.
Eastrim:
Implicitly criticizing name normativism in the comic and then being name normative in the comic notes is kind of a wash, Jeph.
Brunhilde is a nice name, and if she's an immigrant for which English is a secondary language that might explain her odd syntax, aside from the emotions thing.
However, she's not of the typical skintone for that region of Earth. I'm calling it; she's of Turkish descent, born and grew up in Germany, and moved to Massachusetts to get away from the memories of her father shooting his girlfriends grandmother by accident in his excitement over getting a gig on the Daily Show. He was later eaten by an Allosaurus while contemplating an erupting volcano during a motorcycle roadtrip.* :psyduck:
*In order, Faye, Marten, Padma, Angus, Sara, Steve, and Wil.
Hey MoM, shouldn't you change the attribution of one of your signatures now?
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: DrBear on 15 May 2016, 17:26 ---Clinton falls into same trap he did with Emily, puts on fake eyebrows.
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Except Clinton uses nori because he saw it in an anime once (FLCL).
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 15 May 2016, 23:04 ---I'm more sure than ever that this new character has some kind of social or behavioural disorder. Most people would be hysterical in her situation but she remains deliberate, calm and monotone. It really seems that she can't properly process emotions and non-verbal communication. Because she doesn't 'get' it, she can't do it herself.
I'm left with two possible conclusions:
* She is somewhere on the autistic spectrum;
* Her life to date has been so shitty that she just has had all the pain and rage burned out of her by the hopelessness.The second option wouldn't explain her failure to get that Clinton wasn't a troublemaker, so, yeah, I'm thinking that this is autism of some kind.
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Other possibilities include; she's in a minor case of shock, having a delayed reaction, or it's so much stress & panic that she's having issues processing it.
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 16 May 2016, 00:59 ---And if it is Autism that drives her character's unusual traits, I can't say I'm a particular fan of the representation here. (Amd it seems weird that she was so acute and on point in 3215.)
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As an aspie, I'm going to have to ask you to clarify. Today's been an off day.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Eastrim on 16 May 2016, 20:13 ---Hey MoM, shouldn't you change the attribution of one of your signatures now?
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Fun fact, in the book his real name is Walder. I guess they didn't want him to share a name with Walder Frey in the show (with them changing Asha Greyjoy's name to Yara to avoid confusion with Osha).
So to answer your question...no, it's not really funny if I change the name, so I'm gonna keep it.
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