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WCDT Strips 3296 to 3300 (29 August - 02 September 2016)

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Gyrre:

--- Quote from: freeman on 30 Aug 2016, 09:12 ---Well what term would you want to be used for the clinical condition, if not autism? Should I have used "a person of the spectrum", or something?I know it has not explicitly spelled out yet, but won't you all agree that Brun does a bunch of things that stereotypically go with that disorder. Not all the things, mind you; she's not an over-flanderized caricature. She does have almost a normal range of expressions for example, no blank stare, no over-pronoinced "cartoon expressions" either and no eye-contact problems.Her basic expression seems to be :O , she has her mouth open a lot.
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'Hallmarks'. The word you're looking for is 'hallmarks'. Jeph doesn't seem the ableist type and often does a fair bit of research on things and traits he includes in the comic. Stereotypes tend to be a lot less nuanced.

I used to volunteer at the local mental health center, one of the things I heard a lot was "they're a person first, not they're diagnosis". This was usually said to the over-bearing soccer-mom type parents who had no clue how to raise a child with , and who want the doctors to 'fix' their child because they're not "normal".

It's entirely a matter of social stigma. The labels "crazy" and/or "unstable" get applied regardless of the diagnosis or it's severity, and regardless of whether it's a nuerological (structural, biochemical or electrical abnormalities) or a psychological (behavioral, thinking paterns, information processing, or etc) disorder.
Thankfully, some folks are more understanding and accepting of it than others. And then there's the people who pretend to be but and are actually condescending, self-righteous, assholes about it (see 'the horseshoe effect' or 'horseshoe theory').

cesium133:
I just noticed now that in the new CSS scheme for the website, most of the newsposts below the comic are now missing in the archive.

Eastrim:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 01 Sep 2016, 05:40 ---To my mind the Patreon comic was not necessary to make the main comic funny.  TBH, it was (in isolation) so meh as to be a failure as an advertisement for the benefits of subscribing.

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The problem for me was, the after text was basically "This is an in joke!, in order to be in on the joke, you must not simply be a faithful reader, you must also give me money, or be forever kept in suspense!"
Yes, he put a link hours later, presumably after people complained, and yes, once I could see the comic it turned out to still be a noodle incident between the two strips, but that can't change that initial interpretation (also visible in a different tone from freeman and cucumber error in their posts after mine). Jeph's Patreon was one of the ones on my "to support when I have enough money to throw some of it at Patreons" list and now it's not because that was a Not Cool move.

Zastie:
All I know if that May's face still looks freaky to me..

jaquio:
Question:

When Jeph publishes the QC books, are the Patreon-only comics going to be included?

Because free is free so whatever, but if I pay full price for a QC book, and it's got comic strips that are referencing Patreon-only strips that are hidden to me behind another paywall, then that's Not Cool™

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