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WCDT Strips 3296 to 3300 (29 August - 02 September 2016)
Nepiophage:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 30 Aug 2016, 07:00 ---The word I've most often heard (usually in an artistic context) is 'auteur'.
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Except that also means a film director/producer/screenwriter
sitnspin:
I may be psychotic, but I am not A psychotic.
freeman:
--- Quote from: comicalArchitect on 30 Aug 2016, 04:45 ---
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 29 Aug 2016, 23:00 ---Panel 1 makes me wonder that Brun is going to feel obliged to at least look into taking up curling because she owns a curling jacket. Either that or she'll throw away the jacket because she doesn't want to take up curling!
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I think it's the echoing thing some autists do.
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I know you didn't mean anything by it, but as an autistic person, I find "autist" kind of an insensitive term.
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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.
Welu:
It isn't mentioning autism that concerned anyone. It's been discussed multiple times in past threads in relation to Brun and by members discussing themselves and their experiences. The term used makes makes someone's entire being about this one part of them and in doing so can erase their personhood.
Ankhtahr already answered your question.
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 30 Aug 2016, 06:35 ---Yeah, it's weird to be reduced to a diagnosis. It's an aspect of a person, but not the entire person, so I think the adjective "autistic" is preferrable over the substantive "autist". "An autistic person" instead of "an autist".
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sitnspin:
The main reason I don't often tell people in real life about my various mental illnesses, is that people have a tendency, when they find out about your mental illness, to only see that and not the rest of you, of which the illness is but a small, if significant, part.
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