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WCDT Strips 3296 to 3300 (29 August - 02 September 2016)
retrosteve:
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--- Quote from: Jub3r7 on 29 Aug 2016, 19:21 ---Is it just me or is Brun's hair getting... just a little floofier in each panel?
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Welp, that's how their world is gonna end. An exponential increase of hair floof.
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FLOOFIES MAY RULE
retrosteve:
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 30 Aug 2016, 06:35 ---
--- Quote from: comicalArchitect on 30 Aug 2016, 04:45 ---
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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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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I don't think "autist" is a word. Makes me think of "starving autist", which I'm pretty certain isn't what's meant.
I think the problem is, as you say, being reduced to a label which covers only a part of who you are. But then even that isn't always a problem.
I'm happy to be known, for example, at various times as a Canadian, or a computer nerd, or a student. I'm less happy to be known as a jew, or a bad musician, even though I'm those things too. I think part of the problem is the synecdoche as you say, but part of it is that there's an implied pejorative due to a social stigma on the word. If the stigma goes away, people are less unhappy about being reduced to that trait.
Just a theory.
jheartney:
Am I the only person that likes gestural typing on a phone? I find it less stressful than trying to hit tiny onscreen keys with my big fumble fingers. Sometimes it generates the wrong words, but then again so does regular smartphone typing.
freeman:
--- Quote from: Welu on 30 Aug 2016, 09:27 ---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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I have to attempt say as my defence that my first language is not English, plus with my language, we hardly have this euphemism-PC-roulette going like you guys do. Our word for "retard" for example is literally "retard", with all the connotations. It's not used to describe a person with autism, though. At least not the mild, can function in society, variety.
Also: Brun, all giddy from the soothing phone noises.
Gyrre:
Looks like Brun successfully memorized Clinton's phone number after all.
--- Quote from: Jub3r7 on 29 Aug 2016, 19:21 ---Is it just me or is Brun's hair getting... just a little floofier in each panel?
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She's such a Miyazaki fan she learned how to emote with her hair.
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