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WCDT strips 3751-3755 (28th May to 1st June 2018)

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OldGoat:
At least a few recoveries from emotional disorders do happen rapidly.  It may take a long time to "get to the corner," but when you get there, turning it takes as long as, well, turning a corner.  (We probably have a clinical psychologist on board who's qualified to comment on that.)  You're never "cured" of emotional trauma, you just learn to work with it and make it a part of you.  When Hanners returns, she'll be changed.  Recovery is being able to function in spite of it, and Hannelore will be a functions adult.

Whether she will whisper discretely or shout to the world no one but Jeph can tell, but when she reunites with Marigold she will say, "I found out what wieners smell like!"

Bad Superman:

--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 01 Jun 2018, 11:57 ---No question about it, she's never going to be completely 'healed', but she has developed a set of coping behaviors which bring her mental illnesses under more, if not complete, control. She can self-coach to get past the some anxiety attacks. She can vent enough to handle cleaning out a stable. That doesn't mean she won't have to wash her hands a few times extra every day, and it doesn't mean she won't ever panic, it just means she can function in ways she could never manage before.
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Again, the underlined parts are where we seem to disagree.

Coming back to the beginning, I mentioned that, going by today's comic, I get the impression that Hannelore in fact is not in control. As I said, to me she looked manic. And, yes, this one, and the comic with the yak are not in chronological order, and we don't know how much time has passed between them in comic-time. I get that.

You say the change in her behavior has been foreshadowed. I disagree, but I'm willing to say that maybe I just didn't pay as much attention to certain details as you did.

If I interpret your comment correctly, you say that, at the time of the yak stable cleaning, Hannelore has developed enough coping techniques do deal with her anxiety, because she was finally able to break out of her inner prison. Not always, but often, and to a high degree of success.
Once more I seem to be unable to connect the dots here.
My view of Hannelore was that, even taking into account how far she has come since we first met her, she still has a long long way to go before she can be a functioning adult. There can be breakthroughs and little leaps and bounds of progress, but what we currently see (in the yak stable scene) strikes me as a very big leap of progress with very little in-comic explanation. That is why I would call her supposed change too much and too sudden. To me it almost feels like a revamping of her character.

I think I'll have to wait and see...

awgiedawgie:
We have seen Hanners deal with the spiders in the basement of the coffee shop. When Cosette injured herself at the shop - clearly not for the first time - Hanners remarked that she was becoming blasé about cleaning up blood. She helped Marigold through her little drunken puking emotional breakdown - for what was probably hours - and didn't panic once.

Even with nothing more (and there is more - those are just what came readily to my mind) than those examples to go on, her being able to clean out a yak stable is no longer an insurmountable leap in her progress, but merely a very large step. Her progress has been steady ever since we first met her. Not only has she been steadily able to handle more things that she ever could before, but she has also been steadily realizing that she can do these things.

Is it cold in here?:
Here's a question. Given how long it took to legalize marriage between same-sex humans, is it even legal for humans and robots to marry each other? AIs have full civil rights but so did gay people and it wasn't enough by itself to allow them to marry.

A small perverse otter:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 01 Jun 2018, 16:25 ---Here's a question. Given how long it took to legalize marriage between same-sex humans, is it even legal for humans and robots to marry each other? AIs have full civil rights but so did gay people and it wasn't enough by itself to allow them to marry.

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Oh, Lord. Think of the cries about Weakening the Human Race Miscegenation Sterility of the Marriage WeCanFindSomethingJustLetUsThinkAboutIt there would be.

I wonder if AIs can even marry one another?

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