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WCDT strips 3781 - 3785 (9-13 July 2018)

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Spider:
*crawls out from cave to share my thoughts*

Oh boy this strip was relatable. So. I'm autistic and I grew up pretty poor. I also have the culinary palette of a 10 year old. I'm very sensitive to certain flavors and theres only a handful of foods i enjoy that won't make me gag. I'm the worst picky eater.

These too facts combined, well, there's a lot of foods I've never eaten that have gotten me many reactions of "What!? You've never had that before!? How!?!?" and it gets extremely embarrassing.

Fruits and vegetables especially I have not much knowledge of. Because when you're poor it's smarter to buy nonperishables than food than food that can go bad in a few days. Coupled with the high likelihood that I wouldn't like whatever it is anyway, making it a waste of money, most common fruits and vegetables were simply never bought.

I've never eaten watermelon, cherries, asparagus, or mushrooms. It was only last year I tried pineapple for the first time and only a few months ago I had my first broccoli. And yes, I've never actually tried raisins before because it just looked like something I wouldn't like and I never felt like wasting the money to find out.

There's not really the point to all that I'm saying but I guess what I mean is I really connected with Brun here. Good job Jeph.

Oenone:
Thank you for climbing out of your cave! Your thoughts are really great.

(And not just because they agree with mine ;))

brasca:

--- Quote from: Zebediah on 12 Jul 2018, 04:35 ---
--- Quote from: brasca on 11 Jul 2018, 22:51 ---Well we know a little more about Brun, but I’m still curious about whether she was born in the US or immigrated.  Since her full name is Brunhilde I suppose she lived for some time in Germany, but her parents originated from Turkey or possibly another Middle Eastern country.

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For what it’s worth, I’ve always seen Brun as being of mixed European and African ancestry - her skin tone and hair match that. If I had to construct a headcanon for her, it would be that her African-American father was in the US Air Force and married a local girl while stationed in Germany. It’s a common enough story.

--- End quote ---

Sounds plausible and would explain why she has a German name while ethnically different.  I’m not sure if she has an accent so she may have come over with her parents when she was still very young.  It would also explain her impoverished upbringing.  Germany has a generous welfare state, but in America it varies from state to state.

sitnspin:
As someone who lost both of my parents at age 19, I sympathize with Brun in that regard.

Is it cold in here?:
So I told a friend about the raisin discussion here.

She grew up in a part of the US far from raisin producing areas and with poor transportation links. There and then, raisins were really expensive. I think she did have them but a lot of people there were poorer than her.

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