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WCDT Strips 3936-3940 (11-15 February 2019)
Tova:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 12 Feb 2019, 13:09 ---Brun's prior employment was as a bartender with a harpoon. I think she can handle herself way better than we give her credit for.
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I completely agree.
She has life strategies in place. She follows them doggedly. She's aware that she sometimes needs a friend's outside perspective. Not everyone has such a grasp on life.
Milayna:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 12 Feb 2019, 09:29 ---Isn't that kind of difficulty with metaphor common among people on the autism spectrum? Any idea that Brun might be neurotypical seems to be getting remote.
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Often, though it differs by situation and person. I can usually follow straight metaphors, especially when the dimensions are absurd (a dick shaped like a pencil) or the situation is like that. But with exaggerations, slang especially, or internet memes, or situations where speech isn't denotative but rather structured on mutual intrinsic understanding (think of situations where a couple dudes might do a complicated fist bump and clown around speaking incomplete sentences), I'm often lost. I didn't pay enough attention to the other students in my spec ed classes to really evaluate their responses, much less that I'd remember after 11 years.
@ case: reminds me that I recently watched an episode of A Place Further Than The Universe (spoilers in case anyone's watching), where part of a character's backstory was revealed, in which her track team "friends" had encouraged her, a first year, to go for the top at the competition instead of deferring to the third years, which was apparently a huge faux pas. Then those same "friends" told the third years who were pissed that they had told her to be more respectful, making her look terrible. and leading her to wall herself off.
I couldn't even understand the scene at first, and even after getting the japanese cultural parts explained to me, I still can't figure out "why". I've decided to just shrug and chalk it up to "they decided to bully her, that's just a thing that people do sometimes".
Milayna:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 12 Feb 2019, 13:09 ---Brun's prior employment was as a bartender with a harpoon. I think she can handle herself way better than we give her credit for.
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Yeah, that. I can do well enough on my own. It's still nice to have someone that I can let my guard down around, stop putting up a more socially adept front, and say with a blank face and monotone, "I do not understand why those people acted this way. Please explain this to me so that I can note it in my human behavior algorithm."
Brun CAN analyze and see through people's BS sometimes better than even other people can (remember Clinton). But it's exhausting. Renee is willing to just straight up explain it to her without getting weird about it. At least directly. I and others have noted before that she seems to underestimate Brun, herself, and can be condescending. Probably because she sees the relaxed Brun more than the trying-real-hard Brun.
zisraelsen:
--- Quote from: comicalArchitect on 12 Feb 2019, 13:14 --- and now seemingly a highly promiscuous straight girl (Renee).
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If her tinder settings are anything to go by, Renee is bi.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 12 Feb 2019, 13:09 ---Brun's prior employment was as a bartender with a harpoon. I think she can handle herself way better than we give her credit for.
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Yeah, pretty much. Brun is able to look after herself, she's proven that. What I'm getting from this is that Renee is babying her, for want of a better term, and has done for quite some time. This is a little difficult for me to wrap my head around, because I've never had the experience, but from what I have seen of Renee and Brun's relationship, there is this quasi-dysfunctional psuedo-parental relationship between them. Like Renee treats Brun as a child, rather than as a friend or equal. Yes Renee cares about Brun, but it seems like she's always exasperated having to explain things to her.
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