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WCDT Strips 3966-3970 (25th-29th March, 2019)
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Wired on 24 Mar 2019, 22:31 ---After reading the last week's thread, with all it's guesses... Just wanted to stop by and say I'm 99% certain what Jeph is trying to convey is that Roko is going through a kind of dissociation. The umbrella of dissociation is quite wide; and even fits 'regular' ol' PTSD under it(though this was already covered via Bubbles). She doesn't feel integrated with her body. She is depersonalized. (comic=3914, 3919, 3948, 3952, 3953, 3960, 3965, 3966). Now it's not certain if Robots in this universe are able to experience this, so I'll hang on to my hat - but I wanted to say I deeply appreciate the route this is seemingly taking.
If this is right - Dissociation is one of the most 'weird' and undiscussed mental illnesses and I'm glad someone, somewhere is tackling it and especially someone with reach. I have a strong desire to see how this plays out. Thank you, Jeph.
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Hey! One of my partners gets dissociative seizures sometimes as a symptom of her PTSD. Thanks for being the person that posted about this, I didn't even consider it.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 26 Mar 2019, 13:08 ---Melon appears to be a scatterbrained airhead -- but I wonder how much of that is obfuscation. She has a really good sense of what to do in an emergency, and she only does ridiculous things when it doesn't matter. Could it be that she's a clown, not an airhead?
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obfuscation? not so much. careless? maybe sllightly. carefree? definetly.
Is it cold in here?:
>Could it be that she's a clown, not an airhead?
I was just reading about how teams can stay together. I think it was in the context of Mars missions. The researchers concluded from experiments that it's critical for group cohesion and effectiveness to have someone in the clown role.
VolatileSky:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 25 Mar 2019, 00:10 ---
I think we now see the side of Melon that makes her Roko's friend. Although she may be weird as hell, she is a good person underneath that... mess of a fruit salad.
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I think melon isn't being given enough credit. I've known a few, and am myself, prone to defaulting to our dominant personality traits as a form of social armour. I generally come off as incredibly abrasive and unfriendly with no interest in anyone, while others I've known are irreverent or get rid of the personal filter and sound/act like melon. The thing is they are not unintelligent, or lacking self awareness of how they/we are, but it is our form of coping and enabling us to at least interact with others. What's touching about melon in this strip, is that she very much is self aware of "how she is", and is framing her concern for her friend as best as she can, in a way that might be able to also get roko to come out.
I had one girl do this to me a couple times, but the more light hearted story of one time was in the context of a joke - I understood they have comprehension issues, and would get me to do ridiculous shit to help her "understand". The one that sticks out is me trying to explain how to use a teacup on a nipple piercing with salt water to soak it. Ended with me holding two teacups to my chest while they finally lost it and burst out laughing.
St.Clair:
new comic!
and the mystery of the kitchen gadgetry is solved.
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