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WCDT Nov 15 - Nov 20th (4656-4660)
ihaveavoice:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 15 Nov 2021, 23:26 ---Siblings --especially those with less than two years between them-- tend to have at least one of them like that. Especially if one or both have issues with anxiety, ego or srlf confidence. Though, one would think they'd be past it by their 30s. When they do, they'll may still fall into bickering at the drop of a hat (family stuff with some boomers with a crap childhood).
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Claire and Clinton are in their early 20s. The internet says 24 and 21, which is further apart than I thought they were! That's the age difference between me and my brother. And I would expect that all siblings have at least one or two triggers to pretty much age in reverse, lol. That's normally a behavior aimed directly at each other while in the same place, though. At least in my experience, with a sibling I bitterly fought with at times but would never have thought to publicly humiliate. Not sure if that's on a different scale of rivalry or just a different variety.
BenRG:
So, it looks like strong anxiety reactions run in the women of the family. All I can add at this point is that Aurelia at no point should act surprised, mention Claire's student loans or act as if she's trying to be supportive of an eccentric idea that disappoints her.
That's the advantages of having a less-complex brain, Marten. Animals do what they do and see no point being embarrassed about it. Humans have something called self-expectations that seem to exist only to torment us!
Farideh:
--- Quote from: Mr Intrepid on 16 Nov 2021, 21:32 ---Current thought is that it might be a photo of Aurelia, on a campus or day trip some time back. Remember that Claire didn't start transitioning until after high school.
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Also possible.
For some reason, Aurelia doesn't strike me as the person to have pictures of herself up in such a prominent position, but I'm probably just projecting. I'd put up family pictures, kids' pics, ones of me and my husband... But not one by myself.
neurocase:
--- Quote from: Oenone on 16 Nov 2021, 20:46 ---Oof. I don’t see Claire as being a bully here — she made up some stories while pretending to be a calf whose mom has four udders. She was being ridiculous.
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This was my thinking, too. They're completely anonymous internet personas. I think she was just having fun with it by making up stuff about her brother the MommyMilkers cinematic universe version, not the actual person. Cowboy phobia seems too 'on-brand' for the whole thing to have any actual basis in reality, and it's not as though making up that sort of thing affects their real lives. I saw it as a bit of harmless pretend fun. Clinton was clearly worried that Claire was going to spill real tea of some description, but a degree of paranoia is always his baseline.
I think it's a bit quick to judge before we even know Clinton's reaction, rather than his kneejerk "DON'T DO THAT" in relation to thinking Claire was going to give away real personal stuff.
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 15 Nov 2021, 22:39 ---There's a world of difference between Marten and Elliot right now. Claire and Marten have been dating for something like a year, I think, and Claire is living with Marten. There is every reason to include the established, long-term, live-in partner. They're not married and AFAIK haven't started talking about that yet, but Marten has met the family and been accepted as one of them.
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I mean, Marten did just bring up engagement...
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