Posts by Kracklite
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Sacha,
That's my feeling too. The "empathy" most people refer to is actually the reading of social situations, expression and suchlike. One of the things that makes us so reluctant to lie, methinks.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Sacha,
Aspies with empathy? Stop the presses!
My empathy works fine - just not in real time.
(and thinking of Arie, I guess it's a small mercy that the police haven't heard of the Voight-Kampff test...)
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Hilary Stace,
and I want it investigated. I also truly hope ...
Harumph. Not "I will..."
Nice job being my electorate representative, Grant. Do you also "truly hope" that I'll vote for you?
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Sacha,
Come to think of it, there’s a good William S. Burroughs quote: “Storm the reality studio, take control of the universe.” I’ll have to fight off the waves of Swiftian ickiness to find out where he wrote that and it’s all a bit megalomaniacal for me anyway.
… ah, thank you-know-it-hates-to-be-called-that for secondary sources: Nova Express.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Danielle,
Very well, I will indulge you.
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Asperger’s sufferers
Ahem, I do not suffer from it. On the other hand I do suffer from a lot of patronising jerks who think I have "issues" that I want to force on their poor, beset selves (actually, I'm having a snark at a certain academic colleague there...). I can understand your frustration, but I've given up giving a shit about fitting in for the sake of other people's prejudices and I'm certainly not going to give a second to people who say "disability" when to me they in particular seem to be the ones who are disabled by terminal frivolity. I will not adjust my set, it is the studio that is at fault. Grumble, grumble...
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Sky Cake!
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Sacha,
…and pagan.
Note for spectators: typical Aspie behaviour is fascination with sets and logical play taken to illogical elaboration… by this time next week, I should have invented a whole religion, mythology, cosmology and eschatology based on donuts… but unlike L. Ron Hubbard, I won’t try to make a profit out of it. More likely, I’ll drop it and try to see if I can invent one based on millefiori paperweights, of which I have a nice collection (as opposed to light fittings).
Arie’s behaviour makes perfect sense. If the set or order of light fittings and doorknobs represents an ordered world for him (with fascinating variation within the set), then in the midst of such a chaotic event as the quake and its aftermath he would desperately try to hang on to that order as a kind of existential redoubt; the practise of creating that order by collecting and sorting being the thing, not necessarily the material objects themselves.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Sacha,
It is a little-known fact (ie. I made it up) that donuts are, like the wafer in Catholic Communion, sacred food, being representations of Ouroboros and the cyclic nature of time.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Paul Williams,
I'm desperately looking at the demographics myself and I think that I might just be able to fall into the crack between "Baby Boomer" and "Generation X". Phew! A close shave that! How about you?
I'm just worried, -it's a bit like Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" - OMG, I might be a fish! Ahhh, I'm not..."