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 Forum: Art, Writing, and Music   Topic: Has anyone read The Metamorphosis by Kafka?

Shabobcat
Posted: 17 Feb 2008, 1:44 am 

Replies: 16
Views: 7,578
[ Sound familiar? was drawing a comparison to Aspergers/any physical or mental deviation from the norm and how the reactions to that are so strongly governed by peers convention. This relies heavily on the fact that his family were horrified by and ashamed of him, which bit do you take issue with? ...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: Salutations and Hi and so on and so forth

Shabobcat
Posted: 27 Jan 2008, 3:12 am 

Replies: 16
Views: 1,589
loving that t-shirt to respond to quartermass, I write, I read, I'm a glutton for stories so if anyones got some origional scribbles they don't mind sharing send 'em through, When I'm at home in Melbourne I love live music and pubs and plays when not broke but I'm crashing at my parents in the count...

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: the god need, a myth?

Shabobcat
Posted: 27 Jan 2008, 2:51 am 

Replies: 32
Views: 3,680
In the past there were so many phenomena that didn't seem to have a definite cause that the notion of a god seemed plausible. Now the idea only persists because it's passed on through generations. The glorious thing about evolution is that nothing useless survives, peoples relationship towards god/...

 Forum: Art, Writing, and Music   Topic: Has anyone read The Metamorphosis by Kafka?

Shabobcat
Posted: 27 Jan 2008, 1:40 am 

Replies: 16
Views: 7,578
He is the workhorse of his family. The fact that he has to be up before dawn every day, that he has to go to all the right houses and can't miss his trains, the fact that he's never been sick before, all point to him leading an automated life. Meanwhile, his parents and sister don't turn into insec...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: Salutations and Hi and so on and so forth

Shabobcat
Posted: 25 Jan 2008, 2:35 am 

Replies: 16
Views: 1,589
All good and valid points, I particularly like throwing off the shackles of the third party rules of existence handed down to us by a world geared to neurotypicality I do feel pride in who I am and it's incredibly refreshing to say something and have people respond in my language, I posted the above...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: Salutations and Hi and so on and so forth

Shabobcat
Posted: 24 Jan 2008, 5:35 am 

Replies: 16
Views: 1,589
I'm 21, got diagnosed a few days ago. At first I was glad to put a name to my wierdness and inability/insufficiant desire to maintain conections or be emotionally intimate, now I'm feeling a bit of a leper though, I can't understand this Aspie Pride as anything other than pride for prides sake. I re...
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