'Life Noir'

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I was in another tread and noticed a username 'Chat Noir' and thought it was cool. It got me to thinking about Film Noir - you know that style from the 40's and early 50's characterized by bold contrasts in light and dark, and people rapidly having their lives unraveled because of ill-advised decisions, usually revolving around relationships (the femme fatale or evil insurance salesman).

I propose that we use 'Life Noir' as our special codeword for our condition, as we seldom find grey areas (everything's black and white) and are always falling into traps laid by NTs. A statement such as "He's experiencing Life Noir" could be our code for "He's been diagnosed", etc.

Just my $0.02 at 5:30 in the morning.

Haha. Cool idea. We should definitively have our own slang.

Right. Check out the other nearby thread "Is this an AS trait". Following on that, I'm in the process of creating the first Great American Novel, Aspie-Style. How's this for a characterization:

"Sheldon's life was a shambles. Every aspect of his being was overcome by an arnie life noir cataclysm, brought on by the tidying down of his relationships over the years. In his rare moments of calm, even Sheldon himself had to admit that the notion that he made enemies of those who could most help him was entirely near-fetched".

If this catches on, I'd suggest starting a thread on the Life of Sheldon, and having others contribute their own florid prose in unique aspie-isms.

It's very poetic.

Are you going to offer footnotes for the NT readers?or just make them stumble through with the
dazed and dounut glazed eyes I experience in my incounters with them....oh, thats right,NT's only read
"best sellout" books.....

I suggest that footnotes are offered BUT you put them right at the end of the book after a few blank pages AND don't tell them that they're there. Leave them to find out for themselves. Thus finishing the book prior to clarification represents the long wait, the blank pages overwhelming patience and finally, the footnotes themselves symbolises the understanding coming from the NTs.

Or you can make them wait for the sequel THEN clarify both books, thus giving them an exprience of having to stumble through

Or you can come up with something better.

A rather unusual technique is used in A Clockwork Orange. The author Anthony Burgess created Nadsat, a fictional language based on Russian, to use as teenage slang in the story. No glossary or footnotes appear in the book, at least not in the original edition I'm reading. The reader needs to figure out the words either from context or look them up online, although explanations in parenthesis are provided in rare cases. Obviously, it makes the book hard to read for most people, with a possible exception of Russian speakers. Maybe we should do the same in our book?

My edition came with a glossary, but most words were really easy to induce.
I loved that I ended up learning some Russian: ruca, klebo, noga, plecho...

There's one thing you seem to be forgetting...
No one's FORCING the NTs to read this! They can drop it anytime if it gets too hard.
Maybe the aspieisms could be dispersed throughout the book and not all together to make it easier for them.

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ROFL

I love this idea!

Thanks for the info. I love this film (although Kubrick hated it apparently), but I didn't know that Anthony Burgess made up a language. Of course the term 'droog' is well known because of the film itself.

Don't mind me. I'm just re-watching the topic.