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Pretty accurate I'd say for the majority of autistic men without other comorbidities trying to blend in among allistics while a few of these "men of steel" care less what people think and are more like Superman.


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Yesterday, 5:25 pm

BillyTree wrote:
Pretty accurate I'd say for the majority of autistic men without other comorbidities trying to blend in among allistics while a few of these "men of steel" care less what people think and are more like Superman.


Mmmh... I wouldn't label Clark Kent as Superman, he is his alter ego in fact Peter Parker is even more in the spectrum.
When we are masked those traits can not exist so I won't call it Superman... when he is doing Superman those problems don't exist and society is different. :)

I had talked here about but I think is like for an actor interprete a role.

Btw an example even Peter Parker is like Spiderman.


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^You know that Clark Kent and Superman is the same person, right?


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BillyTree wrote:
^You know that Clark Kent and Superman is the same person, right?


Here came a psychological point, when you act a role your brain do a weird stuff and you are no longer yourself.

No, he is Clark Kent acting as Superman... he isn't Clark Kent being Clark Kent.

They are different. It is called dissociative pattern.


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Superman is an alien. Clark Kent is him disguised as a human being. It's the opposite situation compared to the earthlings that dress up as Batman, Spider Man or The Phantom.


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Today, 8:06 am

BillyTree wrote:
Superman is an alien. Clark Kent is him disguised as a human being. It's the opposite situation compared to the earthlings that dress up as Batman, Spider Man or The Phantom.


Again you fall into a bad concept.
A) whole aliens are like him since it is an alien, like whole americans are like Trump because he is american;
B) it was an allegoric question, was clear it wasn't canon but as allegory;
C) he was grew as human, he thought to be human so interpreting Superman is interpreting an alien while he is a human because he is grew as an human;
D) he is an adoptive son, his parents are human, it is enuff to make him human not alien to me.


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^Ok. I leave it at that.


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