Oh, shit! That’s exactly how I got COVID back in ’21. I wear a mask everywhere in public, *except* at my desk at work, and the jerk comes in, KNOWING he’s sick, but not wearing a mask anyway, and spreads it to me and at least one other person. I. Was. Pissed.
the infection-to-symptom timeline was precisely a two-week timeframe bookending the convention, so I am prolly one of THOSE people 😕 but, Schrodinger’s COVID doesn’t test positive until a doc says it is, so it was unavoidable 😑 (I did thoroughly mask while there anyway, and the two closest to me the whole time haven’t shown signs of infectiobn)
I got ya beat, unfortunately, I went to the medical clinic, and when I was in a very crowded elevator, some moron climbed over the top of me in order to reach the buttons came home with Covid the next day.
Reminds me of kids that would brag about their perfect attendance in school when they would come in sick and get everyone else sick. I wish our culture had more of a respect for not getting others sick just in order to make yourself look good (aka never missing work or school, or hate how masks look on themselves or complain about how masks feel). I do have to say that I don’t like how most n95 masks don’t stay on my head with their behind the head bands unless I have my hair tied up tight. They just slip down and sometimes take my glasses out behind my ears with them. I know that my hair has no body to hold stuff up by itself but you don’t have to prove it.
We also need more respect for not forcing ourselves to work when I’ll for our own sakes. Never missing work, even when really ill, is not something to boast about, and missing work because you’re ill is not your fault (despite what some bosses seem to think).
I live in the UK. There was a kid in my class in Year 11 (a friend of mine, in fact) who did exactly this – bragging about his perfect attendance record as he was looking almost dead on his feet. I asked him if he was feeling okay, and he admitted he had chicken pox. I was the only other kid in the class who’d ever had it (there’d been an outbreak of it in my primary school), so EVERYBODY ELSE (the teacher included) gave him the widest of fucking berths for the next 2 weeks because he refused to just go home and be sick.
That seems to be as much a symptom of celebrating attendance as the person’s own illness. Maybe what we should do is celebrate the kids who miss x number of days due to responsibly taking sick leave. (Dr’s note req’d)
I had Covid that lasted around 12 days at the beginning of the year (I had completely avoided it until then), and I never experienced that loss of taste at all.
Covid hits everyone different.
Neither my wife, nor I, nor our kids lost our taste.
My symptoms were nasty cold + mild fever + wracking whoopy cough.
My wife had mild cold + foot rash + scar tissue in lungs with no cough or fever.
Kids had mild sniffles, one had a mild fever but the other had no fever.
From purely anecdotal evidence, repeat infections seem to give an individual the same symptoms as their first round (the terrible cough for me, the foot rash for my wife, the loss of taste for Ana, and similar reports for others I’ve talked to).
I still contend he guessed, which is different and slightly better than lying. like eenie meenie minee moe. There are only a certain number of residence halls and he picked one. I will die on this oddly-specific hill!
I’m now trying to figure out how that would work. Maybe there’s a bag involved to catch the fart? the mechanics of it don’t seem to work very well. It also depends on what a fart is made of. I always assumed it was pretty much just air. Then there would be nothing to eat. You’re just breathing it in. Maybe if you collected a bunch of them together and condensed it into a solid or a liquid. That would be one of the weirdest and most disgusting science experiments ever.
The sort of desperate lie you concoct when you’re woken up in the middle of the night by someone who won’t leave you alone until you find them some answer. I was going to guess Carla might learn a lesson about waiting at least until the crack of dawn to raise hell, but clearly no, nothing so practical.
Middle of the night? It was light outside in winter and by the time the short conversation finished it was time for Walky to get ready for church. I’d say like 8am or later, maybe 7:30 at the very earliest. I’d still say it’s obnoxious and selfish (especially on a Sunday), but nowhere near as bad as people keep implying.
I think it was more like 5, cause Lucy is definitely so eager to go to Church with Walky she got there way too early And church is way too early to begin with if you’re used to sleeping past noon on weekends. Everyone in the scene is way too tired to be nice or even coherent, and I sure don’t remember there being daylight.
I’m not saying it’s bad though, just that I understand why Walky wouldn’t care about anything more than saying whatever it takes to get back to bed immediately.
It’s a couple of days after Dumbing Day. Sunrise in Bloomington, IN today was 7:55 am. The fact that we saw the sunlight probably means that Carla did wait until the crack of dawn. I’m not saying she’s the most considerate, but she was considerate enough to wait until sunrise.
Eh, IMO, Walky’s the least-bad non-Charlie person in that whole thing.
Carla and Booster were both being obnoxious – I think Booster was worse than Carla since they insisted on winding her up instead of simply telling her to piss off, but it’s a close one. While Walky’s lie didn’t do anything but temporarily deflect Carla’s…Carlasity, it also didn’t actively encourage it…
question is, will carla be fine with that one time pie-ing or just basically for the full month if not til he properly apologizes to her or charlie finally noticing her lol
Sal likes singing and seeing her boyfriend happy. She really is the biggest dork of them all. Owning a motorcycle and having a mildly alternative sense of fashion is really the only thing keeping her stereotypical coolness facade going.
Um, no. Walky’s No. 1 non-fan is Walky. Of all the facades in the strip, Walky has the biggest but most fragile one – with the possible exception of Carla.
He literally knows he can annoy Danny just by being present and said as much. Walky’s lazy and likeable until you have to count on him, but not stupid.
Correction Walky, the correct name of Jennifer’s “friends” is “super morons”, but the truth is that you will be in for a big surprise, and yes, I recognize your progress, but you deserved that slap in the face, consider it a lesson for your growth
…for getting peeved at a rude, aggressive, and pushy woman waking him up at dark-o-clock on a weekend demanding answers about the location of a person he doesn’t know?
Remember that he was not cautious when it came to showing his displeasure with the redhead’s favorite show, and besides, we’re talking about Carla…she never forgets.
We won’t talk about my 8am college classes *shudders*. Definitely won’t talk about 8am organic chemistry that always had a quiz right away first thing on Thursday, and how Wednesday night was dorm night. I do not miss dorm living and the lack of pity for us poor early morning class biology students (lectures normally in the morning with labs in the afternoon).
Carla didn’t wake him. Booster woke him rather than following through on his pr To Carla if she wore the dress. So just another asshole move on Booster’s part that someone else paid for.
What promise? After Booster objected to Carla trying to bribe them into introducing her to Charlie, Carla said she didn’t know how to attract someone’s attention without being obnoxious, and sarcastically asked if she was supposed to “throw on a pretty dress and bat [her] eyelashes”. Booster replied that he would like to see that.
Nowhere in that was there even an implicit “If I get to see you wearing a dress, I will introduce you to Charlie” much less “at any time of the day or night.”
It probably wouldn’t have been a lot of effort for Booster to say, “come back at 10”. But it’s fairly plausible that they knew Walky was going to be getting up then (7-8) anyways, so Walky should do it. If that were the case its just their sleepytime brain making an arbitrary call.
He DOES get a free pie out of the deal! Because if you think Walky isn’t the type to immediately begin grabbing handfuls of pastry off his face and eating them after getting hit with a pie, you’re kidding yourself.
given his talk with his mother i’m sure he wouldn’t mind being pied once a week the rest of his life if it meant never having to deal with her again lol
This is not related to today’s comic, but I know it’s come up a lot lately, so I wanted to share something from my own life… I’ve just started to identify as autistic. “Identify as” feels like weird phrasing here, but I mean that it’s not an official diagnosis, but round one of neuropsych testing ruled out some other stuff and was like, “We encourage you to seek out an autism assessment.” And my therapist sees this as very likely, and I’ve thought of myself as autistic occasionally, just in moments, before (but in ways that was more focused on the specific thought or behavior, usually, rather than for sure feeling that I was).
And already, this has been a really cool shift in how I think on some aspects of my life. When it was, like, this possibility that no one was saying, it was like, okay, maybe this general tendency would align with some general tendency, that one thought seems like it could be, etc. And now so many things seems like they could connect to being autistic, when before I was being like… this is because I’m bad at talking, this is because I have broken emotions, this is because I don’t know how to be a human…
This got longer than I was thinking. But, yeah. Autistic.
Nobody knows how to be a human, don’t worry about that part. Anyone who seems like they know is bluffing, and there’s a 95% chance they have some bizarre fetish or hidden secret, like they’re horny for severed hands, or they’ve been poisoning the man who took them in as his own child because their father saved his life when they were a baby.
My go to thought when severed hands are referenced is Carl the Llama, whose “tummy had the rumblies, that only hands could satisfy”, but apart from that, everything on the internet is probably a JoJo reference.
Okay, here’s the thing, and I’m sorry dumping it on you, but it’s one of my bugbears. I fully accept that the world is a complicated place, nobody is adequetely trained for it, and therefore everyone feels like they’re adrift and faking it to an extent.
Trying to decipher human society with a brain that is fundamentally different from most people’s is not that. And I’m pretty sure that if the people I brought my concerns to as a kid had realised this wasn’t that, and not “reassured” me that everyone else was faking it too and laughing off my followup “But I don’t even know how to do that!”, I could have been diagnosed decades earlier than I was.
It’s like when people respond to me saying I’m dyscalculic with “Oh, don’t worry about it, everyone hates maths.” Yeah, probably, but that’s not what this is.
welcome to the club! It is all anxiety but there is a certain relief in knowing, you know? In the understanding, in being able to point out to something and say “This is one of the reasons”.
I am glad that the realization is helping. As someone who has also been recommended to do testing from a therapist because they thought that I was probably autistic, I know personally that it can be hard to switch your mindset out of “I’m bad…” even if you can get a better understanding of why you are having trouble. I know that everyone can be different though, and that I had a rather rough introduction to the concept due to a roommate and her family having an “intervention” like sudden meeting with me to basically say that why the roommate treated me that way and how I was a bad roommate because I had aspergers. So, keep your head up no matter how frustrated you getcwith your own capabilities or what other people think about them. I’ll be cheering for you.
Take this as someone that was late diagnosed: I’m happy when someone is able to discovery autism, because they could know themself better and can improve their life. At least, they can be more forgiven.
Congratulations.
Oh hey, I’m in a pretty similar place right now w.r.t. autism! An autistic friend of mine told me last year that I should probably look into this. Then, a few months ago, I was talking with a psychiatrist about getting ADD meds and brought up the same points my friend brought up and she was like “yeah, that seems like a possibility.” I’m working on getting a neuropsych assessment through my university’s health department, but it remains to be seen whether that’ll actually happen before I graduate this year.
But yeah, just having that as a possibility has DEFINITELY changed my perspective on a lot of common behaviors I, and a number of my family members (on my dad’s side), have. Just like….so many things that my family’s always accepted as weird little personal quirks, but now I have to deal with the notion that this is an established Brain Thing which a lot of other people have bonded over? Maybe Grandma’s brutal honesty, obsession with her dog, and general social goofiness (which we all know and love) actually puts her into the Autism category of existence? Maybe my cousin’s legendary picky eating habits, and tendency to get up and pace around waving his arms whenever he’s excited, is also a Thing in this category? Not to mention my own extremely limited capacity for conversations with multiple people, and plethora of little nervous habits like shredding small leaves and pieces of paper without thinking? It’s all kind of weird, because this simultaneously changes nothing and changes everything, and I don’t know what to think about that.
Considering she probably wasn’t able to pass the whole admit why your doing this question to get the location from the girl she likes sibling. I’d say she’s probably mad.
“He’ll light up a Christmas tree with Star Trek ornaments” Well I wish Willis had decorated his Christmas tree with Transformers ornaments. Or I’ll suggest a double dog dare!!
See what I think you really have to appreciate about Carla? Besides everything else (genuinely), her INCREDIBLE aim. Throwing a pie correctly is harder then you’d think. it has to fly while staying vertical, hit the target dead on….
Pie-ing Mary was also a pilot project supporting development of the Long Distance Pie Projector, with facial recognition, high-definition sonar target tracking and spin-stabilized pastry propulsion.
It’s still kind of incredible that Gargoyles pulled off having a black/indigenous heritage woman as the main protagonist of a popular animated series in the 90’s and no one gave a shit or maybe they did and we just didn’t have internet back then. Like how Cybersix legit gave us a genderfluid lead.
It’s true, she’s not one to hate someone, but it would be difficult for them to see each other face to face…yes, and I insist, Dorothy is not that type of person.
I know the storyline is winding down but I’m so curious what it’s gonna leave Dorothy on, she keeps being the sin eater of the comic and my heart breaks for her
I don’t know … after a while that got pretty pathetic, sort of the same way it went past ridiculous on ‘Laugh-in’ with that one girl always getting drenched with water when she said “Sock it to me” (or after a while, anything even close to that phrase).
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Looks like Walky got his just desserts! 😋😆🥧
*plays “Coffee and Other Just Desserts” by Terry Scott Taylor on hacked muzak*
Good one!
lol he got off pretty lightly considering
but hey free snack if the karaoke bar doesn’t have much
(Oops, apologies – I hit the report button by accident.)
Just wait, knowing Carla, it might just be the first salvo.
“BEHOLD how creme pies love me!”
(turned out to be Schrodinger’s COVID: not actually COVID until the doc said it was, since I could still taste up until I was diagnosed)
(also DEFINITELY from my unmasked co-worker who came to the office hacking up a lung and never once taking sick leave)
😱 OH SHIT sorry to hear, do they require COVID tests at your job?
Oh, shit! That’s exactly how I got COVID back in ’21. I wear a mask everywhere in public, *except* at my desk at work, and the jerk comes in, KNOWING he’s sick, but not wearing a mask anyway, and spreads it to me and at least one other person. I. Was. Pissed.
Oh no, did it interfere with your time at the con? Or was this after?
the infection-to-symptom timeline was precisely a two-week timeframe bookending the convention, so I am prolly one of THOSE people 😕 but, Schrodinger’s COVID doesn’t test positive until a doc says it is, so it was unavoidable 😑 (I did thoroughly mask while there anyway, and the two closest to me the whole time haven’t shown signs of infectiobn)
GAH I even retyped that typo, PHONE 😡
sucks that I haven’t even been at my computer in a week out of courtesy to the other person living here
I got ya beat, unfortunately, I went to the medical clinic, and when I was in a very crowded elevator, some moron climbed over the top of me in order to reach the buttons came home with Covid the next day.
Reminds me of kids that would brag about their perfect attendance in school when they would come in sick and get everyone else sick. I wish our culture had more of a respect for not getting others sick just in order to make yourself look good (aka never missing work or school, or hate how masks look on themselves or complain about how masks feel). I do have to say that I don’t like how most n95 masks don’t stay on my head with their behind the head bands unless I have my hair tied up tight. They just slip down and sometimes take my glasses out behind my ears with them. I know that my hair has no body to hold stuff up by itself but you don’t have to prove it.
We also need more respect for not forcing ourselves to work when I’ll for our own sakes. Never missing work, even when really ill, is not something to boast about, and missing work because you’re ill is not your fault (despite what some bosses seem to think).
*European culture shock*
I live in the UK. There was a kid in my class in Year 11 (a friend of mine, in fact) who did exactly this – bragging about his perfect attendance record as he was looking almost dead on his feet. I asked him if he was feeling okay, and he admitted he had chicken pox. I was the only other kid in the class who’d ever had it (there’d been an outbreak of it in my primary school), so EVERYBODY ELSE (the teacher included) gave him the widest of fucking berths for the next 2 weeks because he refused to just go home and be sick.
That seems to be as much a symptom of celebrating attendance as the person’s own illness. Maybe what we should do is celebrate the kids who miss x number of days due to responsibly taking sick leave. (Dr’s note req’d)
… I am recently annoyed with someone who bragged about their perfect attendance, but it is not my story to tell, so I cant share it here.
But yeah, I find that cultural thing really upsetting.
It’s one thing to share the story, it’s only an issue when the person is named.
I had Covid that lasted around 12 days at the beginning of the year (I had completely avoided it until then), and I never experienced that loss of taste at all.
I didn’t lose my sense of taste either when I got it, but for one day some things tasted different than normal.
Covid hits everyone different.
Neither my wife, nor I, nor our kids lost our taste.
My symptoms were nasty cold + mild fever + wracking whoopy cough.
My wife had mild cold + foot rash + scar tissue in lungs with no cough or fever.
Kids had mild sniffles, one had a mild fever but the other had no fever.
From purely anecdotal evidence, repeat infections seem to give an individual the same symptoms as their first round (the terrible cough for me, the foot rash for my wife, the loss of taste for Ana, and similar reports for others I’ve talked to).
Glad you are okay. Not so glad it’s what I thought. Heal up and get better. You’ve been missed, strangely enough.
SO WHOLESOME.
very wholesome + humbling pie 🥰
Oh, yeah he lied about where Charlie lives. I forgot that for a sec.
Ah! Thanks for reminding me.
I was just about to ask about when he poked said bear.
I still contend he guessed, which is different and slightly better than lying. like eenie meenie minee moe. There are only a certain number of residence halls and he picked one. I will die on this oddly-specific hill!
Like how you eat your own farts, I guess.
sorry, I shouldn’t have said that. the “I guess” part, when you’re guessing it’s vitally important not to say it’s a guess.
I’m now trying to figure out how that would work. Maybe there’s a bag involved to catch the fart? the mechanics of it don’t seem to work very well. It also depends on what a fart is made of. I always assumed it was pretty much just air. Then there would be nothing to eat. You’re just breathing it in. Maybe if you collected a bunch of them together and condensed it into a solid or a liquid. That would be one of the weirdest and most disgusting science experiments ever.
It requires a cheese knife.
Are you speaking from experience?
Or just guessing?
It is a pew-n
I wonder what Fart Captor is doing these days?
Hanging out on the patreon comments.
Then, he represented himself as knowing, when he didn’t. That’s still lying.
The sort of desperate lie you concoct when you’re woken up in the middle of the night by someone who won’t leave you alone until you find them some answer. I was going to guess Carla might learn a lesson about waiting at least until the crack of dawn to raise hell, but clearly no, nothing so practical.
Middle of the night? It was light outside in winter and by the time the short conversation finished it was time for Walky to get ready for church. I’d say like 8am or later, maybe 7:30 at the very earliest. I’d still say it’s obnoxious and selfish (especially on a Sunday), but nowhere near as bad as people keep implying.
I think it was more like 5, cause Lucy is definitely so eager to go to Church with Walky she got there way too early And church is way too early to begin with if you’re used to sleeping past noon on weekends. Everyone in the scene is way too tired to be nice or even coherent, and I sure don’t remember there being daylight.
I’m not saying it’s bad though, just that I understand why Walky wouldn’t care about anything more than saying whatever it takes to get back to bed immediately.
It’s a couple of days after Dumbing Day. Sunrise in Bloomington, IN today was 7:55 am. The fact that we saw the sunlight probably means that Carla did wait until the crack of dawn. I’m not saying she’s the most considerate, but she was considerate enough to wait until sunrise.
Indiana is so far west that it should be in the Central Zone, but observes ET not CT, so sunrise is later than you think.
He absolutely lied about knowing and the possibility that his lie would end up being accurate does not change that
Bingo
In his defence, she was knocking on his door at like 3am.
Same.
I love when you can hear the delivery of a line from a character you’ve never heard speak, and that’s what makes the joke funny.
And you totally deserve it Walky.
All character development comes with lessons… and this is also one of them
Nah, Carla deserved it far more than he did.
Eh, IMO, Walky’s the least-bad non-Charlie person in that whole thing.
Carla and Booster were both being obnoxious – I think Booster was worse than Carla since they insisted on winding her up instead of simply telling her to piss off, but it’s a close one. While Walky’s lie didn’t do anything but temporarily deflect Carla’s…Carlasity, it also didn’t actively encourage it…
“I may have poked that bear.”
LOL! I actually bust out laughing at that one. You know you had it comin’, Walky!
Good aim and/or composition, no pie on Sal.
Walky is her involuntary meat shield. :p
I wholeheartedly approve of any further use of pie-based retribution!
question is, will carla be fine with that one time pie-ing or just basically for the full month if not til he properly apologizes to her or charlie finally noticing her lol
Well Carla’s less of a bear and more like… uh… I’m not up to date on lesbian terms. A giraffe?
Though I’m not sure anyone in the cast really fits the bear moniker. Drew’s a bit of a cub maybe?
Joe’s dad is a muscle bear.
The only thing I could think Carla would qualify as is a futch Amazonian goddess.
Sal likes singing and seeing her boyfriend happy. She really is the biggest dork of them all. Owning a motorcycle and having a mildly alternative sense of fashion is really the only thing keeping her stereotypical coolness facade going.
She smokes. Smoking is cool looking.
Malaya has noticed!
Every new thing I learn about Sal just makes her cooler. pity stereotypical people, for they lack variety.
The more she seems comfortable putting those walls down the better this gets.
can’t wait to see her reaction when jen complains that asher is too walky-like lol
Striking without notice like an unseen dodgeball in an echoing gymnasium!
Oddly, it fits.
Gotta respect a man for acknowledging his faults enough to know he *earned* that pie to the face.
I love his not-so-subtle “we’re not hanging out with her FRIENDS, are we?”.
“I’m beloved by all”
I wonder if that’s how he really feels, if it is it explains a lot about him
Um, no. Walky’s No. 1 non-fan is Walky. Of all the facades in the strip, Walky has the biggest but most fragile one – with the possible exception of Carla.
He literally knows he can annoy Danny just by being present and said as much. Walky’s lazy and likeable until you have to count on him, but not stupid.
Correction Walky, the correct name of Jennifer’s “friends” is “super morons”, but the truth is that you will be in for a big surprise, and yes, I recognize your progress, but you deserved that slap in the face, consider it a lesson for your growth
…for getting peeved at a rude, aggressive, and pushy woman waking him up at dark-o-clock on a weekend demanding answers about the location of a person he doesn’t know?
Remember that he was not cautious when it came to showing his displeasure with the redhead’s favorite show, and besides, we’re talking about Carla…she never forgets.
Lol okay
Yeah, that’s two strikes against Walky as far as Carla’s concerned.
What happens at three? Do we really want to know? Are we ready for that information?
dark-o-clock is when the Sun’s up, folks.
For college students it is :D.
no, it literally is not. ♥♥♥♥♥
and Booster woke him up.
We won’t talk about my 8am college classes *shudders*. Definitely won’t talk about 8am organic chemistry that always had a quiz right away first thing on Thursday, and how Wednesday night was dorm night. I do not miss dorm living and the lack of pity for us poor early morning class biology students (lectures normally in the morning with labs in the afternoon).
Yeah! How dare he?! Retribution had to be delivered!
Carla didn’t wake him. Booster woke him rather than following through on his pr To Carla if she wore the dress. So just another asshole move on Booster’s part that someone else paid for.
What promise? After Booster objected to Carla trying to bribe them into introducing her to Charlie, Carla said she didn’t know how to attract someone’s attention without being obnoxious, and sarcastically asked if she was supposed to “throw on a pretty dress and bat [her] eyelashes”. Booster replied that he would like to see that.
Nowhere in that was there even an implicit “If I get to see you wearing a dress, I will introduce you to Charlie” much less “at any time of the day or night.”
“that they would like to see that.” Sorry.
It probably wouldn’t have been a lot of effort for Booster to say, “come back at 10”. But it’s fairly plausible that they knew Walky was going to be getting up then (7-8) anyways, so Walky should do it. If that were the case its just their sleepytime brain making an arbitrary call.
ah, and the universe returns to normal
fuck off, carla
Normally I’d agree but it is a pie to Waljys face so I’m a bit conflicted
I doubt Walky’s even mad, honestly.
He DOES get a free pie out of the deal! Because if you think Walky isn’t the type to immediately begin grabbing handfuls of pastry off his face and eating them after getting hit with a pie, you’re kidding yourself.
given his talk with his mother i’m sure he wouldn’t mind being pied once a week the rest of his life if it meant never having to deal with her again lol
Well when you poke a bear, the claws come out.
Revenge will be sweet
Believe me, I think this is just the beginning.
I wonder what the pie to hours-wasted ratio is.
Only Carla will know that data
She woke him up at the right time to go to morning service on a weekend.
She got what she deserved.
This is not related to today’s comic, but I know it’s come up a lot lately, so I wanted to share something from my own life… I’ve just started to identify as autistic. “Identify as” feels like weird phrasing here, but I mean that it’s not an official diagnosis, but round one of neuropsych testing ruled out some other stuff and was like, “We encourage you to seek out an autism assessment.” And my therapist sees this as very likely, and I’ve thought of myself as autistic occasionally, just in moments, before (but in ways that was more focused on the specific thought or behavior, usually, rather than for sure feeling that I was).
And already, this has been a really cool shift in how I think on some aspects of my life. When it was, like, this possibility that no one was saying, it was like, okay, maybe this general tendency would align with some general tendency, that one thought seems like it could be, etc. And now so many things seems like they could connect to being autistic, when before I was being like… this is because I’m bad at talking, this is because I have broken emotions, this is because I don’t know how to be a human…
This got longer than I was thinking. But, yeah. Autistic.
Congratulations, very glad it seems to be a positive change for you.
One of the club now, yippee!!! (heehee) ^^ <3
Nobody knows how to be a human, don’t worry about that part. Anyone who seems like they know is bluffing, and there’s a 95% chance they have some bizarre fetish or hidden secret, like they’re horny for severed hands, or they’ve been poisoning the man who took them in as his own child because their father saved his life when they were a baby.
Is this… a JoJo reference?
I’m sure I wouldn’t know, having never seen or read any JoJo.
My go to thought when severed hands are referenced is Carl the Llama, whose “tummy had the rumblies, that only hands could satisfy”, but apart from that, everything on the internet is probably a JoJo reference.
“er, excuse me – oI’m not!”
–Dave, the wheel of time turns, and generational memes come and go
Okay, here’s the thing, and I’m sorry dumping it on you, but it’s one of my bugbears. I fully accept that the world is a complicated place, nobody is adequetely trained for it, and therefore everyone feels like they’re adrift and faking it to an extent.
Trying to decipher human society with a brain that is fundamentally different from most people’s is not that. And I’m pretty sure that if the people I brought my concerns to as a kid had realised this wasn’t that, and not “reassured” me that everyone else was faking it too and laughing off my followup “But I don’t even know how to do that!”, I could have been diagnosed decades earlier than I was.
It’s like when people respond to me saying I’m dyscalculic with “Oh, don’t worry about it, everyone hates maths.” Yeah, probably, but that’s not what this is.
It’s hard to tell if we agree or not.
welcome to the club! It is all anxiety but there is a certain relief in knowing, you know? In the understanding, in being able to point out to something and say “This is one of the reasons”.
I am glad that the realization is helping. As someone who has also been recommended to do testing from a therapist because they thought that I was probably autistic, I know personally that it can be hard to switch your mindset out of “I’m bad…” even if you can get a better understanding of why you are having trouble. I know that everyone can be different though, and that I had a rather rough introduction to the concept due to a roommate and her family having an “intervention” like sudden meeting with me to basically say that why the roommate treated me that way and how I was a bad roommate because I had aspergers. So, keep your head up no matter how frustrated you getcwith your own capabilities or what other people think about them. I’ll be cheering for you.
Take this as someone that was late diagnosed: I’m happy when someone is able to discovery autism, because they could know themself better and can improve their life. At least, they can be more forgiven.
Congratulations.
Congratulations! ✌️
does this mean we should get them an autism cake?
–Dave, with oddly-non-flickering candles
Yes, you should get me a cake.
Welcome to the club!
Welcome to the club! We don’t know how how to human together.
Thank you, everyone. <3 Looking forward to gaining a better understanding of this aspect of myself.
Oh hey, I’m in a pretty similar place right now w.r.t. autism! An autistic friend of mine told me last year that I should probably look into this. Then, a few months ago, I was talking with a psychiatrist about getting ADD meds and brought up the same points my friend brought up and she was like “yeah, that seems like a possibility.” I’m working on getting a neuropsych assessment through my university’s health department, but it remains to be seen whether that’ll actually happen before I graduate this year.
But yeah, just having that as a possibility has DEFINITELY changed my perspective on a lot of common behaviors I, and a number of my family members (on my dad’s side), have. Just like….so many things that my family’s always accepted as weird little personal quirks, but now I have to deal with the notion that this is an established Brain Thing which a lot of other people have bonded over? Maybe Grandma’s brutal honesty, obsession with her dog, and general social goofiness (which we all know and love) actually puts her into the Autism category of existence? Maybe my cousin’s legendary picky eating habits, and tendency to get up and pace around waving his arms whenever he’s excited, is also a Thing in this category? Not to mention my own extremely limited capacity for conversations with multiple people, and plethora of little nervous habits like shredding small leaves and pieces of paper without thinking? It’s all kind of weird, because this simultaneously changes nothing and changes everything, and I don’t know what to think about that.
Hell yeah! I’m happy for you.
I am very happy for you, Yumi.
That either means she’s mad or she really really respects him for doing it and is showing her overflowing affection.
50/50. I suposse
I respect that you reposted your comment in the right place with the same typo.
Could be anger and respect.
Considering she probably wasn’t able to pass the whole admit why your doing this question to get the location from the girl she likes sibling. I’d say she’s probably mad.
50/50. I suposse
Almost a brick joke. Almost.
“He’ll light up a Christmas tree with Star Trek ornaments” Well I wish Willis had decorated his Christmas tree with Transformers ornaments. Or I’ll suggest a double dog dare!!
He did.
It’s Willis, I mean come on.
And even if he didn’t, we can assume that he will at some point.
Walky seems like he knew the pie was coming eventually.
him having sitcom-y timing is the real superpower
be hilarious if booster ended up choosing the flavor or so or helped pick it out before tossing it lol
i bet danny loves lower decks and had a dork overload with the voyager episode 🙂
See what I think you really have to appreciate about Carla? Besides everything else (genuinely), her INCREDIBLE aim. Throwing a pie correctly is harder then you’d think. it has to fly while staying vertical, hit the target dead on….
She isn’t likely to build a defective pie throwing machine.
Pie-ing Mary was also a pilot project supporting development of the Long Distance Pie Projector, with facial recognition, high-definition sonar target tracking and spin-stabilized pastry propulsion.
She should send it to Ukraine for testing
The angular momentum to keep it flying true, and composition to keep it from flying apart, but also make a safe and satisfying ‘SPLAT’.
Sal really giving off some Elisa Maza vibes with that look.
https://i.imgur.com/T5izaBi.jpg
Oooo i see it now ^^
(This is the 69th comment, count them if you don’t believe me and/or are also bored)
Nice.
(It was already at 70 when I posted this.)
I’m going to add a comment upstream just to throw the count off.
It’s still kind of incredible that Gargoyles pulled off having a black/indigenous heritage woman as the main protagonist of a popular animated series in the 90’s and no one gave a shit or maybe they did and we just didn’t have internet back then. Like how Cybersix legit gave us a genderfluid lead.
Ah, Carla’s vengeance is upon us.
Beloved by all… except Carla, his parents, Dorothy, Jennifer, Danny. Now I’m worried Walky is gonna get lonely and feel outcast.
I am not convinced Dorothy belongs on that list.
Dorothy definitely does not belong on that list.
It’s true, she’s not one to hate someone, but it would be difficult for them to see each other face to face…yes, and I insist, Dorothy is not that type of person.
Walky definitely walkied into that one.
Also, re: alt-text: AAAAAAAAAAAA
Oh hey do you enjoy comics? 😃
Do you like SEXY comics? 😍
Well here’s not one, but two entire updates to: MAKE LOVE NOT WAR, a Space Captain Julia Gray Adventure
Except the art was digitized using my absolutely dreadful phone camera, listen this is what it is
I know the storyline is winding down but I’m so curious what it’s gonna leave Dorothy on, she keeps being the sin eater of the comic and my heart breaks for her
Like seeing people get pied? Search for Soupy Sales on YouTube.
His jokes are dreadful groaners, but the payoff is always hilarious. He got me through a childhood filled with aggravation.
Especially tasty is the episode with Alice Cooper.
I don’t know … after a while that got pretty pathetic, sort of the same way it went past ridiculous on ‘Laugh-in’ with that one girl always getting drenched with water when she said “Sock it to me” (or after a while, anything even close to that phrase).
Confirmation Sal doesn’t know Dorothy will be there. This will be a time.
The Weapon of Choice returns!
I love that even though she’s not visibly in any panel that Carla still gets a tag.
Carla’s pie brings all the tags to the yard.
Just flip Carla the bird and keep on walking.
Pie isn’t real. Stop spreading pro-pie propaganda.
The pie is a lie?
Propieganda.
You know, if anyone was going to appreciate getting hit by a pie, Walky’s probably our man.