Comments on: Season 4, Episode 22: Elegy

By: DSmaster21

DSmaster21 — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:07:50 +0000

I don’t like your blurb after the comic. (I should remember what it is called but memory [At least remembering exactly what I want against my brain’s will] is kind of not my thing) 1: it implies that all Aspies are self-diagnosed. This is not true as I was receiving services before finding out that I had Asperger Syndrome. (I was diagnosed in 1st grade and was not told until 6th.) 2: It seems stupid that people would try to diagnose themselves rather than get an actual diagnosis. (I mean this more as a 1-stop thing. If they believe they have it they should go and actually get diagnosed) 3: That fools like that exist upsets me. They have no idea what it is like to be an Aspie. I have very strict definitions of words that lodge in my head and so communication is difficult with other people because they view words more fluidly. (I say things that make sense to me in the way I used the words but others don’t understand because they see words differently so then I have to explain in great detail what I meant vs. what they heard and even my family is not very good at being patient enough to hear these ramblings so they just take my words at their interpretation of face value) (I suck with people and just want them to understand that I am trying.) This is also combined with the fact that I can understand and memorize information quite easily but recall and utilization is difficult means that I get put in AP classes as I already know the previous material but I can’t handle the pacing so I get B minus to D pluses and complaints about how if I just got all my work in on time I could easily get As. To try to claim that you have anything like that just cause you want to be a special snowflake is just insensitive.

By: Cranky Devon

Cranky Devon — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:27:37 +0000

Nice shout out to LOST, there. I had to double check the numbers, but my memory did not fail me. Thanks for another good strip!

By: FlyingFish

FlyingFish — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:02:40 +0000

In reply to jdreyfuss. As I recall it, it wasn't that it proved he DIDN'T do it; it just demolished the sole piece of evidence suggesting he DID do it: that he had the victim's bowling scores memorized. The cops though that meant he was obsessed with her, but nope, turns out he just memorizes EVERYONE'S scores.

By: BeautifulStream

BeautifulStream — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:00:33 +0000

In reply to Jacob Haller. No wonder he looked really familiar to me! That's a cool fact.

By: Rimwolf

Rimwolf — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 18:03:15 +0000

In reply to jdreyfuss. Apparently Mulder didn't understand it either -- I think we just have to chalk it up to Mulder's intuition.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 13:14:12 +0000

In reply to Fred. This is one of my favorite episodes, but I'm still lost...I just always chose to not think about that part.

By: Jacob Haller

Jacob Haller — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 13:14:42 +0000

In reply to BeautifulStream. The actor Sydney Lassick, who played Harold's friend Chuck (in the episode he's the one who keeps confessing to things he didn't do) also played an inmate in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 07:58:47 +0000

In reply to jdreyfuss. I think it meant he was too busy watching the bowling and memorizing the scores to find time to commit the murder, or something the like.

By: Blue Wonder

Blue Wonder — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 01:38:25 +0000

In reply to Jo Valentine-Cooper. You're on the spectrum too? Cool.

By: Blue Wonder

Blue Wonder — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 01:36:51 +0000

Self-diagnosed Asperger’s people are the worst. The last thing those of us who really do have Asperger’s need is more people giving us a bad name.