This moment is one of the ones that I always come back to, I get what Achilles means, and why Pepper is frustrated. I also have issues (while not as extreme) with taking words at face value, of course this all sounds normal to him, that’s what it all sounds like.
I understand those phrases, and use them, and *still* have moments where my brain insists on taking them at face value anyways no matter how much I tell it that’s not what was meant :clair-what2:
this panel affected me so strongly the first time i read it. this might literally be the first depiction of an autistic masochist ive come across in all my time reading books and comics and watching shows. which like. idk maybe theres actually plenty i dont know about, but usually the autistic persons sexuality is not acknowledged. the second time it happened was watching poor things, which nearly destroyed me to experience. so i think im right.
What’s wonderful is you CAN learn things like idioms, metaphores, sarcasm… It took a lot of effort and some very, very caring Speech therapists but I did. Even before then, people that had the patience to explain what they meant allowed me to understand them a little bit.
Finally reading through this from beginning to end really has me in awe of how wonderful the characters and their traits are exaggerated. Like someone mentioned elsewhere, it’s like watching the constituent pieces of a person work things out together without realizing it. Those layers in particular, new fantasies built on the old to block out whatever that memory Chloe and Clair seems to share, I wonder what could possibly be impactful enough to have Chloe forget previous layers and Clair to make new ones.
This moment is one of the ones that I always come back to, I get what Achilles means, and why Pepper is frustrated. I also have issues (while not as extreme) with taking words at face value, of course this all sounds normal to him, that’s what it all sounds like.
I understand those phrases, and use them, and *still* have moments where my brain insists on taking them at face value anyways no matter how much I tell it that’s not what was meant :clair-what2:
…and now I’m thinking about that in the context of this comic, and I haven’t before, and *huh* :pepper-onedge:
AS AN AUTISTIC PERSON THIS HIT DIFFERENT
Is no one gonna mention how now the eye that Achilles keeps closed is reflecting the diamond pattern that we saw down there with Ares?!
It’s also the same eye that Ares has covered by her hair, and the one that Chloe keeps closed. Idk if that’s significant
this panel affected me so strongly the first time i read it. this might literally be the first depiction of an autistic masochist ive come across in all my time reading books and comics and watching shows. which like. idk maybe theres actually plenty i dont know about, but usually the autistic persons sexuality is not acknowledged. the second time it happened was watching poor things, which nearly destroyed me to experience. so i think im right.
What’s wonderful is you CAN learn things like idioms, metaphores, sarcasm… It took a lot of effort and some very, very caring Speech therapists but I did. Even before then, people that had the patience to explain what they meant allowed me to understand them a little bit.
Finally reading through this from beginning to end really has me in awe of how wonderful the characters and their traits are exaggerated. Like someone mentioned elsewhere, it’s like watching the constituent pieces of a person work things out together without realizing it. Those layers in particular, new fantasies built on the old to block out whatever that memory Chloe and Clair seems to share, I wonder what could possibly be impactful enough to have Chloe forget previous layers and Clair to make new ones.