Personal Illogic

A collection of 97 posts

Personal Illogic

Autism and Me, Part Four: Things Could be Better

Progress has happened. That’s a good thing. Awareness is spreading, more people know what Autism looks like and more people know more about it.

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Autism and Me, Part Three: Things Are Better Now

I have had a lifetime of falling through the cracks. Too smart for public school, too dumb to get a free ride with a more elite educational facility.

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Autism and Me, Part Two: Coping Strategies Good, Bad, and Atrocious

I was a child for the era in which measles could kill a kid. Hell, I had schoolmates who thought I had died, the year I caught all the spots. They were greatly disappointed that I was still alive, but that’s not the point of this particular diatribe.

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Cringe Comedy: Why Must They go There?

There’s a reason why I stopped watching RomComs, apart from the Different Movie, Same Plot syndrome that wore on my patience before very long.

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Tropes I Despise: Burden Porn

The sorrowful, dramatic, and heartbreaking music swells. The man in the white coat looks at his results once again and steels himself to deliver the bad news. "The results are in," he says. "There can be no doubt. Your child is... a burden."

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The RomCom Power Imbalance

To begin with, I am not a scriptwriter, nor am I someone who writes romance for a living.

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I Keep on Hurting Myself

I have a part of my own brain that hates me. There have been times where I’ve joked that there’s a gremlin living in there and causing havoc.

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Gone With the Prophets

This is the last message my friend shared with the world. On Sunday, the 24th of March, she posted this picture.

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Are We Equal?

I hear it stated a lot, especially by people claiming that there is no further ‘need’ for Feminism, that “we are all equal now”.

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Tropes I Despise: The Miraculous Minority

You’ve likely seen them without ever knowing they’re there. They’re in Hallmark movies. They’re in Hero movies. They’re in your after-school special.

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Who Cares?

I've been working on this blog for some time now, and I thought I had followers. I thought people were reading these things. Turns out, once again, I'm shouting into the darkness of the void, with no response whatsoever from the enormous gulfs of whatever. I

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The Deserving Paradox

There’s a memetic paradigm in Western culture that’s always confused me, and the more I research into it, the deeper my confusion gets.

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Overhaul the Earth

Currently, the world is in a state. It’s been getting into a worse and worse state and the evidence dates back to the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s.

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Turnabout is Not Fair

What they mean about that is that something bad that happens to a member of the usual oppressors is more or less what they deserve for being a member of the usual

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The Masks We Use

Oscar Wylde once said, “If you want to know the true nature of a man, give him a mask.” Or words to that effect.

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The Flavour of Nostalgia: Aesthetic and Thematic Choices in Modern Cinema

Beloved and I went to see two movies just a few short days ago: Into the Spider Verse and Bumblebee. Both are very different movies, but they have one thing in common – a healthy dollop of nostalgia.

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How Do You Write So Much?

The real truth is, I love to write. I have loved to make up stories since I was a pipsqueak. It’s part of my story. I have written tales and loved it.

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Another Tumblr Apocalypse

Tumblr was once popular amongst nerds and creative types because even plebes like myself could get the word out.

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Imaginary Economy

I think I may have hypothesised about time being a decent unit of currency. Once spent, it can’t be retrieved. It’s a precious and finite resource, and you can’t spend it to get more of it.

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This is... not...

I have less free time because I can't keep focus. I can't keep focus because I'm always tired.

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Why Be Gatekeeping?

Once upon a time, Science Fiction was poo-pooed as “that Buck Rogers stuff”, Star Trek was a silly television show that only housewives watched, comic books were “kids’ stuff”, the Beatles were a stupid boy band for teens, and anything animated was for school children.

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How To Represent

Growing up, the only place I saw people of colour was Sesame Street. The only disabled person on television was on Ironsides and I didn’t get to see a movie with an all-black cast until my mid-teens.

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Head Fog

TLDR: I forgot to write this yesterday because my brain is like a sieve.

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MRINYRATOK

People like to go through the things that famous people do as if that’s a guaranteed recipe for anyone else to have the same success. Spoilers: it isn’t.

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Tropes I Despise: Innocent White Criminal

Due to circumstances beyond Our Hero’s control, he has to enter a life of crime to make ends meet. He suffers. He fights. He becomes a monster. Was I talking about Walter White from Breaking Bad or whosisface generico Everyman from Ozark?