That's Kevin
hi Kevin
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Aw, no Monday update yet?
As an autistic person, I find this strip a bit weird. I know that everyone's different and all, but my experience with other autistic people and myself has been that we embrace labels more than reject them. Why would one be mad at a doctor for stating an empirical fact? We (generally speaking) LOVE categorization, almost to the point of it being an actual problem.
My brain parses it this way: Despite the doctor saying that it's fine, she associates the label of "autistic" with the anger she saw when she told her father about someone using it. Her father said it was an insult, so when the doctor says it's fine, that means the doctor thinks insulting her is fine. QED.
Is Kevin an AI? The colour of his skin/covering and the lines on his fingers indicate so, but his speech bubble looks like the speech bubble of humans?
There is a fair amount of inconsistency in the shapes of AIs' speech bubbles, even when looking at just one person's bubbles over the course of the comics.
Wonder how Kevin deals with bra sweat?
he deals with cash all day - cash is filthy by it's nature, so I'm sure he opted for some type of easy-to-clean, possibly inherently antibacterial/antifungal dermal covering for his hands. bra sweat from one awkward but adorable young lady shouldn't even make it above the noise floor.
Fortunately for me, I got eased into the word before people started using it as an insult. Or at least before I'd heard of it being used as such. As it is, I present as neurotypical if you don't know what to look for. Also, it's a self-diagnosis based on my daughter's shared traits. I'd wondered about Brun myself, having recognized the markers from the start. I'm more highly functional than she, but I definitely know how she feels.
Hi Kevin
I'm lucky in a way that no one knew what autism was while growing up. Not like now, where there's so much awareness and yet so much incorrect information about it.
The term was "weird kid" when I was growing up in the 60's and 70's which covered a lot of variations.
My son is autistic. I’m waiting for the day it is weaponized against him... edit: dreading and expecting would be more appropriate...
I wonder if Kevin is related to the noseless robot from #3931. Do they have the same manufacturer?
In AnthroPC nursery school, "Got Your Nose" is played for keeps!
*throws all the hearts at Brun* aaaaaaa
Brun. Honey. We love you
Fuck anyone who uses "autistic" as an insult.
The whole comic is great but man oh man am I excited about this Kevin since we don't have many examples of male presenting AI characters that look mostly human. And he is a Qtpie too.
"male presenting AI characters" - careful - Tumblr started banning "female presenting" stuff - wouldn't want Patreon to catch the virus.
I love how close these two are getting. I also love the poster in the background that seem to say "graphs are cool".
I think the other one says something like "Thanks for giving us all your money!"
I feel targeted D:
Graphs! They’re cool
I imagine it's just an artefact of Brun's storytelling, but the implication that one can just "go to a doctor" and get an autism diagnosis on the day is pretty laughable. Actual assessment (especially from a starting point that presumes nothing but a list of behaviours) takes months, even up to a year.
Its getting easier now, as it is more recognised, but It could sometime take years before people would even recognise that the behaviours someone has might be autism. I know that despite having councillors and therapists examine me for years, and the traits being there since early on, I didn’t get a proper diagnosis as Aspergers Syndrome (now known as high functioning autism), until I was around 17 or 18. That was over a decade ago though.
The world surely has changed. Asking someone where they are from has only become offensive,to some people, recently.
I think the issue is the implied/inferred subtext to the question. There has been a lot of visible xenophobia lately so the question is much more likely to be interpreted as being aggressive and implying that the person in question doesn't belong here. The intent of the question may be of curiosity and wanting to learn or connect, but when constantly exposed to the xenophobia it is easy to be defensive in response to the question. Not saying it is right to immediately assume the worst about the person asking the question, but it is an understandable response. That and in this case, it was skeezy because it sounded like he wanted to check her off of an ethnic bingo card. And as several people below me pointed out. He asked about ethnicity not where she was from.
Wonderfully done Jeph
If I recall last time Clinton asked if she'd maybe been diagnosed with any kind of condition, she just talked about how she didn't trust doctors without getting into the particulars. Sounds like she trusts him enough to open up now. She knows he's not gonna be weird about it if he knows a doctor said this about her.
Got a link to that particular strip? I can't remember him specifically asking if she's been diagnosed with anything.
Sure is dusty in here all of a sudden....
Beautiful strip, Jeph.
"Graphs, they're cool"
Now I'm seriously having a moment. The level of representation in this place just gets more awesome all the time. And done SO DAMN WELL!!!! (so well that this is my first time commenting)
This is why I get upset every time I see the word sperg used on the internet (where it's almost exclusively used as an insult). It makes people have a negative opinion of Autism, and then you get people like Brun who then misplace their anger at people who are just trying to help them like doctors.
I've actually never seen that word used. And I'm glad. At least I know that my part of the internet does one thing right. Or maybe I've just been good at ignoring it.
Well that explains Brun. I could never figure out if she was just eccentric or something else. Now we know....
Just quietly, I don't think that autism is the one and only factor you needed to define Brun. People are weird in lot of different ways.
Kevin's design feels like it is channeling Kris Straub's character designs. I like it!
On another note, this bank has some serious poster action going on.
GIVE US YOUR MONEY; GRAPHS: THEY'RE COOL
Hooray! It’s confirmed! I’m so glad you did that, Jeph.
I need to know more about Kevin!
Yes. We need to talk about Kevin.
And it's finally confirmed.
Words dont mean much until someone puts an intention behind it :(
Who is cutting onions in this forum?!
I SO want to give Brun a hug right now...if she wanted one, that is.
Berf