[ SECRET POST #1849 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1849 ⌋


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 43 secrets from Secret Submission Post #264.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[canadian-kazz.livejournal.com]

For crying out loud, we went through this yesterday. People have different tastes in the people they'd like to sleep with. Deal with it.

To the OP: I agree in that I'd probably sleep with him too, if I could. I have a list of characters and celebs I have a crush on and both Jack Harkness and John Barrowman are on those lists.

[(Anonymous)]

Aspergers is the worst diagnosis for that, because the diagnosis criteria is so broad as to be functionally useless in any real treatment or behaviour management program.

It's not really a real diagnosis anymore, it's an "eh, they are wacked, but nothing specific" diagnosis. Once upon a time that attitude was used for bipolar, and borderline personality disorder too. Took a long time to get those sorted into real diagnosis too because lazy clinicians would just throw the easy diagnosis at the complainer rather than investigate.

Demanding patients (or with aspergers, patients parents) wanting an easy diagnosis so they can slap a "special" label on their behaviours, and lazy clinicians who just want the demanding patients out their hair, is a bad combination. There may be a few genuine cases in there, but they should be on the main autistic criteria, not aspergers if they are to be helped or managed. The aspergers label is meaningless.

[kindlycoyote.livejournal.com]

... Reading classics makes you pathetic? Hun, no. It makes you smart and well-educated. Being well-educated means reading a lot of stuff usually, from textbooks to news to literature and etc.

And besides, your friends probably assume it's because you read a lot. Unless your friends think that being smart automatically means you talk smart, in which case I don't think I have met many people irl who actually think that. Most people say 'oh, you must read a lot!' when I go off on one of my spiels about a subject.

And heck op, BE PROUD! I personally talk (in real life) like someone out of a Jane Austen novel because of my obsession with her books for four years of my life. Which causes much giggling among others when I drop the F bomb, because as my cousin said- 'You just enunciate it so well! It's like hearing Elizabeth Bennet drop the F bomb.'But regardless, you should be proud that you sound smart and that you ARE smart, and knowledgable. Because you read and have a brain (well, I assume you are intelligent because most people who love classics are). This is good, not pathetic!

And reading good fanfiction is also a good thing. It means you have standards!

*reposted because I saw one comment and thought I posted in the wrong section. Whoops.*

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so jealous. When I was younger I was a voracious reader of poorly translated (i.e. very literal) manga scans, so unfortunately I picked up a few bizarre phrases that I can't seem to get rid of. I sure wish I'd been interested in classic novels and period films. It would have been nice to have picked up some classier vocabulary.

[insanenoodlyguy.livejournal.com]

While true, I'd say the person who can ignore that and like/hate something based soley on it's merits is the one doing it right.

[(Anonymous)]

um..are you totally incapable of reading comprehension or did you type that comment just to be ~edgy~?

[unicornherds.livejournal.com]

Reading helps increase your vocabulary. So unless you're reading really horrid fic with over simplistic writing or spelling errors galore, fanfic will help your vocabulary.

[(Anonymous)]

lol, no.

[miss-psychosis.livejournal.com]

Lightning belongs with Fang, anyway. ;)

[ditdatdo.livejournal.com]

Seriously.

[hako-neko.livejournal.com]

I honestly think it depends on how they're presenting themselves with it. On one hand, it's remarkable when someone with a disability can show talent despite their hardships. On the other, it's fucking annoying when it's used as an excuse not to respect others.

[insanenoodlyguy.livejournal.com]

I think you wanna be 3 secrets down?

[childings.livejournal.com]

Why are you still watching The Simpsons

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of it is the crab bucket effect. Your putting an effort into learning something unusual, you must be pulled down and prevented from bettering yourself. You must be part of the herd, you must not be different. Its sad really, but a mob hates to see people learning more than it.

[insanenoodlyguy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but this secret implies that the op found the super sweet cache of fanfic with EXCELLENT ENGLISH.

Or at least has very good taste. Because 90% of the time, you get this:

[unicornherds.livejournal.com]

Any motivation is good motivation, I figure. I hate it when people get all down on themselves for whatever source of motivation. There is no "right way" to be motivated. You found something that works for you, you got your paper done, you win! Stop and allow yourself to enjoy the win without criticizing.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the correct question is: What the hell is going on with the past ten years of The Simspons?

Seriously, the show hasn't been goot since about season 12 or 13. The storylines are getting more outlandish and ridiculous to seem 'new', the characters are now annoying caricatures of themselves, and the humor does seem to be copying Family Guy (ugh. seeing such cut-away gags in The Simpsons is just painful).

[nomorefrostbite.livejournal.com]

OP, idek how reading classic novels and watching period films makes you pathetic in the slightest.

Especially reading classic novels actually makes you cultured and highly literate - neither of which are bad things or worthy of any embarassment.

More people should be like you in this regard!

[(Anonymous)]

by their loudest examples, not their best.

It's why aspergers and autism has such a bad name. The most visible people claiming to have them are just assholes using it as an excuse to be assholes (and usually the self diagnosed on a three question internet quiz type of asshole) which means that is how everyone is judged. Subcultures have to learn how to self-police if they want to escape that trap.

[kindlycoyote.livejournal.com]

Getting into language classes is such a pain! All the ones you want get filled up so quick, and the ones left over don't fit your schedule. Best of luck next session OP, in getting into the class you want! (And if all else fails, you can either get overrides or badger people in the office. :D )

[andromeda3116.livejournal.com]

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you, perhaps, simply worded yourself poorly. That said, I do agree with some elements of this -- it is horribly annoying and really just horrible when people claim to have a mental disorder because they think it's cool and edgy. It's probably my only IRL berserk button, when someone says something like "Oh, I'm so OCD, I just have to have everything organized" or -- heaven help me -- "I'm Bipolar, can't you tell? I'm so moody!" Not only is it ignorant as all hell, but it cheapens the issues that real mental patients have to contend with. The fact that there even is such an animal as "Ass Burgers" is case in point of this; there's a certain kind of person who reads about a disorder on Wikipedia or hears about it through popcultural osmosis and thinks "hey, I'm maladjusted/moody/sad sometimes for no reason/awkward around people, that means that I'm autistic/bipolar/depressed" and take it upon themselves to make that diagnosis and start using it as an excuse.

Here's the bare bones of it, from my experience -- a real, genuine mental patient? Will not use it as an excuse to act however they want to. There are exceptions, of course -- being a mental patient does not necessarily mean that you aren't also a drama queen/king -- but for the most part, people who actually suffer from an actual psychiatric disorder spend most of their time and effort trying not to be defined by it, and in most cases won't even bring it up in public unless there's a good reason. To use broad strokes, most mental patients don't want the sympathy they'd get from broadcasting their issues across places that have nothing to do with said issues.

So, yes, there are plenty of people who claim to have issues because they think it gives them a free pass to act however they want to and/or because they think it makes them cool and different and edgy, and yes, that is infuriating as all hell because real mental disorders are often extremely debilitating, and to see some idiot who has never suffered from any serious neuroses claim that they're sooooo autistic or sooooo bipolar or sooooo OCD... it's frustrating, but more than that, it's depressing. Because if you're a mental patient, chances are, you'd kill to be normal, to be rid of your disorder. It's like being taunted with something you can never have by someone who can never understand what they're doing to you. It's agonizing.

All of this said, however, you worded this secret poorly as all fuck and if you sincerely mean it and it wasn't just a bad turn of phrase, then you can kindly go fuck yourself.

[gloriafan]

♥

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you. This is exactly what I wanted to say.

[unicornherds.livejournal.com]

At least I don't have severe social anxiety, epilepsy, ADHD, and am not bi-polar!

Okay...you just listed my brain. Granted, the epilepsy went away at around age 17, but still...awkward.

[tamabonotchi.livejournal.com]

If you're not one of the actual weebs I read in the horror stories, kindly correct that person and tell them there are regular fans of everything.
And you don't spout Japanese at the end of your sentences.