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EyesOfLilly wrote:

wazuzu wrote:

EyesOfLilly wrote:Awww :/ here's a free Kenji "manly picnic" card

It's a common. I do not want that. Give me rare card!

Nobody wants the Kenji card haha

Because we all already have like 15 of them!

EyesOfLilly wrote:Nobody wants the Kenji card haha

You really should have scolded me Lilly-style for my greediness.

Also I've been noticing more and more that I am starting to behave like Rin. My thoughts intertwine, I think on three languages simultaneously and when I try to express anything harder than a textbook phrase, I fail. I do not feel myself stupid, but it messes more and more with my life. It all began before I ever read KS, so I am not making this up and I am not acting, because that would be some bad acting right here. That may partly come off my bad grammar, but it's not always like that. And it even appears in the internet, despite me having some time to re-read my phrase and correct it before sending it.
Or maybe I am sometimes biting much more than I can chew, making difficult phrases with my poor language skills.
I'll go to sleep now and contemplate about this a bit.

Verdogoth wrote:Anyways, sorry for my rambling. Is there anybody who feels like their life is somewhat similar to KS?

Apart from a few themes in my favourite path (that were such purely by accident), I honestly can't say that. Never been to a disabled school, the closest thing I did was perform at one with my horn, but that was for the kids in their 7-10 ages, not teenage disabled ones.

But I can say that, even though I have no disabilities whatsoever, I have felt very much as what you describe in your post for something like 3 years of my former teenage life. My advice? If you won't be open to anyone IRL, at least be open to people on the internet that interest you (or that you find yourself at least mildly curious about). Consider their viewpoints. Think about what they say and how they feel about things (you can apply this safely to people IRL too) and don't disregard it as unimportant.

And who knows. The same thing might eventually happen to you that did to me and allowed me to let people in IRL just fine and which is also heavily themed in KS - namely that, disability or no, people are not that different from each other at their base desires and needs. But there are no magic words that can cause this to happen - you have to realize it for yourself. That is...if you even want to.

And I hope you do. Because it's a cold world if you don't and I should know.

I went to school once.

Well it's similar to my life in that the main character is somewhat anti-social, and not terrible good at talking with people...

I never find out what's in the boxes I carry.

I guess it doesn't really count as a disability. Or does it? Anyway, I'm color blind and socially awkward and horrible at expressing how I feel because I don't know how. If you can count this as a disability, then that's how my life is similar.

Lexäeus wrote:I guess it doesn't really count as a disability. Or does it? Anyway, I'm color blind and socially awkward and horrible at expressing how I feel because I don't know how. If you can count this as a disability, then that's how my life is similar.

It is a disability just as much as you feel like it.

I'm alive. That's something right ?

constant staring thanks to my scaring

Xanatos wrote:I went to school once.

^

Can't think of anything else really.

wazuzu wrote:

Lexäeus wrote:I guess it doesn't really count as a disability. Or does it? Anyway, I'm color blind and socially awkward and horrible at expressing how I feel because I don't know how. If you can count this as a disability, then that's how my life is similar.

It is a disability just as much as you feel like it.

Or dependent on how dickish people are.


Also, Lexäeus don't join a bomb squad Also, it could be worse. You could be (un)dead and colourblind XD

My first love happened in college, and

I
grew up with two alcoholic parents
had an older brother that beat me up on a daily basis

while she
grew up in a strict fundamentalist misogynistic family
was raped by her older brother

so yes, KS-levels of emotional trauma. KS is kind of on the tame side, really

My first experience of sexuality scrambled any semblance of common sense that I had. Every time in the story that Hisao is being a complete jerk I could look back and think of how I acted exactly like that in similar situations, and I absolutely related to his struggles to love honestly and without possessiveness.

I also had a lot in common with Shizune. In my family the emotional environment went from "Anger-Low SImmer" to "Anger-Full Boil'. This left me with a fairly limited tool set to manage personal relationships with. For Shizune, everything is some kind of challenge -- just like it was with her growing up. Shizune's limited tool set drove almost everyone in her life away. I worked really hard on the same thing.
I thought Shizune's bad ending was a much more realistic than her good ending. Change like she needed to go through doesn't come without a whole lot of sturm und drang.

Liminaut wrote:My first love happened in college, and

I
grew up with two alcoholic parents
had an older brother that beat me up on a daily basis

while she
grew up in a strict fundamentalist misogynistic family
was raped by her older brother

so yes, KS-levels of emotional trauma. KS is kind of on the tame side, really

My first experience of sexuality scrambled any semblance of common sense that I had. Every time in the story that Hisao is being a complete jerk I could look back and think of how I acted exactly like that in similar situations, and I absolutely related to his struggles to love honestly and without possessiveness.

I also had a lot in common with Shizune. In my family the emotional environment went from "Anger-Low SImmer" to "Anger-Full Boil'. This left me with a fairly limited tool set to manage personal relationships with. For Shizune, everything is some kind of challenge -- just like it was with her growing up. Shizune's limited tool set drove almost everyone in her life away. I worked really hard on the same thing.
I thought Shizune's bad ending was a much more realistic than her good ending. Change like she needed to go through doesn't come without a whole lot of sturm und drang.

1) Weird spacing at the start. What up with that?

2) KS is a series of stories involving very troubled and in some cases traumatized individuals. Describing such things as "on the tame side" is pretty fucking terrible. I'll take the to mean it was a joke though.

3) Shizune limited her own tools by being stubborn and standoffish manner. And the good end is as realistic an end as you can get: She knows she should change, she decides to try, the future is left uncertain. End. How much realer do you get than that?

For Shizune, the incentive for her to change her style isn't there. She knows that her "competitions" are rubbing people off the wrong way, but she thinks that she can't do anything about it. Thankfully, this changes at the good end.