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zen_mistress
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 Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 6:19 am Post subject: |
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You are probably right about that. I think there were cellphones around when I was a teen, but they were rudimentary ones. I think I remember my uncle having a brick when I was about 14...in my country that was progress, to have a Brick phone, and you were doing very well if you have one of these large phones.
In my later teens people started to get cellphones for the first time...noone at school had one though. It was people's parents. I got my first cellphone when I was 19- my mother bought it for me so that I could call her when I was going out. I remember it had really fuzzy reception and didnt work in many parts of town, lol.
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Ikari_Gendo
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Location: South Dakota
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:06 am Post subject: |
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I've been an anime fan since the mid 80's, when it was still Japanimation and if you mentioned it, people assumed you meant tentacle porn.
Part of the appeal is the obviousness of the characters' emotions, but also that they have emotions at all. Many American live-action shows feature characters who have no more reaction to finding the body of a friend than they do to losing their car keys.
Also, many anime feature incompetent main characters who have to struggle to achieve their potential. I prefer these characters to the heroes who succeed without really trying. |
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NoriMori
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Joined: May 19, 2008
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| ZiiP wrote: | I will have to agree with Mudboy and Shinmizu. The clear surroundings, easy to understand facial expressions and easily categorizable emotional response, make it ideal television series. They are often centered on fiction and action, which tend to fuel my imaginary worlds.
The characters do not look human, so I don't need to worry about anyone getting hurt. If an anime-character get hurt - so what? It is not human so I feel no guilt witnessing it. I guess the same thing can be said about manga art.
| Mudboy wrote: | | I like anime because it is a nice fantasy world where I can read emotions easily. There is normal character, then they add embarrassment, or anger, or sadness, or nevous, or whatever. Thare are no subtle hints, or shades of emotions. Even if they are trying to hide thier emotions, they show the acting emotion looking at the other characters and the true emotion to the audience as thoughts. I also like the way most of the characters look and the story lines. |
| Shinmizu wrote: | | Possibly the fact that animation tends to be exaggerated due to limitations of the medium--the facial expressions, emotions, etc. of characters in anime are far, far easier to determine with reasonable accuracy than those of real people. I guess it's an, "Oh, I get how they are, and can actually (sym/em)pathize with them" reaction. |
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Hey! OMG, that's exactly the way it is for me! Only I didn't realize it!
See, the thing is, I'm 99% sure at this point that I have Asperger's, but I haven't been diagnosed. I found out about a year ago that my whole family thought my general behaviour was strange, and my mother had already begun to suspect that I had Asperger's. Why no one told me any of this, I have no idea, but right now I feel really angry about it (As in, "Why didn't you tell me I was acting weird???!!!"). But the point is this: My mother took me to a pediatrician specializing in ADD, and of course, specializing in ADD, she almost immediately diagnosed me with that and gave me a prescription for Strattera. She said that my intelligence "makes up" for my "mild ADD". My mother didn't believe her because of the circumstances, so she took me to a child psychiatrist, who said that I was "gifted". Well, I may get good grades, but I don't think I'm gifted per se. From that point on, everything went down hill. I'd already known that I was bad at making friends, but from that point on I started monitoring everything I did, obsessing over everything I did or said in public, at school, or with my friends. I used to just be socially awkward, but now I'm physically awkward because I'm so damn nervous. Or, more precisely, I suppose I might have always been physically awkward, but now I'm much more aware of it. Before, I was oblivious -- oblivious and happy.
Right now I'm on the internet (supposedly doing a French project. ;D), and I decided to look up Asperger's syndrome myself, on Wikipedia. I found myself gasping with almost every sentence I read -- I kept thinking, "This is me!" And I have this story that I'm working on... My main wish is for it to become a famous anime in the future, and the main character is based on me, so I try to incorporate events in my life into the plot or the subplots, so even as I was reading the Wikipedia article, I pictured my fictional counterpart reading it, with the text on the screen flashing whenever it really hit home with her... Dramatic, animated stuff like that. 
But the main point is, I love anime, too. And I guess that ^^^ is the reason.  It never really occured to me. Although, I haven't seen every episode or anything, and I can't quote them very well. But I actually sort of have this goal of becoming an otaku  -- like, one of those people who's seen every episode of all the good anime out there, and has them all on DVD, and read all the volumes of the mangas, and has a ton of collector's items and merchandise... Yeah... |
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Vexcalibur
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: Re: what is it with Asperger's people and anime? |
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| kid020 wrote: | | Im not trying to be critical but as an NT who has Asperger's friends I've noticed people with Asperger's are really into anime. I like anime too, however Im talking about people that have seen just about every episode of Inuyasha, Bleech, Romen fighter mikki, Azumangha Daioh, and can quote every episode and thats frankly all they talk about. What is it with the anime obsession anime is ok but its not the whole world? |
Well, they probably like it as much as you, but they are using their focus superpower to really get into it. |
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