Apparently ‘persistent dysgeographica’ is a fairly new condition, described in fiction (the accidental tourist) less than 30 years ago and not really accepted by the scientific community yet as as a true, measurable condition. I suppose this could be an ASMR-sort of situation; out there and quite real but not yet studied.
I take it you “grew” out of it.
Was that just by adaptation or actual mental development?
It seems that there are quite a few aberrations that manifest in childhood and then fade.
A certain problem in fifth grade that resulted in my being educated in private schools from then on. I’m not naming names because (1) even now, it might be considered libel, and I don’t want the hassle, and (2) I’m not sure I remember all the names correctly.
Well, that explains some of the “airhead” traits.
Dyslexias are known to have a correlation with difficulty with short term aka working memory. Which I guess in severe cases (like we seem to have here) absolutely could result in some “cliche airhead” tropes.
Though it seems she has a generally cheery personality in general, outside of the dyslexia stuff.
In light of things like linguistic dyslexia and severe synesthesia – people being able to smell colors or taste sounds, or things like that – directional dyslexia doesn’t seem like much of a stretch. The brain is breathtakingly complex and (despite amazing research) quite poorly understood. We probably have no idea of how many ways things can go haywire. And anyway, it’s not just directional confusion that afflicts Briar, based on what I’ve seen; that appears to be just one member of a syndrome. Her interpretation of “end of the day” makes me think she’s got a touch of Amelia Bedelia-ism going on, taking the world around her at very literal face value.
We’re already running into these problems in Artificial Intelligence. The interaction of an unfathomable number of algorithms, many written by genius level programmers who are now long dead (and without proper documentation), are completely baffling present day geniuses trying to trouble shoot the problems they cause by their interaction. And this is occurring in systems we supposedly actually understand down to the last transistor.
When it comes to the human brain, a system assembled by the trial and error of natural selection on the one hand and interaction with a wide open environment on the other, it seems hopeless.
As an old Y2K Code Warrior, I take as a Maxim the Motto of Transylvania Polygnotic University: Satis scire timere -Know enough to be afraid. The notion of Un-dead Coders is genuinely Scary! Add to that that I know JUST enough to understand that it would be Much easier to model the existing, non-human, wholly mechanical “Intelligence” of the Ant Hill or the Termite Mound. It is comparatively simple. If it’s simple enough for me to imagine how to do it, then Someone, likely Several Someones, already has/have. Even Scarier, much of the “Intelligent Behavior” exhibited by AI Systems, [to the extent it isn’t Intelligent Interpretations of the Experimenters,] is evidence of a completely unexpected, and completely ALIEN Intelligence. Jeff Goldblum’s character Brundlefly warns us that there ARE no Insect Politicians. Life in an Insect Colony is simple, and Brutal. Chemical signals determine the 2 big categories of everything -Me and Not Me. Not Me breaks down further into:
o Enemy – It must be killed.
o Food – It must be eaten an/or brought back to the Hive.
o Obstacle – Inedible, it must be moved or moved around
This last category is particularly useful to a Soldier Ant colony[.] When placed on a perfectly flat surface, without Obstacles will form up into something the size of an old Vinyl 33 1/3 Record, and march themselves to Death, following their own Scent Trails. A Perfect Example, in Nature, of a Really Really BAD Programming Error.
“Documentation is for the weak. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.” – apparently said by every programmer I’ve ever cursed at after the fact, including myself, for comments like “/* increment counter */” and “//open file here”.
Same here, and ah’ve got the feeling Briar wasn’t kicked out because her dad punched an idiot, more that her dad had her transferred to get her away from said idiot
That sort of reminds me of what happened when my dad was assigned a new post in a ‘northern location’.
Our family was a strict military family, I was the oldest of 3 children, and the only boy.
we had acquired a habit of saying certain phrases of respect like “Ma’am and sir”.
The first problem came to my youngest sister.
She was in kindergarten and a third grade bully who outweighed her by about 50 lbs (about double her size) decided to tease her by pushing her around.
He pushed her into a telephone pole and regretted it when she moved out of the way, grabbed his hands and swung him (breaking BOTH bones in BOTH arms THRU the skin… 4 compound fractures).
My other sister (6th grade) was accosted by a female ‘street gang’ who decided this well-tanned and athletic girl was going to join them (whether she wanted to or not).
They started their ‘induction’ by pushing her down an ice-covered slope (we had just come from Tx, so weren’t very familiar with walking on ice).
When they got to the bottom of the slope, she proceeded to ‘teach them’ to not mess with a Texan.
6 girls spent weeks in hospital beds after that lesson.
My mother was called to both schools in the SAME day to answer these ‘incidents’ and our habit of ‘disrupting class’ by saying those phrases.
She told them that if/when her children stopped saying those words, her husband could ensure the US army would NOT send its children to those schools. (he could, BTW)
Somehow, I and my sisters didn’t seem to have any problems after that.
A full-time guardian would be full-time expensive, and probably not covered by insurance. If you can get a kid at school to do it for free (or even for cheap), do it.
and when that student flakes off and shirks the responsibility, you end up with parents punching your staff and yanking their kid out of your school, causing bad PR and you lose government funding for that same student, as well as any OTHER students that were pulled out due to the bad PR… then of course you get the lawsuits from your staff that was punched… I’m sure there are more knock-on aftereffects, but that alone would (should) put the balance in favor of “sucking it up” and paying for that dedicated staff member, and remember it’s only while the student is on school grounds or approved off-site/hours activities, anything that is unauthorized, or after hours that staff member (and thus the school) would not be responsible for…
Actually, we had a full time assistant for my daughter from kindergarten through the 6th grade. 3 different assistants over the years, they were accepted to varying degrees by teachers, ranging from ‘oh thank GOD you’re here’ to ‘well, you can just help me with the entire class, not just that one student, right?’ to ‘I see no reason for you to be here, leave now.’
Daughter was functionally deaf starting at about 3 months old. I was on state assistance and when I told her assigned pediatrician that I was concerned about her hearing due to the fact that she wasn’t doing age- normal babbling, trying out sounds, didn’t startle at loud noises or respond when her name was called and wanted them to test her hearing I was told I was ‘making shit up to scam the state out of more money.’ Cue me fighting them for over a year and them insisting I was a welfare queen trying to bilk the system. I had a job and paid for my insurance, and had the one kid, so… all I wanted was a simple battery of tests that could be performed in office in about 10 minutes. They refused. I eventually took her to a pediatrician in another state, and he confirmed 97%+ deafness in both ears, unknown cause. I took that finding back to her doc, he ripped the paper up and threw it out while smirking at me, cue nervous breakdown. My Mom came for a visit and offered to take her home with her in order to get her proper medical care. I agreed and she was gone 4 days later. Within 6 months she had surgeries and treatments, her hearing somehow returned by age 3, but she was socially/ verbally/ behaviorally 2 years behind her peers.
The state provided a full time liaison, counselor, and therapist that attended school with Daughter. She helped Daughter communicate with teachers and classmates, understand what was required of her regarding class and homework, remind her that she could talk when she got frustrated, and generally help Daughter catch up and integrate into normal school life. Those women were amazing and I fully credit them for Daughter’s rapid development of language and socialization skills. By the 4th grade she had dropped ASL almost entirely in favor of verbal communication. They also heavily advocated for her with teachers to get her what she needed to excel in school.
The teachers mostly responded in the three ways mentioned above. Response #1 was perfect and Daughter excelled and shone in those classes. Response #2 always ended up with a parent/ teacher/ principal/ therapist meeting with me on speaker phone explaining again and with stricter language that we weren’t paying the aides to be teachers helpers, we were paying them to keep Daughter from melting down in class and to help her participate and be as ‘normal’ a student as possible. She could shut down entire wings of the school with her melt downs. Response #3 usually required several meetings and resulted in two terminations, one after a teacher locked the aide out of the room and then ‘punished’ Daughter for not following directions by locking her in the supply closet for 30 minutes. That’s how long it took for the aide to get my mom to the school and explain what happened. After my mom and the principal demanded the teacher open the classroom door, and finding Daughter locked in the closet with no light…. she was terminated on the spot, blacklisted from teaching, and prosecuted by the state for child abuse and torture. Her ‘defense’ was that Daughter didn’t need that level of help, that she was just stubborn, defiant, and an airhead that we needed to stop coddling and enabling. It took four months to get daughter back to where she was that day. The second termination thankfully wasn’t due to such vile actions, but was as frustrating because the teacher absolutely refused to let the aide in thr classroom and bullied daughter relentlessly when she couldn’t answer or got confused.
Both teachers called Daughter lazy, stupid, unmotivated, an airhead, insisted we were babying/ coddling/ enabling her and that if we continued Daughter would never be a functional member of society.
We wanted daughter to have as normal a childhood and school experience as reasonably possible and the aides were the means to do so. It was expensive, even with the state funding the majority of it, but it was well worth it. She had a ‘normal school life’. She still has some issues, including synesthesia, dyslexia, and gets her time tenses mixed up, but she’s amazing and I’m very proud of her. The awesome person she is today wouldn’t have been possible without those aides, and I am forever grateful to them and to the state for providing them and advocating for us. It is well worth it, but it would be a rare teenager that could fulfill that role without burning out or being resentful of how time and energy consuming it is.
Oh bless! That’s a very interesting (and highly inconvenient) disorder. I’m glad her parents seem to care enough to believe she’s not “just an airhead” and remove her from people and environments that don’t understand or believe in her issues. I remember doing a study in high school (back in the 90’s) where I gave surveys to every teacher at the school that asked questions about how they perceive students with ADD/ADHD and if they felt like the disorder was real. If I remember right, well over 40% of the teachers didn’t think that the disorder was real and felt like their students just used it as an excuse for their failures and bad behavior. It might have been even over 50%, but I can’t remember for sure. I just recall feeling really disheartened to learn how many educators didn’t believe that the difficulties people like me experienced were real…and that it was our own fault that we struggled in school. My dad didn’t punch anyone over this (the surveys were anonymous to increase the likelihood of participation and honesty), and I didn’t switch schools either (the gifted & talented program I was in was only available at one high school at that time…and lack of belief in the validity of ADD diagnoses was pretty rampant in the 90’s due to an abundance of diagnoses without supporting tests), but it was definitely a relief to go home to parents who, while not perfect in how they handled every ADD-related situation, accepted and believed that their daughter wasn’t just a lazy, daydreaming idiot who didn’t care about her school work.
I am quite upset with Ms. Alger, and quite worried for Briar. If anyone found out telling her “It’s the end of the day” would cause her to get undressed right then and there, it could lead to some traumatizing events. Now, we don’t know what her full powers all so maybe there’s little risk but it’s still quite an unpleasant prospect.
And, not to sound like a jerk but she should have a small manual, at least. This is obviously a routine for her, so Ms. Alger should have provided Cass with a phrasebook, at least of things to avoid. I’m hoping she did and Cass didn’t think she needed to read it right away, but this seems to be something that should have been brought up during the day.
The only way there would be a phrasebook of things not to say, is by observing Briar and learning them first hand
There is no manual for something like this
And Briar isn’t stupid, if someone tried to pull that shit to get her into a compromising position, they would be in a hella lotta trouble
I agree.
Briar isn’t stupid and she is definitely not an airhead (like a certain redhead who runs around with a girlfriend, a couple boyfriends, and a badly talking dog trying to solve mysteries).
Anybody ‘trying something’ is likely to discover Briar’s ‘natural abilities’ are of a particularly predatory nature.
The big problem, is slapping the ‘Dyslexia’ label on everything
Dyslexia literally only affects reading (don’t know the root word but ‘lexia’ is where you get similar words like ‘lexicon’ and ‘lexigraphy’)
Hmmm! Sitting Down, Briar is still as tall a s Castela, and almost as tall as Shawna. Through no fault of her own, in addition to her other challenges, she is an Attention Magnet, a Lightning Rod. If her collection of Coping Mechanisms include a heap of Trigger Phrases, the job of “Care Buddy” isn’t just Navigator. It will include, Translator, Press Secretary, and, if necessary, Bodyguard. Pickle is a quick study, and it all falls under the general category Guardian, That is what she IS.
I want Briar to meet Tina, Phix, and/or the bartender Monica visited a lot when the comic first started (can’t remember his name).
I am rather worried about Briar’s ‘natural abilities as a succubus.
A cubi (succubus or incubus) is a type of highly selective predator (like a certain wasp that preys ONLY on a certain species of tarantula to lay its eggs and ignores all other prey… including other species of tarantula).
This would make Briar VERY dangerous for her particular prey. (the said tarantula has no chance of survival/escape if the correct species of tarantula wasp attacks it)
Growing up in my circumstances this could have been fatal. I have an innate sense of direction and place, but I changed schools 16 times K-10th. This girl living my life would have been dead several times.
Phew! Back from THAT precipice.
The more I watch, the more confused _I_ am.
Didn’t even know such a thing existed outside three’s company or anime
Apparently ‘persistent dysgeographica’ is a fairly new condition, described in fiction (the accidental tourist) less than 30 years ago and not really accepted by the scientific community yet as as a true, measurable condition. I suppose this could be an ASMR-sort of situation; out there and quite real but not yet studied.
I had almost the same experience in grade school, though I wasn’t called an airhead, and it wasn’t my father who threatened to punch the principal.
I take it you “grew” out of it.
Was that just by adaptation or actual mental development?
It seems that there are quite a few aberrations that manifest in childhood and then fade.
A certain problem in fifth grade that resulted in my being educated in private schools from then on. I’m not naming names because (1) even now, it might be considered libel, and I don’t want the hassle, and (2) I’m not sure I remember all the names correctly.
That’s Shawna – saying what the audience is thinking.
Well, that explains some of the “airhead” traits.
Dyslexias are known to have a correlation with difficulty with short term aka working memory. Which I guess in severe cases (like we seem to have here) absolutely could result in some “cliche airhead” tropes.
Though it seems she has a generally cheery personality in general, outside of the dyslexia stuff.
In light of things like linguistic dyslexia and severe synesthesia – people being able to smell colors or taste sounds, or things like that – directional dyslexia doesn’t seem like much of a stretch. The brain is breathtakingly complex and (despite amazing research) quite poorly understood. We probably have no idea of how many ways things can go haywire. And anyway, it’s not just directional confusion that afflicts Briar, based on what I’ve seen; that appears to be just one member of a syndrome. Her interpretation of “end of the day” makes me think she’s got a touch of Amelia Bedelia-ism going on, taking the world around her at very literal face value.
We’re already running into these problems in Artificial Intelligence. The interaction of an unfathomable number of algorithms, many written by genius level programmers who are now long dead (and without proper documentation), are completely baffling present day geniuses trying to trouble shoot the problems they cause by their interaction. And this is occurring in systems we supposedly actually understand down to the last transistor.
When it comes to the human brain, a system assembled by the trial and error of natural selection on the one hand and interaction with a wide open environment on the other, it seems hopeless.
As an old Y2K Code Warrior, I take as a Maxim the Motto of Transylvania Polygnotic University: Satis scire timere -Know enough to be afraid. The notion of Un-dead Coders is genuinely Scary! Add to that that I know JUST enough to understand that it would be Much easier to model the existing, non-human, wholly mechanical “Intelligence” of the Ant Hill or the Termite Mound. It is comparatively simple. If it’s simple enough for me to imagine how to do it, then Someone, likely Several Someones, already has/have. Even Scarier, much of the “Intelligent Behavior” exhibited by AI Systems, [to the extent it isn’t Intelligent Interpretations of the Experimenters,] is evidence of a completely unexpected, and completely ALIEN Intelligence. Jeff Goldblum’s character Brundlefly warns us that there ARE no Insect Politicians. Life in an Insect Colony is simple, and Brutal. Chemical signals determine the 2 big categories of everything -Me and Not Me. Not Me breaks down further into:
o Enemy – It must be killed.
o Food – It must be eaten an/or brought back to the Hive.
o Obstacle – Inedible, it must be moved or moved around
This last category is particularly useful to a Soldier Ant colony[.] When placed on a perfectly flat surface, without Obstacles will form up into something the size of an old Vinyl 33 1/3 Record, and march themselves to Death, following their own Scent Trails. A Perfect Example, in Nature, of a Really Really BAD Programming Error.
I seem to remember a scientist/philosopher once said…
“If our brains were simple enough for us to understand, we’d be to simple to understand them”
“Documentation is for the weak. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.” – apparently said by every programmer I’ve ever cursed at after the fact, including myself, for comments like “/* increment counter */” and “//open file here”.
I like her dad.
Though in my family it would have been my mother doing the punching and she would do it verbally.
And it would hurt a lot more.
Same here, and ah’ve got the feeling Briar wasn’t kicked out because her dad punched an idiot, more that her dad had her transferred to get her away from said idiot
That sort of reminds me of what happened when my dad was assigned a new post in a ‘northern location’.
Our family was a strict military family, I was the oldest of 3 children, and the only boy.
we had acquired a habit of saying certain phrases of respect like “Ma’am and sir”.
The first problem came to my youngest sister.
She was in kindergarten and a third grade bully who outweighed her by about 50 lbs (about double her size) decided to tease her by pushing her around.
He pushed her into a telephone pole and regretted it when she moved out of the way, grabbed his hands and swung him (breaking BOTH bones in BOTH arms THRU the skin… 4 compound fractures).
My other sister (6th grade) was accosted by a female ‘street gang’ who decided this well-tanned and athletic girl was going to join them (whether she wanted to or not).
They started their ‘induction’ by pushing her down an ice-covered slope (we had just come from Tx, so weren’t very familiar with walking on ice).
When they got to the bottom of the slope, she proceeded to ‘teach them’ to not mess with a Texan.
6 girls spent weeks in hospital beds after that lesson.
My mother was called to both schools in the SAME day to answer these ‘incidents’ and our habit of ‘disrupting class’ by saying those phrases.
She told them that if/when her children stopped saying those words, her husband could ensure the US army would NOT send its children to those schools. (he could, BTW)
Somehow, I and my sisters didn’t seem to have any problems after that.
Wait, using the respectful terms of ‘ma’am’ and ‘sir’ is disruptive in class? o_O
Dyslexia Sex Daily. Caught undressing not so unusual 🙂
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A full-time guardian would be full-time expensive, and probably not covered by insurance. If you can get a kid at school to do it for free (or even for cheap), do it.
and when that student flakes off and shirks the responsibility, you end up with parents punching your staff and yanking their kid out of your school, causing bad PR and you lose government funding for that same student, as well as any OTHER students that were pulled out due to the bad PR… then of course you get the lawsuits from your staff that was punched… I’m sure there are more knock-on aftereffects, but that alone would (should) put the balance in favor of “sucking it up” and paying for that dedicated staff member, and remember it’s only while the student is on school grounds or approved off-site/hours activities, anything that is unauthorized, or after hours that staff member (and thus the school) would not be responsible for…
Actually, we had a full time assistant for my daughter from kindergarten through the 6th grade. 3 different assistants over the years, they were accepted to varying degrees by teachers, ranging from ‘oh thank GOD you’re here’ to ‘well, you can just help me with the entire class, not just that one student, right?’ to ‘I see no reason for you to be here, leave now.’
Daughter was functionally deaf starting at about 3 months old. I was on state assistance and when I told her assigned pediatrician that I was concerned about her hearing due to the fact that she wasn’t doing age- normal babbling, trying out sounds, didn’t startle at loud noises or respond when her name was called and wanted them to test her hearing I was told I was ‘making shit up to scam the state out of more money.’ Cue me fighting them for over a year and them insisting I was a welfare queen trying to bilk the system. I had a job and paid for my insurance, and had the one kid, so… all I wanted was a simple battery of tests that could be performed in office in about 10 minutes. They refused. I eventually took her to a pediatrician in another state, and he confirmed 97%+ deafness in both ears, unknown cause. I took that finding back to her doc, he ripped the paper up and threw it out while smirking at me, cue nervous breakdown. My Mom came for a visit and offered to take her home with her in order to get her proper medical care. I agreed and she was gone 4 days later. Within 6 months she had surgeries and treatments, her hearing somehow returned by age 3, but she was socially/ verbally/ behaviorally 2 years behind her peers.
The state provided a full time liaison, counselor, and therapist that attended school with Daughter. She helped Daughter communicate with teachers and classmates, understand what was required of her regarding class and homework, remind her that she could talk when she got frustrated, and generally help Daughter catch up and integrate into normal school life. Those women were amazing and I fully credit them for Daughter’s rapid development of language and socialization skills. By the 4th grade she had dropped ASL almost entirely in favor of verbal communication. They also heavily advocated for her with teachers to get her what she needed to excel in school.
The teachers mostly responded in the three ways mentioned above. Response #1 was perfect and Daughter excelled and shone in those classes. Response #2 always ended up with a parent/ teacher/ principal/ therapist meeting with me on speaker phone explaining again and with stricter language that we weren’t paying the aides to be teachers helpers, we were paying them to keep Daughter from melting down in class and to help her participate and be as ‘normal’ a student as possible. She could shut down entire wings of the school with her melt downs. Response #3 usually required several meetings and resulted in two terminations, one after a teacher locked the aide out of the room and then ‘punished’ Daughter for not following directions by locking her in the supply closet for 30 minutes. That’s how long it took for the aide to get my mom to the school and explain what happened. After my mom and the principal demanded the teacher open the classroom door, and finding Daughter locked in the closet with no light…. she was terminated on the spot, blacklisted from teaching, and prosecuted by the state for child abuse and torture. Her ‘defense’ was that Daughter didn’t need that level of help, that she was just stubborn, defiant, and an airhead that we needed to stop coddling and enabling. It took four months to get daughter back to where she was that day. The second termination thankfully wasn’t due to such vile actions, but was as frustrating because the teacher absolutely refused to let the aide in thr classroom and bullied daughter relentlessly when she couldn’t answer or got confused.
Both teachers called Daughter lazy, stupid, unmotivated, an airhead, insisted we were babying/ coddling/ enabling her and that if we continued Daughter would never be a functional member of society.
We wanted daughter to have as normal a childhood and school experience as reasonably possible and the aides were the means to do so. It was expensive, even with the state funding the majority of it, but it was well worth it. She had a ‘normal school life’. She still has some issues, including synesthesia, dyslexia, and gets her time tenses mixed up, but she’s amazing and I’m very proud of her. The awesome person she is today wouldn’t have been possible without those aides, and I am forever grateful to them and to the state for providing them and advocating for us. It is well worth it, but it would be a rare teenager that could fulfill that role without burning out or being resentful of how time and energy consuming it is.
Your daughter has a “Mother of the Century”. You rock!
Ugh, just reading your story made me furious at that doctor and those two teachers. Glad to hear your daughter turned out well in the end!
Oh bless! That’s a very interesting (and highly inconvenient) disorder. I’m glad her parents seem to care enough to believe she’s not “just an airhead” and remove her from people and environments that don’t understand or believe in her issues. I remember doing a study in high school (back in the 90’s) where I gave surveys to every teacher at the school that asked questions about how they perceive students with ADD/ADHD and if they felt like the disorder was real. If I remember right, well over 40% of the teachers didn’t think that the disorder was real and felt like their students just used it as an excuse for their failures and bad behavior. It might have been even over 50%, but I can’t remember for sure. I just recall feeling really disheartened to learn how many educators didn’t believe that the difficulties people like me experienced were real…and that it was our own fault that we struggled in school. My dad didn’t punch anyone over this (the surveys were anonymous to increase the likelihood of participation and honesty), and I didn’t switch schools either (the gifted & talented program I was in was only available at one high school at that time…and lack of belief in the validity of ADD diagnoses was pretty rampant in the 90’s due to an abundance of diagnoses without supporting tests), but it was definitely a relief to go home to parents who, while not perfect in how they handled every ADD-related situation, accepted and believed that their daughter wasn’t just a lazy, daydreaming idiot who didn’t care about her school work.
I am quite upset with Ms. Alger, and quite worried for Briar. If anyone found out telling her “It’s the end of the day” would cause her to get undressed right then and there, it could lead to some traumatizing events. Now, we don’t know what her full powers all so maybe there’s little risk but it’s still quite an unpleasant prospect.
And, not to sound like a jerk but she should have a small manual, at least. This is obviously a routine for her, so Ms. Alger should have provided Cass with a phrasebook, at least of things to avoid. I’m hoping she did and Cass didn’t think she needed to read it right away, but this seems to be something that should have been brought up during the day.
The only way there would be a phrasebook of things not to say, is by observing Briar and learning them first hand
There is no manual for something like this
And Briar isn’t stupid, if someone tried to pull that shit to get her into a compromising position, they would be in a hella lotta trouble
I agree.
Briar isn’t stupid and she is definitely not an airhead (like a certain redhead who runs around with a girlfriend, a couple boyfriends, and a badly talking dog trying to solve mysteries).
Anybody ‘trying something’ is likely to discover Briar’s ‘natural abilities’ are of a particularly predatory nature.
The big problem, is slapping the ‘Dyslexia’ label on everything
Dyslexia literally only affects reading (don’t know the root word but ‘lexia’ is where you get similar words like ‘lexicon’ and ‘lexigraphy’)
Hmmm! Sitting Down, Briar is still as tall a s Castela, and almost as tall as Shawna. Through no fault of her own, in addition to her other challenges, she is an Attention Magnet, a Lightning Rod. If her collection of Coping Mechanisms include a heap of Trigger Phrases, the job of “Care Buddy” isn’t just Navigator. It will include, Translator, Press Secretary, and, if necessary, Bodyguard. Pickle is a quick study, and it all falls under the general category Guardian, That is what she IS.
I want Briar to meet Tina, Phix, and/or the bartender Monica visited a lot when the comic first started (can’t remember his name).
I am rather worried about Briar’s ‘natural abilities as a succubus.
A cubi (succubus or incubus) is a type of highly selective predator (like a certain wasp that preys ONLY on a certain species of tarantula to lay its eggs and ignores all other prey… including other species of tarantula).
This would make Briar VERY dangerous for her particular prey. (the said tarantula has no chance of survival/escape if the correct species of tarantula wasp attacks it)
Dat b Darrin…
Her Dad and I would be good friends, I think.
Growing up in my circumstances this could have been fatal. I have an innate sense of direction and place, but I changed schools 16 times K-10th. This girl living my life would have been dead several times.