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Roswell

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. 

I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?

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  • Roswell said:
    I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. 

    I think you are suggesting that it is not important to think the same things all together, otherwise you would not have asked a rhetorical question.  Is that correct?

    In that case, if we say we agree with what you explained then, by our actions, we are saying it is important to agree.  If we say we disagree then, by disavowing your explanation, we are saying that is important to agree.

    Obviously if you are not expressing a sentiment on the matter then it would be impossible to either agree or disagree with a statement that is a question.

    I always thought I did not have the tradition trait of understand things literally as I could understand idioms and metaphors in their intended context.  I suppose I see them as [overly long] compound words rather than separate ones to be interpreted individually.  But one reason I like puns (ones that can be read in two different ways rather than simply "hiding" a word based on how similar it sounds to another) is that I usually take both meanings then have to process the ambiguity.

    Something else made me realise I do have this trait in some ways, and so now I think processing puns in that way, being confronted with the ambiguity first, is a form of taking things literally too.  Even on those questionnaires which you have to complete before an autism assessment I could not complete some of them.  The ambiguity made them impossible for me to even attempt to answer, whilst for some others I wrote a page of explanations for the contexts of my answers.  Yet somehow they still thought I was autistic!

    That way, though, is how I read your statement.  So maybe I am just reading it too literally and you meant something else?

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    We should feel no obligation to all think the same, neither should we feel some obligation to all be contrary. What is this language we communicate in? Does it bind us, somebody? Are the words you're currently reading being read in the present, the future or the past? Did you compute this thought or did I? If we are separate then why do we feel so close to one another? And yet, so far apart too. 

    The ramblings of a mad man are to society just madness, but to the madman are proportionally representative.

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  • in reply to somebody

    We should feel no obligation to all think the same, neither should we feel some obligation to all be contrary. What is this language we communicate in? Does it bind us, somebody? Are the words you're currently reading being read in the present, the future or the past? Did you compute this thought or did I? If we are separate then why do we feel so close to one another? And yet, so far apart too. 

    The ramblings of a mad man are to society just madness, but to the madman are proportionally representative.

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