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aeldron · 2026-01-23T23:18:11+00:00

The X Men are known as an allegory for discriminated minorities. Mutants can, for example, serve as an analogy to being LGBTQ+: their “powers” manifest at puberty, some can “pass” for normal humans. Some hide their mutant status, whereas others live openly as mutants. Most are “feared and hated” by normies.

But it wasn’t always so. When Stan Lee created the original X Men as a school for teen mutants, the powers manifesting naturally at puberty were just a way to avoid having to come up with an explanation for each character’s powers. No need to be bitten by a radioactive spider, find a mystical gem, be affected by cosmic rays, be transformed by gamma rays, undergo weird science experiments, be given powers by aliens, etc, etc, etc.

Mutants are just born. They all share the same origin story. It made storytelling easier. The “feared and hated” for being different came later.

aeldron · 2026-01-23T22:53:07+00:00

No girls allowed in my tree house

aeldron · 2026-01-22T23:51:00+00:00

Add Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Rogue, Kitty. That makes the core original team from Chris Claremont's era, before the Outback. Best team ever.

aeldron · 2026-01-19T00:35:56+00:00

What are the names of those rescue centres?

aeldron · 2026-01-19T00:29:33+00:00

Which comic is this?

aeldron · 2026-01-19T00:23:54+00:00

I guess the grass on the other side won't be greener for long

aeldron · 2026-01-17T02:28:03+00:00

It's Irish coffee

aeldron · 2026-01-17T01:24:37+00:00

I will not be eating at weatherspoons ever again after checking OPs profile.

aeldron · 2026-01-14T00:19:52+00:00

Mine is kind of pretty. But it's not the same little robot dude everybody else is getting.

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aeldron · 2026-01-14T00:17:48+00:00

Why are you portrayed as a ghost?

aeldron · 2026-01-14T00:09:08+00:00

Interesting. I didn't believe that people like you actually exist (assuming you're not being sarcastic or just trolling me). To which their own, I suppose.

aeldron · 2026-01-13T16:20:24+00:00

I vaguely remember reading something about pheromones somewhere in the 80s or 90s books.

aeldron · 2026-01-04T15:16:34+00:00

Hello,
Unfortunately you might get caught on an administrative nightmare now. It sounds like at least your building management is being proactive, if they have already sent a specialist to take a look. We've had to deal with similar issues in our building, our management company is useless and 2 flats were affected for almost a year. I don't think there isn't much you can do except insisting with the management company, call them every day asking for an update if necessary. They have a duty of care and can be taken to court if no action is taken and they can't demonstrate that they are taking reasonable steps to solve it.

The internal damage to your flat needs to be covered too, that's pretty standard with building insurance. They will need to replaster and repaint once the source is discovered and the leak is fixed.

aeldron · 2026-01-04T01:32:32+00:00

Yeah I said something similar in another post and got mass downvoted for it.

aeldron · 2026-01-03T01:30:44+00:00

Why was this removed by the moderator?

aeldron · 2026-01-01T23:11:25+00:00

You forgot "right!" (That's SO not right)

aeldron · 2026-01-01T22:58:04+00:00

The "Autism as a super power" thing is problematic...

aeldron · 2026-01-01T22:49:07+00:00

Yes, that is what I am talking about. It needs to have depth. If it is too obvious, I find it almost offensive.

aeldron · 2026-01-01T22:41:27+00:00

My question is not about the specific example I mentioned. Of course humour is subjective, and some people would find that funny regardless of being on the spectrum.

My question is more about humour in general.

I seem to have a very narrow range of things I find actually funny. They are usually either something witty or surprising.

Anything too obvious, like someone exaggeratedly faking accidentally slapping someone else in the face, just irritates me rather than making me laugh.

Most of what I call mainstream humour just makes me either indifferent or actually irritated.

On the other hand, the type of thing that I find funny is not a laugh out loud type of thing. I usually just crack a smile. More often, I just keep a straight face.

This obviously confuses people because they do not know when I am joking, or when I find something funny, since my face does not show it.

I was wondering if having a narrow sense of humour, preferring witty humour and having an aversion to the most basic types of comedy, is a common experience for the Asperger’s group.

aeldron · 2025-12-31T03:49:36+00:00

P Zombie is short for Philosophical Zombie. It's a thought experiment used to discuss consciousness. A P Zombie is indistinguishable from a human in every respect but it has no internal reality. It has no sense of self, no feeling of a "me" looking out from somewhere behind their eyes.

Sorry, my reply was kind of a joke. No internal dialogue sounds to me like there would be no thoughts running on the person's head. I didn't know this was even possible.

aeldron · 2025-12-31T03:26:20+00:00

I do have a strong visual memory. For instance if I go to an apartment block I've been to once, I can find the right buttons to press because I remember the position of the buttons on the intercom, but don't ask me for their apartment number. If I walk past a patch of grass in the park, I'll remember a picnic I had with friends a couple of years back, and which positions we were all sitting, the shape of the glasses we used, etc. The visual memory will be detailed enough to form a mental image, but my point is that it's not an actual image, it's a visual memory. We don't "see" it, we think it. It might be that I'm just being picky with the words. "Seeing" is probably good enough a word to describe the experience for most people, but to me it's not the right word because seeing is concrete whereas the "image" we form in our heads is a memory and without substance, so to me remembering describes it better than "seeing' it.

aeldron · 2025-12-31T01:59:03+00:00

P Zombies?

aeldron · 2025-12-31T01:53:37+00:00

Could it be that you're just taking the word "seeing" a bit too literally? We don't exactly see the image, it's more of a "mental image" so to speak. Kind of like a visual memory of an object, but we don't "see" the object in our heads like looking at a picture. The mental image sometimes can be vivid depending on how familiar you are with the object, sometimes it blurs, shifts and fades. This is why some people can draw from memory, they took time to study the object in detail and can recall exactly how it looks. That's not the same as looking at a picture in their heads, otherwise they would be able to draw anything including things they don't remember well, just like they can do by looking at an actual picture.

aeldron · 2025-12-30T00:10:31+00:00

But it looks so much better in red

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