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Sam's avatar

I did not google "autistic selfies", I just applied your diagnostic criteria to the selfies in my phone. Horrifying results. 10/10

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There is this French philosopher I really love, Simone Weil, who died during WWII. She was a truly pure soul and she loved old tales from Perrault or the brothers Grimm for the popular and practical wisdom they contained. But whenever I have tried to read some on my own or reading them to my son, I could never get into them because of their simplistic structure and of the fact that you've seen them a thousand times in songs, cartoons, movies and so on.

But this, this was truly horrifying. I could feel so deeply the danger of the predator (the fact that despite their own history of horror and the fact that they are in a way also victims, once they get their eyes onto their prey, they really become the unstoppable stuff of nightmares), the risk the heroine is facing and the tragedy of it all.

Thanks a lot for this story, this was great art.

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