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May. 19th, 2006 12:52 pmI read a
isiscolo.livejournal.com/301625.html
thingy about friending policy on LJ, and it made me think a vaguely unconnected thing, about monolog and dialog.
LJ lets me do the bits of conversation that I'm good at.
I can say the things I want to say, which as anyone with me friended knows adds up to rather a lot of saying in any given day. And I can read the things other people want to say. And, and this is the important bit, there is no particular pressure on me to come up with an appropriate response to any of it.
See I can do talking right up until there are other people involved. I used to get a lot of funny looks, like I was a walking Random Surrealism Generator. Because in my head things connect, but in my words they do not always so much connect. Writing actually helps, because I can quote a bit and then reply to just that bit and that makes it clear which bit I am talking about. But even so, there will be things that make me say a thing that is not so much a reply to that thing. And whenever that happens, I can wander back here to my LJ and say it, and no longer get that RSG blank stare. For things here can be random, and people can be blank about it, but they don't have to stare, or in fact reply at all.
It's like LJ is designed for optimum austism friendly 'interaction', because it is mostly action, but gives the illusion of the 'inter' part because it all ends up on the same page, and sometimes turns into actual conversation in the comment bits.
I like it.
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isiscolo.livejournal.com/301625.html
thingy about friending policy on LJ, and it made me think a vaguely unconnected thing, about monolog and dialog.
LJ lets me do the bits of conversation that I'm good at.
I can say the things I want to say, which as anyone with me friended knows adds up to rather a lot of saying in any given day. And I can read the things other people want to say. And, and this is the important bit, there is no particular pressure on me to come up with an appropriate response to any of it.
See I can do talking right up until there are other people involved. I used to get a lot of funny looks, like I was a walking Random Surrealism Generator. Because in my head things connect, but in my words they do not always so much connect. Writing actually helps, because I can quote a bit and then reply to just that bit and that makes it clear which bit I am talking about. But even so, there will be things that make me say a thing that is not so much a reply to that thing. And whenever that happens, I can wander back here to my LJ and say it, and no longer get that RSG blank stare. For things here can be random, and people can be blank about it, but they don't have to stare, or in fact reply at all.
It's like LJ is designed for optimum austism friendly 'interaction', because it is mostly action, but gives the illusion of the 'inter' part because it all ends up on the same page, and sometimes turns into actual conversation in the comment bits.
I like it.
[link made visible April 2022]