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hey all,
I wonder why [those who don't love C & H] are so in denial that Calvin is actually burdened with some psychotic features or at least has a mental health crisis going on. I mean, he can't tell what's real half the time and he has a ways to go before you'd say he was teacher's pet material. Of course, that doesn't turn off Suzy completey. His parents aren't blind to it. They have talked about taking him to a therapist. Why be defensive about it? Some enlightenment comes with altered perception of things. Hobbes isn't the only one of the pair who spouts like Rumi.
rock namasteady,
Matthew
I wonder why [those who don't love C & H] are so in denial that Calvin is actually burdened with some psychotic features or at least has a mental health crisis going on. I mean, he can't tell what's real half the time and he has a ways to go before you'd say he was teacher's pet material. Of course, that doesn't turn off Suzy completey. His parents aren't blind to it. They have talked about taking him to a therapist. Why be defensive about it? Some enlightenment comes with altered perception of things. Hobbes isn't the only one of the pair who spouts like Rumi.
rock namasteady,
Matthew
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Re: Calvin is emotionally disturbed
Tue, March 20, 2007 - 7:52 AMCalvin harkens back to an eariler, simpler time when parents just shook their heads and said "There's something wrong with that boy." Then they'd sit back and enjoy the show.
Today parents would rush their kid the the psychiatrist with the first suicidal snowman. The child would be put on a prescription and we'd be left with a comic strip called Calvin and his Stuffed Tiger in which the lead character would play wii all day. -
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Re: Calvin is emotionally disturbed
Tue, March 20, 2007 - 4:09 PMDo not feed the troll. -
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Re: Calvin is emotionally disturbed
Tue, March 20, 2007 - 3:35 PMHey man,
I'm not being a troll. I'm using a some intended humor, but I interpret the strip that way. My intention isn't to be a downer or make light of these issues. I have worked in the mental health field and, although I do not know Mr. Watterson's take on this, part of the beauty of his work--for me--is a sad undertone of Calvin's reality. It's part of the multi-dimensionality of the strip.
I realise this is not a common view. It may be provocative, but I'm just out to provoke at all. That wasn't my intention.
peace,
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Re: Calvin is emotionally disturbed
Tue, March 20, 2007 - 5:14 PMI see Matthew's point. Calvin and Hobbes is often melancholy. -
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Re: Calvin is emotionally disturbed
Tue, March 20, 2007 - 7:14 PMPlease forgive my earler assumption.
I think Calvin is just a kid. A kid who has great ups and downs and a great imagination like all good (and normal) kids do. As a former clinician, I see nothing abnormal about Calvin.
I'll put it another way: Emotionally disturbed people hurt others. Not just teasing, but somehow hurting. Calvin hurts no one. -
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Re: Calvin is emotionally disturbed
Sat, April 28, 2007 - 9:10 AM"Calvin hurts no one." Unless you count the occaisional snowball.
I see both sides of this discussion. Calvin is normal for a 7 year old. Children have not completed developing their world model, so they are a bit whacky.
It seems to me people enjoy the strip because they can identify with aspects of both halves of the Calvin/Hobbes dialog AND they are amused by the way it reinterprets the mundane world into a more interetesting place.
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Re: Calvin is emotionally disturbed
Sat, May 19, 2007 - 10:02 PMi remember my therapist once said that children think magically until they are about 7 years old. i think it's divine, not pathological.
