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Woozle Hypertwin, 05/30/2018 01:01 AM
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| 3 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | _(written by Woozle)_ |
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| 5 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | h2. Key Points |
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| 7 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | *The super-short oversimplified version*: Tessa often says things which can range into the unbelievable, but (to my best estimation at this point) this is primarily due to communication issues than to being in some way disconnected from reality. |
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| 9 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | Tessa fully acknowledges having a communication disability, largely due to a combination of high neurodiversity (autism) and high intelligence. |
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| 11 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | This has caused huge problems for them over the years, including quite recently. While I don't claim to be as smart as Tessa, I appear to be sufficiently analytical to eventually be able to understand what they're on about and explain it in terms that don't require three hours of conversation to understand. I have kind of "one foot in each world", as Harena might put it. |
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| 13 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | We've talked quite a lot, under a wide variety of circumstances, and I believe they are capable of some pretty amazing things, but like any of us they need stability and sanity around them in order to function -- and the thing I am most certain about them is that they truly want to engineer social change for the better. |
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| 15 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | ...and I really want to see what happens when they're given the chance to actually build some of the stuff we've talked about that. |
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| 17 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | On a more immediately practical level, they also have a demonstrated ability for identifying and bringing together talented and caring people, and that in itself has been very valuable to me, on multiple levels. |
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| 19 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | For all those reasons, I've been acting as Tessa-translator and documenter as time and our schedules permit. |
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| 21 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | h2. Identity |
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| 23 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | Tessa generally goes by "jakimfett" in most online spaces (it's a fairly obscure _Star Wars_ reference) such as Discord, and also as "@eryn":https://toot.cat/@eryn (one of their middle names) on TootCat. |
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| 25 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | Tessa has a rather ambiguous and fluid relationship with gender, and generally prefers they/them pronouns. |
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| 27 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | h2. Communication |
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| 29 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | Things to keep in mind when Tessa says something that seems significant, unexpected, or unbelievable: |
| 30 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | * They sometimes speak in metaphorical terms. |
| 31 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | * They also may use words or phrases in unexpected contexts. If you interpret a word as being used a certain way, you may get completely the wrong idea. |
| 32 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | * They tend not to "show their work", skipping over a lot of steps between premises and conclusions. |
| 33 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | * They are often focused more on communicating the vision of what they believe can happen, rather than providing the necessary connecting logic, evidence, or context to make it appear plausible. |
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| 35 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | (This document is a work in progress.) |