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Lunar Apprentice - dysfunctional upbringing

[(Anonymous)]

One really good short story to read for that is in Dion Fortune's The Secrets of Dr. Taverner. The story is called "A Daughter of Pan," and it had a tight grip on me for a long, long time, even though I'm the polar opposite of Diana in the story. She loved nature and the outdoors and running; my milieu is the sort of city neighborhoods San Francisco used to have, and bookstores, coffee shops, etc. She's inarticulate to the point of being nonverbal; I'm hyperverbal. and yet....

From the minute she first appears, a total mess, and the very mundane narrator, Rhodes, promptly spots her as "Not mentally deficient, but more like a caged lark unable to fly." Her behavior on first being in a safe place and off the leash is so like the way I used to behave after 23 years married to the Critic on the Hearth... when she burns the civilized clothing her mother made her wear, and then picks out something loose and comfortable, I'm shouting "You GO, girl!" Having done a much milder version by ditching the heels and makeup and hair treatments etc for an easier and more natural look back in, when was it,the early 1980s? Whenever business flats first appeared on the market, and those bias-cut plaid A-line skirts. And when, totally untaught, she shows a savant talent for drawing, my pencil note read "Aspie girls, GO!" Especially when she used her portraits to get back at people who gave her a hard time, by drawing them exactly as they were for all to see. So it really hurt when Dr. Taverner kept referring to her as nonhuman, subhuman, an animal....but later I could see it because she was totally incapable of abstract thinking or of pretending to be civilized. One of Fortune's later characters could be civilized at need, it just bored him silly. I can do it, too,but there's always something a little off-ley about it when I try.
The real trick is to do as she did, and the later character, and the good doctor himself, and come to the point where "I don't give a rat's rear end for your opinion" --- not as defiance, but with a laugh and a shrug --- is pure liberation. I can even do it on occasion. And I'm 82.

Hope this helps!!!!!

The Grey Badger