I'm just going to put this here.
Oct. 22nd, 2010 04:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosI just posted this on TWoP's Project Runway board in regards to last night's episode, because it struck me after the fact.
In regards to the breakdown, someone else posted [and more than a few people agreed with]: Normally by age 10, people are taught to control their emotions sufficiently to stop having full on tantrums when things don't go their way. Disappointed and sad about the outcome? Sure, of course. Tears (real, not crocodile), sure, fine. But all this? Dude needs to get some perspective, quick.
Or he has severe clinical depression. I've got it, and I've been dealing with my own nasty flareup of the stupid thing for nearly as long as this season's been running, and Michael C.'s behavior throughout the competition has been raising huge red flags for me in that regard. Between his family pressures and the bullying he's been getting all season, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised that if he did have it, it's been getting worse as the season progresses, in which case that breakdown is neither surprising nor over the top. I've had public breakdowns like that in the past over stuff like this. You mentally latch onto something that's important in your life as a display of personal success regardless of the stark reality of the belief -- in my case, "I'll get published and all of my problems will be solved!"; in his case, "I'll win Project Runway and my family will stick around!" -- and when it doesn't happen it's even more crushing than it would be for someone who's neurotypical even though the logical part of our brains could be shouting at us that everything will be fine and there's tons of other chances and it's not the end of the world.
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Because ... yeah. It could all be an act, but if it's an act, it's entirely possible he stole it off me.
In regards to the breakdown, someone else posted [and more than a few people agreed with]: Normally by age 10, people are taught to control their emotions sufficiently to stop having full on tantrums when things don't go their way. Disappointed and sad about the outcome? Sure, of course. Tears (real, not crocodile), sure, fine. But all this? Dude needs to get some perspective, quick.
Or he has severe clinical depression. I've got it, and I've been dealing with my own nasty flareup of the stupid thing for nearly as long as this season's been running, and Michael C.'s behavior throughout the competition has been raising huge red flags for me in that regard. Between his family pressures and the bullying he's been getting all season, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised that if he did have it, it's been getting worse as the season progresses, in which case that breakdown is neither surprising nor over the top. I've had public breakdowns like that in the past over stuff like this. You mentally latch onto something that's important in your life as a display of personal success regardless of the stark reality of the belief -- in my case, "I'll get published and all of my problems will be solved!"; in his case, "I'll win Project Runway and my family will stick around!" -- and when it doesn't happen it's even more crushing than it would be for someone who's neurotypical even though the logical part of our brains could be shouting at us that everything will be fine and there's tons of other chances and it's not the end of the world.
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Because ... yeah. It could all be an act, but if it's an act, it's entirely possible he stole it off me.
