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A (The?) documentary about Aurê and Aurá: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kGuxaY8HPjs https://youtube.com/watch?v=kGuxaY8HPjs

lvass 4y ago
Understanding one of the languages used here, and seeing the included subtitles, I'd take no part of this documentary true, the subtitles are just absurd. What an absolute shame, for something so interesting, I don't even understand how something like this happens.
- guerrilla 4y ago
  Oh wow, that's incredibly far off... They must be summarizing longer conversations, right????
- aaaaaaaaaaab 4y ago
  Could you go into some detail?
  - lvass 4y ago
    The majority of subtitles are just not what's being said at all, for no reason I could discern. It's not like what's being said is strongly at odds with the documentary, it feels like the person writing the subtitles was mostly guessing what's being said. A lot of things are really off too, they avoided the obvious questions about trying to understand the language, and also made the government look unreasonably effective in a way no brazilian would consider remotely likely to happen.
silisili 4y ago
Pretty crummy IMO to compare himself to that poor man. He literally cannot communicate with anyone in the world, but wants to. He's constantly telling stories nobody can understand. That has to be some kind of nightmare impossible to comprehend. The author just chooses not to talk to people. Not the same thing at all.
- guerrilla 4y ago
  This is very judgemental. Casper is saying that he literally cannot communicate with anyone in the world (but for a different reason), but wants to. > The author just chooses not to talk to people. The post says the opposite: "the difficulties I currently have in functioning."
  - silisili 4y ago
    Here's the cached version, from another comment - https://web.archive.org/web/20220624083118/https://caspercloudwalker.bearblog.dev/a-picture-of-me/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220624083118/https://casperclo... I didn't pick up on what you're referring to. I mainly got 'im tired of people' vibes from it. And there's nothing wrong with that...I just don't feel it compares to the man in the documentary.
    - guerrilla 4y ago
      Thank you! I edited my post. The part I meant was in reference to " the difficulties I currently have in functioning." It made me think he's probably in a disability situation, possibly psychiatric. And then what he's saying in general is he doesn't fit in anywhere, which I can relate to. Other people noted this may be because he's autistic, and I tend to agree, as I am. That doesn't necessarily have to be true though, sometimes people never find their tribe or their person... the world is huge and the Internet seems to just be funneling people into per-existing battlefields rather than trying to hook people up with other cool people.
- drakonka 4y ago
  I also think I'm missing something in this piece. Loneliness and lack of social connection can be crippling and it's a very serious problem. But I'm not sure I understand why the author thinks they're unique in their circumstances, or goes to the point of comparing themselves to a person whose people were murdered, who was then captured and forced to live elsewhere, who is physically unable to verbally communicate with anyone. I guess I just can't figure out why he thinks he's the only man in the world going through this (well, him and Aurá) and feel like I missed something in the post. Depression and loneliness are huge, increasingly recognized issues in our society that many people go through. This does not diminish the seriousness of his situation.
severak_cz 4y ago
thanks for the link. I watched this documentary and it's super interesting although very sad.

lvass 4y ago

Understanding one of the languages used here, and seeing the included subtitles, I'd take no part of this documentary true, the subtitles are just absurd. What an absolute shame, for something so interesting, I don't even understand how something like this happens.

guerrilla 4y ago
Oh wow, that's incredibly far off... They must be summarizing longer conversations, right????
aaaaaaaaaaab 4y ago
Could you go into some detail?
- lvass 4y ago
  The majority of subtitles are just not what's being said at all, for no reason I could discern. It's not like what's being said is strongly at odds with the documentary, it feels like the person writing the subtitles was mostly guessing what's being said. A lot of things are really off too, they avoided the obvious questions about trying to understand the language, and also made the government look unreasonably effective in a way no brazilian would consider remotely likely to happen.

silisili 4y ago

Pretty crummy IMO to compare himself to that poor man. He literally cannot communicate with anyone in the world, but wants to. He's constantly telling stories nobody can understand. That has to be some kind of nightmare impossible to comprehend. The author just chooses not to talk to people. Not the same thing at all.

guerrilla 4y ago
This is very judgemental. Casper is saying that he literally cannot communicate with anyone in the world (but for a different reason), but wants to. > The author just chooses not to talk to people. The post says the opposite: "the difficulties I currently have in functioning."
- silisili 4y ago
  Here's the cached version, from another comment - https://web.archive.org/web/20220624083118/https://caspercloudwalker.bearblog.dev/a-picture-of-me/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220624083118/https://casperclo... I didn't pick up on what you're referring to. I mainly got 'im tired of people' vibes from it. And there's nothing wrong with that...I just don't feel it compares to the man in the documentary.
  - guerrilla 4y ago
    Thank you! I edited my post. The part I meant was in reference to " the difficulties I currently have in functioning." It made me think he's probably in a disability situation, possibly psychiatric. And then what he's saying in general is he doesn't fit in anywhere, which I can relate to. Other people noted this may be because he's autistic, and I tend to agree, as I am. That doesn't necessarily have to be true though, sometimes people never find their tribe or their person... the world is huge and the Internet seems to just be funneling people into per-existing battlefields rather than trying to hook people up with other cool people.
drakonka 4y ago
I also think I'm missing something in this piece. Loneliness and lack of social connection can be crippling and it's a very serious problem. But I'm not sure I understand why the author thinks they're unique in their circumstances, or goes to the point of comparing themselves to a person whose people were murdered, who was then captured and forced to live elsewhere, who is physically unable to verbally communicate with anyone. I guess I just can't figure out why he thinks he's the only man in the world going through this (well, him and Aurá) and feel like I missed something in the post. Depression and loneliness are huge, increasingly recognized issues in our society that many people go through. This does not diminish the seriousness of his situation.

severak_cz 4y ago

thanks for the link. I watched this documentary and it's super interesting although very sad.