Fun, Electrate, Autistic, Obsessive Home Essay - 1169 Words

Although some claim developing electracy will cause a downfall in society’s current learning abilities (Carr), I feel it creates a new type of learning style, that might even give an upper hand to people we otherwise might overlook. We have to consider that every new invention comes at a cost, but that does not necessarily mean the reward will not significantly outweigh it. Alison Bechdel’s â€Å"Fun Home† has an electrate quality through, not just the images, but the writing style and using obtuse meanings within her illustrations, that seem to enable a new learning style, supported by ‘disorders’ such as autism and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). â€Å"Fun Home† uses both text and graphics to recount the author’s life. The script has many†¦show more content†¦The reason to use obtuse meanings and implicit text in electracy is to condense information. Because â€Å"Fun Home’s† method of storytelling utilizes both aspects (as well as computer rendering for publication), the whole work is electrate. An important thing to remember is that although the amount of words and pictures become increasingly compressed, the amount of work to make these incorporations done well is just as significant as handwriting, or even typing, a classic novel. This talent seems to come at a price, though, just as Carr suggested. Julia Watson explains that, resulting from obsessions, â€Å"Bechdel’s story of coming to artistic consciousness is visually mapped† throughout the story (30). This means, without her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, we may have never had a â€Å"Fun Home† to read. Society deems OCD as a menace and hindrance because of its resulting limitations. However, we start to see it have an effect on success rates within electracy-focused fields. Scientifically, studies suggest that â€Å"patients with OCD . . . adapt by accessing explicit networks in order to process material that normal individuals ‘put to rest’ implicitly† (Rauch et al. 572). Which supports the notion that people who suffer from OCD will look at one thing from multiple perspectives, maybe without even realizing it, in order to perfect his or her understanding of it. Although it