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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Avram Grumer  👓‏ @avram Feb 16
      Replying to @GabrielObray @arthur_affect and

      If I were gonna write pseudonymously, I would not choose My First Name + Middle Name as the pseudonym. That would just be asking to be caught out. *Especially* if I also published about similar topics under My First Name + Last Name, and all three names were easy to find out.

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    2. Gabriel Obray‏ @GabrielObray Feb 16
      Replying to @avram @arthur_affect and

      Or if you start out with a rando blog that gains national attention that you never expected?

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Avram Grumer  👓‏ @avram Feb 16
      Replying to @GabrielObray @arthur_affect and

      I made this decision way back in the ’90s, when I first started out online. Do I want to put the effort into keeping a distinct online identity, or not? I decided not, because I knew real pseudonymity took a lot of effort. Even when I started my rando blog in 1998.

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 16
      Replying to @avram @GabrielObray and

      Moreover, it puts a cap on how successful you can get By the time people are actually citing your blog in mainstream articles and you have actual famous people among your fans, you've probably got to make a choice either to hang it up or to come out

      2 replies 1 retweet 15 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 16
      Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and

      I'm trying to think of exceptions and there aren't many Even pseudonymous writers back when information traveled at the speed of horseback were usually outed surprisingly quickly (George Eliot came out after writing her very first book)

      4 replies 1 retweet 15 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 16
      Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and

      The biggest successful secret identity story I can think of is Belle du Jour/Brooke Magnanti, but that was back in the 2000s, before Web 2.0 really existed And she still outed herself in '09 because she was sure she was going to be outed involuntarily soon if she didn't

      5 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    7. Andrew Hickey Finally Dropped his Halloween Name‏ @HickeyWriter Feb 16
      Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and

      I don't think The Secret Barrister's real name is public knowledge. But that's about it.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 16
      Replying to @HickeyWriter @avram and

      The Last Psychiatrist was outed, and quit writing around that time for that reason, IIRC He wasn't actually famous enough for people to really care that much but his real name is on the first page of search results for "The Last Psychiatrist"

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 16
      Replying to @arthur_affect @HickeyWriter and

      I bring that up because he successfully "got away with" being TLP despite being far nastier and meaner in his overt affect than Scott, and to me that does kind of demonstrate his fears of being fired were pretty overblown

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 16
      Replying to @arthur_affect @HickeyWriter and

      (And yeah actually I do think TLP was fucked up and his attitude toward his patients was obviously bad and his general shtick indicating that he, at least, believed his attitudes were common among his colleagues are a valid reason to distrust psychiatry)

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 16
      Replying to @arthur_affect @HickeyWriter and

      Scott gets compared a lot -- in terms of being a psychiatrist who writes anonymously about politics -- to "Theodore Dalrymple"/Anthony Malcolm Daniels And hoo boy is his writing a stomach-turning journey if you imagine him treating patients at the same time

      4:18 PM - 16 Feb 2021
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 16
          Replying to @arthur_affect @HickeyWriter and

          And Scott is less bold than Dalrymple and mostly says the quiet part quiet but the same visceral revulsion for the dysfunction of "the underclass" still seeps out of every pore of his writing and is clearly both informed by and informing his patient interactions

          1 reply 2 retweets 9 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 16
          Replying to @arthur_affect @HickeyWriter and

          (I don't even have to point to one of his stories about patients to explain why I don't want Scott working in mental health, just, say, one of his blog posts about how much he hates living in San Francisco because of all the crazy homeless people on the street)

          0 replies 3 retweets 9 likes
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