Having observed Pyraxis and her cohort among autistics, it doesn't strike me as odd at all. At the point where he posted the disappearance notice, he was panicking at an IRL interview request from a major news service (The Guardian) and the publication of an email interview by CNN. If he really did have credibility issues, it might never have occurred to him that anybody would want to help him personally, and he wasn't immersed enough in Amina to grok the genuine feelings of caring that people had for her. He might not have been able to dream up any other excuse to get Amina out of the spotlight.
What strikes me about him is his lack of courage. His reasons for creating Amina have everything to do with being unable to face openly the discrimination of "American-hater! Jew-hater!" He calls himself an argumentative sort but does not seem to know how to actually win an argument, and while lack of social skills are probably an issue, I suspect it also has to do with being unable to center himself and say, "Yes, this is who I am and what I believe, like it or not."
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Date: 2011-06-14 05:21 pm (UTC)What strikes me about him is his lack of courage. His reasons for creating Amina have everything to do with being unable to face openly the discrimination of "American-hater! Jew-hater!" He calls himself an argumentative sort but does not seem to know how to actually win an argument, and while lack of social skills are probably an issue, I suspect it also has to do with being unable to center himself and say, "Yes, this is who I am and what I believe, like it or not."