Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Renaming the Blog

While reading my psychology textbook, I discovered that the term "antisocial" technically refers to something far different from what I had intended to communicate in my blog's title. According to my textbook, "antisocial personality disorder [is] a personality disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist." I don't think I want to associate myself with such a disorder. Even though the general public's definition of antisocial goes along with my former notion of the word (which was that antisocial people are uncomfortable around people or more comfortable alone), I'd rather change my blog's name now that I know the technical meaning for the term. I don't like my new title as much as I did the old one. I'll probably change it again when I find a word or phrase with a similar meaning that I like the sound of.

2 comments:

Thorvald Erikson said...

Dig this:
"Adventures in the Life of a Socially Lumbering Treehugger"

Pretty awful, isn't it?

maria said...

That is indeed pretty awful.

I think I'm just going to skip the adjective for now. I'll add one when I find one I like.