Abby and Norma

by Erika Hammerschmidt

Mar 23, 2007

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TEXT OF COMIC:

What the heck are you doing, Cathy?

Smelting.

Isn't that a kind of fish?

Or a metallurgical procedure?

No, it's something that all the cheerleaders on my squad do to stay thin. It's a cross between smelling and eating.

Suppose I'm craving a candy bar. I stick my tongue way back in my throat, under my nasal cavity, and then I open the candy bar and sniff it.

That way I can sort of taste it on my tongue, and it's sort of almost as good as eating it.

Then you throw the candy bar away?

That's wasteful.

Well, eating a candy bar is wasteful too. Of all the resources that go into making a candy bar, some of it goes toward making you hyper for half an hour, some of it piles up as useless fat, and the rest goes down the toilet.

Hmmm... for once, Cathy's got a point.

So why don't you just avoid buying a candy bar in the first place?

Because I have a craving for it.

And they say that autism spectrum people have no self-control.

And that we've got pointless obsessive behaviors.

Shut up.