Jumping Frenchman of Maine
Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge website has an article I found interesting. "I'm a lumberjack and I'm not quite okay" was posted by Kevin Beck. You are just going to have to go read Mr. Beck's post. I'm not even sure how to explain this psychological disorder.
Further reading can be found at the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Okay, so this is pretty out of place for MaineMilitia.com. But for the historical note I thought it was worth posting. First diagnosed in 1878 it could easily go back before that. It could make a fun characteristic to add to someone's impression if you can pull it off. Can anyone add any stories that relate someone like this?
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That blind boy sure can play
That blind boy sure can play a mean banjo........
So does the author of this post harbor a certain amount of prejudice for mainers who log? sounds more like the disorder is just a remote form of Touretts before it was diagnosed such as St. vitas Dance (Huntingtons)....
Its an interesting thing I once had a guy working at the paper in Georgia that when told to do something he would go .."oh oh and then repeat the "command" and then procede to do exactly what you didnt want him to do.....now is that a nervous disorder or plain stupidity......ADD? but it could be an interesting impression if done right.....though I doubt anyone would see it for what it was and just earmark it as tomfoolery
Seamus
Cogito sumere potum alterum
I see simple people
Perhaps you are right in your diagnosis Mr. Pratt. However, more learned people then you and I seem to have reached a different conclusion and diagnosed a condition based upon a narrow cultural enviroment. Frankly, I have spent a little time in the Great North Woods and I have found it to be a very creepy place when one is alone for great amounts of time. If perhaps I spent more time there then I might also becoming a Jumping Frenchman. I offer Upper and Lower Enchanted Valley Township as one clue that things in the north woods may not be all that they seem.
But if you get right down to it then I wonder what kind of disorder these so called doctors would find in us after observing us for three days at a large scale reenactment? Could the Seamus of Maine Disorder be discovered? Or would they name it Seamus of Alabama because they are confused by your residence?
I try not to call too many people stupid. That whole "people in glass houses" thing might catch up to me once in a while. But in the case of our jumping ancestors I would tend to think a little too much time spent alone in the back country.
Still an interesting bot of history I thought worth sharing and worth the warning. Watch out for jumping frenchman in the Moosehead Lake region.
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Michael Johnson