Although some say that the development of electricity will cause a decline in society's current learning abilities (Carr), I believe it creates a new type of learning style, which it could also give an improving hand to people we might otherwise overlook. We must consider that every new invention has a cost, but that does not necessarily mean that the reward does not significantly exceed it. Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" has an electrified quality not only through the imagery, but also through the writing style and use of obtuse meanings within her illustrations, which seem to enable a new style of learning, supported by " disorders" such as autism and obsessive compulsive disorder. (OCD).“Fun Home” uses both text and graphics to tell the author's life. The script has many possible interpretations, but the photographs have a more specific purpose. Roland Barthes suggests that interpretations of illustration in electricity have obtuse meanings, especially for the author (Ulmer 43). For example, as an illustration of chapter 4, Bechdel uses a photo of his father (who we only later discover is him), as a child, dressed as a girl, titling the chapter “In the Shadow of Blooming Maidens” ( Bechdel 87). Although a literal analysis might involve a developing girl, perhaps imitating her mother, and a figurative analysis might be that the girl feels pressure in personal style based on social norms, the obtuse meaning comes from the direct feelings associated with image - and in this case, photographing. The meaning for Bechdel in this photo, particularly when he associates it with the chapter title, is (among other things) the juxtaposition between a feeling of camaraderie he develops with his father by relating to similar dispositions in his adolescence, and an epiphany of ...... half of the sheet ......rSearch). Network. March 23, 2012.Bechdel, Alison. Fun house. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. Graphic Memoirs. Carr, Nicholas. Is Google Making Us Stupid? July/August 2008. .Rauch, Scott L., MD, et al. "Probing striatal function in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a PET study of implicit sequence learning." Journal of Neuropsychiatry 9.Number 4 (Fall 1997): 568-573. March 23, 2012. Ulmer, Gregory L. Invention of the Internet: From Literacy to Electricity. Joseph Opiela, 2003. Educational textbook.Watson, Julia. "Autographic Statements and Genealogies of Desire in Alison Bechdel's Funhouse." Biographical Research Center, 2008. 27-58. Biography 31:1.