What if autistic people relating to fictional robots isnāt actually deeply problematic and self-hating, and doesnāt neccessarily come from the idea that autistic people, like robots, are cold and unfeeling and not quite human?
What if autistic people find fictional robots relatable because a common plotline is where a robot develops out-of-the-norm sentience, and is then considered ādefectiveā for not measuring up to the āfactory standardā behaviour that all the others of their kind seemingly perform so effortlessly? Stop displaying that quirky weird unneccessary behaviour, stop displaying your personality that way, itās out of the norm. Thereās that sense of fear that the core of your self is considered defective for being yourself, as an indvidual, and unless you hide and suppress it, someone will want to āfixā you.
Disclaimer: this isnāt about autistic people supposedly cobsidering neurotypical people to be unfeeling robots.
