Aug 10
I love asexual characters and I love autistic characters but why do autistic characters always get stereotyped as asexual (or , wildly out of their depth/innocent with relationships) and asexual characters as autistic
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I love asexual characters and I love autistic characters but why do autistic characters always get stereotyped as asexual (or , wildly out of their depth/innocent with relationships) and asexual characters as autistic
"look at this autistic-coded character from the 1960s!"
>looks inside
>blatant schizophrenia-coding
trying to research an autistic character and it turns out not only the character is made-up but also the whole series, with counterfactual information spanning multiple fan wikis and even ending up on IMDb
Corruption arc but it’s just an autistic hero character getting more and more angry and unhinged as the Plot Armor protects them in truly impossible ways but not for others??? Because the Rules… the Rules don’t make any fucking SENSE!!
The disabled character of the day is Entrapta from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power who is autistic!
The disabled character of the day is Cove Holden from Our Life: Beginnings and Always, who is autistic!
Mainstream fiction sooner humanizes robots than autistic people. Like there is a lot to discuss about the "autistic people relate to robot characters" thing but also just the fact that writers can conceive of humanity in a robot more easily than the humanity of an autistic person is bumming me out