#genius trope

[disabledgenius2ereality]

Ok Can we talk honestly about why Media featuring Autistic and 2E geniuses get it wrong;

First; off cut the mad genius stuff

What is that? ^ like do you know why Geniuses can be “Mad.”

Mad is a word your using to describe mental illness ,

mental illness comes from trauma so maybe consider why you feel like siding a mad genius trope maybe because our society exploits and fetishizes disabled geniuses so bad that the majority of 2E geniuses in history died young due to stress related disorders

Suicide,Addiction,ED,Heart Attack Strokes.

Don’t use our work after we die and pretend you cared about any of us when we were alive

Don’t

Secondly being disabled and a genius comes with staggered IQ our IQ can’t be properly measured for this reason….

(You can’t measure intelligence anyway it doesn’t have weight.)

The problem with Disabled and specifically Autistic Geniuses in media is as follows

This is a cute painting of a much more harsh and Brutal reality.

We live in a world we’re you take al you can from us and throw our peers with IDD aside like they have nothing to teach you as well.

Being Raised Disabled and being perceived as a genius or as high functioning comes with feelings of;

Extreme Guilt

You shoved our peers in Asylums and Murdered them for a fictional made up number. One we just so happens to benefit from.

Those peers are people we grew up with, our classmates, our family members,our ancestors and those who came and walked before us.

You to this day have them buried with numbers instead of names … some places have Disabled graves marked Specimens. Our ancestors many of whom who survived Asylums are still very much ALIVE < they have to live with the Trauma of surviving. They have to live with the knowledge you buried their friends as numbers.

You forced Thier families to put them there with lies and lawsuits.

It was illegal for us to go out in public until 1974!!!

We didn’t get any kind of rights in the US until 1990…

100 years of female vote my ass.

Yet you benefit from Disabled people’s inventions and innovation Daily you don’t need to profit off us and weaponize our pain against our peers too you’ve done enough.

Looking at specifically Sheldon Cooper one of the most Fetishized characters on TV …. Who is portrayed as having no emotions when too many of us have too many..

[myriadism]

Things I'm really sick of seeing on tv

ok so this guy is really misogynistic and patronizing and he can't be pressed to remember your name if it would save his life but look he's a GENIUS do you know how much he has done for society? do you? what things exactly? oh well you know things haha it's doesn't really matter it's not like you're ever going to see them on screen I'll just list some stuff that seems probable because don't you see, he's a GENIUS. Yes I understand that he's being a real dick in this particular instance, but you know he's just not a people person. He's really a visionary, his mind works on a whole other level than ours, it may look like he spent this entire episode drinking and telling us off for being idiots while not actually solving anything but really he's just frustrated that no one can keep up with his massive intellect.

He doesn't need to go through character development or anything because he's a GENIUS haha nevermind that we have never settled upon any real way to define and measure intelligence or that we obviously value very specific kinds of intelligence over others or that most abilities we label as intelligence are largely acquired skills not inherent qualities

guess what kind of people never get called GENIUSES

-really good moms who juggle their multiple responsibilities like a pro and still find all the time in the world to be a great parent to their child

-secretaries who need to know how to anticipate their bosses needs, do payroll for everyone, look over expense and requisition reports for mistakes, know everything that is happening in the office down to who left the mens toilet backed up last week and still be discrete, and read and type a thousand miles a minute

-public school teachers who actually somehow get their children to absorb the material in class oh my god these people are like gods

-translators who need to both understand all the subtleties of multiple languages but also how to express the content of what their clients are trying to say in a way that is clear, precise, and polite in situations which may not always be friendly and free of tension

-museum security guards who have been hanging out in this gallery for years, they've heard all the guided tours, seen all the installations, and know literally everything about a piece they've spent so much time around it if only someone would take a second to ask them they'd tell you every single detail while still keeping an eye out for grabby children and pickpockets

-galley cooks who keep their kitchen pristine and probably could make a decent meal out of a boot and some ketchup if they needed to even while everyone else spends most of their time complaining that the food just isn't like it is at home

-really good acrobats or the majority of sport professionals like gymnasts, pole vaulters,  dancers, golfers, tennis, soccer etc. do you know how much practice and body coordination that takes to do such complicated and difficult activities there is such a thing as physical intelligence

why does GENIUS always only ever apply to someone who is really good at science or math and not people who are really good at other things