[ SECRET POST #3051 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3051 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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09. http://i.imgur.com/PRt3TMa.jpg
[linked for nsfw (graphic illustrated porn and maybe gore? I can't tell)]
















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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Different anon chiming in

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, not to get pedantic, but Rocket's exact quote in the movie was, "He don't do talking good like me and you, so his vocabulistics is limited to 'I' and 'am' and 'Groot' exclusively in that order," which means Groot's speech abilities are already shown to be different from the comics. James Gunn makes it clear the movies will be different from the comics also.

If I recall correctly, the comics say Groot's stiff wooden larynx turns everything he says into I AM GROOT and understanding him requires listening for the subtle changes in breath and tone to get the essence of meaning.

It looks like the RPer took the stiff larynx thing, the vocab thing, threw in some neurological reasons and gave us this headcanon. If I read it right, Groot is still talking as far as he's concerned(whole body/behavior communication, not just voice) and the lack of understanding by other species makes him come off as nonverbal. Secondly, the RPer has Groot mention he is fully competent, understands everything said to him and he expresses frustration that people assume he's incompetent because he doesn't speak "English" like everybody else.

Also as an autistic person myself I'm happy to see representation that takes us into the character's head instead of showing him flapping and rocking "for no reason" which is a common trope for characters written from an allistic POV.

I'll conclude this with a paraphrased quote from Einstein: "Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will spend its whole life thinking it is stupid."