[ SECRET POST #3763 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3763 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why are tumblr headcanons so fucking fetishistic? Like, say an autism headcanon. That character is now nothing like the canon one, just someone who marking of checkmark of behaviours. Like often visibly stimming. Sudden inability to understand any sort of social interaction. So exaggerated.

I don't feel represented by that at all.

[(Anonymous)]

People are just bad writers for secular, non-ideological reasons

[(Anonymous)]

Because teenagers are about a third as insightful than they think they are when it comes to fiction.

[(Anonymous)]

This comment made me all ♥_♥ for whatever reason. I believe you're twice as insightful as you think you are.

Because

[(Anonymous)]

Most writers paste traits onto a character and don't utilize what they've shown.

I can get behind, for example, an autistic 12th Doctor headcanon because he shows onscreen evidence of sensory issues (his reaction to some touch) behaviors that look suspiciously like stimming (watch his hands, he does things with them), we've seen him blunder socially (Kill the Moon, missing why Clara was so cross, is just one example), he had a moment that looks like a genuine autistic meltdown (Pounding the TARDIS console near the end of Death in Heaven).

Now seeing someone say Captain Kirk is autistic and describing him walking around with stim behaviors or other "quirks" where no evidence of those things are seen onscreen will make me sideeye an autistic headcanon real fast.

Btw I am autistic myself and it's a lot more than being socially awkward and nerdy. It's called a disorder because it interferes with daily life some of the time. People more severely effected deal with more interference and have to use more intense behaviors to stay comfortable.

A fanfic author I like does an awesome portrayal of more severe autism through their Groot fanfics. (Yes, they are autistic themselves.) I feel like I learned something by reading her stuff instead of feeling like I'm getting preached at and I like that.

The link if anyone cares. http://archiveofourown.org/series/275382

The author is very anti Autism Speaks but I'm okay with that because I am too.

shit, I am trying to be more gender neutral

[(Anonymous)]

I used pronouns out of habit. I can't recall if the author is a her or a they. Apologies in advance if I misgendered.

Re: Because

[(Anonymous)]

OP here

I agree completely. The guy the headcanon was based on has like zero traits of autism, so that came out of nowhere.

I'm happy I only stim when excited or very happy.

But on the subject of disability headcanon, why do they make the disability the only thing about them? Their personalities get eaten.

Sorry if I'm unclear, I've got dysgraphia.

[(Anonymous)]

Because the fic/headcanon is just a platform to talk about the thing and not an actual story/exploration of a character and how that thing might affect/fit into their life and what they do in canon.

I once read a fic that presented a character as trans and it wasn't tagged as such and the reveal (to the reader, not other characters) part way through was a complete surprise to me. It was a great fic, though (not being trans, I can't make a statement as to how representational it is). It's never been my headcanon but I liked the exploration of it.

On the other side of the coin, I once started reading a fic where all the main characters had complex gender identities and/or sexual orientations/relationship preferences and the thing was shaping up to be nothing but the characters explaining their genders/orientations to each other and getting on soap boxes to lecture about what their labels mean and everyone was way OOC. Completely different animal. I backbuttoned outta that one so fast...

[(Anonymous)]

I would backbutton out of the first example as well, just for the fact that these "surprise trans" fics tend to be authors trying to force it down people's throats how very progressive they are, as in "see, I tricked you into reading trans fic and you didn't notice until I told you!".

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT said that it was a story they were already enjoying though. I think that should be the deciding factor in all cases, whether or not the fic is any good.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

It wasn't like that, and it was on LJ not AO3 so tagging wasn't really a thing, anyway.