[ SECRET POST #3936 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3936 ⌋

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

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04. [SPOILERS for Don't Breathe]



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05. [WARNING for discussion of dub/non-con]



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Notes:

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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

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, sounds like autism. Be straight with him and tell him the reason he can't get friends is because of how he acts. If nobody tells him what's wrong, he'll never improve.

[(Anonymous)]

i have met many weeaboos in my life and not all of them were autistic.

it's possible to be like this without being autistic. plenty of people realize and simply don't care

[(Anonymous)]

Not reading the flow of the conversation, alienating potential friends because this, and having an obsessive interest in a narrow subject all read as autism to me.

[(Anonymous)]

are you insinuating people cannot be like that without being autistic? or that all weeaboos that act like must be autistic?

cause if so... gonna back away from this conversation now

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. My friend isn't autistic, but when she got into video games, she got so she started relating EVERYTHING we talked about to a video game or something video game-related. She was just really into her new hobby, but it got tiresome fast, and I didn't spend as much time around her for a while.

Then there's my dad, who will actively force every conversation in the direction of whatever topic he's into at the moment, using any means necessary, including laughing in your face and trying to make you feel stupid for talking about whatever you had started talking about.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah exactly. people can be obsessive or way way into something enough to want to talk about it all the time even if it drives others off without being autistic

people can also not care if others are put off and go around searching for someone who will talk to them about what they want to talk about

[(Anonymous)]

I know a couple of people like this, too. They like A Thing, and they get really into it, and suddenly that's all they want to discuss.

[arcadiaego]

Wow, is your dad my dad?

[dinogrrl]

This. There was a new hire at my old place of work who was an...okay worker, I guess. Definitely not autistic or with other mental/emotional issues. But she could not stop talking about My Little Pony. Like...yeah, I get being a fan. I really do. But this coworker just had ZERO concept that she was weirding out EVERYONE, me included--and, though I'm not into MLP myself, I know enough about it to know exactly what she was talking about 90% of the time but after about 2 minutes of her talking I just DID NOT CARE.

Gal did not last past her trial period. I am still kicking myself to this day that I didn't take a moment to pull her aside and just give her a gentle "Hey I love that you're so enthusiastic about this but there's a time and a place and it's not here with these people" because I really think she simply hadn't been told that before.

It's no different than a sports fan not knowing when to stfu about sports. Doesn't mean they're autistic by any means. Just that they're so focused on their fandom that they have difficulty grasping the whole 'time and place' idea. Or they do understand the idea and simply love the power of boring people to death in any situation.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't diagnose people over the Internet just for being awkward and liking anime

[(Anonymous)]

Why not? It's not like this person is specifically identifiable or will recieve medical treatment because of what some rando on the internet said.

[(Anonymous)]

It's just bad form in general? It's completely impossible to actually do so it's worthless to attempt, it perpetuates stereotypes, it perpetuates the idea that you can identify autism through Internet posting and armchair diagnosis.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe, but not necessarily? People who are deep, deep into fandom sometimes have a wonky sense of social calibration, and they don't always realize how weird it is to bring fandom into every single conversation IRL. This can be especially true of people who are socially awkward in the first place.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah like... there's a whole wide spectrum of social awkwardness with weirdness, which has a wide and varied crossover with the whole wide spectrum of mental illness

[(Anonymous)]

I have known a lot of weebs. I was one, for a while. Many of them are just... myopically focused on anime to the detriment of all else, and exist in a subculture which encourages conversations made up of references and crazy completionism.
None of the weebs I knew were autistic. They just lived in an echo chamber and viewed other people as plebs who didn't understand (whether consciously or unconsciously)

[(Anonymous)]

DA

This was my cousin. She'd talk about slash shipping at dinner at family gatherings. She isn't autistic, but she was deep into weeb culture at the time where the social norm WAS that talking about that casually to everyone was acceptable and it started to bleed into the rest of her life.