[ SECRET POST #5978 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5978 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh I was just getting all annoyed because autistic headcanons seem to be popping up everywhere. And the thing that annoys me about it (and this is dumb) is that they put it in the tags but it has zero effect in the fic. If they hadn't put it in there in the tag I'd be fine! But I get so annoyed by all the super special headcanons. (This particular one was The Witcher, autistic Geralt, ADHD Jaskier, Trans Yennefer, among others. Zero effect on the story, according to the other tag but I never clicked to find out.)

[(Anonymous)]

Zero effect in the fic? Sounds like they went to the JK Rowling school of representation.

[(Anonymous)]

Ha!

[(Anonymous)]

Lol!

[(Anonymous)]

I've noticed this too. That the tag is EVERYWHERE but very few of the fics I've read (mostly been sitting COD/Stranger Things/RE fics) actually have anything resembling autism rep?

Like suddenly everything is Austistic!Ghost and ADHD!Soap without actually bringing that into the fic, which makes me sad because it seems more like a... lure? than anything else.

[(Anonymous)]

What I hate is the insistence that if a character is at all socially awkward, they MUST be autistic!!! Because it's not like people can be socially awkward for any other reasons that have nothing to do with autism.

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Yesssssssssssss!

[pantswarrior]

Yyyyep.

I do have an autistic headcanon for a character in one fandom that's mostly based on things OTHER than him being awkward (though boy he sure is that), but I just, well, try to write him in-character rather than tagging it or anything, since no two autistic folks are alike anyhow.

Then I've seen two or three other characters in the same fandom that people claim are "so autistic" and I'm just like... what...? Only thing I can think of to explain it is the socially awkward bit. And literally everyone in the show is socially awkward in some way or another so that really doesn't seem like a tell.

[(Anonymous)]

It's especially dumb because like... some people are just shy around people they don't know well and so they come off as socially awkward! It's not like that's an uncommon thing in the slightest. But when you start insisting that people who are socially awkward must be autistic, you're pathologizing what can be a totally normal personality trait.

[pantswarrior]

Especially when the characters in question are known to have had things in their past like incredibly dysfunctional relationships, severe psychological trauma, domestic abuse. Autism can (and generally does) cause trauma, but trauma doesn't cause autism. Sometimes some of the reactions can look a little like autism/ocd/etc. in overreaction or aversion to things, except there's actually a totally valid explanation for them if you think about what the character's been through.

Not to say that they're DEFINITELY neurotypical (I'm assuming even the one I headcanon as autistic wasn't INTENDED as such, just it's easy to read him that way once it was brought up) but to me they largely just read as justifiably traumatized.