[ SECRET POST #7057 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7057 ⌋

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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

Watched the Blues Brothers movie again and in retrospect I don't know how I missed that Elwood is supposed to be autistic the first few times around.

Just a guy going on adventures, eating dry plain bread all the time, letting his brother do all the social tasks, having all kinds of in-depth mechanical knowledge, and everyone who knows him is just like "yeah that's how he is" without it being some dramatic traumatic thing.

I think he's better autistic rep than a lot of modern characters.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like you’re missing the point that the whole point of the character was for the audience to point and laugh at him.

[(Anonymous)]

Elwood felt sympathetic, Jake felt like the buttmonkey

Um no

[(Anonymous)]

Headcanon him that way all you like, but he was not "supposed to be" autistic.

Re: Um no

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like I've heard speculation somewhere that Dan Akyroyd himself may be on the spectrum, so maybe his oddities bleed over into the character? (And god knows he's an oddie-- anyone who would come up with a movie like Nothing But Trouble has to be!)

Re: Um no

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I've read about Dan Aykroyd being autistic-- so even if Elwood wasn't 'written to be autistic' in the most literal sense, that doesn't mean he wasn't written AS autistic. Because... autistic writer-performers are going to create autistic characters sometimes.

Re: Um no

[(Anonymous)]

Stil not canon

Re: Um no

[(Anonymous)]

He created a character whose mannerisms and quirks were punchlines. That predates the movies. Even if he were canonically autistic, OP is insane to call that good representation.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

could've said "reads to me as" and no harm no foul. wording is important, people!

+2000

[(Anonymous)]

Like the delusion between headcanon vs. canon vs. reality is getting seriously fucked up I feel like at this point.

[arcanetrivia]

Fine as a headcanon, but idk that he's supposed to be autistic as such, especially not as a conscious writing decision. I think they were just intending him to be a weirdo freak.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think he's "supposed" to be autistic, just that autistic traits have major overlap (and may be the cause of) that particular character type. There's so many older men who have never been diagnosed with anything, but would absolutely be considered autistic if they were young now.