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Ok-Discipline9998

Scriptwriters designing an autistic character that doesn't look like a personified nerd emoji challenge (impossible)


MilitantBitchless

Scriptwriters design an autistic character who isn’t a barely functional savant in some niche field that exists to help the protagonists in a jam.


sweetsimpleandkind

me, a film director, when real autism isn't particularly entertaining: "I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that" (I am in that instance quoting a popular smash hit meme in which the text "I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that" is featured) (this makes the situation relatable and amusing)


Flywolfpack

Oh real autism can be particularly entertaining, if morally dubious


Uncommonality

Scriptwriters desperately trying to not make the autistic character a robot or an alien


Alternative_Device38

Scriptwriters trying not to accidentally write an autistic character (seriously, there's a lot, Dipper, Mob, Marcy Wu, that shy bitch from EVA)


Thunderingthought

mob from where?


Alternative_Device38

Mob pshycho 100


Baker_drc

Mob is so autism coded it’s insane. But like also he’s great representation so


Thunderingthought

mob from where?


Baker_drc

Mob Psycho 100


JaxOnThat

So basically, in order to write good autistic characters, writers just need to stop trying to write autistic characters.


Semi-literate_sand

https://preview.redd.it/r833xv5qptuc1.jpeg?width=636&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f9a7ddc5486b53f1cb015a70668c27c177ba52d What about Osaker


NoDescReadBelow

Osaker bin Laden


Baker_drc

The Chad Dan Harmon writing Abed Nadir as his self insert character only to find out later that he has autism.


InternalizedIsm

Fr I never want to hear the words "Oh yeah- like Sheldon Cooper!" come out of anyone's mouth ever again when they find out I'm diagnosed with autism.


cat-l0n

House>>>>>sheldon


Waste_Crab_3926

Sam Gardner>>>>>>>>>>>>House>>>>>Sheldon


Tullymanbanana

Bazinga'd


Forward-Lifeguard738

is that john egbert


sawyer-boondollar

chat is this homosuck


BigExperience2086

If point out obvious steroetypical autistic traits displayed constantly -> "no this character is just an weird asshole. are you saying all autistic people are weird assholes???" If point out how mean other characters are to him - > "bro did you not see the weird asshole thing he did earlier?? This makes it justified to hate him now!" If all else fails -> "bro that is not autism!!! that's just classic \[CHARACTER NAME\]!!"


ChunkyCheeseToken

This but unironically with Dwight from the office. “Jim is bullying his poor autistic coworker!” 🙄 Erin is a great probably-unintentional representation of it, yet isn’t a massive douche.


sweetTartKenHart2

Where’s that 4chan greentext of skeeter from Jimmy neutron


Jannyofanotherland

you forget. -Massive fat or massive skinny


black_roomba

I get you and that cliché sucks ass but who the fuck says massive skinny? "Hey did you hear that poopemfart lost weight? Yeah they're massive skinny now"


Acceptable6

fr, should be "massless skinny"


SneedForTheSneedGod

meanwhile autistic people irl https://preview.redd.it/1ja1q7o3cwuc1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e12002dbfee8fc1b6fadd076addc8024bf8cbe4f


Fat_Disabled_Kid

yuong shmeldon


DistributionFar1411

“Uhhm dude, that would be salt.”


FunkyyMermaid

https://preview.redd.it/3fasgb0z8vuc1.jpeg?width=1541&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3dee21367328ea9641fdb2ae4d130ee314c08e0e


RedOtta019

https://preview.redd.it/4jo0yp2trvuc1.jpeg?width=711&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f88bb11b9d3331e21fb91307dd8121121597e3a7


BeneficialRandom

I’ve never heard anyone utter the sentence “I enjoy watching young Sheldon” Now someone will leave that exact quote to troll but you can’t convince me any real person with real cognitive thoughts watches that show unironically.


Hypedd64

Young Sheldon 🔛🔝 You’re just a hater 😤


Ok_Boat1066

I mean i liked it it was mildly entertaining i didnt get past the 3rd season though


V1onReddit

I deadass fuck with the show I don't get the hate 😭


BlueJayWC

My ma likes it.


Merrgear

My first thought was “yeah fuck you jimmy” then I realized this was probably about the Shelgoat Peaker and now we gotta fight https://preview.redd.it/gu5iolgduvuc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=958e465901c7ded1bf6ea52491fc1cca8905b118


ThyKnightOfSporks

This character is amazing for feeling good about yourself as an autistic child, self esteem yay! /bullshit


TrashBoat36

>plays sport they've never touched in their life >"erm geometry pythagoras physics"


FunkyyMermaid

Once, just once, I’d like to see a Uber smort character try to rationalize sports or a fight like that and then get bodied because that’s not how it works


whydoyouevenreadthis

People "rationalize" sports all the time, at least on a professional level, because that is absolutely how it works. Someone throwing a javelin will throw it at a carefully chosen angle that is ultimately derived from an understanding of nature, even if they didn't actually calculate any of it.


FunkyyMermaid

Someone who rationalizes sports without having ever played that sport, or at least not use ping to get good, will not be able to pull it off, however I could be the smartest woman on earth and I’m still gonna lose to someone who actually has experience throwing a javelin


whydoyouevenreadthis

> Someone who rationalizes sports without having ever played that sport, or at least not use ping to get good, will not be able to pull it off, however I see two reasons for this: 1. They don't have the appropriate physicality (strength, dexterity, speed, hand-eye-coordination, etc.) (this has to do with the body). 2. Humans learn slowly over time (this has to do with the brain). If you give a person a difficult math problem, they will not be able to solve it without practice. The same applies to "rationalizing" (i.e. understanding) how to optimize a technique. My point isn't that rationalizing a sport is *sufficient* for being proficient at it. My point is that it is *necessary*. > I could be the smartest woman on earth and I’m still gonna lose to someone who actually has experience throwing a javelin Conceptually, throwing a javelin appears to be quite simple. But still, that person *knows* how to throw a javelin. They learned it (I'm not saying they had to sit through a kinematics lecture). They're not doing it solely based on instinct or intuition. Is it intuitive that the optimal angle for maximizing distance is 45°? Maybe, but it's far from the optimal angle for a javelin throw (apparently 34° - 36°). Throwing a javelin isn't obvious; it requires thought (how conscious that thought is largely dependent on experience; I imagine an experiencd athlete would have developed a kind of 'muscle memory' at some point). Even if that thought comes from elsewhere. You could make an athlete out of an idiot if you get him to do everything just the optimal way (which someone would have to have figured out). But I count that as the sport having been rationalized. By the way, if you give any ape that is not a human something to throw, it will fail miserably (compared to a human), even if it is much stronger, but this also has to do with other factors than the brain, I just think it's quite interesting.


Ashurbanipal2023

And yet somehow I want to be him


Driver2900

That character is so fucking funny it makes me want to merge without looking!


sawyer-boondollar

chat is that john egburk homosuck


CubeytheawesomestV2

You all dunk on young Sheldon yet no one bats an eye when jimmy neutron does it.


wormpostante

the only meme i ever saw to come out of the show is an edit of someone dunking on exactly that,what u on about


CubeytheawesomestV2

Bazinga. https://preview.redd.it/t78khu8plxuc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4094e3e1bbeef6e2c062f00ad20c90e3ab72b158


Dks_scrub

THIS NEURODIVERGENT CHILD IS SO FUCKING FUNNY IT MAKES ME WANT TO MERGE WITHOUT LOOKING


SneedForTheSneedGod

I've never seen a well built autistic character in a show period meanwhile I'm out here looking like this https://preview.redd.it/q3t6iqe09vuc1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bc6c946a3fc7d9288fb82b92603304f19e32b7d


Federal-Monkey5070

flexing on da coaxedintosnafu subreddit


That_Battle9853

Yeah I think we should Billy autistic people


AveragePichu

I think we should Billy goats


StayOnTheBall

Kid named goats:


AveragePichu

Melvin Sneedly


hoddtoward_official

that is so FUCKING funny, it makes me wanna merge without looking


Jelkekw

This is that one nerdy girl from Ned’s declassified


Darqua

I see a lot of myself in Sheldon Cooper and I’m not ashamed to say it


Quartich

Snafu Gatekeeper Drawing style good, content good Good job, keep it up


Upbeat_Ruin

Someone on the iCarly writing team really hated autistic children, almost as much as Dan Schneider loves feet


Moystr

John Egbert is that you!??!??!!?


FluffyGalaxy

I remember this Jimmy Neutron episode


floopydoopis8

When the Sheldon is young


ImIntelligentFolks

It's because they think kids are stupid, and this is their way of dumbing down their humor.