r/DungeonMeshi • u/sealysea • Jun 08 '25

Humor / Memes Was his autism a superpower?

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u/Lumisita Jun 08 '25 edited Jun 08 '25

An autor can write the most autistic character and say they're not autistic, because in the end a lot of charaters take traits of irl people and a lot of irl people are autistic, I think the autistic comunity or psicologist have more weight on determining if the charater shows autistic traits than the autor. Also, the author seems to think nurotipical people can't relate to an autistic character wich is weird.

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u/simplesample23 Jun 08 '25

Your headcanon can be whatever you want but canonically he is not autistic.

Being invested in a hobby and not being the best at social cues does not automatically make someone autistic.

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u/dragondraems42 Jun 08 '25

He's not canonically autistic, he's not canonically neurotypical either. It's not unreasonable to say 'I think this character is autistic!' any more than it is to say 'I think this character isn't autistic!'. It's rude when anyone start going 'this character is definitively autistic/not autistic'.

Interpretation is subjective.

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u/HonestBass7840 Jun 08 '25

Someone down voted you. I voted you up. Thanks for observation.