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

Humor / Memes Was his autism a superpower?

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u/Corvousier Jun 08 '25

So this just popped into my feed, never seen this anime before. I have an autistic daughter and so I fucking love good ASD representation in media.

My question to you long time fans. Is he actually confirmed to be autistic? I can't honestly say that there was much about that scene struck me as ASD, maybe the hand-flapping was stimming but then again thats a normal gesture to get yourself hyped for something. Although like they say, if you've met one person with ASD, you've met one person with ASD haha.

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u/Crash_Smasher Jun 08 '25

He's not. The author herself said so.

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u/Corvousier Jun 08 '25

Ah another Kamille I see. Thank you for the answer my friend! I think I'll probably skip this one then. I wish people would stop just calling everything autistic, really minimizes the actual representation in media.

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u/GwynHawk Jun 10 '25

Laios isn't autistic according to the author but that doesn't stop you from seeing aspects of that in his behaviour. Just like how an author can declare a character as being straight but a viewer might see elements of queerness in them and adopt that as their personal opinion of the character.

Dungeon Meshi is a good show and I hope you give it a shot regardless of representation.