#autism(robot)

[rotteneldritchhorror]

Why does Delores wanna fuck the book and also hate everyone lol

Also I hate-love all of the accents and voices (mostly love tbh-)

Also Fernie (really just Shayne) making such a filthy fucking joke and everyone just collapsing onto the table and laughing

[00venator]

I photoshopped a thing.

[krussyarts]

Me?? Posting three days in a row?? Apparently!!

[shirajellyfish]

So many writers put so much work into their robot lore and how the robots work and where the components are and meanwhile I'm just like

High research writers with actual notes on how robots work: I both respect and fear you. And most of all love you.

[sshadyjess]

Autistic robotgirl who calls overstimulation "getting DDOSed"

[glitchcipher]

Robots… need… need to kiss robots… nnnnggghhhhh…

[spaccadt]

autism creatures comeback

as an allergic person, i will be honest and say that anything that moves and has a silly look can kill you :0)

[syppys-den]

I'm only partially joking

[pingustims]

robo stimboard

[mooncrepes]

nonhuman lesbians? in MY utau? it's more likely than you think

[xxivletxx]

morning star on the horizon

(more visually friendly/alternate version under the cut!)

[kennjorine]

self indulgent ;; computer / coding themed stimboard

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

G1 Astrotrain

[gooplesswolf]

Maybe you, as an autistic person, appreciate robots/want to be a robot because you think it would be easier to live if everyone only expected 1’s and 0’s from you. Maybe being objectum and fawning over machines isn’t a trend and instead, you are just obsessed with the idea of being simple and uncomplicated.

Just a thought!!

[turbineface]

u guise will NEVER guess who my favorite tfa characters are!!!! its IMPOSSIBLE

also drops this vile CREATURE then EXPLODES AND DIES

[artist-issues]

and another thing.

if every character that has a unique characterization in their thought process, or fictional perspective, MUST BE “autistic” or “neurodivergent-coded,” that character is no longer relatable to people who don’t self-diagnose, or identify with, or are not diagnosed with, autism or anything on the neurodivergent spectrum.

I mean honestly I see you guys out here telling me that Mulan is neurodivergent, that ROZ from the Wild Robot is neurodivergent and gee, so is Brightbill, that Hiccup is neurodivergent and Ariel is autistic.

Ariel. The “girl next door” princess.

The whole point of characters, especially main characters, especially main characters in children’s media, is to be believable and relatable, on some level. If they’re all ‘special brain-different,’ they’re only relatable to people who accept that label or are given that diagnosis.

AND. It does a huge disservice to the storytelling techniques.

A story is supposed to get under the mental guard of a person. You’re supposed to take your hands off the “thought” wheel and your feet off the “emotion” pedals, and let the story drive your brain and heart to a new place. Or an old place you haven’t been in a while, or were forgetting.

One of the best ways to do that is to create a character that, on the surface, seems special and unrelatable. Like a girl living in the Imperial Dynasty of China, or a literal non-human robot. You can’t, on the surface, relate to them as easily, so you naturally start to think, “what would it be like to be seeing the world through these new eyes?” And then you’ve given up the wheel and pedals of your mind to the movie. You find yourself relating to concepts like motherhood and protectiveness, which the robot character is experiencing, but you’re looking at those concepts through new eyes.

That is why the character is a robot. Not so that she can be an allegory for your “special-undefined-perspective-on-life which is sometimes called neurodivergence.” She’s not a robot for that reason. She’s a robot because a robot character flips the “what would it be like to learn everything over again?” switch in your brain, and then the story can show you it’s focus, (like motherhood and kindness in The Wild Robot) after the switch is flipped.

and it’s flipped for everybody, (“neurodivergent” and “neurotypical”) not just people who identify as the vague term “neurodivergent,” or have been diagnosed as autistic. Stop fitting everything into vague-enough-to-be-claimed, but named-enough-to-be-a-special-identity boxes. You’re ruining the universal, unifying value of it all.