#autistic mimi

[angrymiauu]

MAGICAL GIRL TRANSFORMATION !!!!!!! (cheap edition because im poor and cant afford any app to animate or cute cut pro, and also because the bg is a gif i found in google and doesnt even mtch but, who cares!!!). im cringe but im free.

i also found the audio in capcut . yeah.

au by @bloomeng !!!!

edit: I FORGOT THE CAPE

[vhsmeow]

you’re stupid. i like that in a man

[kusuokisser]

his rant was done off the top of my head if i got anything wrong no i didnt

[dumb-and-very-dumb]

watched a video essay about vita carnis

my slight paranoia about stalking:

[goldiipond]

almost every papermario title gives you a best friend in the form of a very opinionated small woman with extensive knowledge on everything in the world. and these women are my favorite characters every time

[gods-favorite-autistic]

If I ever become a professional actor I hope y’all know every character I ever play is autistic. Hope this helps

[asheoninactive]

Having both Adventure and Survive Brainrot right now so here’s a tierlist based on whether or not I think they got their autism diagnosis (they’re all autistic btw)

[mimi-noelle]

PERSONAL RANT

I am absolutely LIVID that The Bad Batch and The Mandalorian are airing on the same day. I was annoyed when they announced it, but now that I’m living it, it’s so much worse than I thought it would be.

I love both shows so much, but I need time to process each new episode. Having two episodes to watch that are completely unrelated to each other is making processing much more difficult. I could pick one for a different day, but I can’t go anywhere on the internet until I watch them both because of spoilers. This sucks so much.

Sometimes being autistic can make things so frustrating.

[m0e-ru]

absolutely a joy to have to employ fan oc marketing methods on mimi and gsaslau to at least get some more people interested somewhat like theyre a garnish to a dish and makes the menu more appealing what if this restaurant serves a full course meal with them as them as the main ingredient then id go out of business 'wrong establishment' oh sorry yeah this is a gas station. definitely not a hell when a character is free for anyone to mold and also anyones oc and the majority likes the general consensus which is that the character is a whore or a lazily designed zombie skeleton without enough gore to it and youre stuck being ignored or stoned to death in public when you see them as an autistic inhuman beast rotting and bleeding all over the floor spreading their ash in the same air as the mist they try to hide themself with and is a walking transgender allegory dragging itself across the dirt yeah i have no quips with that

[philosophicallie]

my vitriolic hate for the parentals only grows btw. everything i overhear is in fact a big fat negative in our relationship

[mimiscappinisideblog]

Me: *shows my friends Will Wood*

My friends: he does look like someone Mimi would listen to.

My brain: that's a long winded way of calling me neurodivergent.

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

do you ever think about how when you breath out it can be either hot OR cold air depending on how you do it ???

[rayatii]

I CALLED IT!!

As an autistic person who individually came up with the headcanon of Mimì being autistic a couple years or so back, I am absolutely stoked that someone else took the time to analyze her through this lens, and I would also like to add in another moment that reinforces my opinion:

In Act 2, when she is gushing about love being sweet as honey, and Marcello bitterly responds: “depending on the taste, it’s either honey or bile!”, her response is not “what’s his problem?” or even “is he okay?” or anything like that, but: “I have offended him!”

As soon as he snaps at her, the first thought that occurs to her is that she must have said something offensive without realizing it, and seemingly not considering whether the problem comes from Marcello. To me, this brings to mind the idea that she has probably been yelled at several times in her life for inadvertently saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, which is very common for autistic people and which TOTALLY DID NOT HAPPEN TO ME MORE THAN ONCE :D (I’m being sarcastic, obviously)

Autism headcanon: Mimì (La Bohème)

*Mimì lives alone at the beginning and is content to live alone until she finds love. She doesn't seem to have any friends outside of Rodolfo's circle; on her deathbed, her happy murmurs of "all here, all here" creates the sense that the five people present are all the friends she has in the world. Yet she doesn't seem to mind. She devotes herself to her simple daily routine and her few, simple special interests – her sewing, flowers, praying – and is happy this way.

*She's quiet and reserved compared to the other main characters, and in her first meeting with Rodolfo, she seems shy. As he declares his love for her, she doesn't make it clear to him that she returns his feelings right away. Though she sings of her love so we can hear, it's written as an expression of her private thoughts, not spoken out loud in-universe; then she pulls away when Rodolfo tries to kiss her, says she wants to say something but "doesn't dare," then timidly asks to come to the café with Rodolfo, and only then coyly admits her love. (Although it depends on the singer whether she seems to be truly shy or just gently playing hard to get – after all, no sooner has Rodolfo agreed to take her out, than she playfully implies that they'll have sex when they come back.)

*That said, she's not particularly cautious or socially "savvy." Despite the brief shyness mentioned above, she throws herself headlong into a love affair with Rodolfo just fifteen minutes after they first meet, with implied consummation the very same night, and then moves into his apartment. If she had been slightly less naïve, she might have taken more time to get to know him first.

*She has deep feelings about the most commonplace things and finds meaning in them that other people don't. The artificial flowers she sews aren't just a source of money to her, but "speak of love, of spring... of dreams and fancies." And the first sunlight of April shining through her window is an experience she sings of with almost religious passion.

*She doesn't often go to church, but she does often pray to God. Many of us on the spectrum don't care much for organized religion, but invest deeply in own private spirituality.

*While she's a nice girl, she sometimes acts on her instincts in ways that aren't necessarily "polite." In Act II, when Rodolfo has only just bought a beautiful new bonnet for her, she openly admires a coral necklace that he can't afford. A girl with better social skills might have considered that this could seem greedy or ungracious. Ditto for her "observing a group of students" a short time later: Rodolfo might be too jealous, but should she really be eyeing other men during their first date? (Although the moment can be played as anything from "just smiling politely as the students flirt with her," to "happily accepting kisses from a young man who's evidently a former lover of hers," depending on the staging.)

*She's very earnest and takes love seriously. As Musetta seduces the resistant Marcello in Act II, while the other characters (and the audience) all find the scene funny, to Mimì it's sad: Musetta is madly in love with Marcello, yet he refuses to forgive her for having left him. For a viewer on the spectrum, it's easy to relate both to the inordinate seriousness with which she takes others' relationship games and how out-of-step her reaction is with everyone else's.

*Her responses to sensory stimuli are strong. She hates to be cold and loves warmth: she sings worshipfully of the sun as a source of comfort, and her dying words are to express feeble bliss at the warmth on her hands of the muff Musetta gives her. She also loves sweet smells, especially of flowers, and in Act III she can't bear to go into a crowded, strong-smelling space when she's already in emotional turmoil: when Rodolfo urges her to come into the tavern, she exclaims "No, that stench will suffocate me!"

*She's very emotionally sensitive and wears her heart on her sleeve. Nor can she control her emotions very well. When she finally realizes she's dying in Act III, even though she's hiding at the time, she can't process her horror and grief quietly, but breaks down in "violent sobs," which causes Rodolfo and Marcello to discover her presence.

*In Act III, she tells Marcello that Rodolfo goes into jealous rages over the most innocent, meaningless words or gestures she exchanges with other men. While of course Rodolfo's behavior has other motives that she doesn't know, many of us on the autism spectrum relate too well to being misunderstood, to saying or doing the wrong things at the wrong times without realizing it, and to accidentally making people angry with words or gestures that we thought were innocent and unoffensive. Whether we're accused of flirting when we were just trying to be polite, or of being "snippy" or "aggressive" when we thought our tone was neutral, it happens too often.

*She can't bear conflict or rejection. She's agonized and broken by Rodolfo's jealous rages and by his leaving her, to the point that it seems to make her illness worse. Of course any girl in love would be heartbroken, but the sheer raw anguish in her music in Act III speaks especially strongly to those of us with rejection sensitive dysphoria. So does her fear of how Rodolfo will react if he sees that she followed him to the tavern after he left, which drives her to hide when he comes out. (Flawed though Rodolfo is, he probably wouldn't do anything to make Mimì rightfully afraid of him... at least I hope not... but her sensitivity makes her panic at the mere thought of him being angry with her again.) Yet even as she sadly accepts their breakup as necessary, she wants it to be gentle and free from bitterness. Her longing for gentleness, tenderness, and kindness sets her apart from the rowdiness, hot blood, and volatile on-and-off love affairs of bohemian culture. As much as Rodolfo and his friends adore her, she never quite fits in with them.

Now of course in the 19th century, no one would have viewed Mimì this way. As with her fellow consumptive grisette Fantine from Les Misérables, many of these traits can be explained by the fact that she's a poor, uneducated girl with no family, and even more by the fact that she's sick. As @faintingheroine and I have discussed in the past, it's not uncommon for consumptive or otherwise sickly 19th century characters to show traits that read as vaguely autistic by modern standards. But neurodivergent people have always existed, long before there were terms for them, and I personally identify with Mimì for reasons that I know relate to my neurodivergent mind.

[the-cult-of-the-neurodiverse]

Greetings and welcome to our wonderful and not at all suspicious cult!

Current voices:

Tame ADHD autism Dyslexia and haters say I have OCD (I'm in denial) abrosexual(ace rn) aro demi girl she/her (dumbass)

Mimi she/her omniromanitic, acesexual undiagnosed ADHD (>:3 wouldnt you like to know[theater kid]) Tags are: #mimi speaks #mimi panic (and some others

Ki, it/its omniromantic demisexual, undiagnosed AuDHD depression and anxiety (AHHHH)

Min, any pronouns but they/xe/it/he are my faves, ADHD and anxiety, undiagnosed autism and OCD, fucking obsessed with palaeontology, aroace(apothisexual and apothiromantic) genderfaun, my tags are "#min screams its thoughts out" and l #min's mental health" (creature)

Magnus, Cassidy, or Orion, He/They/It, AuDHD anxiety depression and OCD, Nonbinary Aflux. My tag's #I don't need this tag (Mostly out of spite)

Koda, she/it aroallo, anxiety disorder (i love porcelain dolls so much ohhh my gosh)

Green, She/Her, Diagnosed ADHD and autism. Undiagnosed depression, transgender (Male to Female), Pansexual

Mari, it/she/plush/he/they, diagnosed depression and social anxiety, undiagnosed autism and BPD, genderfuckery, pansexual, aromantic

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[alpaca-clouds]

The Thing About The Age of the Characters in Digimon

Okay, let me talk about one thing in the western Digimon Fandom, that has always bothered me. And it has to do with something very weird: The age of the characters in the first four seasons.

See, in a lot of western fandom discourse there is this idea that the main characters in Tamers are 1 year younger than the characters in Adventure, 02, and Frontier. This mostly originates with one thing: The Japanese dub of the other three seasons do not give any age for the characters, as they introduce themselves saying just their grade in primary school. Tamers meanwhile gives official ages for the characters (with pretty much everyone but Shaochung and Ryou being 10). While the western versions of the other seasons gave an age for the main characters, making the Goggle Boys 11 years in their respective seasons.

However... This does not make them a year older.

See, most of the main characters in the first four seasons of Digimon are 5th graders. This maintains to Taichi, Sora and Yamato in Adventure, to Daisuke, Hikari, Takeru and Ken in 02, the entire main cast in Tamers, and Takuya, Izumi, Kouichi and Kouji in Frontier.

What does this mean for age? Well, basically it means that these characters should have been 10 by the 1st of April of the year that they entered 5th grade. To be exact, it means the birthdays should be like this:

Taichi, Yamato, Sora: Between April 1st 1988, and March 31st 1989 (through Sora's birthday being recent in movie 2, which takes place during spring vacation, we can assume her birthday is in March 1989)

Koushirou, Mimi: Between April 1st 1989, and March 31st 1990

Jyou: Between April 1st 1987 and March 31st 1988

Takeru, Hikari, Daisuke, Ken: Between April 1st 1991 and March 31st 1992

Iori: Between April 1st 1993 and March 31st 1994

Miyako: May 21st to about June 21st 1990 (we know her star sign is Gemini)

Takato, Jianliang, Ruki, Hirokazu, Kenta, Iori: Between April 1st 1990 and March 31st 1991 (this should also be true for Junpei in Frontier)

Shaochung: Between April 1st 1993 and March 31st 1994

Ryou (Tamers Version): Between April 1st 1986 and March 31st 1987

Takuya, Izumi, Kouichi, Kouji: Between April 1st 1991 and March 31st 1992

Tomoki: Between April 1st 1994 and March 31st 1995

And yes, if you have autistic knowledge of this franchise, you will know that there is in some cases stuff that does not make sense.

Notably the fact that within the old Artbook with the character reference pictures 02 Sora is referenced to be 14 years old. However, that book has been released years later, and the information came from Seki Hiromi, so I am fairly certain this is just her not quite realizing that Sora's birthday is somewhat confirmed to be in March through movie 2. (The same is also true for Ruki, who also has her birthday in movie 6, which also takes place during the spring vacation. However, other than with movie 2, which is confirmed as canon for the series through 02, the canonicity of movie 6 is a lot more doubtful, as there are several ways in which it contradicts the canon of the show.)

The other thing is one very specific for Tamers.

See, Tamers is unique in giving the ages of the characters. And in fact with every screenplay of the series (which have been digitally distributed and are most available and actually super interesting for some background information) in the list of characters showing up in that episode most ages are given. This is why we know the ages of the parents in Tamers. However: Tamers takes place over the time between April 2001 and late February or early March 2002, so over the course of a roughly year. And even in the last episodes the ages for all characters are still the same as by episode 1. However, I assume this is just simply an oversight, that nobody has thought about. At least this is a lot more likely than none of the main characters (including the adults) having had their birthday before March. lol

So yeah. Generally speaking: All four goggle boys are 10 or 11 in their respective season. 5th graders at the very least.

[goldiipond]

insanely funny how i will always effortlessly rule the tag of any fictional little guy i latch onto like a lost puppy