#i don't care whether u say he's autistic btw i think everyone should be autistic if they want to

[lesbians4lanzhan]

i do think it's interesting when ppl say things like lan zhan is autistic bc he stims with music (playing guqin) or all lans r autistic all jiangs r adhd like how winnie the pooh characters r all assigned diff mental illnesses but for clans. bc just as morality varies across time/place (even how 'the family' works across time/place - see everytjing abt whether madame yu is abusive, whether wwx is adopted or not, etc) it's fairly clear tht what counts as neuro-'divergence' differs based on norms. is it autistic for lan zhan to value family/ancestral rules + become distressed when his prev moral dichotomies r challenged or does he live somewhere in a time when filial piety was a whole thing etc. obviously the answer can be 'both'! but also autism Constructed As A Disability (& really the way Disability As A Construction has changed post civil rights act in the usa) is different from a character having autistic (as conceptialized in the 21st century) traits. was lan zhan Disabled socially, materially, etc, or did these traits factor into his high status? can u tell i am autistic by how much i'm writing about a topic that 99.999% of rhe world doesn't care anything about!