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gasogene · 9 days ago

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sherlock holmes moving through the world feeling that there is something intrinsically wrong with him will never not get to me. the defensiveness of his moods (of which autism is often comorbid with bipolar...though autism did not have its diagnostic criteria until the 1940s, bipolar was called circular insanity in the 1850s...not that any of this matters...the brain was not born in a vacuum and all is possible!) and the abuse of various substances to cope with them are so revealing. him needing to find his place in society to the point he literally invents a new career because there's nothing else out there that meets his needs, especially that of human connection... there is a palpable fear about himself not meeting an arbitrary standard. despite this, sherlock holmes IS able to find someone that wholly embraces all of those things that he had to put on the table in ASIS and it's bittersweet

#i do think about that throwaway line in BBC's THOB where john tells lestrade that sherlock has asperger's a lot #it's all i have.#it's the one time they don't pull the sociopath joke which even that makes you think #sometimes i read articles and papers to see if the public opinion on this has changed (it hasn't)#it makes me sad that ableist ideals hold people back from saying sherlock holmes is this or that #because i don't know how to tell you this...his eccentricities are Not surface-level or choices he is making #sorry i started thinking about being autistic & bipolar so i started thinking about sherlock holmes and i got emotional #margins

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