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freetoflythecrimsonsky · 7 days ago

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I’m not done being annoyed by this “interpretation” of Darcy. If he’s rude because he’s autistic, then the accidental implication is that he’s cured of his autism by love by the end of the novel. Which makes the “he’s the most autistic character ever” fics extra gross to me, personally.

He’s an ass, who knows better, and gets his assholery firmly pointed out to him by someone he cares about and respects who doesn’t know what he’s like when he’s being mannerly. Elizabeth just holds a mirror up to him to show him his behavior and he goes “i know how to be better than that, and i’m going to be.” The “autistic” behaviors he shows according to some people are the choices he’s making. Unless you’re trying to say autism is a choice, that’s a weird stance to take

Help i keep clicking on fics that surprise cast Darcy as autistic, not a guy who has social skills but is choosing not to deploy them because he’s a bit of a classist ass

#also Elizabeth gets a mirror held up to HER behavior but i see far fewer ‘she’s autistic because she takes people literally’ takes than he #gets for being an ass which feels ablest ngl #not that she’s taking people literally she’s absolutely not #but it’s equally a misreading of the text as thinking he’s an ass because he’s shy or autistic #he’s only ‘shy’ around her after Lydia because have you ever been around someone you like who knows you like them but told you they don’t #like you? that’s a specific weirdness scenario not shyness as a personality trait #he holds houseparties regularly and there’s implications that JA just didn’t name his other guests iirc #like it’s not just the bingleys at pemberly iirc

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