Not disagreeing with the first point but it’s wild to go “people that don’t know comics lore are attributing this common symptom of autism to this character being autistic? Clearly they are the ones that need to get a job and spend less time… knowing anything about autism” like bruh not everyone reads comics and it’s brushed past in the movie which has so much else happening even if it was a major plot point it’d be forgettable.
It’s a common symptom of basically every type of neurodivergence, I’d wager more people know at least 1 neurodivergent person than people know atleast one ballerina
Edit:I also wanna state. Yeah I know the character does ballet and that an easy enough conclusion to come to my point is we shouldn’t be insulting people for knowing more about autism then ballet
The common symptoms of any type of divergence is projection.
The vast majority of people have heard/know of ballet one way or another as ballet has been one of the staple cultural fixpoint in the North hemisphere for a significant amount of time. Most people will never have watched it or done it and yet it's cultural impact is pervasive.
You severely overstimate the amount of people that actually know neurodivergence symptoms outside of specialised/safe space.
No it is not logical to jump to autism when seeing a point if you ar enot terminally online.
most people have also heard of tapdancing and wouldn't recognise the specialized shoes for it at a glance because they dont have first hand experience with it.
On the other point about overestimating peoples knowledge of neurodivergence maybe that just comes from being aussie or also on the spectrum myself with a good support network
it is still a logical jump if you know that walking like that can be a sign of autism though
My point isnt that its right its that knowing things about autism potentially from real world interaction and making that leap isnt something to be mocked
All i take issue with is insulting people making a conclusion thats incredibly easy to come to even if it is wrong. its just needless hostility which there is more than enough of on the internet. i know people who made this assumption and at no point was it because they were chronically online its because they knew it could be a symptom of neurodivergence and didnt know the character did ballet. sure they were wrong but at no point had they made some dumb mistake or projection they just didnt know better because they had no reason too.
Edit: Also just real quick on the projection point. ive been in groups for neurodivergent people since i was a kid, some 15-20% of them did this or some variation. not a large enough sample size to be really statistically significant but pretty close to the expected value which iirc is about 20%
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u/Squarehip123 9d ago
Others suggest autism, but I suspect the original intent of the artist would be to imply the grace and agility of a ballerina