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the divorce of all time

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plsss write why you think kendall is written as autistic i wanna hear it <3

right i am no longer as attached to this idea as i once was and i rlly would need to rewatch again to solidify it but i do still have things to say. okay OKAY so. hear me out please.. i KNOW kendall roy is a fucked up man in his 40s but to be fair half the internet calls him their little meow meow (dont mean that disparagingly!) so i think ill say what i like actually. this is literally just what i think might be a writing choice or something that MIGHT have been discussed however minorly behind the scenes if any of the writers or actors have done their research on it.

because like kendall stims, he either doesn't make eye contact or makes a show of it, he submerges himself physically when he needs to calm down (ie in water), he often likes solitude with music and/or routines. he has markedly different and sort of more extreme physical and vocal reactions to things than at least shiv and roman (ie bathroom scene AND THEN HE CLEANS IT UP!). he absolutely has difficulty with certain forms of empathy, and only seems to find it v easy to exist around/open up to/feel comfortable with people who've had really specific (bad) experiences similar to his own (to me naomi is the main example of that, as well as his siblings and sort of stewy). we know he has the remainder of a stutter and likely had broader issues with speech as a child. he is sometimes on the edge of going non-verbal when shit goes wrong for him.

and on that, he's terrible at adapting to change. whenever logan shocks him or acts differently to how he expects, it really throws him through a loop and he can barely ever handle it, so he fixates on being one step ahead. he has obsessive routines and is fixated on self improvement. he carries out plans to the very end even once it's clear theyre not going to work just bc he needs to have done them to move on. the end of which side are you on always comes to mind - his plan went wrong, he has zero fucking clue what to do with himself. and this i leave to the end bc i feel like we all know, its basically explicit: this man performs soooo hard. he basically copies the scripts to all his conversations from his dad and we see him mask multiple times.

ANYWAY. i just maybe think jeremy strong or jesse armstrong (wow they have oddly similar names) might be aware of this, and tbh i wouldnt think that if not for iverson! so iverson roy brings it all together by being kendalls explicitly autistic son (idk if i need to back that up.. he just is yeah? and i love it!). and the symptoms he displays of being blunt and finding change difficult are literally ones that kendall does too, but has had to learn to conceal. and ofc its v common for autistic kids to have autistic parents/relatives. potentially if these are all things the writers/cast are aware of, it could maybepossiblymaybe be an intentional writing choice. just something thats interesting to consider when analysing the character yk.. probably wrong tho especially since i have no idea what it would add to the narrative. id love to know if anyone else has a perspective on that?

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You have to diagnose one of the Roy siblings as autistic. Who's it going to be and why?

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OK BUT KENDALL ROY IS AUTISTIC AND NO ONE CAN TELL ME OTHERWISE. His son is canonically autistic, and autism is mainly genetic. Everything about Kendall screams “masking adult,” Logan probably sees autistic traits as weakness and disobedience (obviously evidential in S1E5, when Iverson displays clear autistic traits, needing a transitional period, a minute outside before coming in the room with all the people, and Rava and Kendall are fine to accommodate him and allow him to do this because they understand transitions are hard for him, but Logan yells to just make Iverson come in and do as he’s told), so Kendall likely learned to mask very young as a survival mechanism. Obviously he is bad at reading people and social situations and is very stiff and awkward. (Also I think Greg is definitely autistic, don’t think that one needs explaining. I love him so much)

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Helena Eagan || Kendall Roy - i am a person, you are not // you are a fucking nobody

this edit on tiktok

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behind the hatred, there lies a murderous desire for love

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she's my sister she's my friend she's my saint

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i feel like i've collected the infinity stones... the big three with my plushies... wow wow wow

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

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this has definitely been done before but

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Jon and Cat every time they thought of Theon

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Iron Islander voice: Theon you [19 syllable dolphin noise slur] I see you came back WOKE and GAY and a WOMAN from us leaving you as a child prisoner to the guy with an 8 foot sword that makes you drag it around to executions in front of his screaming faced tree gods as a daily reminder that he can and will kill you (a child) just like he killed the rest of your family (some of which were also children). Did you have fun polishing his sword? I’ll bet. Did you write this letter yourself? Knowing there’s a one person literacy limit? Should we call you Theon the Reader, you reading fuck? And standing here in a jean jacket you bought yourself, may as well be sucking dick at old navy. You know who’s NOT woke or gay or a woman? Your sister Asha. Why can’t you be less gay and woke and a woman, like Asha? I bet she could run a democratic election because you know what isn’t gay Theon? Democracy

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Ideal relationship dynamic