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setewbro · 2 years ago

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About that thing of bad autistic representation, I noticed that, even being autistic, after some time writing my first original fiction I realized that I unintentionally wrote my character that who is the one who makes robots as someone autistic-coded and now I'm wondering if I'm writing stereotypical representation.

Yeah, I get that... I do think there's a lot to explore with robots and autism tho! Like an autistic person who has more attachment to robots because they anthropomorphize objects. Autistic people who feel like robots because of masking - hiding my stims actually made me very stiff and I kinda lost my ability to dance freely, which makes me feel like the guy from Oz. And you can explore the stereotype from different angles.

#I think to avoid bad representation I study a little about common ableist tropes -#curing the charater or killing them at the end #the disability is a curse or curse to the parents #disabled character exists to teach a lesson on parents etc #stuff like that #I liked a book called disfigured about disability in fairy tales #but also like this is more easy said then done bc not every disabled character that dies is bad representation you know #uh this is a complicated topic actually bc I wish I could say that you need to feel the vibes of the story which is nonsense #but sometimes its about the compassion the writer has towards its characters?#laughing with you vs laughing at you

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