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elprupneerg · 2 years

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I’m honestly really really really glad Isaac’s emotion chip didn’t work in the latest episode. I was hoping what would happen is that he’d go in for surgery and when the doctor tried to connect his chip they’d realize that he was already forming emotions in his own way without it, and that trying to connect the chip was pointless (or better yet, that his initial lack of interest in the whole thing would be respected!). Idk, treating this whole situation like “asking a partner to go to therapy” felt wrong, since I read it more as “this person’s girlfriend is asking him to act/be more neurotypical and alloromantic to conform to her desires rather than respecting him as he is” which as a neurodivergent arospec person feels Really Really Bad To See

#the orville #I just really like my vaguely autistic robot man ok??????#like I understand Claire wanting him to return her feelings cuz reciprocity in affection is important!#but also it feels like she wasn’t actually looking at his behaviors and his way of expressing himself #or at least didn’t Understand that he was trying to express shit in his own way #I ship Claire and Isaac together and I hope they can move past this #but also like. if my gf asked me to be less autistic or less aro I’d have to break up with her #cuz that’s not a fair expectation #asking someone to go to therapy or change a harmful behavior is absolutely valid!#but asking someone to just. change how they experience the world or how their biochemistry works? that’s fucked up #and yeah I know a kaylon doesn’t have a ‘bio’ chem that’s beside the point

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