tfw you read a social media thing about a video game you've never heard of, explaining why, although the protagonist's autism is important to the plot, it's never referred to as such

and you start off giving the benefit of the doubt, by the the third or fourth paragraph you're already going "this guy who's trumpeting his Very Important Autism Rep is a fucking neurotypical tourist, isn't he", and then it takes him until the tenth or so to own up that that's exactly the case (but he totally talked to people On The Spectrum, you guys)

Oh, his explanation for why his V Srs Imp. Representation refuses to call autism what it is (you know, just like that bastion of respectful portrayal The Big Bang Theory,) is that At The Time, media represenations of autism were bad and stereotypical, yooooou guyyyys, so in order to do better rep he uh, he, you know what I can't fucking even quite bring myself to say "in order to better represent autistic people he refused to refer to it by name"

Get in the bin, fucko


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