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However I know that's not what these blogs are about seeing any questions of "Why do you think random character has random issue?" are always met with "WELL CANON NEVER SAID THEY DIDN'T!!!" instead of actual logic.
There've been instances of people telling austisticcharacteroftheday that a character creator has stated X character doesn't have autism, but she's fond of spinning it into "WELL AN AUTISTIC PERSON SUBMITTED THAT CHARACTER, WHY DO YOU HATE AUTISTIC PEOPLE." If you sift through the #mod post tag, you can see numerous instances of exactly that, but I'm too lazy to pull anything up right now.
Gives me serious flashbacks to the GWB-era "WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA" crowd. Funny, that.
It's too bad, because you could get a legitimate exercise going of looking at fictional characters who actually do display characteristics of autism, and use that to try and justify why you think X is autistic. But that's too much of an intellectual exercise for this crowd. Why bother to interpret evidence and justify your conclusions when you can say "I like this character, therefore autistic," and everyone who disagrees with you does so because they're bigots.