they are actually looking into that now, especially since I also learned that the attorney that convinced them to sign over their power of medical was also in the person's pocket.
what's worse is I think this might even have been the parent's choice to troon the kid, though I can't say which one, both were very much big liberal/democrats back in the obama days.
That's because the type of 'coded' that they don't like is 'Right wing coded' which they just call a Dog Whistle...
I have a theory that many writers don't really believe in autism an objective diagnosis subconsciously, just like how they subconsciously don't believe that trans women are women. they might see being socially awkward etc. is a trait that any human can have. 'coding', while it can be a real thing from writers, is oftentimes just a projection from the fans who want the characters to be 'officially' autistic.
That's the missing term. They also use "pedo-jacketed" (shoutout to @Aunt Carol ) to reject accurate claims of pedophilia but pretty much anything we know that they vaguely don't like is a fucking "dog whistle". It's something that makes them "uncomfy" but they cannot prove why.
Autism/Aspergers is one of those mental illnesses that encourages people to doubt its existence, similar to ADHD. You get drugs for it. In the case of ASD, you get to act like an antisocial asshole about everything. In the case of ADHD, you get a "time blindness" pass to stuff (or at least outside observers believe you do). These are real mental illnesses with no proven cause, they attempt to excuse poor behavior and normal people act out accordingly.
Reminds me of Lindy's essay on The Vulgar Wave. House MD and The Good Doctor are the same show, about an autistic savant doctor, but written in completely different eras. Gregory House is a masculine bad boy that pops pills and knocks back shots of bourbon to mask his illness and blend with society, but Shaun Murphy makes his autism his entire fucking personality and comes across as 3 children stuffed in a labcoat, fumbling their way through adult life and the medical profession. The Good Doctor is almost as tone deaf to autism as Al Jolson was to being black. The autistic version of a minstrel show.
This is where I would disagree with you and Lindy, that episode of House was in 2006 version and it's simply performing the idea of autism 'as it was broadening' at the time. If this show was written in the 80s or before, the idea that House was autistic would never caught up at all because back then the definition hasn't growing to encompass the 'antisocial genius asshole' - back then autism was seen as Rain Man Idiot Savant. Just like how back in 2006 the conception of autism didn't include the dreamy pixie kind of women that's now considered hightly emotional and sensitive 'girl autism' (and that would've been culturally seen as BPD or Schizotypal back then - and like all psych diagnoses, have no real etiology). but I do agree with you that it became an excuses for a lot of people. You could argue that The Good Doctor might be a minstrel show, but that House MD particular episode could very well be about a white-passing man is worrying if he's actually black because of one drop rule.
This nails the #1 complaint in reviews I’ve read about I Love LA.
The whole entire show is about an undiagnosed autistic doctor, that single episode only hinted at spelling it out. In fact, in the 2008 episode Last Resort, his team is taken hostage by a gunman that can't figure out why he feels like shit all the time. They get him over to the imaging room, convince him to hand over his gun (it artifacted the CT scan), they didn't get a conclusive diagnosis, and House is so autistic that he handed the gun back to the guy so he could continue solving his puzzle. Gregory House is absolutely autistic, beyond the episode with the tard kid that ate cat shit in the sandbox.
Spectrum and spectrum-adjacent disorders present differently in women/girls. It's often more subtle, presenting as "social anxiety" rather than throwing tantrums because you didn't get chicken tendies for the five thousandth day in a row.
The Curse of the Millennial. Can't just be "a man who also happens to be gay", gotta be "a full-fledged faggot". Can't just be a "genius doctor that has signs of autism spectrum disorder", have to be "manchild that can't make eye contact and gives everyone the heebie jeebies".
I think this is what killed a large portion of the homosexual crowd, because people kept pushing that the sub must always be on estrogen or caged or some other shit. When in reality it's just 2 men who love each other very faggly. Well, that and what seems to be extreme homophobia from the trans community, who hate seeing happy same-sex couples.
I don't think you were there when the site used to filter 'retard' into 'exceptional individual'. Fun times.
That certainly explains a lot
I think a lot of this also has to do with the last few (Millennial and forward) generations' odd implicit notion that it's somehow bad to keep certain aspects of yourself to yourself. You need to be proudly, aggressively, publicly unashamed and loud about every facet of who you are, and downplaying any single thread of yourself is repressive and therefore bad. It's sort of similar to how many people think that having a given liberty means you must go out of your way to aggressively exercise it at all times.
what the unutterable fuck, seriously
Like everything else, it would be another avenue for pushing The Agenda. Shemale porn probably would be considered high art and at least a third of the course, with interracial porn being another third, and cuck porn the final third.
Classic tactic of these people is to control the opposition. If you prop up the most ridiculous opposition yourself, you can soundly rebuff it and people get tired of digging for dirt.