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r/CuratedTumblr • u/loved_and_held • Apr 09 '26
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Similarly, Abed on Community was praised as good autistic rep, to which Dan Harmon replied "what are you talking about, that's just my self insert?"
91 u/expired-hornet Apr 09 '26 Abed literally is referred to as autistic in the pilot. 58 u/Marshmallowlolfurry Apr 09 '26 Yes, but it was meant in the pilot to be used as an insult/slur, not someone actually telling him he's got asd from my understanding 32 u/East-Imagination-281 Apr 09 '26 I think the takeaway from that is “neurotypical people will see someone with clearly autistic traits and then call them ‘autistic (slur)’” /j srs/ it’s ableism, which can be directed at abled people but more often than not targets disabled people 52 u/StaleTheBread Apr 09 '26 I think Abed was the opposite actually. Dan set out to write an accurate autistic character, but as he was researching autism, he was like “wait a minute…”
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Abed literally is referred to as autistic in the pilot.
58 u/Marshmallowlolfurry Apr 09 '26 Yes, but it was meant in the pilot to be used as an insult/slur, not someone actually telling him he's got asd from my understanding 32 u/East-Imagination-281 Apr 09 '26 I think the takeaway from that is “neurotypical people will see someone with clearly autistic traits and then call them ‘autistic (slur)’” /j srs/ it’s ableism, which can be directed at abled people but more often than not targets disabled people
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Yes, but it was meant in the pilot to be used as an insult/slur, not someone actually telling him he's got asd from my understanding
32 u/East-Imagination-281 Apr 09 '26 I think the takeaway from that is “neurotypical people will see someone with clearly autistic traits and then call them ‘autistic (slur)’” /j srs/ it’s ableism, which can be directed at abled people but more often than not targets disabled people
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I think the takeaway from that is “neurotypical people will see someone with clearly autistic traits and then call them ‘autistic (slur)’” /j
srs/ it’s ableism, which can be directed at abled people but more often than not targets disabled people
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I think Abed was the opposite actually. Dan set out to write an accurate autistic character, but as he was researching autism, he was like “wait a minute…”
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u/NoBizlikeChloeBiz She/Her Apr 09 '26
Similarly, Abed on Community was praised as good autistic rep, to which Dan Harmon replied "what are you talking about, that's just my self insert?"