samanddeaninpanties replied to your post “So here’s the thing about headcanons (because some people don’t seem…”
Read your tags – people seriously think the autistic!Jack headcanon is problematic?! I s2g that word gets thrown around so much (‘problematic’) it’s lost all meaning.
Yup. There was one post the OP responded to that was incredibly long and “I know what I’m talking about, I work with autistic people” about how it was “spreading stereotypes” and “generalizing” and “problematic”. Which… if you read the post, you’d know OP themselves was autistic and was basing a lot of their headcanon off their own symptoms and relating to Jack in that way. But you know… that’s problematic, I guess.
This is slightly tangential, but I’m honestly starting to get really irritated with how creators are and aren’t allowed to portray neuroatypical and/or mentally ill people in their own creations. Like, yes, I understand that we don’t want to make out like it’s always a bad thing or a burden or w/e but a) that gif set wasn’t even doing that and b) it isn’t always peaches and cream. Not everything is a stereotype when it comes to mental struggles, sometimes it’s just a common symptom. And sometimes people who struggle with it do feel like their symptoms are a pain in the ass and prevent them from doing what they want, and they should be allowed to express that, too, without being blamed for demonizing themselves. There is a difference between portraying things in a negative light and blaming the neurodivergence and showing a less than sunny side of the neurodivergence without blaming anyone or anything for the behavior.
But that’s the end of that little rant. Basically, I’m tired of seeing anything and everything being turned into a giant fucking problem even when it’s ovbious that was never the intent.