EXACTLY HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!! YOU GET IT ITS DISGUSTING AND AWFUL. you either respect all autistics for their symptoms or you respect none of them. fuckkkkk me this is such a shit fandom sometimes
people like autism until it has any symptom or trait, any at all, that can be perceived as negative and not a quirk or silly or whatever the fuck. a meltdown, a genuine fucking meltdown would get so much hate, but cute stimming gets infantilization and silly-ization or whatever. autism isn’t silly cute it’s a disability and it’s not going to be easily digestible as a cute thing for neurotypicals all the time. god dammit
ink shows neurodivergency in a good way because he’s a bit of a dick unintentionally, and he’s a flawed character and a normal person. god DAMMIT. ink is a bit mean to people at times without meaning to, he’s sporadic and can forget important things even if it hurts others because he doesn’t mean to, he struggles with empathy and connection with others and his morals are grey but they make sense given how he views the world. but people don’t like that.
people like autism when it’s fun. when it’s digestible and easy. when the autistic person is a bit dumb and easily excitable about certain things and maybe picky about food and misses cues. they do not care about the struggles, or anything that isn’t cutesy enough for them. and this fandom shows where they stand very fucking well when it comes to how they treat ink.
anyway i love autistic ink, i love autistic cross, i love autistic error, I love autistic papyrus and classic and swap and stretch (or whatever we call him now), I love autistic dream and autistic nightmare, I love autistic dust and horror and killer, I love autistic sci and geno and fell and everyone. i fucking love autistic characters when theyre treated like normal fucking human beings!!!!