Comment on My favorite gender

GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He can feel and comprehend and interpret emotions just fine, he is just deadly shy and insecure behind his stoic enforcer facade.

  This is basically describing autism too. We can feel emotions just fine. But expressing them is hard because we do so in a way that can sometimes be upsetting to others. So we become shy and put up a facade that hides how we feel about things.

  Also, “ASD-coded” is different than ASD. These characters don’t literally have ASD, but the fantastical sci-fi backgrounds the writers set up allow them to write the characters to behave and experience struggles in a way that is similar to someone with ASD. Especially problems fitting in with a group, socialising, and forming meaningful connections with others.

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• FMT99@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Neither does Data. He has no emotions. I feel like the maker of this meme projects a bit.

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  • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is not a new idea
    Warning: dated terminology ahead:
    Many times at conventions, kids will come up to my table when I’m signing photographs and tell me they have Asperger syndrome, and that when they were growing up, Data was the only character on TV they could relate to. That’s an incredibly moving experience. Had I known, I might have encouraged the writers to write more towards that, but it might have blown the whole thing and lost the connection.

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    • ehisthenewmeh@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      thank you for the link

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  • kogasa@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ASD coded, not literally ASD. The thematic struggle with social convention counts IMO. But Data has no self loathing or whatever. He just wants to understand. We stan Data.

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• feedmecontent@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Autistic people can feel and comprehend emotions like everyone else, no difference. Not sure why those two were on your list. As far as interpreting emotion, we can, we just have to learn how instead of doing it innately, which it seems Odo did for all human behavior.

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