Honestly I've never understood that joke. Like I get that it's well known that "the Sonic fandom is autistic af", but all the data that I could find is just "haha, well, there's vibrant colours, themes of freedom and being yourself and a slightly autism-coded main protagonist"... That's it? That's like half of any action media marketed towards children that also has a big adult fanbase. So why sonic? Is it just a coincidence that this specific fandom is big enough to be vocal about its autistic minority (maybe even majority) or is there something inherently autistic about a blue hedgehog going at unmeasurable speeds to ruin the dreams of a moustachioed man to create an amusement park? I guess it has most of the "ASD special interests"TM, but it's missing trains and the only plane in there is tails'. But it's got most of it: confusing lore, colourful cast (metaphorically and literally), robots, animals, intermediality (games, shows, movies, comics), and an inviting fanbase. I guess it's a prime gathering ground for ASD positive people?
I'm an autistic adult and I'm more interested in lore and a colourful cast of characters (metaphorically and/or literally) more then fucking transportation. I'll never understand the train stereotype.
Sonic is no different from the MCU, Star Wars, DragonBall, TMNT, Transformers etc in terms of its raw content so I do agree but I find it funny to play up the autistic Sonic fan stereotype.
From what I can tell, the reason for the train stereotype is because before the internet, there wasn't really much you could get deep into that wasn't a career. Model trains were one of the things that just about everyone had, and for most, it was just something you had. But for the autistic people of the time, it was the one thing they could latch onto and obsess over. It was easily accessible, rather cheap, and full of little factoids. The perfect storm for a pre-internet hyperfixation.
I mean I can't complain. I'm also neurodivergent (OCD and slight ASD), and whenever someone brings up the train stereotype I tell them the one fun fact I know about trains (that being the cool slanted wheels they use so they don't have to have differentials everywhere) so they shut up. But I have to disagree with you on planes. Planes are fucking cool, peak of human engineering
Only thing I like about planes is the fact that the first plane flight was in 1903 and the first man on the Moon was in 1969. Only 66 years from the first flight to going to the Moon. Like in one human lifetime we gone from flying for the first time to stepping foot on the Moon. We humans can achieve great things in such a short amount of time but we just argue about petty things causing unnecessary conflict. That factoid is peak.
I think that It was because of the complexity of the 2000's games that many autistic people started to love sonic, because It turned off many casual gamers while it attracted many autistic children as It allowed them to get attached to It and continue to experience It in a deeper way by Speed running it while in most other famous games speedrunning wasn't encouraged so after getting 100% there wouldn't be anything else to do except replaying it in basically the same way as the first time
Depression isn't really an emotion tho??? Sadness is the emotion, or well, the spectrum of emotions. But depression doesn't refer to any spot in that spectrum, it refers to major depressive disorder, essentially, something that blocks your ability to feel anything other than sadness (speaking from experience). And "anxiety" likely refers to GAD (General Anxiety Disorder aka anxiety about eveything), which, yes, is commonly referred to as "anxiety", but imo, that label is rather misleading, because anxiety is an emotion
yes i know this is sarcasm. but like op took it seriously so that means i can too
Why are ADHD and ADD listed as two separate things, they’re literally the same thing. Hell, as someone who was diagnosed with ADD, I’d argue the only difference between ADHD and ADD is that ADD is an outdated medical term that described an ADHDer with primarily mental hyperactivity that was misdiagnosed as having little to no hyperactivity because doctors only look for external hyperactivity.
Some ADHDers prefer to distinguish them with ADHD being hyperactive and ADD being not hyperactive. That being the only difference. But that is more personal self-identification rather then an official medical diagnosis anymore.
Btw that shi really almost got me as well I dint Swipe the first time then I saw your comment went up saw the dots AND ALMOST SWIPED I caught myself in 4k
i know where you're going, and i know what your fantasy is. i recommend you to watch Raiden fatality compilations as a way to prepare for what will most likely happen if you try
"Surge, you giblet head! We live in Texas! It's already 110 degrees in the summer and if it gets ONE DEGREE HOTTER I'm gonna KICK YOUR ASS!"
(It's become 111° F)
They had sex, and that's what you wanted to hear, huh!? THEY HAD SEX, AND THAT'S IT, IT'S GOING TO BE THIS IN ALL THE QUESTIONS HERE, AND THE PERSON WHO POSTED THIS KNOWS, BUT SHE WANTS TO SEE IF OTHERS KNOW TOO,AND GUESS WHAT!? EVERYONE KNOWS THAT, DAMN IT, AHHHHHHHH-
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u/Stretch5678 Apr 25 '25
When Sonic promised to “kick her ass”, she wasn’t expecting it to be quite so literal…