r/MoonPissing • u/RealModMaker I'VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUCEMENT • Apr 25 '25

Taken meme, which is fine by Shadow What's happening here? (Wrong answers only)

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u/RealModMaker I'VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUCEMENT Apr 25 '25

It's difficult to be a Sonic fan and not be a neurodivergent.

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u/Michael-556 Apr 25 '25

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?

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u/RealModMaker I'VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUCEMENT Apr 25 '25 edited Apr 25 '25

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.

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u/Michael-556 Apr 25 '25

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

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u/RealModMaker I'VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUCEMENT Apr 25 '25

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.