izzyizumi reblogged
the well-known tendency for autistic people to speak in a weird mix of extremely formal and extremely colloquial speech patterns is so distinctive that even many unintentionally autistic coded characters display it. In fanfiction, however, these same characters are often written to speak in a stiff, purely hyperformal way. This may be because many allistic people can’t easily reproduce the mix, since most people divide their registers more. However, there may also be some “smart awkward character=formal speech” stereotyping that overrides their knowledge of the character’s actual voice. In this essay I will
#bookhobbit#izzyizumi autism tag#autism#autism coding#coding#autism speech patterns#speech patterns#hyperformal#formalities#smart characters#the smart one#KOUSHIRO#AUTISTIC KOUSHIRO#ANXIOUS KOUSHIRO#(OP WHERE'S THE REST OF THE ESSAY)#(TRIES EXPLAINING THIS TO THIS FANDOM)#(NEVER EXPLAINS RIGHT)#('I'M AUTISTIC')#(this is ALSO me in basically EVERY past major fandom I've been in with characters that can even be SLIGHTLY read as autistic)#(but seriously it's. kind of. weird)#(seeing others in the fandom often be all ' o m g I don't get how to write Koushiro !! he's SO hyperformal and polite !! THE SMART ONE ')#(me ' ... ... just write him like exactly how he sounds like in Japanese canon ?? ? ')#(it's ..... really not that hard ?? ? ?)#(' write us LIKE PEOPLE ? ' - ME. ALWAYS)#(when it comes to smart characters like this that share a lot of my same traits and anxiety problems)#(OK BUT SERIOUSLY YES I'D BE INTERESTED IN SEEING THE REST OF THE ESSAY)#(AHA I'M SURE SOME ARE FLOATING AROUND SOMEWHERE BUT I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIND A GOOD BREAKDOWN ;;;)#(there's also the problem of the dub ' Izzy ' being a LOT more sarcastic in his responses and the people just mix the dub and sub versions)#(and then the character that can even be slightly read as autistic or with social awkwardness ends up sounding like The Asshole TM)#(me sIDEEYEING SOME PPL IN THE FANDOM. DURING TRI. WHO USED 'KOUSHIRO' AS A MOUTHPIECE FOR SPEWING BAD DISCOURSE OPINIONS)