• StrikerOP
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    02 years ago

    Yeah. People have a tendency of labelling anyone that is depicted in TV shows as socially awkward as autistic. That’s why so many people on twitter who simp for Dahmer on twitter refer to his supposed autism despite the fact that he was subjected to multiple psychological evaluations and never was accessed as autism.

    • Wednesday was socially awkward, sure… But the Munsters? From what I remember, they were depicted the same as any other sitcom family of the time; except they were physically monsters. To be fair, though, I barely remember the show from when it was on Nick at Nite when I was a kid; I might be conflagrating memories.

      • StrikerOP
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        02 years ago

        You are showing your age here. Granted, kinda the person who made this fault because they just said Eddie and expected everyone to know which Eddie. They mean Eddie from stranger things.

          • Zorque
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            12 years ago

            A poster above stated neurodivergent wasn’t a synonym for autism, I’m pretty sure for a lot of people it is a synonym for “different”.

            Eddie does represent a counter-culture that was prevalent at the time, for many that codes as “neurodivergent”.

            • @almar_quigley@lemmy.world
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              12 years ago

              How does counter culture have any relation to actual neurological conditions. I think that’s the questions people are asking. This whole post is insulting and stupid to actual neurodivergent people.

          • StrikerOP
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            02 years ago

            I dunno enough about stranger things to comment about thar but in general characters who are like socially awkward get labelled as autistic.

            • CarlsIII
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              12 years ago

              If you haven’t even seen the show, why are you defending the characterization? If you had seen the show, you would know Eddie Munson is not socially awkward, especially compared to most of the other main characters who actually are portrayed that way.