Sounds cray-cray to me

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Why do a lot of people say this dude is Autistic. That dudes Autistic. Like a long time ago I saw a thread about Jimmy Neutron being Autistic. And I thought it was cray-cray! He is not Autistic! He has no characteristics of it at all! And I always feel like its all the smart characters being suspected of having it! Being Autistic has nothing to do with being smart. Sure a lot of people with it are smart, but being smart is not a symptom of Autism! Lots of neurotypicals are smart too! But why must people do this to cartoon characters? It makes me feel really uncomfortable with both the cartoon character and aspies! Its almost like insulting the character.

Yeah but dumb people don't know what it's like to be smart, so anything that involves intense concentration, attention-to-detail, and good memory seems like smartness to them.

If you were to look at lists of characteristics of gifted people and characteristics of people with Aspergers, you would find a tremendous amount of overlap.

I thought this was going to be about London gangsters who were hard, but fair...

Why would calling a character autistic be insulting, though? Being autistic is not a bad thing, it's not something negative...

Besides, certain characters *do* display a lot of traits that are usually found in Aspies...

It just makes me feel uncomfortable

Why?

Whether or not being autistic is a bad thing is a matter of opinion, and the people who use it as an insult are of the opinion that it is bad. So even someone who thinks it is ok to be autistic would be insulted because someone who calls them autistic is purposefully trying to insult them.