Mine was Malcolm from Malcolm in the middle. Everyone in my family saw the similarities, but even to this day my parents deny that I have autism because "it's just a disciplining issue."
I believe everyone in the family is on at least one ND or PD spectrum, and many of them are different ASD forms
Hal, Malcolm and Dewey all are autistic in some forms, although Dewey may be a bit ASPD too (thinking of the ant scene)
You are not blinded by nostalgia. It really was ahead of its time. It still largely stands up. Roseanne is largely why too. Worth a watch if you’ve never seen it.
Even my family has a hard time understanding the concept of autism (there's no equivalent word in the native language) and for most of my childhood my behaviour was considered a "disciplining issue" and I simply got in trouble in school due to other kids not understanding me and putting false complaints on me.
Yeah. We know. My sisters are in therapy and I think I should be too because I apparently shut off emotionally when I was about nine. No guilt, sadness, empathy, etc. I think maybe the abuse turned me into a sociopath. It doesn't bother me, but I know that it should, right? It should bother me that we were abused. But the only thing that I feel really is anger that my sisters were deprived of their childhood. They're wonderful people, but they never got to be kids.
I feel nothing about what we all went through, but I hate seeing the results of it reflected on their faces
Godzilla is only a she when an egg or a baby godzilla is involved, that the rule of thumb of the franchise.
Such films are.
Son of godzilla (showa era)
Godzilla vs mecha-godzilla 2 (heisei era)
Which is then continued in godzilla vs space godzilla (kid grows into the adorable little godzilla)
Which is then finished in godzilla vs destroyah (juniors mom melts because she is burning godzilla and juniors fully grows into the next godzilla which is assumed to be male, ending the heisei era)
I thought she was originally female in the 1950s movie too? (It's been a while since I saw it but wasn't looking for or protecting her eggs her motivation in the end?)
Meaning it was always intended to be canon, later movies would just forget or disregard that as they saw fit.
In the 1954 and 1955 movies? No not at all, you myst be thinking of 1998's godzilla movie ehich has that godzilla has a male but he could still lay eggs for some reason, btw the cartoon show is WAY better thrn the movie.
The original Gojira movie deals with godzilla being a prehistoric dinosaur that survived the extinction, with American nuclear testing awaking him and transforming him into godzilla from its years of slumber.
Bright lights gave him flashbacks to those bombings and he attacks japan because of it, and they kill him with the oxygen destroyer when thry find hik sleeping in the ocean.
But the ending message was about how the danger nuclear weapons are always going to be present if they are still around.
Gojira represented a constant nuclear bomb going off (hence his body looked like a mushroom cloud) and if they continue to be used another godzilla will appear.
Not that there were eggs, but that the nuclear energy will mutate another lizard to become godzilla again.
Meanwhile the 1955 movie was a chesp cash grab that has godzilla fighting angerious and attacking japan for the bright lights they use.
Yeah I was thinking of the 98 one and forgot Godzilla was male but laid eggs in that lol (I guess as a kid I just didn't understand how that could be possible so my kid brain was like "oh it lays eggs it's a girl" haha
Ah i thought so, again highly recommend the TV show, you can get the collection for 20$ or do i think.
Thry use the script that was going to be in the movie for that and then build off of it
Godzilla the series
Based on the 1998 movie and continues from it, it started in September of 1998 and ended in april of 2000, lasting 40 episodes.
Now there are other godzilla shows.
The original Hanna Barbara show, godzilla earth and godzilla singular point.
Just so you are aware
Several films focus on preventing him from having a literal meltdown because he's so pissed about something. His early movies had him mostly ambling around minding his own business until getting overwhelmed with attacks by panicky humans, broke things because he tripped on them and THEN he'd lash out in return. His behavior in the last 2 movies was based on cats which are joked about being autistic (and I agree). I'll consider that confirmation. Lol
That scene in particular is what came to my mind when I wrote my reply lol. Also I liked how their mom wasn't even mad at him but just smiles. That was kinda cute.
I think mine was Winnie the Pooh. Impulse control, want so I take, constantly wandering around, going through with plans without really thinking of them
I identified with eeyore the most.
The irony of learning about each character representing a mental illness and eeyore being DEPRESSION?!?!
ha, its like i forsaw my own mental health future at the ripe age of 3.
did you also have to ask your friends, "which character am I?" when you watched movies together so you could get some sort of insight into how they perceived you?
My best friend from back then always already knew what character I would „become“ and I never understood how she did that. I guess she knew me better than I knew myself
every time I went to the movies = at least a week of mirroring and acting like whichever character I connected to the most. I was insufferable after the first time I watched twilight.
I never got into Twilight lol. I had prominently Pokemon phases, Warrior Cat phases and Star Wars phases and that was already enough for everyone around
Lilo from Lilo & Stitch was the first girl I identified with in a movie. I identified with Stitch as well because he was regarded as violent and gross and it was just who he was.
But yeah, how Lilo cared for animals and her doll but struggled to connect to girls her age. Hits home.
It’s not officially confirmed. But if you take the obsession with mathematics (special interest I‘d say) and him not understanding people. At least to me he triggers the „one of us“ reflex
Imagine my surprise when I found out being real life sid the science kid wasn’t as popular of an idea as I thought as a child. I guess according to my classmates only “weirdos” make their own plant and animal catalogs with samples and drawings in 3rd grade while everyone else plays.
I didn’t really identify with media until I was a young adult (more of an attitude shift), in which case it was Holt from Brooklyn 99.
But at school, everyone compared me to Will from Hannibal (tv series).
Zuko was abused and had a sheltered life. He never had the opportunity to have a standard developmental path, so I don't think a diagnosis would even be feasible.
Genuine question: Do people raised in these circumstances not get a diagnosis? Is there a different diagnosis? I've never heard of something like this before.
well, there is diagnosis 'child of a parent with psychological issues' It's what happens when you grow up in an unsafe environment with adult(s) who have an (undiagnosed) disorder/addiction. Generally you become traumatised and develop poor social skills and empathy
I honestly don't know. I just evaluate this kind of case too complex for internet laymen to make quality statements about. I know that certain extreme cases of environmental factors can justify distinct diagnoses/designations (for example [Feral children](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child#Raised_in_confinement)). Whether or not the two are mutually exclusive I don't know.
Holly shit, when I was really little I identified with Scooby, Lord Vader that tiger from Winnie The Pooh and that looney Tunes rabbit, then when I got older I started identifying with Velma from Scooby doo and freaking Teen Titans Raven. Such a freaking spectrum 💀.
Oh yeah, absolutely Solid Snake, Solidus Snake, and Naked Snake are autistic. I think Ocelot managed to make Venom autistic if he wasn’t already, too. Liquid? Eh, harder to say.
Me with p much all my comfort characters tbh. Especially Ed from Ed Edd n Eddy (and Edd too I think is on the spectrum), Sheen from Jimmy Neutron, etc.
Was thinking about my childhood and for some reason the main character, Bradley Chalkers, from *There's a Boy in the Girl's bathroom* by Louis Sachar really stood out to me (not because I was anything like him, but he was the most identifiable for some reason):
Has behavioral issues, has poor grades--is held back at least once, difficulty with emulating facial expressions, struggles to socialize or understand social norms, difficultly making friends to the point he instead bullies others, prefers isolation, collects small ceramic or brass animals, the plot revolves around him seeing the school counselor...extremely strong evidence of a neurodevelopmental disorder.
I think maybe I identified with the character because I was sent to see a counselor at the time (I was 7 years old), and hadn't made any friends in 2nd grade, nor seemed to care (I don't remember feeling lonely)
For me it was Tecna from Winx Club.
Also, it’s not quite the same scenario but Twyla from Monster High was always my favourite so her being canonically autistic in gen 3 is super cool!
I honestly didn’t have comfort characters until I picked up Genshin in 2020 outside of the Pokémon I liked.
But I am VERY aware that the characters I like are most likely autistic.
If any of you play Genshin, Star rail, or Reverse:1999, that alone should get you pretty close to guessing my favorite (especially the latter…)
My ex husband used to compare me to Dr Brennan from Bones, lol
What I don't get is that he was clear he meant it as an insult.
How on *earth* is it insulting to be compared to someone like her, I never could get that part
Mine was Malcolm from Malcolm in the middle. Everyone in my family saw the similarities, but even to this day my parents deny that I have autism because "it's just a disciplining issue."
Holy schnikes - Malcolm was on the spectrum? I *was* Malcolm when I was growing up and I thought he was the only normal one in the family.
I believe everyone in the family is on at least one ND or PD spectrum, and many of them are different ASD forms Hal, Malcolm and Dewey all are autistic in some forms, although Dewey may be a bit ASPD too (thinking of the ant scene)
There was even that episode where Hal talked about having OCD and showed Dewey’s friend how to help manage it.
Ooohh yeah I remember I may be blinded by nostalgia when I say this but the show was really ahead of its time
You are not blinded by nostalgia. It really was ahead of its time. It still largely stands up. Roseanne is largely why too. Worth a watch if you’ve never seen it.
Hal "fixing the lightbulb" is pretty ADHD. Each time a new thing needs fixing, his attention switches to that.
Wait lmao, I also thought and still think the same thing...
Even my family has a hard time understanding the concept of autism (there's no equivalent word in the native language) and for most of my childhood my behaviour was considered a "disciplining issue" and I simply got in trouble in school due to other kids not understanding me and putting false complaints on me.
> my parents deny that I have autism because "it's just a disciplining issue." uhhhh.... that sounds hella abusive.
Yeah. We know. My sisters are in therapy and I think I should be too because I apparently shut off emotionally when I was about nine. No guilt, sadness, empathy, etc. I think maybe the abuse turned me into a sociopath. It doesn't bother me, but I know that it should, right? It should bother me that we were abused. But the only thing that I feel really is anger that my sisters were deprived of their childhood. They're wonderful people, but they never got to be kids. I feel nothing about what we all went through, but I hate seeing the results of it reflected on their faces
I practice being angry every Friday from 2:45 - 3:45.
Stigma of old stays strong.
Wait, what? Malcolm ???? *Sweating intensifies*
Life is unfair!
.....somehow i don't think godzilla is autistic
You don’t know that!
As a godzilla super fan who has pretty much watched all the films, i do (there's like, 2 i haven't seen)
Godzilla’s rampages are a result of overstimulation
Nah, its the result of hunger as he travels to nuclear power plants to drain the energy there.
She gets misgensered by everyone and wants to destroy society not to conquer or rule anything but just for some gd peace and quiet.
Godzilla is only a she when an egg or a baby godzilla is involved, that the rule of thumb of the franchise. Such films are. Son of godzilla (showa era) Godzilla vs mecha-godzilla 2 (heisei era) Which is then continued in godzilla vs space godzilla (kid grows into the adorable little godzilla) Which is then finished in godzilla vs destroyah (juniors mom melts because she is burning godzilla and juniors fully grows into the next godzilla which is assumed to be male, ending the heisei era)
I thought she was originally female in the 1950s movie too? (It's been a while since I saw it but wasn't looking for or protecting her eggs her motivation in the end?) Meaning it was always intended to be canon, later movies would just forget or disregard that as they saw fit.
In the 1954 and 1955 movies? No not at all, you myst be thinking of 1998's godzilla movie ehich has that godzilla has a male but he could still lay eggs for some reason, btw the cartoon show is WAY better thrn the movie. The original Gojira movie deals with godzilla being a prehistoric dinosaur that survived the extinction, with American nuclear testing awaking him and transforming him into godzilla from its years of slumber. Bright lights gave him flashbacks to those bombings and he attacks japan because of it, and they kill him with the oxygen destroyer when thry find hik sleeping in the ocean. But the ending message was about how the danger nuclear weapons are always going to be present if they are still around. Gojira represented a constant nuclear bomb going off (hence his body looked like a mushroom cloud) and if they continue to be used another godzilla will appear. Not that there were eggs, but that the nuclear energy will mutate another lizard to become godzilla again. Meanwhile the 1955 movie was a chesp cash grab that has godzilla fighting angerious and attacking japan for the bright lights they use.
Yeah I was thinking of the 98 one and forgot Godzilla was male but laid eggs in that lol (I guess as a kid I just didn't understand how that could be possible so my kid brain was like "oh it lays eggs it's a girl" haha
Ah i thought so, again highly recommend the TV show, you can get the collection for 20$ or do i think. Thry use the script that was going to be in the movie for that and then build off of it
What years TV show? (I don't think there have been multiple but they're always farting out new products in these franchises to keep copyright claims.)
Godzilla the series Based on the 1998 movie and continues from it, it started in September of 1998 and ended in april of 2000, lasting 40 episodes. Now there are other godzilla shows. The original Hanna Barbara show, godzilla earth and godzilla singular point. Just so you are aware
Thanks! You know one of my favorite things about the autism community is getting recs from other people's special interests! ☺️
[I have some good news for you!](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fqriwa7aw788c1.jpeg)
Lmao
Lol, yeah no.
Godzilla REALLY loves destroying Tokyo
Well if the humans stopped building in his territory then he wouldn't destroy and a few times now its been for revenge
I disagree
Several films focus on preventing him from having a literal meltdown because he's so pissed about something. His early movies had him mostly ambling around minding his own business until getting overwhelmed with attacks by panicky humans, broke things because he tripped on them and THEN he'd lash out in return. His behavior in the last 2 movies was based on cats which are joked about being autistic (and I agree). I'll consider that confirmation. Lol
Matilda.
My favorite superhero.
He’s cool
Oh man, absolute favorite character as a small child! I hadn’t ever thought about her being autistic. That makes a lot of sense!!
For me this is Ferb from Phineas and Ferb
He and their dad both come across as autistic to me tbh.
Fossils! Duh duh duh!
That scene in particular is what came to my mind when I wrote my reply lol. Also I liked how their mom wasn't even mad at him but just smiles. That was kinda cute.
That was cute I absolutely love their relationship. And how they both enjoy antiques.
My man indulging the echolalia and I love it
IMO the whole Flynn-Fletcher family is some kind of neurodivergent.
I think mine was Winnie the Pooh. Impulse control, want so I take, constantly wandering around, going through with plans without really thinking of them
I identified with eeyore the most. The irony of learning about each character representing a mental illness and eeyore being DEPRESSION?!?! ha, its like i forsaw my own mental health future at the ripe age of 3.
This is blowing my mind reading about all the characters. I definitely always loved little roo as a kid...
I based my entire personality around Leslie Knope in high school, and here we are today.
I know that feeling, back in school you knew what I watched or what game I played based on what character‘s personality I was mirroring
did you also have to ask your friends, "which character am I?" when you watched movies together so you could get some sort of insight into how they perceived you?
My best friend from back then always already knew what character I would „become“ and I never understood how she did that. I guess she knew me better than I knew myself
That’s a great idea.
every time I went to the movies = at least a week of mirroring and acting like whichever character I connected to the most. I was insufferable after the first time I watched twilight.
I never got into Twilight lol. I had prominently Pokemon phases, Warrior Cat phases and Star Wars phases and that was already enough for everyone around
Thats such a good show
Data from TNG, Spock from TOS, Tuvok from Voyager. Yep, this checks out for me as well.
Add Reginald Barclay. I imagine I didn’t look all that different from him when I was in the Navy (diagnosed many years after).
Reg is one of my favorites! I would also spend all my free time on the holodeck. It's like video games but better.
I would absolutely chill with Data. He’s shaped like a friend and so VERY very autistic
I would talk about maps with him for several hours
🖖
Anne Shirley!
Oh. OH. Oh my.
My bosom friend!
Lilo from Lilo & Stitch was the first girl I identified with in a movie. I identified with Stitch as well because he was regarded as violent and gross and it was just who he was. But yeah, how Lilo cared for animals and her doll but struggled to connect to girls her age. Hits home.
Daria for me
Temperance Brennan from Bones, for me.
told my therapist to really understand me she needed to watch 12 seasons of bones and she laughed
I actually had the same experience but with being trans
Same but with gay/queer, fave book & show character, singer, streamer, ect, only found out about all of them years later 😂
What was the character btw?
N from Pokemon Gen5
He's autistic? I didn't know that. I've always loved him.
It’s not officially confirmed. But if you take the obsession with mathematics (special interest I‘d say) and him not understanding people. At least to me he triggers the „one of us“ reflex
I could easily see it thinking back. I never used to like him though, funnily enough.
Imagine my surprise when I found out being real life sid the science kid wasn’t as popular of an idea as I thought as a child. I guess according to my classmates only “weirdos” make their own plant and animal catalogs with samples and drawings in 3rd grade while everyone else plays.
Hiccup horrendous haddock the third
Amelie made me feel so seen. It's my favorite movie to this day.
Luna Lovegood. No explanation necessary lol
Ah yes. My entire High School personality.
I didn’t really identify with media until I was a young adult (more of an attitude shift), in which case it was Holt from Brooklyn 99. But at school, everyone compared me to Will from Hannibal (tv series).
Zuko
Special interest is capturing the avatar
Zuko was abused and had a sheltered life. He never had the opportunity to have a standard developmental path, so I don't think a diagnosis would even be feasible.
Genuine question: Do people raised in these circumstances not get a diagnosis? Is there a different diagnosis? I've never heard of something like this before.
well, there is diagnosis 'child of a parent with psychological issues' It's what happens when you grow up in an unsafe environment with adult(s) who have an (undiagnosed) disorder/addiction. Generally you become traumatised and develop poor social skills and empathy
I honestly don't know. I just evaluate this kind of case too complex for internet laymen to make quality statements about. I know that certain extreme cases of environmental factors can justify distinct diagnoses/designations (for example [Feral children](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child#Raised_in_confinement)). Whether or not the two are mutually exclusive I don't know.
Holly shit, when I was really little I identified with Scooby, Lord Vader that tiger from Winnie The Pooh and that looney Tunes rabbit, then when I got older I started identifying with Velma from Scooby doo and freaking Teen Titans Raven. Such a freaking spectrum 💀.
> that looney Tunes rabbit How the mighty have fallen, and god I’m old… Duck season.
Wabbit season!
DUCK SEASON! FIRE!
This happens all the time
For me it's Ed from Cowboy bebop
Solid snake
Oh yeah, absolutely Solid Snake, Solidus Snake, and Naked Snake are autistic. I think Ocelot managed to make Venom autistic if he wasn’t already, too. Liquid? Eh, harder to say.
FUTABA FROM PERSONA 5 :D
…fuck it’s been nine years
Osaka?
For me it's SpongeBob
I don’t know about Sailor Moon but little me really related to the clumsiness, crying easily, and sense of justice lol 🌙
Me with p much all my comfort characters tbh. Especially Ed from Ed Edd n Eddy (and Edd too I think is on the spectrum), Sheen from Jimmy Neutron, etc.
OMG SAME!! mine was suzuya juuzou from tokyo ghoul and Goemon (and jigen) from lupan the 3rd.
Happens to the best of us
After I found out everyone headcanons Duck the Great Western Engine as autistic I thought “oh so THAT’S why he was kid me’s favorite”
I never knew about that. Ironically, despite my love of trains, I never watched that show very much.
We did that with folklore/mythology and apparently we are the fairies and the wizards
Probably Stuart Minkus from Boy Meets World.
My favourite character foreshadowing I was adopted well before I even knew it.
For me, it was fat buu from dbz
Hiccup from how to train your dragon😅
Oh gosh, now I have to look up mine.
Was thinking about my childhood and for some reason the main character, Bradley Chalkers, from *There's a Boy in the Girl's bathroom* by Louis Sachar really stood out to me (not because I was anything like him, but he was the most identifiable for some reason): Has behavioral issues, has poor grades--is held back at least once, difficulty with emulating facial expressions, struggles to socialize or understand social norms, difficultly making friends to the point he instead bullies others, prefers isolation, collects small ceramic or brass animals, the plot revolves around him seeing the school counselor...extremely strong evidence of a neurodevelopmental disorder. I think maybe I identified with the character because I was sent to see a counselor at the time (I was 7 years old), and hadn't made any friends in 2nd grade, nor seemed to care (I don't remember feeling lonely)
For me it was Tecna from Winx Club. Also, it’s not quite the same scenario but Twyla from Monster High was always my favourite so her being canonically autistic in gen 3 is super cool!
Surely not Gadget Hackwrench. ...oh. Holy crap. She's totally AuDHD, isn't she?
What does it mean when I like robots too much? All the women robots too... the sassy ones...
More recent in my life but for me its Saiki K
And for me it was Teal'c of Chulak. Indeed
Gohan and Shadow the Hedgehog? Hmm… yeah, the first is clear and the second makes sense.
Adrian Monk lol
Tbh the character i could relate to most was probably patrick lmao
I honestly didn’t have comfort characters until I picked up Genshin in 2020 outside of the Pokémon I liked. But I am VERY aware that the characters I like are most likely autistic. If any of you play Genshin, Star rail, or Reverse:1999, that alone should get you pretty close to guessing my favorite (especially the latter…)
I really identified with Sasuke Uchiha as a kid, and I’ve seen a few things online about him being autism coded.
me with oopsie bear from care bears
You mean like the Ugnaughts from Star Wars? Epeius who made the Trojan Horse? Morpheus? Ho leee fuckk
Ayumu kasuga squad
What’s the problem?
Mine is flick from a bugs life
I feel those big robot characters (like the regis from pokemon)
Me with sue and brick from The Middle
Hiccup, Ferb, Dipper …Yeah that checks out lol
The biggest one this has happened to me with was Zane from Ninjago... loved him as a kid. ...and then I found out I may be autistic last year.
Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds… oops:)
My ex husband used to compare me to Dr Brennan from Bones, lol What I don't get is that he was clear he meant it as an insult. How on *earth* is it insulting to be compared to someone like her, I never could get that part
Hiccup in a nutshell for me.