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Wednesday from The Adam's Family and Eddie Munster are nuerodivergent?
I never once got that impression. Seems like a stretch to me
Also outside of cosplaying who is "obsessing over" them?
"Why does everyone love that imaginary character so much,when they could have loved me instead? I do deserve it more, after all!"
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.
Neurodivergent is not a synonym for autistic
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.
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.
I do think that having been a teenager in the 80s or 90s should be considered a form of neurodivergence, but i fail to see how eddie is different from the other main characters (the kids). They are not mainstream but i wouldn't call them neurodivergent.
Eddie from stranger things is neurodivergent?
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".
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.
I dunno enough about stranger things to comment about thar but in general characters who are like socially awkward get labelled as autistic.
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.
They're both, at their core, fish out of water stories. Akin to 'someone from the East coast moved to the south and both people do things differently'.
People are projecting, otherwise.
They diverge from their neurons? Sounds very scientific, I'm going to assume it's not just another fashion word people use to describe how very unique and special they are.