Discussion History Characters / Homestuck

Actually this requires some explaining. Picture all of our social norms, then \\\'\\\'invert\\\'\\\' them. You now have a good impression of what troll social norms are. To us, acting calm and nice is the \\\"default\\\" state that people usually assume when they are talking to people. When people start yelling and getting angry, that evokes a reaction of fear from us and shows that the person has passed a breaking point. For the trolls, it\\\'s the opposite. Trolls assume that you will be angry with the person just on principle rather than the topic of the conversation, so yelling/anger is a \\\"default\\\" state that trolls are used to -- it shows that the other person is mad but not so mad that they\\\'re going to stab you. Therefore, to the trolls, the only reason you\\\'d act nice to someone is if you\\\'ve passed the breaking point and are planning to backstab them later. People like Nepeta and Tavros, on the other hand, are just nice on principle, but \\\'\\\'come off\\\'\\\' as autistic because they\\\'re the trolls\\\' version of people who are constantly shouting like they\\\'re angry over every little thing (Gamzee too).

In sum, though Nepeta isn\\\'t autistic by our standards, she is by the trolls\\\'. Not sure if that counts enough to add AmbiguouslyAutistic to her, though.

(This is also why everyone treats Vriska like a sociopath -- she \\\'\\\'never\\\'\\\' acts nice to people even when she\\\'s past the breaking point, so she\\\'s like the murderer who\\\'s smiling and happy as she comes at you with the knife.)