Eievie
Since: Feb, 2014
May 13th 2024 at 4:09:46 PM
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I'm not invested in the particular wording. But because autism is a wide spectrum, the sentence "Natalie is autistic" alone tells a reader almost nothing. In the Innocent Fanservice Girl example in particular, just "Natalie is autistic" doesn't provide enough information to contextualize the following incident.
If you want to change the wording, go for it. But I challenge you to not just make the examples vague. Find some other way to give a reader (one who's not already familiar with the story) some more specific sense of what Natalie's specific autism is like.
FreakingFrustrated
Since: Feb, 2019
I just want to clarify the reason for my last edit because I forgot to include it: the concept of severe and mild forms of autism has been discredited because it implies that some are more autistic than others. In reality, autism is a spectrum with a wide variety of traits that manifest in different combinations from one person to the next. For example, an autistic person who can communicate more easily than Natalie may not have her proficiency in math, or one who struggles with communication may be able to drive while a more neurotypical-passing one may not.
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