z-brooke:keatulie:I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t “fit in”, and I don’t wanna fit in. have you ever
z-brooke:keatulie:I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t “fit in”, and I don’t wanna fit in. have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? that’s weird.I hate this meme so fucking muchI hate that it’s been ripped from its context because it looks ‘cringey’ on the surface but oh my god in the show it made me tear upbecause the context of this line is Jughead (autistic-coded) is trying to explain to someone (allistic) why he can’t do the whole party thing and wants to leave.He’s struggling, he’s stressed, he’s in a position he wants to get out of- and is trying to- and he says this. And as an autistic who frequently struggles with getting the words I want to say correctly to get my point across, I felt this so hard.all he’s trying to do is get away, and he has to justify it, and he doesn’t have the words, and he uses the ones he has, probably from echolia, from overhearing what others say about him and what authorities have said (I’d bet that ‘i don’t fit in and i don’t want to fit in’ bit comes from that being pathologized by a counselor or teacher ‘trying to help’ or something)whoever started to spread this meme i hate you anti-autism, ableism, jugheadplease stop making fun of him ppl, or at least not for fucking calling himself weird when trying to essentially escapeexcuse me. I’m neurodivergent myself (dyspraxic, not autistic, but have dealt w/ similar issues of being unable to express myself, having problems related to socialising, sensory overload, etc.), happen to headcanon the character I used for this as the same (completely unrelated to the quote tho, my thought process was literally, ‘hey, it says he’s an outsider and he has a hat, that’s that one Popular Meme’), and this has absolutely nothing to do with making fun of autism. you are really reaching here, honestly.you can’t deny that the ‘I’m weird, I don’t fit in’ quote does look like it was ripped straight from a circa-2007 Hot Topic t-shirt, and that’s why everybody took it and ran w/ it, because removed from its context - hell, even within the context because of how odd the delivery is - it’s a little unintentionally funny. it’s not really considered to be “cringeworthy” so much as it’s trying too hard to sound dark and brooding.I guarantee you that most of the people spreading the meme haven’t even watched the show and certainly aren’t abelists making fun of the entire character. having said that, does that mean you aren’t allowed to be upset about the reaction to it, or relate to the scene despite some people finding it funny? no, not at all, but you’re projecting things on to other people that simply aren’t there.I understand that this probably wasn’t a personal attack at all and that you likely just saw this particular use of the meme on your dash and wanted to talk about it, but that does not mean that this was an appropriate place to vent your frustration. you could’ve either made a new post on the subject or messaged me directly if you wanted to educate someone on it. -- source link
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