z-brooke:keatulie:z-brooke:keatulie:I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t “fit in”, and I don’t wanna fit
z-brooke:keatulie: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. Hey, hi, this totally wasn’t an attack on you (which you later acknowledge), and I also believe a majority of people using this meme never watched the show or long enough to see the context. I wasn’t trying to imply that your usage of it here was an attack on autism, but just a fun application of a meme. Thanks for 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” - yeah, I’m not, I think that’s exactly why people took off and ran with it in the first place, because ***out of context*** it seems like a really forced way to mark this character as the moody outsider (something that was well established before the line in episode 10 or 11 or whatever) But I am going to deny that ‘hell even within the context because of how odd the deliver is’ it’s funny. Because it really isn’t. No amount of emo hot topic shirts is going to change that. My problem isn’t (necessarily) with people not knowing the context and spreading it, but the fact that it was spread around period, because that required people who did know the context and found that funny enough to spread. You can’t really say that I can have my opinions and feelings on it, but can’t express them in a certain way. I could have made my own post, sure, and I have done that before. This time I chose not to because, well, I hadn’t seen it in a while and here it was, an illustrative example of it. And I didn’t message you to 'educate’ you because I assumed you didn’t know the context, like a majority of people using the meme, and figured you’d either not see my addition, or ignore it since it’s not relevant to you, since it’s predominantly a complaint about the root issue.*I don’t think that’s a reach but tbh I don’t appreciate being told that while you’re continuing on as if this was an attack/criticism of you and your usage of the meme even while acknowledging that you don’t think that’s the case.and I don’t appreciate seeing ‘anti-autism’ (even tho you didn’t think this was an attack on autism, which is kinda sending me mixed messages I’ll be honest) and ‘ableism’ in the tags when I’ve personally been on the receiving end of bullying related to nd traits through my life. you might not have intended to cause offence by doing that but the fact of the matter is, you kinda did. this post does not have a lot of notes, of course I’m going to see your response, especially when it’s so out of place and vaguely irrelevant to the content, and if you figured I’d ignore it then why contribute in the first place? you can’t reblog someone’s post and expect them to not care about your addition. you can’t say that I’m not allowed to express my feelings and opinions on this response.I can’t understand why you’d reply directly to someone’s post if you didn’t want it to be noticed, especially since the activity feed makes captions difficult to miss in the first place.what I meant by ‘I know this probably isn’t personal’ (and should have expanded on) was ‘I know this probably isn’t personal and you’re just fed up with the meme itself but I really don’t appreciate the tone of this reply on this otherwise inoffensive post. (inoffensive on its own, regardless of whether or not it spawned from making fun of an allegedly autistic-coded character or not)’even tho I could pretty much gather from you talking mainly about the character and show that it wasn’t personal, it’s hard not to read it as so when the message goes to me and opens in a confrontational way was my point. plus again those tags rubbed me the wrong way, this reply even more so. -- source link
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