I hate faggots who claim to be "autism advocates" who infect all their content with ridiculous SJW bullshit like needing represent ation or demanding that autistic characters be played by autistic actors or bitching about "ableism." First of all, Shulk is all the autistic representation I need in media, and I don't think Adam Howden is autistic. It's good that he's not explicitly designated as autistic and simply is portrayed going through any number of struggles autistic people can relate to, because spelling everything out is retarded and cringe. Second of all, the concept of ableism is retarded. And most importantly, Political Correctness and Cancel Culture are by far the greatest cultural enemies of autists, and anyone who works with The Enemy is no fellow autist of mine.
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@ArdanianRight If a game has a silent protagonist or the protagonist doesn't show any expressions (like JC), then I assume they're autistic.
@xianc78 So Link has always been a nonverbal autist from the beginning and the CD-i games are guilty of whitewashing?
@ArdanianRight The only canonically neurotypical Links are WW Link (he says c'mon), SS Link (cut-scenes show him talking, but with no dialogue), and BoTW Link (same with SS and Zelda claims he stays silent just to look more obedient).
@xianc78 WW Link has limited verbal capabilities. SS and BOTW are whitewashing his autism.
@xianc78 First they take away his left-handedness, next they take away his autism. When will Nintendo stop?
