1. La Ficción como Refugio y Herramienta de Comprensión.
Para muchas personas autistas, la ficción ofrece un universo estructurado y lógico que contrasta con la naturaleza caótica de las interacciones sociales reales. Funciona como un escape, un consuelo y una herramienta para decodificar las convenciones sociales y el comportamiento humano.
- There was a great essay/article by an autistic person who preferred fiction because fictional people make sense! they kind of have to, in order for the story to be enjoyable, whereas real people are confusing and contradictory.
- I found comfort in fiction and relating myself and my loved ones to the characters in it. Villains, heroes, stuff in between, and npc.
- Fiction was a human decoder. I did not understand people, and fiction gave me a glimpse into the inner thoughts of neurotypicals. It has helped me become aware of loads of strange social conventions.
- It's always about filling the gaps of my known world with something produced in my head. Fiction, eh? :).
2. El Desafío de la Representación: Estereotipos y Ausencia.
La representación de la discapacidad y el autismo en los medios a menudo está plagada de problemas, desde caricaturas ofensivas y tropos de "inspiración porno" hasta la completa invisibilización. Estas representaciones fallidas no solo distorsionan la realidad, sino que también generan frustración en una comunidad que anhela verse reflejada con autenticidad.
- It's funny and kinda sad. We're all used to autistics in fiction being caricatures ranging from patronizing to offensive, so when we get a complex, human autistic character written with a lot of care everyone assumes it was an accident.
- Yeaah . I feel like fiction has a tendency to be all or nothing. Making either disabled characters so perfect they can do anything or so bad they can't do anything when the best thing they can do is a middle ground.
- When the fiction got autistic character. People will argue to the ends of the earth the character isn't autistic just quirky cuz god forbid autistic people get representation.
- I hate that disabilities and mental health are treated as a joke in alot of fiction. Too often i have read someone becoming traumatically suddenly disabled and are just?? okay with it?? like. That. That isnt how it is like at all.
3. "Escribí la Mía": Autores Creando sus Propias Narrativas.
Ante la falta de historias auténticas, un número creciente de autores con discapacidad y neurodivergentes están tomando el control de la narrativa. Escriben sus propias obras, creando personajes y mundos que no solo reflejan sus experiencias vividas, sino que también desafían la tendencia a ser borrados o "curados" en la ficción convencional.
- Ever read fiction with disability rep? yeah, me neither. So i wrote my own. Enjoy this.
- One of the cool things about being a disabled person making fiction only a disabled person can make is that even if a computer can regurgitate my work/style it can never express the human mortality and relationship to a flawed body.
- I think i just love putting characters on the page who reflect the amazing disabled and queer community i have in real life. We’re the protagonists of our lives, so why not be heroes in fiction too?
- One of the things i love most about writing and world building is making the disability and chronic illness representation i always wanted to see myself. We get erased (or “fixed” ) so often in fiction, especially in fantasy, and i’m over it!
4. Un Espectro de Intereses: La Relación Diversa con la Ficción.
La relación de la comunidad autista con la ficción no es monolítica. Mientras que algunos la ven como un interés especial y una fuente de consuelo, otros prefieren la claridad de la no ficción o incluso luchan por distinguir entre la narrativa y la realidad. Esta diversidad de experiencias subraya que no existe una única forma "correcta" de ser autista.
- There's a strain of autistic people who are desperate to make hating fiction a universal autistic trait because "fiction is like lying and we don't like lying" or some bullshit like that.
- I've got an eng. Lit. Degree, but hardly ever read fiction. Always science. Apparently, autistic people prefer non-fiction.
- As a child even into my teens, i really struggled distinguishing non-fiction from fiction. It’s probably part of the reason i like sci-fi and fantasy so much.
- As a creative autistic, it's weird to be able to create/parse subtext and subtlety *in fiction* but not irl.