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Nonono it’s totally cool! I’m absolutely fascinated by it too, even before I figured out I was autistic, and after I put two and two together that fascination just became even stronger XD I love talking about it!

Okay cool, just wanted to make sure you were comfortable 😅
Yesssss ikr? I think it was finding out about ADHD and learning I had it that made me pursue psychology :)))

I currently have like… three or four autistic characters, they’re just so much easier for me to write than any others, funnily enough XD Contrary to popular belief, I can write NT characters if I put my mind to it XD

Coryn is the only one  of my characters that is clinically diagnosed and has her autism tied into her story and character arc, but I’ve been looking at a few of my other characters and seeing some of them fall on the spectrum.
Oh yes, I’d say the majority of my characters are neurotypical, just because it has been my default (and I’ve only just discovered a few years ago what neurodivergence was, and only last year ADHD) for years. Although I take more joy in writing ND characters because they’re more like me, and different from the rest. If there’s anything I love most in the world, it’s being different :]

LOLL I remember Aydin was very, very suspicious XD

He totally was 😂

Ahhh that’s so awesommeeee!!! I love them already, tell me about them! And if you need any help with writing autistic characters, I am always looking for an opportunity to infodump XD

Ahwww thank you so much!!
So Clanner is 17, and Coryn is 15 — both from Ohio in a small town called Bellinston. Mind you, this is set in a dystopian/illusionary utopian Earth, so the town names and the tech are very different. A new personality system similar to MBTI but highly more scientifically advanced has taken over most of the US, and basically analyses your brain 8 days after your birth and predicts your personality. You’re given a document with your personality code on it, and it’s basically as important as your health card or driver’s license.
5 number slots show your extroversion over introversion, your intuition over sensing, your feeling over thinking, your <b>judging over perceiving</b>, and your confidence over apprehensiveness.
Anything scored 51 and over in any slot is extroversion, intuition, feeling, judging, and confidence. Anything scored 49 and under in any slot is introversion, sensing, thinking, perceiving, and apprehension.
E.G.: 83-92-22-01-45 is extroversion, intuition, thinking, perceiving, and apprehension (in mbti lingo, ENTP-T)

Those people who were analysed and the machine malfunctioned (i.e. gave the results as ERROR) are called ExclusionA (one or more slot of the code is read as ERROR) or ExclusionB (all slots of the code reads ERROR). All Exclusions are looked down upon.
Clanner is ExclusionA, with his ERROR in the second slot
Coryn is ExclusionB because the test analysed her autism, which doesn’t register in the computers.
So now they’re basically on the run, trying to rally all the Exclusions to overpower this system so that nobody has to live in poverty because of the way they are.

whew
sorry about the dump 😅