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seaglassdinosaur · 9 months

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Remembering that two long-running arcs of the Origami Yoda series regarding Dwight were his classmates becoming real friends with him as they stop seeing him as the ‘weird kid’ and connecting with him as a person, and Dwight starting and continuing to date Caroline, the girl he likes. These arcs present to the (presumably neurotypical) audience, an autistic-coded character as someone nuanced and human, who is capable and desirable as a partner and friend, encouraging the idea of looking past dismissive judgements of strangeness and to try to understand people, and even if you can’t, accept them and appreciate them for who they are.

#I am having thoughts and feelings abt origami yoda agin #because like. those are the major arcs w Dwight-the ones that aren’t kept to one book alone #it’s nice seeing them go from kinda just tolerating Dwight because he’s a similar outcast and they need yoda #to them actually liking him and wanting to spend time w him (see the museum visit when tommy is ditched by kellen for Dwight)#and Dwight never magically changes to become ‘normal’. the closest he gets is when he’s at that private school which is observed as kind of #stifling? to all the things that make Dwight interesting and creative #nah the series goes on and Dwight still stims and gets sidetracked by his special interests either to his benefit or detriment #but none of the kids have a problem with him for it. they get that it’s Dwight and these are the things he does #they don’t have a ton of moments of insight into dwight. they talk but they don’t dissect their conversations to parse out what he means #and that makes their communication of messages a little tricky #but the thing is: even though Dwight doesn’t tell them in a way they understand why say the rib bq is so important to him #or why he stims or what sensory issues he has because they might not have the language #even though they don’t have that passage of conversation clicked up #they accept these things as a part of him. and I think that’s a nice message to send.#maybe you won’t fully understand the people in your life but you should try. and even if you can’t you should accept them. quirks and all.#the strange case of origami yoda #origami yoda series #my post #tscooy

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