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brittlebutch · 1 month

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idk if i can fully articulate this but i find it like, Interesting how often people seem to flinch away from the notion of a character having a genuine difficulty in academic settings that is caused by Intellect — how often people will seemingly try to get around the idea by writing something that amounts to, like “No this character is Smart, they just struggle with XYZ and if they were Accommodated for that, then they wouldn’t struggle in school” but it’s like,, why do they Have to be ‘smart’ though?

#N posts stuff #do you know what i mean? am i pulling out of a biased sample selection here? it’s possible #i’ll admit i’m largely talking about like. fanworks #reading a lot of ST fic right now and I’m talking largely about Eddie but it applies to Steve too #where I’ve seen a lot of explanations ranging from like. Dyslexia to Deliberate Self Sabotage but #no one seems willing to confront a ‘they just Genuinely Can’t Get It’ reading of the characters #it’s Always a ‘No they’re Really Smart BUT’ thing #like people are anywhere from reluctant to afraid to admit that some people Aren’t like that #note that i’m speaking generally in terms of academic settings which like. are a specific kind of environment that like.#doesn’t generally Do a good job of being actually indicative of how ‘smart’ a person is (just like IQ tests)#but the point still stands that - in essence - people are seemingly Very uncomfortable with the notion of intellectual disability #in any capacity — even in comparison to learning or developmental disabilities #like just look at how many people will Insist on bringing up the percentage of autistics with ‘higher than average’ IQ #with little to no provocation just in an effort to distance themselves from ‘those’ autistics

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