my hot take is that i don't care if langdonmel is romantic or platonic, because i do think platonic relationships can be as meaningful as romantic ones. my problem is that mel being autistic seems to be one of the reasons why they can't be romantic and that pisses me off
I know this is gonna piss so many people off but there is a popular saying on the Chinese internet says "Even a top tier man is just an average woman". Someone wrote "A man who doesn't smoke, doesn't cheat, doesn't drink, doesn't gamble, no criminal records, stable job, cooks, cleans, emotionally stable, kind to his family is a kind of man that's so rare, but honestly every one of my female friends meets that standards and even more, so yeah even the best man is just an average woman" omg Shakespeare could never!!!😭😭
Them: You don't look autistic
Me: You don't see it because my autism mostly affects me. I've spent most of my life painstakingly minimizing the impact it has on others... so now it has no effect on you at all, but my life is indescribably more difficult and exhausting