People love to glorify the cutesy parts of autism like hyperfixations and not the fundamentally kind of gross bits like skin picking and hygiene issues.
Not to say all autistics have those issues, but they ARE known issues of autistics.
Stop romanticizing autism. If you donโt know what sensory overload, safe foods, shutdowns and how hard even basic communication can be sometimes youโre not talking about reality
And speaking of safe foods, it doesn't look like "oh i really like potatoes!" It looks like refusing to eat anything besides hash browns, just hash browns, for breakfast for a solid month, because that is the only thing that's appealing and the only thing that makes you HAPPY.
It's kind of crazy to say that when they purposely ignore the elephant in the room, like, it's not just weird content, they're actively normalizing pedophilia, rape, racism... Not to mention that they allow fanfiction about REAL children
I hate ao3 bootlickers
bonded w a fleetwood mac fan at work today because we were equally betrayed that buckingham/nicks said they were going on tour this year but stevie nicks's website lists 0 tour dates and neither have even mentioned it
there's just not really a better fanfiction site out there, so people make excuses. they downplay. they ignore that it is, literally, on landing for search. i've never had anyone make a good argument for it.
once again making the statement about ao3 that people wouldn't have as much of an issue with it if it WAS actually buried in the tag and not literally put on the site as searchable like this.
this checklist is the first thing you see when searching for a work.
someone into that kinda thing could just check off that box and get a plethora of free content fed right into their brain. and people likely do, a lot. people don't want to admit that a lot of folks use ao3 as a child p*rn spank bank site
i still laugh that 90% of the people making this argument about fucked up fiction are not talking about toxic relationships or something and are instead straight up referencing pedophilic or nonconsensual fiction
there IS a line where it's too fucked up and it's okay to say that