You can tell I'm autistic because this post started with a ramble about autism and ended with how Shrek is the Agricultural Revolution of animation
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IDK every kid I show Princess and the Frog loves it because it has good music and loveable characters.
It's absolutely true that 3D can do things 2D can't and vice versa; I only wonder if they gave up too soon instead of pushing 2D to the absolute limit
I do the echolalia thing a lot. People say hi to me and I say hi really quickly back in exactly the same way they did and then I palm my forehead like omg I sound like I'm mocking them.
I make car alarm noises too. I'm like a cool even more annoying parakeet
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It's interesting; even animals have a "norm", an evolutionarily stable strategy; trends in dance and fashion and song; the behaviour of following a stable strategy is still in us of course, we just use it memetically. A mistake we've made is make some of those trends necessary to be successful
A simple observable example would be Disney's hard pivot to 3D after the financial success of Frozen. Was it because Frozen was 3D?
I only partially believe it; I believe a great deal of its success can be attributed to the fantastic music that kids were obsessed with for so long
Occasionally I get a pang of guilt when I mention that I'm autistic to someone as if it's "my whole personality", and then I remember that it kinda is LMAO
Do not be ashamed to tell people how you behave when it helps them understand you. And it filters out the cruel people too!
And Disney did insanely impressive things by marrying 2D and 3D, like in Tarzan with him sliding on the vines in the opening scenes. It was just bad timing because SHREK. Shrek singlehandedly changed the animation meta. TBF Disney did try for a bit after Shrek's success, but alas
2D is making a massive comeback, and I hope that Disney can make a little something something, maybe a short film. I'd love to see that
Flap your arms, exclaim in excitement, make animal noises. Who cares. Fuck the normies. You'll find that so many normies are also neurodivergent but they are omega masking to fit into the societal norm. I'd wager that human behaviour is complex [obvs] and that "norm" has been the death of expression
Some people think you're faking your behaviour, but they will happily accept the fact that you can see an apple in your head but they can't. Small things like that.
Something I do is that when someone asks me a question I freeze and go through every permutation of answer, and I'm just like smiling
