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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Read a book with a 'quirky' protagonist that gave me definite 'neurotypical author writing neurodivergent character in the most stereotypical manner possible' vibes but never stating it outright. I'm on the spectrum, and it left feeling inauthentic and a bit gross.
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I'm reading some Spanish YA Fantasy at the moment and the author has used the same method for describing teenagers.
Maybe (some/most/a lot of) teenagers are compulsively impulsive and always acting against their own best interests and wishes, behaving a bit like coked up mafiosi in an American mafia flick, but it doesn't ring true for me at least. And it mostly feels like a cheap trick to generate drama and drive the plot forwards.