Sorry we put your autistic boyfriend in the fandom and they completely infantilised him

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Title:	untitled
Creator:	partywithponies
Date(s):	14 February 2024
Medium:	Tumblr post
Fandom:	pan-fandom
Topic:	Austim and Fandom, "Autistic-coding", "Minor-coding", "Familial-coding"
External Links:	Sorry we put your autistic boyfriend in the fandom and they completely infantilised him, Archived version on Tumblr
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Sorry we put your autistic boyfriend in the fandom and they completely infantilised him is the first part of a post on Tumblr by partywithponies. It is a variant of the 'Sorry about your boyfriend' meme popular on the site, but for characters that are commonly headcanoned as Autistic.

Sorry we put your autistic boyfriend in the fandom and they completely infantilised him. Sorry yeah he's an innocent baby who's never even heard of a sex and doesn't know a single swearword now. Yeah they're treating him like the team kid and calling his friends his parents I'm so sorry about this. Yeah I know he's committed felonies in canon but it doesn't matter it's too late now I'm sorry

full Tumblr post

As of March 2024, the post has 125 comments, 15,543 reblogs and 27,462 likes.

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