My Aura Is Soo Strong (every Social Interaction I Have Is Painfully Awkward And Humiliating In Some Way)

my aura is soo strong (every social interaction i have is painfully awkward and humiliating in some way)

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house’s thing with religion is… incredibly autistic

over and over through the show, house’s need for answers, for explanations, for the truth shows up. in his behavior (he only takes cases that are mysteries, he’s rudely blunt, his thing with his father, how he was haunted by esther’s case because he couldn’t solve it), in his core beliefs (“everybody lies” he lives by that, and as a result sees life as a pursuit for the truth), in how other characters treat him (“ you spend your whole life looking for answers because you think the next answer might change some thing, might make you a little bit less miserable.” -thirteen, or “ do you think the only truth that matters is that truth can be measured. Good intentions don’t count, what’s in your heart doesn’t count, caring doesn’t count.” -moriarty)

in comes his rigid thinking. these are his core beliefs and values, and he can’t accept anything else. he has incredibly black and white thinking and refuses to ever try to step outside of it. also, like every autistic person, his world has rules. he believes everyone and everything should operate by these rules, because autistic people have very rigid beliefs of how things should be and we don’t like it when the world doesn’t comply. he lives in a world that is governed by facts and explanations and answers. he can’t stand religion because it’s built on faith without answers or explanations. that simply cannot exist in his world and he can’t comprehend it. he hates the idea of people being satisfied without answers or proof. he also finds it incredibly stupid, more rigid thinking.

finally, the last autistic bit. plenty of people share his views on religion (albeit not so strongly) but they’re able to empathize. even if they don’t believe or understand, they can put themselves in other people’s shoes and see other perspectives. he literally can’t. like that’s not just him being an ass, over and over he genuinely cannot put himself in other people’s shoes (cue literally anything, first thing that pops into my head is him not understanding Cuddy’s feelings around babies), he will not believe people if it doesn’t fit his worldview (even though he’s always right because it’s the TV show, he simply could not believe that someone would jump in front of a train to save someone else just out of the goodness of their heart), and he can’t understand other people’s feelings (again literally anything but first example i thought of was the photographer who didn’t want to terminate her pregnancy to save her life).

anyway! it pisses me off that they decided “he’s not autistic, he’s just a jerk”, because you can be both and he’s very clearly autistic

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