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This might sound like it’s packing a little heat to some people in this fandom but

For me it’s hugely the common fannon that Shapey or Block are autistic... because they are severely stunted developmentally and scream and meltdown over everything. There’s actually a very visible, direct cause for the way they are, and it’s literally cartoonishly disgusting abuse/neglect of them. That’s what the writers were going for. That’s what not enough shows have ever had the guts to display the full serious gravity of.

Boiling all of their behavioral problems down to a very common neurodivergence in the absence of that context just kinda… gripes me in a slight way? Like from some people it almost comes across like all they know about ASD presentations in children are the most extreme, derogatory, or clichéd stereotypes (while having no or at least much less knowledge/consideration towards what severe social deprivation does to kids in the real world).

ok i have another controversial idea

what fanon headcanon irritates you the most

like you see it and roll your eyes in annoyance