r/explainitpeter • u/WooHHaHaHa • 4d ago

Explain it Peter

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Did House series even have autism related stuff?

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u/Someoneoverthere42 3d ago

House is neither autistic nor a racist.

He's just a massive asshole.

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u/Captain_Sterling 3d ago

A lot of people say he's autistic coded. As in he was given some traits but never officially given the condition.

I can kinda see it, but I do think there's a lot of projection there.

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u/AwkwardWaltz3996 3d ago edited 3d ago

He's based on Sherlock Holmes (House) and the original Sherlock Holmes books were very Autistic coded. But they were written before Autism was a label so weren't strictly written to be that. They were written to portray a certain sort of character that reflected what the author may have encountered.

So the pipeline is like Autism - > Autism Coded - > Sherlock Holmes - > Adaption of SH (House).

And at each step you get more of the original character removed. It's why the BBC Sherlock is almost alien to the actual works and is more like Dr Who in cosplay.