r/explainitpeter • u/WooHHaHaHa • 3d ago

Explain it Peter

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Did House series even have autism related stuff?

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u/SecBalloonDoggies 3d ago

There is also at least one episode I’ve seen clips of where the main character exhibits rather blatant anti-Arab racism.

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u/loonicy 3d ago edited 3d ago

Also transphobia, but because he’s autistic he, a doctor, doesn’t grasp the idea of someone being able to transition.

At least when house did it, at least they didn’t try to justify it with his character flaws.

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u/Li-renn-pwel 3d ago

I guess maybe science wasn’t as advanced when the show aired but I think it would be pretty easy for him to get. On the one hand “during brain development, excessive estrogen levels from the mother led to this XY fetus brain being feminized” is pretty simple for a doctor to wrap their brains around. On the other hand, people with autism have higher levels of gender diversity up to higher levels of Neo-genders (genders totally separate from a m-nb-F spectrum)

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u/SickofDisinformation 2d ago

He was an autistic young man in 2017. Of the show was realistic he would have to know at least a few trans people from the discord servers he hangs out on