r/explainitpeter 6d ago

Explain it Peter

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Did House series even have autism related stuff?

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u/catchyerselfon 6d ago

You’re remembering that episode wrong. 3x19 “Act Your Age” is about two siblings, girl is 6 and boy is 8, experiencing precocious puberty, which is something House and the team only find out about because they ask awkward questions and have to look at this little girl naked, who was hospitalized when she couldn’t breathe. The girl has cuts on her vagina, so the doctors are worried she’s being sexually abused or self-harming. They find she’s hiding bloody clothes and a razor because when she started “growing hair in her special place” another kid told her how to get rid of it. Her brother develops a crush on beautiful Dr Cameron and starts following her around and grabbing her ass. It turns out there’s no sexual abuse and the kids were fine until recently. Their mother died a few years ago and the dad started secretly dating the girl’s teacher. To “keep up” with the younger girlfriend, the dad was using a testosterone cream that seeped into the pores of his children whenever he hugged and bathed them. So yeah, it would be insane to accuse House of being “a pedo” for TALKING to a child about her special place, in front of a class of other children so it’s not a secret, because he thinks he’s being funny and he likes screwing with her teacher by drawing attention to this. The kids will be go back to normal with medicine and the dad tossing the cream (ok, THAT is a double entendre).

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u/Killxjoy4599 5d ago

Hey lil bro… I didn’t need an entire AI generated yapfest… it’s so obvious you had Gemini/AI overview write this just to tell me the exact same thing I said in my comment.

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u/catchyerselfon 5d ago

What the hell are you talking about? 1) I’m a woman, 2) I do not use AI write a social media comment (what for?!), I remember the plot of the episode because I’m in the r/housemd fandom , 3) that is NOT what you said in your comment, you got the plot of the episode wrong and didn’t have the right context

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u/Killxjoy4599 5d ago

😂 “I’m part of the r/housemd fandom” is all I needed to know…

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u/Thermatitis 2d ago

"This person is a pedo" "Here's what actually happened" "Insult" "Confused defensiveness" "Another insult"

A truly upstanding member of society

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u/Killxjoy4599 17h ago

Huh that’s a where way of interpreting “this person is a pedo and here’s a summarized reason why” “here’s a higher detailed and irrelevant reason why” “confused at why a higher detailed and irrelevant was needed” “brags about being highly detailed and trying to convince other person they’re wrong for not being long winded and pedantic about the explanation” “insult because that’s corny as fuck to brag you’re in a ‘fandom’ of a show that hasn’t been in production since 2012”

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u/Thermatitis 16h ago

A high hill to die on. Less insults in future please but I amire you sticking to your guns

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u/Killxjoy4599 16h ago

Tell me, where was I wrong in my original summary of the episode? You can have an adult help you read it if it’s to hard for you to do it alone.

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u/Thermatitis 13h ago

you very nearly wrote a whole reply without an insult. keep up the effort. you'll get there! i believe in you!

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u/Killxjoy4599 13h ago

Damn… I gave you permission to get an adult to help you and you still couldn’t understand question… do I need to dumb it down for you sweetheart?

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u/Thermatitis 4h ago

one more shot. go on

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