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Feeling like you can’t talk about your character’s disorders/illnesses/flaws (IC /or/ OOC) without being judged as one of /Those/ people… Even if you’ve done a ridiculous amount of research into doing an accurate portrayal.

One of my characters has a high-functioning form of Autism Spectrum Disorder [and agoraphobia]. I’ve done the research, have family and friends with them, and yet people who’ve only seen “Rain Man” try to correct me about what an Aspergian would really act like.

fyeahroleplayingrabbit:

Just because my characters are made up does not mean that the emotions I feel are not, or that I’m not allowed to feel for them at all. If something exciting happens to them, I’m going to feel giddy. If something terrible happens, I’m going to feel sad. Why is it so wrong that their emotions/reactions influence my own? I mean, isn’t that a really big part of writing and story-telling? To try to make your readers feel something? To inspire emotions, good or bad?

.. it just upsets me when I see someone tell another that they’re foolish and even delusional for empathizing for something (real or not) when usually, the intent/purpose was to make you feel.

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