UglyDuckling wrote:
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doing some research for a story that I am writing with an autistic vigilante in it.
You mean Batman?
I was actually thinking this same thing. LoL
Why is that? There's a lot I don't know about Batman.
Batman gets discussed a lot in these forums - I think he has a lot of Autistic fans, because:
He's solitary - he'd rather be tinkering in the Bat Cave than doing almost anything else - when he does socialize he puts on a personality (Bruce Wayne) that's a complete mask for who he really is.
Regular life is an annoying distraction from what he prefers to be doing.
He's fascinated by technological toys and obsessed with details.
He hates bullies, having been severely traumatized as a child when he witnessed his parents murdered by a street thug.
He spends more time in the company of other odd and unusual characters than he does around 'normal' people, and is perfectly comfortable with that - even when he's at odds with them ethically, he has more in common with the oddballs than with anyone else.
Being a 'superhero' doesn't come easy to him. In fact, he's technically not a SUPERHERO, because he has no supernormal powers beyond his exceptional intellect and eye for detail. Everything else he is able to do stems from that intelligence. He's a self-made hero, where others get abnormal strength from the sun, or are bitten by radioactive spiders or have mystical rings or other talismanic objects that bestow supernatural abilities. Batman has had to work to achieve what to other costumed heroes comes easily.
Just for starters. I'm sure others here can give you dozens more reasons why Batman is a character that people with Autism can readily identify with.
02 Aug 2010, 4:56 pm
