Check out this article by a Dutch guy. https://cultblender.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/why-autists-love-star-wars/ Don’t get defensive.
This would explain a fair few things about the fandom. (not that it’s bad to be on the spectrum, but it tracks)
I went with my uncle years back. A lot of interesting folk there that’s for sure. And I mean that in the best way possible.
Most? Probably not. But Star Wars does attract autistic people, just as most mythology-heavy stories do.
Roughly the first third of this article is the author putting out disclaimers that he’s not trying to use autism as a pejorative. The remaining two thirds is basically just very conventional takedowns if Lucas’s writing reframed with autism as basically a pejorative except that he keeps strenuously insisting g that’s not the meaning you should take away.
The idea I have about autistic people is that they are able to commit to something they love more consistently and unconditionally than anyone else. If I am right on this (and correct me if this is not the case), it would explain the correlation between hardcore fandom and autism.
Pretty much, yes. Most of my friends, and myself, are on the spectrum, and we're all hardcore nerds in one way or another. It's not all autistic people of course, but it's common.
