#related to that point: that Any material w/winston that a serious character has will 95% of the time be a joke or Exposition for their own

[unproduciblesmackdown]

winston billions autistic character validation!

1) rian refers to their not directly interacting as “parallel play”!

2) the writers let winston be obsessed with analyzing a movie that the showrunners consider as worth being obsessed with analyzing, but they make sure to have a more serious character, who has also been more earnestly & more often credited as smart & talented by other serious characters than winston has (despite that in his introduction taylor says he has “a genius level iq,” which may in turn be deliberately more indirect than stating “you may be a genius”, and thus potentially avoids acknowledging that winston as a person truly possesses genius by attributing it directly to him, & rather cites that claim of geniushood via a quantization / external source, while they would not themself necessarily support the conclusion), assert that winston is bad at analyzing / understanding the movie though!

#this post itself is not in earnest except for that i do think things like this correlate with [oops; writers have Unknowingly written about #irl autistic people who they didn't know were autistic / drawn from this Character Archetype which is itself born of people drawing from #real life people nd ppl that nt ppl unknowingly encounter all the time & regard as inferior / unlikable/unsympathetic / acting incorrectly] #winston billions #us joking that the textual confirmation we'd get from this series that Winston's Autistic is someone like dollar bill calling him r worded #cue the awards handed to us when s5 ep two has dollar bill stomp over & scream at winston that his Algorithm is r worded :) #that so far winston is a nonentity for romance; sex; maybe even friendship though rian may Approximate that (i.e. poss be as close as they #would be willing to right when he can't have ''real'' friends if it's a more Normal / Serious Character) #related to that point: that Any material w/winston that a serious character has will 95% of the time be a joke or Exposition for their own #material at the most serious and will Never lead to their existing relationship with winston becoming prominent or even seriously relevant #that all acknowledgment of his Smartness / Talent / Ability is rare; begrudging; backhanded; disclaimered; & may also be seen as actually #worthy of disdain (''total control of the instrument'' / ''sad.'' / [???]) & due to him cheating by being a Savant; doesn't even count :) #that we have at least one textual instance that *the doylean writing itself* regards winston as more inherently worthy of disdain & lacking #dignity than other characters; that his feelings also seem to be frivolous / a joke / Inconsequential as the fact that other people #deliberately bullying (to harassing / threatening / essentially physically attacking (thanks dollar bill)) & insulting & shutting down & #criticizing / discouraging winston on purpose over anything or nothing is not only something both sides Deserve but; despite our virtually #always being shown that winston is disheartened &/or hurt &/or distressed; this is never addressed as an issue save by him (like saying he's #Been hurt by rian needling him after she does it again out of absolutely nowhere) and is never anything with lasting impact that anyone else #has to deal with or acknowledge or consider.....and so much more #and of course i have reasons i've immediately gone (oh my god this is the most relatably He's Autistic moment of my life) from the start #i.e. back when watching the season three clips for the first time; and continued to feel that way since; that have nothing to do with the #way the writers & thus by extension ''serious'' characters in the show seem to regard / judge / treat him #but this post is from the other angle lol #also this makes me think of an [actual parallel play] instance from my life where ppl were incredibly mean to me afterwards but i didn't #even quite catch on that it involved that contempt until like months later. not Just a friendlily ribbing nickname ;0