Cave Of A Writer

Fanartists:

Does anyone else find it weird when closeted people are made to be the villains in every piece of media? Books, TV shows, movies? All the time, when a queer relationship is broken up, it’s because one of them is closeted and doesn’t feel comfortable expressing their love for their partner in front of possible homophobic family or friends or town. I don’t understand why everyone would think it would be a good idea to portray people who probably aren’t able to come out for certain reasons (homophobic family, friends, possibly life threatening, possible hate crime) as the villains. 

I see a lot of talk about how neurodivergence evolved and stayed in the gene pool because it was somehow ‘useful’ to our ancient ancestors. While I don’t necessarily disagree with this theory, I would like to propose an alternative. A theory that we already have physical evidence for. Humans just love each other and care for each other. Don’t you think that a species that cared for it’s people while they recovered from broken bones, or nursed their elderly well beyond their ‘usefulness’ would leave a member out because they didn’t make eye contact, or couldn’t stay focused on a particular task, or whatever other trait you associate with neurodivergence? I really don’t.