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Hi asker,

The thing about neurodivergence is that it is such a broad category that you will not be able to get every single person in said category to relate to your character just by writing a 'neurodivergent' character. And this is fine – if I write a character who is a woman, for example, which is another very broad category, not everyone who is a woman will relate to her. And, honestly, not even all autistic people will relate to an autistic character, even when explicitly stated as autistic.

We've reblogged a masterpost that has some information and advice on writing a character who is autistic without necessarily explicitly saying they are, whether it's because the character doesn't know, the term doesn't exist in their world, or whatever other reason. Here is the link to the 'hinting' section specifically.

I will ask you why you don't want to be seen as 'pandering,' and what exactly you mean by pandering, so you yourself can think about this word. "Pandering" means, generally speaking "catering to or profiting from other people's others unreasonableness or weakness," and writing an autistic or otherwise disabled character, whether that character is explicitly autistic or not, does not automatically mean it is pandering.

You can write a character who's explicitly autistic and it doesn't have to be pandering. As you know, since you're autistic, people are autistic in real life! And they live their lives every day. You can write about them because they exist. Writing about things and people that exist isn't pandering.

It's also okay to have a specific target audience. If the target audience is autistic people, that's fine. If the target audience is a broader audience of 'readers willing to engage with disabled characters,' that's fine too.

Just know that it is not pandering, and I hope the masterposts linked will help you on the writing side of things; they are quite well put already and I don't think I could phrase them better myself.

Hope this helps,

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This can be ANY AU you want, not just mine, as I have 2 Human AUs: As The World Descends Into Madness (my main) and Sprunki: The Humanization (my other one)

SOME words will be censored.

Wenda is a psychopathic bitch in this.

SWEARING IS ALLOWED!!!

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