radioactivesupersonic:

betterbemeta:

What does it mean when you relate a lot to stories about ‘fake humans’ or ‘impostor people’ or robots/automatons or dopplegangers or monsters/undead that have decoy human lives

At least personally as an autistic person I’ve always found those stories relatable on the grounds of I feel like a certain amount of my behavior and demeanor towards other people feels insincere since it didn’t come natural and was mostly taught to me.

So having sat through classes that took the attitude of “this is how a Normal Person behaves, remember, you need to look people in the eye even if that’s uncomfortable and feels hostile to you, we don’t want to be rude,” I suppose the idea of an entity Pretending To Be Human is relatable because I think it strikes a particular neurodivergent experience where, when you’re frequently told or implied that there’s a Normal Human Way To Be and it’s not your experience but there will be consequences for you unless you emulate that “Normal Human Way To Be” it’s easy to look at doppelgangers or robot mimics and go “oh, same hat my dude”