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Games Workshop and ASD lol

Judge Dredd
6 months ago

I was pondering on how the Games Workshop franchise has depicted ASD, without ever mentioning the term. Thinking about it; they really nailed it:

The Techmarine:

  • The most intelligent soldier in the Chapter, but he never brags about it.
  • Enormous technical aptitude and scientific interests.
  • Spends so much time around machinery that he almost loses his ability to talk and interact with living people.
  • Selective mutism.
  • Does not care at all about social advancement and social standing, while others spend all their time trying to get a promotion.
  • The few times he speaks he manages to get on everybody's nerves and say the most inappropriate things (although technically correct)
  • Often manages to understand the right course of action to solve a problem, but nobody ever listens to him.
  • His fellow soldiers either ignore him, or belittle him as a nerd.
  • His fellow soldiers spend days engraving and embellishing their armours, while he is the only one that goes around with his armour in unpainted red metal.

The Techmarine is the high IQ, low support ASD guy working in IT or engineering. He is resigned to his condition, and does not even try to be social anymore.

Story of my life, by the way.

Parents
  • 6 months ago

    There must be a high proportion of game designers/players who are autistic, it fits quite well. The Techmarine IS one of them!

    I used to go to Games Workshop in the old Bull Ring and have quite a few of those early games (mostly solo of course). I see myself more as a Rogue Trooper - a troubled but well meaning mutant, working alone but with buddy's that aren't actually real people.

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  • 6 months ago

    There must be a high proportion of game designers/players who are autistic, it fits quite well. The Techmarine IS one of them!

    I used to go to Games Workshop in the old Bull Ring and have quite a few of those early games (mostly solo of course). I see myself more as a Rogue Trooper - a troubled but well meaning mutant, working alone but with buddy's that aren't actually real people.

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  • 6 months ago in reply to NAS92341

    There is a joke in the forums: "Turbo Peter has the 'tism":

    Young Perturabo is in court, and his adoptive father boasts that Perturabo could draw a masterpiece portrait in fifteen minutes. Perturabo starts drawing, then he presents the portrait, saying "Yes, I did that in exactly fifteen minutes." His stepfather says "Goddamn, Perturabo, why you must always be so literal! It was just a figure of speech!"

    Pure 'tism.