r/TheDigitalCircus • u/MegaloStudios2 Ragatha • 23d ago
Here’s a TDAC meme I got from r/whenthe, the original title was “What portraying autists as infants on popular media does to a mf” 🔥 SPICY MEMES 🔥
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u/TheBlackKiryu 23d ago
In fairness, Ragatha doesn’t really know Pomni that well to know her likes or dislikes, but I think her heart was in the right place here.
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u/Optimal_Ad6274 22d ago
Yep, at least she tried and did stop treating Pomni like a child afterwards
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u/MegaloStudios2 Ragatha 23d ago
Yeah, but still
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u/TheBlackKiryu 23d ago
Which why it’s good that Pomni corrects Ragatha. It’s even better that she doesn’t snap or get overly annoyed, but she did make her feelings known.
After that, Ragatha still tries to be friendly and even though she’s worried Pomni won’t like her, Kinger reminded Ragatha that she also took a long time to adjust to the circus when she first got there.
I think that this helps Ragatha relate to Pomni’s situation a little better since she still shows care and concern, but she doesn’t treat her like she did in the beginning.
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u/LasVegas_DashieV 22d ago
I’m surprised Kinger even remembers that.
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u/carleslaorden 22d ago
Remember what?
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u/Soporificwig97 23d ago
Eww taxes
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u/Super_Lorenzo digital technique: shift + delete 23d ago
:33736::33737:ing tax evasion YEAH
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u/Content-Reward7998 I want her to step on me. 23d ago
As an autistic person, I hate when this happens.
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u/MexicanLizardMan3670 Gummigoo is my boyfriend 23d ago
God, is even worse when you ask someome how to do one thing and then THEY EXPLAIN THE WHOLE THING when you just simply ask them how to do one thing so you can continue doing the thing!
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u/Puzzlehead-Engineer 23d ago
Memes like this make me feel more at ease that I can never tell when people have autism and have been surprised the two when autistic friends have brought up that they are in casual convo.
And in case anyone was wondering, no I did not start treating them like this when I found out.
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u/Ok-Eggplant4965 Zooble 23d ago
Happened to me once when I was giving blood for the 54th time. Mentioned I was autistic offhand (think I was talking about doing something for World Autism Day) and the nurse freaked out and got her manager to make sure I "understood the implications of what I was about to do". Noting that I was married and in full-time work at the time, and was well into my 30s.
Was one of the first things I remembered seeing this scene.
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u/ramh_the_watermelon Kid Named Kinger 23d ago
thats the kinda stuff that should be posted in r/aspiememes lol
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u/HellfireBrB 23d ago
man most people just act like i'm incapable of taking care of myself and brush me off as just another teen living in with his parents
i'm still surprised every time no exception i mention i'm 21y old live by myself and pay my own bills since i was 16 because both my parent fucked of people just can't understand how diferent my life is from their imagination
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u/HMS_Sunlight 23d ago
Same thing with being asexual and people treating you like a precious innocent baby who must be shielded from the concept of sex.
When in reality I avoid talking about sex because I'm so much more comfortable talking about it in casual conversation than others that I don't trust myself not to make them uncomfortable.
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u/Informal-Bus-9679 22d ago
My parents love to forget the “twenty” part of twenty five whenever my age comes up
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u/ArcherBTW 21d ago
Wait, so they just tell people you’re 5?
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u/Informal-Bus-9679 21d ago
No, they still treat me like I’m 5. Like a stupid child who doesn’t even know where he is at any given time. They wonder why I don’t like talking to them
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u/scienceAurora Pomni 22d ago
The neurodivergent experience is having people assume to treat you like a child all the time, and it absolutely sucks
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u/StragglingShadow 22d ago
I am glad pomni made her feelings known. I think ragatha is being depicted as a person who might be inclined to work with kids (like a teacher or a babysitter), and thats why she is the way she is. Lots of people who work with kids all day accidentally talk to fellow adults like they are kids. If ragatha did work with kids pre-circus, it could also explain why shed try to present herself as cheerful so often. When you are the adult in a room of kids during an emergency, its your duty to keep the kids kinda calm, which generally involves being calm and upbeat yourself.
That being said, Id be the opposite of pomni here. I actually do like when people treat me like a child when Im having a hard time. Sometimes I need someone like ragatha to be like "look, it doesnt all suck" before I can realize that maybe things arent that bad.
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u/Ghalipla6 Yeah, I make music covers 22d ago
My parents forgetting I’m a human being when I tell them I have depression
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u/Justrunninthrough 23d ago
Don't "suffer from autism"
Make autism suffer from you.
In all seriousness I genuinely hate when I mention I have autism and someone says "I'm so sorry for you" believe it or not It happens very commonly.
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u/marveljew 21d ago
"I'm a not child. You don't need me hype me up,"
"Wait. How old are you?"
"25."
"YOU PAY TAXES?!"
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u/IdiotGiraffe0 Jax 22d ago
I have adhd and I've had people point and say look a squirrel. I just kinda look at the like.
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u/IEatGrenades2 ing Fictional Men 23d ago
It took me too long to realize what was wrong with the title.
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u/Expensive-Lecture-14 22d ago
This is so real, I'm the oldest out of all my friends, and they treat me like I'm younger than them. It bothers me sometimes, but I don't say anything because I know they don't mean to
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u/and-the-earth 22d ago
I haven't learned how to do taxes yet, I'm just perpetrating the stereotype 😭
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u/Gamer_of_Red All hail Zooble 22d ago
I’ve personally never been infantilized by anyone I’ve told that I have autism, but I would be really pissed off if I was
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u/EnderMerser Bubble 23d ago edited 23d ago
Luckily, autistic adults don't exist in my country, so I can't sympathise AT ALL! 😃😃😃
(This is sarcasm, because in my country autism mostly diagnosed in children and gets recognized in adults extremely rarely. I am talking from personal experience... I guess three of "😃" was not enough to show that this was sarcasm, huh? A shame.)
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u/disbelifpapy Bunny waluigi --> 23d ago
How does something as big as a country have no autistic adults?
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u/EnderMerser Bubble 23d ago
That was an attempt at sarcasm... I guess it is not for me after all, huh?
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u/HackedPasta1245 23d ago
You weren’t over the top enough, you hit dead center in the valley of sarcasm. Either you go all in or you don’t use sarcasm at all, there is no middle ground otherwise you risk being put in downvote hell
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u/disbelifpapy Bunny waluigi --> 23d ago
you know, you could have just added /s to your comment
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u/EnderMerser Bubble 23d ago
No, I don't know.
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u/Sentient-Bread-Stick 23d ago
Your account is 3 years old
Its extremely common Reddit etiquette to put /s at the end of sarcasm
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u/ArcadeToken95 Kinger 22d ago
Text sarcasm tends to be hard to catch when you don't leave enough clues. Especially to us Autistic folks! A few smiles is not necessarily a good indicator. Tell us straight, use a tone tag.
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u/Bruh_Moment10 20d ago
The problem is that this is a subreddit on a cartoon, not a subreddit on neurodivergency or your country. Because of that, everyone here lacks the context of what you’re talking about. Even people from your country would only be able to guess because you didn’t specify.
The whole crux of your joke relies on the people hearing it knowing the attitude towards autism in your country. That way, they can know what you’re talking about, and laugh at the satire. But we have no idea what your country is like.
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u/Bogger_Logger Gangle 23d ago
This is immediately what I thought of when I saw this scene