Reading Fiolet Evergard as Autist Woman

Spoilers for Purple forever

Purple foreverAnimation production of KYOTO, which adapts with a series of a light novel of the same name, makes a significant case as an incredibly acute, emotional, favorable view of the experience of autistic women. In the series, the protagonist pureole demonstrates many signs that are strongly identified with autism as a whole, including difficulties in mutual communication, the fight against emotional empathy and cognitive empathy, dull and literary communication and flat influence, which is perceived. Although this is not necessarily conceived, one reading Purple forever It is that the series examines the notion that the ways of expression of empathy can be expressed by women -neurovergent, not inferior to the fact that neurotypical persons express.

Although the violet was not specifically written when she implies an autistic woman, I feel that she demonstrates a few features from the very beginning of the series and is those who have autistic, especially anyone who identifies as a female can see themselves. The series begins with purple not only separated from the military at the end of the war, but also from the major – one stabilizing force in her life, which gave her orders, routine and structure, but also paradoxically the first of many people to show her kindness. The basic, its orders and structure of the military are predictable and regulated for purple and reassure its anxiety. With replacement of prostheses, it requires orders to be given to seek what is familiar to her. Without this specific and necessary structure, it has expectations of expectations for alternative behavior.

This becomes easily apparent when it is brought to Evergaren’s civilian household. Violet often see greetings in inappropriate and out of contextual times, and diminishes its own discomfort for their own harm. This is an experience with which many autistic women are too familiar. Due to socialization and a terrible indicator of insufficient diagnosis According to UCLAAutistic women often minimize their own needs and try to find out the needs of others. It is known as masking. This is often not only unsuccessful, but it creates a huge degree of internal and external stress.

Realizing that the violet is not your socially typical girl, she is offered a job at CH Postal Company from Claudia Hodgins, the owner and name of the company and the former friend of the main purple. Like many autistic people, purple Advantage in this regiment’s role In many ways, because it does not require it to participate in excess socialization. It is a work with clear goals, and it puts it in a role, even going too far and continuing to deliver letters long after the night. But it makes sense: many people with autism have difficulty in moving from one task to another, and can repeat one task for personal or career harm, since Purlet can be seen in this case.

And all this role does not last. Instead the violet soon finds a role that can Actually Be perfect. In the context of CH, CH has automatic memory doll services. Automatic memory dolls are trained scribes who rely on the emotions of their customers and translate them into beautiful letters for recipients. The most important thing is that automatic memory dolls demonstrate extremely performative femininity and seems to be not known men’s dolls from automatic memory, which seems to provide a lack of comments on empathic socialization of women against men.

Obviously, the violet is interested in performing the role for itself for deep personal and experienced reasons. She accepts the words that the latter speak with her the main thing – the emotional “I love you” – and explores these feelings in her new role. Although it is not an emotional limit, it is ready to move at this moment of history, she realizes that writing letters can serve as a carrier to study these emotions in a safe and separate way. Instead of exploring these emotions interpersonically with people with whom it is not yet related, writing letters gives it unconventional means for the development of cognitive and emotional empathy. Many of the series perceive the colder and unobstructed behavior of Piolet at first as proof that it does not feel emotions and cannot empathize with them. But the reality with purple, as well as with autistic people who write great people, is that it actually feels emotions very deeply. She simply does not have a working language or cognitive models to express them in methods that are recognized for her neurotic peers.

Despite the fact that the role opens numerous opportunities for how it moves around the world, the struggle of Fiolet with social interaction makes it the first steps, since the doll of automatic memory seems to be very poor. She is dull in her estimates of others, which reflects in her style of writing. It also screams incredibly, or can be seen as such. Only after developing a connection with Lukulia, colleague, and studying the story of her brother, who fights drug abuse problems, does she learn how to take her forces with cognitive empathy and use them in her favor in this new environment.

In the following episodes, she takes this force and uses it through writing letters to not only learn to understand and name her own emotions, a general autistic struggle, also known as AlexemiaBut to form social ties with others. The violet differs from other automatic memory dolls in that the neuroder -arrival that she feels causes her accurate and insurmountable with her customers. As a result, she quickly becomes a very requested clerk and, learning to name her feelings through a safe environment, is given an emotional catharsis of her own.

We, the viewer, testify to this in the flash. In it, we learn that the unobstructed mannerism of Violet is the trait that she had (at least to some extent) all her life, not specifically related to trauma. Very often the social expectations of people dedicated to women at birth lead to their clear signs of autism, only medical professionals According to retrospective. This is very common Experience for autistic women who should be incorrectly diagnosedOften several times before you finally make the right diagnosis and which are not available. In that not diagnosed at the age of 18.

This is the result of systemic sexism. The diagnostic criteria of autism were written with boys in mind, which are often present differently from girls. Autism study, Returning to the 40’sAlmost exclusively included boys in the development of the study, and systematically excluded women (it should also be noted that the studies used in this article suggest focus on CIS women). Because girls also expect that it will also have high emotional empathy through socialization, their struggle is not perceived as a struggle with others, but as personal and moral failures. This often leaves autistic women vulnerable to unemployment and even domestic violence.

We see this stigmatization in the show. Violet gets acquainted with Major as nothing but weapons. It demonstrates selective mutism and difficulties with eye contact and socially appropriate behavior, and it is absolutely dehumanized by the brother of Major Ditfried. In fact, he presses on Gilbert’s major to think of a violet no less than weapons and a monster. Although, more than literally, it is not uncommon for women with a neurodergeal to deal with social ostracization if they do not provide any usefulness. As a result of the neuro -arrival of violet, it is subjected to additional injury to war, which ultimately complicates the people around you to learn to treat it.

And yet, by the end of anime, the violet is emotionally healthier than where it started. She acknowledges that she is different from other people and that she may never understand what is meant when he told her he loves her. But, as the series has repeatedly demonstrated, autistic and neurodergitgen women can thrive and form strong connections with other people if they are simply given space for this by their own merit. There is an environment where women with autism can thrive, and many still want to contact others. When the social convention is getting back, masking is not forcibly, and the expectations of women’s social behavior are not rigidly applied, it becomes an opportunity. The series clearly demonstrates hopes for autistic women who often begin deeply because of gender expectations of how empathy should be demonstrated.

In the end, the violet is given a space of acceptance, where she can safely work on her own injuries, and learn how to communicate with others at their level, without harsh expectations. Differences in neurology do not interfere with the ability of a person to form relationships and find acceptance. This simply requires a small amount of grace from others and willingness to accept alternative communication.