This title seems in bad taste. These behaviors aren't supposed to code Barry as autistic, they're supposed to indicate his psychopathy. Sure, in isolation, they could be associated with either, but as a whole character, Barry is not representative of people with ASD, but people with ASPD.
I feel like a lot of his social obliviousness is also there for comedy value. So he doesn’t respond naturally and that’s what makes the show funny a lot of the time.
It’s funny to put these scenes into the context of him being in the spectrum but most of the instances are Barry trying to act normal while either trying to hide how he feels or what he knows (ie ryans death was known to him when everyone found out but it really hit him once he was in the same room with ryan’s father, or after he had killed a fellow marine but couldn’t tell anyone) or it’s him fitting in to a situation that isn’t really him (ie him at the bar when he just met the acting students, or at the party trying to impress sally) also the scene where’s he’s drunk at the party he was more or less talking like a marine, and an infantry marine at that.
I sort of problematically assumed so bc he doesn’t ever really laugh, joke, get jokes, when others are sad he doesn’t really process it well, or fully aware of his surroundings (like when ppl react to Ryan’s death, not understanding the priest piece, Sally crying) and is so serious about everything all the time
I never really thought about it, but it would make sense if Barry was on the spectrum.
"I just like broth" he's like me fr
I normally hate when people use "autistic" as an insult, but after watching this, I think I can really see Barry being inside the spectrum.
This title seems in bad taste. These behaviors aren't supposed to code Barry as autistic, they're supposed to indicate his psychopathy. Sure, in isolation, they could be associated with either, but as a whole character, Barry is not representative of people with ASD, but people with ASPD.
No wonder I connect with Barry so much
Sally kinda sucks with helping Barry, doesn’t she?
I wish people would stop trying to make serial killers relatable when the point of the show is to tell you that hes not relatable.
I feel like a lot of his social obliviousness is also there for comedy value. So he doesn’t respond naturally and that’s what makes the show funny a lot of the time.
omg yes i was thinking that for the whole show
Well he was a marine…
“Whatever it is that you were drawing on the other night… you can tell me about it.”
“thirst is not an emotion”
This is both very entertaining and anxiety inducing xD .... Gosh he's relatable
It’s funny to put these scenes into the context of him being in the spectrum but most of the instances are Barry trying to act normal while either trying to hide how he feels or what he knows (ie ryans death was known to him when everyone found out but it really hit him once he was in the same room with ryan’s father, or after he had killed a fellow marine but couldn’t tell anyone) or it’s him fitting in to a situation that isn’t really him (ie him at the bar when he just met the acting students, or at the party trying to impress sally) also the scene where’s he’s drunk at the party he was more or less talking like a marine, and an infantry marine at that.
adding onto this!
We need a updated version of this
I read the title of this video and thought "wtf, Barry's AuTiStiC"
I sort of problematically assumed so bc he doesn’t ever really laugh, joke, get jokes, when others are sad he doesn’t really process it well, or fully aware of his surroundings (like when ppl react to Ryan’s death, not understanding the priest piece, Sally crying) and is so serious about everything all the time
yes yes yes I was legit thinking this all throughout the show omg
the one that gets me is that he calls Sally his GF after sleeping with her once