imagine if you learned that japanese twitter was full of baffling memes about jfk that required a specific context that doesn’t exist anywhere in america

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    10 months ago

    If it’s specifically the scene where the white doctor is throwing a tantrum and the Asian doctor is sitting in a chair barely reacting, I can see how that can be a meme for when the west throws a tantrum

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      10 months ago

      I google it and it seems to just be a generally memed show, i think your thing is more the english version?

      “Amputate everything below the neck” is the caption

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      10 months ago

      Coincidentally I was talking to one of my Chinese doctor friends who works in the West and she said that basicly the same thing happened to her but with a Neurotypical colleague. To quote her: “He’s not doing that because he’s autistic. Hes doing that because he’s white.”

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      10 months ago

      I feel like something about that guy’s performance in Good Doctor should be punishable by law but maybe I’m a self hating autistic