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Is Fred Jones from Mystery Incorporated autistic?

Is Fred Jones autistic?

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 9.7%

  • No

    Votes: 6 6.5%

  • Is OP an idiot?

    Votes: 78 83.9%
  • Total voters
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Painguy

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The shaggy memes got me watching scooby doo and I can't tell if Fred Jones is supposed to be autistic or not. He must be pretty good at physics to set up all those elaborate traps. His social cluelessness is off the charts, and he is obsessed with traps and all things trap related.

Are there any blatantly autistic characters in cartoons?

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Im talking about the new show where Freds dad is the mayor.
 
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John Doe

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OP, do you really think that Scooby Doo writers in the 60s deliberately wrote an autistic character into the show?

Or is the topic just a way to get a discussion started about autistic characters in cartoons?
 
PSqueak

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John Doe said:
OP, do you really think that Scooby Doo writers in the 60s deliberately wrote an autistic character into the show?

Or is the topic just a way to get a discussion started about autistic characters in cartoons?
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Mystery Inc came out this decade.

It's an specific iteration of the character that had a lot of Autistic like traits (fixation into a single hobby, problems reading people's emotions, socializing problems)
 
FlowersisBritish

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The real question is who the fuck refers Freddy as "Fred jones"

John Doe said:
OP, do you really think that Scooby Doo writers in the 60s deliberately wrote an autistic character into the show?

Or is the topic just a way to get a discussion started about autistic characters in cartoons?
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Tbf, autism was a lot less understood back then and autistic people were considered weird/eccentric/off/a whole buncha other things so it is decently possible writers just wrote in a weird person they knew who happened to be autistic.
 

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Fred has shown an ability to build complex machines to catch the bad guys going all the way back to the original series.

Think it's like the second episode of Scooby Doo Where Are You where he first builds a Rube Goldberg like device to catch the bad guy, but catches Scooby instead(as is the norm throughout the series)
 
PSqueak

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Dishwalla said:
Fred has shown an ability to build complex machines to catch the bad guys going all the way back to the original series.
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In the original series he would come up with them, but he wasn't obsessed with them with the devotion and attention to detail he was in Mystery inc. tho. Traps defined his character in that series.
 
HStallion

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OP he's not autistic. He's got a very serious fetish for traps and bases his entire lifestyle around the planning, setting and springing of traps. He's REALLY into traps.
 

John Doe

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PSqueak said:
Mystery Inc came out this decade.

It's an specific iteration of the character that had a lot of Autistic like traits (fixation into a single hobby, problems reading people's emotions, socializing problems)
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Painguy said:
Both kinda. Im talking about the mystery Incorporated series
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Oh we're talking about a particular version of Fred. I thought this thread was about Fred Jones throughout all of Scooby Doo media, shows and movies included.

I've never seen mystery inc so I can't comment on that. Beyond that I don't know enough about autism to say one way or the other about Fred in general but I'm leaning towards no.

Every awkward character isn't autistic. Its starting to get overused like the word sociopath.
 
InspectaDekka

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Well idk because he seems quite sociable and accepting of new people when they go to some town and meet the townsfolk there.
 
Kingpin Rogers

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Being incompetent at socialising and having a passion is enough to be considered autistic now? I don't think there's much to this theory op.
 

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Cheerilee

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Nah he's just unambiguously focused on the one thing is truly loves.
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Nah, it's more than that, Fred's seriously damaged (in Mystery Inc).

He was raised by a man who was not his father, and who constantly lied to him and told him that his mother ran off when he was an infant. This drove him into the world of "traps" as his child mind concluded that maybe mommy wouldn't have run away if he had been able to trap her and keep her in place so she couldn't run.

When Daphne throws herself at him again and again and again, he's completely oblivious to her advances, and it's not always because he's distracted by traps, he simply can't comprehend Daphne's actions and intentions. When she eventually describes herself as being "trapped by love" the gears start to slowly turn in his brain as he tries to process the situation.

When Daphne and Fred are playing house as part of a trap and she snuggles up to him, he roughly shoves her aside and reminds her not to act so friendly, because they're supposed to be pretending to be married.

When Fred realizes that he does have feelings for Daphne, he curses himself, and asks why he can't be a cold, unfeeling asshole, like a real man.
 
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