I've started watching King of the Hill for the past few weeks. I'm on the 4rth season now.
Is Hank Hill autistic?
>Hyperfixated on propane and propane accessories to the point of bringing them up in not appropriate situations(like suggesting to people he barely knows to work for Strickland propane)
>Similarly obsessed with manual labour, will go out of his way to ask for more work even if he doesn't get out of it(or even loses)
>Emotionally withdrawn
>general mannerisms
I'm assuming you've never met a boomer dad.
t. normalgay trying to take away our ONE (1) one singular (1) one good crumb of proper male autism representation, in a sea of dweeby effeminate little boys and "quirky" skinwalker tiktok girls
Alan from Smiling Friends is an autist and not really a sissy
You're right, Hank used to be the only one for so long but now we finally got another.
>men, relating to a guy who behaves like an obvious sperg but is never said to be autistic
>women, relating to a girl who never ever behaves autistically but is retroactively claimed to be so
hmm, wonder what that says about us
men see the world, women read the world
>(like Luann's mom, I don't know how Peggy could be related to trailer trash)
She's not related to Luanne's mom. Luanne's father is Peggy's brother.
derp, meant for
I'd say Laios is pretty good too although he's Cinemaphile so he may not count.
Cinemaphile has plenty of autism rep because the japanese as a people are autistic
true
Bazingaman is supposed to be autistic.
But he's a jerk that I'd punch in the gut If I met him irl.
I hate good doctor
Autistic girls can be quirky attention prostitutes, you don't have to be stoic to be autistic
True, they can be
But most attention gays who pretend to be autistic are not, and neither are the characters they write
They write those characters and attempt to "claim" autism because they wanna atone for a lifetime of bullying autists without needing to actually be autistic or claim 'gross yucky' real autists who give em the ick
Hank is the kind of boomer dad, that, if his own child were diagnosed with autism, he would repeatedly sarcastically say things like “Well if [autistic behavior] means somebody has autism, then I guess that means I do too, since I do that all the time.” And then everyone around him just awkwardly keeps their mouths shut because they don’t know if it’d do more harm than good to suggest he get the diagnosis so late in life.
Don't forget his trademark "heheh..." at the end
Was he autistic or did he just have Cotton for a father? Or both?
Nah. Hank is so fixated on normalcy that it loops around and makes him weird.
Yes
He's a simpleminded guy from a small town, the only thing that separates him a real hick is that he doesn't do meth and he won't stab you(like Luann's mom, I don't know how Peggy could be related to trailer trash)
I think the backstory is that Peggy’s brother was a regular dude that got baby trapped by a trailer trash tramp.
Though, I was always confused by the retcon they made to Peggy’s family background when they decided she grew up on a ranch. So I think maybe her brother’s personal history was left intentionally unclear in case they ever wanted to do anything with it.
Peggy got double, possibly even triple retconned.
Hoyt did too, albeit more softly since he doesn't show up. He originally wasn't imprisoned, he just skipped town on Luane after Leanne attacked him. He was retconned into being a convict (with the excuse of being a roughneck) after. Habitual convict Hoyt wouldn't have gotten beat up by Leanne, whereas "Peggy's weaker sibling" Hoyt might have, and roughneck baby-trapped Hoyt wouldn't have wanted to get in trouble fighting.
In season one, it felt like Hank had undiagnosed autism but was extremely depressed and Bobby also had autism but in a different place on the spectrum than his dad. Hank would say "That's boy ain't right" as a catchphrase but us the viewer could see Hank wasn't right either. Plus when we meet Cotton, we understand that Hank has trauma he also has been trying to walk off for years instead of addressing. But that's part of his character because if you agree with him, you see how he's there for his family, friends, and community. If you don't agree with him, you can laugh at people who don't know what you know about drugs and therapy. It's a give and take with this show, sometimes you laugh at it, sometimes it laughs at you.
>The social worker in the pilot is the bad guy but he's also the proxy for many viewers
Yeah it's hard to recognise where the trauma ends and the tism(if any) begins
I heard a theory once that the reason why so many symptoms if trauma disorders are also often present in autists, is because autists inevitably wind up traumatized just from living in a modern society that so strongly rejects autism. Really makes the ole noggin think.
Was Cotton a good grandfather?
He wasn't a good anything outside of being a soldier. And phenotype identifier
Hank is insecure from his upbringing. He has to make the things he values in life more significant than they really are.
I've been through this, Hank isn't autistic he's traumatized.
He spent his whole life walking on eggshells because his insane dad and checked out mom so his only real outlet were things like football. He's a man desperate for structure because his dad made sure he'd never have it. So he just throws himself into his work if his boss represents themselves as slightly more stable than a Mindbroken Vet.
>it's another low IQ always online morons grapple with the intersection of psychology, philosophy, sociology, and the humanities episode
99.99% of people are too criminally moronic to function in society but that remaining minority of not criminally moronic people in their infinite desire for More Shit have managed to trick them into carrying society's water and dealing with the blowback to themselves anyways. that's pretty much the gist of it.
He has a job and he likes it. Someone unemployed and terminally online such as yourself would never understand this.
But no, his brain isn't defective. Only his urethra was.
Liking your job is one thing.
Bringing it up at every possible opportunity no matter the context is another.