Bronies, Furries and Autism

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Bronies are people who are hyper-obsessed with My Little Pony, and the term is a portmanteau of "Bro" and "ponies." If you are rolling your eyes, believe me, you are not alone. Basically, they flood image-boards and so-forth with screenshots from the television show, which recently in history got a macho/smarky makeover to make it more accessible to adolescent audiences (like, someone besides 4 year old girls). The person who was in charge of the makeover was actually one of the brains behind the Power Puff Girls, and since MLP was an established franchise, this person's ideas caused it to take off like a rocket.

Furries are basically a fandom, composed of teenagers, twenty-somethings, and occasional thirty-somethings, who enjoy imaginative fantasy involving non-human/non-humanoid "roleplaying" characters ("anthropomorphic" foxes are massively over-represented), and some of them like to prance around in costumes that resemble mascot uniforms, called "fursuits."

Unsurprisingly, considering the predominant age-group, a lot of them like looking at porn, specifically involving roleplaying characters they developed before they were old enough to be interested in it, which some people are apparently convinced represents the overall mindset of what is called the "furry fandom." Not really. If you are a male in your teens or twenties and not looking at porn, then you have a prolactin tumor. They're extremely sensitive over it, though.

In actuality, they're more interested, for practical purposes, in playing games like Mario Kart, and they listen to a lot of dubstep. They are massively over-represented on MMORPGs like Second Life, Warcraft and Runestone, and they really seem to love Minecraft servers, too. Many of them spend way too much playing first-person shooters.

They also tend to have massive meltdowns anytime they are even mentioned in the media, even if the reporting is balanced or even positive. Why? Because they associate with other "furries" to get away from mainstream human society, which many of them are convinced, not entirely without justification, is full of sociopathic wackos whom they want nothing to do with. They want mainstream human society to all get AIDS and die. They don't WANT to be in the media. A lot of them would freak out over even being discussed casually here on Wrongplanet. They are really THAT sensitive and neurotic. If you do not know intuitively how their minds operate, then they do not like you, and they do not trust you.

Anthrocon 2014, world's largest "furry convention":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOVUj7D_WSY

While I am not a fan of either, I have no problem with those who are fans as long as they aren't hurting anyone or making any of those gross adult cartoon images.

I'd think there is some, for a variety of reasons. Anyway, it seems there is an significantly high number of aspies in one brony facebook group I'm in, so there is that.

Oh. Well I'm not then. I had My Little Pony playset when I was a little girl, and then gave them away to another little girl when I got older.

I must agree, there has to be a high change of bronies/furries that have autism etc

I believe this because (like a lot of fandoms) its based around making original characters/story, and ofcourse people are always calmer when playing in other worlds as things cant go wrong etc

I was a brony at one point and now moved to a partial furry (For the record they are different fandoms, but ofcourse they can meet at certain points)

Tbh this happens with fandoms all the time, because people who have heard of these fandoms are normally in it, so ofcourse people from the outside thinks its wierd until you research it (Guys watching cartoon horses for example)

Ofcourse, the problem is with the media and how they want to show things in their light to force opinions into audinces.

Not a brony, I enjoy the furry artwork but the whole costume, sex, thing isn't for me...

I've noticed the brony fan base has a bit of some autistics in there, after watching the documentary and of course just being on the internet.

The Sonic fan base has a substantial amount of fans on the spectrum too, the most infamous fans being Christian Weston Chandler and Sammyclassicsonicfan

I think it's just a topic to gravitate too. There are other topics that have an autistic gravitational pull such as zombies, Five nights at Freddys, animes, animals, power rangers, Mario, and countless more.

Yes.

I would say that Bronies, Furries and Otakus could be likely autistic if these topics were their life as in obsession. But until now, the most people on the spectrum in a group I have met until now, are in the Adventure Time fan group. Many anime fans aren't real otakus but just like everything anime and expect everything Japan to be like anime, however never seem overly obsessed with it. Most of my friends who call themselve otakus have less mangas and collectables than me and only have like a gig or two of anime on their PC which I have that amount in hentai pics, another fourty in hentais and about 40 gigs in anime. My brother has more anime than me. Plus lots of so call otakus and a lot of bronies seem less introverted and more like NTs.

Would make sense. Most Tokusatsu and anime shows attract me, same as zombies and comics. I'm an old school nerd haha

Only 2% of furries are autistic

How can you possibly know that?

You can see the brony/autism stereotype in thew comments section of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEjgPh4 ... 3QIM1BvIWE

While its true that the entirety of the people there act like man-child weirdos, I don't think its right to blame it on Autism.