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    3 months ago

    What movie is top right? And who the heck idolizes Patrick Bateman? What is there to idolize? His skincare routine? His music tastes?

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        3 months ago

        I suspect idolisation by reflection. When Patrick Bateman is one upped socially he turns into a liquidy angry mess, thus serves as a reflection of how some autists feel when they’re out of their element socially or emotionally.

        …and I think there’s something for autistic people to idolize in the fact that he just goes on, regardless of his disassociative breaks from healthy socialisation.

        No, he’s not a healthy model, but I can understand people feeling something is reflected there.

        Of course in actual fact it’s satire of the high society side of the 1980s patriarchal finance bros… But post modernism dictates that each individual will have their own interpretations.

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      Top right is Don Draper from Mad Men. He’s an incredibly dysfunctional 60’s businessman.

      And Patrick Bateman is…weirdly relatable to a lot of autistic loners (like myself), if you can overlook the murder and complete insanity.

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        3 months ago

        Do NOT emulate Bateman’s skincare routine, you’ll overexfoliate yourself into eczema. I am speaking from experience.

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          Good to know. Fortunately, I am far too lazy for that. Cleanser and moisturizer will have to do lol