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That little jump any time someone grabs, taps, or slaps Paul's shoulders. noooo... Also Paul's face at The Implications {:c

well now i want to watch starship oh my god he is babygirl

dave slept there ironically

this just makes me realise how much attention to detail there is in the acting like WOW great video loved reading the commentary

I thought this was just gonna be a copy and paste of the entire production, somehow it’s better

Came across this by accident, and i do not mean to be rude even if this comes off that way, but this video just seems like an extreme stretch to the point where it's very visible that you are grasping at straws to prove that Paul is autistic. I do not know if you have autism, but if you do, it is totally fine to relate to a character who is allistic, it doesn't disprove your autism. There is this terrible trend in fandom where people will armchair their favorite characters with whatever they have just because they relate to them. Fuck, i have seen it in real life where people will just armchair their friends and random people they only know on a speaking basis like classmates or teachers because of one odd behaviour that they also have due to their illness or disability. This just medically pathologizes normal human behaviours like for example disliking certain things or being slightly blunt. Throughout watching tgwdlm i never even considered the option that any of the characters could be neurodivergent, especially autistic, because they simply do not fit the criteria to be considered that. And throwing that aside, none of them struck me as such, because they behave like neurotypical individuals and you can very clearly see that they were not intended to be autistic or even autist coded. Videos like this make me concerned for the future when it comes to autism awareness because if armchairing is so prevelant now, how will it be in 5-10 years? I am geniuenly scared that soon people will start proclaiming that they are "neurospicy" and "acoustic" (or whatever other slur that will rise in the meantime) just because they have a hobby or bite down with their jaw when nervous WHICH IS A TOTALLY NORMAL BEHAVIOUR FOR A NERVOUS PERSON, and says nothing about their neurotype. Also many autism sympotms can also come from different things, for example c-ptsd is often misdiagnosed as autism and vice-versa. There is geniuenly no shame in liking or relating to a mentally abled character as a disabled person, there is also no shame in being mentally abled. This is just a display of pathologization of normal behaviours and also a bastardization of autism as a diagnosis.

Bow before the KING of the tism rizz

hes literally me dude

Wait there are people who interpret Paul as an asshole? I hope these people don't meet me because if they think he's an asshole then they'll think I'm absolutely the worst. Dude is just vibing

THE OKAY COUNT i'm screaming with joy i love that you counted that for us!!! as someone who counts the fucks in starkid shows, this just made me really really happy to see what else can be counted!!

i think this may explain why i liked paul so much from the moment he came on-screen lmao

My spouse and I constantly say “I DIDN’T THINK ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS”

I would die to be able to see the digital ticket version, do you know if there is somewhere I can see it?

No wonder I relate to Paul even though musicals are one of my special interests. Also, off-topic, but I love how TGWDLM subverts the trope of "turning on a radio or tv and getting just the info you need/what's going on in the plot" by having Paul listen/watch news that are completely unrelated to the musical apocalypse, and turning off the tv right as the relevant news are about to startXD I know this trope exists because of how important it is to be concise and conservative in how you decide to orchestrate the time spent in media, but Starkid's subversion of the trope was done really well and Peanuts makes me happy

When he says "I don't give a shit about them" he sounds like Abed from community who is very autistic

good news it’s semi confirmed now! Jon agrees that Paul is autistic coded but said hecan’t confirm it as fully canon because the langs didn’t say they wrote him as such

12:36 personally ive always interpret this as Paul hating physically going to theaters to see musicals - he probabaly doesn't like being around in a crowd and seeing people sing/dance in front of him. Meaning he could like animated musicals if he watched them at home. Or maybe he just likes that specific Moana song and not the movie lol.

This is everythinggggggggg

10:36 Wait I didn’t get the shake weight thing omg

12:44 maybe Richie (trans or not) really liked Moana. If were going with Paul is Richies uncle. And he was just kinda. Forced to watch it over and over because Richie is definitely also autistic.

16:15 im not sure if it was intentional, or im stupid, but it sort of matches up with NPMD, when the nerds were in waylon hall, richie talks about ruth, pete thinks it’s about steph, richie corrects him, and in that scene jerry almost does the same thing but opposite? (sorry if this was poorly worded)

The thumbnail continues to delight

can’t believe bug being ace never crossed my mind thank you for this

i want you to know this video is everything to me. paultism.

I didn't know the bucket thing was improv ??

- Another metrosexual/not heterosexual truther!! - i always like to think that avps ron was just in love with harry - he's drunk with power LKJSLDKFJDS - appreciation moment for the moment where ron wants to feed harry a red vine he manages to sound so heartbroken lmao - THE SPIDERMAN MOMENTS IN ALL THE AVPT - the taylor lautner bloop is so cute lmao and the fact that joey brings it up even when they "switch rooms" is my favorite thing - and someone giving nick lang the recognition he deserves YEAHf - NO WAY IS THE BEST SONG FUCK YEAH - "look at ginny. not a thought behind those eyes" - joey's vocal evolution from the first avpm to avpsy is incredible - ANGY - joey truly is the MVP of avpsy because he carries a part of the emotional backbone of the story and he does it so WELL. ii don't know if you've seen the clips of an overnight live stream with nick and joey where nick talks about how seeing joey do ron's speech of motivation for harry and then singing sidekick made him restore faith in the show again again because he and matt thought they had flopped hard after the whole tom riddle diaper scene.

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im a joey pete enjoyer (possibly bc i just really love how joey plays any of his roles) but realizing that nick pete = short king pete which means pete being shorter than steph,, its opened up a world for me honestly

1) i think the best autistic characters are the ones who were not deliberately written to be autistic 2) i don't have a source, but jon matteson said that paul knows the lyrics to moana better than bill because he was closer to alice after bill's divorce and reluctantly watched it with her because she wanted to (which is sweet on paul's end and sad on bill's end)

This is important

Paul really is me fr, that’s my autism spirit animal right there

I think the events of NPMD happened in TGWDLM up until the day that the meteor drops in the theater its just that the timelines of the universe is on a sliding scale that's why NPMD happened five years later. so basically both shows events happen until the meteor drops and then we get TGWDLM plot but if the meteor doesn't drop, we get NPMD. At least that's what makes sense to me.

Emma and Paul are really perfect for each other

fun “fact” (theory) about tgwdlm! there are two death scenes that go relatively unnoticed, because they are the character’s last moments before pokey consumes them entirely. mr. davidson’s is when he forgets what he was going to say, assures his wife that “maybe someday i’ll remember”, tells her goodbye, and then collapses over himself for a few seconds before perking up and singing again. that’s also why his face looks so distraught when he forgets what he’s going to say - he knows he’s dying and there’s nothing he can do about it but to try to make the last moment with his wife is a nice one. the other one is sam, who’s final moment is when charlotte begs him to talk to her and he takes off his sunglasses and goes “charlotte?” and then stares at her with something like terror for a few seconds before, well, pokey consumes him and he goes back to singing. i roll this around in my brain a lot so now you can to, the apotheosis is upon us 😘

I can not tell you how pivotal "La Dee Da Da Day" has become to my stimming. I sing it all the time to improve my mood at work. XD Paul and I have a very different brand of autism, yet I relate to him 100%. He says "okay" I say "all righty". We're bluntly honest, adverse to unexpected touchies, easly startled, over apologize for things that aren't always our fault, etc. I love musicals because a good one has songs that go so hard for the express purpose of more emotion to be injected into a scean. Which means I love musicals for the exact reasons Paul hates them. XD

I think the reason Nick as Pete is so much more confident than Joey as Pete is because of their environment. Nick Pete is far away from home at abstinence camp, while Joey Pete is surrounded by the social hierarchy and having to deal with Jaggerman constantly. It's the same reason why Steph seems less confident here than she does in Npmd.

In sing Moana part, I wondered if Paul knows all the lyrics because he just has a really good memory? That could also be why he doesn't like musicals (or anything that has music in it) because he memorise it all directly and the echolalia + the songs being stuck in his head make him go crazy

Well, I spent 95% of this video wondering if I have undiagnosed Paul

even tho i havent watched the musical i... love this sm. we need more videos like this where ppl highlight characters' autistic traits, it feeds the happy chemical in my brain

4:27 as someone who’s favorite character is pete and also has low blood sugar, id do anything to seriously injure this guy

Loved this video, also off topic, but I just imagine Bandit King having a microphone he uses when he yells "YOUR WAGON IS ON FIRE!" mostly because of the studio recording of Trail To Oregon

I have decided to belive that Paul is a fan of silent films, and he has a collection of them. Alice, as someone who wants to make plays, thinks this is Cool As Sh1t.

SECOND? THIRD? hehe anwyay im here again

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let it be known that @slothturtle9815 had the first comment within 1 minute of the original upload and i butchered their efforts by reuploading to fix my silly mistakes. o7 (ty for that comment btw it made me smile /gen. i was like wow ive made it! /silly)

11:36 i had to pause and drum on the table w my hand because you're so fucking right. why are they like that. just say what you want from me fr

woah i KNEW there was a reason why mariah's facial expressions reminded me of my own

Still wondering does anyone know what Ted said in that one part?

9:50 XD I [CENSORED]ing LOVE John Malaney! XD