yellow tongue alt just for funsies
Still unsure if I prefer her with normal guts or yellow
Well whatever, she can be whatever I want in the moment.

Essentially, it's a shifting of the burden to prove a character is autistic from the writer to the audience.

"Coding" a character as autistic is just significantly easier, because its plausibly deniable. No matter how many autistic traits you give a character, if you never say it outright then it will always remain effectively a headcanon.

you kinda have to find an excuse to say "THIS CHARACTER IS AUTISTIC" which risks making you look bad if your autism rep sucks, or seem preachy if them being autistic doesn't actually effect anything
not me defending, just thinking of possible reasons why

The accidental ableism of many shows comparing autistic people to inhuman things aside
I think it might just be hard to mention a character being autistic in a story that isn't about their autism. It's not exactly a visually obvious trait like race or gender.

perhaps most infuriating of all is that videogames suffer from "animation is cinema" syndrome where the only videogames touted as being art are the already respected classics or banal "cinematic experiences" that are trying their damndest to be movies and be taken sooo seriously

As someone who is very invested in games as an art form, the way videogames are treated as a medium infuriates me so much

Can you not buy a new screen protector??