Sam Winchester. Name change. \o/

[certainthings]

I'm afraid this is going to sound offensive and it's really not meant to. / disclaimer.

I was thinking about Supernatural and Sam last night and this morning and I've come to the conclusion that Sam Winchester is autistic* or Jared's kind of portraying him that way.

Wait, wait. Hear me out.


*and not soulless.

Castiel asked Sam what he was feeling and Sam said he wasn't because he has no feelings. / this paraphrased.
And yet, Sam's had several expressions since his "soulless" return.
I'm not an expert but it seems that if you're not feeling anything you wouldn't have any expressions. You'd just be neutral.

Years ago I watched a documentary on faaaaaaaaaaaaaaces [The Human Face hosted by John Cleese]**

One of the people he talked to was a college aged boy (I think he was around that age) who had Asperger's. Now, I don't remember exactly how their conversation went but basically the boy said that he modelled his facial expressions on what expression(s) the person he was talking to had.

And it seems that it is sort of what Sam is doing. Seriously, it does.

I was also looking at the symptoms on this page and I believe Sam has a couple of them.

**It was a really good documentary and if you haven't seen it, you should. And if possible you should tell me where, if possible, one might be able to download it because I'd love to see it again.


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I'm considering changing my name on this here livejournal. I'll probably wait until the New Year to do so if I do.

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Hi new friends!

Yeeee more people to share the Lost Girl loooooooooove. *high-fives* all round.

Comments

[bigmamag.livejournal.com]

It could also be a sociopath/psychopath thing. I can't remember, but did he say he can't feel emotions? Maybe it's just that he has no empathy, like he has no capacity to care about others or anything but what benefits him or what will help him achieve his goals. I read a cool forum once with an anon girl who was a high-functioning sociopath who learned easily how to fake emotion and she even described how, when she was a little girl, people were unnerved by her unblinking stare, so she learned that if she moved her head side to side as she talked or paid attention to it, she blinked and looked more normal.

Or Jared is just going for a robot. Without the awesome dance included.

[spinfrog.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was going with "sociopath" too! But he is a "good" sociopath who knows that Dean knows best! Or something :P

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

That could also be. Hmm.

Maybe for sweeps Sam will start some awesome robot dance.