When I Got The X Autism Instead Of Being Good At Math Or Science

About

When I Got The X Autism Instead Of Being Good At Math Or Science is an exploitable meme template that stems from a 2023 TikTok uploaded by @patisseriepop. The meme shows a devastated-looking person with a big pink bow on their head. The meme refers to the hyper-fixations and personal interests held by some autistic people, which sometimes manifests as an intellectual affinity for math and science, and other times manifests as a niche interest that could be considered less useful by society. The meme grew popular after May 2023.

Origin

On May 29th, 2023, TikToker^[1] @patisseriepop uploaded a video where they "fell to their knees" wearing a pink dress and a large pink bow on their head. The video contained a text overlay that read, "When I get the rhythm game autism instead of the being good at math or science autism." The post gathered over 3 million plays and 400,000 likes in five months (seen below).

Spread

On June 1st, 2023, @patisseriepop reposted an image from their video to their X profile @janpyonmagic,^[2] gathering over 25,000 likes in four months (seen below, left). This image likely became the template for consecutive memes using the image format. On June 4th, X users @career_val^[3] and @pharikhurra^[4] posted edited versions of @janpyonmagic's image, gathering over 1,000 likes each (seen below, center and right).

On July 27th, Instagram^[5] page @numetal_moment posted a meme using the format, gathering over 7,000 likes in two months (seen below, left). An August 3rd 2023 post on Tumblr by @taavisplushies gathered over 2,000 notes (seen below, right).

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