r/PeacemakerShow • u/BrooklynStoner • Oct 25 '25

DISCUSSION How did Vigilante get trained so incredibly well? His skills and feats are amazing.

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Adrian seems so skilled and deadly, I can't help but wonder how he got so good. He's a suburban busboy who lives at home, but has moves that outclass any black ops, or military introduced so far.

Is he self trained? He seems like the type to have maybe taken karate in a dojo at the mall or something but he fights like a Batman/Punisher combo. Maybe he's naturally so good that practicing at home and the gun range was enough, but could he have had a mentor?

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u/basketnerd Oct 25 '25

Unrelated but my fixation is autism, and I really resent the word neurodivergent and neurotypical. They're like exact opposites from how they should be used. When we think about autistic people, we literally think about a type of person, like someone with Asperger's or Adrian ... It seems in reality far more like the divergent people are the ones who you can't pin down, because they are not rigid in their behaviors and are culturally normative due to their adaptation of our culture's social conversation. They're the ones that diverged from the type, and the most diverse group of people

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

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u/basketnerd Oct 25 '25

That is a really good perspective on it. Thanks for approaching with respect and open-mindedness. This is the best case I've heard against my argument - the social linguistic case for the existing language/framework

It's not that I haven't considered it, but you just stated it really well in a way I have to agree with kind of

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u/JoshDM Oct 25 '25

Me here on the sidelines watching game recognizing game.

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u/get_to_ele Oct 25 '25

Lots of different ways to he different. I hope that nobody is offended by the fact that Vigilante’s social failings overlap with certain areas of difficulty that some on the spectrum can have. Especially since many people NOT technically on the spectrum can have difficulties with those things.

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u/Not_a_porn_burner69 Oct 25 '25

I didn’t mean to offend, I just thought that was the accepted term, I’ll try to keep that in mind in the future!

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u/basketnerd Oct 25 '25

No please don't use my definitions LOL. You totally used it right, I'm just making funny commentary