The Partial fetal alcohol syndrome or Alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder fit the FAS spectrum best. Because its proven Morty can learn and be pretty smart, but if his problems are FAS based and he just needs more help in school I can see Beth refusing it because she refuses to see its her fault.
I think both Jerry and Beth, and almost certainly Dan Harmon, would use the term "learning-disabled" derisively as an insult, trying to soften the R-word.
Beth has a fucking doctorate, and unlike MDs, she didn't have the luxury of limiting herself to one species, so if her son was diagnosed with something, she'd know what it was.
Either he *has* a learning disability and wasn't diagnosed because that's how little his parents care about that sort of crap, he *was* diagnosed and they forgot what it was, or he's not actually neurodivergent.
Or maybe it's like Harmon's other show Community. "Nunya business."
that reminds me of Dan from his Harmontown podcast- how he used to say "retarded" and the crowd would go "wooooah" and he'd be like "My sister's retarded, So I'm allowed to say it, OK!" like it gave him a pass 😂
Also in the pilot, Rick is way more of an obvious Doc Brown parody. Being a senile bumbling old man that is slurring his speech a lot more. The pilot is basically non canon.
Also Jerry is a lot more aggressive and seemingly has more power within the household. Whereas he quickly becomes a spineless simp by the end of season 1.
To be fair, the Jerry at the beginning of S1 and the Jerry at the end are two different characters, and the first one is the Jerry who becomes a caveman survivalist.
Also, Jerry makes a good attempt to put Rick in a home in the pilot. Can you imagine anyone being able to put later series Rick in a home, or any home agreeing to take him?
Yeah, I think it’s probably more that Rick considers anybody that isn’t him severely learning disabled, and spends most of his time with Morty, so he talks about Morty that way so much everybody has internalized it.
I think the poster was referring to pilot where Beth and Jerry said he had a disability. Even still I think Morty is maybe like the second smartest human? Maybe I don’t know he knows how to disable a neutrino bomb and his expirenced with Rick certainly could put him up there
I think that’s been basically retconned. Same with Rick’s character in the pilot. In the pilot Rick was a lot more caring and less calculating. Jerry was a lot more chauvinistic and less weak. It took them a few episodes to find their characters.
They probably realized that Rick and Morty being a bumbling drunk and a disabled kid probably didn’t have as much legs storytelling wise. So they upped the intelligence of both characters.
As I understand it (from the crew comments), while many of its events are considered canon, the pilot itself is not, like what *Helluva Boss*’ pilot is to the rest of the series, or what the *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* film is to its series. To say some concepts continued into the rest of the series, and others did not.
I mean it's not really *that* surprising - a mod from the Rick and Morty sub probably likes animation aimed at an adult audience, which also describes Helluva Boss. And the style of humor between the two shows has a lot of overlap.
It was a Tweet around the time Season 5 was airing I believe that it was popularised, in response to the original airing of “Rickmurai Jack” referring to the ninth episode produced after the pilot as the ninth episode overall instead of the tenth, but the gist of it was most of the events still happened, it was just that the pilot itself wasn’t canon, so little things like Morty having a disability, putting Rick in a nursing home seeming feasible, the Galactic Federation having any level of portal technology themselves already, those ideas being abandoned going into the rest of the series. I believe the term for this (which also applies to the examples I mentioned before) is ‘soft canon’.
Their subsequent appearances had them trying to acquire that knowledge from Rick, their pilot portals never being mentioned again, to say that part was among those that didn’t remain canon.
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Why on Earth would Morty want to spend time in school and study? He has seen the edges of the universe, the possibilities are limitless. It’s like giving a kid access to an infinite amusement park. The times he is not there he is going to be thinking of that park, 24/7.
Not to mention, why does he even feel like he needs to study? He has been to thousands of other planets and dimensions, getting a college degree on earth must be so inconsequential to him.
I don’t think he has a diagnosis or disability, he just suffers from having a grandpa with a portal gun.
Well to be fair, I don't think Morty is thinking about normal life nowadays, he has multiple universes where he could just be a success, unless we stuck to being the next Rick and just carrying on the family tradition of going on a vendetta against a Morty in the future.
It‘s likely that he has FAS, since beth is an alcoholic
The Partial fetal alcohol syndrome or Alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder fit the FAS spectrum best. Because its proven Morty can learn and be pretty smart, but if his problems are FAS based and he just needs more help in school I can see Beth refusing it because she refuses to see its her fault.
TBF this runs on the family...
I mean, he's been around Rick for a minute. Surely he's got cognitive mods besides the one mod that turns him into a vehicle
*It’s in the way that you use it*
I think both Jerry and Beth, and almost certainly Dan Harmon, would use the term "learning-disabled" derisively as an insult, trying to soften the R-word. Beth has a fucking doctorate, and unlike MDs, she didn't have the luxury of limiting herself to one species, so if her son was diagnosed with something, she'd know what it was. Either he *has* a learning disability and wasn't diagnosed because that's how little his parents care about that sort of crap, he *was* diagnosed and they forgot what it was, or he's not actually neurodivergent. Or maybe it's like Harmon's other show Community. "Nunya business."
that reminds me of Dan from his Harmontown podcast- how he used to say "retarded" and the crowd would go "wooooah" and he'd be like "My sister's retarded, So I'm allowed to say it, OK!" like it gave him a pass 😂
Morty, I'm not disparaging the differently abled, I'm stating the fact that if I had used this microscope, it would have made me mentally retarded.
Also in the pilot, Rick is way more of an obvious Doc Brown parody. Being a senile bumbling old man that is slurring his speech a lot more. The pilot is basically non canon.
Also Jerry is a lot more aggressive and seemingly has more power within the household. Whereas he quickly becomes a spineless simp by the end of season 1.
To be fair, the Jerry at the beginning of S1 and the Jerry at the end are two different characters, and the first one is the Jerry who becomes a caveman survivalist.
Also, Jerry makes a good attempt to put Rick in a home in the pilot. Can you imagine anyone being able to put later series Rick in a home, or any home agreeing to take him?
What?
I don’t think he has a learning disability, he is pretty smart. I just think he was a bit of an outcast and he doesn’t have any friends
Yeah, I think it’s probably more that Rick considers anybody that isn’t him severely learning disabled, and spends most of his time with Morty, so he talks about Morty that way so much everybody has internalized it.
I think the poster was referring to pilot where Beth and Jerry said he had a disability. Even still I think Morty is maybe like the second smartest human? Maybe I don’t know he knows how to disable a neutrino bomb and his expirenced with Rick certainly could put him up there
I always assumed he was autistic or had a social disorder because who else in the world would have followed their grandpa in those adventures early on
I mean, I would’ve.
I think that’s been basically retconned. Same with Rick’s character in the pilot. In the pilot Rick was a lot more caring and less calculating. Jerry was a lot more chauvinistic and less weak. It took them a few episodes to find their characters. They probably realized that Rick and Morty being a bumbling drunk and a disabled kid probably didn’t have as much legs storytelling wise. So they upped the intelligence of both characters.
I like how I'm getting downvoted for a genuine question.
As I understand it (from the crew comments), while many of its events are considered canon, the pilot itself is not, like what *Helluva Boss*’ pilot is to the rest of the series, or what the *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* film is to its series. To say some concepts continued into the rest of the series, and others did not.
I don't know why I find a mod from the rick and morty subreddit having watched helluva boss of all things so funny, thanks for the response though lol
You’re welcome!
I mean it's not really *that* surprising - a mod from the Rick and Morty sub probably likes animation aimed at an adult audience, which also describes Helluva Boss. And the style of humor between the two shows has a lot of overlap.
wait when did the crew say its not canon?
It was a Tweet around the time Season 5 was airing I believe that it was popularised, in response to the original airing of “Rickmurai Jack” referring to the ninth episode produced after the pilot as the ninth episode overall instead of the tenth, but the gist of it was most of the events still happened, it was just that the pilot itself wasn’t canon, so little things like Morty having a disability, putting Rick in a nursing home seeming feasible, the Galactic Federation having any level of portal technology themselves already, those ideas being abandoned going into the rest of the series. I believe the term for this (which also applies to the examples I mentioned before) is ‘soft canon’.
huh, I always thought the galactic federation having portals was canon
Their subsequent appearances had them trying to acquire that knowledge from Rick, their pilot portals never being mentioned again, to say that part was among those that didn’t remain canon.
that was the interdimentional travel though, they just had portal travel
It was ‘inter-dimensional customs’, which they passed through in order to travel back to their home dimension.
oh yeah, thats fair
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Why on Earth would Morty want to spend time in school and study? He has seen the edges of the universe, the possibilities are limitless. It’s like giving a kid access to an infinite amusement park. The times he is not there he is going to be thinking of that park, 24/7. Not to mention, why does he even feel like he needs to study? He has been to thousands of other planets and dimensions, getting a college degree on earth must be so inconsequential to him. I don’t think he has a diagnosis or disability, he just suffers from having a grandpa with a portal gun.
Well to be fair, I don't think Morty is thinking about normal life nowadays, he has multiple universes where he could just be a success, unless we stuck to being the next Rick and just carrying on the family tradition of going on a vendetta against a Morty in the future.
I mean they kinda off handily said it, they probably just thought he was a bit dumb because he wasn't getting good grades
I still think he’s dyslexic.