The Ideal-ist: Episode 16 (Compton Boole)
Welcome back to The Ideal-ist, the YouTube Shorts companion series to The Autistic Mile.
In this series, Shane Gaffney explores the characters, games, shows, and stories that resonate with him on a personal level—not simply because they’re entertaining, but because they can reflect difficult emotions, psychological struggles, and ways of thinking that may feel especially familiar to autistic individuals.
In this episode, Shane turns his attention to Compton Boole from Psychonauts 2. Through Compton’s struggles with social anxiety and self-doubt, the game explores how harsh internal dialogue…
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