Adam Quinn ✦

@ autistic folks!!! You need to watch "A Kind Of Spark". It's a new series about two autistic sisters and if witches are one of your hyperfixation/special interest, then this show is for you!!! The actresses are all autistic and it's just wholesome to see such an accurate autistic representation 🤍 Keedie, Nina and Addie are everything to me, I literally cried watching every episode. The portrayal of autistic women made by autistic women is so important I cannot put into words how much this means to autistic youth. I wish I would've had this representation when I was an undiagnosed autistic teen 🫶🏻 it would have helped me so much but even now, I felt like my inner child was healing. So yeah, WATCH A KIND OF SPARK !!! ✨️✨️

Also, I truly believe that witches were autistic women

I feel like I never actually realized how much I needed actually good autistic rep made by autistic people until now

I mean I saw these autistic characters made by neurotypical people and played by neurotypical actors (when actors are needed). And I was like "sure, these are mediocre reps and I despise them, and I wish there was actual good rep out there, but whatever, not gonna happen ig so this is all I got". Then I saw some shows by autistic people and with autistic actors coming out and I thought "oh, cool, I'm gonna watch them when I get the motivation" but then never actually watched them, you know ? I knew I wanted that, but it wasn't like... a priority.

But then I got some free time, "hey, what was the name of this show again ?" and. I ended up watching "A Kind Of Spark" and "Everything's Gonna Be Okay" in like two days. And the whole time I was on the verge of tears. When I tell you I even literally cried at some point in the second season of Everything's Gonna Be Okay.

Because I suddendly realized HOW MUCH I NEEDED these kinds of shows, and how STRAIGHT UP OFFENSIVE all – ALL – of the reps made by neurotypicals are. I never understood how important this was. Representation that is just SO REAL. That isn't the neurotypical interpretation of autism, but really what autism actually is. The difference is just SO MUCH MORE obvious now. All these details overlooked by neurotypicals, all their fantasies about autism. Now I'll never be able to even glance at their shows about autism. I already hated them but now I just think they shouldn't even be allowed to make them

I knew this was bad rep. But I never truly understood HOW BADLY it affected me to see these terrible reps everywhere, and HOW MUCH I craved for actual good rep, until I started crying like a baby the second I saw what good rep actually looked like and felt like to me.

It's so weird because I remember I felt the exact same way when I saw an actually good ace rep for the first time, but idk, I just didn't think I would feel the same with autistic rep for some reason ? Because we have autistic rep way more than ace rep... But it's bad rep so at the end of the day it just feels the same as no rep at all, or maybe it's even worse. The realization hit me like a truck and I am in tears lol

tv shows that deserve more recognition

h2o: just add water - best show to ever exist

mako mermaids - also the best show to ever exist

a kind of spark - great autism rep with autistic actors

tell me everything - great mental health rep

first day - family friendly series about a trans girl

heartbreak high reboot - quinni is me in disguise

the bureau of magical things - has my favourite trope

heartstopper - perhaps i relate a little too much to charlie

everything now - great queer rep without labels

siren - polyamorous mermaid, what more can you ask for

"A Kind of Spark" is a brand new show about AUTISTIC women, starring AUTISTIC women, based on the book WRITTEN BY AN AUTISTIC WOMAN!

Thinking about A Kind of Spark again and also about Mary from BBC Ghosts. And how she was accused of witchcraft for acting 'weird' (personifying inanimate objects and talking to them, for example). And how Katy Wix said after her autism diagnosis that she felt that it showed in the way she played Mary specifically...

Addie Darrow and Keedie Darrow are canonically autistic sisters from the show A Kind Of Spark. It was based on the book by Elle McNicoll who helped create the show and she is also autistic. Both actors are Autistic and many autistic actors were in the show as a whole.

This show was incredible from start to finish. It's about Addie Darrow who is autistic and finds out about two autistic sisters who a few hundred years ago were accused of witchcraft and disappeared. With the help of her sister Keedie and her new best friend Addie researches the mystery of what happened while also trying to change the culture of the small town they live in. -Mod Dragon

Adam Quinn: Witchhunter

hello ben fans, finally i updated my akos gdrive with good quality copies of the show rather than the screen recordings i did after it first aired!

here you go

A Kind of Spark trailer!

modern Adam Quinn ⟡

I was thinking of this Laz drawing and wanted to do something similar with Ben

bro the fact that this beautiful show gifts us an autistic girl from the 1500s and in doing so, saying that autistic people have always existed and we’re not going anywhere & also giving us a character that is complex and interesting and saves her sister… you can just tell this story was written by one of us. I love this show and I love Elinor

I am never gonna get over watching a kind spark for the first time on bbc and feeling so seen, my heart melting and my hands flapping from seeing people like me on a show written by a woman who is like me

I am also never gonna forget reading, hell followed with us as i also felt so seen in it as a trans masc person.

Addie darrow and Benji are my favourite book characters who are like me in different aspects and made me feel so seen and happy

A Kind of Spark fanart

This part made me cry so much

Same, but quite different.