Wow I love those trans Disney Gals

30 Days of Autism Acceptance Month

day 10: representation (how important is it to you? is the rep out there good or bad? what is your favorite rep? what would you like to see more or less of?)

representation is EVERYTHING to me because there is so little. being able to see myself in characters and headcanoning characters as autistic is a life line. it’s made me love myself more and love being autistic.

the canon representation is very little and most of what we have is bad. (which is why headcanons are so prevalent and important) my favorite canon autistic characters are:

Abed from Community: being able to see an autistic character that’s special interests are related to film, tv, and such is amazing!! especially since a lot of them have science or math interests and i could never relate

Billy from Power Rangers 2017: this movie is underrated in general but also first live action autistic superhero and he’s Black so!! and it was done well! his rambling and social skills were very relatable

Renee from Loop: this is a disney animated short if you aren’t familiar but it stars a nonverbal autistic girl at a camp and she is partnered with another kid and over the short the boy figures out how to read her actions and communicate with each other and they end up friends. that’s probably a bad description but it’s really good!! i got really emotional seeing such good nonverbal rep and also Renee is played by an autistic actress!!

lastly i’m just gonna add this in here but Scott Summers specifically in Marvels Snapshot X-Men: Scott has always been very autistic coded but in this comic he was written by an autistic writer who also related to that and he said he wrote scott as autistic in his comic. and it really shows. scott was always one of my favorite marvel characters and this comic is near and dear to my heart. it shows scott being the odd one out, being seen as weird, and bullied by peers for it. having a special interest in the fantastic four. hyperfixating. wanting to be prepared for everything. trying to make sense of the world and himself. ahh anyway it’s amazing and i definitely recommend.

okay what i’d like to see more of, i mean there is so little good rep so i mean there’s a lot i’d like to see. mostly tho just not being shown as a burden or bad, and more non science related special interests, more stimming, just more of different. every autistic person is different we are all different and that hasn’t been shown people think we all act one way or are interested in the same things or look one way. i’d love to see queer autistic characters. autistics are more likely to be trans and so we deserve trans autistic characters.