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"Autistic characters in popular media are always robots or aliens" I mean, that's just not true. Autistic characters in popular media in fact span a wide range of backgrounds, including (but not limited to):
- Time traveller
- Former cultist
- Morbid little girl
- Grown in a tube
- Ambiguously foreign
- Talking animal
- Curse victim
- Tech support
- Raised by wolves
- Ninja assassin
- World famous detective
- French
I’ve met most of these people and they are autistic. By the way
You know, when I saw this poll had been made I fully expected "morbid little girl" to win by a landslide, but evidently I'd badly underestimated the number of Tumblr user who have been harmed by the Wizard.
Naomi Klein, Doppio - Il mio viaggio nel Mondo Specchio
Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
A good day spent taking walks, eating food and agitating for better working conditions.
“You see it is important to understand how damaged people don’t always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It’s a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of feeling something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. […]
Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It’s difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.”
— Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology Of Water: A Memoir
Sulaiman Addonia, Il silenzio è la mia lingua madre
Megan Nolan, Atti di sottomissione
Megan Nolan, Atti di sottomissione
Cristina Rivera Garza, L’invincibile estate di Liliana
The Wonder, Emma Donoghue
Cristina Rivera Garza, L’invincibile estate di Liliana
DEEPIKA PADUKONE as Rani Padmavati in PADMAAVAT (2018) dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Priyanka Chopra in Bajirao Mastani as Kashi
Dans les instants de parfait détachement où l’univers paraissait se réduire à un jeu d’illusions, où mon propre moi s’abolissait, quelque chose subsistait : quelque chose d’indestructible, d’éternel ; mon indifférence me parut manifester, en creux, une présence à laquelle il n’était peut-être pas impossible d’accéder. Je ne songeais pas au Dieu des chrétiens : le catholicisme me déplaisait de plus en plus. Mais je fus tout de même influencée par Mademoiselle Lambert, par Pradelle, qui affirmaient la possibilité d’atteindre l’être ; je lus Plotin et des études de psychologie mystique ; je me demandai si, par-delà les limites de la raison, certaines expériences n’étaient pas susceptibles de me livrer l’absolu ; ce lieu abstrait d’où je réduisais en poudre le monde inhospitalier, j’y cherchai une plénitude. Pourquoi une mystique ne serait-elle pas possible ? « Je veux toucher Dieu ou devenir Dieu », déclarai-je.
Simone de Beauvoir, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée