You know what. Best autistic rep I’ve ever seen? The Nameless Man in Willy’s Wonderland.
I’m fully serious. He’s just a quiet, kinda weird dude with sensory issues and a love of pinball, absolutely murdering the shit out of possessed animatronics! It’s great! There’s no weird inspirationporn garbage, there’s no one trying to fix him, he’s just a dude and he’s doing some funky little ghost murders.
My evidence for his autism is as follows:
- takes his breaks every hour on the hour regardless of what’s happening around him, because he was told to
- has to change his shirt anytime it gets even a little dirty, violent reaction to being splashed with warm blood but not cold oil
- extremely awkward social behavior, either too much or too little direct eye contact and weird or situationally inappropriate reactions
- completely nonverbal, only sound he ever makes is a warcry during a fight
- genuinely unconcerned about the animatronics until they impede his job, even stopping the Final Girl from attacking one because it was stationary at the moment
- completely task oriented. He’s been given a job and by God does he intend to do it
- stimming! Lots of it, while playing pinball and by the way he attends the machine you can feel the return of a past special interest
- complete sensory overload scene
- the sound of metal on metal sends him into a rage like you wouldn’t believe
- the soda thing. All he drinks is this one particular brand of soda that he takes with him everywhere.
Anyway I don’t have a point with this, I just think it’s straight up the greatest autistic character led movie I’ve ever seen in my life and I bought it on bluray.
