#sheldon bazinga robotic aspergers savant type character

[magioffire]

since its disability pride month as you might have seen on my bio page, i write valeriu as an autistic coded character, and also someone who has to deal with chronic pain/hyper-analgesia.  its been super important to me to implement these aspects into valeriu’s character as someone who also has to deal with  neurodivergance and disability. 

#its also important to me that i and other people for that matter #get to experience characters that reflect ourselves without being the butt of some joke #like as a fat person i can count on maybe....a few fingers the amount of fat characters ive seen in media that arent straight up just jokes #same with autistic characters. i can count on even less fingers the amount of autistic characters ive seen in media that arent the classic #sheldon bazinga robotic aspergers savant type character #and you know what it sucks when the only time you see yourself reflected in media is as a joke #or to say 'arent these people just so sad compared to us normal people :( ' #which is why its important to write vali and portray him as such: capable. desirable. emotive. ambitious. #because so often just as fat characters are portrayed as ugly lazy and incompetent #autistic characters are portrayed as robotic and only competent in niche interests and general...jerks #so....YEAH THATS MY POINT THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK #its very important to me to portray vali in a way that reflects an actual autistic person not what media often sees us autistic people as #and actually feel like my experiences and emotions as a nd person are being written out instead of lost to the void of my mind loool #thank u vali for letting me be able to do that #also being able to write a character with chronic pain??? its really cathartic #ooc. #tbd. #also it simply just makes sense for vali to be autistic #it makes SO much sense