ImAVirgoOnPrime is weird and wonderful, and has one of the best autistic characters to ever grace our screens, AndalusianDoge writes:
has a lot going on: a magical realist coming-of-age story about a 13-foot-tall Black teenager, criticism of the superhero genre, and explanations of Communist theory somehow funded and distributed by Amazon. Amidst all its narrative weirdness and thematic ambition, it’s also one of the best depictions of autism on TV, thanks to the character of Flora .
Like many autistic people, Flora is more adept at written than verbal communication. As a child, she figured out how to write before she learned how to talk at a comprehensible speed. As an adult, she’s fully capable of communicating clearly with others, but it takes her more effort. “It’s like translating,” she explains to Cootie. “I have to change my words and my walk. I have to change my facial expressions so people understand me.
Flora tells Cootie that she connects with him because he’s “missing the same puzzle pieces as me”—which could be viewed as another autism connection, though the “puzzle piece” symbolism for autism is pretty widely despised within the community for its connection tocharity Autism Speaks. Cootie is in many ways even more socially awkward than Flora is, but his awkwardness comes from being sheltered from the outside world for 19 years.
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