
samesies, my personal ideal re: representation calls for a bit of both. like for instance I enjoy how Will Graham in the Hannibal tv series is given that kinda-hokey “autism superpowers” treatment while also being shown struggling with pretty much every facet of interpersonal communication
I sometimes need competent characters that have autism but aren’t savants and struggle, because I’m autistic and I’m not a savant, I have a stupid amount of knowledge on dogs and gets into arguments because the rules aren’t being followed and cry when I’m only two minutes early to something because I was almost late, I need characters that I can look at and see being able to live and not being broken while also not being shown as having godlike smarts
I can find redeeming qualities, but I can also acknowledge most autism in shows is showing savants or people who have a special interest in something “useful” whereas I do not, and instead I cry when I’m late to things or if my routine gets knocked off balance, I have a ton of information about dogs, big cats, and how chickens make their flocks and think. I want to see representation of people like me in media so I am making it myself.
I have two unfinished fics that i occasionally update very sporadically when I remember they exist and remember that I need to update them, usually I end up posting a few chapters at a time when I do update. Both are from my hero academia but are very ooc, and not canon. They’re very much “what if” scenarios