Thread by @SachaJones93

Just heard about #puppetgate.
I’m autistic. I’ve done my share of acting. I love puppets and puppetry.
I do *not* like whatever the hell that grey goblin thing is supposed to be. Whatever it is, it’s not supposed to be human, but you know, I guess that’s the entire point.

Society already sees us as subhuman. Like we don’t have joys and pleasures, or if we do, we’re told not to enjoy them and not to express that joy. They shock us into acting normal because if we don’t, we get ostracised for our autism. Not our ‘autistic traits’, out autism.

So every day we act. We act normal. We act neurotypical. We act allistic. We act like we don’t care about superheroes or anime or Disney or space or whatever SI all that much. We act like certain textures don’t bother us, when they do. We act like we don’t samefood, which we do.

It wasn’t that hard for the play to find an autistic actor. There’s plenty of us out there, in fact, there’s all of us out here.
But then again, would any of us even *want* to act in that ableist piece of trash they call a ‘play’?

If it was a play about a black person, would it have been made? How about an Asian person? Or a woman?
So why is it okay that it’s about a disabled person?
It’s not okay.
It shouldn’t have been made at all.
#ableism #puppetgate #mytwocents #allinarow #allinarowplay

P.S. Fuck Autism Speaks.