I think I know why G/t resonates with so many of us autists. If you're tiny, the world looks big and scary. It's overwhelming. Every footstep feels like an earthquake. Every conversation sounds like a screaming audience at a concert. Every table or chair is the size of a hill. Everything is too big for you. Too much for you. You feel like you're too small to do anything. All you need is to be accepted and properly integrated into society. It also helps if you have a giant friend to gently hold you and press you against their chest like a weighted blanket. If you're giant, the world is too small for you to fit into. People find you weird and off-putting and scary, even when you don't mean it. You feel like you have to walk on eggshells in order to seem "acceptable" to society. You can't be true to yourself in this world that's too small for you. Society only accepts you if your size can be useful to them. Everything you do is scrutinized by society. They view you as a monster. But in reality, you're just different. Forced to live in a world that wasn't made for you. All you need is for society to accept who you are and give you a place to fit in. It helps if your tiny friends are there for your needs, letting you talk to them or gently fidget with them. I know I'd rather be tiny, but the giant part was very much based on my personal experiences as an autistic person.
Plus, if you're tiny, nobody can see you or the struggles you go through, while if you're giant, you stick out like a sore thumb, and everyone can see just how weird you are. Either way, once people notice you, they get a full view of just how weird and different you are. How "other" you are. How much of a "freak" you are for something you can't control. But even if you feel alone, there will always be people out there who will understand you, who will accept you for who you are. You just need to know where to look. And maybe, if you look in the right places, you'll find other people just like you.
