#actuallyaustisic

god i wish rockets arc had focused more ON ROCKET but i will say the stuff we DID get about raquel i really appreciated - i didn’t catch up until today bc i’d been busy with school but when i initially saw that part of her story was that she had an autistic son i was a little wary of how that would be handled. so i was pleasantly surprised to see that the story wasn’t “having an autistic kid is hard” but specifically “raquel doesn’t know how to approach the fact that amistad is autistic, in fact she wants to ignore it and not empathize with his unique struggles, and this is part of what makes it harder for her to ‘deal with’ him” and to have her meet an “autistic” (non-human and dealing with different issues, but clearly coded as autistic in the ways that orion was meant to remind her of amistad) adult and learn to empathize that way was like. idk a very admirable choice that i personally enjoyed.