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Autism Acceptance CANONS

↳ Renee (Loop)

We were really aware of the “Nothing about us without us” movement and I was like “there's no way I'm going to make a film that doesn't honor that.” What would be the point of that? The greatest challenge I can give Pixar is to take all these artists who are so talented and say, “Let's focus on this character that we haven't seen portrayed in film or TV at all.” I haven't seen a lot of nonverbal characters, let's just dive in and learn and listen to these voices. 

Our first consultant was actually a friend of mine, Adrian Citroen, who I've known since she was born, and she's autistic and she's not nonverbal but I was like “I really need to bring somebody in to read the script early on.” I don't want to put the script forward until we tested it and heard from an autistic person like “does this work for you? Does this feel truthful? Where are we making mistakes?” It was great. She read it, and we all sat and did a table read and read it out loud, and she had her thoughts on it and I integrated those into the script. It was a really powerful experience bringing her on.

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