@Aiannucci I'm reaching out tentatively here with a question...

In your David Copperfield film (which was superb), did you intend for Dora to present as autistic?

I ask because to me she clearly was, and I loved her for it.

Those of us in team neurodiverse (I'm ADHD myself, it's a kind of cousin to autism) discover new things all the time. Recently I've come to grips with the fact that the manic pixie dreamgirl trope is super autistic.

But autistic the way women tend to be autistic, which presents very differently from how men tend to be. This thread on how Elle Woods, protagonist of Legally Blonde, presents as autistic covers a lot of it - https://twitter.com/FayeFahrenheit/status/1306310800794148865

When I was at uni I had a comic strip called Dora. It was named after Dora from David Copperfield, who I always felt a huge affinity for and whose ridiculous death I resented.

It took another 20 years before someone told me I'm neurodiverse, and I think she was too.

The Dora in your film was perfect. Intentionally or not she came across as one of us, loud and clear.

One of the things we neurodiverse women know very well is, we do not fit in. We don't fit in to standard conversations, social patterns, narratives. We really, really know.

When she asked David to write her out because she didn't fit in...

That took my heart right out of my body.