15 Ways Wednesday Addams is Cool and Autistic
Some of us autistics feel this to be true.
Spoiler Alert: Contains minor spoilers for Wednesday season one.
Wednesday Addams, a familiar character from The Addams Family comic strip, TV show, and films, is now the titular main character in the Netflix show Wednesday. Wednesday, as she appears on this show, is so autistically coded — an argument could be made she always has been — that she could be the poster child for unmasked autism (conversely, to know what masked autism looks like, look to her roommate Enid).
So many alleged allistic (non-autistic) content creators on social media are bristling at the very idea that autistic people see her as autistic. I say alleged allistics because these creators are seeing a lot of autistic content on the subject of Wednesday’s autism and have been enraged by it, not ever thinking for one minute, why is the algorithm sending me so much autism content in the first place?
If they are seeing it, it’s for a reason.
So why does it bother these creators and other allistics that autistic people are pointing out how Wednesday Addams, as portrayed on this show, is blatantly autistic?
Yes, it is our old nemesis ableism again, but what specifically is disturbing them this time? Is it…
