Luffy has been such a healing, validating character for me as someone Latino with ADHD growing up in a place where social norms and morality are dictated by white ethnocentrism.
He’s loud and happy and free and that offends people, but he straight up doesn’t care that they hate him, he WANTS THEM TO JOIN HIM IN BEING FREE AND LEARN TO FEEL JOY ANYWAY BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT EVERYONE HAS A BASIC HUMAN NEED TO FEEL JOY AND BE FREE.
yeah idk man just. As the happy loud kid that learned that joy is loud from my family and my culture and that it’s meant to be shared with others because that’s what makes life beautiful and was then violently, ANGRILY told to shut up when I engaged with white people and white culture the monolith just… yeag man. Yeah.

















