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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.

- Erica Milsom, Director and Screenwriter for Loop. [x]

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Loop (Pixar 2020); neurodiversity symbol

#actuallyautistic #actually autistic #neurodivergent #asd #autism #loop #pixar #pixar shorts #loop pixar #I was watching it and idk #and just reminded of the infinity symbol #and the rainbows #also the fact that they had an non verbal autistic adult/teen was just #amazing #like the fact that she wasn't a small child was great #also stimming!!!#and pecs #I legit cried when she was in the pipe and it was too loud #and then she had a meltdown and it was heartbreaking

17th June 2020

Marcus

Marcus appears in the short Loop. He is an experienced canoeist and is a friend of Renee. At camp, he arrives late to canoe with the rest of the team, who have already begun their loop. He is then partnered with the non-verbal autistic girl Renee, much to his confusion. He greets her with a fist bump, but he doesn’t know how to really communicate with her. Despite this barrier, he tries to be friendly and show her his paddling, but Renee doesn’t like it. She shows him a poop emoji on her phone, so Marcus padddles to the port-a-potty at the bank. However, Marcus realises that Renèe didn’t want to go to the toilet at all, but wanted to stim by brushing her hands on the reeds, which Marcus joins in with. Realising that Renee loves her ringtone, he paddles the canoe into a tunnel so Renee could amplify her ringtone. Unfortunately, it also amplifies the noise from a nearby speedboat, which distresses Renee and causes her to have a meltdown. In trying to calm her down from her meltdown, Marcus inadvertently makes things worse. After leaving her alone for some time, he picks up a reed and sets it down next to Renee’s hiding place; under the canoe, and apologises to her. After some more time passes, Renee picks up the reed and calms down. Together, they come to understand each other as they both imitate Renee’s ringtone and they paddle back to camp in the canoe together. At the end of the short, Marcus sends a text to Renee asking her if she wants to hang out with him.