For your autistic character question, one thing I would especially like to see is more female autistic characters. I would also like to see less of autistic characters being portrayed as just awkward and embarrassing and more of them being part of a close friend group with people who actually like them and show it. Maybe even a nice romantic relationship. Or are you looking for more specific trait ideas or stim ideas for your characters? Are these your OCs that you've drawn art of?
i’m just looking for ways to represent autistic characters that rarely get shown in the rare media that has em! two of my main characters in what i’m working on right now are autistic and i just wanted input on what autistic people specifically would/wouldn’t want to see in those portrayals. one of them is this guy and the other is a girl i haven’t redesigned yet so i’m too embarrassed to show old drawings bahaha.