Ducktales just keeps...getting better and better. Today was an amazing episode. I’ve never gone into it on tumblr, not even on my main blog, but my job (that I’m currently laid off from due to obvious reasons, that is also my first job) involves working with autistic children. It’s like being part teacher, part daycare worker. I have friends who are on the spectrum, family members, and if we’re being honest, I’m also a bit divergent myself. Never diagnosed with anything but... you know. Different enough to be detected by other children, who were seldom kind.
Hard as my job can be, I truly love it because I love working with those kids. I could gush about them for hours, and I have missed them during this quarantine. Most of all I miss my main kiddo, who had just started doing a fantastic job using three words to make requests (like “I want movie” or “I want outside”, which doesn’t sound like a lot but truly means so much for a little boy who has been having difficulties with speech).
It’s been obviously stated a lot more eloquently in other posts on here, but Huey definitely seems to be autistic-coded, as does BOYD, and the case can be made for Gyro and Fenton also being autistic-coded. Which makes this episode involving all of them all the better! Today’s episode is amazing, fun, and heartwarming as well.
We see how Huey is picked on by other kids for being different, and how he is able to start a bond with BOYD near instantly. The two of them become quick friends, and Huey refusing to give up on BOYD was so touching. I kept preparing myself for Huey to lose faith, but he’s too smart for that. Gyro realizes that BOYD turning evil was never his fault, nor BOYD’s own fault. He puts himself in harm’s way to offer poor BOYD the one thing he has wanted for the longest time;
A lot of the kids I work with just want a hug, or somebody to be their friend. Somebody to play chase with them, or put a puzzle together with them, or even just sit quietly together and enjoy each other’s company. Several of the children I work with have tried to share their food with me, simply because they want to share it with me. And even if I hate pretzels, you better believe that if one of the kids I’m working with is offering me a pretzel, then by thunder I am gonna chew that pretzel and discretely spit it out later because I’m sorry I just do NOT like pretzels but I will not turn a kid down.
Because as this episode makes clear, everyone deserves to be shown kindness. That is always going to be an important lesson. It was important when I was a child being picked on for “acting weird”, it’s important when one of my younger cousins tells me that he gets picked on and called “stupid” when he’s trying his best, and it will be important for the generations beyond us too.
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