#since it's like (lord farquaad pointing meme) the autistic fred guy is talking about autistic fred again!

[nemmet]

honest to goodness my ultimate dream is to someday make a youtube video essay on fred as an autistic character. i've already made a good handful posts on the topic, and anyone who knows me knows how passionate i am about this aspect of him, but i really feel that a video essay would be the perfect format for a thorough breakdown on it all.

fred's autism isn't quite as speculated/widely known as velma's being a lesbian, but recently many more people have been (re)discovering his autistic coding (and canon autism in sdmi!), celebrating and identifying with it. as an autistic person with a special interest in this silly character, it makes me so happy! i'm hopeful that this will someday lead to a piece of scooby media where it's fully canon again, maybe even mentioned in the text like velma's crush on coco in trick or treat.

all this being said, i think there's now an audience out there that would be interested in hearing about the history of his character, the autistic traits he displays, why people like me find him relatable, and so on! the only things holding me back are that i haven't yet seen everything scooby that he appears in (i grew up on all the movies but am still not up to date on many of the tv shows), and my terrible organisation skills (oops). so i made this post as sort of a prompt for myself, and for people to add their thoughts/suggestions for if i do manage to make it (you will of course be fully credited if these are mentioned in the video). does it double as an excuse for me to ramble about my favourite character? yes, absolutely.

that's all for now, goodnight coolsville (gets promptly run over by the mystery machine)