i know some other people don't like it when nonhuman characters in fiction act as a metaphor for autism and other disabilities... but all honesty in my opinion that metaphor slaps. "shapeshifter who has to mask who they are because they feel like their real self won't be accepted" "monster who doesn't fit in with society and is self-loathing about it" "robot who doesn't understand how people work" "alien who is confused by the rules of the societies around them" real
also nonhuman characters are super cool, and disabled characters are super cool. so when you get a disabled nonhuman character, you get twice the amount of super cool
