Autistic Super Heroes Written
and Drawn by an Autistic Artist
Is Autism a Super Power?
I go back an forth on this statement because I’ve seen it used in both incredibly empowering and incredibly ableist ways. My comic explores this idea by giving autistic people actual super powers and examining how even having super powers would not make a neurotypical world more easy or accepting of autistics or other neurodivergent people.
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Meet the Super Team!
Overshare
Overshare is the team leader. She is diagnosed ASD and her super power is telepathy. One might think telepathy would be helpful for an autistic, but actually it makes things worse. Overshare can’t figure out why no one says what they mean, furthermore people get upset at her when she can’t read the subtext of their words but they also get offended when they discover she’s reading their minds. Sometimes you can’t win.
Burnout
Burnout does not have a formal diagnosis, their super power is sudden and intense bursts of energy that he can channel as attacks or as a method of transportation. the energy is intense and can last a long time but once it’s gone Burnout needs an extended recovery time.
Shift
Shift is diagnosed ASD, his powers give him the ability to shape shift for extended periods of time, however he finds this very emotionally and physically draining, and typically needs to isolate after doing it for a long time. His special interest is sewing which he uses in tandem with his shape shifting abilities to win cosplay contests. He is the person who made the super suits for our hero team.
Flight Risk
Flight Risk is self diagnosed Autistic, her super power is super speed in all aspects, which she used to hyperfocus and read literally everything there is to read about autism to understand herself and to self diagnose. She has extreme social anxiety and tends to leave social gatherings earlier than everyone else.
Echo
Echo has a diagnosis of ASD, they communicate orally through echolalia and are fluent in American Sign Language. Their powers are super sonic hearing, which they find incredibly overwhelming. As a result they wear pink kitten noise cancelling headphones to temper the noise. They identify as non binary.
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— Jeff Baker, the Autistic Mystic, RevJeffTheArtist