That would explain why his thighs look proportional.
I agree entirely with your assessment of A:TLA's treatment of disability. While watching the episode where Teo first appeared, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. I kept waiting for Teo to be objectified, or to be someone's Very Special Lesson, or, at least, to be used as an example of something (and I suppose he is, but it's very much in the background). Instead, Teo is just Teo, and it is unremarked on that Teo is not only part of his community but a well-respected part of his community. He's cool. He has his adoring fans. No one in-universe thinks this is odd. I can appreciate this better now that the episode is over and I can breathe again.
I assumed it was the onset of a lifelong condition like schizophrenia. I can never remember the characters' ages, and she doesn't seem... fourteen? to me, anyway, but she's not unbelievably young for that... I think. That would leave the most options open for fanwriters, since it's not unheard of for something like that to get worse, to cycle between better and worse, or to go away entirely. Luckily, canon is vague enough for writers to play with it however they want. >:)
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Date: 2013-03-20 01:58 am (UTC)I agree entirely with your assessment of A:TLA's treatment of disability. While watching the episode where Teo first appeared, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. I kept waiting for Teo to be objectified, or to be someone's Very Special Lesson, or, at least, to be used as an example of something (and I suppose he is, but it's very much in the background). Instead, Teo is just Teo, and it is unremarked on that Teo is not only part of his community but a well-respected part of his community. He's cool. He has his adoring fans. No one in-universe thinks this is odd. I can appreciate this better now that the episode is over and I can breathe again.
I assumed it was the onset of a lifelong condition like schizophrenia. I can never remember the characters' ages, and she doesn't seem... fourteen? to me, anyway, but she's not unbelievably young for that... I think. That would leave the most options open for fanwriters, since it's not unheard of for something like that to get worse, to cycle between better and worse, or to go away entirely. Luckily, canon is vague enough for writers to play with it however they want. >:)