Fern Riley's comedy from Power and Chaos
I’m not sure what I expected from a comedy special called “Autistic Bikini Queen” that I found in the Recently Added Section of Netflix—no, that’s not quite true. Because, in a whiff of lateral and internal ableism—that is, to say disability discrimination that we have learned to aim at other disabled people as if life is one long evaluation that my former suck-up energy will allow me to score well on—I fully expected comedian Fern Riley to be built like a brick wall that might or might not have body odor. Like, the whole “Bikini Queen” thing is ironic as calling an old guy “young man” or some shit. I think I was wrong about that in a way I’m often wrong, but I think it’s important to document such things as a path to growth. More to the point, she’s funny and great to watch.
Fern isn’t glamorous, but if she really defines herself as a “hot autistic woman”, I wouldn’t disagree.Even if she’s not all that into eye-contact—an obsession American culture has that I don’t share, whether due to being stared at, or my own(comparatively minor) neuro-divergence, I’m not really sure.
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