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This is the show creator Andrés Eduardo wishes they’d had as a kid, and you can help fund it on Seed & Spark.

Andrés wrote this on the fundraising page for My Friend Blue: “Hello! This is my good friend Penny, and my friends call me Blue. We’re making a stop-motion animated episode of a day in Penny’s life as a non-speaking autistic child, with my help as an autistic adult! With your help, we can show kids on the autism spectrum that they’re not alone, and that there’s a supportive, loving community of folks just like them waiting to be discovered.”

The stop-motion animation is gorgeous, the sets are beautiful, the autistic dinosaurs are fuzzy and lumpy, and the pitch video is subtitled. And there’s a cat in a cat tower in the video. Yup, an animated autistic dinosaur with a pet cat made by an autistic person. Can’t improve much on that. Check out the subtitled pitch video below.

The team behind this incredible piece of representation is called Overcast, and Zoe, one of the other collective members taught me stop-motion animation with my favorite six-legged octopus plushie last year! I can’t wait to see this project funded and getting off the ground. If you can contribute on Seed & Spark, please do. And either way, spread the word about My Friend Blue!