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The legacy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice<\/em><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>doesn\u2019t just herald the return of Michael Keaton as the titular ghoul. It also sees writer-director Tim Burton returning to his roots, with surrealist fantasy that fuses childlike wonder, twisted humor, and gothic visuals. Burton\u2019s ill-fated 2001 Planet of the Apes <\/em>remake took him down a path of seemingly endless reimaginings, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/em> to Alice in Wonderland<\/em> to Dumbo<\/em><\/a> to Netflix\u2019s Addams Family reboot Wednesday<\/em><\/a>. The whole time he\u2019s been lending his aesthetics to other IPs, though, I\u2019ve been clamoring for a revival of the Tim Burton I grew up with \u2014 the Tim Burton who gave me a safety blanket as a child growing up on the spectrum.<\/p>\n

I was diagnosed with autism when I first entered elementary school. Stuck in my mind palace, I fumbled to understand social cues. I was obsessed with movies, which were a manifestation of creativity I could escape to. And yet I failed to personally connect with the roster of picture-perfect A-listers who led most films. I certainly had no use for the archetypes of cinematic masculinity, whether that meant musclebound action heroes or movie stars who seemed like they were grown in a laboratory to be red carpet material. I related more to the Universal Monsters<\/a> \u2014 creatures who were antisocial not by choice, but by birthright. <\/p>\n

As a child, I rarely saw myself reflected in popular culture \u2014 it might as well have been the Cool Kids\u2019 Table I wasn\u2019t invited to sit at. The main exceptions were Tim Burton\u2019s films. With the subversive themes and outsider protagonists of his classic films, he spoke directly to the autistic experience. And his unyielding imagination and evocative craftsmanship taught me that the power of creative expression can transcend otherness. <\/p>\n

Until Beetlejuice Beetlejuice<\/em> came along, I\u2019d missed the kind of extravagant Burton visuals that used to be grounded in practical FX and gorgeous cinematography. That used to be a hallmark of his work, from his art deco rendition of Gotham City in Batman<\/em> and Batman Returns<\/em><\/a> to the chilling, blood-drenched atmosphere of Sleepy Hollow<\/em>. I also missed the mischievous, macabre gags that defined his \u201980s and \u201990s movies, including the manic, zany Pee-wee\u2019s Big Adventure<\/em> and the gallows humor of the original Beetlejuice<\/em>. These trademark characteristics return in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice<\/em> \u2014 but better yet, it delivers on what I\u2019d missed most in his work. It\u2019s the return of Tim Burton: King of the Weirdos. <\/p>\n

This is the same Tim Burton who helped make Johnny Depp a movie star by casting him as a sad boy with scissors for hands. The same Tim Burton who took a neurotic, bow-tie-clad man-child and turned him into a superstar in Pee-wee\u2019s Big Adventure<\/em>. The same Tim Burton who dusted off the legacy of a forgotten Z-movie director and made him an icon of outsider art with <\/strong>Ed Wood<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The most obvious example of his neurodivergent coding is Burton\u2019s interpretation of Batman. The Dark Knight is considered one of the most iconic pulp heroes in the history of popular culture. Apart from anomalies like the 1960s Adam West TV comedy Batman<\/em>, the character has usually been defined as what certain circles of the internet would call an Alpha<\/a>: debonair playboy by day, thug-punching Chad by night. Really, tights are an excuse to show off his bulging muscles as he takes a swing at crime.<\/p>\n

Burton famously (or infamously, depending on what part of the fandom you align with) went a different route. To widespread fan outrage, he cast Michael Keaton to play the Caped Crusader. More than that, he turned the square-jawed Batman into an introverted, even aloof victim of arrested development, one who reorients himself by retreating to the mind palace of his Batcave, and into the interior of his cape and cowl.<\/p>\n

In neurodivergent terminology, Burton\u2019s version of Bruce Wayne is a man who masks<\/a>. It\u2019s not just that he slips on a cowl to protect his identity, it\u2019s that he suppresses his atypical tendencies in order to blend in with the mainstream world. In this case, Bruce Wayne is the mask \u2014 Batman\u2019s highly maintained social persona. Only Tim Burton would\u2019ve staked the first major Batman motion picture on an interpretation so internal and cerebral, and only he could\u2019ve given me a Dark Knight who resonated with me so immediately.<\/p>\n

That characterization of Batman speaks to the broader trends of the experiences Burton elevates in his early films, and the struggles for identity that define his core themes. His protagonists aren\u2019t just defined by their neuroses or quirks \u2014 they\u2019re specifically characterized by the tension between their interior and exterior. Or, going back to neurodivergent terminology, they\u2019re divided between those who struggle to mask and those who refuse to.<\/p>\n

Winona Ryder became the poster child of goths with her performance as Lydia Deetz in the original Beetlejuice<\/em>, a baton she\u2019s passed on to Jenna Ortega in the sequel. In her own words, Lydia is \u201cstrange and unusual\u201d in Beetlejuice<\/em>, and she makes no bones about it. She\u2019s more than happy to disrupt her family\u2019s attempt at suburban docility. She rolls her eyes at her straitlaced father and wannabe socialite stepmother, and when otherworldly elements start surrounding her, she\u2019s more intrigued than terrified. Honestly? #Goals.<\/p>\n

Some of Tim Burton\u2019s other heroes weren\u2019t so content with themselves, and those are the ones who served as my avatars. The dynamic is most pronounced in 1990\u2019s Edward Scissorhands<\/em>, which is still Burton\u2019s most personal statement. It could even be construed as a spiritual autobiography for him \u2014 it follows a sensitive, pale, frenzy-haired oddball who\u2019s destined to share his creative miracles with others from afar, safe from the pressures of social hegemony within his gothic trappings.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, Edward Scissorhands <\/em>reads as a parable for disability. While Edward\u2019s bladed hands are a physical manifestation of difference that immediately stigmatizes him in other people\u2019s eyes, his condition also speaks richly to the autistic experience. He has a crude, rough appearance of standard human anatomy, but he\u2019s so misshapen that he can\u2019t carry out basic social gestures like handshakes. He exhibits behaviors that are widely understood to be broadly characteristic of neurodivergence: selective mutism, social disconnection, etc. The tragedy, of course, is that the polite, thoughtful Edward would love nothing more than to be accepted. <\/p>\n

But Edward Scissorhands<\/em> isn\u2019t a sob story about a misunderstood boy: Edward turns his curse into a gift through his craftsmanship. The skeptical suburbanites who take Edward in after his creator dies take an immediate liking to him once they realize he can rapidly trim their hedges, groom their dogs, and cut their hair. Once he\u2019s revealed as an arts and crafts savant, they effectively tokenize him, using him until his disability becomes a liability. Ultimately, Edward finds solace as an artist living in solitude. While Edward Scissorhands<\/em>\u2019 final message <\/em>can be debated, the movie\u2019s ending undeniably finds dignity in Edward\u2019s condition, and leaves him on a note of self-harmony. <\/p>\n

On paper, Edward Scissorhands<\/em> could be read as a defeat for weirdness, and a fable warning outcasts against hoping for social integration. But as I was wrestling with my diagnosis, Edward Scissorhands<\/em> represented a triumph against neurotypical hegemony. <\/p>\n

At first glance, Tim Burton\u2019s \u201980s and \u201990s filmography appears to be about the sanctity of mind palaces, the Batcave and Gothic mansions that represent mental shelter. Or it could be about finding comfort in sacred objects of familiarity, like Pee-wee\u2019s red bicycle. But these movies are actually about the power of creative outlets. There are so many psychological layers hopelessly entangled within these autistic-coded heroes\u2019 journeys: Early Burton protagonists find salvation in outlets that give them a voice and a sharply defined purpose.<\/p>\n

Edward Scissorhands lives on the margins of a community that shuns him, but he reclaims his voice and his identity by turning his surroundings into an art project. Ice, hedges, and other mundane objects are a canvas for the endlessly creative Edward. Batman walks a tightrope between his shadow self and the mask of a social persona, but he becomes a functional, even productive member of society, on the path toward inner peace through the project of being Batman. Most acutely, Ed Wood refuses to be written off as a delusional, talentless hack. He takes pride in his underdog status, refusing to apologize for his bizarre directorial choices or his love of Angora sweaters.<\/p>\n

That was a powerful lesson to absorb as a young child on the spectrum, and it resonates even more richly to me as an adult. In the neurodivergent wonderland of Tim Burton\u2019s universe, handicaps do not take away our voices, and our passions are never a liability. <\/p>\n

Tim Burton has been delivering plenty of eye candy and style in his movies over the last two decades of his output, but it\u2019s hard to imagine Dark Shadows <\/em>or Alice in Wonderland<\/em> guiding me through episodes of doubt and insecurity. I rarely saw myself reflected in most of his 2000s filmography, with the possible exception of his animated work. So I would\u2019ve been satisfied if Beetlejuice Beetlejuice <\/em>had just been a pleasant family comedy for the spooky season.<\/p>\n

But the journeys of Lydia and Astrid Deetz (Ryder and Ortega), a mother and daughter who are more attuned to the paranormal than to the plain normal, reminded me why Tim Burton\u2019s earlier films meant so much to me. Astrid and Lydia\u2019s relationship is plagued with communication issues, and they\u2019re both stigmatized by the outside world. People either treat them like freaks, or use them for their own ends.<\/p>\n

But their journeys in this movie don\u2019t resolve with conformity. They choose defiant otherness, and find comfort in it and in connection with each other. And that still resonates with me after all this time \u2014 as it might resonate with other neurodivergent children and adults, learning to adjust to their diagnoses and identities the same way I did. I\u2019m just glad to see that Tim Burton is back, reminding them of the lesson so many of his protagonists eventually realize, the heroines of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice <\/em>among them: Nobody has to apologize for being \u201cstrange and unusual.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The legacy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice doesn\u2019t just herald the return of Michael Keaton as the titular ghoul. It also sees writer-director Tim Burton returning to his roots, with surrealist fantasy that fuses childlike wonder, twisted humor, and gothic visuals. Burton\u2019s ill-fated 2001 Planet of the Apes remake took him down a path of seemingly endless reimaginings, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Alice in Wonderland to Dumbo to Netflix\u2019s Addams Family reboot Wednesday. The whole time he\u2019s been lending his aesthetics to other IPs, though, I\u2019ve been clamoring for a revival of the Tim Burton I grew up with \u2014 the Tim Burton who gave me a safety blanket as a child growing up on the spectrum. I was diagnosed with autism when I…<\/p>\n

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