Did not expect to tear up here but definitely did.
(Tangent: last year I watched Scrooge In Love, which is a "sequel" to A Christmas Carol in which Scrooge's true happiness is tied to a romantic relationship — eyeroll — and I realized just how much some of young Scrooge's bad memories as portrayed there read to me, not as him being a shy guy who needed to be drawn out, but as him being an autistic guy who everyone tried to bully into doing Fun their way. Fixing the oddball by forcing them to Just Try It is a whole genre. So I guess the alternate narrative hits home for me?)
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Did not expect to tear up here but definitely did.
(Tangent: last year I watched Scrooge In Love, which is a "sequel" to A Christmas Carol in which Scrooge's true happiness is tied to a romantic relationship — eyeroll — and I realized just how much some of young Scrooge's bad memories as portrayed there read to me, not as him being a shy guy who needed to be drawn out, but as him being an autistic guy who everyone tried to bully into doing Fun their way. Fixing the oddball by forcing them to Just Try It is a whole genre. So I guess the alternate narrative hits home for me?)