{"id":56577,"date":"2025-05-21T13:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=56577"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:19:04","slug":"lilo-stitch-michelangelo-neurodiversity-among-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/lilo-stitch-michelangelo-neurodiversity-among-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilo &#038; Stitch &#038; Michelangelo: Neurodiversity Among Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47803\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Michelangelo_Daniele_da_Volterra_dettaglio.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47803\" class=\"wp-image-47803\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Michelangelo_Daniele_da_Volterra_dettaglio-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of the Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti\" width=\"242\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Michelangelo_Daniele_da_Volterra_dettaglio-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Michelangelo_Daniele_da_Volterra_dettaglio.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelangelo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">To promote the new live-action adaptation of <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Disney Italia has created a new video where the titular alien spends some time at the Gallerie dell\u2019Accademia in Florence. Perhaps unintentionally, Disney has highlighted one of the themes of the original film: neurodiversity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TWQ3DCSPpbI&amp;ab_channel=DisneyIT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the new promotional video<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, the alien Stitch crashes his spacecraft in Florence and darts into the Gallerie dell\u2019Accademia, causing chaos for staff and visitors alike. However, he comes across a hallway, at the end of which is Michelangelo\u2019s <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">David<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, the museum\u2019s star attraction. He becomes calm and contemplative in admiring the work and then gains inspiration. He approaches a block of marble, climbing all over it to bite off pieces <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">to sculpt his <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">own<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> masterpiece<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. This sculpture, showing Stitch in Greco-Roman robes, now sits at the Gallerie dell\u2019Accademia to promote the film and the museum. It will remain there <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">until June 20th<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. The intent, it seems, is to highlight the new film to museum visitors and promote Italian culture to the movie\u2019s younger audience. However, there\u2019s a connection between Stitch and Michelangelo\u2019s David that the museum and Disney may not have considered when they pitched the video idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Disney originally released <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in 2002. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was immediately after the great success of the 1990s Disney Renaissance. However, following the release of Tarzan in 1999, Disney animated films went off in a new direction. For the next decade, Disney would put out films featuring experimental combinations of 2D and 3D animation. The screenplays were also completely original for the most part. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> broke from Disney\u2019s normal practice of retelling popular stories and folk tales. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In my opinion,<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the holy trinity from this era is <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Treasure Planet<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Atlantis: The Lost Empire<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, and <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> These were movies that I watched endlessly, enjoying what they had to offer even before they <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">were considered<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> cult classics decades later. However, it wasn\u2019t until a year ago that I gained a far more robust appreciation for <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is when I learned that while the film might be about the unlikely friendship between a Hawaiian girl and a lab-grown chaos gremlin, it is also about the struggles of living with neurodiversity and the importance of found family.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56578\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Stitch-768x1024-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56578\" class=\"wp-image-56578 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Stitch-768x1024-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"A marble sculpture of the alien character Stitch dressed in robes.\" width=\"215\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Stitch-768x1024-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Stitch-768x1024-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sculpture of Stitch at the Gallerie dell&#8217;Accademia<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nowadays, the character of Lilo is recognized as exhibiting characteristics of high-functioning autism. These include her difficulty making friends, her fixation on special interests like photography and the music of Elvis Presley, and her blunt forms of communication, specifically her inability to understand or employ sarcasm or euphemistic language when a delicate situation would call for it. While Lilo is a direct example of neurodivergent representation, Stitch serves the same purpose more metaphorically. Stitch often scares people away because of his impulses to destroy and cause chaos. However, Lilo\u2019s ability to see good in him conveys a far more profound message than expected from a children\u2019s movie. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> teaches us that you are more than just a diagnosis. Even if you are characterized by a list of symptoms from a medical or psychological perspective, that doesn\u2019t define who you are, nor is it a predictor of one\u2019s ability to make friends, lead a robust social life, and engage in creative activities. For a real-life example, I could talk about myself and my own experiences as a neurodivergent person. I could also talk about the many people I know who live very full, vibrant lives with high-functioning autism. But the new Disney promotional video has already highlighted one of the greatest neurodivergent icons of the past millennium: Michelangelo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The arts seem like a natural place for a neurodivergent person. A strict routine, attention to detail, and a hyperfixation of special interests all work towards the makings of a great artist. Some have theorized that painters like Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Edvard Munch, and Vincent van Gogh may have had autism to certain degrees. It is now somewhat accepted that Michelangelo Buonarroti was neurodivergent based on descriptions from his contemporaries. In 2004, psychologists and autism specialists Muhammad Arshad and Michael Fitzgerald co-authored <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.ru\/https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/15079170\/#full-view-affiliation-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a short paper<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> discussing how Michelangelo displayed signs of having high-functioning autism. They list these signs as including a \u201csingle-minded work routine, unusual lifestyle, limited interests, poor social and communication skills, and various issues of life control\u201d. They compare his behavior to other prominent artistic and intellectual figures believed to be neurodivergent, such as Isaac Newton and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Michelangelo\u2019s contemporaries describe him as somewhat of an antisocial loner. However, in his <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lives of the Artists<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Giorgio Vasari remarks that this aversion to social interaction was not because of a dislike of others. Instead, Vasari wrote that Michelangelo preferred to focus on his <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">work,<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and that to be as great an artist as Michelangelo, one \u201cmust shun the society of others. In fact, a man who gives his time to the problems of art is never alone and never lacks food for thought, and those who attribute an artist\u2019s love of solitude to outlandish and eccentricity are mistaken\u201d. This very closely describes a neurodivergent person\u2019s preoccupation with a particular interest, which for Michelangelo was sculpture. He also developed a strict routine and engaged in somewhat unusual habits. His hyperfixation would be so strong that he would often go without bathing or changing his clothes for days while working on a project. One of his biographers, Ascanio Condivi, wrote that he would wear his boots continuously, even to bed, to the point that \u201csubsequently along with his boots, he sloughed off his skin, like a snake\u2019s.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Today, neurodiversity has become more and more accepted by the broader public. People with different manners of perception and expression often produce imaginative new ideas and enrich fields like science, technology, and the arts. Efforts to understand the ways neurodivergent people operate, whether through the disability rights movement or representation in popular media, have led to greater humanization and acceptance. However, many still hold harmful, outdated views. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an infamous science denier and the current U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, recently made <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/fact-checking-robert-f-kennedy-jr-s-statements-on-autism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">appalling statements about people with autism<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. He said that autism destroys a person since they \u201cwill never pay taxes, they\u2019ll never hold a job, they\u2019ll never play baseball, they\u2019ll never write a poem, they\u2019ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201d<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I, and many people I know, are living proof that this is <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">simply<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> not true.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Perhaps if Kennedy had gotten his information from real life instead of <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Rain Man<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, there would have been a bit more empathy in his approach. Or, even better, he should understand that neurodiversity leads to great contributions to human progress, something he could learn not just through <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> but the work of Michelangelo and all other great neurodivergent artists.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To promote the new live-action adaptation of Lilo &amp; Stitch, Disney Italia has created a new video where the titular alien spends some time at the Gallerie dell\u2019Accademia in Florence. 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