Signs that I was an alien child right from the beginning #1

[stillflight]

Was bored enough recently to think "I should watch some old Doctor Who episodes from my childhood and see how much my memories of them are the same!" Obviously only really wanted to watch the 9th and 10th Doctors but thought it might be fun to first find that one episode I remember as a kid that I hated. Or more accurately, I was 10, it scared me sleepless worse than anything else I had seen by that age, and I was strangely fixated with it, always asking my dad to put it on and promising not to have nightmares this time. Generally, I assumed it was the monsters that both scared me and captivated me, but as it turns out, the episode is essentially about a very autistic-coded child who is terrified of his parents medicalizing his condition and "sending him away," who turns out to be an alien brood parasite unaware of his inhumanity but desperate to be accepted.

Huh.