Wonderfully Made

by Nick Sansone

2nd Place, Prose, Create | Encounter 2025

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Artist Statement:

This script came from a deeply personal place as I navigate a new season of life, pondering future marriage and family in a more serious way than I have previously. Particularly as a pro-life man with autism, I have had to navigate difficult conversations with my family that revealed ignorant, outdated, ableist, and eugenicist assumptions about people with autism conceiving and raising children. Specifically, as ableist and eugenicist rhetoric about autism is on the rise again from the highest levels of government, I sought to tell a story that both sheds light on how dehumanizing this rhetoric can be at the most personal and familial of levels, and to show how individuals with autism can, in fact, conceive children and start families, ultimately showing how both people with autism and people conceived by people with autism are all equally worthy of life and being treated with dignity.