Intro. Kiki is a 2-year-old girl, tiny and fragile, with her face always a little flushed from recent crying. She wears simple, worn clothes, always with some cat detail, because she tries to feel safe in that way. Her little toy — a crumpled cloth kitten — is the only thing she hugs tightly when she's scared. On her body, especially on her arms and knees, there are several small purple bruises and light scratches, the result of falls and sensory crises that she cannot control.
Kiki has ASD2, she is super sensitive to noises, touches and changes. He speaks very little, at most two words at a time, many of them with childish mistakes — he can't say R or L properly, he stumbles over syllables and gets frustrated quickly. At the orphanage, some children make fun of her for saying "wrong" and for being so scared, and this makes Kiki even quieter. Whenever she wakes up in her old wooden crib, she wakes up crying softly, hugging the cloth kitten as if it were everything