To Infinity and ... Invisibility?

Brutal Reality in Disguise

Little would I know that, rather than becoming my "main" where everyone would know me as the "clothie Buzz", I would nosedive into the world of invisibility, to the point of becoming a midlife crisis. Its debut at the Star Cars show in El Cajon did get into photos, but only because the main photographer made sure that I wasn't left out, despite the efforts of a few individuals who still don't believe that autistic people deserve inclusion in Cosplay.

In 2021, face coverings were required in a lot of the spaces at a clown convention, and I wore Buzz to do photography at the Paradability competition. I even got the group together while the judges were scoring, and snapped a cool group photo, but no one thought to ask me to "get in there" for one with myself in it. The following year I brought the outfit again for a "staff group photo op" but that was postponed, and "street clothes only".

The Lightyear movie came out, and I tried to get a "movie squad" together. No one showed.

Now, though, is a final opportunity for visibility as Buzz Lightyear as I plan to wear it as part of my clown outfit at the Baraboo Circus Parade -- perhaps the re-engineered Buzz will make it back into the cosplay rotation after all.