User blog comment:Weavillain/Why I Believe Leni SHOULDN'T Have a Mental Disability/@comment-4618045-20171007130152/@comment-31022739-20171007210920

Believe me, I know you weren't trying to give Leni the world at the expense of sensibility. Sometimes, even with our best intentions, we don't exactly see the potenial consequences of everything we try to pursue. It doesn't make us horrible people, it just means that we're human.

I also had no reason to believe that you'd think that autism/Down's syondrome/etc. being played for laughs would be acceptable in a show like ''The Loud House. After all, as far as I can tell, you've never made Leni's autism as the butt of a joke once ''in "My Sister Leni" and that's a commendable effort, along with what you've done for Leni's character in the story.

I think the best compromise for both of us if if those "dumb moments" didn't show up as often. Like it or not, many fans appreciate Leni's "dumb blonde" facet and are endeared to her because of it, so getting rid of them entirely wouldn't be proper. It's just that we need more moments and episodes, like ones from "Along Came a Sister", "One Flu Over The Loud House", and "Driving Miss Hazy" to give Leni something to do other than be used as a side gag. We haven't gotten that much in Season 2, but I hope that changes in the next season and future seasons to come.

Personally, I think it's too late to have Leni's "dumbness" be boiled down to a mental disability, but that doesn't mean that the opportunity for her to be taken more seriously is gone; it just needs to be found in a different place. Again, even though Leni does deserve more respect, I can't forget about the viewers who deserve better represntation than what "Leni's mental disability" presents at this point.