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How do you feel about portrails of Autism in media? (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago by CameronDev@programming.dev to c/autism@lemmy.world

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Hi All. I have been watching a lot of House lately, and just started "Extrodinary Attorney Woo". I am curious to know what you all think of their portrails of Autism. Is it pandering? Representation? Romantisation?

Also see "The Good Doctor", "Atypical", "Love on the spectrum" etc.

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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

All of the Belchers are great representation, though none are canonically Autistic.

[–] retrolasered@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

I <3 the belchers

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They literally say Tina is autistic in the first episode of the show.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Louise: She's autistic. She can't help it.

Tina: Yeah, I'm Autistic.

Hugo: Bob.

Bob: Just a sec. No, you're not autistic, Tina

Is that the reference? Cause that looks pretty definitively like a child mocking another child and not a diagnosis or canon confirmation. The only other reference in that episode is a callback joke to this bit.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Okay and the same could be said for Abed Nadir or Jonah Byrde, or basically any other character mentioned in this thread. But these characters are all obviously autistic coded in their respective shows. The reality is that show writers are extremely hesitant to make their characters explicitly autistic because then they have to treat that character as an ambassador for Autism.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Cool. See my first comment where I said all of the Belchers were good representation (meaning coded-as and good reps of) but not canonically autistic. So, what point were you trying to make?

Also, Abed is canonically Autistic, just not diagnosed (as per show runners)