Here's a review from an actual autistic.
Good intentions don't fix a bad execution.
Imagine a world where everyone was autistic, except maybe 1% of the people, and we made a series surrounding just them, called 'dating on the normy spectrum' and then put a whimsical soundtrack under it when they speak or move, every episode.
Sounds belittling? Like a freakshow?
Yep, because that's exactly what it feels like for us when they make a show about us and our condition to entertain others like we're 'so cute'.
And people ask me how I became so cynical.
I wish autistics would just have their own roles in actual series and movies without them being the subject of ridicule or morbid curiosity.
Good intentions don't fix a bad execution.
Imagine a world where everyone was autistic, except maybe 1% of the people, and we made a series surrounding just them, called 'dating on the normy spectrum' and then put a whimsical soundtrack under it when they speak or move, every episode.
Sounds belittling? Like a freakshow?
Yep, because that's exactly what it feels like for us when they make a show about us and our condition to entertain others like we're 'so cute'.
And people ask me how I became so cynical.
I wish autistics would just have their own roles in actual series and movies without them being the subject of ridicule or morbid curiosity.