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.

  • chuckleslord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    9 months ago

    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.caEnglish
      14·
      9 months ago

      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.worldEnglish
        71·
        9 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)