NAS are discussing this on Twitter. I have reservations about it abd the way that subjects are being taken and given the reality tv show treatment. There must be someone, somewhere who won't stop until every medical condition has been highlighted in this way.
Over the past twenty years I have seen on forums like WrongPlanet, people posting away so desparate to let the world know of their conditions, to wear it as some kind of badge to be noticed. Some were even posting asking how you get to officially have Aspergers.
Even on Twitter, I followed one man who kind of fits that bill but a recce on his timeline did show that there are similar aspirations, people whose only thing in life seems to be hell-bent on talking about autism.
Resources are stretched, we know, and awareness is always a good thing but in my opinion this is being way over-cooked and autism is not the only subject to suffer the fate of being hyped up in a rwality show that, in this case, appears to be championing the condition like, will we end up being conditioned into thinking that no-one is any good unless they are proved to have autism?
Okay so my point here is that I feel that educational documentaries are one thing, looking at autistic living individually and collectively but that a tv show that asks Are You Autistic and appears to be promoting the condition as some kind of delicacy is misleading and as a whole, quite wrong.
