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Autism representation in Film & TV - change needed?

MoritzV

Hey everyone, 

I am currently studying my MA in directing film, and I am interested in your view of autism within films/TV shows.

I have autism myself, and I thought it would be great to have an open discussion about representation as I aim to hopefully change things in the film/TV industry.

Have you got any good or bad examples of autistic storylines in film or television series? 

What would you wish for what they either focus on or what should they stop portraying in terms of autism in films/TV?

What would you like to see in terms of changes within the film/TV industry?

My own view is that I find it difficult that there are barely any storylines portrayed or made by people on the spectrum (in front or behind the camera). Mostly it's stories by non-disabled filmmakers with non-autistic actors. If either would be the case, I could live with it, but most current or upcoming shows or movies seem either ableist or not grounded in reality... 

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  • Hi  - There's loads of threads on here discussing film and tv characters who are either deliberately written as autistic or we suspect are hidden autistic / Asperger's.

    I'm an old fart and I see autistic tendencies in many characters simply because of lazy script writing - we are often labelled as not being complete people - like an underdeveloped character in a script.       I see it a lot in sloppy 1970s and '80s British tv 'drama' generated by the hippy-trippy arts grads of the time - especially on the BBC-funded gravy-train...  Smiley

    And when the current crop of peak-time tv is 'I'm a 'sleb' or 'married at first sight', the bar is set soooo low that even James Cameron can't save us.

    Personally, I, and many others, couldn't care less if someone is disabled or not - or what colour, sexuality etc - I just want to see something done well - but that's not how the acolytes of intersectionality perceive the world.

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  • Hi  - There's loads of threads on here discussing film and tv characters who are either deliberately written as autistic or we suspect are hidden autistic / Asperger's.

    I'm an old fart and I see autistic tendencies in many characters simply because of lazy script writing - we are often labelled as not being complete people - like an underdeveloped character in a script.       I see it a lot in sloppy 1970s and '80s British tv 'drama' generated by the hippy-trippy arts grads of the time - especially on the BBC-funded gravy-train...  Smiley

    And when the current crop of peak-time tv is 'I'm a 'sleb' or 'married at first sight', the bar is set soooo low that even James Cameron can't save us.

    Personally, I, and many others, couldn't care less if someone is disabled or not - or what colour, sexuality etc - I just want to see something done well - but that's not how the acolytes of intersectionality perceive the world.

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