New BBC Series, Inside Our Autistic Minds.

I thought I would recreate discussion on this programme as it has been replayed tonight (and also aired yesterday).

The individual films of each autistic participant are great however there are few issues with the programme in general and Chris Packham:

1. Firstly, Chris Packham is not immersed in our autistic community enough in order to reliably represent us.
2. Secondly, Chris describes the majority of our nonspeaking members of our community as having a learning disability which is false- many of our nonspeaker members are apraxic (brain/body disconnect).
3. Our dedicated interests are described as obsessive- this is unnecessarily pathologising instead our interests are passionate and specialised.
4. Masking is portrayed very simply and inaccurately. In my opinion, autistic advocates such as Kieran Rose describe masking brilliantly.

I take your points but I think a programme like this would only really work if they had a famous face to front it, who's openly autistic. He's also the presenter, I don't think he necessarily needed to be immersed enough in the community when you consider how toxic it can be.

I think it was a good attempt, it was never going to satisfy everyone. I'm hesitant to be too harsh as we're all learning, including us autistics. 

Well said 

Well said