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. 

HMO said:

I think it was a good attempt, it was never going to satisfy everyone.

Of course not, but I also think the fact there are only two episodes is quite limiting anyway.

HMO said:

I think it was a good attempt, it was never going to satisfy everyone.

Of course not, but I also think the fact there are only two episodes is quite limiting anyway.

HMO said:

Which could easily be a budget thing, but you've still got two hours to fill.

I think the main intention for those making a show like this is to do what they clearly did: autistic people involved in the making of it and at the forefront.

Yes I know which it did well, it was just a snapshot of four autistic experiences.

Which could easily be a budget thing, but you've still got two hours to fill.

I think the main intention for those making a show like this is to do what they clearly did: autistic people involved in the making of it and at the forefront.

The moment they start getting caught up on what individuals may think, they may as well not bother.