What would you like to see?

Good topic!

As we discussed, it's quite hard to escape from stereotypes.  People will see the Mr Spocks and Sheldon Coopers and Rain Men and build up this idea, which they'll then cling onto as an 'understanding' of how autistic people are and how they behave - so anything that challenges that understanding needs to be handled very deftly.  I thought 'The Accountant' was an interesting film because of the way autism was discussed in it - but the main character, again, got dismissed by many as a stereotype: a maths genius with eidetic memory, a blunt way of speaking, an irritation with interruption to routines, and some sensory stimming traits that didn't really seem related to particular stimuli or anxieties.  It's still worth the watch, I think.

I want to keep coming back to this thing of dropping the labels and presenting, first and foremost, human beings - but ones who have different challenges to most others.  The same as, say, a quadriplegic character - like the Denzel Washington character in 'The Bone Collector' - is first and foremost a human being. At the end of it all, they still 'get the job done', in spite of the barriers.  So it's less about emphasising the 'differences', maybe, and more about concentrating on the abilities in spite of the differences.

I thought it would be interesting to see what others thought on the topic.

I've never seen the Accountant so it is difficult to comment. I will have to check it out. 

Sorry, Binary. I won't say any more.

But here's a clip from 'The Accountant' that I think says a lot...

The Accountant - Clinic Scene

Absolutely. There can be too much emphasis on the way things should be done sometimes. Some people just live and communicate in a different way.

Absolutely. There can be too much emphasis on the way things should be done sometimes. Some people just live and communicate in a different way.