Just started on BBC1. I have a feeling I'm going to hate it.
One of those popular representations that feeds into people's 'knowledge' of autism. Likewise Sheldon Cooper and 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'. I've had people who really ought to know better ask me what my special ability is. In the info leaflet I produced for WAAW at work, I made a point of saying that 'savant' abilities are very rare, and that they can often be found in people with autism and LD... whereas the vast majority of autistic people without LD will have no special abilities at all. At least not in terms of eidetic memory, computer-like calculating ability, or musical or artistic genius. We can be 'special' in other ways, of course 
'The Accountant' is an interesting film to watch - not because of the representation of high-functioning autism necessarily, but for what it has to say incidentally about autism.
One of those popular representations that feeds into people's 'knowledge' of autism. Likewise Sheldon Cooper and 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'. I've had people who really ought to know better ask me what my special ability is. In the info leaflet I produced for WAAW at work, I made a point of saying that 'savant' abilities are very rare, and that they can often be found in people with autism and LD... whereas the vast majority of autistic people without LD will have no special abilities at all. At least not in terms of eidetic memory, computer-like calculating ability, or musical or artistic genius. We can be 'special' in other ways, of course
'The Accountant' is an interesting film to watch - not because of the representation of high-functioning autism necessarily, but for what it has to say incidentally about autism.
