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Autism In Film- I need your help!

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Hello 

My name is James Hodgkinson and I have ASD. I absolutely love films and really want to make a career as a film maker/editor. However, I had started to watch films on Autism and people who have autism and I found it very hard to relate to the characters that were being portrayed on screen. This has inspired me to do more research on the matter, which is why I'm coming on to this forum to ask for your guys opinion. I am in my third year at university and I am writing my dissertation on the portrayal of autism in film. 

Do you believe that there has been a "true" representation of autism? 

Do you believe that Hollywood gets autism wrong? 

What has been your favourite portrayal of autism? 

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated and I look forward to hearing back from you guys. 

Thank you

James 

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  • I like Atypical and the A  word but they do sometimes show a stereotypical view of autism. All of these are written by non autistic people so they are bound to get bits wrong or over exaggerate things to make them more watchable. I think they fall into the classic autism should look like this category. But we know that not every person with autism has the obvious noticeable things like headphones, stimming and meltdowns in the same way. 

    I don't think I have seen an autistic woman.

    I would love to see something written by an autistic person. 

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  • I like Atypical and the A  word but they do sometimes show a stereotypical view of autism. All of these are written by non autistic people so they are bound to get bits wrong or over exaggerate things to make them more watchable. I think they fall into the classic autism should look like this category. But we know that not every person with autism has the obvious noticeable things like headphones, stimming and meltdowns in the same way. 

    I don't think I have seen an autistic woman.

    I would love to see something written by an autistic person. 

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