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The Media and Autism

Ants

What are people thoughts on the media and how autism has been portrayed over the years? is there a preference the media have for showing a certain side of autism? and from the very best and the very worst of autism related films and dramas how well is autism usually depicted?

Honestly I could go on all day with questions along this line. I'm actually trying to get my head around what the general population know or consider about autism and where the majority of ideas come from. I think I might have to pose these questions to more NT folk with zero connection to autism.

Parents

  • Only a fraction of articles or reports in the media nowadays are produced by journalists and a high proportion come from press agencies like Reuters or the Press Association.

    I expect better from the BBC but it's the Blatantly Biased Corporation. Thankfully I don't buy TV licences.

    The media definitely influences. I have experienced managers who had never heard of AS but when told it is on the autistic spectrum immediately think of screaming unteachable kids then wonder in bemusement how anybody autistic could possibly hold down a professional career. More recently I experienced managers that when AS is mentioned to them the first thing that springs to minds are computer hackers like Gary McKinnon.

    Sometimes I wonder whether the NAS efforts raising awareness of ASD are totally futile in the face of the biased and perverse portrayal of ASD by powerful media corporations.

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  • Only a fraction of articles or reports in the media nowadays are produced by journalists and a high proportion come from press agencies like Reuters or the Press Association.

    I expect better from the BBC but it's the Blatantly Biased Corporation. Thankfully I don't buy TV licences.

    The media definitely influences. I have experienced managers who had never heard of AS but when told it is on the autistic spectrum immediately think of screaming unteachable kids then wonder in bemusement how anybody autistic could possibly hold down a professional career. More recently I experienced managers that when AS is mentioned to them the first thing that springs to minds are computer hackers like Gary McKinnon.

    Sometimes I wonder whether the NAS efforts raising awareness of ASD are totally futile in the face of the biased and perverse portrayal of ASD by powerful media corporations.

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