I haven’t seen this movie and the book is in my TBR pile. I want to read it before I see it. As a NT person, I value your insight and perspective. Thank you for sharing your experience as a ND person and your expertise as a film critic. I’ll be starting this book today. Have you read it?
I feel like I’m rambling but mostly I just wanted to say I appreciate you and always having new things to think about.
Giving someone stereotypical autistic "traits" does not make them automatically autistic- it is how the character uses those attributes to their advantage, as well as how it disadvantages them, that matters. It has to be done in such a way that other autistic people can recognize them truly as part of the "tribe".
I mean, they’re fictional, so they obviously can’t really be autistic in some sense.
as with queer signaling in fiction, you can talk about what parallels there are and how the story handles those possibilities. but that doesn’t rule out other readings.
I haven’t seen this movie and the book is in my TBR pile. I want to read it before I see it. As a NT person, I value your insight and perspective. Thank you for sharing your experience as a ND person and your expertise as a film critic. I’ll be starting this book today. Have you read it?
I feel like I’m rambling but mostly I just wanted to say I appreciate you and always having new things to think about.
Giving someone stereotypical autistic "traits" does not make them automatically autistic- it is how the character uses those attributes to their advantage, as well as how it disadvantages them, that matters. It has to be done in such a way that other autistic people can recognize them truly as part of the "tribe".
I wrote about this here: https://focus966.substack.com/p/candace-agonistes
I mean, they’re fictional, so they obviously can’t really be autistic in some sense.
as with queer signaling in fiction, you can talk about what parallels there are and how the story handles those possibilities. but that doesn’t rule out other readings.