I enjoyed reading your review and your take on diversity as I am a person who ticks all diversity boxes being a black female, an autistic and a 'refugee'. I liked the Australian show but not watched the American one yet as I'm wary of US media products lol, I don't know how to put it to words but I feel like reality TV and things to do with relationships and dating are part of the social construct the same construct that we are less likely to typically get involved in due to the vulnerablities that comes with autism but I might be wrong!
Yes- fiction hasn't done autism a lot of favors. But neurodiversity is a wide spectrum, and singling out one group apart from the others is discriminatory.
I have not heard of this show, Julie! When I do, I will take your insights to heart and keep them in mind.
Also - I loved Amelie when I watched it over 20 years ago but had not viewed it then through the lens of noticing autism. Because I didn't know a thing about autism back then. Now I'm intrigued to watch it again with that perspective.
I admit that, as I read your posts, I'm asking myself if I am autistic. I don't know how I'll ever know, really. There are so many points you bring up, so many glimpses into your inner world and to the personality traits of autists, that I just wonder. I wonder if that's why I've always known I didn't fit in anywhere or with anyone. Not completely.
I know I am a highly sensitive person, which explains a lot, much to my relief. And neurodivergence is peppered in my family of origin (OCD and ADD/ADHD). Now, if course, I have a daughter who is on the spectrum and another two daughters who have been diagnosed with OCD and ADD/ADHD.
I enjoyed reading your review and your take on diversity as I am a person who ticks all diversity boxes being a black female, an autistic and a 'refugee'. I liked the Australian show but not watched the American one yet as I'm wary of US media products lol, I don't know how to put it to words but I feel like reality TV and things to do with relationships and dating are part of the social construct the same construct that we are less likely to typically get involved in due to the vulnerablities that comes with autism but I might be wrong!
Yes- fiction hasn't done autism a lot of favors. But neurodiversity is a wide spectrum, and singling out one group apart from the others is discriminatory.
That's why I don't like reality TV. It takes attention and money away from fictional projects that are likely more worthy of being seen.
I would prefer it if autistic people were treated in a more realistic and less exploitable way by the producers of these shows.
I have not heard of this show, Julie! When I do, I will take your insights to heart and keep them in mind.
Also - I loved Amelie when I watched it over 20 years ago but had not viewed it then through the lens of noticing autism. Because I didn't know a thing about autism back then. Now I'm intrigued to watch it again with that perspective.
I admit that, as I read your posts, I'm asking myself if I am autistic. I don't know how I'll ever know, really. There are so many points you bring up, so many glimpses into your inner world and to the personality traits of autists, that I just wonder. I wonder if that's why I've always known I didn't fit in anywhere or with anyone. Not completely.
I know I am a highly sensitive person, which explains a lot, much to my relief. And neurodivergence is peppered in my family of origin (OCD and ADD/ADHD). Now, if course, I have a daughter who is on the spectrum and another two daughters who have been diagnosed with OCD and ADD/ADHD.
So many questions.