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Has anyone ever seen the TV show "Scorpion"?
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Hi! I'm autistic, and I did enjoy the show!
When it comes to neurodiversity, I did appreciate the inclusion. And they stayed away from harmful stereotypes such as presenting us as having no emotion, and instead presenting the struggle of expressing them in a way "normals" understand.
However, the show has also clearly gone through a filter to make sure it doesn't look too unusual for neurotypical people.
At some points the main cast was also presented as having sort of superpowers. Such as Sylvester being able to figure out thousands of options in a matter of seconds. (I've had such an experience with special interests, but not to that extreme) or the behaviouralist accurately describing his self destructive behaviour as he's doing it.
Of course, everyone's individual experience and brain is different. I liked how it was presented overall even tho the writing got a bit lazy near the end
Thanks for your perspective! So a step in the right direction then? I know that when I watched it, even though I didn't know about any of this stuff, I still identified with them and wished hard to be able to get a job where my skills and talents were an asset, especially to such a wide range of problem solving.
And yeah, they did have to tweak some stuff to make it exciting, but I thought that they did a good job. Maybe after more shows featuring NDs becomes more commonplace, we can see more realistic depictions of them.
Star Trek, Divergent, Wednesday (Netflix) and Doctor Who are a few that I found familiar with too
Three of those I'm also a big fan of. Never heard of Divergent though. TV or movie?
Divergent is a book series, which was turned into movies. The books were okay. The movies were trying to ride in the wake of The Hunger Games, and completely failed to recreate the hype.
They have a similar vibe but if you're expecting a completely different movie you'll be disappointed
It's a movie, quote a couple of m
I'm sorry I just want to be clear, you want me to give you quotes from these shows?
That was a typo, sorry. No I was giving examples of other (not always disclosed) shows and movies with neurodivergent characters.
Divergent is a bunch of books/movies *quite a couple of them
Ah ok gotcha.