How do you feel about 'The Good Doctor'?

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Something like Motzart and the Whale was better in that it had several characters on the spectrum. So several very different but also similar characters were portrayed.

With Good Doctor you have only one example. It's how autism affects that character specifically, rather than representing everyone else on the spectrum.

One can't really compare themselves to the character and decide how authentic the character is based on how autism affects them personally.

My mother and I cannot stand the obnoxious sing-song voice the main character uses! First of all, if you want to go with stereotypes about abnormal prosody in those on the spectrum, it would have made more sense to choose a monotone. Secondly, the pitch is just so grating! We make fun of it all the time. We often quote (in the sing-song, of course) the stereotyped line from the one episode where he says, "I don't need love!"

The other thing that is greatly flawed about the ASD aspect of the show is, as others have said, the severity of Shaun's symptoms. I'm sorry, but it is completely unrealistic that somebody with that severe of ASD would have made it through medical school and to residency without learning how to compensate. He often yells at and lectures patients, which would not be allowed or accepted!

I was enjoying the show at the beginning for the medical cases. (I've always been unimpressed with the portrayal of ASD.) The medicine was actually pretty accurate and descriptive at first, but the last few episodes have just been riddled with plot holes and inconsistency, even with the medicine. So, I've begun watching it more so to laugh at it and pick it apart. Medical science has always been one of my special interests, ever since I was a toddler, and it is what my career is based off of, so I do like how this show has been more about the medicine rather than the characters' relationships like it was on ER or Gray's Anatomy.

I think Shaun being called a "savant" is also unrealistic. So far, I have not seen anything other than a form of photographic memory for what he's read. I have a form of photographic memory for what I read, and I see no difference between Shaun and myself. And I'm certainly not savant level! It's not like he's reciting full pages from his textbooks like Kim Peek. He's merely "seeing" images of the pages he's read in his mind's eye. Anyway, I'm highly unimpressed with the show, and the fact that it's surging in popularity with NTs means that it's bound to be spreading stereotypes as others have mentioned.

I savagely poked fun at the Dr. Murphy character in my review on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3DjXtrbfRc

Mind you that I studied a bit of filmmaking and have a general loathing of Hollywood. But I find the writing on the series terribly lazy. ALL the characters are one-dimensional and sourced from central casting. It would of worked better as a quirky medical comedy-drama like St. Elsewhere instead of a bad soap opera.

The comments on my vid are "it's a TV show, not reality". But characters and plots can be realistic and believable. "ER" was a great medical show with complex characters and story. "The Good Doctor" should not of made it past the pilot. The only thing going for it is a lead heroic character with ASD. Remove that and it's a forgettable series.

Can we get rid of the damn CSI-style graphics??! ! Please???

It's cringey beyond belief because it could of been so much more. Yet we'll take it because it's a stepping stone to better lead characters with ASD. Much like the 1970s were the beginning of better times for African-American characters leading up to the 1980s with The Cosby Show, we'll get a better lead character with ASD as we demand better.

If you want better TV and movies with characters on the spectrum, sharpen your pencils. Write our own scripts. Cameras are relatively cheap and there's free editing software. The situation isn't going to get better unless we take matters in our own hands.

Someone told me they could tell they were not autistic from watching the show. Yet isn't it just one scriptwriter's idea of what an autistic person is like, or am I missing something?

I kind of have mixed feelings about it. There are things I like and things I don't like about it, but I don't expect any portrayal of ASD to be perfect. We are all different, after all, so no one will ever be able to make a character who we can all relate to 100%. I do find him to be a way better example than how ASD is usually portrayed though (for example, Sheldon Cooper, who is the obnoxious laughing stock), so I think it's a step in the right direction.

I should mention one thing as it may make me biased. I am an Aspie who is interested in pursuing medicine one day, and I was called "stupid" and another word I dare not mention throughout most of my childhood. What I do like about the show is how it shows that someone with ASD can get through something as rigorous as medical school, can achieve great things, and, contrary to popular opinion, can be just as intelligent or more than some who is NT. This is more of a personal thing, though.

i watched only the first episode. i feel i enjoyed Atypical more, i wanted to watch it again but since i dont have cable its harder to access *sigh* if only it were on netflix.

as far as portrayal goes i think its fine. im getting really tired of seeing the neat and tidy ASD guy who shows 0 emotion. the neat and tidy is a more common aspect of ASD (which i am personally a slob) but the blank emotionless i have never seen IRL. every ASD person i met has always been very expressive to the point of over expression. this robot aspect to me is a myth or at least rare. however the difficulty expressing emotion is still a real problem with autism its more expressing emotions appropriately and having a hard time understanding emotions.