Hollywood's Exclusion of Autistic Actors Highlights its Biggest Diversity Problem: Disability

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I never suggested they has Asperger's in mind when creating Splash. I am saying she could be part of the pop culture phenomenon of people claiming to have Asperger's.

It was just another canned rom com movie I saw on a date.

"Diversity"? oh piss off.

Group think and group identity/ID politics needs to die. It doesnt do anything good. Why the hell push for actors who are autistic? maybe they are really hard to work with? maybe there are other reason why autistics dont get as much work as actors.

Stop putting people into groups. If anyone should understand that we're all unique in our own way, it should be sperg.

Or maybe there is the same percentage of actors who are autistic as any other group of people. How many would be open about it with their image being everything and the AS stigma being what it is? And anyone +35 or female or grown up with tutors not public school would not have been diagnosed unless it was very severe.

Meet the aspiring TV star with autism and dyslexia who has landed roles on Vera and Netflix drama

I always thought their biggest discrimination was aging actresses. It seems like every actress in Hollywood is quickly forgotten about once she hits 40 and is no longer considered "appealing", and the only chance she has at keeping her job is by getting so much drastic plastic surgery and botox injections to make herself look like a 30 year old forever.

Omg, it's so stupid

I thought Dan Akrode and Daryle Hanna were high functioning autistic

I don't care at all if an autistic character is played by a non-autistic actor, as long as the character is treated as a whole person and not a stereotype. If we don't allow that, then we shouldn't allow autistic actors to play non-autistic characters. The whole point of acting is to become someone you are not.

I've at various times played a serial killer, a chef, a senator, a prostitute, an alcoholic, a pornographer, a couple of gay men, a con man, a demon, a duke, a Jew, a blind man, a hotel clerk, a racist thug, an anthropomorphic cat, a psychiatrist, a chess master, a banker, a farmer, a lawyer--all non-autistic. I am none of these things.

Jesse Eisenberg is out about being autistic .I feel like nobody notices him

I never heard of Jesse Eisenberg. I don't spend much time on entertainment, but when I'm looking for actors or any other job, I go by performance, not identity. Affirmative action should be about helping people to prepare for new jobs, not putting up with incompetence just for the sake of diversity. People who assume that discrimination is the only factor in hiring, and successfully argue for inclusion are beset with Dunning-Kruger, and set their own cause back as well as crippling their employers.