2nd Season “Atypical” - Autistic Actors in recurring roles

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Atypical’ Team on Bringing ‘More Voices From the Autism Community’ in Season 2

thank you for sharing

I liked the second season even more than the first. It sucks to have to wait so long for a third assuming there will be one.

I hated the first season...can't believe I kept watching it. However, the second season was very good.

It was very refreshing to see the addition of autistic actors. I hope there are more of them in the 3rd season, maybe when Sam goes to college. All of his group session mates were great. If I was in high school I would have totally been enamored with Noelle.

I liked the group session scenes.

and some great acting too

second season was definitely better than the first. Zahid is hilarious. I also like the scene at the end where Sam says "I've matured into a woman" lol

I hated Zahid in the first season...thought he was so over the top, but he was a good character this season...the writers "humanized" him and showed his flaws.

I liked season 2! I thought it was a major improvement over season 1. I am glad they introduced cast members who were actually Autistic onto the show. I thought the scenes with the group were one of the highlights of the show. I do hope Netflix renews it for a third season!

I do hope Robia Rashid conveys the differences between college and high school in season 3. There are many positive differences. One is that people generally are more mature in college and you do get a lot more freedom as opposed to in high school. However, college is a much faster-paced environment than high school. It can take time for someone to grow used to that. It was a challenge for me and still is now. College students generally have to learn to improve their time management skills.

Disability services are much less intensive as well. They are standardized.

It will be interesting to see how these differences affect Sam, along with his friends and family.

Nik Dodani is hilarious! I agree that Zahid is more humanized in season 2.

I've been 'binge-watching' both seasons of this show, and I think it's been a decent representation of an ASD character, despite a few flaws I've noticed.

I very much doubt repeating names of familiar species of penguins can help reduce stress, especially to someone higher-functioning (I think it would be like a NT repeating 1,2,3,4 over and over), but I feel a little less ashamed to feel 'different' as someone who has an ASD after watching this.

I'm still gonna recommend this to friends and family, and those on the spectrum

I liked season 1, but I loved season 2. Zahid is totally my favorite character. He's hilarious! I wish there had been more of Paige in season 2, though. She's my second-favorite character, and she reminds me of myself much more than Sam. Probably because she's so talkative, and I'm an Aspie who rambles. I will admit that I was envious of Sam's preparing-for-college group. I so wish I had had that as a teen. Now, I wasn't diagnosed until college, but still... Really enjoyed the season 2 cliffhanger. I agree that it is hard to know that another season won't be out for a year or so, considering I watched all of season 2 in one night.

Edit: I forgot to mention that I get a kick out of how Atypical seems to hire actors who had bit parts on Riverdale, which is one of my special interests. Last season, the bartender (I forget his name!) was played by the college music professor Archie went to see in season one, and Nate was played by the actor who was Nick St. Clair in season two.

I've selectively re-watched just the support group scenes over and over. They were some of my favorite scenes of season 2.