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BitterGeek
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11 Mar 2018, 2:55 am



I take on this series as #ActuallyAutistic and as a film enthusiast. Part 1 I cover the series' story and characters.



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30 May 2018, 2:17 pm

Thanks for the review.

I couldn't believe it when I discovered the show. It was quite accurate. Then I started getting more and more annoyed about how the autistic traits were so "in your face" and some characters were annoying.

Still I enjoyed the show. But I'm not gonna say it's a great show, it's quite flawed.

There's an aspie girl on Youtube who said she boycotted it because the autistic kid was a white heterosexual male, or something like that, and it was a stereotype that mostly boys could have autism and blah blah blah.

NB: Just found it! Warning: it's super cringeworthy to hear the reasons why she's not even watching it.
"It's about a male [big sigh] on the autistic spectrum" :roll:

Edit: starts at 8:02. For some reason this forum doesn't take the starting time into account in the Youtube link. It's not like we're in 2018 or something ;)