Let's Talk About Diversity & Autism |

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I watched the trailer, and I think the part that made me the angriest was the line 'I wish I was normal' because not only is that enforcing stereotypes in the main stream that autistic people are 'other' and need to be fixed (which isn't true at all), it's also completely inaccurate to anything I have ever heard from actual autistic people. The overwhelming communication I've had with people on the spectrum isn't 'i want to be normal' (i.e. without autism) but it's more 'i want society to stop trying to fix me and instead accept me for me'. Doesn't seem promising if they're already using this kind of language for the series.