The way this non-autistic actress is physically mimicking the actions of actually autistic people is really disgusting… Disabled mimicry harms people. https://twitter.com/Sia/status/1329411673350942723 …
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DM, I think I owe you an apology
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Yes, for example, people on this very thread here have stated that because of the representation of autistic people which is usually white, cis, and male, a lot of women and girls have struggled to get diagnosed as autistic. This has caused real barriers and harm.
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Sure, I'm a woman on the spectrum and I definitely have experienced this myself. I don't see how this is connected to the idea that an actress portraying an autistic woman in a film is harming people by replicating some autistic behaviors. Could you give a more relevant example?
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You understand that nondisabled society looks to film and television for how to treat disabled people right?
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Sure but this seems very removed from your original claim
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My son is autistic and he can't leave our house and tell someone he is autistic without them trying to compare him to Rain Man. He's nothing like the character Dustin Hoffman played, and people are not very nice when they find out most autistic people are not like that.
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So your issue isn't that someone is portraying an autistic person, it's that you're worried they're portraying it inaccurately (either in general or relative to the types of ways autism presents in your life) and this will make people misunderstand at least some autistic ppl?
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