The way this non-autistic actress is physically mimicking the actions of actually autistic people is really disgusting…
Disabled mimicry harms people. twitter.com/Sia/status/132
This Tweet is unavailable.
206
115
248
Conversation
Dude the very bold use of the word "harms" in this tweet tho
2
127
Replying to
It does cause harm. When nondisabled actors play disabled roles it causes disabled people harm.
38
3
22
Replying to
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.
1
1
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?
Nah nah, of course they have an issue with someone playing the role who isn’t autistic. They are so ideologically possessed by their narrative they fail to recognise the positives that come out of this.