Post #1443526

2026-04-10 12:35 UTC

@pathfinder @misaimed_brain @callunavulgaris @autistics I’ve just watched Patience series 2, & there’s a line where she says something g like, “ but you don’t think k we’re all the same…?”. Representations in TV & movies have been bad, but they had to start somewhere, something is better than nothing, & I think they’re getting better. I loved The Assembly because of the diversity of autistic people involved. I should chase up the British version.

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@pathfinder@beige.party 2026-04-10 12:40

@Susan60 @misaimed_brain @callunavulgaris @autistics I agree. It's definitely getting better. It would probably help if all the characters currently being autistically coded, mostly because they don't fit the narrower, older, definitions, were more explicitly stated as being neurodiverse.

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@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot 2026-04-10 12:55

@Susan60 @pathfinder @misaimed_brain @autistics We loved Patience. Someone said on a thread here that people will have noticed something about them that they won't have thought of as autism - I wish I could remember who said it as it absolutely hit the nail on the head for me. All through my life I've had that feeling of being a bit outside the mainstream but having no idea what I did differently. Neurodivergence never occurred to me til an AuDHD friend suggested it about five years ago.

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