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Birke ([personal profile] birke) wrote in [personal profile] cloudsinvenice 2020-01-14 09:28 pm (UTC)

I enjoyed Atypical, but I definitely saw it as a story about a family with an autistic child, written for a neurotypical audience.

The season-3 development where they suggest the mom is autistic was really interesting, and I agree with you, I hope they develop that if they get another season. That was the one aspect of the story that personally resonated with me, actually; my own mom's more peculiar tendencies make a lot more sense if you think of her as being somewhere on the spectrum than if you think if her weirder qualities as personality quirks. I don't think it's pathologizing to say that. I hope it isn't. I just know that my dad gets frustrated with her for not making friends and never wanting people over to the house, and I understand that's hard for an extrovert like him, but if you think of her as someone who really needs a strict order and who finds other people disruptive to that order... it just makes sense.

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