• Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Of course they do. It is fine when they can simply watch without having any personal skin in the game.

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        11 months ago

        i feel like a lot of these characters produce a weird type of voyeurism. It’s like bringing out a fictional version of a real person to gawk at. Not as bad as the modern “freak show” nature of channels like TLC were they parade out people with issues that are different from the norm. EG my 600 pound life, the ones where they follow people with OCD, etc. However still, kinda, getting to a point where it’s basically using neurodivergence as a trope, or archetype maybe, to entertain the normies, so to speak.

        I don’t know, it just weirds me out. It would probably be better if there was more realistic, and positive (without making their condition something that makes them some sort of like super heroesque character) portrayals. Though, any type of divergence, illness, etc. that affects behavior is, still, portrayed very poorly, over all, in the media.

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          11 months ago

          It is probably about time that we have autistic characters by autistic people for an autistic audience