User:TheZoodles/List
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I am keeping track of the times I correct misinformation regarding fictional autistic characters. Specifically, pages that describe a character as being autistic when they are not. They are grouped by the title of the work the character appears in, with then the pages listed where I corrected the misinformation (including in other languages).
Why does this even matter?
After all, most of these characters are at least somewhat "autism-flavored" or "autism-adjacent" even if the writers don't serve their diagnosis papers to the audience on a silver platter. However, I think it's still important to separate what is presented to the audience, vs. what the audience takes away from the character.
Additionally, many of these characters do actually have their diagnosis served to the audience on a silver platter, it's just a diagnosis that isn't autism. This is especially the case for characters with intellectual disability or cognitive disability related to brain injury. Shoving various developmental, cognitive and psychiatric disabilities under the name "autism" based on "well it feels like autism" is a disservice to both the representation of autism (because it confuses what autism actually is) and the representation of those other disabilities (because it renders them invisible by refusing to accurately name them).
The list
- Elling
- Family Weekend
- Jimmy
- Everybody Hates Johan
- R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH
- Little Man Tate
- fa:کوچکمردی به نام تیت
- All My Children
- Red Riding Hood
- Bluey
- The Pit
- Joey
- Melanie's Marvelous Measles
- Jenifer (Masters of Horror)
- Clean Break
- Criminal Minds
- fr:Modèle:Palette Films relatifs à l'autisme
- it:...E fuori nevica!
- vi:I Am Sam
- hu:Nevem Sam
- fr:Sam, je suis Sam
- ka:მე სემი ვარ
- ar:أنا سام (فلم)
- fa:من سم هستم
- Beavis and Butt-head
- es:Beavis and Butt-Head
- es:Simon Birch
Real people: