alerts fantastical portrayal of an autistic detective can be seen in Danish series, the bridges saga norin, who's not diagnosed within the show, but in the words of actress Sophia Helen, to me, she has Asperger's no cafe camp, and on these four you have to know to the particular canavalia to provide fluid, but it's not there yet, and it's kind of a sickening hobby. Whereas sherlocks coldness sometimes manifests as comedic and his intelligence a superhuman saga is more down to earth. Don't trick us into the era market puzzolana. By hinda, lemons and voiceless hangover joke. She also disproves the assumption that autism only affects men, modern neurodivergent characters can still fall into outdated stereotypes showing that our mainstream understanding still has some ways to go. See, as music was heavily criticized for including scenes where its neurodivergent protagonist is restrained, a practice now considered to be abusive within the autism community and for using a neurotypical actor to play a nonverbal neurodivergent part. And that really speaks to a kind of patronizing view of autism. And the idea that we shouldn't be the people telling our own stories. The lead actress also imitated stimming and facial expression ones that were meant to make her look autistic much like an outdated films from decades earlier. While there's a long tradition of neurotypical actors being highly praised and winning top awards for their performances as neurodiverse people, we now understand that this practice is damaging and even some have termed it crip phase all these really meaty roles that are winning awards for autistic characters. autistic actors have never been included in that process. Claire Bennett writes that it suggests that disability is an identity that can be temporarily assumed for the purpose of entertaining people in the best scenarios it has mocking undertones in the worst, devalues disabled people's very existence, can we try not to have one of your freak outs of Pharaoh right? Even Netflix is a typical, which began in 2017 was criticized for casting a neurotypical actor to play its protagonist Sam, who's on the autism spectrum. The reason prey animals hang around in a pack is for safety. So they don't get eaten. And I was feeling like a prey animal with no pack. However, a typical listen to the criticism and in the second season did cast neurodiverse actors in the roles of Sam's support group, but it's definitely about the autism community. So I wanted as much involvement from the autism community as possible. And I loved the idea of this peer group. Kayla Cromer who stars in everything's gonna be okay recently became the first actress with autism to portray a lead character with autism on American TV, I have autism. My dad's biggest regret is vaccinating me. That's a joke. These are significant steps toward widespread authentic representation because even the most well intended neurotypical actors will never truly know what it's like to be neurodivergent