Josh Thomas’ show has offered a nuanced take on a lived reality that rarely makes it to screens, writes Clem Bastow
When autism and sexuality are occasionally allowed to coexist on screen, it’s typically accompanied by tired tropes about how autistic people have no feelings – and possibly someone yelling words to the effect of, “He doesn’t know how to love me!”
I say “he” because the vast majority of autistic characters in TV and film are male: think Netflix’s Atypical, ABC/Sony’s The Good Doctor (and its 2013 South Korean predecessor of the same name), or movies like Adam, which starred Hugh Dancy as an autistic engineer prone to lines like, “I can see that you’re upset, but I don’t know what to do.”
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