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One of the best parts of Brooklyn 99 is when they lose Holt’s dog Cheddar and jake says shit like “I bet the bastard is wreaking havoc as we speak” and it immediately cuts to Cheddar just walking down the street with cute music playing in the background

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Honestly the most realistic part of the good doctor is when Shaun, an autistic person, literally never does anything wrong and does exactly what he’s told but still he’s “difficult to deal with”

midnightsearches

me watching lea letting shaun drive:

autisticdaily

Me seeing people react like someone learning to drive and letting autistic mpeiple make their own choices like it's a bad thing

butterflyinthewell

Shaun’s meltdown scene on The Good Doctor.

Here’s what I like to call the metaphorical “stuck on the tracks” moment where the meltdown train is in the distance and Shaun can’t get out of its way anymore.

This is at the beginning of the episode before the show intro happens. You can see that Shaun feels backed into a corner, like he has no choice but to agree even though he doesn’t want to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-R8NqhAWEY

The meltdown itself…

You can stop it at 1:44 if you want to avoid spoiling the actual ending of the episode.

The root of it is a feeling I’m so familiar with. Shaun aims to please everybody, to gain their approval, but he feels like nobody considers what he wants. It’s very much a “I do this and this and this for you, why can’t you do this for me?!” feeling. Shaun is so against seeing a therapist that he avoided going home just to avoid the confrontation. Then Glassman confronts him and, well…that’s when the meltdown train runs Shaun over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blPhwqCiMVc

An important thing to note here: Glassman did everything totally wrong here. He keeps talking to Shaun as Shaun is losing his cool, which applies more social pressure when what Shaun really needs is less. Shaun is mumbling (echolalia) advice given to him by Bobby earlier in the episode while Glassman is talking to him. Then Glassman gets into Shaun’s space and wham.

It is not “aggression out of nowhere” like so many Autism Moms™ claim it is. Glassman kept escalating Shaun when he should have backed off.

You cannot reason with an autistic person during a meltdown, you have to let them calm down first.

I have meltdowns a lot (mostly from sensory issues) and I don’t care what you have to say when I’m having one. All I care about during a meltdown is getting away from people to calm down, and obstacles to that tend to get knocked aside.

Glassman made himself an obstacle. Shaun went through him to escape. It’s exactly what I would do if that was me. Backing autistic people into metaphorical corners almost guarantees a meltdown just like squeezing a balloon guarantees it will eventually pop.

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palindromordnilap-deactivated20

🤔🤔🤔

autisticdaily

I don't know what will happen to autistic adults

traude

I see the NTs saying Lea is manipulating Shaun and inducing him to do things, that what she did to him was dangerous and was putting their lives in danger. Y'all say Glassman shouldn’t treat Shaun like a child, and yet you do the same thing and forget he can make his own decisions. Congratulations on being fucking ableist 👏

sapphicuserboxes

this autistic lesbian cries way too much and has too many problems

autismproblems

autism problem #1153

“You can’t really hear that.” If I couldn’t hear it, then I wouldn’t even know it was playing, so how would I know to come out of my room to ask you to turn it down?

waltdisneyconfessions

“Frozen is unwatchable to me because of how my parents view my autism. They didn’t want me to embarrass them so growing up I was deliberately isolated and put in my room every day right after school and over weekends, not allowed to have friends and any time I acted ‘weird’ at home or school they would take things from my room to help teach me to be normal. Seeing so much of myself in Elsa makes the scene where she reveals herself to the entire ballroom my worst nightmare. It makes me cry”

angelshizuka

I headcanon Elsa as autistic and her reaction to the party being ruined is in character for Elsa, but also how a lot of autistic people react to situations not going how they saw it in their head. Autistic people can’t handle sudden changes well and need time alone to regain themselves.