#autistic actor

[neurodivergent-media]

Commentary: Friends of this L.A. teen will soon find out his big secret: He's co-starring in 'Bugonia'

An autistic actor playing an autistic character, Aidan Delbis is one of Hollywood's overnight success stories, going straight from high scho

Lanthimos thought of casting a neurodivergent actor in a part because it would bring a natural clarity and unfiltered unpredictability to the role. He didn’t consider it any more challenging than working with any other actor. And when he met Delbis, Lanthimos says, “I just thought: That’s him.”

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Gus the theatre cat preformed by me in our cats non replica

[eveningspirit]

Another Point Scored for The Pitt on ND Representation

After having Tal Anderson on the show as Mel King's autistic sister Becca, The Pitt casting team did another great job, hiring Coby Bird as an autistic patient with a sprained ankle.

He had scenes with Dr. Mel King and Dr. Langdon. Mel had then a lot to explain to Langdon, who hadn't initially taken Terrance's autism into consideration, because "It's an ankle sprain. Autism has nothing to do with the injury." Yeah...

Except when Mel, whose sister is on the spectrum, took over the interview and subsequent treatment of Terrance, she came up with much better--and much more patient-satisfying--results. And she taught Langdon something in the process.

This whole episode was a piece of good storytelling for the MCs, and, I think, enlightening to a lot of people who don't know all that much about autism.

Now, someone might say that the show hiring autistic actors for episodic roles, while the autistic (coded?) MC is played by a neurotypical actress, is not right representation. I wouldn't exactly agree with that sentiment. It's a complex matter, I realize that. Nevertheless neurotypicals are a majority of the population (as are cis-het people, able-bodied people, whathaveyou). And if we would try to restrict playing characters from those minorities to only people who have the actual exact trait, that would also limit the number of stories that could--and should--be told.

It's different with multi-racial representation, mind you.

I still think the show: the writers, the producers and Taylor Dearden, are doing a great job with Dr. Mel King. She's as autistic-quirky as they come, while being professional, confident and empathetic. Which--all those qualities--is a good autism representation, imo. I'm wondering--as many other viewers--whether Mel knows she's autistic and doesn't want to disclose it in her workplace, or she doesn't realize that (because her sister "had it worse"? idek).

As for Coby Bird, I just read his old interview in which he's hoping he could play a non-autistic character one day. I'd say that, as important as it is to cast autistic characters in autistic roles (episodic ones in this case), casting autistic / invisibly disabled people in the roles of neurotypical / abled people, is perhaps even more important. I whish Coby's dream comes true. :)

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I want to talk about Pablo.

Pablo is a childrens show with autistic characters, and an autistic cast. I love Pablo, it's a really good show in my opinion, and I really relate to a few of the characters.

However, I do have a few issues with it. The main one being that Pablo is nonspeaking, but in his imagination, in his ideal world that he's made, he isn't. This really bothers me because it portrays being nonspeaking as being a less good scenario than being speaking, and it isn't. There is no better way to communicate, oral speech isnt superior.

The other is that llama (who is actually my favorite character) is fully nonspeaking besides echolalia, but her voice actor isn't. Llamas voice actor is fully speaking (the last time I checked anyway. Its sort of hard to find information.) and whilst I am super glad all the actors are autistic, I do wish they at least used a semispeaking or a nonspeaking echolalia using person.

Now I want to talk about the good parts, because as I said I do really like this show.

All the actors are autistics, and that is FANTASTIC. I am super tired of us being represented by allisitics, so that was super nice to see.

It has representation of tons of different types of autistics, and shows us as unique people (or in this case animals ^^ ) rather than emotionless copies of eachother.

And finally, it made me feel like I was being represented. It made me feel seen. I related to multiple characters in multiple ways and that was so so nice to finally see someone like me.

[ml-quinn]

KEEDIE

Georgia de Gidlow as Keedie Darrow in A Kind of Spark Series 1

[nicxxx5]

i woke up this morning to find out the actor playing james in heartstopper season 2 is autistic. i’m in tears. this is such a huge win for representation in the autistic community. bradley i love you

[fandomtransmandom]

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https://mobile.twitter.com/MattPasini/status/1532512761866964992

[skullywullypully]

Quinni Gallagher-Jones|Aurora|Cure for me|Autistic|🐸🦖

Came for Chloe Hayden stayed for Quinni.

I was listening to Aurora-Cure for me and gotten inspired listening to her song. So I made this

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