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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

The background criticisms are absolutely integral to the movie as it's a movie trying to sell "look how genuine and heartfelt this portrayal of autism is." Like that's the whole point of the movie, the entire campaign was trying to parade how "good" it was for the autism community. It was coming from an ill-informed and disingenuous place from the start, and then that lead to people watching the movie and seeing just how badly informed the creators were.

As a member of the autistic spectra community, I find that critiquing a movie for casting a non-autistic actor in a non autistic role is straight up disgusting. Not the casting itself, but the critiquing.
Now, I have no idea if the portrayal of that character is any good, which judging by its reception, maybe not... But that would be an issue of acting ability and/or script, not casting.