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Djungelurban posted...

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.

I assume you meant "non-autistic actor in an autistic role"

The point is that the movie was promoted as being empowering and a vehicle for people in the autistic community, but it casts a non-autistic actress to play an autistic role in a way that is basically based on stereotypes and with mannerisms that seem almost more on par with mocking.

It's very tone deaf to claim your film is a vehicle for a certain community and then not actually hire somebody of that community for the role. Even worse, hiring somebody with literally no experience to play the role with very little actual research.

EDIT: The film initially had scenes of restraining the character in a very dangerous way, for instance, that they only took out after backlash. They may have had good intentions, but they put like zero effort into actually approaching the subject in a good way and it became clear it was basically a vanity project for the director.

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