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StealThisSheen posted...

And all that's fair, but you've also gotta consider that other people felt insulted by how she promoted it as she did and then didn't even attempt to actually include anybody from the community whatsoever.

The issue was basically that there are many autistic actors out there struggling for work and she makes a movie that is supposed to be "empowering" for the community and basically tells autistic actors "I didn't consider you because you're bad actors."

Community? What community are you talking about? Are you suggesting there's a special autism community that is very special and exclusive and only autistic people are allowed like it's this exclusive club and there's like this "No boys allowed!" styled sign on the club door, except it says "No normies!" or something like that? Now, wouldn't that just be the most discriminatory thing you've ever heard? If there are people who feel like that, then that's on them. Personally that doesn't sit right with me. If there's a community it's the acting community, and they're all a part of that. Living with autism might give people somewhat similar experiences, but definitely not enough for me to wanna differentiate myself from people who aren't autistic or asperger.
And for that matter identify myself with everyone who's autistic. I'm sure there are plenty of autistic people I would not wanna be associated with, and you really shouldn't either. And I didn't choose to be asperger and thus I have no interest of that being a defining feature of me. I'm a person, not a list of labels. So that whole idea about an "autism community"? Garbage! Take that crap out back and throw it in the bin.

And actors in general are struggling for work. That's the base state for any actors, struggling. And some of them are autistic. Makes sense most of them would be struggling too. The Hollywood is a dog eat dog industry, so I'm sure autistic actor would wanna corner the market regarding autistic roles, would definitely benefit them.

Not saying that Sia's response to the criticism wasn't a bit dumb-dumb. I mean, she had probably already decided since much earlier that she was gonna cast her friend in the role, so whether or not they were bad actors or not was neither here nor there. But ultimately the dumb response wouldn't have happened in the firs place if there wasn't dumb criticism to begin with. Still, Sia did herself no favors. She can start the "How to take a controversy and quickly make it oh so much worse" Club with Don Mattrick if she wants.