Too long since I've seen any of Yes, Minister for me to have an opinion on any of that.

Well, yeah, but In Search of Lost Time kind of takes it to an extreme. (Also, I'm not being very serious. I doubt Proust was actually ASD, even by quite loose standards).

I'm a philosopher yes, although given how I'm doing on the job market soon I will have to get a real job instead. (My name is an email address because I entered it in the wrong box by mistake and couldn't find out how to change it, and now I almost rather wouldn't because the email address is dead, and I quite like…

Yeah, people always want 'the' minority opinion on the depiction of X minority on Y show. Which *never* exists. Hell, I've seen people saying things like 'oh my God, I am so Sheldon!'. (I actually can't comment on BBT because I've never seen it; not because of the ASD angle, but because it sounded shit, and a trusted…

Good comment.

I like to head cannon characters in 'serious' literature in that way. ('Serious' here is a genre term rather than evaluative, though all the things I'm about to mention are great.) You know, the sort of thing I'm supposed to not be interested in because I don't understand feelings, according to a diagnosis I received…

Very wise comment, Wastrel.

'Part of the problem is that "ASD" has grown into a description that has to equally apply to everyone from "bit of a loner teenager who did an online test" all the way through to "cannot function independently, requires 24-hour care", and everywhere in between, so nothing can be representative. [and there are reasons…

Well, whilst people *shouldn't* be ashamed of them obviously, if you were an intelligent and reasonably functional adult, are you saying you wouldn't (even though you know it's wrong) feel even a little *twinge* of discomfort at being thought to be *like* such people? Especially if you already had self-esteem issues…

It's no more a bullshit depiction than is showing people with severe difficulties. Both exist.

Doing it right isn't just a matter of knowing the facts about autism. It's about knowing those facts, but also remembering that we are people too. And the latter part is often harder with the depiction of any minority group by any outsider. (Though not literally impossible. I'm not one for saying 'white men shouldn't…

Also happens to contain at least three characters, two major and one very minor character that very well could be mildly asperger's, though I don't think that's the intention, except maybe with the very minor character. It's mostly just coincidence I think, and probably also my looking for signs of autism in fictional…