I’m less concerned with what individual commenters are saying than what mass media is saying.
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You highly over-estimate an actor’s authority over a project. Actors can’t say anything that’s not in the script. If a director doesn’t like what an actor is doing with a part, they’re fired. Most directors consider actors walking props. They can advocate all they want, but the movie the studio wants to get made is…
It wouldn’t surprise me because I’m an SLP.
High or low functioning isn’t really used much as a diagnostic tool anymore because it doesn’t actually tell us anything. We diagnose based on strengths and weakness. One can function with severe deficits in language. One can function with severe deficits in cognition. The…
They’re also useless.
Clinically, we diagnose based on strengths and weaknesses. Someone can have severe language deficiencies while having no impaired cognitive function. Or vice-versa. Labeling either of those as high or low functioning doesn’t actually tell anyone anything.
I don’t know why there is tremendous pressure to cast actors to be neurodivergent and none for the writers and directors, the people who have the most power over how the story is told.
Also, ASD is a huge spectrum which presents with many different kinds of communication impairments and RRBIA. A high functioning actor with ASD can’t know what it’s like to have ASD so severe they are completely non-verbal any more than a neurotypical actor can. Some people don’t look any deeper than the label.
That’s the first time I’ve heard prison called an “outreach program”. Or cops racking up OT as “volunteering their personal time”.
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
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Not even a little bit true:
Catherine FitzGerald, a member of an Irish royal dynasty
About 10 years ago entertainment media did some Manufacturing Consent stuff where they convinced everyone she was the hottest thing on two legs and, therefore, a movie star.
Everyone on The Affair is pervy-looking.
We’re at the “Putting jewels on eggs while everyone starves” phase.
Downton Abbey star Dominic West was spotted getting cozy with his The Pursuit of Love co-star, who is not his wife (on a scooter!) [Mirror]
Noah Shannon, Bodhi Ransom, and Journey River
I remember seeing a post on Gizmodo a while back about how Google had to change the search results of how long it took to carnalize onions because the algorithm kept showing wrong results due to people writing wrong answers on forums and the like.
And no one said it was censorship.