I’m less concerned with what individual commenters are saying than what mass media is saying.

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?

So...America?

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Not even a little bit true:

Which doesn’t explain why the rest of the crew had either a positive or neutral reaction to it.
In the original Mirror, Mirror episode, the away team’s ISS counterparts were immediately discovered by the USS Enterprise crew because they were acting all fash. Dude gives a super fash speech to the whole crew and it’s not…

Like much of Discovery, that sounds like a really good Bryan Fuller idea which was bungled beyond reasonable comprehension.
One of the better parts of the original Mirror, Mirror is that while the away team could easily impersonate the “barbarian” demeanor of the ISS Enterprise, their counterparts couldn’t behave…

Catherine FitzGerald, a member of an Irish royal dynasty

If you were Baron, wouldn’t you be hiding in Cheney’s old bunker hoping no one noticed you?

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