Amber's Fresno boyfriend, Damien, has returned to Berkeley. Amber's upset with her mother about Mr. Cyr. Then Sydney, Julia's only child, has constructed a rubber band ball and knows the colors and numbers of each of them. Julia and Joel are concerned that Sydney could be on the spectrum like cousin Max. Don't worry, Sydney's just bored with school according to the expert. Of course, Max is another story and has Asperger's syndrome. Still it isn't uncommon to have two in the family.
2 Reviews
I like most aspects of the show but....
notreallyaustralian2 February 2023
This is the most offensive show/movie about autism I've seen. It's like someone took the infamous Autism Speaks hateful promotional video and said, "Let's make a TV show based on this".
Maybe the show improves at some point and shows that it's not autistic vs gifted or even gifted despite autism. Sometimes autism is what brings the gifts.
Not to mention that autism is often missed in girls... sometimes the gifted girls. But maybe this was less in 2010. I will give the creators the benefit of the doubt and hope if they made the show today, they would do things differently.
On that note, I'm aware the creator has a new show about autism and that this time, he has hired autistic actors and autistic people behind the scenes. Hopefully the input of these autistics dominate in the decision making, and they're not being used as token diversity.
Maybe the show improves at some point and shows that it's not autistic vs gifted or even gifted despite autism. Sometimes autism is what brings the gifts.
Not to mention that autism is often missed in girls... sometimes the gifted girls. But maybe this was less in 2010. I will give the creators the benefit of the doubt and hope if they made the show today, they would do things differently.
On that note, I'm aware the creator has a new show about autism and that this time, he has hired autistic actors and autistic people behind the scenes. Hopefully the input of these autistics dominate in the decision making, and they're not being used as token diversity.
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