User:HanTheGene/The Ultimate Guide

The Ultimate Guide to Autistic Characters That Are Not Shit [WIP] Decided to start writing this up since I often find myself retyping the same thing on Reddit They're grouped based on various criteria that I imagine people might find helpful - some fit multiple criteria so they're repeated in the relevant sections.

Gritty drama series
With "gritty" I mean that they're heavier and more explicit than most American series (which are about as gritty as a piece of American hamburger cheese)
 * Rebecca Blithely in Strange Empire - magical-realist gothic Canadian western with an autistic doctor who was previously institutionalized
 * Saga Norén in The Bridge (Bron|Broen) - Scandinoir crime series with autistic main character. Multiple remakes exist but nothing beats the original
 * Stina Vik in Modus - Scandinoir series with supporting autistic character. Less dark than The Bridge.
 * Carl Destoop and Juliette Destoop in The Twelve - Belgian court drama series, two autistic supporting characters

Based on real-life autistic people
There's more variability here but I give these kinds of movies a bit more slack since they are often made in cooperation with the person they're about and if that person is happy about it, that's what really matters
 * Donald Morton and Isabelle Sorensen in Mozart and the Whale - romantic drama with two autistic savants

Autistic actors playing autistic characters

 * Carl in Drought - coming of age road trip sibling drama
 * Gerda in #Gerda - humorous short film about an autistic photographer going in for his 7th job interview
 * Ollie in Circles - coming of age youth short film
 * Sash Gilbert in Casualty (S30E22) - one-time character in British hospital drama series
 * Sean in Fancy Nancy (S2E6) - one-time character in children's series to educate children about autism