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Good Doctor Memes And Autism (CONTROVERSY) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  TV show The Good Doctor has been getting a lot of controversy
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  around autism because of some memes falling out of the
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  Internet. Let's get into guys.
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  Welcome back to the Aspy world. My name is Dan and I have autism
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  and ADHD can make weekly videos all about this stuff.
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  So if you're new around here, make sure hit the subscribe
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  button down below, guys. So I've been seeing loads of
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  memes about the good doctor on the Internet.
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  And I thought, OK, whatever, you know, and they're related to
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  this TV show and the TV show was called The Good Doctor.
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  Now the Good Doctor is a show that is portraying the life of a
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  young medical director or a a physician who is on the autism
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  spectrum, but is highly gifted, highly talented, and he goes to
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  this hospital and he's like just really good at what he does.
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  However, the show features the main character who has these
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  doctor skills and he has, you know, social interaction
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  mannerisms that are kind of unique and, and and subject to
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  kind of autism because in it they talk about him being on the
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  autism spectrum. But then some of the
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  characteristics obviously are, are not all the characteristics
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  of autism and not everybody with autism will display like this
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  guy. However, a lot of the memes have
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  been coming out basically saying that the stereotypes of autism
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  are being kind of damaged because it's damaging the autumn
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  community that the stereotypes of autism are coming out in
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  memes like how he cries or how he outbursts, how he has
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  emotional, I don't know, like meltdowns and stuff like that.
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  Some of the individuals from who are awesome advocates express
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  their concerns about the memes pushing the stereotypes and the
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  trivializing changes faced by people with autism.
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  I'm basically saying that like, because autism has very serious
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  implications and has very serious issues with like
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  meltdowns and burnouts and things like that.
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  By creating memes out of those, you kind of delegitimize the the
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  issues and the struggles that people on autism kind of go
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  through. And I kind of get it.
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  I get what they're trying to say.
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  At the same time, I think it's just a meme and it's kind of
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  like throw away, but I can understand how that would kind
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  of be detrimental to somebody and how somebody could take that
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  really offensively or somebody could just take that and feel
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  quite, you know, down about somebody making fun of their
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  their condition. Now, whatever the the scope is,
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  I think what this is doing is raising awareness of the show,
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  the good doctor, which I think is pretty decent.
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  It's a good show. And by doing that, you're
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  raising awareness of autism and people becoming more
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  understanding of the issues that autism could face.
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  So I think there's good and bad on both parts of this.
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  I think it's good for outreach and good to spread the message
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  of autism. But I think maybe the way it's
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  being handled is, is is difficult.
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  So maybe we should start good campaigns for autism and unhappy
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  campaigns for autism, showing how kind of, you know, the
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  struggles are real and the struggles are really difficult
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  for us. I would love to know your
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  comments. Please put a comment down below
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  if you have anything to add to this.
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  And also if you are looking for my free Autism Life Acts PDF
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  book, that's right, free. You can get it from
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  autismhacks.net. All right guys, see you in the
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  next video. Peace.