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