An Autistic Woman’s Success Story: Kaelynn Partlow, Therapist, Dog Trainer, and Star of the Hit Netflix Series “Love on the Spectrum”

• By: Sam Farmer Neurodiversity Community Self-Advocate, Writer, Author, and Public Speaker
• July 5th, 2023
• acceptance, actually autistic, courage, Love on the Spectrum, misrepresentation, netflix, raising awareness, service animals, Summer 2023 Issue, therapy, tv show, underrepresentation, unmasking
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Perhaps because of the stigma we are up against and how misunderstood we know we are, many in the autism spectrum community feel as though the entertainment industry has historically mis- and under-represented us. The autistic character of Raymond Babbitt from the popular Oscar-winning movie Rain...

A Review of the Netflix Series Extraordinary Attorney Woo

• By: Barry B. Perlman, MD
• January 27th, 2023
• lawyer, netflix, tv show, workplace challenges
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Extraordinary Attorney Woo, the South Korean series about a brilliant, newly minted autistic lawyer, was among the most watched non-English shows on Netflix during 2022. Despite it being very entertaining and very sympathetic, it unsurprisingly generated controversy within the autism communities in...