hurtloam wrote:
Screenager wrote:
Saga Noren from the Swedish/Danish crime drama called The Bridge/Bron/Broen (depending on the language). She's the most accurate aspie (including the boys) I've ever seen. I was very lucky to be an extra on season 2 of The Bridge a couple of weeks ago and was in scenes with her. I was to shy to talk to her myself, but luckily somebody told her that I had Aspergers (since I wrote it in my application) and she came up and talked to me! Asked me about my school, special interest etc. It was so amazing and I think I personally taught her a thing or 2 about AS, since she's very different from her character IRL.
But I recommend The Bridge to EVERYONE. The series is not about her autism but it adds a new level to it's whole. And don't worry you can find it with English subtitles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83FcxzlXbKs (she's the blonde)
Yeah, I totally love that show. I watched it and wondered if that is how I come over at work. I'm very efficient and I can be very to the point when talking to people. Thanks for sharing your experience from being on the set with Sofia Helin with us.
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love Saga Noren. That character elevates the Bridge from merely excellent to unforgettably brilliant. Of all the female autistic characters I'm familiar with, Saga is the one I relate to the most. I recognise a lot of myself in her. Even my hair looks the same - long, scruffy and unstyled - except that I'm a brunette. It's refreshing to see a sympathetic, realistic female autistic character on television. The thing I appreciate most is that while she's intelligent and good at her job, it's not to the point where she becomes superhuman like, for example, Lisbeth Salander. I like Lisbeth for many reasons - not least of which because she brazenly and successfully breaks both social and legal rules - but as an autistic woman I don't identify with her anywhere near as much as I do with Saga. There's a bit too much of the brilliant Aspie hacker cliché in Lisbeth, with a good dollop of revenge fantasy, for her to ring entirely true to me, whereas Saga's intelligence is more true-to-life and occasionally fallible.