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SteelMaiden
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27 Mar 2015, 12:23 pm

What do you think about Karla Bentham in that UK series Waterloo Road? The character has Asperger's. Do you think she represents it well or not?


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27 Mar 2015, 1:00 pm

It's a good while since I saw the series in which she appeared, but I remember her well enough. The scriptwriters had obviously done some homework, and her aspie characteristics were easily recognisable - too easily perhaps, she seemed a bit of a caricature to me.



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27 Mar 2015, 5:54 pm

I don't like the way the staff talk about her; :? but yes I think it's quite a good representation.


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