Grey's Anatomy new actress:

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For those of you following, don't you think they did a better job this week?

She was more human and they went past eye contact/no empathy, altough they did hammer away at the latter too much again.

But she halted when she spoke and had a few weird mannerisms that could indeed be particular to A PERSON with aut., but not all of us. Before they were trying to get characteristscs that hit us all. Stupid and impossible and insulting.

Anyway, I thought it was better this week.

How did anyone else feel?

I think people are paying too much attention to this.

I thought it was better this week. Then again I didn't have that much trouble with the way it was displayed.

I think it's important just for that reason. People watch that show, and it could be their only exposure to the subject--how it's portrayed is quite important.

If I were the writer, I'd write the character as I wanted, and then have a guest star with another kind of autism, wildly different, to make the point that we're diverse like that. And not just "functioning level" different, like one with AS and one with LFA, because that would be just asking for stereotypes. Bring in another Aspie with a different personality--that'd make the point handily, and you wouldn't even have to hammer it home (though they might, being silly TV executives who think Viewers are Morons).

Is she the organ haveerstor?