Hawaii 5-0

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Last nights episode featured an autistic character in a key role. The charactor was labeled "high functioning" . He was very verbal. Love of routine, dislike of change was emphasized. The charactor had a blue collar job. There was some stimming shown and he knew detailed facts on the topics he was interested in but did not seem to be a savant. Nice change from the socially ackward genious stereotype.

Cool! I haven't heard of that one before!
I get really tired of the genius awkward stereotype as well. I also think it is important to show what stimming looks like or can look like- since that is so integral to being autistic.

I have nothing to add, just you don't seem like a Hawaii 5-0 type person, lol...your studious research must have taken one of those Robert Frost paths...

I don't understand, can you please explain this to me?

From what I gather Hawaii 5-0 is a teen geared program, the OP is like the exact opposite: well read, well researched, and highly intelligent. Therefore the program doesn't fit his demographic. The Frost reference is to the poem "Road Not Taken", where he describes taking a wonderful life journey that others did not, a non-standard path so to speak. Therefore for the OP to end up on Hawaii 5-0 he had to have taken a circuitous route to get there-- one of Frost's roads not taken.

The OP is old enough to have watched the original series still loves the theme song lives in a place with limited TV channels and is curious to see how they updated the original.

Me too on the original series and loving the theme song. I just can't get into the remake, the new characters, plus I totally have no use for the "action-adventure" genre. So I part-way watched the new Hawaii 5-0 a couple of times and concluded it is not for me.

Nice observation about the autistic character though.

There was an autistic person at the swimming pool last time I went. He took forever getting into the water, flapping his hands all the way. Then he just came over to my lane without a word. So I asked him if he wanted to share my swim lane - that's the usual practice where I swim - and he said yes. So I smiled and nodded my head and swam on down my half of the lane. I have to admit, I wished he wasn't there. I like the luxury of a whole lane so you don't bump into the walls or the other swimmer. And his hand-flapping irritated me just on account of the motions catching my attention. (For me, the weekly swim is supposed to be part exercise, part meditation.) But overall, it wasn't too bad an experience. Once he was swimming, he wasn't flapping any more, and he wasn't a heavy splasher.

This has nothing to do with Hawaii 5-0. Just recounting an autism encounter I had. How do I know he was autistic? OK, I don't, but (a) I wasn't diagnosing him and (b) it seemed probable.

Lol, very concise and efficient explanation. And also of note, it was merely a demographic assumption-- no value claims were intended on the validity of the program itself, merely the demographic it's aimed towards.