The portrayal of non-neurotypicals in neurotypical media

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The portrayal of non-neurotypicals in neurotypical media.

Money is made exploiting peoples natural fear of differences.

Why does white society portray non-whites as evil, violent, dangerous, and selfish?

I knew one elderly lady, who was forever taking community college courses, to enrich her life. One told her that mythology is the basis of society (the noble lie) and that everyone needs their own, personal story. (Also, in police science, criminals were said to invent their own narratives, or rationalizations for crimes.) She started saying that her hollihock seeds and generic succulents were carried in the bonnet of her ancestor, on a wagon trail, and, into her obsolete computer, she typed fairytales, featuring her dead child. These were to be regarded as the concrete, Gospel truth, or social consequences would ensue. The rules would continuously change as the web of deceit became ever more entangling. (So much precious, mental energy was stored on a leaky porch, made from recycled billboards, and later burned down.)

If I had to portray an NT person, in AS media, there should be a continual sense of life-and-death urgency, with emotional justifications. Under the 'theory of rent,' it is said that NT people cannot even function without Bastiat's broken window, some Hegelian dialectic, or false, moral equivalency, composed of completely arbitrary elements.

I would portray the NT person, losing touch with reality, as all of their mental energy was devoted to a fantasy life.

And, they would regard a Zen-like Karl Childers or Forrerst Gump type-of person, as having a kind of hidden genius, when making quick fixes and finding crass, Solomonic solutions.

Like the tin pot dictator or petty criminal, every NT person, in my own life, has had to imagine some wrong or guilt and feel like a right-fighter, in everything they do, so they can find motivation to complete mundane chores.

Pathological lying was once, formally considered to be on a spectrum of dissociation (as from reality), and I would portray that as a sort of logical continuum, or decent into madness.

You know, I've often had the same thought, albeit in a slightly different form.

In a society where we were the majority, and "sociotics" the minority, they'd probably seem overwrought, manipulative, and superficial enough to qualify for Borderline Personality Disorder. Of course, it'd be important to remember that they're fully functional human beings, too, and that most weren't significantly different or dangerous, but it'd be hard to believe.

That's the real problem with media that reinforces these stereotypes. In reducing people on the spectrum to cardboard cutouts, they create expected roles and scripts for NT/NA interaction that most people don't want or need to conform to.