Pixar’s short film Loop has recently dropped on Disney Plus. It’s a 9-minute story about two teenagers – one non-verbal autistic, one neurotypical – having to learn to communicate with one another. That’s the dry, plain description. Now for my actual reaction. Omg, y’all! I […]
This month in Autism in Media, we’re jumping ahead from 1988’s Rain Man to the first season of X-Files in 1994. There are notable portrayals of autism in the intervening years, and I’ll get back to them, but X-Files had extensive cultural reach in the […]
Autism has been mentioned and shown in media for much longer than we’ve had a solid understanding of the condition. I’ve decided to look through some of these depictions of autism in media chronologically, to see how things have changed. I hope to find some […]
