Podcast Episode 0084, Season 5, Episode 15; 9 March 2022 Special Note for this Episode: Hello. I’m Christopher Scott Wyatt, host of The Autistic Me Podcast. The following episode of The Autistic Me was recorded during a difficult time for our family. My wife had to be in California to…
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Podcast Episode 0077, Season 5, Episode 8; 16 November 2021 Allen Wolf describes The Sound of Violet: The Sound of Violet is about a man who believes he found his perfect soulmate, but his autism keeps him from realizing she’s actually a prostitute. The novel allows readers to experience a love story between…
I love the crime drama Vincent, a tightly-written series that ran on ITV in 2005 and 2006. There’s talk of a revival of the series, which is performing well on Amazon Prime and other streaming services. I recommended the series to friends after watching the first two episodes. Following episode three,…
Television now includes a surprising number of autistic and possibly autistic characters. We’ve already had shows with autistics (The Bridge, Touched, Alphas, Elementary, Parenthood, and more). There seem to be more, now, or maybe that’s merely my perception. I am not impressed with this trend. As with the novel and…
My wife and I are from Central California. The region is hard to explain to outsiders, because people assume “California” means L.A. and San Francisco, yet geographically those are little dots within a sea of socially conservative counties. To this day, it feels more like the Deep South (circa 1976)…
Writing for stage requires some understanding of the motivations and emotions of the characters that appear before an audience. Sometimes you also have to appreciate unseen characters that either shaped or continue to shape events and other characters. Writing, therefore, is exercise in empathy and more. If you cannot imagine…
I had written a long reflection on the job hunt (better an essay someday) as I finished preparing yet another portfolio to send to a state university. I found myself focused on a comment from a search committee member. “You aren’t anything like Christopher in The Curious Incident. Are you…
With the film Adam receiving good reviews, I thought it might be useful to reflect on autism and pop media. Generally, portrayals of autism have resembled what I consider fringe notions of individuals with autism disorders. The depictions are too close to the The Empty Fortress described by Bruno Bettelheim…
More movies about autistics. Because apparently we’re fascinating fictional characters, or at least fictionalized. Asperger’s Syndrome, on Screen and in Life New York Times By Neil Amdur Aug. 3, 2009 The three new movies would seem to have little in common: a romantic comedy about Upper West Side singles, a…