While we should applaud the improvement in autistic representation on 'As We See It,' there is still progress to be made.
I am on the autism spectrum. It might not be obvious at first glance–I’m fairly well-spoken, and unlike some other autistic people I have no problem with eye contact–but it’s there. Things that come naturally to other people don’t come naturally to me. Socialization takes effort; organization takes even more effort. I am deeply enthusiastic about the things that interest me, but I take care to temper it.
The common thread was just how difficult autistic people were: how they exhausted their parents, how they annoyed their friends, how frustrating it was to communicate with them. Although I was, to use an outdated term, high-functioning, seeing that message over and over again made me uneasy. If I was autistic, I thought, that would mean I had exhausted my parents and annoyed my friends.
More importantly, As We See It stays true to its title. While their caretaker is a prominent character, the show foregrounds the experiences of Jack, Violet, and Harrison, focusing on the world through their eyes. When, in the first episode, Harrison ventures outside, we feel things the way he feels things: the world outside his apartment is a disorienting mess of rushing cars and staring eyes, everything too loud and too bright and too much.
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