I tried to find the answer and I’m not sure if this is what they’re referencing but in the 2018 movie, the Predator is hunting a kid who exhibits every stereotypically-positive aspect of autism…so he can incorporate it into its own genome? The movie supposedly includes the quote, “autism is the next stage of evolution”
The implication is that what we call “autism” is actually a collection of net-positive traits (our society simply is ill-equipped for it) and those traits were sought out by a predator. So, the “lesson” is to stop viewing autism as something icky, and instead ask how we can adjust our society to adapt to it, rather than asking autistics to adapt to our society.
Huh I kind of love it. On one hand it’s exhausting that every quirk, weakness, or even disability, has to be a superpower of some kind to comicsbrain writers. But then on the other hand, the autistic folks I know personally do seem to have a talent for focus and specialisation that I don’t see as much in NTs.
What does that even mean in this context? I haven’t seen the movie.
I tried to find the answer and I’m not sure if this is what they’re referencing but in the 2018 movie, the Predator is hunting a kid who exhibits every stereotypically-positive aspect of autism…so he can incorporate it into its own genome? The movie supposedly includes the quote, “autism is the next stage of evolution”
The implication is that what we call “autism” is actually a collection of net-positive traits (our society simply is ill-equipped for it) and those traits were sought out by a predator. So, the “lesson” is to stop viewing autism as something icky, and instead ask how we can adjust our society to adapt to it, rather than asking autistics to adapt to our society.
Huh I kind of love it. On one hand it’s exhausting that every quirk, weakness, or even disability, has to be a superpower of some kind to comicsbrain writers. But then on the other hand, the autistic folks I know personally do seem to have a talent for focus and specialisation that I don’t see as much in NTs.