Promising Me Beautiful Lies: How Hollywood Failed My Autism

“Beautiful Lies,” original illustration by Johnny Profane Âû (Knapp). Published 01/21/2023, AutisticAF blog.

Nothing that ANY screen ever showed me… not effing “reality” TV… prepared me for life… As an autistic.

🚨Content note: profanity, opinionated, gratuitous Star Trek ref, scare quotes...

I remember a lot of movies & TV in my life. I gotta believe more than most of my generation. Except maybe fellow autistics.