How ‘The Accountant’ Victimizes The Autistic Community

By Alexandra Haagaard

Content warning: ableist slurs, ableist violence, sexual abuse

If nothing else, The Accountant’s marketing team deserves an award of some kind. In the run-up to the October 14 release of Ben Affleck’s thriller about an autistic savant who does accounting work for the criminal elite, media coverage spun the film as a brave…