An autistic person's view on allistic actors playing autistic characters: a thread
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I just wanna start off by saying that if you have an autistic character then I will always recommend getting an autistic actor regardless of the medium, however whether it's nessecary or not depends on the type of medium and character (1/10)

First point: regarding live action
ALWAYS get an autistic actor if they are in any kind of live action movie or show, this includes motion capture. Same reason you get a blind person to play a blind character or a trans person to play a trans character, no one knows us (2/10)

Better than ourselves. Also be sure to do your research and have enough of us in the writer's room, always important. Another thing, live allistic actors would have to act out stims and behaviors of autistic people and if the main problem with that isn't obvious enough, (3/10)

This can be really triggering for us. I don't care how good the actor is, or how "realistic" they make it look, get an autistic actor to play your live action autistic character. End of discussion (4/10)

Second point: regarding animation
Gentle disclaimer that this part is entirely my own opinion and some other autistics may think differently so don't use my word as your entire reference, listen to other autistics before you make a general assumption, thank you (5/10)

Personally, depending on the character, I don't mind allistics playing the voices of autistic cartoon characters. Before I mentioned that no one knows autistic people better than autistic people, that's why you should get an autistic actor, and that's why I still recommend (6/10)

It for animation as well. But still you have to have autistic writers in the writers room and because voice acting is much different than live acting, that's really all that's nessecary. You can't see voice actors when watching a cartoon. An animated autistic character's (7/10)

Physical stims are all animated so there wouldn't be anything to act out. Behaviors on the other hand are a somewhat different story. If your character studders or has a flat affect then maybe you should get an autistic actor (not always since those traits aren't limited (8/10)

Tw// sia
To autism) but if your character is non verbal then you should definitely get an autistic actor, specifically a non verbal one. A lot of other autistics may strongly disagree with these points, but trust me even if Sia didn't make Music to be an offensive (9/10)

Caricature of us, I would still have a much bigger problem with Maddie Ziegler playing Music than I do with Christine Woods playing Entrapta (10/10)

End of thread, thank you for reading