40 Super Important Things People With Autism Wish You Realized 

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21. That it is not like what you see on TV.

The “autistic characters” you see on TV are based off of one or two actual people with autism at best. Almost everyone will tell someone with autism or their family to watch x movie or y show because “This character is autistic”… and 95% of the time they will say “This character is nothinglike me/autistic family member. Have the writers ever actually met someone with autism before?”

22. Ambiguity is bad: “Lift up that side.” “Push that corner further in.” “That bracket needs to go down.” All these sentences make sense putting a shelf together. To me they might as well be in a foreign language.