Source: (Ressa, 2021)
When looking at it from the perspective of three shows (Atypical, Touch, and The Good Doctor) autism is typically represented in a way that is easier for the audience to digest and tend to show characteristics that are more enjoyable for audiences to watch. These shows tend to have a white heterosexual male in the role and typically represents someone that is high functioning on the autism spectrum

Source: (Ressa, 2021)
Savant-ism, emotional detachment, socially awkward, repetitive, obsessive traits

Source: (Ressa, 2021) This article helps to show how the shows can rely on stereotypical autistic traits and can cast the autistic character as either a victim or someone that is able to overcome their disability as if it is something to conquer. It fails to touch on all of the traits and mannerisms as well as the diversity of autism,

Source: (Ressa, 2021) The stereotypical representation can lead to an altered view of autism and misrepresent autism and all of its diversity. The shows don't allow society to see anything beyond the intended scope of the tv show. Tv shows have the ability to omit and address what they feel is a shedding light on autism to how they would like to it to come across and tend to miss the bigger picture. Society can rely on this representation and can be misinformed on autism because of it.

Source:(Ressa, 2021) The limitations fro this article are that there are only three shows being observed and also the personal perception of the teacher that is writing this article.

Source: (Nordahl-Hansen et al., 2018) How the media chooses to represent autism can lead to an increase in stereotypes and stigmas associated with autism.

Source:Source: (Nordahl-Hansen et al., 2018) This type of representation can cause people to believe that autism and savantism are always paired together, which in reality only one in three people with autism display these skills.

Source: Source: (Nordahl-Hansen et al., 2018) Points out how the media tends to rely on the savant like skills associated with autism.

Source: Source: (Nordahl-Hansen et al., 2018) This article focuses on one stereotype and tends to focus on more of the failings .

Source: (Prochnow, 2014) Autism is a spectrum disorder that has an array of different levels upon it, a symptom that has a variety of traits associated with it. Usually follows the DSM-5 criteria which follows these associated traits: - shows a lack of awareness to social cues - can tend to be literal and unable to show affection in a normal fashion - unable to understand or engage in non-verbal behaviors and tends to not pick up on the cues associated with it - repetitiveness - difficulties forming/maintaining relationships - need for routines and/ore rituals - a fixation with certain objects or activities - sensitivity to certain sensory - tend to show signs at a young age ( 8 or under)

Source: (Prochnow, 2014) Can cause people to automatically think being autistic looks like someone who is quirky and highly intelligent, can tend to box in autism with stereotypical views that are inaccurate to the overall meaning of autism

Source: (Prochnow, 2014) Sugarcoats autism and fails to show any characters with severe autism. Representation within the media can be overly positive to the point of being inaccurate to its true nature.

Source: (Prochnow, 2014) Savant-ism and magical abilities, being considered different and/or quirky, having an unlabeled or undiagnosed disability which can cause for autism to represented as less than or like having that diagnosis is a negative thing or something to be ashamed of because of stereotypical views. Inability to understand social cues or maintain eye contact. unable to connect or have meaningful relationships

Source: (Itkonen & Ream, 2013) History has shaped us to believe that autism was something to be cured and now is looked at as something that "happens" to a family and can lead someone to believe that it is a negative diagnosis

Source: (Itkonen & Ream, 2013) Scope of data and accurate representation due to limited resources

Source: (Ding et al., 2017) only looks at articles and scientific papers for resources on description of autism

Source: (Ding et al., 2017) Autism is a severe developmental disability, tends to lack social skill/cues. Leo Kanner coined the idea of "Refrigerator Mother Theory" in 1943 that believed that autism was a result of a lack of maternal warmth

Source: (Spencer, 2021) This had an extremely negative reaction from society as it chose to not include an actress that was autistic for the role of an autistic character. There was a lot of backlash on representation and was viewed as politically incorrect.

Source: (Spencer, 2021) Only shows the perception of one movie, mostly negative feedback

Source: (Jones et al., 2023) Intellectual genius, dangerous or incontrollable

Source: (Jones et al.,2023) Studies as recent as 2020 show that there has been an increase in diverse representation that have included representation from non-caucasian backgrounds and includes the LGBTQ+ community within the media

Source: (Jones et al.,2023) relied on stereotypes associated with autism and there were some negative portrayals including comparing an autistic boy to a robot or non-human like functions. Focused on autism being a handicap or made someone feel/look different than the norm. Made autism look supernatural or genuis-like.Many of the representation were from white heterosexual priveledged males

Source: (Jones et al., 2023) paints autism in a limited scope, thus not allowing for society to understand the varying differences in autism. Relies on stereotypical characters to portray autism instead of all of the vastly different characteristics and situations that can be associated with autism

Source: (May, 2022) Doesn't utilize authentic autistic representation or input on how it should be represented. People are unable to recognize autism unless it is obvious and stereotypical traits so they can fail to identify with them ( especially autistic community that don't display obvious traits) Lacks characters that don't center around the idea of what autism looks like

Source: (May, 2020) The misrepresentation of all of the varying character traits of autism can make people unaware of the non-traditional characteristics associated with autism. This makes for a very narrow interpretation of what autism is supposed to look like.

Source: (Hattenstone, 2021) Some of the films make the focus on autism and rely on stereotypes to make it readable. A lot of earlier films features a lot of savant-ism in autistic characters

Source: (Hattenstone, 2021) Autistic people can find communication/social skills to be limited and display repetitive behavior, sensory issues like sensitivity to light, touch sound, etc.

Source: (Hattenstone, 2021) tends to portray that autistic people should have genius-like qualities and tend to look/act a certain way

Source: (Kurchak, 2021) In Atypical they cast a neurotypical actor for the lead role that was portraying an autistic character, even though several autistic actors auditioned. It lacked authentic representation, relied heavily on stereotype of autism. Character was never held accountable for his actions, everything was excused because of his autism

Source: (Kurchak, 2021) Main character of Atypical was a heterosexual white male that came from a middle class family, but later the show added autistic actors in supporting roles from different backgrounds

Source: (Eastwood et al., 2022) The constant misrepresentation of autism can create a stigma associated with autism that in order to be considered autistic, you must present a certain set of behavior or characteristics

Source: (Eastwood et al., 2022) tends to look at autism and how it should look when we present it a certain way instead of how it can feel as an experience in being autistic

Source: (Brook, 2015) -94% of people in executive ranks of film studios are white - study done in 2013. This does not allow for diverse input when it comes to film representation

Source: (Hopkins, 2019) Look at autism through a narrow scope and relies on stereotypes - doesn't allow for people with non-typical autistic traits to relate to characters on screen

Source: (Hopkins, 2019) Rain man - main character follows routines, throws tantrums when routine changes or experiences sensory overload, displays savant skills. The Good Doctor - lack of eye contact, lack of social skills, sensory sensitivities, savant skills. Atypical- sam- mono-tones, lack of social skills, fixation on penguins. Elementary - Fiona - literal, lack of eye contact, fixation on cats