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Ya know if I was still an ignorant and vicious troll on /b/ like I was in middle school, I might have come up this if you’d asked me to do my best impression of an autistic person
I hadn’t heard of Sia until today. Fuck her and her dumb Khruangbin haircut
I read more to see how very bad it is https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/27/sias-film-music-misrepresents-autistic-people-it-could-also-do-us-damage
TW: even more ableism
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Ziegler’s performance as Music, however, is the standout disaster, serving us “Autism” the Rain Man way, all tics and whooping and capital ‘A’ Acting. She affects a honking, hiccuping gait occasionally punctuated by phrases – “make your eggs”, “braid your hair” – delivered in a voice that lands somewhere between a school bully mimicking Meryl Streep’s low register and a dog waking up from dental surgery.
I want to whack her with my diamond sword in minecraft :rage-cry:
I mean, in all honesty some disabled kids can look kinda like that or “weird” in other ways. The challenge, then, for a director who actually cares about disabled people (not Sia, clearly) would be to humanize and build empathy for them using a wide range of different-appearing characters–to portray the common humanity beneath circumstantial details. The struggles they and the people who care for them deal with–but also, crucially, the joys and the love all of them experience as well (because portraying disabled people solely as objects of pity is also dehumanizing, of course). At least, that’s how I think it should go as someone who used to work with disabled and usually autism spectrum kids with intense behavioral issues.
