IN TELEVISION WE TRUST
The crap on television amazes me. Since retiring, I’ve had large blocks of time released for idiot box viewing and yet very little of what’s being offered has captured my interest. The loud ‘After the tennis’ promotions only highlight a landscape filled with tiresome reality shows and mind-numbing dramas. A familiar theme runs through all these programs and- you guessed- it’s stereotyping. The most popular shows have it as the ‘hero’ element of the shit that they’re serving up. I refuse to apologise for the cooking show lingo but don’t get me started on that. The good doctor is one such example. I don’t pretend to know much about autism at all but what I am aware of is pretty much what everyone knows, namely, · Autism covers a large range of conditions, behaviours and features of individuals. · The reason that autism is described as having a ‘spectrum’ is mainly to accommod...