Did you watch The Bridge?
I just watched the second episode. She flirted using eye contact in the bar perfectly and very naturally. If the main actress is going to be portrayed as that odd and missing big things, I think she should have more trouble with the little things. Doubt this would matter to most NTs and they will get the story just fine. But more realistic and more comfortable to Aspie girls and women I think if she had just a little trouble with flirting through eye contact. Just looking down occasionally, or staring more, would probably do the trick. Though I'm not an actress. But she seems good, like she could be given a suggestion and could make it work.
This matters, it isn't easy to learn to flirt!
This matters, it isn't easy to learn to flirt!
Thank you for saying this. I was never any good at flirting, couldn't understand what I was supposed to do or what I was supposed to look for in response. I had friends who complained I was a natural flirt (I was just being friendly) and who wondered why I didn't respond to men who flirted with me (didn't know that's what they were doing).
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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -- Oscar Wilde
Agreed. Just because we have trouble connecting to others on an intimate level doesn't mean we don't want to.
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My thoughts exactly. Cross did not fit the female profile of Aspie. Maybe the show would have benefited from a female advisor.
It seems that is the reaction of a number of females, I feel that way too. Though I know females are outnumbered by males and maybe that makes it hard to portray a character who is so much in the minority. But I do think most female Aspies can fit in better on the surface at least. Probably why fewer get diagnosis. I am happy they're trying to portray a female, hopefully they soften up the maleness aspect as the show goes on.
I did watch the pilot, and I will have to watch that again and a few episodes more.
The Swedish show was not perfect but pretty close. It was one of the first times an aspie were portrayed fairly accurate and as a real person with a real job and a life resembling that of a real aspie. I have so much admiration for the creators and writers. It really was something special.
I do have some concerns about the American version. In the Swedish one Saga has some problems that one with AS would (could) have, and learn to minimise and work around in their teens and early adulthood if they were anywhere near the level of functioning that would allow employment in any social setting that involved interaction with others. These things seem accentuated in the American, like they are focused upon when they should have been played down.
The setting between US and Mexico represent a far greater cultural barrier than the originals Swedish and Danish setting. There are small differences between Denmark and Sweden but the situation (high crime rates, drugs, cartels, etc.) in that part of Mexico seems to far from that of Denmark. The terrorist wants to point out social injustice, but that seems a hard feat for the writers of the American version. A US-Canada border would have worked better.
Sonya to me came across as a harsher character than Saga. Taking some of Sagas cluelessness and turning that into harshness is not good either. Saga could have been more polished in the Swedish version, making her less polished in the American is the wrong way to go.
I will have to see a few episodes more before I can give a real opinion...
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