Meryl Alper
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323 appearances
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first heard Jan 2024
last heard Jan 2024
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But also another thing that I guess would have surprised me is we think about representation in media.
And for a lot of these kids,
I think there are nowadays we have it's a real blossoming.
Nothing is perfect.
But there's lots of different things for kids to be able to draw on and see.
Oh, that is me reflected.
And the power of that in terms of your self-confidence, in terms of your
feeling like you belong is so important.
But for these kids, there's still a really, really long, long way to go.
But I think what's surprising is even in the absence of that, even the absence of characters where you're like, wow, that's a lead character in this TV show or in this book that has the same experience that I do.
Kids pick up on if it's not my exact diagnosis even, or that character doesn't have a diagnosis, but there's something about them that I connect with, they will glom onto that.
They will find that thing, and that thing, they will these are kids on the spectrum, some some also with ADHD, able to articulate what it is about that character or that book that they do see themselves in.
There's a whole
Portion about the book Wonder in there, where again, this is not a character that sh shares the same diagnosis, but kids who would script.
This is from the movie and the book, but with script lines that would talk about this book with a real passion and only in talking with their parents to know that they'd been bullied.
and had these really terrible experiences in school to know that, oh, that is why this kid is able to tell me so much about this book.
And not so much about a lot of other things or
Or not even to communicate clearly around them, but this they they really have a conviction or a passion about.
It says that it it's there's a power in they they will find anything that they can find to identify with.
That doesn't mean that people are off the hook for creating characters or storylines that are inclusive that speak to a wide variety of neurodivergent experiences, but kids are crafty and there's a kind of resilience in finding those characters.
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