Episode 1 feedback from an autistic.Summary: So far, the writer and director got everything correctly and there…
4. Seeing things non-autistic people doesn't see/hear
Ooh, I love this one. Almost all neurotypicals (a.k.a. "feeling normal and superior") fail to see things already right in front of their faces. Almost all austistics see what you can not see.
This was perfectly exemplified with that iron that does look like a whale. At first it was meaningless but later in the case, it was a stepping stone which led to the solution.
That is accurate. And because we see (and hear) a lot of things, it is one reason why we experience sensory overload. (Yeah it's interconnected.)
Episode 1 feedback from an autistic.Summary: So far, the writer and director got everything correctly and there…
3. Sensory overload or sensory sensitivity
They did well in expressing sensory overload or sensory sensitivity in a simple, natural way. These are: - wearing of ear plugs (waking up scene) - taste sensitivity (breakfast scene) - too much awareness of one's surroundings (train scene)
Most of us autistics have varying degrees of sensory sensitivity, and when there is simply too much, we enter into sensory overload situation.
For example, in the train scene, the crowd and the nearness of people creates a sensory overload. There are different ways that we autistics cope with it and if we fail at that … we need to run as far away from the crowd, the noise, and everything else, otherwise we're going to have a meltdown -- by that it means, our energy will be completely drained.
In the train scene, the character's way of coping with it is to listen to whale sounds. This is actually a common coping mechanism: draining one's senses of something to help tune out everything else. For example, one of my coping mechanism is to fill my thoughts with a particular problem that is not easy to solve. Or, if I am with someone, I will keep on talking about "senseless" things to help me drown out everything else.
We even get irritated at small sounds most non-autistics can not hear. I hate those small sounds myself, it can wake me up too, but most people don't hear it.
Episode 1 feedback from an autistic.Summary: So far, the writer and director got everything correctly and there…
2. Having a lot of pillows (or anything soft) at bed.
Yet another trait rarely seen in shows. The most common depiction is having a lot of toys or a thick blanket (and they even use the wrong type of blanket!) In episode 1, they decided to depict the less seen in a show, lots of pillows.
While many autistics prefer weighted blankets or sensory blankets, not everyone does. Some simply prefer to have a lot of soft things around them.
Again, kudos for choosing to show this instead of the overly used toys and incorrect blankets.
Episode 1 feedback from an autistic.Summary: So far, the writer and director got everything correctly and there…
1. The kid moving (or hopping a little) left and right at a stationary position.
Accurate. I do that myself. Other autistics do it differently, like swaying forward and backward (which I sometimes do myself).
This is the first time I saw this depicted in a show. Usually they use "murmurs", when an autistic talks to himself/herself; or scratches their arms. While there are autistics who do that, it is not always the case.
Summary: So far, the writer and director got everything correctly and there were no exaggerated/sensationalized scenes re: autistic and autism, in general or otherwise.
My hopes are high they will maintain this "pureness" instead of adding things that does not represent us autistics.
Detailed feedback: (see long thread below)
EDIT: Apologies for the "feeling normal and superior". I just hate the word "normal" when it comes to autism discussion because "normal" is relative (and in this subject, the majority). But I have to explain what "neurotypical" is without implying that "normal" is "normal".
It has no other meaning other than being the "majority". Think of it this way, if the situation is reversed wherein autistics are the majority of the population, "normal" would mean the autistics.
Koreans and their fascination with the moon/sun and drowning in a lake. ^^;; There must be some mythological basis for this and why it's usually used in their dramas.
Well, everyone is different, you can't say that person with Aspergers has to do this, or be like that. I mean,…
As someone who is autistic, there are things the media portrays about us that is not accurate and is actually hurting us.
It has nothing to do with "everyone is different", it has to do with how they portray us autistics. There are still in the media and showbiz who still misrepresent us.
EDIT: To make it more clearer.
I am talking about how the media / showbiz is portraying us. I am not talking about if we austistics are similar or different. I am an autistic so I know first-hand how different we are from other autistics.
However, media and showbiz is a totally different matter. What you see does not necessarily mean that's how we autistics are. This is NOT new, we've been fighting the misinformation about autistics for decades now.
Them choosing the 23rd floor for Yoo Mi/Anna's apartment was not random. Hahahaha. Well played there director.In…
Also noticed the timing of the revelation. At the end of episode 2, when the real Anna showed up.
That means trouble. Could be the death of Yoo Mi's stolen identity.
OR
The real Anna might let her in exchange for a deal. Which would mean, Yoo Mi's new identity will continue to live and change her for better or for worse.
Them choosing the 23rd floor for Yoo Mi/Anna's apartment was not random. Hahahaha. Well played there director.
In non-Biblical interpretations, 23 means transformation and change. Which is what Yoo Mi/Anna did.
In Biblical interpretation, while there is a positive meaning to it, it also has a negative meaning: death, destruction, imperfection. There 46 chromosomes in our body. To create a new life, 46 is split into two: 23 chromosomes from the father; 23 from the mother.
23 means death because 46 (which means life) was split. And to create a new life, you have to join two 23s.
So, Yoo Mi / Anna's apartment located at the 23rd floor is a symbolical Easter Egg.
Confirmed:* Lee Jin Geun was the bully during the bully scene when they were kids.* Lee Jin Geun was the bully…
Hopefully not, that would be sad. I mean, they already built her up, it would be a waste to just end it that way. And it's rare to see support characters with a decent background and character development. Usually they're just … there.
What "sob story"? Was being a bully when he was a kid a "sob story"? /confused
I see. Well, psychologists do claim that bullies are bullies because of, well, a "sob story", usually from their parents and how they're raised. They let all their frustrations, hatred, and whatever, come out by bullying other people since they can't speak up at home.
I'm not saying it is justification but that's what psychologists claim. So, yeah, it is possible it might end that way.
Characters age gap is so weird like when FL was in middle school(possibly 13-15 yrs) , he was already a police…
It depends on where you live and your culture.
As far as I know, in SoKor, age gaps wherein the man is older is not a problem as long as they are of both of legal age (which is 21 Korean age if I remember correctly).
Age gaps wherein the woman is older is I think acceptable as lone as it isn't more than 12 years.
To add some context, re: cultural differences. Here in the Philippines no one cares how big your age gap is and it doesn't matter who is older.
But compare that to like Canada, according to a Canadian couple vloggers, in Canada people frown and ask stupid and offending questions when they learn how bit their age gap is (somewhere 14 to 20). This couple just accepted their life will be filled with people asking those questions and frowning on them.
However, when they migrated here in the Philippines late last year, they were surprised that no one cared. They even said that no one asked stupid questions nor anyone frowned after learning their age gap.
So, it depends on where you live, what your culture is. It turns out, Filipinos are more liberated on age gaps than Canadians. And I'd say Korea is somewhere in the middle.
Lastly, the show did not imply that the young kid was having a relationship with the probably 22-23 year old guy. Again, in South Korea they have a law against marriage with a minor (below 21 Korean age). As context, in the Philippines, a new law was passed making marriage with a minor illegal and a criminal offense. Sooner or later, a new culture may arise out of it, just like in South Korea, our culture may start to frown on relationships with a minor because there is law against marriage with a minor.
If the show implied in any way that the adult and a minor have a relationship beyond platonic, Korea would be in outrage by now. The same way with age gaps, if the age gap between adults is not culturally acceptable in SoKor, they would be whining about it all over the Internet already.
Same. I can't understand a thing.The actor married a Hawaiian so he sure can pronounce English properly, why did…
Not sure. At least from MDL's description on his bio, it sounded like he married someone who grew up in Hawaii.
And for him to have married a non-celebrity "office worker" (as MDL described her), it would mean he also lived in Hawaii for quite sometime (but not as long as his wife). He should've acquired American English during their dating years.
It's just as assumption on my part, since she's an "office worker", she doesn't have the convenience to travel and live elsewhere like most in higher in corporate hierarchy. So they probably dated in Hawaii not in Korea.
In any case, his English in this show is not natural. Hehehe. I mean, he's trying to sound like a foreigner (or a Korean who grew up in the US in his case). Foreigners always have that inflection in words when speaking another language, the director probably asked him to sound like that … but in English.
LOLs, and now it's so hard to understand his English.
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Ooh, I love this one. Almost all neurotypicals (a.k.a. "feeling normal and superior") fail to see things already right in front of their faces. Almost all austistics see what you can not see.
This was perfectly exemplified with that iron that does look like a whale. At first it was meaningless but later in the case, it was a stepping stone which led to the solution.
That is accurate. And because we see (and hear) a lot of things, it is one reason why we experience sensory overload. (Yeah it's interconnected.)
They did well in expressing sensory overload or sensory sensitivity in a simple, natural way. These are:
- wearing of ear plugs (waking up scene)
- taste sensitivity (breakfast scene)
- too much awareness of one's surroundings (train scene)
Most of us autistics have varying degrees of sensory sensitivity, and when there is simply too much, we enter into sensory overload situation.
For example, in the train scene, the crowd and the nearness of people creates a sensory overload. There are different ways that we autistics cope with it and if we fail at that … we need to run as far away from the crowd, the noise, and everything else, otherwise we're going to have a meltdown -- by that it means, our energy will be completely drained.
In the train scene, the character's way of coping with it is to listen to whale sounds. This is actually a common coping mechanism: draining one's senses of something to help tune out everything else. For example, one of my coping mechanism is to fill my thoughts with a particular problem that is not easy to solve. Or, if I am with someone, I will keep on talking about "senseless" things to help me drown out everything else.
We even get irritated at small sounds most non-autistics can not hear. I hate those small sounds myself, it can wake me up too, but most people don't hear it.
Yet another trait rarely seen in shows. The most common depiction is having a lot of toys or a thick blanket (and they even use the wrong type of blanket!) In episode 1, they decided to depict the less seen in a show, lots of pillows.
While many autistics prefer weighted blankets or sensory blankets, not everyone does. Some simply prefer to have a lot of soft things around them.
Again, kudos for choosing to show this instead of the overly used toys and incorrect blankets.
Accurate. I do that myself. Other autistics do it differently, like swaying forward and backward (which I sometimes do myself).
This is the first time I saw this depicted in a show. Usually they use "murmurs", when an autistic talks to himself/herself; or scratches their arms. While there are autistics who do that, it is not always the case.
Kudos to episode 1 for showing a different one.
Summary: So far, the writer and director got everything correctly and there were no exaggerated/sensationalized scenes re: autistic and autism, in general or otherwise.
My hopes are high they will maintain this "pureness" instead of adding things that does not represent us autistics.
Detailed feedback: (see long thread below)
EDIT:
Apologies for the "feeling normal and superior". I just hate the word "normal" when it comes to autism discussion because "normal" is relative (and in this subject, the majority). But I have to explain what "neurotypical" is without implying that "normal" is "normal".
It has no other meaning other than being the "majority". Think of it this way, if the situation is reversed wherein autistics are the majority of the population, "normal" would mean the autistics.
^_^
It has nothing to do with "everyone is different", it has to do with how they portray us autistics. There are still in the media and showbiz who still misrepresent us.
EDIT: To make it more clearer.
I am talking about how the media / showbiz is portraying us. I am not talking about if we austistics are similar or different. I am an autistic so I know first-hand how different we are from other autistics.
However, media and showbiz is a totally different matter. What you see does not necessarily mean that's how we autistics are. This is NOT new, we've been fighting the misinformation about autistics for decades now.
That means trouble. Could be the death of Yoo Mi's stolen identity.
OR
The real Anna might let her in exchange for a deal. Which would mean, Yoo Mi's new identity will continue to live and change her for better or for worse.
In non-Biblical interpretations, 23 means transformation and change. Which is what Yoo Mi/Anna did.
In Biblical interpretation, while there is a positive meaning to it, it also has a negative meaning: death, destruction, imperfection. There 46 chromosomes in our body. To create a new life, 46 is split into two: 23 chromosomes from the father; 23 from the mother.
23 means death because 46 (which means life) was split. And to create a new life, you have to join two 23s.
So, Yoo Mi / Anna's apartment located at the 23rd floor is a symbolical Easter Egg.
Let's see how accurate this is or if it's just another misinformed and sensationalised show.
I'm not saying it is justification but that's what psychologists claim. So, yeah, it is possible it might end that way.
They can turn this into a TV series and explore more about the technology, the enhanced kids, history, and more character and world development.
As far as I know, in SoKor, age gaps wherein the man is older is not a problem as long as they are of both of legal age (which is 21 Korean age if I remember correctly).
Age gaps wherein the woman is older is I think acceptable as lone as it isn't more than 12 years.
To add some context, re: cultural differences. Here in the Philippines no one cares how big your age gap is and it doesn't matter who is older.
But compare that to like Canada, according to a Canadian couple vloggers, in Canada people frown and ask stupid and offending questions when they learn how bit their age gap is (somewhere 14 to 20). This couple just accepted their life will be filled with people asking those questions and frowning on them.
However, when they migrated here in the Philippines late last year, they were surprised that no one cared. They even said that no one asked stupid questions nor anyone frowned after learning their age gap.
So, it depends on where you live, what your culture is. It turns out, Filipinos are more liberated on age gaps than Canadians. And I'd say Korea is somewhere in the middle.
Lastly, the show did not imply that the young kid was having a relationship with the probably 22-23 year old guy. Again, in South Korea they have a law against marriage with a minor (below 21 Korean age). As context, in the Philippines, a new law was passed making marriage with a minor illegal and a criminal offense. Sooner or later, a new culture may arise out of it, just like in South Korea, our culture may start to frown on relationships with a minor because there is law against marriage with a minor.
If the show implied in any way that the adult and a minor have a relationship beyond platonic, Korea would be in outrage by now. The same way with age gaps, if the age gap between adults is not culturally acceptable in SoKor, they would be whining about it all over the Internet already.
^_^
Thank you ^_^
You have a point, if no one can understand him, it probably is not English.
And for him to have married a non-celebrity "office worker" (as MDL described her), it would mean he also lived in Hawaii for quite sometime (but not as long as his wife). He should've acquired American English during their dating years.
It's just as assumption on my part, since she's an "office worker", she doesn't have the convenience to travel and live elsewhere like most in higher in corporate hierarchy. So they probably dated in Hawaii not in Korea.
In any case, his English in this show is not natural. Hehehe. I mean, he's trying to sound like a foreigner (or a Korean who grew up in the US in his case). Foreigners always have that inflection in words when speaking another language, the director probably asked him to sound like that … but in English.
LOLs, and now it's so hard to understand his English.