Originally Posted by TurtleFu
one of the very worst ways to portray someone who is differently abled.
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this is one of the worst-acted portrayals since "The Other Sister".
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I haven't watched Ataru yet, so I'm not going to attack or defend it. But I do have to ask..
Who are you, to authenticate what different-ableness looks like?
If a loose demographic has enough variety, then it always contains at least one exact match of whatever the demographic happens to be portrayed like, even if it's not what the actor or the production were aiming for - or what you wanted them to be aiming for.
There is always at least one differently-abled person (attempting to function in the world) who matches the performance put on by an actor. They coincidentally achieve the same performance by each failing in their own way. The actor's exhibition of a trait is more-or-less pronounced, while differently-abled people (throughout a wide spectrum) more-or-less succeed in hiding or marginalizing their traits.