Comments by "EebstertheGreat" (@EebstertheGreat) on "The Mathematical Storytelling of Cube" video.

I think 25 years ago, autism was understood quite differently than it is today. The character in this movie would be described as "high-functioning." Autism wasn't really seen as a spectrum, and Asperger Syndrome was seen as a separate disease. So while it is unfortunate that autistic people were uniformly represented this way in media, it's not surprising, since that reflected the most up-to-date medical science of the time.
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