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What I didn't like about this show is that they act like being a doctor and having autism is so contradictory whereas historically doctors probably where mostly on the autistic side:

They didn't participate in the normal social activities outside their work but instead tried to classify and understand every or certain diseases obsessively

They did weird things no one else wanted to do or was even forbidden by society, eg autopsies or examining body liquids, excrements etc.

Also they kind of needed some lack of empathy to do the early treatments which often consists of hurting or doing something bad to patients because rationally it was better for them in the end - I think this part is shown quite well in the show eg when he is in the collapsed building and has to amputate the woman's leg.

I think it's only a kind of recent development that doctors are expected to be overly empathetic to patients and talk to them a lot and even explain them everything. In my experience, how the "normal" doctors in the show act is still rather the exception than the norm.

Unfortunately I have aphantasia, so all I get is this dumb dialogue wheel with 3 skill check options I can't pass and one really dumb option.

The "autsists have super powers" trope is ridiculous I agree but I will say that I can and do think this way occasionally. I notice it especially when I'm planning a route through the city that its like I'm rapidly flying above the streets with images of buildings flashing across my mind

Wait, you guys don't see a hud everywhere?

Just gonna save this into my mind palace

So the guy from house made a show about a doctor who heals people using autism in the same way house used substance abuse and sarcasm? Please tell me it’s called something insane like Doctism or Medical on the Spectrum or some shit.

I only have a HUD for words. Like, my brain has to put big block letter labels on everything in my mind. I see words more than images.

I AM A SURGEON

I remember there was a guy (maybe on youtube?) who always claimed he had pretended to have a hud for so long (it helped him overcome social anxiety and get out of the house, I think) that it was always in his mental imagery of things, and he said it was present in his actual vision. This was way back when though, before social media got big... maybe 2008-2010? I've always wondered if, like the people with their tulpas and such causing mental illness type symptoms, IF we could really change our perceptions that much.

Meanwhile I'm out here tistic with no HUD. Figures.

Isn’t it just an illustration of his photographic memory?

The same thing Mike Ross can do in Suits.

I have AudHd, I can only see clips from various tv shows and I don't get to choose what's playing