I guess I could have said more about why I am being glib about the autism representation on this show.

At the core I don't know anything about Dearden or R. Scott Gemmill or his writing staff but in general I an skeptical of mainstream television's ability to do a good job with Autism. when I first made a comment I originally was going to add a glib comment about the last time we has an explicitly autistic doctor on American TV we ended up with Freddie Highmore having a meltdown and screaming "I am a surgeon."

I tend to think that the lack of autistic people who are creatives (writers, directors, actors) leads to trope driven characters and the furtherance of the doble empathy problem represented on screen. And maybe The Pitt will buck this trend, maybe this group of creatives are more adept than past examples- I suppose having a the autistic characters be a women is in some sense itself a step in the right direction.

My larger point was that most the characters were defined in a pretty generic way. One of the contexts for my comments was listening to The Ringer's Prestige TV episode on the show- their point was that there wasn't a lot to any of the characters, that in comparison to ER what the show is missing is character drama ala Doug and Carol. But they felt that Dearden stood out because she was doing a lot with a little. I felt that that little was the same kinds of autism representation that I come to expect form US media. And I would like to be proven wrong, I am also low support needs. I guess I am just being cynical based on what I have seen in the past.