Shaun Murphy, in The Good Doctor, displayed some internalized ableism, such as when he said he wanted to be known as a good doctor not a good autistic doctor. Okay, if I compare it to a doctor I saw 24 years ago who told me that he was working in a Base Hospital in a regional city when a man came in one night with a cut hand. That doctor was the only doctor on duty and he was Chinese-Malaysian, and the man racially abused him and declined his services. The doctor said that the man would be back, and that he was tired and needed some sleep and that he'd attend to him. Sure enough, the man returned and he apologized. The doctor said, "Okay, but if you were truly sorry, you wouldn't have said anything." I'd say more than likely the man was sorry that he couldn't find another doctor and realized that it was the choice of bleeding to death or accepting a different doctor. And that's it, a doctor's a doctor, regardless of neurology, ethnicity, sex or gender, sexual orientation or any other variable. Only whether they're a good doctor or a bad doctor.

Let's not forget that a savant can still have learning difficulties or disabilities. I can remember things, but I struggle with math. Another savant may do well with math but struggle with history.

I remember a bully at school saying that he felt sorry for my father for having me. If someone said that to me, today, I would say, "Well, my father doesn't wish he had a different son." This bully, however, came on a school trip that my father came on, and he wasn't game enough to bully me, but he had another kid pushed up against a brick wall with a finger in his face, and my father went and stood behind the bully and the bully turned to find him standing there. He warned the bully that he'd be going home without a voice box if he persisted. A couple of days later, the bully wanted to buy something, but had no spending money. My father lent him some money, and when he got paid, the kid went to his bag and said, "Here you are, Mr Wynn." "What's that for?" "Don't you remember?" "Oh, yes, that's right. Thank you."

Every autistic person is an individual.