WTF Is Going On with Netflix's Love on the Spectrum?!

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Netflix’s Most “Wholesome” Show Is… Kinda Cruel? So many of you asked for this video, so here it is. I watched Season 3* for you out of the kindness of my (easily manipulated) heart!

🫣 media sources:
and two episodes of Love is Blind
and a Logan Paul Impaulsive podcast with Abbey, David and Christine Romeo
[Themes: marketing of disability, boundary-setting, “mom-ager” dynamic]

and an interview with Christine and Autism Speaks
and Talk to Me Sis - Tanner and Connor's Mom-Cast
[YouTube, timestamp highlights: 5:00, 22:00, 27:00, 47:00]
and Tanner's Mom on 'Real Pod' (another Mom-Cast)
and Autism Speaks' podcast episode with Christine Romeo and Eileen Lamb
[Themes: martyr mom narrative, ABA advocacy, cure language, overparenting]

References;
"I didn't get picked to be on the next season of Love on the Spectrum" by, Kaelynn Partlow (Original Cast, Season 1): ‪@Kaelynnism‬
Love on the Spectrum (Netflix)
• Season 3, Episode 5 – Madison’s “Princess Ariel” moment
• Season 3, Episode 7 – Reaction loops, Tanner and Callie “firsts” montage
• Season 3, Various – Cue cards with Connor, intimacy questions, parental coaching
Love is Blind (Netflix)
• Season 8, Episode 1 – Introduction to cast, tone differences
• Season 8, Episode 14 – Reunion, cast dynamics, lack of infantilization

The Guardian – “Analysis of the show’s shift from docuseries to reality TV”
IMDB Reviews – Repeated use of “wholesome” and “pure” in LoTS user reviews
Netflix Press – Emmy Awards listing and category classification (Reality TV)

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Chapters

00:00 Love on the Spectrum is soooo wholesome
01:57 Is poor representation better than no representation?
05:08 Infantilisation (Autistic adults as eternal children)
11:12 We have Autism Moms as Main Characters now
21:32 Exploitation
37:10 Would you like a takeaway?