The majority of autistic and autistic-coded characters in film and television have long looked, moved, and sounded a certain way. Think Dustin Hoffman’s Raymond in Rain Man or Jim Parsons’ Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory , Keir Gilchrist’s Sam in Atypical or Freddie Highmore’s Sean in The Good Doctor . They stand with the same awkward posture. They make the same kinds of gestures and twitches. They have a similar arrhythmic cadence that slips into a hyperverbal torrent during moments of stress