Rain Man made autistic people visible. But it also entrenched a myth | Karl Knights

9:07am PST - December 17th, 2018    the good doctor - The Guardian (AU)

Thirty years on, the ‘autistic savant’ portrayed by Dustin Hoffman still represents most people’s idea of autism After Rain Man was released on 16 December 1988, the whole world knew what “autistic savant” meant. Despite spending years in development hell, an…