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Woo Young-woo is a character played by a Korean non-autistic actress
Today
ParkEun-bin,fromtheNetflixseries“ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo.”The
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show grabbed widespread global attention recently, ranking as Netflix’s
most-viewedseriesduringAugust2022,with77.4millionhourswatched.
It is not this number that shows the drama’s real influence throughout the
world. The worldwide love poured in to Woo Young-woo, and led people
to care about autism. The world started consuming autism. YouTube was
full of channels producing their reactions about autism and Woo. People
were clicking and leaving comments and sharing their thoughts about
autism.Thecommentswereabouttheirrealexperiencewithautistics,how
▲Each autistic individual has their own scores on each
touched they were by Woo, how Woo’s explanation about people being
plenteous category about features, strength, and difficulties,
on the autistic spectrum and the world around them was surprising. This
whichiswhyitiscalledautistic“spectrum.”
consumption and desire to learn about autism eventually made room for
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autistics and their families to speak out about their real life in public as
members of society just like others. It was Woo who brought this real,
equal communication between different groups of people sharing their
thoughtsandexperiencefreely.Nobodywascoveringtheirmouth,forcing
them to accept the others, stigmatizing one as a “weirdo” with a mental
“illness”andlettingothersuncriticallythinkso.
▲While Woo has strong aversion to physical contacts, including
holding hands, one of her client who is also with autistic
spectrum seems to feel fine with contacts. Likewise, autistics
All these dramatic changes were rooted in only four letters, LOVE. The
have various features among themselves, just like non-autistic
people, whose characteristics and personalities vary among
phrase, “Love can do anything” may be too classic, but it seems it has
themselvestoo.
becomeanerawhereclassicshavepower.Thekeypointofthedramathat
attractedmassiveamountsofattentionwasactuallymomentsof“love”itself.
Peopleeasilythinkthatstoriescapturingone’sso-calleddisorderwouldshowtheirdifficulties,circumstancesbeingignoredby
society,orhowtheystruggledaybyday,whichfrustratethemselvesandtheirfamilies.But“ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo”rather
capturedwhyautisticsarespecialbyshowingwhatWoolovesandhowsheislovedbyhersurroundings,justlikeotherdramasdo
withnon-autisticcharacters.
WhatWoolovesinthefirstplaceisthelawitselfandhowsheservesasaspokeswomanwhoprotectsclient’sbenefitsandguards
justiceincourt.Inthisway,dramashowshowautistics,whoseworldsaresignificantlyconcentratedonthemselves,considertheir
jobsosincerelycomparedwithothers.Inthedramaarecontentsaboutlawandrelatedepisodes,whichletviewersenjoythedrama
as“Woo’sstoriesatwork,”not“unfamiliarstoriesaboutautistics.”
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▲Woo, at the center of the photo, solves several cases
▲Whales are what Woo is obsessed with, which is one of the common characteristics of autistics
andeventakescontrolofthecourt.
individuals. Woo often comes up with her imaginary whales. Depending on a situation that she
struggles with, the species of the imaginary whale is different. For example, she often thinks of a
whale when she is surrounded by crowded people, or when a novel idea suddenly pops into her
head.
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