Star Trek's Autistic & Neurodiverse Representation

easily one of the most requested topics for me to discuss on this channel is the representation of autism or neurodiversity within star trek and it's not surprising why not only have i been open with the fact that i myself am on the autism spectrum but star trek's most popular and enduring characters have often been those who have neurotypical personalities from spock to cartoon spock to data to barkley and also spock to odo to 7-9 to phlox to spock again to tilly to bearded spock to jaradi to rutherford to spock one more time dear god the federation is basically a neurotypical utopia must be all those vaccines everyone is getting in the future to prevent them from getting diseases or causing a pandemic sorry too real also vaccines don't cause autism you state the obvious but across its over 50 years of stories star trek has been littered with numerous characters that autistic people have identified into so much so that i literally could spend the next few months just doing videos on all of them individually and i'm sure i'll come back to that at some point because youtube is a hunger demon that i must continually feed her as i die and i've already done one of those videos focusing on spock in particular which you can check out at the link above but for this video i want to just touch upon a few of the characters in order to give an overview of some of the ways autism has been presented well in star trek and also a few places where it failed as well as share a few personal places where i identify with characters through my relationship with me being on the autism spectrum in order to briefly look at and analyze why star trek has continued to speak to the neurotypical community all the way from the 1960s to today initially commander maddox i found it difficult to maintain friendships since human emotions are often puzzling to me i spent months in a lab being prodded and poked by a scientist who didn't recognize i was a life-form i find myself constructing scenarios considering alternative possibilities logic is the beginning first off let's briefly define what autism is autism or autism spectrum disorder is a development disability that affects how a person communicates and relates to others and it has three primary diagnostic criteria difficulty in communication difficulty in socialization and restricted interests if one or more of these areas don't develop as normally quote unquote normally there in a child then it can lead to what we consider to be autism but autism is a spectrum i know a trans person talking about spectrums again i may as well start my own internet provider company at this point because get it spectrum it's a company that provides internet but because autism is a spectrum each person's version of how they experience autism or neurodiversity can differ greatly and how they interpret it is also different as well for example when it comes to communication some people may just have difficulty physically communicating like being unable to talk as well yes but she uh it wasn't or maybe they just don't wish to initiate conversations with others while still others may not fully understand the purpose of certain words or elements of language inquiry the word snoop data how can you be programmed as a virtual encyclopedia of human information without knowing a simple word like snoop and some people may have all of those elements when it comes to socialization some autistic people may simply find it uncomfortable to look someone in the eye other people may have issues with recognizing social signals like vocal tones or facial expressions that many other people take for granted are you implying that lycia arlen is interested in me ridiculous i would have noticed exactly my point for example most people can see someone frowning at a young age and learn that that means that they're being disdainful or disapproved of something but some autistic people may never fully be able to recognize that fact that frowning means disdainful and have to actively think about it when they see someone frowning for myself when someone laughs at something i actively have to take time to figure out what they're laughing at a joke at me something they saw or at their own meaningless existential existence at a young age i learned that i couldn't really identify what caused a laugh which led me to always assume that everyone was laughing at me when they left which caused me intense social anxiety and this is one of the final and sometimes most important parts of autism autism's root word ought means self because many parts of autism can result in someone's isolation from others because they have been removed from certain aspects of communication or socialization i mean i i am the guy who writes down things to remember to say when there's a party and then when he finally gets there he winds up alone in the corner trying to look comfortable examining a potted plant this leads us nicely though to perhaps star trek's most talked about autistic representation spock spock is clearly isolated from the rest of the crew of the enterprise ostensibly it's because he is a vulcan in a mostly human crew but his vulcanness can easily be read as autistic like many autistic folks who stick out in social situations spock stands out from the crew with his ears raised eyebrows and beetle's haircut yet it's his suppressed emotions and reliance on logic that often most resonates with an autistic reading spock considers social interactions and cues to be relatively unimportant instead deciding to focus on clear lines of logic which can cause him to seem cold and callous and place him at odds with the crew many times to be captain kirk he's the closest thing you have to a friend lieutenant my demonstration of concern will not change what has happened the transporter room is very well manned and they will call me if they need my assistance in the episode galileo 7 for example spock's cold reliance on handling the crew's situation with logic eventually causes the crew to react against him because they need a more empathetic and emotional leader and i'm sick and tired of your lunch we could use a little inspiration strange step by step i have made the correct and logical decisions and yet two men have died in the end spock even largely comes to the decision that he should have an emotional reaction because he thinks it is necessary to control the crew now we all know and i'm sure the doctor will agree with me that desperation is a highly emotional state of mind how does your well-known logic explain that quite simply captain i examine the problem from all angles and it was plainly hopeless logic informed me that under the circumstances the only possible action would have to be one of desperation logical decision logically arrived at and this is perhaps the aspect that most autistic folks really identify with spock iv there's a really wonderful film called please stand by that i highly recommend you watch that focuses on a young autistic woman who heavily identifies with star trek and specifically spock and describes how she relates to spock at one point in the film spock is a vulcan he discovers how to have a sense of humor he makes a special study of the anatomy of jokes which were a part of old or primitive vulcan culture he relates different parts of a joke to different facial expressions according to old holographic archives and he figures out a scientific equation for a sense of humor and i think that that is probably one of the best understandings of how we should look at spock he is someone who deduces emotion he doesn't necessarily feel it immediately he deduces what the proper emotional response is and this brings us to data on star trek the next generation who also shows a similar need to understand social interaction through conscious effort and deliberate thought rather than intuiting it naturally i have no experience in such matters i require advice don't look at me no no data i simply mean that i can't give you any advice here quite literally data's whole shtick on the next generation was often having to ask other crew members about why and how they reacted a certain way in a social situation as he learned become more and more human she will not remember me sir but i will remember her remembrance and regrets they too are a part of friendship yes sir and understanding that has brought you a step closer to understanding humanity and as a result data often mimics the social dynamics that he sees without actually understanding them on a personal emotional level this is just like many autistic people who quite often are not read as autistic because they are easily able to hide their inability to register certain social cues by simply copying others emotional responses around them for example many people are actually incredibly surprised when i tell them i'm on the autistic spectrum when they meet me in person because i don't come across immediately as having any social awkwardness that's because i'm generally pretty good at least i like to think i am at pretending to feel comfortable or watch what others are doing in a situation but often i'm freaking out on the inside and i'm quite quite quite anxious because while i'm good at pretending i'm often worried that i'll be caught or make a mistake or someone will see through what i'm putting up as a facade yet as an interesting distinguisher data doesn't ever feel social anxieties because he literally cannot feel at least until he gets his emotion chip later on in the show when he does eventually get his emotionship even the smallest amount of emotions leave data paralyzed because he is overwhelmed with these new sensations that he's never felt much like how different sensations and noises can overwhelm many neurodivergent people data are you all right i believe the emotion chip has overloaded my positronic relay because this is an incredibly relatable thing for many neurodivergent people who are overwhelmed by noises sounds or sensations would you do something about that noise what noise what kind of sick game are you people playing what are you talking about can't you hear it we complained into very cute engineers came by and said there was nothing wrong is it a kind of high-pitched wine yes thank god see i told you we weren't crazy many of us lack the ability to filter out or compartmentalize physical sensations so instead we are hyper conscious of any changes to sensation around us depaul on enterprise for example is always complaining about the smell of humans unable to completely filter it out until it becomes every day for her the odor the human scent is difficult to mask for me for example i similarly found tags on t-shirts to be incredibly itchy or distracting or even disturbing as a kid and needed to have them cut off by my mother even today i get incredibly anxious at loud noises in my apartment like the smallest noise from my upstairs neighbor as they walk across the ceiling like even right now as i film this they are literally in the room above me and walking around and you probably can't even hear it on the mic but it incredibly incredibly makes me very very anxious right at this moment as we're filming i even broke down crying a few times a few years ago when i lived in an old seattle apartment where my upstairs neighbor constantly liked to just simply pace around his apartment he wasn't doing anything wrong but i just couldn't filter out the sounds of his footsteps in my brain and it just drove me crazy and and and really caused me to just break down stuff like that that many others can just filter out or ignore i am constantly aware of autistic folks also have much less filter when it comes to displays and feeling our emotions when we do feel strong emotions like anger frustration sadness many on the spectrum show this emotion at an extremely heightened level while we may seem somewhat closed off emotionally most of the time sometimes our outburst of emotion is stronger than others spock for example in star trek discovery displays this when he discusses that he is allowing himself to feel emotions for the first time in his life and it causes to have an incredibly strong outburst instead of a more calculated one and for the first time i enjoy expressing emotion this hypersensitivity and hyper-emotional state as well as many other developmental difficulties that can arise out of being neuro-divergent also can place great burden on a parent of an autistic child many times the added burden of raising an autistic child can lead parents to feel guilt depression or even resentment towards their children in the episode dr bashir i presume we learn that julian beshear actually displayed many of the symptoms of autism at a young age and his mother felt intense guilt despite it not being her fault at all to watch him fall a little further behind every day you know he's trying but something's holding him back you don't know what it's like to stay up every night worrying that maybe it's your fault maybe you did something wrong during the pregnancy and maybe you weren't careful enough or maybe there's something wrong with you maybe you passed on a genetic defect without even knowing it even more so bashir's parents try to fix quote unquote julian by getting him genetically enhanced many parents sometimes feel like their child is wrong or abnormal because they are autistic instead of accepting them for who they are and this can lead to a gulf between parent and child you used to be my father now you're my architect the man who designed a better son to replace the defective one he was given he was so smart you know so much you can sit there and judge us but you're still not smart enough to see that we saved you from a life of remedial education and under achievement you don't know that you didn't give me a chance well certainly there are endless amounts of parents who have the patience love and caring to raise an autistic child it's also sad to note that according to the autistic self-advocacy network over 600 people with disabilities included but not limited to those with autism were murdered by their parents relatives and caregivers within the last year even when not taken to such horrific extremes parents feeling resentment towards their children for being autistic can lead many neurodivergent kids to feel isolated not only from their peers but from their own parents and it's things like this why it would be inappropriate to see autistic people as completely emotionless like data was when it was first introduced or how many vulcans like spock or to paul are seen by many in the series unable to truly feel any raw emotions is this difficult for you dana difficult to watch him moving away from being like you that would require an emotional context which i cannot provide because they don't know exactly how to interact in social situations many people often misread an autistic person's distance and isolation as a complete lack of emotion or empathy mommy you got about as much personality as an icicle cool is one thing but you're frozen solid you think i have no emotions oh believe me i do i just don't always show them we see this in the character of spock in the episode court martial when captain kirk is accused of murder after a computer record seems to show that the captain possibly committed that crime with his friend's career on the line mccoy gets angry at spock for playing chess with the computer during that time you're about to lop off the captain's professional head and you're sitting here playing chess with a computer that is true mr spock you're the most cold-blooded man i've ever known yeah spock reveals that he is actually playing the computer to see if there was anything wrong with the computer itself so that he is finding a way to possibly exonerate his friend mechanically the computer is flawless therefore logically its report of the captain's guilt is infallible i could not accept that however spock's response is logical yet it is also completely based on his caring and emotion for his friend yet mccoy reads spock's handling of the situation as inhuman this is often the case for many autistic people whose autistic tendencies come across as explicitly anti-social it's possible with all your neural nets algorithms and heuristics is there some combination that makes up a circuit for bruised feelings but for many neurodivergent people this isn't the case we may appear standoffish or cold but we are actually incredibly empathetic really caring deeply about others emotions grief has been transmuted to joy loneliness to belonging data you do understand yes counselor i mean many of us take tons of time trying to study and worry and think about what other people are thinking because we have to work so much harder to simply understand the simple things that others just intuit in social interactions as a result we are often incredibly concerned and hypersensitive to others feelings you're lying i don't bother your whole face changes it's not that we don't want to be social it's just that it causes anxiety or we simply just don't know how to do it well so the fact that we become so isolated makes us feel lonely and sometimes feel less worthwhile and this is something that i know all too well i often get invited to events or parties or get togethers with friends and i sometimes get so anxious about having to be in a social situation that i end up choosing to not go i'm going to remain down here if you don't mind you never did like crowds did you and we'll spend the rest of the night feeling lonely and even angry at myself for not going to these events similarly seven to nine on voyager is often shown to be extremely disinterested in social engagement not understanding their purpose or function i don't understand the rules and procedures for this type of social occasion the rules choose a group of people listen to their conversation then when you feel like you have something to contribute chime in and initially many of the crew reads her distance as uptight or arrogant seems like every time i turn around i'm recycling her clothes back into the replicator children assimilated by the borg are placed in maturation chambers for 17 cycles interesting well if you'll excuse me i need to go talk to nelix but as seven develop she comes to understand that she needs social interaction as we see in the episode one when seven is left alone on voyager as the crew is in stasis she experiences anxiety attacks stemming from her ptsd and because she is alone eventually at the end of the episode she comes to realize that she needs social interaction may i join you sure have a seat have some soup it's actually edible yet it's still not fully capable of interacting as completely with those around her still needing to learn social graces with the doctor it's nice then to see that decades later by the time of star trek picard that 79 is much more socially attuned capable of fitting naturally into a social situation and conversation the hell are you doing out here picard besides being in way over your head yet for many neurodivergent folks sometimes their social anxieties make it impossible for them to ever fully integrate into a social situation one character who does feel these social anxieties regularly is reginald barkley perhaps the most controversial autistic representation in star trek and yet perhaps the closest to being the most explicit barkley can barely interact with his fellow crew members often mumbling his way through meetings this isolates barkley from the rest of the crew around him making him feel alone and lonely even more so it causes his fellow crew members to actively resent his presence barkley he's always late the man's nervous nobody wants to be around this guy it's incredibly insulting how barkley's superior officers treat him calling him names behind his back and repeatedly breaking into barclays privacy i mean how does a guy like that make it through the academy i think it's time we spoke to the captain about broccoli that's what wesley calls and you keep that to yourself let fits yet this is honestly completely relatable for many autistic folks who are often bullied or looked down upon because they are different from the norm i myself was bullied regularly throughout my childhood mostly because i never really fit in with everyone else and always seemed weird and outside of social situations with the other kids in my grade remember when i said earlier that i always assumed that people were laughing at me which caused me anxiety well that assumption came from the fact that throughout my childhood many times people were laughing at me and while that went away as i and many of my classmates grew up and we came to respect each other the years of being laughed at as a child built up a response inside of me that led me to just always assume even to this day that when i can't decipher what someone is thinking that i can't intuit it which is most of the time because of me being on the spectrum i assume that they're thinking about me negatively that assumption of negative intent is something that i've really had to work to get over and sometimes haven't completely gotten over i worry all the time that people look down on me or dislike me and that's the just natural assumption i make because i can't really tell any different until someone lets me know differently just explicitly something similar happens to barkley where he feels unable to relate to his crewmates because they look down upon him instead barkley retreats into fantasy worlds places where he feels more welcome this is something that many autistic folks do finding worlds and fictional stories that they can place themselves in so they can feel like they are part of the group that they have a friend group i mean why do you guys think i like star trek so much and because these worlds start to feel so real and important to them they start to obsess and study them completely fixating on them learning every inch about them because it feels important to them it's just as real to them the characters and world feel sometimes just as real to them as their real-life friendships because they only have so many and they are cherished when they have them it it's it's it i'm when i'm in there i'm just more comfortable and again have you met me dear god i know way too much about star trek because for me star trek was a place as a kid that felt big and real and had characters that i could relate to but also those characters had people who loved them for who they were i loved seven of nine for this reason because she was a character identified with as someone who was bullied and unliked at first but was able to find really caring friendships and relationships with her fellow crewmates also the fact that 709 was a girl and that i felt like a girl as a young pre-coming out transgender kid also drew me to her over characters like spock or data now often these falling into fantastical worlds to find friendships and belonging is often looked down upon as we saw with barclay in hollow pursuits this is a violation of protocol crew members should not be simulated in the holodeck commander i i don't think there's any regulation against well there ought to be yet these obsessions with fantastical worlds can be directed to positive efforts for example later on in his career barkley turned his love of the holodeck and turns that obsession into a fanboyism for the lost starship uss voyager and eventually even helped to rescue that crew because of his fixation with their story you did it rich i'm sorry i doubted you why the long face mr barkley because because it's over sir now lieutenant i'd say that project voyager is just beginning thanks to you [Music] he used his love of fantastical worlds to create a positive result in the real world and this is something i personally resonate with so much i mean what is this youtube channel if not my way to use my obsession with star trek and specific and science fiction in general in order to talk about something good to try and teach others about new ideas or subjects that they may not be familiar with it's what i'm doing in this very video using my love of track to show all of you how autism works and many other autistic people use their love of something and turn it into creative expression or professional and personal endeavors tilly on star trek discovery for example showcases this with her complete focus on becoming captain it's her entire life's drives the very fact that she fully devotes herself to this specific goal while also exhibiting signs of not being able to understand social cues and norms has led many to read tilly as autistic yet one of the things i love about tilly is that she is imperfect still having much to learn on her quest to become captain um hi i'm i'm cadet sylvia tilly i talk when i'm nervous um my instructors advise me to work on that because characters like data spock and 79 often fall into what we call the autistic savant trope characters who exhibit autistic tendencies that lead them to be incredibly intelligent or gifted data spock and seven are all the smartest people on their respective shows and their intelligence is often attributed to or associated with their autistically coded traits his logical selection was compassion compassion that's the one thing no machine ever had maybe it's the one thing that keeps men ahead of them better debate that spot no doctor and this trope isn't limited to star trek by the way think of sherlock holmes or sheldon on the big bang theory or rain man for other examples but this is a problem because while autistic people can be incredibly smart and incredibly knowledgeable i'm not saying that they can't be in whatever area their obsession may be in or in other areas not every autistic person is automatically incredibly intelligent because of their autism and this trope can be damaging it places unfair expectations on autistic people and otherizes us for example some people even call autistic people the next evolution in humanity which can quite literally dehumanize us and make us not feel real or like we can connect with other people you are endowing data with human characteristics because it looks human but it is not if it were a box on wheels i would not be facing this opposition consider every ship in starfleet with the data on board utilizing its extraordinary capabilities acting as our hands and eyes in dangerous situations like you're preaching to the choir here but tilly and star trek discovery in many ways eschews this by showing us an imperfect human being with much to learn but certainly not dumb or incapable of growth either and the incapability of growth and social interactions is another trope for autistic people again look at sheldon sheldon grows a little bit throughout the big bang theory but generally on that show he is shown to not really be able to grow or understand other people around him in a very very negative way he's kind of a jerk and an [ __ ] but someone like tilly may be uncomfortable or say weird things in social situations but she can grow and get better and the characters around her push her to do so but they push her in a way that is supportive and understanding not negatively reinforcing her you're going to become a magnificent captain because you do everything out of love but i need you to repeat after me hey i will say i will say fewer things fear okay speaking on that point though sadly when it comes to many representations of autistic women on screen they often fall into numerous sexist tropes that are unique to neurodivergent women such as being overly shy completely undesirable by romantic partners physically unfit or unintelligent directly because of their neurodivergency but characters like 709 tilly and depaul who by the way exhibits many of the same autistic traits as her vulcan counterparts like tubac and spock often eschew these tropes being presented as capable and smart women though to paul in 709 along with many women in star trek before discovery were heavily sexied up for a male audience at least visually though thankfully slightly less so in their writing especially as their respective series went on check out this video i did to learn more about the treatment of women in star to give that something you're interested in by the way and finally tilly also shows us one last important lesson because while many people read tilly as a clearly autistic character she wasn't intended to be by either the writers or the actress mary wiseman some people have wondered if you know tilly's on an autism spectrum or is not purely uh neurotypical this is not something that we discussed in the room it's not something that was like put on her and it's not something that i was actively working at nor did i like do the kind of research that i would want to do to like really do that well the fact that people are getting that out of her is like so moving and inspiring and the idea that this character that we all built together could make people feel seen you know or like represented in the show that they care so much is like incredibly moving and i like encourage people to put themselves in you know put themselves in the show and see themselves in the show and um i'm going to try my hardest to like live up to that most characters in tv or film that autistic people identify with aren't actually intended to be autistic but it's perhaps this exact fact that they were intended to be autistic that allows autistic people to see themselves in those characters in the first place often when characters are explicitly written to be autistic they often fall into many of those negative tropes that i talked about earlier in the video many explicit representations of autistic people in tv and film end up being written as cold callous uncaring totally unfazed by their lack of emotional and social engagement and come across as inhuman star trek by contrast has always been a franchise that uses metaphor and proxy representations in order to tell its stories instead of telling a story directly about racial inequality for example it uses aliens to illuminate the same dynamics at play but allows us to forgo looking at the specific politics of human interaction the same goes for autistic representation by foregoing explicit representations star trek often overcame some of the recurring issues that hollywood had with their bias when it came to mental health tropes like those surrounding autism at the time this isn't to say that explicit representations of autism aren't necessary they 100 are autistic people need and deserve to see ourselves actually represented on screen and also still goes to that problem of autistic representative characters still being literally inhuman especially in this case but it also speaks to why characters like spock or data can still feel fresh today because they weren't written with inaccurate preconceptions of what an autistic person is in mind i mean look at this quote from data actor brent spiner who said exactly that i had no idea why we were doing this series that it was the character was speaking to to so many young people particularly at that time uh who were struggling with with emotion and expression and i'm glad that uh i didn't know about it too much at the time because i think i would have pushed the writers to address it more head on and it could have ruined the entire thing i'm honored uh really to have been able to be there and help people and not even know about it by coding characters with autistic traits but not explicitly representing them the neurodivergent representative characters on star trek actually feel more real than many other autistic representations many autistic people both in fiction and even in real life are made to feel less than or inhuman or simply otherwise because we are different yet in star trek autistic type characters are shown to be exactly the opposite characters like spock data or seven of nine are often referred to not as less human but the most human characters on the show data was brave curious very gentle he had a child's wisdom unclouded by habit or bias he made us all laugh except when he was trying to make us laugh and you loved him i uh yes in my way the board believed i was unique that i understood humanity they were obviously mistaken oh so i betrayed the crew of voyage or threatened you with assimilation i did not expect you to return for me looks like you still have a few things to learn of all the souls i have encountered in my travels this was the most [Music] human by being seen as alien or different we can actually relate to these characters as they actually are and yet all of these characters are distinctly different from each other despite all seeming neurodivergent barkley is not the same as spock who is not the same as tilly or odo or any other neurodivergent representative characters as i said before autism is a spectrum and no two autistic people are exactly the same so even within our differences within the autistic community we can all see ourselves in these characters on star trek and be not only understood but completely accepted for who we are and that is what star trek has always been about showing us how diverse and yet universal the human experience really is and i am so thankful that star trek was able to do that for the autistic community there are still many human emotions i do not fully comprehend anger hatred but i am not mystified by the desire to be loved or the need for friendship these are things i do understand there's a whole galaxy out there full of people who will reach for you you have to let them i have been and always thank you so much for watching this video i really hope you enjoyed it as much as i enjoyed making it and if you're interested in learning more about the connection between autism and star trek i'd highly recommend the book to explore strange new worlds understanding autism through a star trek lens by elizabeth w barnes it's a fantastic book by a mother of an autistic child who loves star trek and she goes through literally almost every single episode of star trek up through star trek enterprise and describes many of the connections characters and themes that would resonate with autistic people and it was truly an amazing resource and a primary source for this video and the link to buying it or looking at it is in the doobly-doo i'd also like to again as i mentioned earlier in the video the movies please stand by it's far from a perfect film but it's a wonderful road trip movie about a young autistic girl who runs away from her sister in order to travel to los angeles to submit her star trek script where spock visits deep space nine in a paramount contest it's a super sweet film one i really love and again it's not perfect i think it could have used a few more drafts but it also again highlights the connection between autism and star trek plus it's got pat and oswald who always warms my heart also there's links to videos by other creators about autistic tropes and tv and films as well as resources to learn more about autism down in the doobly-doo as well so make sure to check those out if you're at all interested in learning more about autism but regardless don't forget to subscribe to my channel for more discussions about neurodivergent community transgender topics or how we can use science fiction to learn more about humanity as a whole so just hit the subscribe button to get all that also if you want to help make these videos even better please consider giving to my patreon a lot of these videos are really hard to research and take a lot of time and a lot of like effort away from other freelance opportunities that i could be doing so just if you could help me out 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Length: 38min 44sec (2324 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 06 2020