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Debut of Sesame Street's Julia the autistic puppet!

It's hard to portray autism without making it a caricature. It seems like Sesame Street has shown up all others, as they have done an excellent job walking that razor's edge with this character.

But what I'm more impressed by is the simple fact that they actually bothered to put in the no doubt enormous amount of effort it must've taken just for the sake of getting it right, for the benefit of us and those that will come after. Bless the creators of Sesame Street.
 
I love this. Although I wish they had Julia back in the 90s when I was little watching it, because then it would have taught kids about autism a lot sooner. But this will definitely be a great teaching tool for kids to understand how people like us think. I suppose they're doing this now because autism is so prevalent in the world, I think the rate is 1 in 68 births now or something like that, which is way more common than it was back then.
 
This resonated.I say "boing"at random intervals. My husband says I am the pax that goes boing.
 
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