Just saw Snowcake for the first time tonight - It was really well done.
And I never thought I'd hear the word "neurotypical" used in a movie. Not for many years, at any rate...
What is not immediately obvious is that the movie is based on a true story. English woman, Ros Blackburn is described in a blog on the Geneva Centre for Autism conference website as "the real-life model for the central figure in the movie Snow Cake as portrayed by Sigourney Weaver. Her insights into autism, what helps and what doesn’t will impact you".
"Ros Blackburn is an adult with autism. At three months old she appeared withdrawn, isolated and very much in a world of her own. At eighteen months she was diagnosed very severely autistic but with average intellectual ability."
Blackburn, Ros (2008). Finding My Way by Being Me, Geneva Centre for Autism International Symposium Presentations, <http://www.autism.net/content/view/887/291/>.
Blackburn, Ros (2008). Geneva Centre for Autism International Symposium Speakers, <http://www.autism.net/content/blogcategory/148/292/>.