User blog comment:Webly/Primetime TV Cancellation Watch- Issue 1/@comment-1153194-20120205022242/@comment-1194745-20120205023618

There was actually one episode of that I watched that I liked, as I felt it was being realistic. The boy's older sister was being asked to watch him while she was studying for a big exam, and he was fixated on going to the aquarium (either that or a museum, or a planetarium, I forget...) and kept asking her to take him, but of course she was busy studying so she kept telling him they couldn't go that day. So he actually walked out of the house and got on a bus to go to the aquarium, and ended up getting lost in a bad neighborhood and picked up by the police after the sister figured out he'd left and called their parents, who called the police. Then he was dropped off at home and, of course, didn't quite understand or care how/why everyone had gotten so worried, so the sister flipped out, angry that he didn't care about how worried he'd made everyone and that blame was being leveled at her, even though she was the one acting rationally and it was his inability to think in that way that caused the trouble. I felt the situation was pretty realistic, and as someone who's worked with younger autistic/Asperger's kids in the past, I was able to emphasize with the older sister, as I've been in situations like that where I felt like things that were important to me had to come second because of the child, and/or where I got in trouble for something that wasn't entirely my fault simply because the child, who also caused part of the problem, wasn't entirely capable of understanding why what happened was wrong. I also thought it was hilarious that afterwards, when the sister stormed back into the house, the boy looked at his parents and said, "Does she get in trouble for yelling?" XD