r/TheAmericans • • 11h ago

Any fellow autistic people who love the show?

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While I am in no way suggesting the characters are autistic, I am here to say that as a high-masking autistic person, I adore this show.

there is so much camouflaging, intense study of their environment, and monotropic, black & white focus on their mission (especially Elizabeth, wow).

plus I adore the jennings’ many disguises. and as someone very sensitive to justice, I find the moral quandaries of the Cold War endlessly fascinating.