Random Post 2

Random Post 2

I started to binge starting a Netflix series Atypical a few days ago and turned out to love the show very much. 

I finished the season 1 in two days. I really like the protagonist - Sam, a high school child on autism spectrum. He is pretty "weird" - he likes Antartica so much since he knows everything about it and shares it to everyone. He has never dated a girl before and didn't know how to start. But Sam has started to figure out his way of finding a girlfriend. I like him so much because he was the type of person who lives in his own world, and is able to keep distant with other people. He is very honest and annoying sometimes (due to his honesty). During his way of finding girlfriend, he has made so many efforts like taking notes from conversations with dad, talking with his friend Zahid, etc. I remember one episode where Sam wanted to figure out whether he loves his girlfriend Paige. He created a checklist for Paige and Paige has successfully passed his test. So he said "I love you" to Paige. However, turned out he found out that the person he really loved was his therapist Julia while he slow danced with Julia in the parking lot. He then broke up with Paige (saying that he didn't love Paige) in front of Paige's whole family at the family dinner. The move hurt Paige so much. However, on the other side, Sam was rejected by his therapist Julia harshly and got him into panic attack afterwards. Later Sam realized how much pain one person would bring to the other in this circumstance, he then decided to apologize to Paige. He jumped into the swimming to help Paige find her lost necklace and got his whole body wet and gave it to her at the school ball night. I was so moved by Sam's action especially when he started to realize what is love and what pain would love bring to one person and how to deal with difficult situation when the person loves you but you don't love him/her. I always see the power of learning what is love and most importantly experiencing love stories. Even though as a kid with Autism, Sam was well protected by his mom especially from getting a girlfriend, he still at some point wanted to explore intimate relationship with someone and will inevitably get hurt. People grow and turn out to be more resilient after getting hurt in a relationship and that is why I am so happy for Sam.