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Will Robson-Scott's great short follows a skateboard enthusiast with Asperger's

Date
10 May 2012

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I can only speak for British TV but there’s a frustrating genre of documentaries based on a great idea that are either mishandled or manipulated for ratings-grabbing purposes. Well TV commissioners take note, it is possible to make a genuinely touching and interesting piece without being exploitative, as Will Robson-Scott has just proved. His new short Graeme follows a skateboard obsessive with Asperger’s Syndrome but more than that it’s a study of passion and identity through the prism of an often-discussed but still misunderstood condition.

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Rob Alderson

Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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