In the 2010 series, Parenthood, the son of in one part of the families, Max who is nine at the start of the series, was showing typical signs of autism. He was majorly fixated on bugs and eventually photography. He was afraid of fire and wouldn’t come anywhere close to it. He would make some comments, like in one episode his father, Adam, promised him pancakes for breakfast but they didn’t make any because Adam’s niece, Amber, was in a car accident and they had to go to the hospital instead. So he says something like why do we need to be here? She is going to die anyways etc. but when Adam scolds him he doesn’t think he did anything wrong initially and then he apologizes to his aunt, Sarah, later for his rude comment about Amber. Another character
