Community is a television show about a diverse group of community college students who form a study group. Having first aired in 2009, the show features a varied cast of different genders, races, and sexualities. Abed Nadir, a core member of the study group, is portrayed in such a way as to imply he is on the autism spectrum, by his inability to pick up on social or emotional cues and his tendency to view the world through the lens of television and movies. While the diversity of characters is refreshing, the representation of autism is based on stereotypes which do not depict the true…