Ways I Felt Othered by Shrinking

I loved Shrinking.

It made me cry.

I'm sad I have to wait until 2026 to see season 3.

I'm very impressed by Lukita Maxwell's acting. I don't know why.There's lots of good acting on the show. I don't know what it is about her acting that stands out to me. I wish I had the expertise to help me understand and explain why some acting seems good to me and some acting seems awful to me.

But that's not what I wanted to talk about here.

The thing is, though I loved the show...there were times that I felt a twinge of...ouch.

I felt the show was laughing AT people like me and not in a good way. Kind of more like in an eew-we-don't-like-this-kind-of-person-can-we-all-agree-they-kind-of-suck.

And it might be that they had jokes targeting other traits that don't apply to me, and I laughed along not considering that, for these types of people, it might have caused a twinge of ouch.

Anyway, here's my list:

1. People with OCD contamination.  I felt the show was similar to the Aussie movie Mental in which mental health issues are portrayed in a  fairly sympathetic way...but OCD is an exception.  

I don't think Shrinking was as bad as Mental...from what I can remember of Mental.

But I still felt that Jimmy (Jason Siegel) was less patient and kind towards Wally (Kimberly Condict) than he was to his other patients.  That COULD be blamed on other things going on in the story; Jimmy's mood, etc.

Or it could be me being hyper-sensitive.

I'm not sure.

I would be curious to know what other people with OCD felt about the portrayal?  And for people who don't have OCD, did they come away from the show feeling more sympathetic, less sympathetic...neutral?  

2. Disney Adults.  I forgot the context.  But I didn't feel they were laughing with my kind...or at my kind in a sweet-teasing-kind of way. I felt othered.

3. Parents who don't want to do sleep training.