Penguins Are The Gentlemen Of The Seas

Only been watching The Pitt for a few days but Mel King is THE best autistic character ever written in a medical drama. She doesn't "make connections no one else can" or "just see things differently" or any other Savant with Special Abilities stereotypical bullshit, she's a resident physician who's exactly as intelligent and capable as any other resident physician in the same year. She hates unnecessary yelling because it's loud and annoying, not because she's completely incapable of handling conflict. She usually keeps her stimming subtle enough to hide but sometimes she can't. She loves having a furry critter to pet. She accommodates an autistic patient by lowering the lights and closing the doors because she understands the sensory nightmare of an active medical setting. She speaks in a straightforward and honest way but she isn't an overtly rude inconsiderate asshole. She misses some jokes and takes things too literally on occasion but she does have a sense of humor and she is funny. She speaks up against misinformation and parent panic about autism and other developmental disabilities. She has emotions. She looks at a video of a lava lamp on her phone to chill. Doctor Mel King you have my entire heart

I too would break into hysterical laughter. Sometimes things are so fucked up it’s either that or cry, so why not both?

Santos is the epitome of “kind but not nice”. Nice will offer you an extra umbrella with a smile. Kind will chuck it at your head.

Same! It reminds me of the classic "class clown gets serious" trope, where the absence of bite/humor is literally jarring.

My favorite part about this scene is the ease between Collins and Dana. And as someone who has worked my own share of fucked up days, I appreciate how they too find humor in the absurdity of it all.

I fear I too would become a Dr. Shen if I was in this situation, which is why we should all thank god I wasn’t gifted with functioning legs, because otherwise I’d be hysterically laughing around a bunch of corpses.