Strong reporting, but some of the discoveries were a little naive.

This story covers multiple topics orbiting the need for mental healthcare reform, each of which are compelling enough to warrant a full series themselves. Examples include: the misappropriation of police / police mishandling of encounters with neurodivergence, the incarceration cycle of those with mental health needs, and the privatization (and gross inadequacy / misconduct) of mental healthcare facilities. Because this story touches on all of these important and interesting topics (and more), each of them feels a bit under served. Maybe there was more to explore or maybe this is just emblematic of the problems being described. There is no grand reveal, no narratively satisfying resolution, perhaps because these issues still have not met the minimum amount of public attention required for change to take hold. The team behind this series did commendable work and I'm grateful. The autistic experience is of great interest to me, particularly the wide diversity of its manifestations, and I believe we need more content to dispel the many myths and misconceptions which have plagued our public discourse for far too long.