A present that stars three actors who all determine as being on the autism spectrum will debut on Amazon Prime Video this week. Rick Glassman, Albert Rutecki and Sue Ann Pien play three 20-something roommates who’re additionally on the spectrum in As We See It.

Creator Jason Katims is finest identified for his work on Friday Night Lights and Parenthood, which featured a personality with Asperger’s syndrome. He mentioned all of As We See It‘s “neurodiverse roles were cast with neurodiverse actors” and “two neurotypical roles have been forged with neurodiverse actors,” in line with . Some writers, editors and different crew members are neurodiverse too.

Katims mentioned his son has autism, and their expertise impressed As We See It. “I think the show affords us a window into the hearts and souls of three-dimensional, loving, beautiful, complicated human beings who happen to be on the autistic spectrum, played by actors who identify as being autistic,” Katims mentioned. “It shouldn’t be revolutionary. But it sort of is.”

Several different exhibits from current years have featured characters with autism, together with Netflix’s Atypical, The Good Doctor, Prime Video sequence The A Word and even Sesame Street. However, it is rarer for a sequence to characteristic characters with autism performed by performers who themselves are on the spectrum. As such, As We See It might bolster genuine on-screen representations of autism.

All eight episodes of As We See It‘s first season will hit Prime Video on Friday.