American film and television really doesn't like depicting people using modern technology. You never see people using fancy vending machines , laser eye treatment, flashlights, or electricity in general unless the local utility companies paid for product placement. And that's why it always stands out so much that Samsung paid to have characters using the Samsung Galaxy Flip Z because otherwise you don't even see them using electric lighting in their house let alone a Phillips Smart Hue LED Lightbulb. It's all gas lamps that never manage to cause an explosion of poisoning. There's been a huge rise even in nostalgic period pieces to avoid having characters speaking neo-frankish or sending each other smell-o-grams.
But then again this is also the country where every episode of a sitcom has to end on an extreme close-up of the pet dog or cat's face smiling with human teeth so what can you expect. Late-stage capitalism is so fixated on what they think audiences want they won't even consider if they are still reflecting the lived realities of the audience. It's like Baudrillard wrote, the simulation has become a simulacrum. The representation of the form has stolen the throne of the form. Reality now seems to reflect the screen more than the screen reflects reality. The reference point for normal is what you see on television and not what you see in your own life. So no matter how many autistic transsexuals you know in your city, you will never even expect to see us on television, and so nobody expects to meet us in real life either.
Ultimately you must assess if people are really named Stanley in real life as much as they are named Kit, Fox, Wolf, Tongue, or Cramp.
ive never met a Stanley but i have met a Subway
