Meet the Real Life Woo Young Woo, Attorney Haley Moss
At this point, everybody who watches KDrama may have ready know Attorney Woo Young You. The extraordinary lawyer with autistic spectrum disorder.
Some people who have autistic kids treated me like a little kid, not as one of their colleagues. Even though I went to the same law school, passed the same bar exam and met the same qualifications for the profession, I often felt that I had to prove myself more to get the same respect and opportunity that anybody else is getting.— Haley Moss
Some colleagues may have judged her abilities based on her difficulty with sensory overload and with prioritization. So like Young Woo, she also uses noise-chancing headphones.
I’m sensitive to noise, so I always wear large noise-canceling headphones just as the attorney Woo does in the drama. Little kids’ cries and screams make me anxious. With a sensory overload, I feel like my body is trembling to fight the noise off. I keep saying to myself, ‘I have to get out of here.’ I always try to find somewhere quiet.
— Haley Moss
It is also due to extreme sensitivity that Woo Young Woo cannot eat anything other than gimbap.
She eats a lot of same food every day. That‘s something that I do.
Her obsession with whales is also very familiar to her.
Her passion for whales makes her really excited. This kind of obsessive joy is something I experienced a lot from drawing.
— Haley Moss
Haley also sees similar experiences as a lawyer in the drama. Her photographic memory is a great advantage and she finds that she can easily connect with people with same experiences.
Those who have similar life experiences as me tend to have trust in me. I can relate with them better than other lawyers do. Also, I tend to break things down when talking about a case and this made some clients understand legal terms better.
— Haley Moss
The Florida lawyer is very grateful that the drama is shedding light on the lives of people with ASD but without making Woo Young Woo as just someone to teach the audience about autism.
In the drama, Woo messes up, learns and grows along with others. What usually happens in media is that we focus on autistic people who don’t seem like humans with full personality and interests. We don‘t get the same opportunity.
— Haley Moss
Haley says she would like to see more people with ASD involved in the media production process of such shows to give them more opportunities as well. Given that the series might have a US remake, Haley Moss might be even be given an opportunity to consult with the production.
Extraordinary Attorney Woo might have a US remake
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