Perhaps it's the case that all of us would like our own situations to be broadcast to the mainstream, so that millions of people see exactly what we are going through.
In my case, I would like this or any documentary on asd to show what I and ds and the rest of my family go through - in my case atm the utterly relentless and exhausting continual, constant and never-ending teaching that goes on - I often feel that I'm not a mother to ds so much as a teacher, and it's tiring and dispiriting.
But I for one, and I think pretty much everyone here, have never compared my own unique circumstances to another's here, except to share experience and advice. It hasn't crossed my mind that we are 'luckier' or 'unluckier' than another family with an autistic child/children.
I also did feel that certainly the first part of the programme (and also the trailers I saw) focussed on the violence above many other aspects of asd. Which to me felt that it was sensationalising it, and (yet again) presenting autism as something to be feared by society. Yes, there is of course a need to show the 'ugly' side (hate that expression) of autism, but also that people with autism are not just violent freaks locked in their own world. Hard to achieve in a single hour, but actually I felt by the end that LT had done a good job.
I also said on another thread that I'm never too enamoured by the "sn parents are awesome" thing though. As if a) there is a choice, b) 'normal' parents somehow couldn't/wouldn't cope, and c) we're special. We're not, we're just normal people cope because we have to. And no doubt many of us don't cope so well - and as pp have said, we shouldn't feel guilty about it.