This discussion extends Lisa Director’s “The Dark Side of the Frame” into autism proper. Since clinicians increasingly meet hybrid-pathologies—where non-psychotic, psychotic and autistic modes coexist—screen-mediated work carries distinct meaning across the three subgroups within the autism spectrum. For the congenital, sensory-based group, remote work colludes with two-dimensionality and seals off osmotic-diffuse transmission; for the autisto-psychotic group it affords manic evasion of both autistic and psychotic anxieties; for post-traumatic autistic-like withdrawal it repeats the founding absence. I view insistence on the screen as a prosthetic membrane against osmotic anxiety, and the two-dimensional and manic solutions alike as “mantling”—a defense against subjectivity. Since breakdown is first a sensory event, its repair requires sensory immersion and cannot occur at the screen’s remove. Online work may only be usedoccasionally, within intensive in-person treatment.