| Relative Fear | |
| Director: | George Mihalka |
| Music: | Marty Simon |
| Cinematography: | Rodney Gibbons |
| Editing: | Ion Webster |
| Runtime: | 90-94 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
Relative Fear (also known as The Child and Le silence d'Adam) is a 1994 Canadian independent psychological horror film that references the 1956 film The Bad Seed. An autistic child is seemingly born to kill and does so.
In the book Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination, Stuart Murray describes the film as "the worst kind of example of the prosthetic narrative, where the idea of disability simply becomes part of a genetic method". He states that there is "little recognizably autistic in anything Adam does"[1]