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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Saw Rain Man |
| creatureofcinema |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2008, 11:39 am
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Replies: 64
Views: 10,472
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| I think the big problem with "Rain Man" is that Raymond is a collection of symptoms without an inner life. Whatever the accuracy/non-accuracy of how those symptoms are presented, the character is sort of an enigma whose world cannot be penetrated and whose feelings cannot be known. There's no person... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Breaking Negative Stereotypes |
| creatureofcinema |
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Posted: 10 Jan 2008, 4:23 am
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,985
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| I am totally and completely useless with computers. Right now, I'm typing these words with my tongue. Which is the right way to do it. I think. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Funniest Thing a Shrink Ever Said to You |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2008, 9:07 pm
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Replies: 128
Views: 12,487
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| The worst thing was what a mental health professional DIDN'T say to me: he diagnosed me with schizoaffective disorder AND DIDN'T TELL ME. Ten years pass (ego strength was not my strong suit back then) and he retires- and I'm referred to a schizophrenia clinic, where everyone is really, really confus... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: do you feel better about yourself knowing you have as. |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2008, 7:05 pm
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Replies: 64
Views: 9,758
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| The thing that diagnosis gave me was the option to not lie. I spent so much time making things up just to paper over the gaps in my understanding (and everybody else's understanding) and then killing myself with guilt when they didn't fit or weren't convincing. And it gave me the ability to predict ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is The Bill Gates Having Asperger's Story A Myth |
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Posted: 14 Dec 2007, 1:24 am
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Replies: 37
Views: 46,359
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AS or no AS, Bill Gates is not my hero: his "achievment" lies in doing his damnedest to fix the market so that everybody has to own his damned Windows. You can't support that kind of monopoly capitalism even if it is perpetrated by one of us.
Orson Welles, on the other hand... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: A krautrock joke |
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Posted: 19 Nov 2007, 11:27 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,924
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| Clearly, that joke is the result of some excellent Kraftwerk. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: guys: do people look down on you for not having lots of sex? |
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Posted: 19 Nov 2007, 7:08 am
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Replies: 59
Views: 6,723
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| I think this is more a creation of the media than actual human behaviour. We're constantly bombarded by sexual images with icky patriarchal hoo-has attached; this keeps us glued to the tube and staring at the ads by making us feel inadequate, which creates a need that of course can only be satisifie... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Did You Ever Read Mad Magazine? |
| creatureofcinema |
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Posted: 01 Nov 2007, 6:02 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,985
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I remember in particular one article on international versions of nursery rhymes, with the French version of As I Was Going to St. Ives:
As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives.
The seven wives, of course, weren't his, but here in France, that's how it is. |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: what kind of Star Wars fan are you? |
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Posted: 05 Oct 2007, 12:07 am
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Replies: 4
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| Where was the question you could answer with "George Lucas ruined American movies for all time, and will accordingly burn in cinematic hellfire for all eternity?" |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: People Who Suspect You Were Autistic But Never Said Anything |
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Posted: 04 Oct 2007, 3:07 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,912
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| I can't say that anyone treated me more protectively, but when I "came out" as an Aspie many of my friends were not at all surprised. One of them had already suspected, because he had read some Oliver Sacks books and put two and two together; another admitted that the information inspired less an su... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Scientists make gut-brain connection to autism |
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Posted: 01 Oct 2007, 3:21 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,974
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| Canadians are bad scientists? Huh? This Canuck thinks ill of that statement... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My psychiatrist failed to detect AS. Is she INEPT? |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2007, 6:32 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 2,677
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| Um, before everybody throws up their hands and blows off the head shrinkers, here's a way that the Asperger's diagnosis might actually help therapy: instead of randomly groping for some kind of rationale for your behaviour that doesn't exist, you can examine the role Asperger's has played in your li... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My psychiatrist failed to detect AS. Is she INEPT? |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2007, 3:16 pm
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| I've been in that boat. My previous doctor was a malevolent quack who handed me drugs and showed me the door- his idea of therapy was for me to complain that I was socially isolated, and for him to say "well, it takes practice!" Somehow, I lacked the courage and presence of mind to blow him off, and... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Does anybody Dance? |
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Posted: 21 Sep 2007, 1:27 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 3,334
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| Contra dancing? Is that the one where you fight the Sandinistas? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Childhood Imagination + Lack of? |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2007, 6:32 am
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Replies: 20
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| Orson Welles was an Aspie? Really? I hadn't heard that one- can someone give me a source backing up this claim? As a creature of cinema, I can't let this slip through my fingers. |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Claire Denis, won't you please come home? |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2007, 10:21 pm
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Replies: 5
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| Coup de Torchon didn't impress me THAT much- I think I was overhyped on it, 'cause there certainly are a lot of people who love that movie to death. But I don't count out Tavernier; A Sunday in the Country is a deeply lovely movie. |
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