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11 Jan 2012, 2:34 pm

Lennie Small from the book/movie Of Mice and Men



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11 Jan 2012, 2:47 pm

Not wanting to start an argument, but I think it's generally agreed that Donnie Darko is a Schizophrenic character?



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11 Jan 2012, 5:44 pm

Jar Jar Binks?



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11 Jan 2012, 5:48 pm

Uprising wrote:
Jar Jar Binks?


I can tolerate people equating Asperger's with sociopaths and uncaring a**holes, but I don't think we need to start equating it with ret*d racist stereotype comic relief characters.



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11 Jan 2012, 5:53 pm

Excuse me, but I can't think of a reason why you're calling Jar Jar racist? I haven't watched Star Wars in a while, mind.


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11 Jan 2012, 6:36 pm

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Excuse me, but I can't think of a reason why you're calling Jar Jar racist? I haven't watched Star Wars in a while, mind.


Jar Jar is based on the racist stereotype characters from decades ago.



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12 Jan 2012, 6:49 am

Lisbet Salander in the Millenium movies (of which The girl with the dragon tattoo is the first) is specifially descibed as asperger in the books



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12 Jan 2012, 7:16 am

Jory wrote:
Uprising wrote:
Jar Jar Binks?


I can tolerate people equating Asperger's with sociopaths and uncaring a**holes, but I don't think we need to start equating it with ret*d racist stereotype comic relief characters.


He was racist? :oops:



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12 Jan 2012, 9:03 am

Uprising wrote:
Jory wrote:
Uprising wrote:
Jar Jar Binks?


I can tolerate people equating Asperger's with sociopaths and uncaring a**holes, but I don't think we need to start equating it with ret*d racist stereotype comic relief characters.


He was racist? :oops:

Jar Jar wasn´t racist, he was based on a racist stereotype.
At least that´s what I gather Jory meant.



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12 Jan 2012, 9:07 am

That's what I gathered from him as well. That isn't how I interpreted Jar Jar, though.


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12 Jan 2012, 6:50 pm

Mark Zuckerberg, at least how he was shown in The Social Network, definitely seems Aspie to me. I watched it with my sister, and within the first two minutes, I was already annoying her by talking about how Aspie he seemed to me.



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14 Jan 2012, 3:21 pm

I hope there was something else wrong with him as he was such a negative character, there for the audience to laugh at in a dark way, but perhaps "Private Pyle" from Full Metal Jacket was AS?



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14 Jan 2012, 5:53 pm

Mary and Max

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978762/

Max is an aspie, and I just absolutely love his character. Have a few quid to spare, buy it in HMV, excellent film.



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14 Jan 2012, 6:39 pm

The lead character's brother in A Serious Man. The character is brilliant at mathematics, but he requires his bother to care for him, and is eccentric as hell. On top of that, the character is Jewish, and possibly gay - the former viewed with suspicion in 1950's America (when the movie takes place), and the latter being considered intolerable.

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14 Jan 2012, 10:14 pm

Micheal Myers comes off as aspie to me, esp in the first movie when they showed him as a kid in the mental hospital.



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15 Jan 2012, 9:32 am

DanRaccoon wrote:
Mary and Max

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978762/

Max is an aspie, and I just absolutely love his character. Have a few quid to spare, buy it in HMV, excellent film.

It's a great film, I've found it incredibly moving.


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