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10 Jul 2010, 6:12 pm

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My wife and I watched this film the day after our marriage counselor first suggested I had Asperger's. Neither of us had ever heard of it before. My wife cried so much during the film because it hit home with her on many levels having been married to me for nearly 8 years and neither of us understanding what was "wrong" with me and my inabilities in our relationship. Now, I'm in the process of getting my formal diagnosis and sadly, my wife and I are no longer together. I fell asleep during the movie so I don't know how it ended.


Sorry it didn't work out for you and your wife.

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12 Jul 2010, 11:06 am

Thank you Bill. I am hopeful that we will get back together and everything will work out for the best.



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13 Jul 2010, 12:17 am

Reminded me of myself in my early twenties', being too clingy. Unable to see past the current.
Also enjoyed "Ben X", reminded me of my teenage years; living in my head to the point where, that was my reality.
Just watched "Mozart and the Whale".....
My husband hated all of these movies, claiming that they "hit too close to home." And that the characters at points were "over played".



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15 Jul 2010, 1:01 pm

depressing AND inaccurate!! :x There, 'nuff said :P



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15 Jul 2010, 5:58 pm

I found the movie depressing as well. In some ways, the actor that played Adam reminded me of my own mannerisms, in others I said 'He's nothing like me at all, NTs will get the wrong idea about Asperger's'.

I've never had a relationship, but I was filled with despair at seeing the one in this film. Even if I could, by some miracle, get a girl to like me, this film shows that it would be very hard to keep her, and to win the approval of her father.

And the one year recovery was unrealistic, too. One doesn't recover from AS, ever. It may get easier as you get older to function socially (I find, frankly, that life gets harder the older I get), but I certainly wouldn't be functioning normally, living alone in another state for the first time, having lost the woman I love, after one year. I'd be a nervous wreck.



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17 Jul 2010, 10:08 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wonQBLbo ... re=related

This is an interview for the film, I love the way Hugh Dancy corrects the interviewer after she refers to aspergers as a "mental disorder".