autism shown in the wrong light in movies

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It really pisses me off that they always have normal people playing our roles & that were always the helpless ones it's like not once you see a movie about autism that shows us in a good light it's like they only get it from the perspective of the normals that were the headache & hard to be taking care of. You never see a plot like "2 autistic people fall in love or the autistic boy finishes the 9-mile dash" no it's always a plot that's dreary & glim & seem the lack of hopelessness. Hello there is people that are huge success stories even though they have disablities.

Grim and dreary is what sells in Hollywood. Simple as that.

It would be awesome to see Autism in a movie for all the positive things. Perhaps we could pool some resources together and make a movie. There's a lot of us, we could probably raise a good bit of dosh.

Me and adverb were talking before about making an Aspie holocaust movie where we eventually break out of the concentration camp and take back our rights and freedoms...

I unfortunately have not seen a single autistic movie. All the ones I hear about hear don't seem to be playing when I ask...........

.........but, I think it's because they have to get normal people to stay calm to do EXACTLY what is in the movie, instead of just improvising your autism-ness, unfortunately............

I'd like to see autism portrayed in a more positive way, in future movies that Hollywood wishes to pump out.

Me too! I want to see a movie where an autistic/aspie kid cures cancer or something. Something positive. And meanwhile he has friends and loves just like everyone else...not this "I only buy my boxer shorts at Kmart in Cleveland" bullsh*t like in Rain Man (which is funny because I only buy my underwear at Victoria's Secret and my aspie grandma always drank Coke in the SMALL bottles...NEVER the big ones. You'd give her the big bottles and she'd throw them away)...

Anyway, would love to see autism and Asperger's portrayed in a positive manner. Enough people think we're freaks as it is.

this mocrary needs to stop maybe i could be the first autistic actress to show hollywood off that were normal just like everyone else, lol.

Mercury Rising was a good depiction of a child with autistic disorder, even if it had a somber tone. Roland [an X-Files episode] did a good portrayal of an adult with autistic disorder.

There's two that are positive to me, especially with people who're lower down on the spectrum, but they're still shown in a positive light.

Thing about movies is, if someone is autistic, they are autistic for a reason. So they have to try to emphasize it in whatever way possible. And what they see is a symptom list and whatever Autism Speaks shows them.
But yeah, it sucks.

maybe wp should band together to make an aspie movie?