Cloudy with a chance of Meat Balls (an Asperger's movie?)

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Does Flint Have Asperger's???

---Talking(saying what I'm doing)Singing(his own theme music) to himself

---Sam-"You seriously spend a lot of time alone" Flint-*Awkward chukling"

---Steve(and the Ratbirds, to an extent) are his only friends, before meeting Sam

---Above average IQ, also using advanced vocabulary and talking very fast

---Passionate interest in science and inventing, almost all he ever talks and thinks about

---Wears his lab coat wherever he goes, and how dissapointed he gets when he loses it

---Has never even been in a snowball fight before, (explains that he doesn't know the rules) and his awkwardness and enthusasim(sp?) when he does get in one...

---Sometimes has awkward social moments, like when he tried to kiss Sam several times,
or when she talked about her experience as a nerd(there's MANY more, just too many to list...)

---Can see the goodness in people and things that not that many people can,
like Sam, the Mayor, or his dreams of "creating something awesome" And how he is naturaly very nice almost all the time(he's rarely angry and never mean, and when he is mean, he dosen't mean to do it)

---Sometimes has awkward walk or run (Seen multiple times throughout movie)

---Does not understand fishing metaphors, also "How are you going to top this?-Maybe with hot fudge?" and his awkward laughter afterwards...(many more examples...)

---Many very strange facial expressions...and his expressions being either "all or none" and never "in the middle" and how quickly he goes from "all to none" or vice versa. The dinner scene with his dad is a good example(AREN'T YOU PROUD OF ME!?!?)

---Does not look people in the eye most of the time when he's talking(The "can you look me in the eye and tell me..." scene is a GREAT example)

---How, in his mind, he seems to "age backwards" How he acts more like an adult as a kid and more like a kid as an adult.

---How he always must tell the truth("Can you keep a secret? NO. But this time, yes.)

---How he can remember little details, even they may be just briefly mentioned(like how he remembered that Sam liked jello, even though it was a little detail, and is never mentioned again untill the jello dome scene)


Anyway, what do you think about Flint having Asperger's?

-Cody The Maverick (author of this list)

It's an absolutely brilliant movie. Irrespective of any AS link, it's well worth watching.

Yes, there are messages about greed and the environmental, but not in an annoying way. I like the matter-of-fact way it's been included. Normally these messages are either sneaky or patronising, but that's not the case with this film.