Has anyone seen "Adam"?

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I thought it was sweet of him. He really liked her so he thought he could do something special for her so he cleaned her windows so she could see out of them. They were very dirty.

Beth screamed because she saw a man hanging down by her window and she didn't know who it was. She wasn't expecting it. I found it startling too in the trailor because I would have also had the same reaction and then calm down after seeing who it is. I don't know about the screaming though. I've been shocked to see my dad over my sky light as he was cleaning it and I just watched him. I was in my room playing and then I hear a sound and I look up and there is my dad cleaning it. I was eight then.

Okay, point taken. But it still doesn't seem natural or even slightly realistic considering what I understand the circumstances of the movie to be. It might make sense if a young kid with AS with no sense of danger and a very literal mind did that, but Adam is what, in his mid or late 20s, right? I find it difficult to believe that he's gone through life for so long without learning that something like "my windows are covered in soot" didn't mean something like "I would love it if you cleaned my windows!" And the man is in an astronaut suit, which makes it even more ridiculous.

I guess he tries to take the effort to read between the lines and he did a terrible job. I know I do when I try.


Remember, it's a movie so things were a bit exaggerated in it. Adam was 29 BTW.

I don't want to spoil anything too much, but that's one of the points of the movie, is that Adam has lived a very sheltered life. They don't go into how he was raised, but I can imagine after his (presumably) young diagnosis, his parents probably thought "Oh no, our son is disabled." and basically held his hand his entire life. Trying to make everything easy for him, instead of showing him what Real Life is actually like, if you get my meaning.

I can't go too much further into this theory without spoiling anything, though...I guess you'll just have to watch it for yourself

Was he really diagnosed young? Was it mentioned in the movie he was?


I figured he was diagnosed as an adult so he never got to learn sooner on what not to do or what to work on. I was diagnosed young so I knew what to read about to see what I needed to work on and I came to these forums here. I don't think Adam came to these forums so he wasn't able to learn more about life and what not to do. I've learned from other people's experiance here so that helped.

Thought it was HORRIBLY exaggerated in its attempt to portray a man w/ AS. I was kinda like him when I was little, maybe a bit in middle school, but from high school on up? NO WAY!! The fact he's 29 and still acting the way he is is kinda sad. Most Aspies I know IRL have gone past the "Adam stage" (that is, immaturity and naivete) enough to make them blend into a "normal" situation if they really wanted to. About the only things preventing them are the way they're so passionate about their topic(s) of interest (I hesitate to use the word "obsessive" here, lol, even though myself and a lot of other real life Aspies I know of probably are), and also for some (but very few) of them, the way they sound.

I don't know, I'm only presuming. I guess actually I have no real evidence to back that up, it's just kind of a hunch I have.



I haven't In a lot of ways, I thought Adam was a bit more mature than I am...especially the whole job interview part. I've had people try to do mock interviews with me before, and at first I try to joke around it, and then they tell me to take it seriously and I clam up and don't know what to do. And then the real interview always catches me off guard, because they ask you trick questions and I always answer them literally =/

Though there are also a few parts where I felt more mature than Adam, I've had enough people tell me to "shut up" over the years, that I don't blabber on and on to people anymore...not unless it's someone I'm really comfortable with. Even if someone brings up a special interest!

I did think his OCD aspects were a little exaggerated, though. I know this is probably only a stereotype, but it seems like a lot of Aspies are kind of lazy and messy (though my messes do have a sort of organization to them). His place was absolutely spotless, all of the time. And all of his cereals and frozen dinners were perfectly stacked!?

I don't know, I'm not saying it's impossible for an Aspie to be that way, just seemed a little over-the-top IMO. But remember, it's only a movie

Amazing....I'm in the midst of a surprising (to me) self-diagnosis. I'm 39 years old, and to this day, my instant thought upon hearing "my windows are covered in soot" from someone I liked would be interpreted by me as "she would really love it if I cleaned her windows!!"



Between three separate online tests that have all agreed with an AS diagnosis, at least a dozen different anecdotes like these, and the startling realization that AS would describe about 90% of my quirks and "shortcomings" in life (an official diagnosis of ADHD-Inattentive Type came last year and explains the other 10%), everything in my life is beginning to make quite a bit more sense to me.

I didn't see it. I really wanted to see it. First off, its a movie about ASPIES. And I like Hugh Dancy. He's cool.

But then I saw a bunch of trailers, and clips, and interviews. And Hugh's portrayal of Adam was sorta weird. Well, obviously. But then it seems as though they took nearly every single characteristic of aspergers and bunched it up into Adam. But he still did a good job.
Like I noticed the avoiding eye contact thing, obsessed with space exploration
But the only thing I didn't like was how they made him going on fact after fact after fact. Yeah aspies do that, but most people I've seen who do that, don't do that like Adam. Obviously, no aspie is the same in how they act. Like directly stating the fact. Like how he was talking about the history of the theater. "In year so and so, adadadaadbababdabdaadaad..." He sounded like Wikipedia.

All well and good, but good sir, would you actually do it if she had windows several stories off the ground? And would you do it wearing a costume? I guess I'm just commenting on the misinterpretation of statements vs. the actual carrying out of those misinterpretations.

So I just saw it like a minute ago and I don't quite understand the ending. Why was he smiling?

SPOILER ALERT!!


Because he found a job he enjoy which allowed him to persue is favorite interest, he had learn how to interact with people better, and was much better off then at the beggining of the movie

Adam is very good. The main character isn't a savant or anything, and although he's severe compared to some Aspies, he's still a realistic Aspie I could relate to in many ways.

I personally dislike the ending of the film, but I won't spoil it by going further into that.

For me this movie was Very close to home! And kinda creepy!
Adam (Which is my name) is 29 and loses his father. His world get's turned upside down. I am 27 and i don't expect my father to live much longer. All he had was his father! Same with me!
Adam learns things at the end of the movie which i have already learned in life. But he already knows things at the start of the movie i am yet to obtain and i hope that i will. For one his job! I have never even been able to get a job. I haven't that experience.
He's not completely mad about maths as well. That was a new concept for me. Until i saw that i thought i was an outsider in the Aspie world. It made me feel that i was an Aspie and i wasnt a fake!
I sat on the edge of my seat through this movie. Watching very intensely and biting my nails! True that i'm a bit more controlled than he was. I dont' outburst like that! But it felt so good to have this movie that made me feel i wasn't alone!
The main guy doing the acting had never heard of AS until asked to do this movie! From what i heard he researched it heavily so he could portray that role to the best of his abilities.
For me the performance that he gave was great! Superb acting for someone who can never truly understand our world.
Much better than Mozart and the Whale i thought!!

True that was part of it but it wasn't just that. The book he was reading gave us a cryptic message to why he smiled. I found it somewhat hard to understand but i got something from it.
I'd need to watch that ending again to explain it properly.
The book had plenty of meaning!! Combined with what you said of course!

I could not relate to adam too much but I found the movie good.