OK! Finally saw Adam....

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06 Aug 2010, 11:06 pm

Adam was pretty dull the whole autism seemed like a device to make he romance more difficult plus it seems like the director, producer etc etc just looked at a DSM.

but hey its not Rain man so thats a plus but still its pretty bad

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07 Aug 2010, 12:26 am

I'm not sure the general population (outside of the US or those in Government jobs in some Western countries at least) has any real awareness of AS

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14 Sep 2010, 9:32 am

Ah-Ha!!!I just saw "My Name is Khan" It is announced at the beginning of the movie that the protagonist has Asperger's but that the movie was a work of fiction and that certain liberties had been taken in the portrayal of sed..Aspergers...He seemed way more like HFA...and it was a sort of Baliwood meets Forrest Gump..Fairytale set mostly in America...There were parts that were quite far fetched, but parts that were quite enjoyable.

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14 Sep 2010, 9:58 am

it was ok

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14 Sep 2010, 2:19 pm

I haven't seen Adam, but I heard about the ending. Their was another aspie movie that I want to see called "If you could say it in words". Hopefully I'll look at it someday.

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14 Sep 2010, 2:39 pm

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I think he's a bit stereotypical; I've not met any Aspie who's like him. I'd prefer a more realistic depiction; he's more like a walking DSM than a character who happens to have Asperger's. I wish producers and writers would remember that when they write about characters with mental/neurological disabilities--that they can't start with the disability; they've got to make a real character, and then decide how that disability affects them and their personality and outlook. You can't just have a character's entire gimmick be that he's got some diagnosis or other. (Exceptions can be made for very minor characters who appear in crowd scenes at mental hospitals, and such... But never, never a major or supporting character.)

You are absolutely right, I think that´s why I often don´t relate to AS characters in movies! In another thread about the movie "Adam", I explained that I thought the character was flat and lifeless, but I couldn´t quite specify why. But this is it- you´ve put it into words, far better than I was able to at the time.

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14 Sep 2010, 2:40 pm

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14 Sep 2010, 2:51 pm

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When will they make the movie about the chaotic impulsive unscientific right-brained Aspie???

Yeah, I´d like to see that movie too. But I think most people don´t realize that kind of Aspie exists yet....

A character I related to was Catherine (I think that was her name) in the movie "Washington Square". Not so much to her childhood, but when she was a young woman. She was sort of an artistic, sensitive, thoughtful, logical person- which is what I am. There was no mention at all of her having AS, she was just an Aspie-ish character. Generally, those are the movies I like best.

Did like Ben X though.......

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14 Sep 2010, 2:52 pm

I liked it. Ending was sad however.

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14 Sep 2010, 3:10 pm

Whereas I'm not the 'science minded' type (no space obsession for me), I found the 8pm event (near the start of the movie) was something I could wholeheartedly understand. There were quite a few other "daily issues" they included too.

And the way NTs in the movie 'felt' or 'responded' to the announcement or knowledge that he had Asperger's seemed pretty accurate to real life.

I dunno. It's somewhat stereotyped, and I'm sure NTs miss a lot of the reasons behind many of the scenes. I somewhat worry that some NT out there is going to interpret the 'last night at the park' scene as an interest in beastiality...

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14 Sep 2010, 3:22 pm

I relate to Adam, mostly in the way I speak and compose myself.

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14 Sep 2010, 3:25 pm

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I dunno. It's somewhat stereotyped, and I'm sure NTs miss a lot of the reasons behind many of the scenes. I somewhat worry that some NT out there is going to interpret the 'last night at the park' scene as an interest in beastiality...

That's what my mum thought when she first watched it. :lmao:

She said that it was a bit weird that he would be feeling "excited" watching racoons. *facepalm*

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14 Sep 2010, 5:34 pm

MONKEY wrote:

OddFiction wrote:

That's what my mum thought when she first watched it. :lmao:

She said that it was a bit weird that he would be feeling "excited" watching racoons. *facepalm*

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See. I knew that would happen.
I wonder how much of the rest of it they misunderstood.

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