Alan Turing Movie - The Imitation Game

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If he was autistic, though, I'd certainly be proud of his accomplishments, despite or because of his autism.

I saw The Imitation Game several weeks ago and while even though it was just a biopic, many people are certainly right about Alan Turing. He was depicted in the movie as someone who was indeed an Aspie and very much a genius.

I hate movies when they make up details of a "Historical" character.

In this case they didn't make up the details.

The movie could have tried to model an Aspie in his life, but it looks like the examples are directly exhibited (that you can list every symptom down). Nevertheless, the movie tried to signify the importance of people with neurological differences and how that difference can mean a special purpose to the society, in his case a world changing one.

Hopefully the movie had taught a lesson to NTs why people with AS behave that way, and uphold the image of people with neurological differences.

I like the part where the movie directly pointed out that NTs can speak out without literal meanings because of a set of assumptions that can only work if your train thought is similar, thus comparable to having a different encryption key in an encrypted data. Am I right in here? that's why NTs can speak out in indirect means? Although AS simply tells things unencrypted or, literally.

I highly doubt this movie taught anyone anything about AS. Though I do suspect that many people have known of one or more oddball children when they were young. I suspect they now think: “Ah, that’s what the oddball child does when he grows up. He becomes an oddball adult”.