AnotherKind wrote:
From which i remember, that character from Rainman was autism.
My question was, how do people with asperger behave apparently? Are there any visible signs after which you can identify them?
No, the character from Rainman was a Hollywood representation of a character the audience was to presume had Autism. It was Hollywood, pure and simple, and as fake and inaccurate as everything Hollywood does. I saw an interview with Dustin Hoffman in which he described totally making up his mannerisms, based on no research at all, or any experience with real Autistics. Totally made up. Totally faked.
Are there any visible signs of AS? Sometimes. Sometimes not. Frequently not anything obvious the average person would ever be able to see. One of the most frequent things we hear is, "You don't look Autistic." It's best not to form any particular "picture" of what Asperger Syndrome "looks like."
If you do, you are far more likely not to recognize it when it's there.
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