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04 Nov 2013, 1:16 pm

I just saw the movie tonight. Not only was it much better than I was expecting ( I didn't have very high hopes for a movie with such a stupid title about a boy who talks to ghosts or whatnot), but I found it to be an absolutely great, brilliantly written movie that is clever in the way it plays it's tropes and drops a much needed anvil with it's moral. Now, I want to right a full review or article on it, but I don't have time for it right now, so I'm just going to say this. Those anyone else think "Seeing Ghosts" is a metaphor for autism or related conditions?

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04 Nov 2013, 2:10 pm

No.

Remember, when you watch something:
Being Socially Awkward/Smart/Asexual/Weird/Different/Curious is not an Autism guarentee.

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04 Nov 2013, 10:48 pm

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Those anyone else think "Seeing Ghosts" is a metaphor for autism or related conditions?

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04 Nov 2013, 10:50 pm

Asperger96 wrote:

No.

Remember, when you watch something:
Being Socially Awkward/Smart/Asexual/Weird/Different/Curious is not an Autism guarentee.

I'm not saying he is autistic. I'm saying if you think its a METAPHOR for autism OR SOMETHING SIMILAR.

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05 Nov 2013, 7:05 am

When it was showing on an Isle of Man ferry I was on, couldn't watch it, because of the school taunting scene very early in it. A total switch-off: but that miserable scene is formulaic Hollywood and always like clockwork appears in every American film about a child. As a result, no idea of the rest of the film's merits.

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05 Nov 2013, 7:12 am

Ganondox wrote:

Asperger96 wrote:

No.

Remember, when you watch something:
Being Socially Awkward/Smart/Asexual/Weird/Different/Curious is not an Autism guarentee.

I'm not saying he is autistic. I'm saying if you think its a METAPHOR for autism OR SOMETHING SIMILAR.

No. I don't see how SEEING GHOSTS and AUTISM compare.

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05 Nov 2013, 8:27 pm

Asperger96 wrote:

Ganondox wrote:

Asperger96 wrote:

No.

Remember, when you watch something:
Being Socially Awkward/Smart/Asexual/Weird/Different/Curious is not an Autism guarentee.

I'm not saying he is autistic. I'm saying if you think its a METAPHOR for autism OR SOMETHING SIMILAR.

No. I don't see how SEEING GHOSTS and AUTISM compare.

Have you even seen the movie? There is a quite a bit more context, including a semi-historical one.

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06 Nov 2013, 6:33 am

Ganondox wrote:

Asperger96 wrote:

Ganondox wrote:

Asperger96 wrote:

No.

Remember, when you watch something:
Being Socially Awkward/Smart/Asexual/Weird/Different/Curious is not an Autism guarentee.

I'm not saying he is autistic. I'm saying if you think its a METAPHOR for autism OR SOMETHING SIMILAR.

No. I don't see how SEEING GHOSTS and AUTISM compare.

Have you even seen the movie? There is a quite a bit more context, including a semi-historical one.

Yes, I've seen (most of) the movie

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06 Nov 2013, 9:31 am

Asperger96 wrote:

Ganondox wrote:

Asperger96 wrote:

Ganondox wrote:

Asperger96 wrote:

No.

Remember, when you watch something:
Being Socially Awkward/Smart/Asexual/Weird/Different/Curious is not an Autism guarentee.

I'm not saying he is autistic. I'm saying if you think its a METAPHOR for autism OR SOMETHING SIMILAR.

No. I don't see how SEEING GHOSTS and AUTISM compare.

Have you even seen the movie? There is a quite a bit more context, including a semi-historical one.

Yes, I've seen (most of) the movie

Most of the movie? There is a point near the end of the movie which changes everything.

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