Rainman
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WelcomeToHolland -- I don't think it's a myth, partly because someone did, in fact, actually say these very words to me. I am one of the people to whom someone said, and I quote as precisely as memory can serve:
"I don't think you can possibly be autistic, you don't seem to be like Rainman. You know Rainman, did you see that film?"
I have posted that here on WP in other threads, at one time or another when things like this have been discussed, and other WP members actually said they too have been told the Rainman thing.
If one is take that on trust -- and I know I'M telling the truth, for one -- then it's not a myth "where everyone claims it's constantly said but it actually never is."
Someone actually said it to me, others here have said someone said it to them. It's said, no myth.
Tom Cruise is NOT always mediocre! Sometimes, he can be downright abysmal.
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I just watched this film last week. I don't know why, but I somehow thought that this film was about an autistic assassin with savant skills played by Hoffmann. I liked the film. When I told my wife about my initial expectation on the film after watching, she was almost crying from laughing so hard.
What is the connection between these pop groups and autism?
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What is the connection between these pop groups and autism?
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"I'm bad and that's good. I'll never be good and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me."
Wreck It Ralph
Tom Cruise is NOT always mediocre! Sometimes, he can be downright abysmal.
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What is the connection between these pop groups and autism?
Not autism per say but it was the first time people who were odd different, quirky were successfull enough to be able to see and hear them. Before that Rock and pop music was really group oriented, think Woodstock, it was groups going from city to city playing Arenas and stadiums in each city they played having girlfriends and groupies they visited, or disco hedonism.
Now nerd etc has been trendy long enough it is a bunch of stereotypes. When David Byrne sang he looked and sounded like a guy surrounded and about to be beaten up. Devo was quirky and smart, B-52's quirky and fun. A lot these groups invented Synthpop. I am not saying these people were or were not autistic (Gary Numan disgnosed by his clinicion wife) just that for me and I assume other autistics, most of us who were undiagnosed at the time, for the first time there was music we could relate to and for them first time I understood that there were others out there similar to me. The local New Wave station I listened to had as thier slogan "Dare to Be Different". After years of isolation and bullying what could be more empowering?
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