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carlos55
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20 Mar 2021, 12:43 pm

Watched a movie - "The Art of Self Defense" made in 2019, where the main character has obvious Aspergers. Good movie - dark humour & violence in places, but also no superpowers or ASD tragedy either, so advocates may like it too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_o ... (2019_film)

Coincidently Karate is supposed to be good for those with ASD, there`s plenty of studies on google backing that up.

https://shobukan.com.au/how-martial-art ... th-autism/


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29 Mar 2021, 4:28 pm

My husband loves this movie. Never mentioned the ASD though, I wonder if he picked up on it. (He's also on the spectrum)



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30 Mar 2021, 2:19 am

petraA wrote:
My husband loves this movie. Never mentioned the ASD though, I wonder if he picked up on it. (He's also on the spectrum)


It never mentions anything about ASD (maybe that’s a good thing for the movie?) but he definitely has it.

I’m not a fan of remote diagnosis of celebs and real people, especially those who are impossibly high functioning on a Social communication level like bill gates but this character is nailed to the spectrum :D


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