A friend from chat has just posted a video on YouTube discussing how characters in the 1982 film
Blade Runner display characteristics of the autistic. I unfortunately can't watch YouTube on my very old and slow computer, but here is the link for anyone who is interested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvxWp6AhbYU
I watched and I couldn't see any characteristics of autism in the characters from blade runner at all. I could see and hear aspie182's autism. He seemed to struggle to express he thoughts. He seemed to look away and put his head down to help reorganise his thoughts into words.
Eldon Tyrell is clearly a bit different ;p
Takes a special kind of man to do what he did..
A friend from chat has just posted a video on YouTube discussing how characters in the 1982 film Blade Runner display characteristics of the autistic.
Why? 'Cos they're robots?
I think they have difficulties at struggling to embrace "humanity". We have heard similar comparisons for example of alien's being aspie-ish. It is not something I entertain. I think it is cloud-watching. Trying so desperately to see something recognisable to the extent where you accept something that is really not there.
I don't see autistic behavior in those characters, myself. There's a lot of other fictional characters that I think are based on aspie behavior, quite on accident, of course.
Like Columbo. I like to think so, anyway. The character is of course not perfectly portrayed as an autist, it's fiction and the producers (or Peter Falk) probably know nothing about it.
There are others, but I can't think of them right off the top of my head.