Aspies For Freedom

Hello, I was just curious if anyone can relate to Mozart and The Whale and which chracters. I feel that Issabell is me female version It's creepy how much I relate to a female character. Other than being male and into puppetry, cartoons and humor, I live simular tastes in art and her Aspie behavor.

I've only seen the movie.
I thought it was exaggerated greatly to show how AS is like, externally, and to make a romantic dramity out of it (dramity = drama comedy, just in case)

I know at least a couple (and suspect another) that I know have AS, and none of them act anywhere as severe as those characters.  I'm thinking it might be because they've grown up not knowing they had it and were put through the school of hard knocks to "be normal".  

(one of the people I know is my Dad, the other is a respected member of the community that somehow gets by.  I'll ask him one of these days how he handles it.  It's a people heavy job he's got)

You Know, probably one of my bestest questions is, is it possible for a fictional Aspie character like Isabelle to exist in reality. I heard that the actors went to meet with allot of Aspies to get down there acting skills. But at the same time, I wonder how acurate Isabelle is compaired to Marry Newport. I'm not sure, I haven't read the book yet, but I would like too.

I remember Isabelle saying, "The neighborhood kids came and started making the loud noises I hated. So... I started barking like a dog."

I laughed out loud at that, because I did the exact same thing when I was younger, and still do it sometimes even now.

For me, I was on Isabelle's side all the way. I feel like I'm allot like Isabelle except I'm a guy and can control my anger more. I HATE Fitting in to normal sociaty just like her. The things that she said like "Your just another person who saw who I really am and couldn't handle it." Oh, so much like me. So much in common.

I thought they WAAAAAY overexxagerated the behaviors of AS people. But maybe I'm wrong. My father and his girlfriend were watching it with me (they rented it for romantic comedy, I decided to watch it to see just what it was all about), and they kept on chuckling and nodding and glancing at me, so I guess I act a little bit like the peoplein the movie. Still, they were just a little... too autistic. They should have used actors with AS for the parts. They wouldn't have to act as much. NT actors playing non-NTs always exxagerate the behaviors of the non-NT characters.

So, popular opinion: Is it a good idea to bring a non-spectrum girlfriend/date to see that movie?

I'm just about to watch it for the first time tonight I think...

Really?  You ball up and scream?

The worst time a house makeover happened to me was when I was away. I had no idea my relatives were doing it. They thought they were helping. I came home to find some trees and my privacy shrubs had been cut down with chainsaws, the drapes were down and the livingroom was bare of furniture because they painted it. Sounds were ringing off the bare walls and windows in a creepy soulless way and the place was filled with flies. I freaked out because all I wanted was to be home but it felt like home was "gone", taken from me and I couldn't get back. Dad scolded me for complaining about each thing that was moved and momentos thrown out. He said "people worked hard" and I should be grateful.

Isabelle is so much like me. Very weirdly artsy and so angry with the world because it's either boring or annoying. No one understands the art or wants to join the maddness. Instead of wanting to join in supporting wierd art, people just want to point at you and make you look like a freak.

I felt sorry for Isabelle and the scene where Donalds boss came over for diner. Donald wants it pain and normal and Isabelle wants to entertain and make things more uniqe and interesting.

During the fight scene, I was on Isabelle's side all the way.

I related to Isabelle in a lot of ways. Donald reminds me more of my son. It's interesting that some of you thought it was exaggerated. I thought it was maybe rather cliched to fit some sort of hollywood stereotype, but when I was at the dating stage of my life some of my relationships were even more dramatic and volatile than theirs so it made me feel a little better. I enjoyed the movie for its entertainment value but didn't think it explained things that I would like ppl to understand. I wouldn't give it to someone as an educational tool.

I can relate more to Donald, especially the clean apartment thing.  I've just moved back home for the summer, about 2 weeks go, and I still haven't unpacked and got my room "organized" and my mom keeps offering to help, but I try to make it clear I do NOT want her to touch a thing, I will eventually get it done when I'm off from work.  When I do have to clean, like before room checks on campus, I hate it, I never know where anything is. I also get distracted when I drive, and I've had a number of very close calls.

However, I do think it was a little overdone and over-dramatic. I mean, the guy never stops rocking. I rock a lot, but I don't think I do it that much. I do, though, do that exact same side-to-side rocking when I'm standing. I'd like to think I have more eye contact than him, but I just don't know, that one thing that's hard for me to evaluate.  I also find patterns in things all the time, just not as obsessively as he does.

I have yet to read the book, but it's on my list...there are a few that are ahead of it on the list.