Aspies For Freedom

Bleh

Is it going to be released under that ghastly title everywhere or just certian places.
How disappointing.
My objections are mostly that it sounds like a fluff romantic comedy.
Mozart and the Whale is way classier, don't you think
when will it be released.

That probably explains the name. they probably made these arrangements before they changed the name. I remember reading somewhere that the original name was Crazy In Love. I think on the official site.

Just for the record: it was released in Hungary with a title which can be translated as "Eccentric Love". A notch better than than "Crazy Love", though I liked the original title much better.

Crazy in Love, the name of a Beyonce song with Jay-Z. Still, North America, and Europe + the UK are the important parts to educate on Autism so they can educate other countries and continents if need be.

You don't even want to know what Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me was translated to in other countries.

I wanna know. What was it?

Actually in Hungary it had a very decent title. It was a pun: it can mean both My little darling or Little spy.

Other languages have their own sayings.

Thats what makes lingiustics so confusing. And so much fun. Are the cultural idioms that are tossed around.

(BTW I love Mozart and the Whale it's on my top 5 list)

A couple of weeks ago, I saw that movie. It struck me rather forcibly that the female partner was rather an atypical aspie. She seemed very hyperactive and more than a bit manipulative. I also suspect bipolar.

This is the portrayal in the movie I am talking about - the reality could be different. I think it's great that a movie was made about a love story between two aspies.

The other ladies in the autism group viewed the new lady with much suspicion and I could see why - she was too loud and said really inappropriate comments. But, again, there are different kinds of aspies. Apart from the sensory issues, she seemed much more like a person with BPD than Aspie.

Jerry, the husband, was much more of a textbook Aspie (and was played by the handsome Josh Hartnett).

His wife in the movie would have driven someone like me mad in a very short time because of her habit of screeching like a parrot but as it turns out, she got on very well with Jerry's birds.

It was weird when I watched the movie because every time I saw a different kind of bird, I got very excited and said "that's a macaw!" or whatever and the others didn't seem to notice what kind of bird they were. I love macaws because of their beautiful bright colours and because they are so smart. Jerry also had cockatiels, which make excellent pets.

Donald in the movie. (Jerry in the book? -- not read it.)

I was jealous that they had so many pets, because where I live now I can't keep pets and I miss my cat so much.

Some of the birds were named after movie characters. That was cool (I guess it appealed to the otaku in me.)

Especially during uni and high school, I generally wavered between too loud and too quiet, depending on the topic of conversation. (And - one must confess - the amount of alcohol imbibed. )

"A couple of weeks ago, I saw that movie. It struck me rather forcibly that the female partner was rather an atypical aspie. She seemed very hyperactive and more than a bit manipulative. I also suspect bipolar."

Yeah, I thought about borderline or bipolar too! Just the type of personality and the way she was in the relationship.

Though what I liked about it is they based it on actual people, so the 'atypical' traits were shown. There is no rule that says an aspie cannot be a hairdresser, talk lots or enjoy socializing. It shows that not everyone are textbook cases.

I talk in a normal tone around my partner and immediate family or my best friend. But when around other friends and when around strangers, I tend to talk too loud.  I talk too loud when doing business with people too.  I talk in a normal tone at work except when on the phone, then I get loud. My father and sister did the same.  I used to think of it as my father's "business voice".  Ever notice how sometimes men bark at each other in a loud way when they greet?  I think it is partly because it is what I got from my father but also because I am nervous and wound up so I have on my Friendly-Outgoing-NT Persona and overdo it.  Sometimes I just have a hard time trying to figure out if I'm being loud or not.

So somebody explain the end of the movie to me.  I was lost.

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She made it clear to him that she didnt want to get married, at all costs. But after they got back together she toasted him saying something like "To my husband".  So uh.. did they get married because she no longer felt pushed?  Or did they not get married and she was just calling him husband as a consolation gift?

They got married.