I felt that I could relate more to the male character than the female character.
Funny, I felt the opposite >-<
More evidence of reversed gender roles in autism? :roll: - Or maybe just because her case seemed much milder *shrugs*
Just realised that it's been in my local videostore since august. I hope they'll still have it tomorrow, I'm looking forward to it.
Someone recommended it to me. It would have been more respectful of them to urinate in my face.
Try this exercise if you think it's a good film. Go to a reasonably populated city, Sydney or Melbourne would do, and watch the people who pass by a certain landmark. Try to correctly identify the Aspies.
Ronald Bass would have us believe they bark at each other in public view. I would pay good money to see him stuck in a real-life version of the prison riot of Natural Born Killers.
You're missing my point.
Bass can only write exaggerations and extremes, and that is exactly what has allowed the genocide orchestrators to get such a head start on us. We are no longer human beings with a slight difference to other human beings. We are broken toys to be swept away like trash, and films like this POS only help to reinforce that.
A good film about Aspies points out that they could be right among you, right now, sharing a drink with you, and you probably don't even know it. That is why I have been trying to make the point for so long that the best portrayals come about by accident rather than design. The reason why MATW-type propaganda works so well is because it reinforces the worst of normie subconscious. To defeat that, we need to start screwing with heads.
Bingo, cj.
The thing that angers me the most about Dehumaniser And The Propaganda is that its authors clearly are unaware that many families have had an Aspie among them for twenty-plus years and not known it. Illustrating the point would be a great place to start.
Iron man, that could have applied to my family as I believe several members were/are on the spectrum.
Yes, I thought there was something somewhere about that book being used as the basis for a movie too. The really sad thing about the main character in the "Dog In The Nighttime" was he was stuck in a school for really badly mentally *** children because there seemed to be nowhere else to put him.
I would also think his father showed a few signs of autism himself eg. finding it very difficult to cope with change but also more able to relate to his son than the boy's mother.
From what I've seen about Jerry Newport's writing on various autism forums, I'm not sure if he's very nice.
Anyone who supports a film like that is immediately suspect as far as I am concerned.
So I take it that the film isn't a very realistic portrayal of autistic people?
No, and they can't look inside our minds either.
Actually, I think it would be an interesting concept. I have some pretty wild dreams at times (lots of bright colours and strange situations) and no doubt there would be plenty of dreams that could be made into good short films.
Not sure how it would be done to record these dreams though.
Lili Marlene, I've been involved in a couple of autistic support groups for adults and while some of the members could be considered a little bit "odd", I certainly wouldn't consider us a "freak show".
I'd like to think that we're able to accept each other's eccentricities a little better than other people do. Sometimes we succeed and I hope we can foster more understanding yet.
This is out? Does anyone know if it is out on my side of the ocean (North America)? I'd like to see it.
Lili Marlene, I'm not sure. We've gone to some footy games together and also out to the beach and to the leader's house. Due to some other commitnments, our group activities have been in abeyance for a while.
Sorry, I meant we went to some Rugby matches at the local footy grounds.