Bubby does a LOT of echolalia, I suspect that is a trait that the lead actor picked up on from hanging out with autistic adults. But obviously the abuse didn't help.

Funny thing about Bad Boy Bubby was that I first hired it out from a video shop in Adelaide about 14 years ago, maybe a bit longer. The girl at the video shop said "I love that movie, you know they made it just up the road". We were right near Port Adelaide... I didn't realize until I watched it that the movie was literally made 200 or 300 metres away. And yes, that part of Adelaide is really like that.

I do love the movie as well - by "worst movie about autism" I meant the most negative portrayal of autism. Around that time a girl at work sent around an email saying that something was near "Bad Boy 142857's desk". I asked her why she called me that... she said that she originally wrote "Bad Boy Bubby's desk" but realized that some people might not know what she was talking about. If she hadn't been such a nice girl I might have taken that the wrong way. :/