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Does Forrest Gump have Aspergers?
Yes 18%  18%  [ 3 ]
No 82%  82%  [ 14 ]
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24 May 2007, 5:21 pm

Do you think Forrest Gump has Aspergers?
I think he does, given the fact he's OC about Jenny and he was picked on a lot during the flashbacks of him as a child to when he was in high school.
The scene where he moons Nixon after saying where he got shot was very Aspie of him.
It's been a while since I watched it so I'll allow your thoughts.


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24 May 2007, 5:31 pm

Autistic, perhaps. Aspie? No. For one thing, he's mentally ret*d, and that's atypical for Aspies.


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24 May 2007, 5:32 pm

I don't think Forrest Gump was aspie, as his school principal or guidance counselor whatever said "his IQ is 75" in other words he was mildly intellectually impaired. Intellectual impairments could have made Forrest the way he was such as when he mooned Nixxon, people with intellectual handicaps can also take things literally. But ya he does have alot aspie characterisitics.



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24 May 2007, 5:40 pm

i think hes aspie, my reasons

1. he went on and on about his "magic shoes" (leg braces)

2. when he was sooo obcessed about jenny

3. extensive memor, told of about every detail from the point he was starting school through military to the day he was on that park bench waiting for the bus

4. also no nonverbal cue awareness when he was telling his life story and people were walking away or avoiding him like the plague as they were waiting for their bus

5. at times had inappropriate comments such as when president asked him how did he feel and gump said "i gotta pee, and i got shot in the buttocks wanna see?"

6. limited number of friends, only benjemin bufred blue(bubba) and jenny whom he met in school years.

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24 May 2007, 6:44 pm

No he's just mentally ret*d.



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24 May 2007, 6:46 pm

that and he is a fictional character.



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24 May 2007, 6:54 pm

Kosmonaut wrote:
that and he is a fictional character.
That is true :)



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25 May 2007, 11:09 am

TheResistance wrote:
Kosmonaut wrote:
that and he is a fictional character.
That is true :)


That is very true.


New poll: "Gump & Co.", due in 2010, yay or nay?


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26 May 2007, 3:26 am

JonnyBGoode wrote:
Autistic, perhaps. Aspie? No. For one thing, he's mentally ret*d, and that's atypical for Aspies.



Borderline retared. You need to have an IQ of 70 or below to be mentally. I heard he was low functioning autistic.



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26 May 2007, 12:23 pm

Probably some kind of autism, but he's only a fictional character. :)