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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:23 pm Post subject: best portrayal
i like the brother from Welcome to the Doll House. not only is it the greatest movie about jr high ever made, it concerns bullying (though not this character, who's only in a few scenes). --and it's hysterically funny. _________________ "I have always found that Angels have the vanity
to speak of themselves as the only wise; this they
do with a confident insolence sprouting from systematic
reasoning." --William Blake
Ironically the people that I believe are the most accurate portrayal of AS are the ones that get the most bad rep but maybe it's because I relate to them.
First there's Abed from Community (although not officially confirmed), his lack of eye contact and his communication and obsessive skills are obvious and often played for laughs. I think my favorite Abed moment is when he actually tolerates waiting in a room for 26 hrs all because he was told to and also the time when he was being picked up by that gay guy but wanted to focus more on their discussion of video games.
Second is Dr. Dixon from Grey's Anatomy. She was a very short time unpopular character but I related to her ability to go into meltdowns and her obsessive behavior.
Third is Tina from Bob's Burgers (another unconfirmed). I relate to her her adept stage fright and shyness and her awkward behaviors. She also has eye contact issues if you look close enough.
Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes is never identified as an Aspie (he wouldn't be, since he's living in the 1890s, five decades before it was given a name) but there are scenes in both of his Holmes films that are such accurate representations of AS that the writers must have known what they were doing. The scene in the 2009 film in which Holmes meets Watson's fiance should be impossible for an Aspie to watch without identifying with it.
Before Watson and Mary arrive at the restaurant, Holmes is experiencing sensory overload, his eyes darting all over the place as he notices every little detail around him, and the volume level is cranked up to give the viewer an idea of what he's hearing. (There's a similar scene in the sequel, when someone asks Holmes, "What do you see?" He replies, "Everything. That is my curse.") When Watson and Mary show up, Holmes is completely oblivious that what he's saying to Mary is crossing the line. He offends her by accident and gets a glass of wine thrown in his face. Mary rushes out, Watson chases after her, and Holmes is left to finish his meal alone, with a look on his face that says, "Well, I f**ked it up again."
I can't speak for anyone else here, but this was uncomfortably on the spot for me.
The character is never identified as being on the spectrum, but I thought of Paul Rudd in Our Idiot Brother as an aspie stoner. Good film, check it out if you haven't seen it.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:45 am Post subject:
SonofStorms wrote:
Hmmmm maybe not "the" best but one of the better ones in my opinion is Dr. Spencer Reid on Criminal Minds...... I think I read somewhere that the actor playing him even suspects that he (the character) has AS.....but I have not seen the show lately (only watched it twice since they let the actress playing J.J. go....)
Awwww, Spencer.
Jory wrote:
Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes is never identified as an Aspie (he wouldn't be, since he's living in the 1890s, five decades before it was given a name) but there are scenes in both of his Holmes films that are such accurate representations of AS that the writers must have known what they were doing. The scene in the 2009 film in which Holmes meets Watson's fiance should be impossible for an Aspie to watch without identifying with it.
Before Watson and Mary arrive at the restaurant, Holmes is experiencing sensory overload, his eyes darting all over the place as he notices every little detail around him, and the volume level is cranked up to give the viewer an idea of what he's hearing. (There's a similar scene in the sequel, when someone asks Holmes, "What do you see?" He replies, "Everything. That is my curse.") When Watson and Mary show up, Holmes is completely oblivious that what he's saying to Mary is crossing the line. He offends her by accident and gets a glass of wine thrown in his face. Mary rushes out, Watson chases after her, and Holmes is left to finish his meal alone, with a look on his face that says, "Well, I f**ked it up again."
I can't speak for anyone else here, but this was uncomfortably on the spot for me.
That is an interesting point. It makes a lot of sense. _________________ EXPANDED CIRCLE OF FIFTHS
"It's how they see things. It's a way of bringing class to an environment, and I say that pejoratively because, obviously, good music is good music however it's created, however it's motivated." - Thomas Newman
