What is Carla's disability?
Anybody know what the technical term is for her disability? Thanks.
shareI think she also had a learning disability. In the Halloween Dance scene, when Danny gets upset because he failed his grades, and Carla follows him and tells him that in her special school she was told to start taking the easy courses first so that when she took the harder courses, they wouldn't be so hard for her. Just my thought...
Regardless, both actors portrayed their characters in a realistic & respectful manner.
What she had has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with Asperger's or Autism. (I know what I'm talking about. I have Aspergers)
Autists hate social interaction and have not this kind of facial expression ( some times not at all.specially not that kind of grinning found in this movie) Carla seems to have "normal" social skills or at least desire to have social contact so no Aspergers here. (many very high functioning autists and Asperger's people don't even want to fall in love or have relationships. in very great opposite to down syndrome or simply mentally challenged people)
She just have a low IQ that's all. Or she is "unblancedly" gifted but no social deficites here so no asperger's.
have a nice day.
I also have Asperger's Syndrome, and I can attest that I very much wish to fall in love and have a relationship. I also have a great many facial expressions, including many variations of a smile. Not all Aspies 'hate' social interaction. We hate the pressure that is put on us when we are in situations requiring social interaction, and therefore tend to be very nervous about it, so we tend to avoid it. I desire to have social contact with others, but find it difficult for just those reasons. I know a good many Aspies who have jobs, own houses, and have families. Don't pigeon-hole us all with a few of the stereotypical symptoms. Asperger's Syndrome is called 'syndrome' for a reason. You don't have to have every single symptom that's possible to have the syndrome; you just have to have enough symptoms from certain categories of its symptoms to qualify.
I don't know what my IQ is now. In sixth grade, when I was looked at for Advanced Placement, I tested somewhere in the 140's. However, not all people with Asperger's Syndrome have an above average IQ. In fact, most actually have an average IQ. Also, most aren't gifted or savant. It's just that there is a higher ratio of gifted to ungifted people in the AS community versus the neurotypical world, paired with popular media's current obssession with Asperger's Syndrome and 'curing' autism that tries to frame us all as either some kind of scary, silent geniuses, or sad little children locked in our own minds. Those who have high IQs and are gifted are merely the most visible and publicised. There are some very low IQs in the world of AS, as well as some extremely high ones.
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Such an ass!
sharePlease people, "moron" and "idiot" used to be completely scientific terms so don't act like we're using a racial slur or something or something. Language is a living thing, always changing and evolving. If you think it's insulting to use "retard" in a derogatory sense, don't use it in that way, but don't try to force everybody to conform to your chosen, acceptable definition either.
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Actually retard is insulting. It was not used as a scientific term. You are right that moron and idiot were once used in a medical sense. The idea, however, is that people are people first. We shouldn't allow any disability that they have to define them. Terms like moron and idiot put certain images in a persons mind. Also, the only way I ever hear them being used now is to make fun of others. It's wrong to make fun of others.
sharewow, I totally agree with you, and I as well have Aspergers and wish
to have a relationship/jobs/an apartment/etc.
Spaceballs: Funny, she doesn't look Druish.
"Autists hate social interaction and have not this kind of facial expression ( some times not at all.specially not that kind of grinning found in this movie)"
they said people with AUTISM, not people with Aspergers, such as you.
Asperger's Syndrome is on the autism spectrum. Do a bit of research. However, even what I guess you could call 'generic' autism differs between individuals with it; all people with autism don't sit alone rocking themselves and spinning things in an emotional vacuum. Disability to that degree was just latched onto as the stereotype, to the point where society-at-large ridicules the idea that anyone with autism can also posses the ability to function without being institutionalised or otherwise helped along.
sharei was gonna say aspergers
shareIf you had a mother like Carla's, and an absent and nasty father like Daniel's, you be hard-pressed not to have a serious disability.
share>>If you had a mother like Carla's, and an absent and nasty father like Daniel's, you be hard-pressed not to have a serious disability<<
Then why did the two older sisters turn out country-club, tennis-playing, upper-crust OK? <g>