anyone here have aspergers?

I don't know what else to say except I think it did do a good job of demonstrating Asperger's Syndrome. Even with exaggerations, the movie is still a Class Double A work in my book. :)

I didn't think they exaggerated the symptoms. They made both characters different and the rest in the group were all different from each other.

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I'm an Asperger's male of 36 who thinks my condition was portrayed well in this movie.

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I have Asperger's and I thought the portrayal of it, especially early on, was kind of parodic. I thought the movie did a really good job of portraying the struggles that AS people face, though, and having to decide if you want to try to blend in with other people at any cost.

I have it, and there was definitely a lot of the movie where I had trouble relating at all, with some scattered moments where it hit closer to home. That said, I think I'm considered to be a relatively "minor" case so I think a lot of it just wasn't close to what I personally experience. I could still recognize that most of what was in the movie was basically realistic fundamentally.

That said, yeah, I think it really exaggerated in places. And while it did better than any other film I've seen or know of on the topic at, I did feel like there still wasn't enough variation maybe in the "types" portrayed and that all of them were still a little on the "extreme" side in certain areas. But I think that was probably hard to get around.

I did think the film had some more substantial issues too, which bugged me more than the portrayal. I thought it was a decent/generally good film, but there were serious pacing and development problems as far as the story and conflicts went, and I thought at times the movie was far too in love with its own sense of "quirkiness," like it was trying to be way too "indie comedy." Which was kind of a problem for the portrayal as well, since I think it sometimes presented the characters (however unintentionally) as these "wacky, quirky, funny" caricatures. Again though, it was a decent enough movie, and definitely better than any movie "officially" about autism that I've seen (Edward Scissorhands is by far my favorite, but of course that's not about it officially).

Everything is better than what Rain Man did for autism as a whole. When just diagnosed with asperger, I had to explain countless times to others that the movie deals about a very rare form of autism, and that it has nothing to do with my condition.

This movie comes closer to my own experience, but I still felt that it didn't quite grasp my feelings. It was too much of a regular lovestory in which two people have to deal with their own issues to find love. Touching, but not something I can relate to.

I have Asperger's. I think it did a great job. I'm not much like the main guy but it would be hard to make one character that can relate to every person with Asperger's. It's not going to happen. I'm basically just nervous around people..all the time. In casual conversations even..if not more. People say I have limited interests for example I love movies..so when someone starts talking about them I keep going on about it until even another conversation about something totally different has developed. I have to think about what to say probably more than the average person. Then when I get the courage to speak up about a topic, they are moved on to something else entirely.

Mozart and the Whale - 10/10
Flirting with Disaster - 8/10