It says something about our culture that we feel the need to classify people who don't fit our common notion of what is "normal" as being 'Abnormal". Folks in AA prefer to classify people as ordinary and extraordinary rather than normal and abnormal and that's a much healthier approach.
As for Asperger's - If you had ever actually known someone with it, it would not be possible to mistake Mark Bittner for someone suffering from it. As presented in the film, he was a very social being, just not one who worked a 9 to 5 job. In order to support oneself outside the 9 to 5 world (or more appropriately today, the 8 to 6 world), it appears he engaged in a series of what some folks call McJobs. Here in Hollywood, where I live, there are loads of muscians and writers who have never 'made it' who don't seem to hold a job but somehow manage to survive. People seem to miss the mention in the film that his rent-free status was compensation for being a property caretaker. I had an actor friend who for years scraped by as a caretaker. He also led what seemd to outsiders as a solitary life but if you wre on the inside of his social circle, you could see that although he spent large parts of the day alone, carefing for the property, he was not without friends and and a social life.
I have the book but haven't read it yet, so perhaps it will reveal more. I'm just saying as someone who has a friend whose adult son has Asperger's - it doesn't fit the bill. Not even close. Wtach the film again and you will see clues to the truth that mark certainly appeared to be well-known to his neighbors and others. His appearance in front of the Animal Control board was also further proof of his comfort speaking in public and to others as seems to be his current career.
BTW - I loved the film. I lived in Beachwood Canyon in the early 1990s and we had a wild tribe of green parrots there too. I never got close enough to see what kind (cherry-headed or so on) but they were there and we'd often see them taking flight as a group.
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