How do real asperger's feel about this movie

OP,

I've been a psychotherapist for 19 years and I wonder if you really have it. It seems to be a fad to diagnose kids who are nervous and isolated with it.

I've met several people who really have it over the years and they're quite odd. I doubt that any of them would even think to get on the net and ask such a question.

A person who can walk, talk, and think is a dynamic machine, in that they're always changing. Few psych diagnosis have a real basis in fact so I wouldn't worry too much about having it.

Live your life.

I thought the actor was too old for the part first of all. The character was definitely more "out of it" than I am. I never got bullied that badly but if I did I would have stood up somehow.

To guess a bit about what OP was trying to say, SOME of us tend to lash out in non-phyical but apparently "violent/threatening" tantrum-like fashion when bullied (even if that bullying is just verbally/emotionally).

But of course others (including ourselves, at other times in our early lives maybe) we "retreated" into our own worlds as a coping mechanism. This movie seems to portray an Aspie who is in the latter camp, as I was as a kid. As an adult I ended up "over-correcting" eventually to the other extreme.

Happy to say now after a few years of reading and talking and thinking and planning to respond differently inadvance, I have finally found a balance where I no longer bury and hide behind my feelings, but rather assert my feelings and boundaries clearly and with decent volume and tone -- without scaring the other person. (So there's hope.)



And by the way, gotta say, "teaching those on the spectrum what behaviours are appropriate and inappropriate" is a nice way of saying "convince Aspies to not be themselves, instead follow the rules and expectations of the controlling neuro-typicals" but I'll not focus on that right now. We are different, not less than.




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