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The way the film treats Aspergers... (yes, I've seen it)


I get that the film is set a few decades back, when Asperger's wasn't fully understood. But as someone who has it (and who has therefore spent significant amounts of time researching it), I wish they'd made that more obvious. The symptoms the girls displayed didn't seem to have much to do with the disease -- it was like the syndrome was picked and then tossed around after developing the characters, rather than trying to develop characters with the syndrome. The movie spent so much time trying to make its point that it made psychology seem useless and didn't make clear what Asperger's actually IS.

I enjoyed the movie overall, despite my complaints and the things I disagreed with. These were just things that nagged at me.

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I agree. I personally have never even met anyone with aspergers, but I know what it entails and it doesn't seem they really developed that at all in the film. If I hadn't have known ahead of time I would have struggled to figure out exactly what her problem was.

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