Blowing fingers before doing something - The Accountant (2016) Discussion

[–] Geoff1963 7 years ago

They do repetitive pointless things, which is a characteristic of autistic people.

When a mother tidies up after her children, does that count ?

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[–] Stewball 7 years ago

As the director of the institute says at the beginning, it's called stemming for self-stimulation. Naturally that can lead some people's minds into the gutter, making it the first of many subtle bits of humor in the movie.

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[–] Geoff1963 7 years ago

On a related note : psychologists can't use the word "arousal", to mean simply that the central nervous system is more active.

The problem with euphemisms ; is that they make ordinary words, rude.

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[–] Stewball 7 years ago

Yes, or polar definitions for the same word, sometimes even with the same spelling. We need to decide whether the goal is accuracy or inoffensiveness. We know where the PC crowd stands--the riot by the free-speechers at Berkeley against a guest speaker indicates.

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[–] crc32 (2584) 6 years ago

Which is odd cause low level autistic people over stimulate easy. Tap on on the shoulder and they freak out like thier on fire. Like for real they start scrubbing their skin like their trying to put out a fire.

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[–] oscar_fut7 7 years ago

I'm no autistic by any stretch of the word, but I do this a lot in situations where I need to get ready, like before exams back in college or before soccer games. I just do it umconciously.

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[–] babuandbabu 7 years ago

then how do you claim to be not autistic?

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[–] gcarras (2727) 6 years ago

Well then, let's give Oscar a FIDGET spinner! (I plan to get one..)

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[–] crc32 (2584) 6 years ago

Yea most of us call it figiting. When real autistic people do it it looks more like OCD. for example they'll repeatedly touch each finger to their tumb in a wave like pattern and often in a particular order like point, ring, FU then pinky finger each autisic person developes their own unique pattern. Its hard to spot cause their so fast pretty much using muscle memory and blazing through their unique repeatative sequence.

At the school i used to work at there was a kid that could move his hands like a shrimp you know that harmonic motion shrimp do where each leg is slightly ahead of phase from the last leg, and in a total motion blurr. In private I used to try to emulate it but I'm never going to be fast enough. Their nervious systems seem pretty advanced dispite some of their apparent cognative deficiency. I try to imagine what they'd be capable of if their social and language abilities developed correctly.

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[–] janoss (206) 6 years ago

I'm "on spectrum" and have worked with, and known, many people that are. This includes my daughter that's more "on spectrum" than I am.

To us, patterns and habits matter. Accounting is a large part of the many things that I do for a living (private contractor). I do my work just like the character in this movie. I write my research out by hand on paper (read glass) and look at the pattern as a whole. I derive order from chaos. I differ from the character in that I purposefully make a mess of my documents in a large pile and then start setting them willy-nilly everywhere in the room that I'm working in. On the floor, behind a monitor, under my keyboard, by the phone, quarter folded means something different from half folded, upside-down is different from vertical facing left. Upside-down has significance.

Most important though, is the pattern. The pattern cannot be changed. If someone cleans my work area, I panic. If they organize it, it's all lost. Structure is all.

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