I loved "Seymour" in Ghost World. Funny, but was reading another another thread about feeling sympathy for others, I'm an NT who does NOT easily cry at movies or necessarily "feel" for characters in films, esp. manipulative formulaic ones. I have to be touched in some way, and "Seymour" stole my heart!
I saw an Aussie movie I really loved called Somersault.
It features a small role of a boy, the brother of the lead character's co-worker who is identified as having Asperger's.
It shows the mom doing some language exercises with him.
There are some discussions on the IMdB page for this film about the main character, "Heidi". She is a teen who runs away after being caught by her mom kissing her (the mom's) boyfriend. Some posters are questioning whether she was an Aspie herself.
To me, she seemed very child-like, naive- more like borderline ret*d. Some posters thought she was borderline personality.
She met a boy and slept with him, and they began dating. On like the second date, she asks him, "Do you love me?" and he says, "We only just met." Then, she asks him, "Are you my boyfriend?" and he looks at her incredulously and says, "I don't know."
She also touched a lot of things she came in contact with- running her hands over them- (that's how it stareted with the mom's bf- she asked if she could touch the tatoo on his chest, and she was caressing it.)
Anyway- a good movie, whatever her dx is! It's available on Netflix "watch now."
09 Aug 2007, 9:47 pm
