Alan Turing Movie - The Imitation Game

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Yep the fictional character was just that. And outside of two people nobody was giving Autism diagnosis in the early 1940's so if you decry the inaccuracies you have to agree with the decision not to label him Autistic. Call the character what you please but the message was extremely positive towered difference and specifically our type of difference.

Loved the movie, reading his biography now "Alan Turing, The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges (2014) Interesting that as a child he taught himself to read in 3 weeks - hyperlexia - aged 4. Later his headmaster described him as "apt to be solitary, due to shyness" and said of him as a teenager that "he is slightly less dirty and untidy in his habits", lacking "esprit de corps" (he wasn't a team player). Interested in science from a very early age. He was unable to play team games at school and asked to be excused on grounds of inability at sports; he had trouble being dressed tidily or staying tidy. He seemed to be ignoring the teachers in class but came top of all the exams, which baffled the staff.

In 1927 the headmaster wrote: He is the kind of boy who is bound to be rather a problem in any kind of school or community, being in some respects definitely anti-social. But I think .. he has a good chance of developing his special interests.. Turing was aged 16 at the time.

My view: definitely high functioning aspergers.

PS I too baffled my teachers by coming top of exams despite seeming to be "miles away" most of the time. It baffled me as well, at the time. I was able somehow to split my consciousness so that I could think my own thoughts simultaneously with listening and committing to memory automatically whatever they were saying. I have often wondered if this is because I am ambidextrous, and use both sides of the brain equally - but it remains a mystery.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18419691

The human significance of Turing's work - millions and millions of lives saved, 14 million plus.

Ohhhh... every night as a child and adolescent at school, he ate an apple at bedtime. And he died by eating an apple which he poisoned with cyanide. So the picture is super-meaningful.

Remember that this was a movie and an actors interpretation of Turing. It is not real life.

People who break codes are usually eccentric, non-rules followers and geeks, this does not make them aspies. A Swedish codebreaker (Arne Beurling) from the same era who broke similarly complex German machine called Geheimschreiber did it in 2 weeks using pen and paper in solitude in the Swedish archipelago. I can understand how some would like to portray Arne as an Aspie, geeking out on mathmatics and crypto, but he liked being social and he had fistfights with some of his colleges (According to the book "Svenska Kryptobedrifter"), these are not Aspie traits.

Learning yourself how to read in 3 weeks is not exclusive to (a select few) aspies, it is a trait of something else called being intelligent.

I based my comments on a serious biography, not the movie as you implied. I cited the biography.

And your idea that one code breaker who is not on the spectrum somehow automatically implies or means that another code breaker (Turing) therefore couldn't be on it either is a bit of an ask...

And regarding your deliberating ambiguous ad hominem sneer about something I posted another thread, whatever that was - low tactics like that say more about you than me.

I saw that movie with friends who knew I had asperger's. His explanation was that he felt he was just too intelligent to be able to make friends.. and, I guess that could be true? He never struck me as having much social anxiety or a lack of social skills, and he seemed to be calm and collective, even making eye contact, when talking to the detectives, or even in the job interview he had. But we're all different being on the spectrum, he seemed to fit the mold 100% outside of that.

Also, my knowledge of Mr. Turing is very limited short of his character in the movie.

That movie was tragic, man! I mean, I almost cried.

Film won Oscar for best Adopted Screenplay
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/imitation-game-wins-oscar-for-adapted-screenplay-1201439294/
"And on Sunday, Moore said that it was “most unfair” that Turing was unable to stand in front of the audience of “disconcertingly attractive faces.”

Moore also revealed that he had attempted suicide at 16 because he did not fit in and urged kids who felt the same way to “stay weird, stay different.”

I did not see Birdman the big Oscar winner so I can't say it was not deserving. It is also not a surprise that a film about an actor would win big.

Whether he was Aspie or not is irrelevant to the fact of his accomplishments, and the tragedy of his suicide.