Good Videos showing Aspie Behavior

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Yeah, I was probably the least rebellious student all through primary school. Now, I can be rebellious when I want to be, but, compared to other people my age, I'm still extremely passive.

Of all the AS videos I've seen, this one reminds me most of myself. Although I'm still quite a bit different from this guy. I'm not usually that extreme, although I suspect that it was at least somewhat exaggerated just for the video. For the most part I can function just fine, but if I were to make a video describing my life, I'm sure it would be very similar.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_PBVxGEEY4[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UviCfQC8Uzk&NR=1[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boEuFeDO8Ow&feature=related[/youtube]

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the fellow called "rory burnside" (in these 3 clips) is the most compellingly similar character to my own as i have ever witnessed

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP0H9jbJHe0[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqZnFnCowUU&feature=related[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBjZz8Tm2LI&feature=relmfu[/youtube]

i watched an hour long documentary on TV that alerted me to him. i will try to find a scene where he has a meltdown and i actually feel empathetic toward every word he says as if i was saying it myself.

Hehe....the fat kid with just Asperger's Syndrome seemed to be doing typical behaviour for students of his age. I went to mainstream school, and I've experienced NT kids smashing things up, acting angry, and arguing back at teachers. They didn't all do it, but I did see this happening a lot. One girl even slammed out of the classroom, swearing loudly down the corridor, just because the teacher wouldn't let her sit at the back of the classroom. And a I knew a boy who set fire to part of the school, all because his girlfriend finished with him.

This is the best AS documentary I've seen. This boy has it at the same degree as I do. In most of the documentary, you wouldn't even know he has AS, judging by his actions and behaviour.
He has some nice people in his class, bringing him out to help him do things to make him more able to fit in more. I think that was really helpful of them. I wish I had people at school who done that for me.

And I can relate to Aspies in English documentaries better than American documentaries (no offense).

Agreed. This is a whole lot like my experience too. I do the same kinds of things in the supermarket. My mom asking me to buy tuna was a disaster because she wouldn't tell me exactly what kind she wanted. It was a ten minute phone call just to buy two dollars worth of tuna. You can't just tell me to "pick something." And I have those same kinds of conversations with my parents, like he does with the ice. Only I never would have interrupted my mom to ask it. I probably would have thought about it for the next two aisles and then randomly brought it up. XD And I get anxious going down crowded aisles too.

I think some things were a bit exaggerated too. I wonder how well he really does socially. A best friend and two others to go shopping with seems like he's doing pretty well to me, but then it seems like he's still really concerned about fitting in. So were the friends faked or was his desire to fit in hyped up because a video about a kid who was fairly well adjusted wouldn't have been "portraying the true difficulty" or just wouldn't have made decent TV or something.

His speech mannerisms certainly seem quite similar to yours, b9.

yes i know. i see things in what he is saying that many people may miss.
for example, in the 2nd video at position 1:36 he says "quote.....unquote", which i interpret correctly as he is putting his sentence in "inverted commas" rather that quoting what someone else said to him about him.

in video 3, at 58 seconds, he says "perfect AND absolute pitch" as a correction to the other mans statement where he said "perfect OR absolute pitch".

at 1:26 in video 3, he can not help but define more accurately what the other man was saying, because the other man said it was a year, when it was actually 11 months, so "rory" instinctively reacted with a correction.
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Sounds exactly like me.

I was very well-behaved. One of the reasons I never got along with other children was because I viewed them as disruptive baboons who couldn't follow even the simplest instructions. Today, I still think people who have "issues" with authority are just annoying punk a$$es. I suspect good v. bad behavior isn't really a case of "functioning" so much as it is that "naughty" children get the most attention since they cause problems for others.

In fact, I'd say that behaving TOO WELL should be looked at as a warning sign for Aspergers.

Well that depends on how much Criminal Minds you've watched and what seasons you've seen (episodes too, for that matter). Reid's actor (Matthew Gray Gubler), said in a season two interview that he acts Reid as having mild autism and that the writers continued pointing him in that direction. In earlier seasons (i.e. 1 & 2 when SSA Gideon was around), his Aspie traits were a lot more noticeable than in later seasons. An introduction of Dr. Reid in the pilot episode:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qMKGuel6OQ[/youtube]

In the ninth episode of season 1, an unsub alluded to his "autistic tendencies". Reid rambles quite frequently, much to the occasional irritation of the rest of the team (as I'm sure many of us have done so IRL at one time or another). On one occasion, he is interrupted by a new (and ultimately temporary) member of the team.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1TjjvZUYHM[/youtube]

It appears that his special interests are statistics along with human behavior and in the pilot episode was described by his unit chief as "our expert on everything." He doesn't have many sensory issues that can be seen on the show, but he is seen wearing his watch over his shirtsleeve on several instances. Furthermore, it's been indicated that Reid does not have any friends besides the BAU team and is not very adept at making them. Reid alludes to this in the seventh episode of season eight (no clip): "Two months in a new place without making any friends? I thought that only happened to me."
It appeared that Reid having Asperger's was discarded as a background story line from the third season up until the third episode of season 8 when a new team member (different from above) suggests that Reid may have Asperger's (haven't managed a clip for this one). It's likely redundant at this juncture, but I really like Criminal Minds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fjBENKFVYM

no wonder people think autistics are serial killers 0)0