"Mozart and the Whale" - Rubbish!

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I bought the DVD ywo days ago, and I thought that the movie was basically OK. One of the things that I didn't like about it was the fact that all of the people in the movie were characaturised in a style similar to the way that the people in Fargo characaturised Northern Midwesterners. Another letdown was the fact that there weren't many bonus features. --I would have liked seeing an interview of Jerry.

I haven't seen the movie but it sounds like it was just poorly written and couldn't convey 3-dimentional characters (nothing out of the ordinary for mosern day films I must say ). I must rent it just to have a look.

I just watched this movie last night. My Mom rented it and I watched it with her and my Dad. I can't decide if I liked it or not but I don’t think I did. The movie just made everything worse for me because they ended up comparing me to those people but like most of you have said, the way they were portrayed seemed exaggerated.

My Dad refuses to believe I have anything like that and says it’s just an excuse for being the way I am. He went to bed because me having something like that is “hogwash”.

My Mom started talking to me about it. I tried reminding her of how I was picked on in school also, well, she was too. Then I told her how I have social issues, oh, she does too. It’s like everything I said she came back with she’s that way too. When she did that it started pissed me off because I know she’s not “listening”. Then I got all worked up and trying to say what I was thinking and I couldn’t get it out because I was all worked up.

I then told her she’s not going to understand or get it or accept it because I’m not myself around her completely. That got her. No mother wants to hear they’re kid is not themselves around her I guess. I reminded her that as a child, I spent most of my time in my bedroom. When I came out of my room, I was leaving my world. As she and my Dad put it, I came out of my shell. The symptoms were there, they just didn’t know what they were seeing. I explained to her some things I do and things I do that I would never let her or my Dad see.

She sat there not saying anything and looking at me. Finally, she was like, “You’re weird.” Then she got up and was like “Oh well.” I knew that meant the talk was over and she just threw herself right back into denial. At least she didn’t say she does those things too, lol.

Droopy if your mom "is that way too" means she is likely an Aspie too and couldn't comprehend what she was even admitting too. lol Hang in there. Is their a teacher or guidance counselor at school you could talk to?

Lol, I'm 42.

Of course, I act and probably write a lot younger than I am, hmm, go figure. I went to their house to watch the movie.

I was just recently diagnosed and that's a lot of the reason my parents aren't accepting it. Like I said though, I spent a lot of time in my bedroom growing up. They worked a lot and when I was around them I played the part of an NT as much as I could. My Dad is from the hills and just isn't accepting of anything out of the norm. Funny thing is, he's always claimed I'm not "rat", or I'm strange or whatever. He was always making me lift my chin up, that annoyed the hell out of me. There were a hundred other things too he worked on with me to try to "correct" me.

Really, if they would stop and think about it hard enough and long enough, they might begin to see it, but they just can't or won't. Maybe they see it as a poor reflection of themselves, I don't know. At this point, I don't care if they accept it or not, I just wish they wouldn't discredit me or the diagnosis. I've lived my life this long being the way I am and since I got diagnosed, life has actually gotten better. I was going to go to counseling but since I can go online that's better for me too. I don't have to leave home which is my safe haven and escape from the world.

I guess I'm good at acting NT but my AS is with me non-stop. Like Brian King said "People don't suffer from Asperger's, they suffer from the ignorance of others."

No, my Mom doesn't have AS. I could explain that more but I've already typed enough. If one of my parents has it, i's my Dad. I suggested that to him though, why, he'd think I'd done lost my mind for sure.

Sorry Droopy I didn't realize your age. Just the way you wrote of the incident it did sound like your were a kid. I've never discussed my diagnosis with parents because I know they wouldn't understand. For one thing they would have to admit to themselves that they aren't normal. My mom would think I was blaming her for the way I am if I even tried to explain Aspergers. My folks are from the hills too. Like I recently tried to explain to my mom how I have re-contracted this virus that healthy people normally have when they are children then have immunity for rest of life. She turned it around to my doctors were trying to blame my recent health problems on her not taking good enough care of me as a baby. She just twists it around because she can't comprehend anything that's half way complicated.