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28 Mar 2016, 4:20 pm

I have a theory about this. I think I and probably most autistics miss the subtle communication of phrases and body language used in films. Fortunately, TV and films play to the lowest denominator and make it really clear at some point to help follow the themes.



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28 Mar 2016, 4:23 pm

^^^i'm thankful for that latter point.



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28 Mar 2016, 4:25 pm

So am I.



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28 Mar 2016, 9:11 pm

pcuser wrote:
Fortunately, TV and films play to the lowest denominator and make it really clear at some point to help follow the themes.
It's what gets me by......


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07 Apr 2016, 5:32 am

Its video game plots I struggle much more with.

Their structure is vastly different and, most video games are written much more simplistically, so not all ideas or concepts may be expressed in a way enough for me to correctly interpret what's happening.

No matter how hard I listen and carefully watch the cutscenes and stuff, video games such as Halo I'd have to look up the plot on the wiki.

I can get the gist of it on my own, but just to fill in those extra gaps that build a bridge between completely different scenes and missions.



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26 Jun 2018, 1:10 pm

Aristophanes wrote:
TheAvenger161173 wrote:
Any time I watch a film I struggle understanding what's going on, the plots and sub plots usually a hard for me to pick up on. Does anyone else have this problem? Why is this? Is it a ASD thing?


Well, all you really need to know, and this works for virtually every fiction film: there's a protagonist (hero) and that person is going to struggle and then they're going to win. Action+adventure, comedy, romantic, doesn't matter that's what happens every time. If you're getting lost in why the struggles matter to the story, don't worry, just realize they are struggles the protagonist must overcome to win, you don't necessarily need to understand them, merely their function to the story. If it "clicked" with you, then those struggles would increase excitement and make the conclusion more satisfying. How about reading, do you have that problem with all story lines or is it just movies? If it's just movies it may be a visual/auditory processing disorder, if it's reading as well it may be a full cognitive issue.
Infinity war was hard to take in. Had to see it 3 times and still didn’t understand a lot of what was going on. Loved it though!