Are apies good actors?

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Hello, I did some theater workshop lately and I could feel really good at acting, and I have also been told that I was a good actor. This comes as a surprise for me because I have rather poor social skills in real life. But When I act, the fact of knowing that it is not real give me lots of confidence and I can focus on the character that I play and nothing else.

I would like to know if some of you ever experienced the same kind of things.

Autistic/Aspergers people tend to learn to be able to 'fit in' socially a bit easier by mimicing others, which is in fact, acting. Because of it, they already know how to fit into a character and not be themselves. I'm pretty positive plenty of Hollywood is aspergers/autistic in some degree. I've always been socially off, but when it came to the acting roles, I always did very well.

I'd love to do some acting, I would just be too embarrassed. Yet I'm fine doing it in front of friends (doing different accents, faces etc.)

I can understand that and that what I thought as well, but it turns out that when you act, the conscience of lots of stranger's eyes on you is actually empowering.

guess who is an aspie, a huge actor, won many awards?!?!

Tom Hanks.

You know, I was in a short-film for the Sundance Film Festival not too long ago and was originally just some "extra," but was so dog-on hilarious apparently that I was put in the foreground and my part was talked about and still is talked about continuously by many people.

I don't know why I was so funny, but for some reason or other, I was.

My point is, I'm an aspie and apparently I can act.

I think I would be very good at acting. If I went to a special drama club or something, I think I would be great, knowing that everybody else is acting aswell and so can't judge me so much, since what I'm saying is pre-written.

I think I'm a pretty good actor, apparently I'm hilarious and I'm not afraid to embaress my self. I've done some really stupid things for comedies sake, and right now I'm Thisby in a production of the play within a play from Midsummers night dream that is a part of some weird drama performance that the school is doing.

LunaUlysses Wrote:

This is one possible way that Aspies/Autistics can cope with social situations, but there are also others. I myself, would find doing this impossible. Rather than pretending to be someone else so as I can fade into the social arena, I have often challenged others and acted however I feel like. It is almost as if I am pathologically honest and pathologically opposed to group-think and authority. It has caused problems, but I have been less and less afraid of the consequences as I've gotten older.

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Last edited by AdamDZ on 05 Nov 2011, 11:40 am, edited 1 time in total.

Also according to this page:

Michael Palin (Monty Python, A Fish Called Wanda)
Dan Aykroyd
Woody Allen
Gary Numan (well, he's a musician, bu still performs in front of crowds).

And from some quick googling:

Daryl Hannah

They can be successfully type cast for Hollywoods programming program. 'revenge of the nerds' etc etc

Though generally, counter culture movies and plays may show them in a kinder light.

Like Forest Gump gets shown every Xmas day in NZ (along with 'the shawshank redemption' )

The little guy gets to finally win, you just gotta keep tryin'

I think we can definitely be great actors. I love acting. . .

I've always enjoyed acting and felt I was good at it; the same is true of public speaking. I'm shy and tongue-tied in a small group where I'm just me, but put me before a large and somewhat impersonal group where I have everyone's attention and a defined role and a completely different personality emerges.

Acting is my one and all. I've been playing theatre for over 4 years and I'm in a theatre show that has premier (and 10 shows) here in November! So not only do I love to act, but everyone there are so sweet and for the first time in forever I feel like I have real friends.

I'm having a really tough time at school and to be honest without being able to play my character and go to rehearsals I don't think I would be able to go up in the morning.

I can't show emotions nor am I able to express anything with my face properly so in this respect I am not but generally I can convince people to believe me really very easily so it's like in-between.