Good Videos showing Aspie Behavior

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Ehh, I've seen a few videos on youtube about Aspies, but I will like some good suggestions showing some typical Aspie behavior in adults. Thanks!

Some people may disagree with me, but I find the symptoms to be so diverse that I don't you can watch a video of 'general' behaviors. I was watching one video on youtube about college accommodations for aspies and I didn't even know the guy talking had AS until he said so. I think watching some movies about AS would be better...you'll see us on WP saying they didn't portray it quite right, but some of us are sticklers about that sort of thing It gives you the general idea.

Some movies are:
Adam (2010)
Mozart and the Whale
Ben X*
Mary and Max*
My Name is Khan*
Also, Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory certainly acts like someone with AS, and Spencer Reed on Criminal Minds sort of does.

*haven't seen these

Many movies that portray those of us on the spectrum more as mentally ret*d than anything else. "Snow Cake" especially comes to mind. I think that more severe we are, the less accurately the movies portray us.

I think of snow cake as more HFA/moderate functioning autism than AS. I tried to list some films of those with AS who can still function pretty well, of course a couple of those I haven't seen.

I am in the moderate functioning range, but my family says that i don't act that way.

I've seen "Ben X" and he comes across as somewhat "lower functioning" than characters in Adam or Mozart and the Whale. But he's also a younger character and I found the portrayal fairly believable because I was bullied at the level Ben X was (and, in some cases, worse than he was) when I was about his age.

AS *does* look a bit different at different ages.

I loved Mary and Max, anything with stop-motion animation has got my attention.

Look up a documentary called 'Only Human-Make me normal', its about an All-Autistic school in london. I found it on youtube, heres part one, if you search 'only human-make me normal' on youtube you should find the other parts.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJGfQ-0cAh4[/youtube]

Quoting Leekduck

I watched all 6 parts. It was an excellent documentary. Thank you for recommending.

There is also one called My Crazy Life that is really good. The guy is a teenager but it gives a better view of what Asperger's looks like in an older person.

I watched part of it, the kids remind me of more extreme versions of myself as a kid. Like for example, I threw fits all the time in school, they were so bad I was put into special education. And the kid labeling his tapes, I had similar behavior with my old Pokemon cards, though nowadays I don't order stuff at all.

On the other hand, the guy cursing because of a bus route change... my school reports say I didn't handle change very well as a kid, but nowadays that wouldn't bother me.

I dunno, the video made me sad.

I can never really see why Reid is considered an Aspie. He's certainly very socially awkward and shy, but aside from that he really doesn't have any symptoms.

I watched all the parts of the documentary too (I kind of have a documentary obsession as of late...I love to watch them on netflix). I agree that it was quite depressing. The only positive part was that the 12 year old who lost his mother was doing better. Actually he reminds me of my son so much. My son is 7 and he does get very easily agitated and he has broken some things and even hit other kids and us before but he is not violent to that level. I felt so bad for him when he was talking about his Mother dying and that he felt such guilt for being mean to her, it made me want to cry. I could relate to how he felt because I was so mean to my Mom when I was young....I am glad I had the opportunity to grow up and tell her I was sorry. It would have been awful to loose her when I was only 12.

How about Dexter? At least in the first few eps. Then they started modifying his personality so they could pursue a love interest sub-plot. Initially he clearly stated that he had little or no interest in emotional relationships. He maintained his relations with his girlfriend because she too had pretty much given up on heavy emotional stuff due to the traumatic events in her life. It was when the "found" each other that his personality seemed phony to me and I could easily imagine the producers insisting that his life needed more sex to boost ratings, which apparently it did.

I've watched that one; it's really good. I love the conversation he has with his mum about why people buy bagged ice.

There's another one on YouTube I can't remember the name of, but it was painful to watch because the boy (who was about the same age as the boy in My Crazy Life) was quick to anger and was shown verbally abusing his mother. The boy had a short fuse and when they showed clips of him at a very young age, dropping a pancake on the floor, it was evident that his short temper and tendency to blame others had always been there.

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The most depressing documentary I've seen lately (it's available on Netflix for rental and as a watch-it-now) is "Her Name is Sabine." The filmmaker documents the current conditions of her autistic sister's life in a French group home. At first you think you're watching a documentary about a fairly severely impacted autistic woman but as the documentary goes on and the filmmaker starts showing older family movies, you begin to realize that Sabine used to be far more high-functioning (sorry for the functioning terms. I don't like them but I haven't developed better language yet.)

Sabine was either HFA or strongly Asperger's as a young girl and the final blow is when the filmmaker reveals that what changed her was a stay in an institution where she was given lots of neuroleptic drugs that destroyed her. The filmmaker is filled with guilt and anguish and wants to help Sabine but fears the damage is permanent. There was one scene near the end when the filmmakers showed Sabine the home movies of the time Sabine took a trip to America and Sabine starts crying and I started crying and Sabine's sister says she'll stop the film if it's too much to bear and Sabine says, "no. don't stop it. I'm crying because I'm so happy" and asks to see the film again.

It is really a heartbreaking documentary and one I think anyone who is considering putting an autistic person on a neuroleptic should watch before they decide. Probably some autistics do benefit from neuroleptic drugs but they are so very dangerous for us and can do exactly what is shown in the film about Sabine.