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06 Aug 2008, 12:47 pm

I have been watching/renting Ghost Whisperer from Netflix...and it got me thinking about Sixth Sense...then it got me thinking more....and...

What if in Sixth Sense (the boy, Cole) or Ghost Whisperer (the woman, Melinda) were autistic or aspie?

Feel free to input other scenarios from other movies and tv shows.

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06 Aug 2008, 1:39 pm

I haven't seen either of those movies, but Harry from *Batteries Not Included seems to have autism or something similar...he only speaks in television quotes.

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06 Aug 2008, 2:24 pm

forrest gump was my favourite aspie.

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06 Aug 2008, 2:44 pm

donkey wrote:

forrest gump was my favourite aspie.

Rain Man (Dustin Hoffman) was mine.

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06 Aug 2008, 2:47 pm

"I see dumb people..."

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06 Aug 2008, 2:49 pm

Cyberman wrote:

"I see dumb people..."

I am laughing hysterically right now!! !! !! !!

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06 Aug 2008, 2:50 pm

Cyberman wrote:

"I see dumb people..."

I hear deaf people.

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06 Aug 2008, 2:55 pm

not to be too technical but rain man ( hoffmans character) was low functioning autistic and not really AS.
what is of interest thou is that his brother ( tom cruise) displayed many As characteristics in the movie that eclipsed hoffmans portrayal.

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06 Aug 2008, 2:58 pm

donkey wrote:

Which ones? Tom Cruise's character was about as NT as you can get.

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06 Aug 2008, 3:09 pm

ok. no argument from me.
i just respectfully disagree.
i watched rain main with my GF who was trying to "learn" about AS and we were both watching hoffmans character when she pointed out that cruises character was more AS than hoffman, i would have to say that i did agree with her.
of note was the opening scene in the movie.....a high perfomance car being transported off a ship, suspended by high tension cables...the car was capable of so much, could outperform all other cars...but only on a road, and suspended in the air it was as useless as it was hung up by its environement, a classsic analogy with hoffmans character.

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07 Aug 2008, 3:04 am

Napoleon, Pedro, Deb and Kip from Napoleon Dynamite.

I firmly stand by that belief.

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07 Aug 2008, 5:39 pm

Simmian7 wrote:

"I see dead people. And by the way did you know that the number 56 bus comes every 32 minutes on average. The number 57 travels about 102.83 miles in the course of one day and that..."

Meanwhile, Bruce Willis has left the room.

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07 Aug 2008, 6:07 pm

*giggle*

Oh, come on! He'd be interested in something other than trains, surely. Not every Aspie is a train freak; I'm not!

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07 Aug 2008, 6:17 pm

Neither am I, it's the first thing that came to mind. Playing with the stereotype, ya know.

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07 Aug 2008, 7:14 pm

lol that was funny. actually i dig trains.... not enough to learn things like THAT about them...but more so to watch the electric model trains going around in a 'fake' town ....

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