What are the worst depictions of ASDs in movies?

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Let the rage begin!

Not sure if this counts cause I dont think its necessarily bad but Abed from the tv show Community. I get a little rage face when people say they are like Abed but laugh when I say I have way more in common with the character even though some of the people I know Know that I have AS. I know its a fictional character but its just ironic that I know this one person that goes out of their way to act like the character deliberately. I love the character but sheesh!

Everything about the movie Rain Man, but mostly at the beginning of the movie.

I would have agreed at one point, CockneyRebel, but since then I've come across autistic people who say they identify with Dustin Hoffman's performance.

I think the portrayals have been all over the map, but it's hard for me to pinpoint any I've seen recently that I would call bad. It is easier for me to pinpoint performances that I find difficult to relate to.

Also, when I first saw Rain Man, I became somewhat self-conscious about how I behaved and spoke.

when i was about 14 years old i was one day sitting in class and after the phone rang the teacher told me i was wanted in the main office building.i expected to be in trouble but to my suprise the social worker amy said were going to the movies.i was shocked and wonderd why.so we drove to a movie theatre in worcester,mass and saw the mattene of rain man.i liked the movie

It's a TV show, but I'm gonna mention it anyway:
Big Bang Theory.

Adam. You know, as a mt is actually very good, but it makes te main character look like an idiot. But he is not.

I hate the movie because its main hero says Aspie stereotypes like: "You know, I don´t understand the sense of humour", or "I can´t joke", or "I can´t..." (fill in any other disability that we show). Why can´t the screenwriters let him show where his problems are? Why must he sound like a ret*d? No Aspie with part of a brain talks like that!

I think maybe as a group we're a little too hung up on stereotypes.

Would we prefer no movies or TV shows ever even attempted to portray autism? Because it's kind of hard not to portray it with some stereotypical elements. And there is no possible way to portray any form of autism without pissing off a lot of people.

It's impossible for one simple reason. "If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism." It is utterly impossible to portray the entire spectrum with a single character.

Making a movie that would give a truly accurate idea of the spectrum would require dozens of different people, and would have to be very, very long, because it takes a long time of getting to know an autistic before one can really know that autistic, and every one of us is so different.

I'm fine with most of the portrayals because at least they're trying and not ignoring us. Stupid crap like the parents reactions on Parenthood though, are pretty shameful. I wouldn't mind that one if they had shown how shameful the parents reactions were.

Most of them are fine.

Nothing wrong with the depiction of Rain Man (other than personal preference), for example.

Never seen either of them.

Mozart and the Whale seemed fine to me. I enjoyed it.

There were elements that clashed with my expectations, but there were elements that made a lot of sense to me.