Movies for Autistic/Asperger lovers ...

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How about "Starman"? -- someone from the right planet who comes to the wrong planet and falls in love. It doesn't seem to work out though, so he goes back to his own planet to perhaps someone of his own kind. I guess this could mean that Autistics and Aspergers belong together. Maybe it is up to us to make a right city in this wrong planet -- kind of like the opposite of "Logan's Run" or "Fantastic Planet."

What other movies might be good for such lovers? -- assuming I find one someday.

Amelie?

In the movie "Stranger than Fiction" it seems like Harold Crick (Will Farrell) has Asperger's and some savant abilities. He is also extremely routine and has other symptoms of autism. I think it is a good movie.

stranger than fiction was a fun movie... i loved it

I love that movie. Oh noes....post number 666! lol

That wasn't asperger's that was the unfortunate circumstances of the writer who was at a dead end.....and who wrote this, because she had nowhere else to turn.

How about the Butterfly Effect? The obsession that Ashtin Kutcher's character expresses is almost aspie in nature...

As good as it Gets sure it's partially OCD but theres still alot of other HFA ans aspie traits in Jack Nicholson's characters behavior.

I saw Starman just the other day.

Time Travel and Aspergers..............no.

Mainly because time travel is too limited for anyone to have affect on it. it's the past not the future to worry about it.

Though.......think about it. if the main character had been an aspie. why not use the power to time travel and go back so that when he was born, they somehow manage to give the mother a few injections that make the aspergers not happen.......

though then, this does raise a few conundrums......and as such you can see why time travel is a dying art for both books and movies.

I don't think there are any such movies, are there? At least I've never seen or heard of one. It's usually about some geek who gets the girl by "getting over" his geekiness (an NT solution.) Asperger's/Autism isn't something you can just "get over"... there's no known cure for it yet.

I.................uh.............outgrew it or something to that extent. Either that or I've always been more spectrum radiant towards being an NT. (which explains why everyone thinks I'm gonna be the Anti-Christ someday.....personally I think i'll be the False Prophet)

Whether that's true or not, I think that most people with Autism/Asperger's are like that for most of their lives. I don't think it's a choice. Yet in the movies, if someone starts out with an Aspie personality, they have to "change" in order to win the heart of the love interest. Only NT's have relationships in movies (except in comedies.)

WALL-E
Lars and the Real Girl
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Donnie Darko
One Hour Photo

Kekekeke....

Matt Damon portrays, in my opinion, a very accurate portrayal of someone with AS in Good Will Hunting - I think it's particularly poignant for me because I recognise so many of the events and attitudes in my own experiences (though I'm not as mathematically adept as his character is) before I discovered and was diagnosed with the condition.