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Pretty much sums up the way a lot of people who grew up with comics felt. Marvel in particular could write a character that had something readers could identify with. I'd say Chris Claremont's run on X-Men was a great one for depth of characters people could identify with. Especially the marginalisation of mutants, also the way characters dealt with it. Some became hateful, fearful, isolated, or downright evil. Some wanted to expand understanding, wanted to channel their power instead of let it consume them, the themes were amazing.

Cassandro and myself mentioned Watchmen before in a thread, and it really always resonated with me. There are some very autistic related threads to the story. It is DC but it's great. There is also a movie, I think you'd enjoy it.

http://andygainey.com/1/blog/post/2015-03-11/neurodiversity-in-watchmen

That guy writes a great piece on it there. In my opinion Watchmen is the best comic book adaptation I've seen. Different to the comic in parts, but the real meat of the story is kept intact.

Worth a read

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/stan-lee-death-marvel-superhero-spider-man-fantastic-four-hulk-x-men-autism-a8631601.html

BTW Stan Lee and Marvel have a few autistic superheros. Reed Richards (Fantasic 4) is now confirmed as autistic. The St. Croix twins storyline was a pretty interesting take on autism. Twins, one is autistic, the other isn't who have to navigate the world being both mutants, and Claudette being autistic and powerful. They were introduced in tne 90's, way ahead of today's wave of awareness. I'd say Kingpin was also deliberately portrayed by Vincent D'Onofrio as on the spectrum in the live action Netflix stuff. Interesting too to see an autistic antagonist. Comics are a pretty interesting medium!

I don't often get on the RIP thing, but Stan Lee was great. Jack Kirby was just as important, died in 1994, but wasn't really lamented. They both gave me so much enjoyment. At least Chris Claremont is alive, his X-Men run was awesome.

Roger Moore was smooth, smarmy, sardonic, and a bit of a tosser. That made him great.

The main thing is the quality of the action, the plots, and stuff like gadgets, stunts, all the stuff that matters when you are watching the film.

Roger Moore went to space, Connery didn't. None of them did. He also had a crocodile submarine in Octopussy. A crocodile submarine is cooler than a crumpled suit. Roger Moore's Bond was the first time a snowboard was seen on film. I could go on, lol.

The only Bond that went to space.......

"Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.” Stan Lee (1922-2018) 

www.independent.co.uk/.../stan-lee-dead-death-marvel-comics-spiderman-xmen-black-panther-life-captain-america-a8630841.html

Sean Connery is top of my list... Roger Moore is too smooth.

'Dr No scriptwriter Terence Young introducing Connery to his Savile Row tailors and then told the actor to sleep in the suits....the idea was to give the character the look of a man who had an eye for finery, but was more caught up in "life and death than ironing shirts".' (Empire Magazine)

I am a stranger to the ironing board too! 

'The darkest hour is just before the dawn' 

"It's important to recognize that autism is first and foremost a lived reality and internal experience for autistic people. We tend to talk about autism as a list of external deficits, but many autistic traits have strong, positive effects for autistic people ourselves.

"The joy associated with ritual, intense interests, and other 'obsessive' characteristics of autism is frequently an important and vibrant part of our lives. Recognizing that there is joy in autism — and that this joy is a core and defining part of our disability — helps us talk about autism and autistic people more authentically."

Julia Bascom 

ASAN (Autistic Self Advocacy Network)

Washington, USA 

Ah, that was in the movie G.I. Jane, it was viggo Mortensen as Master Chief John James Urgayle, although no idea if it was a quote taken from somewhere else for the movie.

Just to prove me wrong it uploads, 

Me too, I can’t get my pictures to upload but have many many similar pictures just like this.

Basic humanity is what society sadly lacks.

thank you 6, sunflower, ()

"I'm so glad I've got all you amazing #actuallyautistic friends cos sometimes the NT world just doesn't let up. It seems it's always us who have to do more, communicate better, behave, act normal, work hard while we often lack support of any kind. Thanks."

@MichaelAffleck3 Twitter 

This is brilliant! 

Dear Mary, (my lovely wife)
So far today,
I've done all right.
I haven't felt stressed or anxious.
I haven't had a meltdown.
I haven't been greedy, grumpy,
nasty, selfish or overindulgent.

I'm very thankful for that.

But in a few minutes, Mary,
I'm going to get out of bed;
and from then on, I'm probably
going to need a lot more help.
XXX

#StressAwarenessDay and I'm telling myself this: "sometimes you need to let things go"