One of the first films I remember watching (must have been around 10 or so)
Its one of those media icons everyone refers to when they think of autism and because there was so little awareness of it in the UK, there was this perception that autistic people had these amazing superpowers like counting cocktail stick and memorizing phone books. I can barely remember what I did yesterday.
I watched it a few rimes recently and the scene with the other people is where I see the variations. Dustin Hoffman exaggerated many traits of a fully Savant autistic individual whereas that appears full on the spectrum and not how everyone has only certain traits/markers on the spectrum and at varying levels.
I watched it a few rimes recently and the scene with the other people is where I see the variations. Dustin Hoffman exaggerated many traits of a fully Savant autistic individual whereas that appears full on the spectrum and not how everyone has only certain traits/markers on the spectrum and at varying levels.
