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Sock Monsters of the Cosmos, and other films

Steven

 "Dave, it's long past time that we both owned-up: we're neurotypical."

I wondered which films, books, songs, poems, ice cream vans (and so on) you all feel an affinity with? Perhaps these, also, inform your understanding of your autism? Perhaps they speak to you of a common identity, as if you & they are in unspoken sympathy? Perhaps I should get treatment for my addiction to the word 'perhaps'?

Anyway, I won't bore you all to tears by listing my favourites; instead I'll just read your own while lying in wait & then, when you least suspect it, drop my tatty choices upon you like a grand piano bunged off a cliff.

PS Tragically, 'Sock Monsters of the Cosmos' is not a real film.

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  • OK just to roll with a theme and since it has both literal and metaphorical elements of the persecuted "other" how about 1957's, 20 Million Miles to Earth, although you will have to forgive the scienfically innacurate title. That one even has a moment of self awareness in the way the alien "monster" only reacts defensively and isn't innately aggressive, but the humans fear the different so much they "can't help" but respond agressively to it. Personally it wouldn't surprise me at all if there was multiple forms of hidden coding in that one since it was filmed at the height of the Hays code in Hollywood. It's a nice one though even if the ending is sad because the main characters are actually sympathetic to the "monster".
    Even the cinema advertising for the film is like a sickening but brilliant parable or allegory because in some of the posters it reads "Out-of-Space Creature Invades the Earth!" when really in the movie the astronaughts bring the creature back to Earth (and it has no say in the matter). In fact when you think of the coding using the word "invasion" is like a parody of immigrant, lgbt, and neurodiversity panic several decades in the making because we get articles now bemoaning the perceived increase in our population. The demonised "other" is seen as an "epidemic" or "invasion"  when really our percentage is just being discovered to have always been higher than it was once thought and our population growth has always been relative to overall population growth.

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  • OK just to roll with a theme and since it has both literal and metaphorical elements of the persecuted "other" how about 1957's, 20 Million Miles to Earth, although you will have to forgive the scienfically innacurate title. That one even has a moment of self awareness in the way the alien "monster" only reacts defensively and isn't innately aggressive, but the humans fear the different so much they "can't help" but respond agressively to it. Personally it wouldn't surprise me at all if there was multiple forms of hidden coding in that one since it was filmed at the height of the Hays code in Hollywood. It's a nice one though even if the ending is sad because the main characters are actually sympathetic to the "monster".
    Even the cinema advertising for the film is like a sickening but brilliant parable or allegory because in some of the posters it reads "Out-of-Space Creature Invades the Earth!" when really in the movie the astronaughts bring the creature back to Earth (and it has no say in the matter). In fact when you think of the coding using the word "invasion" is like a parody of immigrant, lgbt, and neurodiversity panic several decades in the making because we get articles now bemoaning the perceived increase in our population. The demonised "other" is seen as an "epidemic" or "invasion"  when really our percentage is just being discovered to have always been higher than it was once thought and our population growth has always been relative to overall population growth.

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