Sock Monsters of the Cosmos, and other films

 "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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  • I don't really watch many films. There are a few TV series that resonate with me (mostly old ones). But really I think almost any geeky character in film or TV reads as autistic, on some level, even if that wasn't the intention. The Twilight Zone from the sixties is full of weird high functioning autistic-seeming characters, even though high functioning autism wasn't even recognised then.

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  • I don't really watch many films. There are a few TV series that resonate with me (mostly old ones). But really I think almost any geeky character in film or TV reads as autistic, on some level, even if that wasn't the intention. The Twilight Zone from the sixties is full of weird high functioning autistic-seeming characters, even though high functioning autism wasn't even recognised then.

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