After you've been reading all the conversations about lack of socialization, autism, sociopathy, etc., in the Sherlock forums, Lilo and Stitch becomes a very different movie.
But seriously, although nobody seems to be taking it that way - I know Disney was trying to say that Lilo was acting out over the death of her parents. But it was also made very clear that she has never had any friends, which in turn implies...
Wish I could take credit, but it's a line from a Dilbert strip that stuck with me.
Yes, seriously, that's why it is making my head hurt just a little with the shift in view. Little things like her focusing on Mr. Bubbles' hand tatoos.... very very obvious if you spend much time around kids on the spectrum. The last year or so I've been really picking up on that in media, whether the authors intend it or not, and I am amazed I never thought of it before regarding Lilo.
um.... I guess I just always assumed (that everyone knew) that she was on the asperger's spectrum. I had a similar conversation with an acquaintance who I was dining out with: she was very uncomfortable about another patron of the restaurant who was behaving "inappropriately" and wanted his family to take him away or "do something!" and was about to approach the host, when I said it looked to me as though he had an autism spectrum disorder. She was stunned. Someone in her family had been diagnosed similarly and she didn't understand that this was what happened. So I talked about what little I know, and said things like, "well, it's like breast feeding, you don't stare and let them just have their (probably infrequent) time out to enjoy"
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Lilo and Stitch becomes a very different movie.
Seriously.
I am.
Re: Lilo and Stitch becomes a very different movie.
...although, that said, I'm now desperate for a fic in which either Sherlock or John says "gotta go, doggie found the chainsaw."
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But seriously, although nobody seems to be taking it that way - I know Disney was trying to say that Lilo was acting out over the death of her parents. But it was also made very clear that she has never had any friends, which in turn implies...
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Yes, seriously, that's why it is making my head hurt just a little with the shift in view. Little things like her focusing on Mr. Bubbles' hand tatoos.... very very obvious if you spend much time around kids on the spectrum. The last year or so I've been really picking up on that in media, whether the authors intend it or not, and I am amazed I never thought of it before regarding Lilo.
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I wouldn't have thought of it if I hadn't been reading a boatload about autism and then watched the movie 48 hours later!
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I had a similar conversation with an acquaintance who I was dining out with: she was very uncomfortable about another patron of the restaurant who was behaving "inappropriately" and wanted his family to take him away or "do something!" and was about to approach the host, when I said it looked to me as though he had an autism spectrum disorder. She was stunned. Someone in her family had been diagnosed similarly and she didn't understand that this was what happened. So I talked about what little I know, and said things like, "well, it's like breast feeding, you don't stare and let them just have their (probably infrequent) time out to enjoy"
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