Quote from: Naginata on Sep 20, 2018, 11:54:41 PM
^ For me (although I'm minus the "H") it manifests more as an endless running monologue in my head. The problem (more pronounced when I was a kid, obviously) wasn't that I was spending hours imagining the evolutionary history of gas-powered alien blimps, it's that I was doing it during school hours.
Im also ADD without the H and share your sentiments.
Also, I just wanted to check in and confirm that in my parody idea for 'The ASPREDATOR' I wasnt trying to suggest that the qualities associated with High Functioning Autism, like Aspergers, could in NO way be desirable. Many Aspie's and HFA's are prodigies. But the idea of Predators kidnapping Aspergers children to advance their own DNA, is frankly just ridiculous.
For starters, even if HFA were the next stage in human evolution, it would be far too early a mutation to know this. Second, given what little is known of the way the Predators are functioning as a civilization, splicing their DNA to include more autistic traits and how that could help their civilization is so unfathomable... Especially when you consider that the ROGUE Predator was trying to stop the other PREDATORS from harvesting us... it's so impenetrable as to how or why this would provide some benefit, it came across to me as absurd. You could just as well assume the PREDATORS want to harvest the worst of aspergers.
Because you can't figure how, why or what traits of HFA is desirable to them, its just waving a giant red-flag for parody, high-jinx.
The idea of a technologically gifted aspie with a military sniper dad, who is wanted by space hunters that know we are destroying our world through climate change denial, and can figure out how to operate their tech... and the only people who can save him are a band of equally exploited misfit PTSD ridden soldiers... It just reads like a bad black bitch with an afro forcing white boys to eat fried chicken out her cho-cha, or better yet a Rastafarian drug lord whose limo is always smoked out.
At least all that other stuff is overtly good humored. Im not sure the Autism stuff was.
Again, don't get me wrong, I thought it was a fun movie. Id even say I enjoyed it more than the other sequels.