as i said before but didn't elaborate on, i absolutely loved the movie "the girl with the dragon tattoo." me & mom & dad watched it. the whole reason they were into the idea of watching it was that one of the characters was a girl with asperger syndrome. it was a long drawn out movie with a really complex plot and everything. there were a lot of characters in it. the girl with asperger syndrome, lisbeth, was only one of them. the movie was basically about her solving this murder mystery, and also about her getting one over on her parole officer (cuz she'd been convicted of a crime as a child) who was taking corrupted advantage of the law system and sexually abusing her (she definitely got sweet revenge tho). anyway by the end of the movie mom and dad were complaining about how long the movie was and about how the whole reason they watched it was they wanted to see a movie about a girl with asperger syndrome and the movie wasn't even really that much about her, it was just about her getting raped and getting revenge and solving a murder mystery, blah blah blah. but i think it was great that the movie wasn't just all about her having asperger syndrome. i think the last thing we need is another movie about people with asperger syndrome where the whole movie is like "this is what it's like for those poor aspies, this is how they live, this is what everyday life is like for them, this is what it's like when they try to communicate and they're bad at it oh and this is what it's like for those poor people and let's all have a pity party for them blah blah boo hoo hoo." no, we don't need another movie like that. let there be a movie where there is something bigger going on, something more important happening (like a murder mystery). let there be an aspie character who plays a part in the unraveling of the whole thing. let there be an aspie character who becomes an important part of something that a lot of people are a part of. let us see how that character falls into things, into people, into life, into important significant situations. let that character have an important role to play. let that character fit into something or fit in somewhere. let us see an example of that. that's the kind of movie about people with asperger syndrome that we need, and that's what "the girl with the dragon tattoo" is.
one time mom was telling me about a weekend that my aunt and uncle and cousins came over to our house (i wasn't there, maybe i was in west chester or something). at the first moment she had alone with dad since they were there, she said to him "that kid is such an annoying little fuck! i hope to god our kids don't turn out like him." then dad whispered to her that chad (christian's father) was right in the other room and could hear her. or maybe he didn't whisper but just pointed. i don't know. the point is mom then realized chad had heard her say that and she was so embarrassed. so she was telling me this story and getting to the end and she said "yeah that was really embarrassing." i was pretty sure she meant that she, herself, was embarrassed. i wasn't positive though. "embarrassing for you?" i said. "yes, embarrassing for me!" she said. "who else would it be embarrassing for?!" i said "well maybe you meant that uncle chad was embarrassed for having a son who's an annoying little fuck." mom laughed and said "nobody thinks of their kid as an annoying little fuck, even if they are one." right at that moment we were out in the pool room behind the bar. my rat vinny was with us. he started licking my mom's face. then a moment later she jumped back as if he'd bitten her. i gasped. "did he bite you?" i said. mom said "just a little, not really, he was just feeling me with his teeth." she knows i think of vinny as my kid. "vinny," i said, "you annoying little fuck."
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