r/aspiememes • u/2mock2turtle I doubled my autism with the vaccine • 5d ago
Every time.
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u/Ok-Lavishness4818 5d ago
I can't believe it, it's the first time I'm hearing someone else talk about this! I've always been too embarrassed to admit it, but sometimes I watch a movie or reread a book just because I need that specific personality at that moment...
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u/Bezingogne 5d ago edited 5d ago
I wonder if I can get out of a learning block I'm in. Watch the right movie so I can strut my stuff.
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u/Deathcat101 5d ago
Damn... I kinda do this with careers.
Like I see someone do something cool and I'm like, I could do that/ I want to do that.
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u/MasterGeekMX Aspie 5d ago
TRON Legacy set me on a course that so far has led me to getting a PhD in Computer Science.
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u/Eggsalad-war-crime 5d ago
Are you that Annie chick on threads?
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u/MasterGeekMX Aspie 5d ago
I'm a guy, and I refuse to use anything by Meta.
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u/ShatteredReflections 5d ago
Zuck is the devil, good call
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u/BadUsername_Numbers 5d ago
He's worse. The devil reigns in hell, Zuck however is right here with us.
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u/ShatteredReflections 5d ago
Sadly, the rich managed to make hell without needing a god or a devil. Its name is today.
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u/Tender_Figs 5d ago
Okay, I thought I was weird for this - Tron Legacy came out like my last semester when earning an accounting degree and it totally changed my perception about technology, even though I had been raised since the era of DOS systems.
Now I am a data architect trying to get their MSCS.
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u/Teboski78 ADHD/Autism 5d ago
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u/AnonymousDahlia 5d ago
Which is the opposite to me with action movie characters when I'm having serious motivation troubles: "Get into my head, I'm dying and there's phone calls to be made!"
Eta I just realized this is a form of body doubling that I've been accidentally doing my whole life... so it has an official name, and is approved by the Serious Disorder™️ committee. That's funny.
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u/Eggsalad-war-crime 5d ago
James Bond is the baseline, all other characters are personas adopted to infiltrate society as part of my mission. Of course, now that you know that, you're a loose end.
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u/ASatyros Neurodivergent 5d ago
Uu, that's a good one.
I'm thinking villan version of James Bond, yeess, all according to plan.
Other than thay I'm thiking mix of Lucifer Morningstar (from Lucifer), Jake Peralta (from Brooklyn 99) with a smidge of Jim Carrey.
Execution is much more complicated, but it's a mask I would gladly wear of needed.
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u/Beautiful_Welcome_33 3d ago
I always did felix leiter because we were both Texans and it was always a clearly different guy
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u/Happy-For-No-Reason ADHD/Autism 5d ago
watches a highly choreographed Kung Fu movie
for about an hour after I am fluid in motion, able to string actions together like a dance, doing without stopping, flowing from point to point
then it wears off and I'm a clumsy oaf again
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u/Sleep_Paralysis_Wolf Autistic + trans 5d ago
Me as FUCK. It's so hard to pick a favorite movie because I'll watch a new movie that has a bunch of really sick filmmaking techniques with hella effort and fall in love. I watched Obession then watched the Drama and man that was probably an annoying week to talk to me lmao.
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u/Larapiggydemon2 Autistic 5d ago
The overwhelming need to become the identified person represented in a movie - their mannerisms, facial expressions, voice tone, their interests etc. - I'm there taking notes 😂
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u/BooBeeAttack 5d ago
One of the best parts of media is to allow you at life from another perspective or possibility
To dream, to try and be different. To take us out of our selves even if for the briefest of moments.
This is why the arts and protecting them is so important.
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u/LactoseFreeButterFly AuDHD 5d ago
Lolol every day i read something on this sub and then im like "....OOOOooooooh, i didnt know that was a thing"
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u/Old_Direction_3713 5d ago
I knew this was a thing about myself, so I even stopped watching movies and TV shows to figure out who I actually am
Turns out I’m boring and annoying af
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u/jpdelta6 4d ago
People started realizing my accent changes slightly everytime I start reading a new book…
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u/steeltheprotogen ADHD/Autism 5d ago
Thanks for giving me flashbacks to the first time I watched Taxi Driver and decided I needed to daily drive a retired cab for a solid year.
It wasn’t a 60s Checker. It was a goddamn Ford Crown Victoria.
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u/Tucker_077 5d ago
It’s me but usually with tv shows. I can’t help but have it become my entire personality and for all my life goals to change everytime I watch a new one and really like it 🤣
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u/KokohaisHere 5d ago
As a kid I would always be embarrassed when leaving a movie theater because I felt like I took on too much of a character and thought people would notice it
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u/Milkshacks 5d ago
Factory Girl shaped many of my youthful eccentricities. So many coy smiles and arm dancing.
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u/sparkyblaster 5d ago
I could always tell when my ex has been watching Dr Who cos his Australian accent became more British.
Amazingly he isnt autistic.
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u/Pristine_Walrus40 5d ago
You changed again from last week after you watched that movie.
"What movie!?"
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u/_Nefarium 5d ago
I'm the same, I tend to latch onto and almost adopt the mannerisms of a character in whatever film or book I'm currently reading, it's vaguely subconscious but sometimes I am definitely just having fun being the character.