Any other aspies here?

[Jim Lane]

4. A question for you and anyone else knowledgeable

First, to answer your question about other people: I'm not a full-fledged aspie but I do have some tendencies toward some of the characteristics. I've seen the non-technical term "spectrumy"; that seems to apply to me.

My question is about depictions of AS in popular culture. A lot of what I know or think I know comes from seeing the movie Adam and reading the novel The Rosie Project. I enjoyed both, and to some extent their depictions of the aspie protagonists accorded with what I've read, but I don't know how reliable the depictions are. In areas I do know something about, I've found movies and novels to have accurate material (that would give good information to people with no prior knowledge), but to mix it with totally ridiculous parts that are tossed in just for entertainment value, and that are seriously misinformative.

If you're familiar with either of these, do you have any comment? Are there any other popular treatments that strike you as significant?