Cinemautistic
@cinemautistic.bsky.social
Processing a midlife autism diagnosis through film. And other adventures.
I have a filthy mouth, but in a good way; like an unhittable slider.
"Do you like DVDs?" -- Schmidt
Life motto: "That what should be what?" - Guy Gardner
I have a filthy mouth, but in a good way; like an unhittable slider.
"Do you like DVDs?" -- Schmidt
Life motto: "That what should be what?" - Guy Gardner
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Cinemautistic
@cinemautistic.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Late Diagnosed Film Club
Films that resonate specifically because of my experience as a late-diagnosed autistic.
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I've started a @letterboxd.social list of films that resonated with me as a late-diagnosed #autistic. None of them are about autism, but some aspects speak eloquently about the autistic experience. I hope to write about these in more detail if the autistic energy gods permit it.
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Marvel really doesn’t have anything left in the tank, do they?
December 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Marvel really doesn’t have anything left in the tank, do they?
I’ve never felt it was bad for me to be a white person in America, Mr Vice-President. I have learned that it’s bad to be a cunt, though.
December 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I’ve never felt it was bad for me to be a white person in America, Mr Vice-President. I have learned that it’s bad to be a cunt, though.
As I try to unpack my place in social spaces as an autistic person, my current math says if you did not consider that something you planned would make me uncomfortable, I get to regulate myself by roasting you and your plans mercilessly with no expiration date.
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
As I try to unpack my place in social spaces as an autistic person, my current math says if you did not consider that something you planned would make me uncomfortable, I get to regulate myself by roasting you and your plans mercilessly with no expiration date.
Episode 2 of Chernobyl with my wife and she’s ready to kill all men.
Fair.
Fair.
December 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Episode 2 of Chernobyl with my wife and she’s ready to kill all men.
Fair.
Fair.
James Ransone? Fuck, man. Gonna have to do a Generation Kill rewatch in his honor.
Check on your friends, all.
988 for the suicide hotline.
Check on your friends, all.
988 for the suicide hotline.
December 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
James Ransone? Fuck, man. Gonna have to do a Generation Kill rewatch in his honor.
Check on your friends, all.
988 for the suicide hotline.
Check on your friends, all.
988 for the suicide hotline.
If I’m at a gala, it’s because I’m being sold into slavery.
December 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
If I’m at a gala, it’s because I’m being sold into slavery.
I usually love the Variety actor pairings, but JLaw and Leo was a huge miss. But I never imagined Leo would be so humorless and insufferable.
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I usually love the Variety actor pairings, but JLaw and Leo was a huge miss. But I never imagined Leo would be so humorless and insufferable.
The Disclosure Day trailer is heartbreakingly weak. If Spielberg’s name weren’t on it…
December 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The Disclosure Day trailer is heartbreakingly weak. If Spielberg’s name weren’t on it…
I don’t know if it’s my favorite movie of the year, but the movie I’m telling the most people to see as the year ends is Sorry, Baby.
December 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I don’t know if it’s my favorite movie of the year, but the movie I’m telling the most people to see as the year ends is Sorry, Baby.
Do they do job interviews where you don’t tell about yourself? Like… where do I do that?
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Do they do job interviews where you don’t tell about yourself? Like… where do I do that?
Man I hope sleeping for 13 hours after getting a new CPAP is a good thing.
December 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Man I hope sleeping for 13 hours after getting a new CPAP is a good thing.
Consider how you actually feel, and don't just accept what you've been told you SHOULD feel.
If you could tell your younger autistic self one thing, what would it be and why?
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Consider how you actually feel, and don't just accept what you've been told you SHOULD feel.
This is kind of funny, because there's nothing I fear more in life than thinking I'm smarter than I actually am.
Autistic employees are less susceptible to the Dunning-Kruger effect
Autistic workers may possess a distinct advantage. New research shows they are less likely than non-autistic colleagues to overestimate their competence, sidestepping the cognitive bias known as the D...
www.psypost.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is kind of funny, because there's nothing I fear more in life than thinking I'm smarter than I actually am.
Why is Sally Hawkins missing from the Best Actress conversation?
A ★★★★★ review of Bring Her Back (2025)
Lots of awards talk right now and I’m not hearing a lot of talk about Sally Hawkins who has created one of the great cinematic villains of all time. Terrifying and reprehensible and evoking sympathy y...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Why is Sally Hawkins missing from the Best Actress conversation?
When @mangiotto.bsky.social mentioned Faerie Tale in a review it took me weeks to find a copy. I thought that was bad, but now I’m trying to get my hands on Ax by Donald Westlake.
Holy fuck.
Holy fuck.
December 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
When @mangiotto.bsky.social mentioned Faerie Tale in a review it took me weeks to find a copy. I thought that was bad, but now I’m trying to get my hands on Ax by Donald Westlake.
Holy fuck.
Holy fuck.
Billionaires out here proving the adage "Better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt."
December 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Billionaires out here proving the adage "Better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt."
I realized why I hate prank shows. First, it's a playground for assholes. Second, autistics are so uncomfortable with social norms that if we ever did our own prank show, the pranks would be so specific and personal, we would legit ruin people's lives.
December 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I realized why I hate prank shows. First, it's a playground for assholes. Second, autistics are so uncomfortable with social norms that if we ever did our own prank show, the pranks would be so specific and personal, we would legit ruin people's lives.
I'm counting on the Academy to nominate the following films for Best Picture so I can see them in the theater with the Oscar Pass:
Sentimental Value
No Other Choice
Train Dreams
It Was Just an Accident
Sentimental Value
No Other Choice
Train Dreams
It Was Just an Accident
December 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I'm counting on the Academy to nominate the following films for Best Picture so I can see them in the theater with the Oscar Pass:
Sentimental Value
No Other Choice
Train Dreams
It Was Just an Accident
Sentimental Value
No Other Choice
Train Dreams
It Was Just an Accident
Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson exchange glances for two hours, and it's awesome.
A ★★★★ review of The Lost Daughter (2021)
I don't know how this film would have played had I not read the book first. In first person from the main character's perspective, the book adds depth and complexity that I'm not sure if the films cap...
boxd.it
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson exchange glances for two hours, and it's awesome.
An absolute GOAT level thriller. Just needs time. And not to be lost in the detritus of Netflix.
A ★★★★★ review of Rebel Ridge (2024)
Honest to god I don't know how much more you can want out of a thriller. So much pure tension in every syllable of this film. Talking scenes pop. Action scenes are chaotic without being incoherent. A ...
boxd.it
December 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
An absolute GOAT level thriller. Just needs time. And not to be lost in the detritus of Netflix.
People will reveal themselves with their thoughts on this movie.
A ★★★★½ review of The Perfect Neighbor (2025)
I don’t know if any other film is more capable of getting people to reveal themselves than The Perfect Neighbor. This should be the film people watch at Christmas with their MAGA families. Gut-wrench...
boxd.it
December 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
People will reveal themselves with their thoughts on this movie.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
I liked a lot of last night’s Welcome to Derry. Pennywise was as great as he’s ever been. The Black Spot massacre was appropriately brutal. My only issue:
Smoke inhalation would have killed damn near everybody in that building. I don’t know if there was a half dozen coughs in the entire sequence
Smoke inhalation would have killed damn near everybody in that building. I don’t know if there was a half dozen coughs in the entire sequence
December 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I liked a lot of last night’s Welcome to Derry. Pennywise was as great as he’s ever been. The Black Spot massacre was appropriately brutal. My only issue:
Smoke inhalation would have killed damn near everybody in that building. I don’t know if there was a half dozen coughs in the entire sequence
Smoke inhalation would have killed damn near everybody in that building. I don’t know if there was a half dozen coughs in the entire sequence
Free Rian! (But watch this too)
A ★★★★ review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
A lot of heart, but fewer laughs in the darkest of the trilogy by far. Better than Glass Onion but the OG still reigns supreme. Though I’m sure he’s having a great time, I’m ready for Rian Johnson to ...
boxd.it
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Free Rian! (But watch this too)
Seated for Mr Rian Johnson’s latest.
December 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Seated for Mr Rian Johnson’s latest.