Originally Posted by Thaeri
I admit, it's second-hand for me, but I have a couple of cousins who are really close to me and who are diagnosed and expressed the same things I did.

I appreciate that it's not your experience, but when I watched this movie, I saw them being made fun of, and they did to.

Can you appreciate that standpoint?

Maybe it's cultural, I don't know.
I think your POV is as valid as anyone else's. Different people will get different things out of a work of art. (Heck, if we all saw LnC from the same POV, we wouldn't have a board full of discussions and fanfics from different viewpoints.)

"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland