“More than 3.5 million people live with an autism spectrum disorder (“Facts and Statistics”, 2015).” Autism is a disorder that affects so many people and is common to see everyday. In the movie What’s Eating Gilbert Grape there is an autistic boy. His name is Arnie and his family has to take care of him and he likes to find trouble anywhere. The movie portrays autism well because it shows how he reacts differently to situations than other people would and how the disorder affects people around him as well.
This movie is from Gilbert Grape’s perspective and he has a little brother named Arnie with autism. This whole movie is leading up to Arnie’s 18th birthday. Even though Arnie is almost 18 years old he has a mind like a 5 year old. Gilbert …show more content…
Autism vary with few impairments to completely being impaired. Autism affects more men than females, 75% of autistic people are male (Jane J. Bartley, 2006) . Autism can be associated with intellectual disabilities, motor disabilities, and attention and physical issues (“What is Autism?”, 2016). The main autistic behavior that Arnie has are intellectual disabilities and attention issues. He has a few minor things he does, like he will always mess with his fingers and twirl/pull at them. He doesn’t have any major physical issues. In fact, he’s very athletic in the …show more content…
The main example throughout the movie is with the water tower. Arnie always tries to climb up the water tower every time he’s in town. In the movie he tries to climb the tower 3 times, but the movie hints that he has done this many times in the past as well. Gilbert tells him every time to not climb the water tower and Arnie says he won’t and looks sincere, but the next day he tries to do it again. Arnie would always decapitate bugs and laugh at them, but once he realized he killed them he would immediately break down and start crying. He would repeat this throughout the movie.
Arnie’s mind is like a child's. He sees and learns like a child would grasping at everything. He repeats words and sentences that people say and he likes to play games. His favorite game he plays is when he climbs up into a tree and he will yell at Gilbert ot come find him. Gilbert would pretend to not know where he is and Arnie would jump down from the tree and try to scare Gilbert. Arnie would also always ask the neighborhood kids to play hide and go seek with him.
Some people with autism, when they hear a loud noise they will get bad anxiety attacks (Autism & Anxiety: Parents Seek Help for Extreme Reaction to Loud Noise, 2016). This happened to Arnie once, he was scared of the police sirens. He would tell the officers to put on the lights, but he would would get very scared
This movie is from Gilbert Grape’s perspective and he has a little brother named Arnie with autism. This whole movie is leading up to Arnie’s 18th birthday. Even though Arnie is almost 18 years old he has a mind like a 5 year old. Gilbert …show more content…
Autism vary with few impairments to completely being impaired. Autism affects more men than females, 75% of autistic people are male (Jane J. Bartley, 2006) . Autism can be associated with intellectual disabilities, motor disabilities, and attention and physical issues (“What is Autism?”, 2016). The main autistic behavior that Arnie has are intellectual disabilities and attention issues. He has a few minor things he does, like he will always mess with his fingers and twirl/pull at them. He doesn’t have any major physical issues. In fact, he’s very athletic in the …show more content…
The main example throughout the movie is with the water tower. Arnie always tries to climb up the water tower every time he’s in town. In the movie he tries to climb the tower 3 times, but the movie hints that he has done this many times in the past as well. Gilbert tells him every time to not climb the water tower and Arnie says he won’t and looks sincere, but the next day he tries to do it again. Arnie would always decapitate bugs and laugh at them, but once he realized he killed them he would immediately break down and start crying. He would repeat this throughout the movie.
Arnie’s mind is like a child's. He sees and learns like a child would grasping at everything. He repeats words and sentences that people say and he likes to play games. His favorite game he plays is when he climbs up into a tree and he will yell at Gilbert ot come find him. Gilbert would pretend to not know where he is and Arnie would jump down from the tree and try to scare Gilbert. Arnie would also always ask the neighborhood kids to play hide and go seek with him.
Some people with autism, when they hear a loud noise they will get bad anxiety attacks (Autism & Anxiety: Parents Seek Help for Extreme Reaction to Loud Noise, 2016). This happened to Arnie once, he was scared of the police sirens. He would tell the officers to put on the lights, but he would would get very scared