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Maybe not the s** scene. But the workings of the brain are so well explained..

And the focused vision.. The registering and remembering.. the processing, dang.. as someone with ASD, thank you!! Highly reccommend.

Mind My Mind gives a surprisingly accurate view of the inner workings of an autistic mind. The main character (Chris) is a young man with an Autism Spectrum Disorder and we follow him in his struggle to fit in a neurotypical world. The view inside his mind is depicted using a mouthless creature in a library of memories that has to organize incoming stimuli and process them, and create behaviour using pre-formed scripts. The "Mind" character can rest when a soothing, repetive task (fib) is performed. If there is an overload of stimuli the "Mind" character cannot cope and has to be calmed down with a fib.

We see the brother of Chris trying to get his brother to act more social and vist parties and flirt. This is out of the comfort zone of Chris and he has to cope with an overload of stimuli, new feelings, and his mind has to device new scripts to cope with new situations.

The movie is set in the Netherlands, with some recognizable architecture, but the language is English. This gives the movie a more universal and international feel.

The animation style is estaetically pleasing, and not too smooth / obviously computer generated which gives the movie an artisanal feel. The movie was a an upbeat feel to it even if the story is not always a happy one.

As someone with a close friend who sits atop the autism spectrum this felt incredibly familiar and reassuring in the best possible way. I watched it as part of a block of animation films at the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival and this is certainly one of the films everyone was talking about afterwards. The animation style perfectly captures the world of someone walking the autism tightrope and a world that doesn't necessarily understand their desire for absolutism and order in the chaos. A wonderful, charming and effective way to explain how different minds work very, very differently, with the words neurotypical and neurodiverse becoming increasingly prevalent, this is a beautiful, non-confrontational way to explain one facet of this. The script was smart and funny and dealt with the issue in a non-patronising way. I now want to learn everything I can about Stukas!

An interesting portrayal of what it may be like to be autistic. I found the sex scene to be surprisingly graphic.