If you're autistic you really owe it to yourself to watch some Yorgos Lanthimos movies. They're just some fucked up little films about all the social institutions that normal people take for granted, but depicted as the awkward, unhinged nightmares that autistic people know them to be.

Think that heteronormative dating culture is completely counter-productive and unintuitive, and that the social pressures of marriage and monogamy are hopelessly out of proportion? Try The Lobster.

Did you live in a white-picket-fence suburb where the process of keeping up appearances, and the ritual of social niceties seemed hopelessly nonsensical and borderline self-destructive? There's The Killing Of A Sacred Deer.

Did you grow up in an Extremely Normal and Caring family, and now you're traumatized after a childhood filled with violently enforced rules and expectations that felt completely at odds with reality? Try Dogtooth.

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Oh! Ohhh! That last one is me! =D

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