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  Review by Jane Lawson ★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I've mixed feelings about this movie. For starters, I don't support the use of puzzle pieces on the cover, because I feel greatly that using a puzzle to describe what one doesn't understand in autism is inaccurate, in that there are no missing pieces -- one just needs to accept the fact that all people are different. We are human; it's one race.

  "Autism in Love" focuses on three different stories, and I saw parts of myself in all of them. It's diverse, but I feel like I would have liked this more if it were more diverse -- I often felt as though the "capability" of an autistic person being in love was the major question. In order to…

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  Review by Eli ★★★

  It was just as awkward to watch this as it is being around autistic people. But the documentary lends an idea of what is going on in their heads and gives a better understanding of what it's like to love with an autistic mind. I enjoyed the varied situations of the main subjects: the single man, the serious couple, and the married couple.

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  Review by Todd Malkin ★★★★

  A very touching movie that manages to be insightful without overplaying itself. A mother's love for her son touched me most, but several scenes spoke to me. I cried. My cats cried. I heard my neighbors crying. There wasn't a dry eye in the neighborhood.

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  Review by Christopher Rowe ★★★★

  This documentary captures a swath of subjects who represent the difficulties of living on the spectrum as well as the joys of our shared humanity, regardless of cognitive orientation.

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  Review by Tyler Featherstone ★★★½

  Didn't think I'd sit and watch all of this when my girlfriend threw it on the other night. It wasn't bad though.

  There are no experts chiming in giving you facts and statistics or anything like that, but rather it follows a few autistic people as they live life, dealing with being autistic and how it impacts their relationships, in their own words.

  The group it follows are all from different walks of life and various ends of the spectrum. There's a young adult, still living with his mother, who struggles daily with his autism and is desperate for companionship. Not only do you feel for him, but it's torturous for his mother to go through watching him. There's an…

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  Review by JMReviews ★★★

  If I was a girl and a guy rocked up to our first date in a suit, I'd be pretty impressed.

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  Review by Scott ★★★★½ 1

  Third Tribeca film. Absolutely touching and moving documentary about four individuals on the autism spectrum dealing with the emotional complexities and hardships of love. By itself, love is a really hard emotion to deal with; when you add in individuals who have a developmental condition which makes it hard to read other people and express yourself properly, it's one of the most challenging things to deal with. It proves to be a wallop of emotions, of despair and triumph in equal measure. If you have anyone on the Austism Spectrum in your life, or have any interest in it, it'll be absolutely essential viewing.

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  Review by ceethengee

  Love is hard - for anyone

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  Review by Americanguy ★★★★

  Follows the relationships of couples and people with Autism. This had some sad scenes, and some very touching ones. I really love the advice given by one of the women it follows. Sometimes you just have to drop your barriers, whatever they may be and let people love you. Overcome those situations in life that made you feel incapable or undeserving of love. As you see a lot of that with people. One of the funniest things was when Lenny says
  “You know what man I'm going admit something to you, you want me to tell you something? I like girls that are black. I like em a lot, what do you think about that?”

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  Review by Ishara ★★★★

  I keep liking it the more I think about it; that's probably a sign it's a pretty good film.

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  Review by Luke Poulton ★★★★

  I forgot to post about this yesterday. This documentary is wonderful but at the same time it’s heartbreaking, two of the people in this are a lovely couple and then we get Lenny and Stephen. Lenny’s story hit me hard and I really felt for him. Stephen’s story pretty much broke me. This is a documentary that made me happy cry at the end but also cry at how heart-rending some parts were. I’m glad that this truly gives a voice to people with Autism though to speak how they feel about love, it feels so raw, it’s emotional, it’s personal and they say exactly how they feel. It’s a documentary that makes people that aren’t Autistic understand why relationships and love can be hard for people with Autism. It’s a really brilliant film worth checking out!

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  Review by Dan Gaertner ★★½

  I like films that show you lives you never see in the movies. Films can be a lot of things, but one thing they are really great at being are being empathy machines. This is one of those films.