Autism: The Wall That Knows No Limits

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Xl9tb5GEw[/youtube]


what are your view on this video

I am just about to watch it. What is it about?

I totally get where this video comes from.

Is it possible to add I understand where they are coming from to the available answers?

"Jane, you ignorant slut!"

Humor aside that video irritated me somewhat I don't know why but all I picked up on was a bunch of NT's telling me how different my brain was. wtf? Good for the autistic guy for appearing in the video though but I'd have been humiliated to appear in that.

I suppose it's a start though, maybe someday we'll get autistic people producing autistic video's about autism (or AS whatever floats your boat), or would that be too straight to the point?

What did everyone else think?

i hated it but thats just me

I liked it. I thought it represented autism fairly. And I found it worth the time (27 minutes) that it took to watch it.

Two things I really particularly liked.

First, the friend of an autistic. I really liked hearing her perspective. It's not one you hear very often. You hear the perspective of parents, doctors, educators, and of those on the spectrum, but not that friendship perspective. I liked seeing her willingness to adapt to be friends with him.

I liked that 4th wall image (from the autistic person in the video), (For those who haven't watched it, the term comes from theater... the stage has 3 ways, the 4 side facing the audience, the 4th way being an imaginary wall between the actors and the audience. The image is, having autism is like being separated from others like actors are separated from audiences by the 4th wall.)

The message I took out of it for myself is, I can get along in live if I accept that I am different, that those of us with autistic traits, we aren't going to get along by trying to be normal, but we can accept ourselves with our differences, and try to be the best we can be along with that.

By the way, for any who are interested, there's 3 more parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccUr_VT-vkc

That's the link to part two. And the links to the other parts are to the right. Ignore the one at the top of the list, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th are the other 3 parts.

I got kind of bored watching it, to be honest. I don't think I'll watch the rest. But it's not negative, at all. I get where they're coming from.

I found this video to be quite helpful - a number of the things mentioned I can certainly relate to, like becoming intensely upset when I lost at games as a child, liking the repetitiveness of game shows, and wishing that other people would just say what they are thinking - tell me to my face what they do or don't like about me. I like the fourth wall analogy quite a bit.

I do kinda see where they are coming from which seems to make sense to me.
But for some reason, my internet yesterday could only view half of the vid.