Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: Weird video on aspergers on channel 4 wayyy edited!
I watched this its labelled asperger's is it just me or is this more autism?
I hate the way its edited i look at it and I'm really scared of the way there acting. I don't like the way their portrayed as though its a documentary on wildlife on the discovery channel.
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject:
Geez... I agree, that was weird to watch. And they all seemed to be at the extreme end of Aspergers, I'd be closer to saying autistic, except for that guy with the video tapes. He seemed a bit more normal, just obsessive, which we all know about. Though I'd be more inclined to giving the tapes away rather than throwing them out if the label was wrong... _________________ We are a fever, we are a fever, we ain't born typical...
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject:
Spectrum. No it didn't bother me to see them. I must be missing something? I saw no problem with the video and heard nothing that was a value judgement (like you see on Autism Speaks videos). _________________ Just because one plane is flying out of formation, doesnt mean the formation is on course....R.D.Lang
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject:
actually,they are aspie if am remember correctly,am watched the documentary when it was on tv the first time round,must have been a few years ago.
challenging behavior does not always=classic autism over AS,the aspie lady am have often spoke of on here [who lived at last residential home] did a lot worse than the girl in the doc.,and she has also a diagnosis of AS. _________________ [LFAutie]
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject:
When I watched that video that behavior seemed on the extreme end of Asperger's. It seems rather odd, to see people that you can tell their behavior is way off when you yourself are diagnosed with the very same thing. Yet when compared to the average 48 NT male, I am the oddball.
It's rather peculiar because even though i am like a square peg in a round hole compared to other people my age, everybody seems to like me. I have no problems getting along with any of the clients. But in perspective I am almost seen as someone considerably younger than my true age. Well, then again, I look considerably younger than my true age. Maybe that might be the difference between your higher-level functioning Aspergers and your lower level functioning Aspergers like you see in the video. _________________ Not by revolution but through evolution are all things accomplished in permanency.
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:36 am Post subject:
Extreme?
Nah!
Not to my mind.
I'm like that, mostly like the video-guy and the thinner, black girl, when I'm home, with friends and when I'm just too overwhelmed to act all normal and invisible any longer.
It's not LF. I mean, that few behaviours on their own are not LF.
Anyone HF AS can be like that. Like me. That stuff is not 'functioning level'.
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject:
I'm a Punk Rocker and my attitude isn't nearly as bad as that, of the black young woman's in that video. I think that her behaviour might have something to do with the severity of AS that she has, or it might have to do with the neighbourhood that she was raised in, and the way that her parents might have raised her.
I can relate to the man, who was labeling his videotapes. There was one time that I've put a label on a videotape, and I was so frustrated, that I threw it acrossed the room.
I can't really relate to the redhead, because I do have a lot of friends. _________________ Sid The Rat is everything that I stand for. We're both large, proud Punkers with Cockney accents. We both have the same issues, as well. I don't see anything wrong, with that. I was put on this planet, to make myself happy. Sid :O)
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject:
Seen this programme before it came on channel 4 n it was called make me normal n it was in spa school which is specialist school for autism its in Bermondsey which is in south east london just 2 let u know.
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject:
Did anyone who calls these aspies "weird or extreme" stop to consider that some of our members maybe like that and feel a bit offended at your comments?
How is it any better,(I certainly think it is worse), then having NT's call you weird or extreme compared to them? _________________ Just because one plane is flying out of formation, doesnt mean the formation is on course....R.D.Lang
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject:
krex wrote:
Did anyone who calls these aspies "weird or extreme" stop to consider that some of our members maybe like that and feel a bit offended at your comments?
How is it any better,(I certainly think it is worse), then having NT's call you weird or extreme compared to them?
Sorry to anyone I accidentally offended.
Also I don't think we're considered more 'extreme' than NT's, just 'smarter' or 'dumber'. :/
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