New Autistic Princess video

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I'm sorry liloleme - I generally dislike these sorts of videos. Posting them on youtube just invites all sorts of ridicule and misunderstanding even when they are intended to bring attention and acceptance. I can only imagine how I'd feel now, as an adult, if my parents had posted something like this of me. that's only my opinion and my reaction, I know.

She is precious though - and entirely cute!

I just saw a cute kind being cute. Nothing particularly Autistic about it.

Is she your daughter? She is the sweetest thing in the world.

I think the point is to post videos of a darling little girl doing little girl things AND she happens to be autistic.

I agree that the videos of meltdowns don't do much to help with acceptance in the world. I think videos of the autistic princess, are wonderful. That is a pretty sweet face of autism!

Lilolme - she's lovely!

She really is a cute child

how else are we to change the misconceptions the world has of our children if we dont show them who our children are? my son now at 5 knows he is autistic. he doesnt yet grasp the full meaning, just like he doesnt yet grasp the full differences between boys and girls. but he knows its part of who he is, it makes him think differently than most people, its what makes him good at video games and scared to talk to other kids, its something that makes him just like his daddy. my hope is that by the time he is an adult, he will be so comfortable in his own skin and who he is, autism and all, that he wont be upset if the world sees him for who he is, that he will WANT the world to see him for who he is.

as a parent, i love to see videos of autistic children, in all kinds of behavior. it helps remind me that my son IS typical, he is just like other autistic children, and we arent alone in what we experience.

caitlin, who i havent seen around here much lately, has a wonderful post on being open about autism on her blog. i like to point to it every time i see someone frowing at putting our kids out there for the world to see. http://www.welcome-to-normal.com/2010/0 ... -into.html

The reason I put videos of my daughter on youtube is because there are so many negative videos about Autism....filming kids having meltdowns, ect. This is why the general public has a negative view of Autistic people. Also I only allow comments with my permission so I dont get any troll/ignorant comments. My daughter enjoys her videos, she is a born performer as you can see. I dont think anything in her videos could be construed as embarrassing to her. She, at this point in her life, could care less what people think of her anyway and she would not even notice if anyone did think she looked "odd" or "different". Everyone around her accepts her and loves her, even the other kids at school. If she ever decided that she did not like her videos I can remove them.
I dont quite understand what you mean by "these sorts of videos"....I am showing my daughter singing, dancing and having fun. Im not saying "look at my poor child afflicted with the terrible autism DISEASE" Im saying "Autism is not as bad as you people think it is and my daughter is just as beautiful, intelligent and cute as your typical child is".......actually more JK! If we were all afraid to show people what Autism really is than people will continue to believe that Autism is a kid rocking in a corner....because that is what the media wants people to think. I have only seen one documentary about an Autistic child that focuses some on the positive...most are primarily negative. People need to realize that even typical kids have problems and bad days just like autistic kids do.
You also should look up autismauntie. She videos her niece and nephew who are severely affected but her videos are mainly positive aside from the ones that show the kids father who tragically died of cancer a few years ago. Her niece is about the same age as Maddy and is just starting to talk. She is adorable and loves to be filmed just like Maddy does. Her nephew is around nine now and is still non verbal but he is happy and very affectionate things that most people would not expect from a severely autistic child.
Education is the key to acceptance and change!

Thanks everyone else for the positive comments. She is the sweetest little girl on the face of the earth...even when she is being a poop !

Could you please tell me/us which documentary that is? I would love to look it up and see it.

I didn't see anything wrong with the video. Just a little girl, being a silly little girl. Looked quite cute to me. She's a doll ! !!

Old_fool...the documentary is called Asperger Grampa its a BBC special under The Autism Puzzle. I actually found it on Vuze under several different docs and shows if you want to find it in the same place put this in the search word for word and you will find it: ADHD-Asperger-syndrome-Tourette's-Autism-Dyslexia. Some of them are AVI files and some are PDF files. A few of the avi movie/documentaries were not very good but a few of them I found really interesting. Especially the one about ADHD which is another English Documentary and the one about Dyslexia was ok too. Hope you can find it.

Thanks, and you were 100% right, ADHD-Asperger-syndrome-Tourette's-Autism-Dyslexia is indeed the keyword for search. I found a collection of videos and .pdf files, including one titled "aspergers grampa", while "aspergers grampa" by itself returns nothing at all.

I am downloading the lot as we "speak". Muchas gracias!