UK Documentary of Interest

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I watched an interesting documentary with the theme of car travels with your father and one of the participants has AS.
I edited out the other 3 stories [not that they were uninteresting but just not relevant for WP]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSMw6XPS1po&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOaUyilGoK0[/youtube]

That was very interesting to watch. Thanks.

And I loved listening to their accents. "I cannae do it!"

Thanks dunbots.......I kind of forgot the accents might be a problem for some.

very nice to watch!

Thanks for posting...I love documentaries especially about autism and aspergers. That was a good one !
I also had a Laurel and Hardy obsession when I was a kid, both my brother and I and then we got into the Marx Brothers when we were teenagers.

I watched the programme when it was on TV, just because I knew there was an Aspie teen in it. It was really heart warming. I loved how he still called his parents Mummy and Daddy, but couldn't help feeling that he'd get laughed at, at school, if he's in mainstream.

That was funny and touching to watch at the same time. I really enjoyed it. Why can't we do Reality TV like that in the U.S.? I just love the Brits!

Thanks for sharing.

And, dunbots, that's quite an avatar you got going there.

thanks cosmicruss, that was a great video to watch.

i found it a bit odd that the 8 yr old brother was asking questions about autism, as if he didnt really know what it was. makes me wonder if the diagnosis is new or they just havent discussed his brothers dx with him.

how you refer to your parents is often cultural, so it may just be the norm for people in that area to call parents mummy and daddy, regardless of age. it can even be custom just within the family. my SO and his siblings call their mother mom, but refer to her as mommy when they talk about her, and they are all between 39 and 50 yo.

we went to pick up our oldest last night from where he was participating in a youth theatre production. he will be 15 in two months. he was waiting outside with half a dozen other teenagers, and when he saw us, he waved and yelled loudly, "Hi mommy, hi daddy!" thats typical for him, he will hug me and tell me he loves me in the hallway of his school surrounded by other kids. hes never complained about getting any flack for it. i think part of it is the typical autistic lack of caring for social convention and opinions of others. we also still have 5 and 7 yos in the house who call us mommy and daddy, so im sure part is just that thats how we are addressed by everyone else.

I gave it a go but I could only understand about 1/3 of the family's conversation. The narrator I had no trouble with but that cockney(?) - I'm not even sure WHICH English accent that is - I just can't follow.