Do you know any good ASD documentaries?

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18 Feb 2012, 5:13 pm

I feel like watching some ASD documentaries about the lives of other people with Autism Spectrum Disorders - do you know any which are free, and are hosted on streaming sites (YouTube preferably). And yes, I've already watched the one in the sticky.

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18 Feb 2012, 5:48 pm

You could look into "Only human - make me normal". It's about school aged teenagers though so it's probably not that interesting to everybody.

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18 Feb 2012, 5:55 pm

Here is a link to a truly amazing story about a severely autistic girl and how she learned to communicate and is now writing a novel!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNZVV4Ci ... ture=share

Not sure if this is the one you meant you already saw or not...

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19 Feb 2012, 12:25 am

There are a couple of classics I would recommend but I don't know if they still make videos of them.

"I, Claudius" starring Derek Jacobi is an excellent one - yes, the Roman Emperor Claudius is suspected as being an Aspie

"Rough Riders" has an all star cast and definately shows Teddy Roosevelt's aspie tendencies to a tee.

"Ironclads" shows aspie inventor John Ericsson and aspie President Abe Lincoln at their best.

Waterloo starring Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer. Yes, Napoleon may have been an aspie.

Gods and Generals - pay attention to Stonewall Jackson. Jackson was a hypocondriac as well.

Hope this helps.

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