Loving Lampposts: A film about autism and autistic people

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Here is the film's website: http://www.lovinglamppostsmovie.com . It was made by Todd Drezner whose four-year-old autistic son caresses all the lampposts in a park. Drezner visits two opposing sides in the autism debate: the recovery movement who believe that autism can be cured, and the neurodiversity movement. The film also features autistic adults. There is a trailer of the film on the website. From what I have read the film has a positive view about autistic people and is well worth seeing.

There is another nice new documentary about autistics. It is called "Neurotypical" -
http://www.neuro-typical.com/
It documents the lives of three autistics, at least one of whom is active within the Autistic Self Advocacy Network.

Can anyone list any documentaries currently available?. I have only been able to access a few BBC one's.

I want to see that documentary!

The title reminds me of when I was 5 and I was obsessed with street lights and I used to dream that I had a set of little street lights that I could move around on a magnetic board, that lit up in the dark.

Those are exceptionally nice lamp posts. It doesn't seem unusual to me for a kid to want to touch those big round smooth lampposts, hang off them by one hand and walk around, swing off them.
We just have crappy ugly concrete or galv steel lampposts here. My own four your old Autie likes to look at street sign posts, they give him uncontrollable giggles, mainly cos I shake them so they start wobbling maniacally

Actually I wonder if the dad had ever thought about how nice those lampposts are, transfixed against the blue sky?