Kathie Lee vs. autistic kid

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Guys, this video... I'm just speechless. I think I'd want to kill myself if I was that little kid in the video. Please watch it, I doubt you've ever seen anything quite as ridiculous/awkward as this.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MwuJy07lQY[/youtube]

I don't think I could find a better example of NT's playing their little NT games.

And to think they're the ones who are better at empathizing. Bulls***! I really wish I had a point of view gun right now.

Exactly. At least I can imagine what this poor kid is going through listening to that HORRIBLE song.

What the heck is wrong with these people?!?!?! I feel soooooo bad for the kid. Did anyone ask him if he wanted to be on tv? I'm guessing that's a no. Ugh! Yeah, I'm really thinking they are incapable of empathizing if they don't understand why that would upset someone. And then they laugh at him! I would've walked off if I was him.

Nah Ive seen a more awkward interview.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4hLS01uscY[/youtube]

UGH that is just so patronizing! The poor kid was probably crying because of how awful the song was! If that kid had been me, I would have got up and shouted 'this is F*****G BS!! !', punched Kathy Lee Gifford and walked out...

Holy bleep on a bleep sandwitch!
If I had been in his shoes, knowing what I know now from dealing witht those kind of ppl, think I could have held my own against them like this:

"You can use your sound stage to turn my story into a travesty if that helps your sponsors sell add time to pander your weak-hearted viewer base, while your composer rehashes archetypal melodies under the disingenuous pretense of sympathy, but for me this s**t is real. I'll still wake up tomorrow and I'll still be me, but my narration doesn't linger in a stale major key."

I'd love to fantisize about what this kid can do with his life to pulverize their prissy little expectations of what he should be, but then I might be almost as bad as the hosts for wanting him to fill a role to satisfy my own perceptions as an Aspie Advocate.

All-in-all, I just hope he doesn't let the stupid bastards wear him down.

I'm pretty sure DSM IV says Aspies and Auties like being patronised

WTF The kid can speak for himself he's not a specimen. I'm surprised he held it together. That song they could use to interrogate for information in the CIA.

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I would have flipped both middle fingers at her and yelled, "Patronise this, b***h! and punched and spat on her....THEN walk out.

Howard Stern said it was child abuse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2RnFAfo ... re=related

I cannot believe this. I thought the story in itself was bad enough: I mean, really, it's swell of the guy and I fully understand the importance that such a friendship can have for your life (having had a friend who probably protected me from more bullying by just being my friend than any teacher ever did), but it's nothing for public television. And then the song. If I had been drinking something, I would've spat it out the moment I heard the title. What the hell was she thinking? How would you like to have all your failures serenaded on public television? And, worst of all, the kid's crying and he says (very, very seriously) that it was too sad, and everyone acts like it's a bloody joke. That might just be the worst thing of all.

What if, on national TV, Kathy Lee held a PityParty for a lone African American high-school freshman befriended by a "noble" white boy? Would she be allowed to keep her job?

What I find fascinating is that some in this thread are so opposed to the song because it presumably 'throws his shortcomings out there for the whole world to see'.

I had an entirely different thought when I heard it. Is it really that hard for some people to believe that some of us might just be sitting alone because we like it that way? That automatic assumption that we must be sad, lonely puppies in need of rescue just pisses me off.

I think the little boy had a similar idea and hence remarked that the song was too sad. The song simply is not accurate.

What. The. Hell.

For one thing, I think it was a Christmas song so that's what the "miracles can happen" thing was all about. The kid actually seemed moved by the song. He didn't seem to hate it. It kind of made me cringe a little, but everyone has different tastes.

There's that too. I don't know how many times I've had to tell people to go away because I was taking my lunch time as a much needed break from people, but they insisted that I was lonely. Luckily people don't do that in college.