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02 Apr 2009, 6:22 am

Video #2 in my Autism Awareness Series

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=383N325j9Lw[/youtube]


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02 Apr 2009, 6:41 am

That was great! Short and sweet. Love the music and some of those visuals.



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02 Apr 2009, 6:47 am

Unfortunately, that entire piece is a generalization as far as my experience goes (except for diagnostic things like "specialisation" in the narrow interest and not following social trends just for the sake of it).

Much of it describes personality traits that everyone can have or lack.



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02 Apr 2009, 7:53 am

Yes, I agree with Daniel; it's very general, can apply to many NTs, and may not apply to some autistics. We don't all love animals; we aren't all extremely loyal to our friends... But for a one-day effort, it's really not bad.


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02 Apr 2009, 8:08 am

Callista wrote:
Yes, I agree with Daniel; it's very general, can apply to many NTs, and may not apply to some autistics.....

I thought that was the point - to show that autism is not necessarily a dire situation. It isn't all about being different from NTs & having a hard life.


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02 Apr 2009, 8:11 am

I enjoyed whitetiger's video. True, it dealt with personality traits, but that was fine. Showing our sensory issues and stimming and...etc. would not seemed to have fit the mood of this video. That's just my opinion. So...I liked it :D .


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02 Apr 2009, 9:15 am

zeichner wrote:
Callista wrote:
Yes, I agree with Daniel; it's very general, can apply to many NTs, and may not apply to some autistics.....

I thought that was the point - to show that autism is not necessarily a dire situation. It isn't all about being different from NTs & having a hard life.


Yes, that was my point. Thank you! I wanted to show some common ground so that NT's can appreciate similarities. The rest of the videos in the series focus on the differences.


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02 Apr 2009, 12:47 pm

very nice; i like it a lot!

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