Input for Neurodiversity-awareness video

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I recently wrote this piece on Neurodiversity on my blog: http://neko-no-baka.livejournal.com/300108.html
(It's quite long, and I'm sorry for the external link, but I find it hard to post big blocks of text in forums and still be able to understand it)

A few of my NT friends have suggested that I turn the piece into a youtube video, like my previous videos. However, I feel like it needs to be edited to fit an audiovisual medium.

So I was wondering whether any of us here had any suggestions, or anything they would rather I changed, so that it'll transfer into video. All the sentences that I use can't nicely fit in a video frame.

If you want, I'll post the entry here. I just didn't want it to distract from my purpose.

Really great idea, koryna! Good luck on your project and I would imagine doing some sleuthing on Wrong Planet would offer insights as well.
You could watch my video - URL below in my signature line.

Hmmm....about material - you could read a bit about Mirror Neurons (even just on Wikipedia) and maybe quiz others here too. Below is a video clip of Glenn Gould, HFA piano virtuoso playing Bach - you might like!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB76jxBq ... re=related

As far as your presentation on YouTube....I don't know. Maybe what you like to design! Good luck, koryna. And Happy Neurodiversity Day soon.

Sorry for my ignorance but when is Neurodiversity Day ?

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

Thanks LabPet,

I will have to work out what I should do that day, I think it would be a pitty to allow it to pass just like any other day.

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Health is a state of physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity I am not a jigsaw, I am a free man !

Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

This is great. Sometimes, it gets really exhausting trying to explain the very meaning of ND to someone. I try to be patient because perhaps it's simply hard for some people to get over the idea that neurodiversity is often connected to autism pride, but I constantly remind people that it's not the same as having pride (pride is a completely different issue, in my opinion).

Also, I love but also lament the fact that people just don't seem to get it that the neurodiversity movement doesn't necessarily mean "no progress"! They seem to think that we want to inhibit people from getting any help or that we don't want to negotiate with people and discuss the needs of the mentally disabled/ill (which is absolutely false). I think it's laughable when they say that autism isn't a civil rights issue; well, apparently, it's feminist issue, a mental health issue, a medical issue.......it seems very logical that it would be a civil rights issue (considering how many autistic people are denied their rights because of their autism).

Everyone deserves to have their fundamental rights to be preserved and protected and to say that we shouldn't have them gives the impression that these anti-ND people (who specifically don't agree with autism civil rights) are arrogant and think that they are special (so they don't have any right to judge us for our pride, I guess).

State that everybody has the right to life, whether they have a disability, or not.