" AUTISM - THE MUSICAL " movie on HBO to-night .

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At least here in the US , the movie " AUTISM - THE MUSICAL " is on HBO to-night .
I don't even have a TV , let alone cable , let alone HBO , so...........
I posted about the movie when I saw it .
I'm posting about it in this forum (I meant to before) , because it's topical (e. g....on to-night ) .
( Actually , it may be over already , on the East Coast anyway , by now ! !! !! !! !! !! )

I saw that... I got a sorta je ne se qouis wt*?...

I really liked it and my wife hit the ceiling when the director wanted to cut that one little boy's part two days before opening. Of all people, she should know Autistic kids have problems with transitions. What in the world was she thinking...having him rehearse one thing for months, then telling him she'll change it. Well, that meltdown served her right.

But, I was happy they were all able to pull it together in the end.

My mom just cancelled our HBO subscription last week...

I liked it.

I thought it was okay. It seemed to be focus a lot on the parents. Now I was under the assumption it was about the kids. While it did have many parts involving only the kids, it seemed it really emphasized the parents trouble. Don't get me wrong, it's probably very hard to raise a child with a disability ( no experience in that department here), but it seemed like the show was marketed to be about the kids and much of what i saw was parents saying "it's hard".

I loved the parts with the kids. Especially the bit where the one kid, Wyatt(SP), talked about the whole going into their own world. It was a very interesting movie.

One part that i was confused with, was the whole incident NewportBeachDude mentioned. I never heard her say they were going to cut the act, for what i saw they were doing the dress rehearsal and were saving time by not completely doing the entire show, just sort of skimming threw it. Maybe im wrong but i never thought it was the directors intention to cut the act. Guess I'll have to watch that part again ( Love TIVO). IMO the mother over-reacted, given the fact that the act wasn't being cut ( if it was being cut i think the reaction was warranted.

Another thing i liked was when the one father said that, in his opinion, many familys break up because the one parent is excessively preoccupied with the child. The marriage becomes all about the child instead of the family as a whole.

If you don't have HBO, you can watch the documentary online for free:

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/autism ... hbo2_image

are it wont let me watch it because i live in the uk

I did not like the word 'disease' used in reference to autism. I did not like how the children were treated like robots to be programmed. But I did like the one mother learning from her daughter that her daughter had value as a human being even though the mother knew that society would not treat her daughter with proper respect.