POV: Neurotypical-- did you watch it?

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I forgot to watch POV- "Neurotypical" on PBS last night (even though I had written it down for myself...arrgghh).
If you watched it, how was it? Good?
Thanks,
Amelia

I watched it. It was okay, but I wish it would have delved a little deeper. It was a composite of surface interviews, with the requisite footage of daily life to show "hey, autistic people are real people".

Thanks for your response. I always find myself wishing documentarians would delve deeper also. No one seems to have gotten into the "meat" of ASD on film yet. Oh well, if they play it again I'll just watch it for entertainment.

You can watch it HERE, if you want to.

Thanks for posting. I enjoyed that

Thank you for sharing; it was a very interesting documentary.

I thought it was very interesting.

I was struck by the NT man and ASD woman--when she said her late diagnosis was liberating and he said it made things worse. He basically went on to say that it wasn't fair that she got to have problems that couldn't be solved, while he had to work on his problems.

It was also interesting to hear how the ASD issue was (I think inappropriately) raised as an explanation for why they had a longstanding problem about finances. He seemed to be blaming her ASD for her distress at his involving her in very some very bad financial decisions.

Complicated!

Thanks SteelBlu for the link! I will watch it when I get some quiet moments. Thanks everyone for letting me know how it was. I appreciate it.

That guy was an as*hole. I wanted to slap the s**t out of his head. He put that woman in major debt then basically said, 'tough s**t deal with it'. He said something about how being in debt is normal; as if putting your wife $120,000 in debt because of your excessive spending neurotypical behavior He says, "it's $120,000, it's not huge.... join the real world". He may not have ASD but he is not NT. It's a shame she feels stuck with that piece of s**t parasite.

If you guys want to see what Adamantium and I talking about go to 44:05 in the video. I will repost the link that SteelBlu kindly provided in her post above. http://www.pbs.org/pov/neurotypical/full.php#.UfhSi21KQmO

Yup, the financially troubled married couple were definitely in a bad spot. I felt very badly for the wife. It sounded like she was trying to say that he'd accrued all of that debt without her knowledge, and that he was saying, "Well, that's life, you should have expected that." NO!

The married couple on the couch made me happy, though.

I thought it was well done-I see the reactions some of the people had I see myself doing too.

my local PBS station reception disappeared just before the program aired. so I had to wait a day to see it, and it was underwhelming. it was a fluff piece.

The creep was also saying the fact that she was worried that she would go into retirement in debt because of him was a sign of her rigid thinking! Arsehattery of a highly developed kind. He has no idea how lucky he is that they have a kid. Why doesn't he have any empathy for her????

Yeah. That's pretty much what I meant by "interesting" in this case.



For someone on the inside of the ASD world, yes. But for someone on the outside who doesn't really know much, it was a nice, broad picture of the spectrum. Anyone who saw it and did not know will now have an idea that the spectrum covers a lot.

it needed to be much longer and more in depth. I really wanted to know more of what happened in the life of the little girl, who made me weep, btw.

I think they did a decent job for the time they had and the number of people they covered, but I too would have liked to see more from each of the people in the documentary. You could spend the whole hour just talking to and observing a single person. Some of the people only appeared very briefly (like the autistic man with the NT wife and the young woman with the colorful clothes), or didn't say very much when they did (like the teenage boy), and I would have loved to hear their life stories, too. Really deserves to be expanded into a series or something.

Speaking of weeping, Wolf's story about seeing the Jungle Book made me almost tear up-- so sad that society treats us so terribly.

A typical psychopathic behavior is to victimize people and then blame them for being victimized. This guy may or may not be a psychopath or sociopath but he definitely has issues going on if he can actually say something inane like "welcome to the real world" in reference to inflicting $120,000 in debt on his own wife.