Autism the musical documentary

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Anyone seen it? It's cute but the parents part kinda ruined it a bit .i loved the am I too sensitive song.

I haven't seen it. If it focuses on parents so much that it almost forgets the person on the spectrum, that would not really surprise me.

I think a musical has a lot of potential. Just for starters, lights and sounds can be used to supplement merely verbal descriptions of sensory issues.

Ugh, isn't that the story of the world...the REAL story of autism isn't our lived experience, it's how HARD it is to be the parent of an autistic kid. UGH.

There was a bit of that in the movie. Also it was really clear to me that all of the kids came from really financially well-off families, and since I was a really poor kid that made me feel bad because even if a program like that had existed when I was a kid, my family couldn't probably have afforded it, and then I start thinking too much about how most of the best intervention and support services are out of reach for poor people and get depressed.

But the movie was kind of cute.

I saw it when it was in a theater , years ago ~ I remember noting that one AS kid was the child of a celebrity ! (Stephen Stills - of Crosby , ______ , and Nash/Young . I'm not saying I LIKE 'em but the ARE! celebrities/he is !)