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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs[/youtube]
i found this video, really really amazing, it's a great story and i needed to share it.
the moral is really good for us aspies. in the story, this bird, kiwi, is a flightless species, but the main character, even though he knew he couldn't fly, never gave up... you need to watch this

That was adorable.I wanted to give him a big hug,what a cutey.(an it was a good point of using your brains to overcome physical challenges.)

Brilliant.Hope this kid goes on to make more movies,if I worked for Pixar,I would hire him in a heartbeat.

did you get the ending?

He had a little tear because he was finally flapping his tiny little wings and flying?

in the beginning you notice that he's nailing a tree to the side of a cliff, something he's been doing all his life, that way, when he jumps off, it creates the illusion of flying, if you turn up the volume, you hear a crash at the end. to me, all that states is that something hit the ground, think that maybe kiwi landed in a pile of leaves, hit a tree and survived, or mybe a tree came off the cliff and kiwi actually flew, or maybe his hat fell off.
but that's not how i saw a relation to here. kiwi knew that he could never fly, but he never gave up, so he created this illusion, he made a dream, he now knew what it was like to fly, and throughout his life, kiwi didn't want to let his flightlessness "keep him grounded" he lived, he really lived. you get the idea.
and understand that this doesn't mean he died. this implied he fullfilled his dream of flying, but not that he died. somebod else at youtube made another video that has him opening a parachute.
i like to think that kiwi fullfiilling his dream of flying in a way, could be compared to our dream as aspies to not be considered different , without the hitting the ground part.

He tied trees to the side of the cliff so that when he commited suicide by jumping off the cliff he could imagine he was flying over the trees while he was heading down to his death?

That doesn't seem like a very good moral to me, unless I misinterpreted this (likely).

EDIT: Oh oops. You explained it while I was writing this.

it's not suicide, you misenterpretated.

Please explain, really. I think I'm missing something.

Kiwis can't fly, so that means he dies at the bottom, right?

no, i explained that earlier.
there are plenty of explanations that can state he survived.
and again, it's not about the impact, it's about the idea

OK, I missed the explanation because I watched it 3 times.

But I still think it's pretty mean, even if someone did another showing he has a parachute, apparently stowed where he kept the hammer and nails.

EVERYBODY HE DIDN'T DIE AND THAT'S NOT THE POINT!! !! IT'S ABOUT DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE!! !!

I also think those backpacks made of teddy bears are horrific. The ones where the zipper is on the teddy's belly and you stow your books & things where the teddy's innards should be. I imagine someone having gutted the poor thing and now they're carrying the carcass.

Such are the dangers of a literal mind.

OK, now Squier understands what it must feel like to be a teacher with aspie students!! !!

Squier,

You could be right. Anyway, whether he died or not, the point was he WANTED to, and did everything he could to even FEEL like he achieved it! He did a remarkable thing. THAT made the show in my book.

Steve

I thought those tears were from going too fast?!?
I think he did learn to fly though, he sprouts those little wings for the first time in free fall. Maybe the terminal velocity was too much for him, guess we'll never know.

I do thinks like that as well and everyone looks at me strange. I also don't get the concept of killing flowers and saying it's lovely. The worst has to be killing a tree and celebrating around it (Christmas). Yeah! Let's kill a tree and celebrate. NOT.

Personally, I don't understand why he felt he needed to fly.