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26 Sep 2012, 4:41 pm

For those of you in the UK, the BBC have recently broadcast a documentary titled The Growing Pains of A Teenage Genius which focuses on an (inevitably) gifted thirteen year old maths genius recently diagnosed with AS. It is available on iPlayer at the moment.


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27 Sep 2012, 10:33 pm

It seems as if the vast majority of "aspies" are from the UK, or are at least of English decent. Probably explains why they hate the loud and boisterous Irish so much.



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11 Oct 2012, 1:41 pm

I met him in real life (I live in the same town as him.) I use to go to the same school as him and let me tell you that school is Asperger's hell. I was bullied there like hell and the members of staff are absolutely crap at dealing with bullying and don't understand Autism in the slightest! This documentary is practically just giving the school a boost in its already too high ego! I'm sorry I just went off on a tangent there but I needed to say that.



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11 Oct 2012, 1:45 pm

Just a quick point - this documentary is actually a year old and was originally broadcast last year. It was a repeat. I'm looking for a copy floating around the web to share here, but I doubt I'll find one.



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11 Oct 2012, 2:11 pm

Found one, downloaded it and uploading to YT now. Stay tuned. :)



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11 Oct 2012, 2:18 pm

Oo-Rah, Tequila!



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11 Oct 2012, 4:00 pm

Fnord wrote:
Oo-Rah, Tequila!


I have it, but with one proviso - the video is blocked in the UK and the Crown Dependencies. People from the UK will have to watch it through a proxy:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eLXh3fnn4Q[/youtube]



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12 Oct 2012, 1:44 am

YouTube wrote:
This video contains content from Channel 5, who have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

Come on, it wasn't even aired on 5! How stupid ARE YouTube nowadays?



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12 Oct 2012, 5:44 am

I definitely see some of myself in that video (except for the being brilliant at maths part... Sadly, I am only a bit above average.)


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12 Oct 2012, 5:51 am

Any links to the programe? or video? keywords to search for?

Is the summary that the documentary shows how gifted he is in some areas, and not others. And that the school is given the oppertunity to really show off, but is in reality crap?
Or does the documentary show something substantial new?

Btw, if the school suck. Please type the name of it so other aspies may be warned by search engines.



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12 Oct 2012, 9:28 am

thnx for posting the vid!



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12 Oct 2012, 10:32 am

aspi-rant wrote:
thnx for posting the vid!


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12 Oct 2012, 11:17 am

Max 3 friends, can't explain my self... Yup

you need an aka 47 in school lmao



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12 Oct 2012, 11:25 am

Keyman wrote:
Any links to the programe? or video? keywords to search for?



http://www.1channel.ch/watch-2729671-Th ... age-Genius



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12 Oct 2012, 3:05 pm

Keyman wrote:
Btw, if the school suck. Please type the name of it so other aspies may be warned by search engines.

Darland High School. Stay well away. They may look pretty and fancy at first but it's famous for its bullying problems and Aspies seem to be the most common victims. The members of staff don't know how to handle bullying in the slightest and know crap about Autism.



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12 Oct 2012, 3:15 pm

BenPritchard wrote:
Come on, it wasn't even aired on 5! How stupid ARE YouTube nowadays?


You can get around that though by using a non-UK proxy.

Keyman wrote:
Any links to the programe? or video? keywords to search for?


Paste "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eLXh3fnn4Q" into http://theyoutubeproxy.com/ if living in the British Islands.