Autism Everyday Video: Documentary or Propaganda

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I just saw a part of that video by Autism Speaks. Where are the achievements of people with Autism on this? It really seems like they want to pump up the sob stories on this video.

I think they are taking the wrong approach on how children with Autism are being managed. Did you see the kids at the beginning of the video? A lot of them were basically pissed off at that particular moment which is why there weren't having much luck.

Suppose they were to focus the learning in a way that their children enjoyed instead of turning it into a chore with all the sob stories that come out of it. If you are going to teach an autistic child it has to be on their terms not your own. Then again since I am high functioning, the kind of behavior associated with a lower functioning autie would be just as foreign to me as to an NT. All of the school peers I knew growing up were NT. Anyway, just my take or rant on this.

How they advertise, really they should start bringing laws out to stop just showing the bad case's, mainly because they don't really know how the person is going to develop ( & it send's out that bad message, that the rest have to start defending because of it ). But talking like that infront of them :/ why arn't anyone angry with them? They would be if it was another person slapping all that onto someoen who is over weight, infront of they child.

Here's an example of something that should simply be common sense: That part in the video where the 8 year old autistic girl was throwing a scene over the swing. Why is is that the parent simply didn't take the message and stop trying to make her daughter play on the swing? Wouldn't it make better sense to simply find out why she didn't like it rather than shoving this on her?

Yeah, it's been discussed before, that video is crap.

I'm developing a section of my website to raise awareness of this crap:

The Truth About Autism Speaks

The only bit that stood out to me is the boy swaying side to side whilst holding his mother's hand on the stairwell; that's how I am/was (the look he has on his face is exactly like mine). I don't mind when videos point out the symptoms of autism, even in such a negative light; it's not all eccentric and quirky.

Albeit, forcing children to do things that send them to tantrums is wrong; so what if someone doesn't have their teeth cleaned, I never cleaned mine up until I was a teenager. However, sometimes just existing for someone with autism gives them tantrums, and there's nothing one can do to alleviate these (as the causative agent probably won't be recognized until the child matures and tells you what it was--most seem to gain speech nowadays).

Watching it: it does show caring parents, their desires for their children are selfishly orientated, but everyone is; those who say those with autism need to accept who they are, and the parents who want their children to be normal and do normal things.

The majority of people with autism won't have a relationship, they won't be married; to me, this is sad in many ways. I don't see how there's anything wrong with saying such.