Chris Packham: Asperger's and Me 9pm BBC 2 12/10/2017

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Hi Spotty

Well I've just emailed the programme commissioners at Channel 4.  They will reply in the next few weeks. - email text below... the BBC don't take programme ideas for us licence payers.....only producers and writers :)

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we definitely need the female side of things.....Shall I write to Channel 4 (being serious)....make a suggestion! - ?

I also had a tear in my eye a couple of times.  I thought it was good overall, but we need an ambassador who is female and late diagnosed.  Maleness took over some of the programme.  It was good that his like step daughter was on the programme so they showed good relationships.  I'll be sad for Chris when his dog does die.  I cried for lost pets during the programme.

Hi Laddie

I like people a great deal....just don't always have the tools to deal with them.......deeply envious of your ruralness and I too are not to far away from a hill or woodland to run to!  just watch out for those "little brown job"

like you, I am self diagnosed ...

it was a good programme on the whole....but I think covered a lot off of stuff....but rather a bit thinly......for an NT looking in, food for thought....for me...it would have been good to have several programmes - one on relationships, one of experiences of growing up/school, one on employment......etc etc

Ellie

God we're old!!! lol

Yes I watched this programme tonight and enjoyed it very much. In fact I had a tear in my eye at the end.

There was so much I could appreciate from my own experiences over the years. Like when my ex wife told me "you don't like people" and I remember feeling hurt by that ............but she was correct. The fact I never wanted to go to social occasions. That I too now live alone in a very rural area with my Border Collie who I love because he just accepts me for who I am. I love to walk in the forest and enjoy the wildlife we meet. The deer, foxes, red squirrels, buzzards, kestrels, jays and many little brown jobs

Springwatch/autumnwatch are some of my favourite programmes. Thank you Chris.

I don't need any formal diagnosis after watching this programme. I know now who I am. An Aspie and happy with that.

The cures were horrific..........sadly it seems there are many NT's who believe in them. Those poor children.

Take care, Laddie.

It honestly wasn't distressing to watch I don't think, he kept stressing that we are all different but it was very much his story and he was very honest.  I suspect the slight cliche bias will have come in the editing to make a coherent narrative for a general television audience.

Famous  and late diagnosed Aspie female required, or maybe just all of us in little bits and pieces. xx

Having not yet watched this programme would it be fair to assume it was just all about the man himself? Fair enough if so but just one man and his journey may be seen as being the only type of aspie man there is, 

I can see this is opening peoples minds but unless they run a series of programes highlighting various types then it gives a narrow understanding to the unknowing.

indeed a programe for aspie or ASD women,and one for male female children,the more varied the better,

thanks for the discussion it will hopefully make watching it less stressing, forewarned and such.

nite ladies,xx()()

Hey...so what we really need is some female Aspie talking heads......it is a shame that it sounds like such a radical idea.....I hold down a career, am carer to my husband and son and have ASD......there must be a stream Of ASD women..needed a voice...

How about channel 4 doing a two minute ASD take on the  day just before the news! Awareness and education is key. Otherwise we sink intoour holes/shells xxxx missing you Spottty xx 

I forgot, Goodnight every Walton in the house! xxx

Well I'm going to answer myself to try to keep the thread tidy and it looks like you've all gone to bed anyway.  I thought that the US 'correctional' school and other methods were horrifying but unsurprising, I don't like the term 'high functioning' but I guess that is what I would be labelled, now I have the beginnings of understanding how I am I certainly don't want to be 'fixed', the environment we live in just needs to be a little more flexible, accommodating and understanding.

A  life built on sand is a good analogy, you can find a way to make things work but only one little straw removed pulls the whole thing apart.  Yes too, his partner's and step daughter's pain were thinly masked at his refusal to attempt to fit in anymore, but he has that luxury because he has earned enough money to be autonomous, most of us don't.

I couldn't be more jealous of his house, visited Exmoor once and absolutely loved it, he had some funky furniture, but everywhere would be improved with a Spotty chair!  His end point about how many of us there are confined to rooms or houses when we could be so productive and inspiring was a good one.  On the whole I thought it was good but he was also quite stereo-typically male Aspie and it would have been nice if there were a companion piece on all the invisible women, and I expect men with similar traits there are out here.

Also the idea that all 'high functioning' ASD people are some kind of savant was perpetuated, which I don't think is healthy or helpful.

Nite Jim bob! X

good night everyone 

and Mary Lou x

good night Missy

Good night Spotty 

Good night LW 

Hi Ellie glad you came here tonite, missed the programme, feeling a little aprhensive about watching it?

yes more codiene,it helps,cold weather and old age don’t go well with a bad back, Empathy,it can be both,a curse to care that much it hurts, and glory at being able to see suffering and try to help.or actually being fortunate to know someone who shares the same empathy.

nite nite friends, xxx()()()xxx.

Some may say that the curse and the glory is that we empathise too much ....?

You did a thread thing.....btw....get you!!? Xxxxxxx