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Two Programmes on Autism Did anyone else watch them?

David

I watched yesterday THE AUTISTIC ME.  It was hard to follow as it was about three Autistic young men on the Autistic spectrum basically in the transition to Adulthood.  They cannot do what other young people do.  I do not understand why children under sixteen should not watch it.  Surely it is good for children to know about what life can be like for some Adults.  I knew as I visited my Cousin in a Mental Hospital as a small boy.

I watched another programme on Monday about Autism.   It said that everyone has Autistic traits but Autistic people have more Autistic traits then the general population.  One gets diagnosed if one finds life hard to cope with being Autistic not on how many traits so the programme said.

Secondly it describeld a case about a young man called Blair in the 1700S brought by his brother to anul a marrage.  The case was in Edinburough and the young man was probably Autistic as he repeated the questions the Clerk of the Court Asked.

Not sure where this discussion should go.  It should go under new Info about Autism but there is no section about it .  The programmes were educational and the second programme was about young people so I decided to put it under Education this discussion.

I would like replies especially from anyone else who watched Programmes on Autism this week.

  David.

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    I watched the Horizon programme by/about Uta Frith and also watched most of the programme about the three autistic guys.

    I found both programmes uncomfortable in parts. I did not like watching the boy on the farm with all of his sibs and the mother who, with the best intentions, was intent on treating her son as severely disabled when it wasn't clear to me that he was getting a good upbringing.

    uta Frith said, and did, some things that I found surprising. She talked about empathy - I think she must have a different concept of empathy to me. I struggle to know what other people are feeling but I have no problem with being sympathetic if I know someone is suffering. My problem is that I don't detect peoples emotions easily. I was surprised by the marble experiment - to me it is obvious that the person who left the room would look in the place that they had left the marble. I don't know if this "skill" develops later in autistic people but I would have given the non-autistic answer. The triangle animation was odd though. I couldn't see the game of knock knock ginger being played out - so I was autistically baffled by that!.

    With regards to employement - there is an Access to Work programme run by the government that can provide assistance to disabled people in gaining and keeping employment. This can include interview training and other assistance.

    The programmes show that autistic people are remarkably diverse and hard to understand from non-autistics point of view. My wife found it useful and we will watch it again. Uta clearly knows stuff and can explain things in ways that non-autistics understand.

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    I watched the Horizon programme by/about Uta Frith and also watched most of the programme about the three autistic guys.

    I found both programmes uncomfortable in parts. I did not like watching the boy on the farm with all of his sibs and the mother who, with the best intentions, was intent on treating her son as severely disabled when it wasn't clear to me that he was getting a good upbringing.

    uta Frith said, and did, some things that I found surprising. She talked about empathy - I think she must have a different concept of empathy to me. I struggle to know what other people are feeling but I have no problem with being sympathetic if I know someone is suffering. My problem is that I don't detect peoples emotions easily. I was surprised by the marble experiment - to me it is obvious that the person who left the room would look in the place that they had left the marble. I don't know if this "skill" develops later in autistic people but I would have given the non-autistic answer. The triangle animation was odd though. I couldn't see the game of knock knock ginger being played out - so I was autistically baffled by that!.

    With regards to employement - there is an Access to Work programme run by the government that can provide assistance to disabled people in gaining and keeping employment. This can include interview training and other assistance.

    The programmes show that autistic people are remarkably diverse and hard to understand from non-autistics point of view. My wife found it useful and we will watch it again. Uta clearly knows stuff and can explain things in ways that non-autistics understand.

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