This film is brilliant.my grandson is now 13 and coping better in the outside world because we all now understand better the problems he faces on a daily basis. However I have been in situations shown on the film and this highlights so well how a child with autism can be mistaken for a badly behaved brat. I'm sure the film will educate many to the problems facing people with autism on a daily basis.
I have ASD Aspergers Syndrome and this is so accurate. I'm a fairly high functioning type and get sensory overload in situations like places such as shopping centres or buses.
I have Aspergers and I mainly shop online. I hate shopping centres and crowded, noisy places. Boots the chemists stinks terribly with all the chemicals in their products. I end up with a bad headache and feel sick.
Brilliant concept, fantastically done. As a therapist I have worked with many autistic kids and I can understand the anger of "GGG...clan" - these kids and their families are constantly judged by others..
People staring at our family doesn't bother me. People are curious and if I saw a child like my son, I don't think I could help myself from looking. When my son is walking round Tesco flapping his arms and making loud, unusual noises, people look, if you hear a noise you look, it human nature.
+ladyxxmacbeth it's all very well looking, but when people stare without smiling at all it is very frustrating and reinforces our need to pretend to be neurotypical. We are unusual, not alien or hazardous. I wish people would at least be more polite about it and learn to accept that their normal looks just as rediculous to us.
+laylyoldwild You have a valid point, but i think Its not so much they way the look at the child as much as it is that you just can tell that these people are judging your child and possibly the way you are as a parent. People need to learn to be more polite in that sense as aswell.
Not just children. They judge me as an autistic adult for being different. I now deliberately keep stimming and challenge so those like me who can't cope with it don't have to live through it.
Most people in public will stare and wonder why the behavior is happening because it's unexpected. The parents expect that this will happen. Others don't and that's why there will be stares. There are ways to teach autistic children how to tolerate unpreferred situations.
i have autism and a speech impertinent and only 30% hearing in my right ear plus i have ADHD and i get bullied. i learnt a simple way not to get bullied as much is to only tell like 2 of your freinds plus your family
Caleb Roy I don't have autism, but I do have a bit of anxiety and I am very strange for a school girl, but I don't get bullied because I never tell people at school how I think... if I did, the rumours would spread and people would laugh.
my sister has autism and he is 8 years old and my mom said that she will maybe put her in a special home because my sister is so hard to take care of that my mom cant handle it any more but my sister is nice some time and i love her and my sister cant talk
