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- lowimpakt
communication and interaction.
this video is great.
- drgss0
zzZZ
- 7point340
speechless,
and i in no way mean that to sound sarcastic.
thanks, lowimpakt
- gung_hoek0
impressive ability of self-reflection, grasp of abstract concepts and blog/youtube activity. seems he/she has to have a less severe form of autism than you come to expect from just looking at the video. i feel mislead.
- Jnr_Madison0
I think he's ripped off coldplay.
- hahaha, I haven't even clicked in the video and I'm laughing.flavorful
- wrong0
these are all things i do when intensely bored. are autistic people just really bored?
- wrong0
you know, on a serious note, can two autistic people talk to each other in tastes and smells and hand gestures? I mean this person is talking about communicating, and we don't understand her language and that's why we are confused. I get that. What I don't get is the idea that this person's way of expressing themself can be defined as communication. Perhaps they are communicating with the world around them, but transmitting is only one part of communicating. Maybe the questions they are asking are "What do you sound like?" and the answer is the sound the thing makes.
- lowimpakt0
i only came across this video tonight but after a bit of backround searching I realised it's done the rounds.
maybe it strikes a new chord in a design context?
http://www.wired.com/medtech/hea…
"The YouTube post, she says, was a political statement, designed to call attention to people's tendency to underestimate autistics. It wasn't her first video post, but this one took off. "When the number of viewers began to climb, I got scared out of my mind," Baggs says. As the hit count neared 100,000, her blog was flooded. At 200,000, scientists were inviting her to visit their labs. By 300,000, the TV people came calling, hearts warmed by the story of a young woman's fiery spirit and the rare glimpse into what has long been regarded as the solitary imprisonment of the autistic mind. "I've said a million times that I'm not trapped in my own world,'" Baggs says. "Yet what do most of these news stories lead with? Saying exactly that."
- lowimpakt0
"It may be that the autistic brain is not defective but simply different — an example of the variety of human development. These researchers assert that the focus on finding a cure for autism — the disease model — has kept science from asking fundamental questions about how autistic brains function."
- 23kon0
great video.
thought it started off like an underworld video with all the strange sounds and cuts and strange random happenings.
im going to forward this on to a client who has a charity for children with learning difficulties, autism etc.