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"Autism"

Unfortunately, I happen to have Autism. Anyone know any websites about it, because it's really starting to get me down as I enter "THAT" stage of life...

Also, if anyone has Aspergers, AD/HD or other forms of Autism, I highly recommend getting one of Luke Jackson's books. Very helpful :)

I know it's unlike me to start such a Thread, but could someone help me find some sites, please?

Yeh it's shockingly bad but people find it hard to accept what is different and change takes a long time to happen so they just have to learn to deal with it really and try and get support. There will always be narrow minded people who take the mick. It's not an easy thing to change.

i have ADHD and have taken ritalin pills all my life. they dontbother me. i also use a laptop at school, becoz it affects my consentration. if your really stuck, go to great ormond street hospitl, it has lots of helpful advice. get well soon. :-) :-) :-)

Why do people ALWAYS take the Michael out of people who are different? Look at all the Mick-takes people who are gay or have brain problems get, just because they're different...

It's quite an old film now. Try http://www.imdb.com - there's not a movie question that site can't answer!

monkey_man wrote:
> Well, Dustin Hoffman, who doesn't have autism, plays a character who
> does have the condition - that's pretty insulting right there. Then
> they go on to show he has some sort of magical power to count the
> number of matches that have fallen on the floor, or adding up numbers
> really quickly. So Tom Cruise takes him to Vegas, where he makes him
> play games in a casino. All the time the audience is encouraged to
> laugh with Hoffmann's deliveries of lines like "Fart",
> after Cruise has farted in a phonebox. It's like Xmen meets Weekend
> At Bernies'.

Which company made the film? And is there a website about the film?

> I looked up the definition of the word on www.dictionary.com and it
> said that Autistic people have communication disorders, like to live
> in fantasy, find it hard to treat people as people and are quite self
> obssessed however there are variations as you say.

That's a load of rubbish. That may be STRONG Autism, but RELATIVELY WEAK to MODERATE Autism is not as bad. Obviously that definition wasn't written by someone who knows properly about Autism. Only people WITH Autism can properly write ABOUT Autism. It annoys me that people without it try to describe the truth about it. As I said before, try Luke Jackson's books - they can properly describe it.

Well, Dustin Hoffman, who doesn't have autism, plays a character who does have the condition - that's pretty insulting right there. Then they go on to show he has some sort of magical power to count the number of matches that have fallen on the floor, or adding up numbers really quickly. So Tom Cruise takes him to Vegas, where he makes him play games in a casino. All the time the audience is encouraged to laugh with Hoffmann's deliveries of lines like "Fart", after Cruise has farted in a phonebox. It's like Xmen meets Weekend At Bernies'.

I looked up the definition of the word on www.dictionary.com and it said that Autistic people have communication disorders, like to live in fantasy, find it hard to treat people as people and are quite self obssessed however there are variations as you say.

Interesting stuff, I used to be dyslexic. I read books with three words on each page until my 4th year of primary school. I had to go to learning support for the first 5 years of primary school but in that year something clicked and the next book I read was Matilda after that. No one has yet explained how it happened but I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Wierd no? Anyway I now have an IQ over 130 and can read. All these mental diseases are wierd no?

MM, does Rainman have anything offensive in any way to Autism? Like showing someone acting completely stupid and unrealistically?

Or watch "Rainman".