Marguerite
Active Member
The interview screened tonight.
It was a 60 Minutes type of program, the story was about autism and the lack of government funding in Australia. They dealt with autism at a number of levels, there were about three or four kids in the story and difficult child 3 was "Exhibit A" for high-functioning autistics. He was the one talking to the interviewer about what it's like being autistic.
They were at our house for five hours, but we're only on screen for about two minutes, most of that difficult child 3. They focussed mostly on the bullying and especially the last bad attack. I wasn't happy with their editing - they made it look like I was accusing these kids of continung to harrass difficult child 3 when in fact when I said "ahd they got away with it" I was talking about how the bullies back in Primary school couldn't be identified by difficult child 3 and so they kept donig it and kept getting away with it.
It's a shame, because what I was talking about was his face blindness, which is highly relevant to the experimental treatment that the story was also about.
After the story aired, the phone began to ring. husband has got dinner tonight because I've been tied up on the phone. An autistic kid from difficult child 3's drama class rang to say, "I was bullied too. Tell difficult child 3 I'm proud of him and honoured to be his friend."
My good friend, also speech pathologist, sent me a text message and also left a phone message to say, "I hadn't realised how bad it is but at the risk of offending you, I would like to work with difficult child 3 on his speech dysfluency as a matter of urgency."
I rang her back and said, "Yes please." I've been increasingly concerned about difficult child 3's speech getting worse - on a number of fronts.
My sister rang, said how sad she was to live so far away where she's too distant to be a personal support. I pointed out that we have a lot of local support, but even the best local support wouldn't have prevented the attacks.
The episode is available online, I'll give you the link. I know it gives our real names but it's OK - I don't mind people here knowing, I just don't use our real names here because I don't ant someone to Google us and track us TO this site. FROM this site is far less an issue, I trust you all here and consider you friends. However, I still prefer to use my pseudonym here on this site, I spend so much time here that I literally do answer to my nickname in person.
http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night/
Click on the link to "autism solution" to watch the story. difficult child 3 is the boy with glasses (looks like Harry Potter). I'm in there with a couple of lines only, but if you want to hear what I sound like (Aussie acccen tand all) now's your chance!
Let me know what you think about the story.
Marg
It was a 60 Minutes type of program, the story was about autism and the lack of government funding in Australia. They dealt with autism at a number of levels, there were about three or four kids in the story and difficult child 3 was "Exhibit A" for high-functioning autistics. He was the one talking to the interviewer about what it's like being autistic.
They were at our house for five hours, but we're only on screen for about two minutes, most of that difficult child 3. They focussed mostly on the bullying and especially the last bad attack. I wasn't happy with their editing - they made it look like I was accusing these kids of continung to harrass difficult child 3 when in fact when I said "ahd they got away with it" I was talking about how the bullies back in Primary school couldn't be identified by difficult child 3 and so they kept donig it and kept getting away with it.
It's a shame, because what I was talking about was his face blindness, which is highly relevant to the experimental treatment that the story was also about.
After the story aired, the phone began to ring. husband has got dinner tonight because I've been tied up on the phone. An autistic kid from difficult child 3's drama class rang to say, "I was bullied too. Tell difficult child 3 I'm proud of him and honoured to be his friend."
My good friend, also speech pathologist, sent me a text message and also left a phone message to say, "I hadn't realised how bad it is but at the risk of offending you, I would like to work with difficult child 3 on his speech dysfluency as a matter of urgency."
I rang her back and said, "Yes please." I've been increasingly concerned about difficult child 3's speech getting worse - on a number of fronts.
My sister rang, said how sad she was to live so far away where she's too distant to be a personal support. I pointed out that we have a lot of local support, but even the best local support wouldn't have prevented the attacks.
The episode is available online, I'll give you the link. I know it gives our real names but it's OK - I don't mind people here knowing, I just don't use our real names here because I don't ant someone to Google us and track us TO this site. FROM this site is far less an issue, I trust you all here and consider you friends. However, I still prefer to use my pseudonym here on this site, I spend so much time here that I literally do answer to my nickname in person.
http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night/
Click on the link to "autism solution" to watch the story. difficult child 3 is the boy with glasses (looks like Harry Potter). I'm in there with a couple of lines only, but if you want to hear what I sound like (Aussie acccen tand all) now's your chance!
Let me know what you think about the story.
Marg