Understanding Autism | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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'Understanding Autism' explores the latest research in autism and how empathy and emotion can help autistic people live  | dG1fQm1tSlBXbWtBTmM

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00:00After I was diagnosed, I don't think I really understood what having autism meant.

00:05It was hard.

00:07I had, like, adults that would help me.

00:10I knew I was different and I knew that I needed them, but I didn't know why.

00:16My son more than ever wants to go to the military.

00:19All he does is train.

00:21You can't have autism.

00:23So how do we gear him into having a successful future

00:28without telling him that he can't do something because he was born different?

00:34By the time I was 23, I came across a trades list,

00:37and I just knew it was me, but I still wanted to seek a professional diagnosis.

00:41It costs $5,000 to $8,000 on average to get an autism diagnosis.

00:46A neurologist diagnosed Misha in about 20 minutes

00:49and then said that it's a lifelong condition.

00:51We don't know what the limits are.

00:52We don't know what the causes are.

00:53We have no cures.

00:54Have a nice day.

00:55The system is wrong, and it makes me very angry.

01:00He had blurted out in class that he wanted to kill himself.

01:03It scared me. It scared me so much.

01:05My son's a sweet, loving, kind, gentle being.

01:08I don't want you to ever feel like that.

01:10Do you understand me?

01:11Yes.

01:14Just doing my best trying to get through day by day.

01:17This is what we really need to communicate.

01:20I feel thirsty and tired.

01:22You're thirsty and tired.

01:23Okay, honey.

01:25I think one of the common misconceptions about autism

01:28is that you don't like people.

01:30A story on the front page of our local newspaper

01:33reported how the principal at my high school told a staff member,

01:36the retard can't be valedictorian.

01:41I love you.

01:42I love you, too.

01:43Once I really understood what autism meant,

01:45it was easier because then I could find my community.

01:47In your commencement address,

01:49you bring up Viktor Frankl's book,

01:52Man's Search for Meaning,

01:54about gratitude, about life.

01:57About sharing your last crust of bread.

02:00That's what it means to be human.

02:02Wow.

02:03Can I give you a hug?

02:06You are such a beautiful soul.

02:09This is about them tapping into their own inspiration,

02:13using art to make sense of their world.

02:15You can hear music and then you can just play it.

02:18And I can just play it, yes.

02:21How did you come to a place,

02:23a piece with me as your parent, being autistic?

02:28Oh, you haven't.

02:29Oh, I haven't.

02:31My message to any girl, any boy struggling with autism

02:35is that it is your superpower.

02:37Embrace it.

02:38Learning from all these autistic people on this journey

02:42has made me realize that I feel a part of something.

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