Hope you don't mind, but I tweaked your translation a bit (I used to edit translations of subtitles in a previous job[/align]). Some of the sections are quite long though, and they might need further editing or breaking up to fit in subtitles.
Here's my transcript of the first part:
Btw, the TV company is part of the ARD, sort of the German BBC.
0.05 (clip) Every day at 12.15 WIRSING [that's the title of her book; seemingly Savoy Cabbage] with tomato and garlic sauce.
0.11 What other may think weird, for Nicole Schuster it feels compulsory.
0.11 Whats others may think weird, for Nicole Schuster it feels like a compulsion
0.16 She's autistic and knows it for two years by now [then]
0.16She's autistic, which she's known for two years now
0.20 With this dx, to the 22-year old highly gifted student many difficulties explained themselves that every-day life (had) had prepared for her.
0.20With this diagnosis, many difficulties that this 22-year-old highly gifted student had experienced in everyday life now had an explanation.
Note: I wouldn't use "dx", because lots of people won't know what it means
0.27 To her, by now, her autism is her way of life.
0.27 Now, autism is her way of life.
0.30 Only rituals like the daily WIRSING give her security (in life). (end clip)
0.35 (Q) Nicole, how normal is it for you to sit in a bar and to listen and talk to other people?
0.45 (A) To be in a bar is very un-normal for me. I could count on the fingers of one hand how often I've set foot in a bar. To talk to others, even foreigners about my autism is not so strange for me because I do it very often.
0.45 (A) To be in a bar is not normal for me. I could count on the fingers of one hand how often I've set foot in a bar. To talk to others, even foreigners, about my autism, isn't so strange for me because I do it very often.
1.04 (Q) What is it about a bar that you cannot ... after all, you're 22 ... or a disco
1.04 (Q) What is it about a bar that you cannot ... after all, you're 22 ... or a disco...?
1.10 (A) I've never been to a disco, by the way, it's too loud, too many people, too narrow, too much unexpected, you may get touched, hit, and I wouldn_t know what to do there: I don't drink (alcohol), I don't like when there's smoke, I have to hold my breath when I'm passing a smoker, a bar or disco is thus irritating for me, and I wouldn't survive the light effects in a disco.
1.10 (A) I've never been to a disco, by the way, it's too loud, there are too many people, it's too claustrophobic, too unpredictable, you may get touched, hit, and I wouldn't know what to do there: I don't drink (alcohol), I don't like it when there's smoke, I have to hold my breath when I'm passing a smoker, a bar or disco is therefore irritating for me, and I wouldn't survive the light effects in a disco.
1.46 (Q) You come from (town), you had a long journey here, not your normal daily routine, and your train was delayed by one hour - how did you manage?
2.04 (A) I've known for a long time that today would not be a normal, planned day (Q: no WIRSING day), exactly, no WIRSING day, though it has been a good day, this morning I spent at the university at Dusseldorf, and the days I spend at university never are 'WIRSING days', fristly because I cannot cook WIRSING at the university, and then because there, everything goes without (real) plan, the courses are scheduled, of cousre, but for the rest I'm totally exposed to circumstances, also when I travel back and forth by train, very often there are delay, that's really bad ...
2.04 (A) I've known for a long time that today would not be a normal, planned day (Q: no WIRSING day), exactly, no WIRSING day, though it has been a good day. This morning I spent time at the university at Dusseldorf, and the days I spend at university are never 'WIRSING days', firstly because I cannot cook WIRSING at the university, and then because there, everything goes without (real) plan, the courses are scheduled, of course, but for the rest I'm totally exposed to circumstances, also when I travel back and forth by train, very often there are delays, that's really bad ...
2.50 (Q) How much consequences had this delay today of one hour, in a very full train?
2.50 (Q) What consequences did this delay have, today, of one hour, in a very full train?
2.55 (A) It was not very comfortable, but more so than in a local train. I had a seat, I had enough books with me, I was able to read, and I knew that I would have enough time still, that I wouldn't come late (here),
2.55 (A) It wasn't very comfortable, but more so than in a local train. I had a seat, I had enough books with me, I was able to read, and I knew that I would still have enough time so that I wouldn't arrive late.
3.09 (Q) It was 'relaxed'
3.10 (A) It was allright, because I hadn't planned anything else today. At home, the problem arises when I've planned something and it gets delayed ...
3.10 (A) It was all right, because I hadn't planned anything else today. At home, the problem arises when I've planned something and it gets delayed ...
3.22 (Q) Do you have any difficulties with this contorted day, that you have to play away, or that you have to tell yourself to 'live with it'?
NB: I don't think "contorted" is the right word - are there any other alternative translations of the German word used?
3.32 (A) I think for everyone here [there are 4 more persons to be interviewed] today it is special, you are nervous, under tension, and therefore you are able to do more than usually ... normally, I would alreday be in bed at that time
3.32 (A) I think for everyone here [there are 4 more persons to be interviewed] today is special, you're nervous, tense, and therefore you're able to do more than usually ... normally, I would already be in bed at that time
3.52 (Q) a student of 22 years ...
3.55 (A) At ten [p.m.] there's my deadline
3.59 (Q) So many things are different with you, what's the cause?
4.04 (A) The reason is that I'm autistic, I've got the Asperger's Syndrome, that's a certain type of autism, you wouldn't call me autistic at first sight ...
4.04 (A) The reason is that I'm autistic, I have an Asperger's Syndrome diagnosis, that's a certain type of autism, you wouldn't call me autistic at first sight ...
NB: I've used a bit of artistic licence here to make it more factually correct. Not sure whether that's okay or not?
4.17 (Q) Nay ...
4.17 (Q) No
4.17 (A) ... and many people are astonished when I'm 'outing' myself as autistic, but there is that special type of 'high functioning autism', the Asperger's Syndrome, where there's this high intelligence that allows you to compensate many difficulties, and I think it's only due to my intelligence that I may sit here, even that I've learnt to speak, that didn't come naturally with me, I had to intentionally learn it, all these acquisitions, my social competence - nothing of it came intuitively, all of it is learnt.
4.17 (A) ... and many people are astonished when I 'out' myself as autistic, but there is that special type of 'high functioning autism', Asperger's Syndrome, where there's this high intelligence that allows you to compensate for many of the difficulties, and I think it's only due to my intelligence that I may sit here, even that I've learnt to speak, that didn't come naturally to me, I had to intentionally learn it, all these acquisitions, my social competence - none of it came intuitively, all of it is learnt.
4.57 (Q) When did you get your dx of Asperger's Syndrome?
4.57 (Q) When did you get your diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome?
5.01 (A) I got my dx two years ago, 2005. I've known it for two years already at that point, since 2003, that's when I found out myself. Sadly, many therapists, many psychologists have never even heard of Asperger's Syndrome.
5.01 (A) I got my diagnosis two years ago, in 2005. I'd known for two years already at that point, since 2003 - that's when I found out myself. Sadly, many therapists, many psychologists have never even heard of Asperger's Syndrome.
5.20 (Q) How did you live with it, without even knowing - for twenty years?
5.25 (A) I didn't live very well with it, I've felt like an outsider all of my life, like an alien, I've never felt I belonged there, not at school, not even with may family, there was always some distance to all the people, that I couldn't explain to mayself. I had and still have a great longing for closeness but I cannot bear that closeness when it happens, ...
5.25 (A) I didn't live with it very well, I've felt like an outsider all of my life, like an alien, I've never felt I belonged, not at school, not even with my family, there was always some distance between me and everyone else, that I couldn't explain to myself. I had and still have a great longing for closeness but I cannot bear that closeness when it happens.
NB: Is "closeness" absolutely the correct word? Or would intimacy be better? All depends on the original German word and it's alternative meanings.
5.54 (Q) What did your mother tell you, how you were as a toddler?
5.54 (Q) What did your mother tell you, about how you were as a toddler?
5.57 (A) Then, I was very typically autistic, more so than I'm now, I've refused social contact to everyone, I was unable to learn to speak, ...
5.57 (A) I was very typically autistic then, more so than I am now, I refused social contact with everyone, I was unable to learn to speak
6.07 (Q) Why? You would say, smart girl, why doesn't she ...
6.11 (A) Nobody could explain it then. My parents asked anyone they could think of, I've been checked through, everywhere the question was posed 'why?', what are the reasons for her weird behaviour, why doesn't she learn to speak ...
6.11 (A) Nobody could explain it back then. My parents asked anyone they could think of, I was thoroughly checked, everywhere the question was posed 'why?', what are the reasons for her weird behaviour, why doesn't she learn to speak?
6.26 (Q) We also have asked your father about childhood memories and he remembers the following:
6.26 (Q) We have also asked your father about childhood memories and he remembers the following:
6.33 (clip) --- problem was when she forced herself to have closer contact with other pupils, girl friends of hers, therfore she knew that it's normal to have contact to other people, and for her then, at a sleep-over here or at their place, it was hell for her. Meaning that she 'got it' intellectually, but she suffered infinitely (end clip)
6.33 (clip) --- the problem was when she forced herself to have closer contact with other pupils, girl friends of hers, therefore she knew that it's normal to have contact with other people, but for her, back then, at a sleep-over, here or at their place, it was hell for her. Meaning that she 'got it' intellectually, but she suffered infinitely (end clip)
7.06 (Q) You said you were an outsider. Have the other pupils made you feel that?
7.06 (Q) You said you were an outsider. Did the other pupils make you feel like that?
7.12 (A) Of course. They've felt that I was different just as I did feel they were different. ...
7.12 (A) Of course. They felt that I was different, just as I felt they were different.
7.18 (Q) Children can be cruel sometimes
7.20 (A) Yes, they were cruel. I've been bullied [in German: gemobbt] a lot at school.
7.20 (A) Yes, they were cruel. I was bullied [in German: gemobbt] a lot at school.
7.24 (Q) What did they do to you?
7.25 (A) Horrible things. In P.E. I've always got the balls thrown at my head, they've laughed at me, made fun of me, ...
7.25 (A) Horrible things. In P.E. I always got balls thrown at my head, they laughed at me, made fun of me...
7-36 (Q) What was the thing about the bike helmet?
7.38 (A) That was a terrible, horrible story. I went to school by bike for some time, and for me rules are very important, when I'm told that there's a rule I obey it, and one of my mother's rules was 'put your helmet on when you're going by bike'. I always left the helmet in the 'bike-cellar' and one day, after school, I ealized that the helmet stank of urine, someone had 'emptied himself' into it. Then I had this big conflict inside me, on the one hand this rule that I had to wear my helmet, on the other hand being repelled: I'm very sensitive to smells. On my way home - I've really put the helmet on - I felt sick all the tim with that smell in may nose. I haven't told anything at home, but I had to make up an excuse why I wanted to wash my hair again on that day, it was very bad.
7.38 (A) That was a terrible, horrible story. I went to school by bike for a while, and for me rules are very important, when I'm told that there's a rule I obey it, and one of my mother's rules was 'put your helmet on when you're going by bike'. I always left the helmet in the 'bike-cellar' and one day, after school, I realized that the helmet stank of urine, someone had 'relieved himself' into it. Then I had this big conflict inside me, on the one hand this rule that I had to wear my helmet, on the other hand being repelled: I'm very sensitive to smells. On my way home - I really put the helmet on - I felt sick all the time with that smell in my nose. I didn't say anything at home, but I had to make up an excuse as to why I wanted to wash my hair again that day, it was very bad.
8.43 (Q) It has been the extremes with you: on the one hand, you skipped one grade [however you translate that: she went e.g. from 2nd straight into 4th grade], on the other hand your mother stopped working because she felt she couldn't leave you by yourself, why couldn't she?
NB: skipped one grade/skipped a grade - yes, that's correct.
8.57 (A) That's no contradiction. The intelligence was there, always, but when she couldn't leave me by myself: that was when I was a toddler, there she couldn't leave me alone, I was unpredictable, I was often aggressive directed to others and more often towards myself, I banged my head on the bars of my playpen, later I ran my head into the walls, hit them, ...
8.57 (A) There's no contradiction. The intelligence was there, always, but when she couldn't leave me by myself: that was when I was a toddler, that's when she couldn't leave me alone. I was unpredictable, I was often aggressive towards others and more often towards myself, I banged my head on the bars of my playpen, later I butted my head against the walls, hit them...
9.23 (Q) That means your were unlucky with yourself ...
9.23 (Q) That means you were unfortunate...
9.27 (A) Even as a little child, I don't know where it comes from but it's a typical behaviour among autistics,
9.27 (A) Even as a little child, I don't know where it comes from but it's typical behaviour among autistics
9.32 (Q) In your book you write: I've looked for myself in places where I couldn't find me ... could you explain that?
9.40 (A) I've tried to be 'normal', like most of the people are, and like my father said in the clip, I've tried ...
9.40 (A) I've tried to be 'normal', like most people are, and like my father said in the clip, I've tried ...
9.52 (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqv_agVmHTs)
... to be continued