I have known her since 6th grade and I am now a senior in high school. She has helped me so much and she has said that she learns more about autism from people that actually have it than anything else. Unlike a lot of people without autism, she understands what she talks about and has autistic students help her with presentations. I helped her with a presentation in front of college professors today and it is the same college that I plan on going to next year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toSZFxjxMMY

nicely done. did you do the video also?

I sure did.

This post was last modified: 10-20-2011 11:50 PM by blacklegsanji.

future in journalism, perhaps

Good interview, but people would probably take the video more seriously if it didn't include the Hamster Dance (and play it at a higher volume than the interviewee's answers). Just my two cents.

I know you're new here, and I know my words may come across as a little harsh, but if you want your videos to change NTs' minds about autistic people, so they'll think of us as less like perpetual children and more like potential contributors to society, it may help your case if you don't use children's music in your videos. (Music and background sound selection are very important to the filmmaking process, after all.)

I look forward to seeing more videos and interviews from you, and I sincerely apologize if this post insulted you. (I'm just having a bad day...)

This post was last modified: 10-21-2011 01:33 AM by Yuji.

I don't know much about music. Most of what I hear is annoying rap and horrible pop music. There are songs that I really like, but I do not know the names of a lot of them. I had to settle on something because the teacher for the video class thinks that people won't be interested in the video if it doesn't have catchy music so I chose something catchy albeit childish. She is so obsessive with it and needs every school video to have music because apparently teenage attention spans are so off that videos can't be enjoyed without music. At some point, I will change the music before it airs on the school news. Maybe she won't want me to remove the music because she likes it in the video. On the other hand, she is the same person that said that a video file can be converted to an mp3 file and back to another video file. Um, no. Not everyone should know this, but someone who is in charge of a mass communication class should.

Sorry about my rant. It's just that she ruins so many videos by me and other students. It is for the school, but they are "our" creation.

Oh, so it was the teacher's idea? I was unaware of this. It seems like her ideas are rather counterproductive.