silentmiaow's Amazing Videos

A response to Peri:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB7pCuCxlA4
In appreciation of silentmiaow's work:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=silentmiaow

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• SilentMiaow
• periurban
• autism
• tlg847

[conduirty]

My son is six years old and on the severe end of the spectrum. When we go out to eat or to the park we get the most horrible looks and things said to us. I'm glad she is here to show people that all people deserve respect and to be able to go out in public without ridicule.

[tlg847]

It's still a pretty cruel world, isn't it? Hopefully videos like hers will open people's minds and hearts to our differences. Thanks.

[Husko272]

silentmiaow's videos was like a punch in the face for me. I don't know much of anything about autism and If I would not have seen this video, I would have continued to view people like this as dumb or oblivious to the real world that I think I live in.

silentmiaow's video make me feel both ashamed and ignorant. I will make an effort to understand autism from here.

Thanks for the showing me pointing me to silentmiaow's videos.

[tlg847]

I'm really touched by your reaction to her videos. She certainly calls into question everything that most of us thought about the meaning of autism. But I don't believe you need to be ashamed of the images you've developed about this kind of disability. It's the image our culture has created. Seeing the terrible shortcomings of that image is what you've now done. That's more than most will ever do.

[Argent009]

I hadn't seen this before now, the first thing that entered my mind was the concept of bio-ethics. A disturbing subject, I wonder, have you got any thoughts on that?

[tlg847]

I'm interested in knowing the ethical questions that came to you, Mike.

[andrewajax]

I couldn't agree more.  Silent M's knowledge and understanding of Normals, of how our brains work, of what limits us, and motivates us, interests and engages us, and what doesn't ... is light years away from any kind of comparable understanding of Autism, by advocates and experts in parent-centric autism organizations. M's keenest insight into what makes Normals tick, may be her understanding of the crippling nature of our unthinking, unshakeable superiority. It fucks us up more than anything.

[conduirty]

I have a son on the severe end of the spectrum as well. I post silentmiaow's videos to my facebook in order to show people that our son is a person as well. I hope to get conversations going as well.

[AmitaiGivertz]

Thank you for sharing your personal story and adding another diemension, not only to silentmiaow's Amazing Videos, but to the conversations that she has sparked.

Deeply moving - yes, indeed.

[rachael596]

thank you for spreading her word i have been moved by her video's also

[WebSurfer30]

those people are immature idiots,i cant belive someone can be mean and disrespectfull like that,sorry for what you are going through.

[jtstogner]

The video did it's job. Not in making you feel ashamed for what you believed but for giving you a glimpse as to what is happening behind the curtain. Upon watching the video I was struck with the beauty of how she perceived her environment. Don't feel ashamed, embrace your newfound understanding. :-)