BBC - My Autism and Me

CBBC Newsround - My Autism and Me
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In this Newsround Special, 13-year-old Rosie takes viewers into her world to explain what it's like to grow up with autism - a condition which affects how children see life, and the way they relate to others around them.
With the help of beautifully crafted animation, Rosie introduces other children who have the condition: Tony, who gets totally obsessed with things but struggles to make friends, Ben, who has suffered from terrible bullying, and Rosie's own little brother Lenny, who turns the house upside-down daily to try and make sense of things.
These children tell their own stories in their own words to give a vivid and moving insight into what it's like to be autistic.

It's a condition that affects the way you live your life and see the world around you.
Our presenter Rosie was born with autism. She says even though living with it is difficult, it makes her unique and who she is.
As well as telling her own story, you'll find out how Ben, Tony and Lenny are affected by the condition.

Lots of children with autism get bullied at school and can find it hard to get jobs when they grow up.
In our special film Rosie wants to tell the world what autism is and what it's like to live with it.

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  Education

[MontyBurns1865]

only 1 in 6 get a full time job. thats depressing.

[Joseph C. Richardson]

My aspergers syndrome made it possible to understand computer science, and I often wonder about the actual speed of the universe, which I think is just a mire blink of an eye. We live in a gigantic flash cube; that's what I see, whenever I look up at them night time stars.Bright, white flashes of lights, which are only a blink of an eye. Life is far too short, and the universe is ever more shorter. Be good to one another, life is much tooooooo short to fret about things. Visit Spaceuphoria.

[Rachel Turich]

i have asbuger and

im not that normal

[spogee]

I'm pretty sure you can't do a prenatal test for autism. And autistic people are perfectly capable of having "normal" lives, with the right support and early intervention to help them function better socially.

[Singularity2025]

Maybe so,but then there are those like myself who it's taken 50yrs to get a diagnosis and HAVE worked all my life, until developed Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue. During the 1960's there wasn't the awareness of these matters, so I suffered in silence thinking "oh this is just how I am" not realising that a NAME could be put to describe why I struggled in certain ways. Knowledge is strength/power, the more understanding we get, the more options and hope we can have for all our Futures. Peace :)

[John Shepard]

As long as ive got my suit and tie...

[Harrison1420]

What do you mean by relate to inanimate objects?

I always thought people with aspergers had a more limited imagination but I guess I was wrong, dunno where I got that from.

I show some of those traits but I don't think I have aspergers.

[John Shepard]

That's because she has Aspergers. Theyre basicly normal but some things for them are different compared to others. Aspergers doesn't affect how you act so a person with aspergers will act normal but have some different things such as extensive imagination, good memory, obsessions, can relate to inanimate objects/virtual people better than real people, sensitive to senses, stimuli's work differently, see things in a different way etc. Ive got aspergers btw.