Normal Folk Autism Awareness

A 70-year old woman's world turns upside down when her estranged mentally retarded daughter reenters her life: a life that has omitted her own history of physiological problems and child abandonment.




It becomes an emotional roller coaster of self-realization as she learns her daughter is actually autistic. Driven by her own obsessive personality, she comes to understand the nature of autism, and inadvertently, stumbles upon her own diagnosis on the autism spectrum, called Asperger syndrome.




What unfolds is a fearless woman, accepting her lifelong misdiagnosis, on a relentless quest to mend her past through the access of knowledge. If she doesn't, her future will surely crumble.

Screenplay written by Graham Streeter

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• help
• autism
• statistics
• Poltergeist
• Zelda
• Rubinstein
• puzzle
• cure
• graham
• streeter
• normal
• folk
• movie
• cages
• normalfolk

[breezymum]

While working on a script for his current film project Graham Streeter was looking to find out more around the experiences of adults with autism. In doing his research he encountered Normal(a TOWN) resident Marty Murphy.

[InnerCircleofPoets]

the more the merrier :)

[KuraiGaka]

Why thank you. I never thought that people thought of me in that way :)

[ralpheadsuz]

Thank you for that heartening comment. Means a lot to me coming from you.

[ralpheadsuz]

Not even with the label dangling around my neck would anyone mistake me for "normal folk". So, the promotion offends me, personally, from the get go.

[KuraiGaka]

And as long as it is a blanced view, as in we consider the cons and pros of autism so that people can make a choice about their lives. When the CDU at my school granted us this choice, we all chose to nurture the good sides and learn to cope with the bad sides by practising social skills and coping skills. The kids that used to always need to stand by an adult wherever we went are now the kids that are very capable and very independant.

[Allegra250]

So long as it's not funding DAN!, CAN, or Autism Speaks, I think awareness is still a good thing. We need awareness here so our kids can get Speech and play based therapies.

[Allegra250]

I agree the puzzle piece should be changed, but that kinda isn't the point. Graham has done a lot of good things for autism.

[christschool]

actually he isn't. And this video is offensive. We are not a puzzle and we should not be defined and objectified by this symbolism. It has dangerous ramifications.

[Allegra250]

He is indeed.