Rethinking Autism: Autism Support Group

RethinkingAutism.com presents their latest video designed to change the current autism conversation in the media.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Rethinking Autism
• Dana Commandatore
• Michael Broderick
• Autism
• Support Group
• PSA
• Alex Balla
• Kassi Crews
• Tammy Klein
• Nick Searcy
• Keri Tombazian
• Caroline Williams
• Michael Worth
• Neurodiversity
• Autistic Adults
• Self-advocacy
• Our Voice

[gretl01]

Any chance of seeing a version of this with closed captioning? Would be much appreciated! Thx.

[RethinkingAutism]

@gretl01 It's already done. Just click the "cc" button at the bottom of the video next to the resolution (360p, etc.) button. Thanks!

[MsPurpleSarah]

I am an adult with Asperger's Syndrome. I could really identify with what Tammy said. I have also spent most of my life feeling like no one is listening. Until I watched this video I thought no one understood how I felt when as a kid I sneaked a peek at a book my mother had about parenting a kid with autism, which said parents had to go through a grieving process for the child they could have had, the neurotypical child.

[BaltoLoneWoolf]

Most of the time, people have made at least one of these statements to me, or I see people make these types of statements. And when I tell them that they're wrong, they refuse to listen or tell me to shut up. "Let's try chelation." "He never tells me that he loves me." Urgh! =_= These types of people are blindly being ableist without knowing it. It can be hard trying to protest these types of things and people don't want to listen, but I'm sure one day, things will get better for us. :)

[pshepherd58]

such a good video

[disneypassholder]

0:30 Keri Tombazian has the most amazing voice in the history of the world.

[thebestwillow]

well, congrats, Mrs. Washington, made me cry.

[lindseywong919]

huge huge like for this video :D

[jeffrielly]

we need to share bomb thses videos so more people can see what this orginization is all about! (share bomb means for as many people as possible to share it through as many different places as possible such as face book twitter showing other people on your phone all on the same day)

[jeffrielly]

having aspergers myself, this video made me cry! I can so connect with Tammy! they say we lack empathy as well as lacking other emotions...this is so not true! we are people to, and just because we do have some difficulties showing how we really feel in no way makes us robots! we do have empathy although we may not show it in the same way as nt it is there in us when we want to help some one we are showing our empathetic side! she was showing empath as well in this very "support" group!