Autism: Finger-flicking, eyes closed tight

This was taken in September of 2008 when Jake was 4 and a half years old. He is autistic and non-verbal.

Jake fell off a chair and broke both bones in his lower arm. He handled everything so well, even though we don't really know how much he understands of what happened or what we explained to him.

This video, taken without sound, shows Jake sitting on a window ledge at the hospital. He flicks his fingers and holds his eyes shut.

I''ve spent a lot of time on YouTube looking for videos of other autistic children to try to plot my child on the spectrum, but unfortunately, I mostly come across videos of still shots with sad, weepy music in the background. Without the title advising me that the child is simply autistic, I'd have thought he or she must have died! I hope my videos can help other parents of autistic children by demonstrating how our son acts and how is autism is apparent.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• autism
• autistic
• boy
• son
• hospital
• arm
• break
• finger
• flicking
• eyes
• shut
• closed

[schwei56]

!!***NOTE: TURN YOUR SPEAKERS OFF BEFORE PLAYING THIS CLIP***!!

Regarding the AUDIO in this clip: It would seem the camera (or computer used to process the video) was defective, producing pulses exactly a second apart, and with a negative DC bias in between the pulses (this is why a click occurs whenever starting and stopping the playback).

[nicolajanes]

@schwei56 While that sounds ever-so-clever, if you read the details that I wrote below the video, you'll see that the video was taken without sound. In other words, I used a camera that does not produce audio. At all. Not defective, simply without that feature.

And there's really no need to TURN OFF YOUR SPEAKERS, the sound is just a bit of clicking. You make it seem like it nearly deafened you.

[yeahtoast22]

Weird question, but do his hands/fingers ever seem unusually cold?

[nicolajanes]

@yeahtoast22 Nope. Why?

[MsNattyable]

he"s so very cute!! Has he been offical diagnosed? Thanks very much for uploading videos! I understand what you mean about the music. I have uploaded some videos of my son, in hopes maybe someone can give me there input. He has some signs I know for sure, but what that means..I have to wait till he is 2 they say..

Do you mind taking a look at my videos(i put everything in descriptions) if you have free time and giving me your input / opinion?thanks so much

[IndigoCat17]

He has beautiful eyes

[IndigoCat17]

what happened to his arm??

[IndigoCat17]

what the heck is wrong with the camera

it is making a loud squeaking and

clicking noise and it hurts my ears

[sheldon666]

heyy there!!! what a wonderfull son!! iam a student at a local collage in my home town and im studying autistic. kids! maby one approch since he canot speak get a lap top and get note pad open! and let him try and talk too you in that way! there was a case of a boy he is 8 and he would type and spell better then any adult he just knew how to type and respond! hope u can try!

[JessDSweet]

your son is absolutely gorgeous what a trooper