Autism Is a World | movie | 2004 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

A documentary on an autistic woman's inner world, her writing, and the friends she made while in college. | dG1fVTF3c2lWWUNxbjA

Transcript

00:00Su, can we sit down this morning and remember we talked about, um, talking about some things this morning?

00:16Can we do that?

00:18Why?

00:21I need...

00:23I'm...

00:25I'm...

00:26Now...

00:28I'm...

00:30Now it is P-E-R-F-E-C.

00:38Now it's perfect.

00:39Okay.

00:39All right, all right.

00:42Can you describe what your world was like before you were able to communicate?

00:51Can you describe that for me?

01:00Autism is a world so difficult to explain to someone who is not autistic.

01:09Someone who can easily turn off the peculiar movements and actions that take over our bodies.

01:14I think I was lost W-A in some way.

01:36I...

01:37I...

01:38K...

01:39N...

01:41I know...

01:42I...

01:44I was...

01:45R...

01:47E...

01:49I...

01:49G...

01:51E...

01:52A...

01:53R...

01:54E...

01:55I know I was retarded.

01:57M-E-A-N-I-N meaning I acted like my worst N-I-G-H-T-M-A-R acted like my worst nightmare

02:23Y-E-S