I went into this having heard and seen nothing but horrific reviews, I literally rented it to criticize it. I dont even know who Sia is, im not really all that current with music, especially not pop.
My son is severely autistic. You have to understand its a spectrum. Yes lots of autistic people are savants, many are varying degrees of functional.
Luckily for me, by the grace of God, I was actually a direct support professional for a residential facility for adults with intellectual disabilities before he ever even started showing behaviors, he was about 4 months old when I was hired and received tons of training to get my D. S. P. And medpass.
At nine months old he had what refer to as "the great degression". All signs of talking or sounds other than, what the neighborhood called dinosaur calls. He became absolutely obsessed with watching very specific movies. VERY SPECIFIC. Lion king Aladdin frozen frozen 2 trolls Shrek peter pan Moana. Thats it. Those are your choices. I might not know Sia but I know every single song in those movies by heart.
Hes 3 now. Still in diapers. So handsome. Like seriously. People say all the time "he doesn't even look autistic". LMAO. He's still completely non verbal. Aside from "singing".... its still not words just instead of screeching and screaming, now its more like holding a note a long time sometimes its different strange noises.
I whole heartedly believe the screaming and headbanging, he used to bang his head on the floor until about a year, all of that was solved thanks to early intervention. Any hope I have for the possibility of his functionality in the future is because I think he is truly making progress in school, if nothing else, friends.
I love my baby boy and I have and always will be his advocate.
As long as I live, and I know I will never be lonely, he will always be here.
But some day I won't.
This movie started out a portrayal of my worst nightmare.
But I have always wondered what goes on his mind, this almost seemed plausible, at least as close as we can get 🤔 Everyone's criticisms of this movie so far seem totally invalid to me, I dont even understand. There was absolutely nothing offensive about this movie. They say she was "over the top", my son would have reacted much worse, my cousin max would have given himself a concussion hitting himself. She did wonderfully, she played the role so realistic in my opinion.
Yea shes a pretty non asd (muggle) actress. Every great movie about anyone with any form of IDD has been played by actors.
One of the tell tale signs my son was autistic before 2, he wouldn't ever pretend, no imaginary food or anything.
Trying to get a non verbal autistic person to act is impossible.
You ask yourself constantly, do they even understand me? And they do but for my son, this end of the spectrum, he understands empathically not literally.
Literally the only criticisms I have is that it is important to take them to school or therapy, with occupational and sensory therapy even only in her home, I mean I know its not real and all, but its important people know there are so many ways to intervene and get help and it important to be proactive early.
Id like to add, my son likes this movie. Im so excited to add it to the list! He loves all the colors and singing and dancing, absolutely enthralled and jumps around making his singing noises too.
If you can't see that girl communicating your not watching with empathy.
My son is severely autistic. You have to understand its a spectrum. Yes lots of autistic people are savants, many are varying degrees of functional.
Luckily for me, by the grace of God, I was actually a direct support professional for a residential facility for adults with intellectual disabilities before he ever even started showing behaviors, he was about 4 months old when I was hired and received tons of training to get my D. S. P. And medpass.
At nine months old he had what refer to as "the great degression". All signs of talking or sounds other than, what the neighborhood called dinosaur calls. He became absolutely obsessed with watching very specific movies. VERY SPECIFIC. Lion king Aladdin frozen frozen 2 trolls Shrek peter pan Moana. Thats it. Those are your choices. I might not know Sia but I know every single song in those movies by heart.
Hes 3 now. Still in diapers. So handsome. Like seriously. People say all the time "he doesn't even look autistic". LMAO. He's still completely non verbal. Aside from "singing".... its still not words just instead of screeching and screaming, now its more like holding a note a long time sometimes its different strange noises.
I whole heartedly believe the screaming and headbanging, he used to bang his head on the floor until about a year, all of that was solved thanks to early intervention. Any hope I have for the possibility of his functionality in the future is because I think he is truly making progress in school, if nothing else, friends.
I love my baby boy and I have and always will be his advocate.
As long as I live, and I know I will never be lonely, he will always be here.
But some day I won't.
This movie started out a portrayal of my worst nightmare.
But I have always wondered what goes on his mind, this almost seemed plausible, at least as close as we can get 🤔 Everyone's criticisms of this movie so far seem totally invalid to me, I dont even understand. There was absolutely nothing offensive about this movie. They say she was "over the top", my son would have reacted much worse, my cousin max would have given himself a concussion hitting himself. She did wonderfully, she played the role so realistic in my opinion.
Yea shes a pretty non asd (muggle) actress. Every great movie about anyone with any form of IDD has been played by actors.
One of the tell tale signs my son was autistic before 2, he wouldn't ever pretend, no imaginary food or anything.
Trying to get a non verbal autistic person to act is impossible.
You ask yourself constantly, do they even understand me? And they do but for my son, this end of the spectrum, he understands empathically not literally.
Literally the only criticisms I have is that it is important to take them to school or therapy, with occupational and sensory therapy even only in her home, I mean I know its not real and all, but its important people know there are so many ways to intervene and get help and it important to be proactive early.
Id like to add, my son likes this movie. Im so excited to add it to the list! He loves all the colors and singing and dancing, absolutely enthralled and jumps around making his singing noises too.
If you can't see that girl communicating your not watching with empathy.