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Video: My Asperger's is a good thing

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In this video, a young woman details how her Asperger's does not define her, but rather is only one facet of who she is, and that she considers that her Asperger's is a good, positive element of who she is.

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Video: "Kids with Cameras" - films created by those with autism

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"Kids with Cameras" is an hour-long documentary that chronicles the challenges of seven Asperger Syndrome-afflicted children aged eleven to nineteen, on the road to self-discovery. As they engage in an intensive, week-long film camp taught by nationally acclai ..

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Video: Jenna Lumbard, non-verbal autistic author.

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Born with autism, Jenna Lumbard could not always understand what was said around her. She never developed speech, but she learned to read very quickly and devoured all the books she was given. She created stories and poems in her head from the words she had re ..

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Video: "But you don't seem like you have Asperger's"

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A.J. Mahari, diagnosed in adulthood with Asperger's Syndrome, talks about her experience hearing "You don't seem like you have Asperger's" from others.

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Video: Asperger's and difficulties socializing

Tristan Hanslip


Tristan Hanslip, residing in Australia, talks about his Asperger's and his difficulties in social situations.

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Video: Helen shows us her life at school as an autistic

Helen Wood


Helen Wood is a member of The Autism Education Trust Youth Council in the UK. She is on the autism spectrum and uses communication aids. This is a film she and her team of support have made to show what she likes and dislikes at school and the challenges and s ..

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Video: My amazing life in having high functioning autism

Jeremiah Swisher


Jeremiah Swisher talks about how he has have been blessed in his life and how he was able to see the light at the very end of the tunnel.

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Finally accepting autism

NotObsessedWithTrains


I’ve known I have Asperger’s for around 7 years or so and I suspected it was possible even before then but I ruled it out due to my erroneous belief that I could in fact “read people” perfectly well. I always thought I was highly perceptive, and it wa ..

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Video: Arman discusses his autism

Arman Khodaei


Arman Khodaei relates some of his feeling about having autism from a young child through adolescence. More from Arman here.

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Video: Josh and Sarah Littman discuss their relationship on StoryCorps

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Joshua Littman, a 12-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome, interviews his mother, Sarah. Joshua’s unique questions and Sarah’s loving, unguarded answers reveal a beautiful relationship that reminds us of the best—and the most challenging—parts of be ..

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It takes a community to assist those with autism

Jeremy Sicile-Kira


I am 21 and I have autism. Recently, the state Senate passed a resolution making April Autism Awareness Month in California. The reason the resolution passed is because there are a lot more children diagnosed now than ever before (one in 110, according to the ..

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