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November 16, 2009

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Laurentius Rex

Here of course is the Irony, I was at that at event where the video was presented, and Bob Wright certainly heard me not so much speak as shout. Then more recently the NAS Council heard me fail to speak. (if you can follow the metaphor there, they heard my struggles at coherent speech and my having to find alternative means of communication)

My part in that video has me speaking but the importance is not in my speech but in the music and what my hands do, the speech is but a gloss on it for those who don't see it at first hand.

What is the answer? Well the most despised of academic genres is media studies, no one has much yet heard of the concept of videracy as the new literacy that is to say a true understanding of the audio visual media of television and youtube.

Perhaps media studies is met with derision precisely because the comprehension of it is so challenging to those who wish to brainwash us through it.

Ed

I liked everyones message in the video. I like what that video did in giving people a voice or expression whatever that may be. I like what you are doing with that medium too with your videos etc. I hope that more such projects will be funded. I agree that is the new literacy.

The problem is that those brain washers have created an appetite with how they market things and most of the population who need to be included and heard from not only won't satisfy the appetite but that appetite is further endorsed commercially and politically by people who claim to be speaking for us so we aren't encouraged to do so.

Not only do those who are speaking for us not want to hear what we have to say until or unless we meet the standards for appetites which commercial advertising is designed to satisfy, but by further encouraging that attitude and demanding changes from people who don't have opportunities, they make the real and lasting changes impossible.

We need to broaden our inclusion and encourage people who at this point aren't even interested in advocating for changes that will help them. Other people won't want to see and hear us if those who are speaking on our behalf don't want to.

Laurentius Rex

Yeah I think that was one of the most effective awareness videos I have seen, because we just do what we want, not the usual (how bad it is to have autism) presentation that is seen so often.

It shines way above the NAS stuff, but I can't say too much about my personal criticisms of that because it is involved in my research and I don't want to prime anyone with *my* opinions on it.

There is always a danger about how we go about being more inclusive, some will see that as an attempt to politicise people who are not political, on the other hand I am concerned about what charities like the NAS do when they recruit spokespeople who are somewhat 'safer' than you or I, I feel somewhat excluded on those grounds.

Anyway what I am trying to do for the most part when I present myself, is to be myself not a parody of what an autistic person ought to be, and being myself comes with the political package included. My autism (or eccentricity) is not the subject itself, it is the background music as it were to what I want to get across.

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