Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
>> MALE VOICE: I know you have trouble in like social situations and focusing.
It's really hard for them to break away from what they're focused on.
>> FEMALE VOICE: It's a disorder where the child or whoever has it isn't quite
in touch with the social world.
>> FEMALE VOICE: I have a cousin who is autistic and it seems
almost like he has a glass wall right in front of his face all the time. . .
>> MALE VOICE: It's when a person, you know. . .
they're normal human beings they just have
a little learning disability and they can function just like you and I.
>> FEMALE VOICE: I know there's like a spectrum of autism. . . there's Asperger's. . .
>> FEMALE VOICE: Autism is a disorder where people distort reality. . .
>> FEMALE VOICE: I don't really know too much about autism. I just know that it's
basically something that you are born with and there's nothing you can really do about it.
I really don't know too much about what it actually
is, what causes it, what you feel about it. . .
>> FEMALE VOICE: There was a guy who went to my high school that had it and one of my
teacher's daughters had autism and it was kind of
like they didn't really know how to act
in social situations and was kind of like their brain development wasn't quite where
it was supposed to be at their age. . .
>> JUSTIN ROONEY: There isn't a single person in this world, in this room, whatever,
please don't take offense to this, that is normal.
Everybody here you know has their own little quirks,
little things they wish they could change, little flaws. . . So I think that really being
a freak as some people define it is really one of the most normal things there is.
Being somebody with autism means that maybe you
are a little bit more of a freak than most.
But that doesn't have to be a bad thing, I think that if anything considering yourself
to be
normal would make you the biggest, most in denial freak of us all.
[ CROWD OF VOICES, INCREASING IN VOLUME AND INTENSITY ]