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The ch4 Program about Autism last night

Fridgemagnetman said:
Requirements :
Two people to watch and commentate whilst watching experiment on screen.
1 lab bod to be in the room witha clipboard.
3 tables
A telephone
Sandwich making materials and equipment.
1 potential autistic person

The experiment :
You have ten minutes to make some sandwiches.
(Think you can handle that autistic loser person)

Sandwiches are nearly done.
The phone rings.
We don't want those sandwiches anymore....
Autistic person gets flustered, makes new sandwiches.

People commentating on the other side of the screen..
'That guy fridge lost his sh*t big time'
It was only a couple of sandwiches...

Well similar thing for the person who actually was there.
They represented it as being resistant to change,executive function problem.
And a test that an autistic person would more likely struggle with.

One way to perhaps get the program.
Use a vpn.
Go to channel4 website and see if it's on there.
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So.... the sandwiches are made, but the people on the telephone say "we changed our mind, we want a different kind of sandwich and you need to start from scratch." Is that what you're saying? I discovered I was blocked from seeing the program, as well. BBC doesn't wanna share. :(
 
Echo said:
So.... the sandwiches are made, but the people on the telephone say "we changed our mind, we want a different kind of sandwich and you need to start from scratch." Is that what you're saying? I discovered I was blocked from seeing the program, as well. BBC doesn't wanna share. :(
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That's it precisely.
So autistic less flexible in those circumstances.
That was the idea.
 
Fridgemagnetman said:
That's it precisely.
So autistic less flexible in those circumstances.
That was the idea.
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Thank you. I suppose that would irk me, too... but wouldn't it irritate just about anyone?

Also, everyone who has raised children has been in that exact situation at some point, no doubt.

My weirdness with sandwiches has to do with the precision with which I make them. Or remake them. At a restaurant, I'm often still re-engineering mine as others are finishing eating theirs....
 
Echo said:
Thank you. I suppose that would irk me, too... but wouldn't it irritate just about anyone?

Also, everyone who has raised children has been in that exact situation at some point, no doubt.

My weirdness with sandwiches has to do with the precision with which I make them. Or remake them. At a restaurant, I'm often still re-engineering mine as others are finishing eating theirs....
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Its not being irked as such but not being as able to reorganise oneself
To prepare the new sandwiches as compared to someone deemed neurotypical.

But even before that, for me its 'is this a test?'
I don't do tests.
 
IMHO, the programme really wasn't that good.

Anna Richardson, the NT presenter was quite patronising. She either acted dim throughout, or she really is as dim as she came across.

Autism is a life long condition that affects so many people on so many different levels, but the 'documentary' (if it can be called a documentary as my understanding is that you learn something from a documentary and I didn't learn anything) was just a mishmash of information presented in a disjointed way by someone who would be better off sticking to presenting her usual type of TV programme - fashion/clothes/faddy diets.

Just my opinion of course .............
 
Disappointing programme then, but probably good as a starting point for raising awareness as many people in the general public know a lot less than most who have posted here. Re Neurotribes I found the font and print size ok, I will dig it out and check what it was klmi. Its an interesting read.
 
Thinx said:
Disappointing programme then, but probably good as a starting point for raising awareness as many people in the general public know a lot less than most who have posted here. Re Neurotribes I found the font and print size ok, I will dig it out and check what it was klmi. Its an interesting read.
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Thanks. I tend to zoom my print into about size 16-18 so I can comfortably read it without needing reading glasses.
 
Fridgemagnetman said:
Vpn update :

Hidden24 works on pc or laptop
£12 per month.
Most of the others don't work.
Not for devices.
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I found an alternative solution and have now watched it:

I liked that it emphased the fact that adults learn to mask their traits and can appear 'normal' but underneath their thought processes are still different and they might be struggling, I liked that they pointed out that all autistic people are different and are not like 'rainman' and I liked that they had the experiments as a practical demonstration of the issues that autistics face, but I didn't like that they were still focussing on how autistic people can adapt to be more 'normal' as with the robot, to my mind these social differences and not things that need to be fixed, but things that need to be accepted, that society needs to change its attitude towards these differences in social behaviour.
 
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