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Normal People Scare Me: A Film about Autism is a 2006 American documentary film about autism, produced by Joey Travolta. [1] The project began as a 10-minute short film co-directed by an autistic teenager named Taylor Cross, and his mother Keri Bowers. Travolta first met Cross at a program Travolta led teaching the art of filmmaking to children ...
Autism in Love [46] Autism Is a World [47] Autism: The Musical [48] Children From The Distant Planet [49] Children of the Stars [50] Citizen Autistic [51] Dad's in Heaven with Nixon [52] Deej [53] How to Dance in Ohio [54] Life, Animated [55] Normal People Scare Me [56] and Normal People Scare Me Too [57] Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism ...
The author was inspired to write the novel from his time living at a home that was part of L'Arche, a faith-based community where normal adults live with those with developmental disabilities. Stork said, "you learn more from them than, frankly, they learn from you . . . . [they] contribute to healing some of the things wrong in our society."
A World Record Christmas is inspired by the true story of then-12-year-old Auldin Maxwell, who is on the autism spectrum, and his Guiness World Record-making feat of balancing 1,400 Jenga blocks ...
Jennifer Green of Common Sense Media rated the movie 4 out of 5 stars, writing, "Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made is a misfit whose refusal -- or inability -- to be a "normal" kid will resonate deeply with some kids. Still, the film—based on the popular books—keeps the tone largely upbeat and humorous, thanks to the boy's outlandish plots ...
Release. April 5, 2002. (2002-04-05) [1] Tru Confessions is a 2002 American comedy-drama film released as a Disney Channel Original Movie. It was directed by Paul Hoen [2] and is based on the book of the same name [3] by Janet Tashjian. Tru Walker (Clara Bryant) aspires to be a famous filmmaker.
Although there is a common association between savant syndrome and autism (an association made popular by the 1988 film Rain Man), most autistic people are not savants and savantism is not unique to autistic people, though there does seem to be some relation. One in ten autistic people may have notable abilities, but prodigious savants like ...
Temple Grandin is a 2010 American biographical drama television film directed by Mick Jackson and starring Claire Danes as Temple Grandin, an autistic woman whose innovations revolutionized practices for the humane handling of livestock on cattle ranches and slaughterhouses. It is based on Grandin's memoirs Emergence and Thinking in Pictures.