I'd highly recommend that people see the film X +Y about an autistic boy who is a maths genius and also has colour synaesthesia, especially if you have a child with these conditions or work in the area of child care. Because this film illustrates perfectly what most people are doing wrong, by seeing this as disability simply because they can't understand the world of a child who is different. The father in the film genuinly believes his son to be gifted with special abilities, and encourages rather than try to change him. Enabling him to get inside his sons mind and heart, unlike the mother who tries very hard but dosent understand her child's needs. His condition synaesthesia also made things more difficult, because he can see energy as a halo of colour. These colours around a person's body change with health and emotions, so he could see people's true feelings towards him. Even little white lies designed to make simpler can be regarded as a deception. People with this synaesthesia will tell you that once you can see all the lies people are telling you the world becomes a lest friendly place. At least with autism you have the advantage of not feeling the need to stick to convention dictated by society, you can be true to yourself as totaly unaware of other people's needs for social ettiqutte. A good book to help us understand the little known condition of colour synaesthesia is astonishing splashes of colour by clare morrall we need to talk about these things not pretend they don't exist if children who are different are not to be made to feel like social outcasts.