CBBC Autism Special

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This is on tomorrow and will presumably be available on i-player.

If I've understood correctly the programme is presented by Rosie age 13 who has Asperger's syndrome. Rosie also has autistic siblings.

I'll be watching with interest!

Excellent thanks for posting this!

Looks great, thanks!

I should have put what time!

My Autism and Me: A Newsround Special is on the CBBC channel at 4.40pm on Friday 11 November.

she's on bbc breakfast this morning as well.

Thanks for the link! DS is in special school, he has ASD I will record this for some of DDs friends to watch as they don't get ds! Have also forwarded to DDs mainstream primary as they are very inclusive and have some children with ASD in the school.

Cwtch please post it on YouTube if you manage to tape it as I will miss it due to after school activities. Thx and thx fr posting biti small.

Thanks for this, I saw it in the schedule too and was just about to post about it.

My friends ds is in it and she has seen the programme at preview and said it is very good.

I saw Rosie on Breakfast news, they asked her about her classically autistic brother and she simply said he was "brilliant" - obviously didnt see the need for further explanation.

Does anyone know if theres a way to watch the breakfast clip online?

tried the website, cant find it.

Found it!

Rosie on bbc breakfast

Oh I missed it. Is it on Iplayer?

It's on catch up tv if you have virgin x

I don't think we have it. I will see if it's on you tube x

here on iplayer.

Very good intro for my Ds's cousins, I think

thanks, loved watching that

Just watched this after seeing this thread, thankyou

Watched it with the DCs yesterday. DS2 (Aspergers) loved it, and so did DS1, particularly the little brother nesting on the tv

I saw the trailer for this and I'm a bit ashamed to say that I thought there is no way I would watch it. Mostly because there is SO much exposure given to people on the spectrum who are very well able to express themselves who are not representative of the type of ASD my DS has and, due to their HFA/AS really should not be seen as some sort of representation. I will probably watch though and DD wants to see it, if she has a brother who is more Kanner's maybe I won't want to put my foot through the telly which is what usually happens.
Of course I think its good thing for as much disability, ASD stuff to be broadcast but it often makes me angry and upset and I recognise this.

It's on iPlayer. Will watch first then view with my ds.

Thanks

Haven't watched for similar reasons to davros.

I have watched it, although I am in a similar postion to davros and cansu..
It is great to see positive portrayals in media but yeah a bit of a 'humph..' moment when our children, though lovely in their own right, have a much more challenging course through life.
Theres a good peice in todays's Observer magazine about a 53yr old man with 'profound autism' one of the 'pioneering families' for our generation.
Another positive for me was Ben, one of the kids in the CBBC thing who was on 'young autistic and Stage struck' 18mo ago, was suicidal, angry and isolated then, is now settled and happy, having had some good support...

I'm deeply offended cans and summer.

My son has HFA. He is bright. Not a genius. He is ten yrs old.

I used to feel bad getting DLA for him cause he "wasn't as bad as some autistic kids".

For so long, I was told he wasn't "that bad". He now has co-morbid OCD. He cannot function. He sits in corners self harming and talking to himself. He has no friends. Takes Prozac. Has lost 12 months academically. Is covered in self inflicted bites, pinches and scars. he is reed thin as he has stopped eating. He asks me " how long will I have to live, mummy?".

I am utterly broken hearted.

ASD is a huge spectrum. Just because my son communicates and and is high functioning doesn't mean he has some lesser condition.

I agree with LaDolcheRyvita.

Our DD has HFA and her communication is going from strength to strength thankfully after heaps of intervention. This doesn't stop me from reading about ALL aspects of autism, interventions, problems, etc. I've watched videos with children who have 'classic' autism to learn how to do Intensive Interaction even though the children in that video were nothing like our daughter. Some aspects of our DD's autism are mild, other are not. We can all learn from each other as our children all have different strengths and weaknesses in completely different patterns. It seems a bit closed-minded to me to not want to watch a programme because you think it is focusing only on children who are 'less affected' than yours.

Besides, from what some of those kids described, they weren't always like this and have come a long way to get to the point where they were now interacting with others and actually making friends.

This is brilliant - have watched a bit of it and will watch it through with DS1, tomorrow.

DS1 is extremely bright and seemingly articulate, but it would be pointless asking him to take part in a video talking about what his autism means to him, because he can't do that. Suggest to him that he's feeling angry at the moment and he'll jump from mild rage to screaming at you that he's not angry. His self awareness isn't all that reliable. He's 8 in a couple of weeks and is only recently out of nappies in the daytime. Our "high functioning" kids are often textbook examples of synchronous development.

DS2 is considered high functioning (ie of normal intelligence - that's all high functioning means), too, yet is non verbal. He is socially a lot less disabled than DS1 but is extremely delayed in terms of both language and motor skills.

From the short part of the clip I've just checked out, some of those kids do seem to be at their best for the video and one of them has a great deal of difficulty with his speech, even then. You can't assume that just because they're talking to the camera at that point, they're not experiencing great difficulty with the rest of their day. Who can say how many sleepless nights some of these kids may have had in the run up to meeting the cameras or how prolonged and violent a meltdown any one of them may have had once the stress of the situation was over and they felt safe to let it all out? You can't tell, so please don't assume that these kids are in no way representative of yours.