Louis Theroux... Anyone watching? Extreme Love - Autism

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Think it may go one of two ways... watching with interest... anyone else?

Sit here! Aww, lovely.

I'd take jingle bells over Barney the blooming dinosaur any day.

Mind you, my ds sings 'hey macaroni, macaroni, macaroni' to the tune of the macarena incessantly. Now that can get a tad annoying.

I'm watching on delay and I'm trying not to cry.

Oh oh dear

that is a far better technique.

Or make himself understood....

Better his in his room but can't see how she will do that when his downstairs!

Shame that she has to consider calling 911 to get state help

But I'm not surprised

It's very different in the US. Not that it's great here, I know

I thought that was just a brilliant program. I heart Louis.

Don't get me started, Leonie!

Does anyone know how it works with the private systems they have over there? For example would health insurance cover getting an autism diagnosis?

X post! Gather it's not that good then.

It's very very difficult in the US, frilly. Scarily so

Leonie that's awful

That's what I thought Leonie.

Nicky perhaps had the most in common with my ds, but even then only slightly.

I think that's kind of the point though and one of the mum's did start to explain how it's such a wide spectrum and no two children will present the same. I felt they could have made that clearer, but then again, its media and not there to provide a balanced view.

I didn't see much of my children in it either - severely autistic, mainly non-verbal but often happy, funny and sociable (on their terms). Nice to see a programme that showed some of the difficulties that families with autistic children have to cope with. And nice that it wasn't all focussed on shocking behaviour.

I'm constantly amazed at how little most people know about autism.