What would you call a four year old who caresses all the lampposts in the park? Quirky? Unusual? Or sick? Such labels are at the center of the debate about autism. Is it a disease or a different way of being—or both? After his son’s diagnosis, filmmaker Todd Drezner visits the front lines of the autism wars. We meet parents desperate for a cure, visit conferences where vendors hawk vitamins and hyperbaric chambers, hear from advocates who fight for ‘neurodiversity,’ and follow a group of autistic children and adults whose lives show that ‘if you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one autistic person.’ |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.8/10 | |
Released: | May 28, 2010 | |
Runtime: | 84 min | |
Genres: | Documentary | |
Companies: | Cinema Libre Studio | |
Cast: | Billy Simon Baron-Cohen Nadine Antonelli Kristina Chew | |
Crew: | Todd Drezner | |
Tinybroespesso : I would rub both there bootys