Music 2021 Film Controversy


Zu is newly sober and finding her way in the world when she receives news that she is to become the sole guardian of her half-sister named Music, a young girl on the autism spectrum. The film explores two of Sia's favorite themes -- finding your voice and what it means to create family. - IMDB
Key Take-Aways From The Episode
- Why me and Dina won't see the Sia's Music Movie
- Our personal stories about being restraint growing up with Autism
- Why Dina and I will boycott the Golden Globes
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Dina is A Autism / Asperger's advocate. writer and Creative out of the box thinker.Loves to help A up-and-coming writer on my mild Autism. journey Diva movie
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just dive into this. So I have my friend here,
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Dina, who's an autism advocate. She was also
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on my podcast last year, one of the episodes
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we talked about bullying. Today, we're going
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to talk about the movie music that just came
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out and got as getting two nominations for the
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Golden Globes. And We both think that it's totally
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absurd because this movie has gotten a thousand
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bad reviews. I kid you not, just Google it and
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you'll see for yourself. So Dina, we both haven't
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seen the movie, but just by doing our research
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and everything, what are your thoughts about
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this horrific movie? Well, First of all, I think
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it's very old school what they're talking about.
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In today's world, people on the spectrum are
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treated more like human beings instead of like
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animals or people with mental illness. And so
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a long time ago, autism was... placed in the
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mental illness category. And so a lot of people
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were restrained and you're finding that a lot
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of people are getting sued for these things.
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That's the only fact. I know that I have anxiety
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disorders and, you know, so they used restraints
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on people with anxiety and you know, our friends
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didn't understand. And, you know, today we live
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in a, of course, we're still not there, but I
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feel that, you know, in some hospitals, like
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the state hospitals, there's a lot of lawsuits
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against restraining and to promote such a movie
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and related with autism. it's not so much absurd,
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but it's unkind. And there was a lot of bruises
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and it's sad because the trauma that was used.
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Here's a question. Here's another question for
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you. And if you don't feel comfortable answering
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it, have you ever been restrained before? Yes,
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I've been restrained before. I've been restrained
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before. You know, I was around college age. So
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I have proof. I was, you know, I'm at that age,
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you know, it's a very scary thing. Nobody was
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helping me and I felt lost because autism is
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very lonely disorder. I was diagnosed three or
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four times and then I had the first written test
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that was ever given. So that's why I can relate.
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You know, I have people who made a movie about
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me and they wanted to talk about a person who
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had a full life, who had a lot of friends growing
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26 years old. 27. 27. I'm old. Yeah, I'm a dinosaur
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compared to you. With you, it was worse because
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they don't use those practices. Even in my day,
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and this was back in 88, so I just turned 21.
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years of my life. I guess, yeah, 88. So I had
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the test done. For my day, that's pretty early.
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So I was on the Asperger's spectrum. Autism spectrum
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was PDD. So I was lucky enough to have these
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diagnoses. But what led to my diagnosis, it was
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almost a blessing in disguise, was me being put
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in restraints. This was in a hospital. Nobody
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was helping me and it was a cry for help. I had
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first chance saw a roommate try to end her life.
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So out of curiosity. Did those restraints help
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you calm down at all? Or did it make you really
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ticked off? It made me, first of all, I had that
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flight or fight response with, it made me calm
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down, but it also made me say, oh, you know,
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good. I found a therapist, keep it in perspective.
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But like, I was just talking to you about it
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and it proves that I could trust you, but. what
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happens is I have so much PTSD going back to
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then. I'm glad we're talking about this because
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I saw a lot of people getting restrained because
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I started off in a special school and my mom
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really knew I could do better. She was like,
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you know, so they had this thing called the quiet
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thought, oh, it's going to be like a play group
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for her in a public school. Sure enough, it was
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hard work. And I really achieved, I moved out
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of special ed into learning support, but I started
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off in a special school where like, then I moved
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away from there into another special school.
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I got a follow -up question for you. So without
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having seen the movie Music, how does it make
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you feel that, in my opinion, the director...
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is saying it's okay to use restraint to calm
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people on the autism spectrum down. How does
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that make you feel? No, no, it's not. It's only
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going to make the person worse. I think behavior
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modification is the way to go or animal therapy
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or, you know, hey, how are you feeling right
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now? It's like you ask, you don't tell. What
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kind of behavior modifications would you recommend?
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In the hospital or? In school or? In school,
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it's a lot easier. Like in special schools, for
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example, a point system where you gain points,
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you know, get creative with it. Like a reward
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system? Yeah. Behavioral, yeah, reward system,
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positive and negative reinforcers. If you do
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something bad, you lose points and then, you
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know, for example, if you got all your points,
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which was 100 points, anywhere from 96 to 100,
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every day there was a sticker. And that led to
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big things such as participating in an auction.
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And that included doing all your work. And this
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and, you know, the whole idea is some people,
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you know, a challenging point system. Some schools
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didn't have the means to do all these things.
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you know for example ordering lunch out um in
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a day that was like kind of old school um now
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it's like computer time well my when i was growing
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up my parents gave me some kind of a reward system
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like uh for instance and my school did it too
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um if i uh i forget how they were set up, but
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after doing a certain amount of tasks that were
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good, et cetera, or homework tasks, et cetera,
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I get free time or something like that. I don't
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remember all the specifics because I was really
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young. I don't, or maybe I just kind of got that
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out of my memory because because it was around
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the time when my parents told them to stop. It's
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not a great idea to use restraint. And me, I
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just kind of got it out of my head and kind of
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just like, yeah, let's put that somewhere else.
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You know, it's interesting. I was never restrained
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in school. So the fact is, when I ended up...
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I was. I was never restrained in school because
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I was basically a good kid. I just like had learning
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disabilities, but I was the opposite of a good
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kid. Well, the thing is we had in the summit
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school that I went to where I had known my husband,
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actually, they had a point system and some people
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had separate points because their behavior was
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wrong. And I did see in a school before that,
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it was really bad. I moved to the summit school
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was based on a Montessori approach, except it
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was special needs. So they had your Montessori
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stuff, like your practical life, your washing
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dishes, your cooking. And all that fun stuff.
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But then they had your art class, which I liked.
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But I remember they had like, you know, two recesses
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for one, which was great. My school didn't have
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that. Hey, I cheated. I have a childhood. What?
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We had these two recesses. And, you know, unfortunately,
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they, you know, took away points for free time.
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for recess, which I really think that that's
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the outside recess, unfortunately we're older
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a soda. My mom wasn't too crazy about that because
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it's like. you know hyperactivity or they had
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they started like giving people granola bars
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because of hyperactivity but um at the end uh
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one of the things was friday talks and it had
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things like being attentive in class finishing
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your work keeping your hands to yourself and
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like um being kind being responsible paying attention
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and then you got the stickers and like if you
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got like all 10 then you got like a trophy you
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got to be the star of the week and everybody
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got these privileges and then one of the things
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was an auction or you had these money chips and
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you got to buy things at the school store so
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these are alternatives to these are happy alternatives
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that really keep people motivated and the goal
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you know so just quite the challenge you know
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on my pride of myself when when i became a teacher
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um you know i wasn't going to be their friend
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because you know of course you want people to
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like you but the fact is are they learning you
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know it's the same thing with a therapist or
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a person in a hospital you know I don't understand
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that restraining is going to make you hate them,
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so why do it? I got another question for you.
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I probably have told you this in a few Facebook
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messages, but when I read about the movie Music,
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the actor who played the autistic character in
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the movie, they were not even autistic themselves.
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What are your thoughts of this? Well, it's very
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common that this happens. Do you think it's right?
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For me, for me to say that is kind of hard because
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I watched several shows with an actor playing
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someone, for example, the good doctor, Freddie
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Highmore is not autistic, but he plays a doctor.
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And that's a very good show because it shows
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that he's going beyond his means because the
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truth is from 100 % to 70%, there's about 75,
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which is more than 50, 75 % people are autistic.
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There are autistic engineers and it's not, it's
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most people with autism are brilliant and they're
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portraying it good. And then parenthood, for
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example, Max Brookholder played young Max Braverman
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who got diagnosed with Asperger's and I would
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have sworn if I didn't know any better at first.
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And then Then it was a privilege to find out
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at Sundance that he was going to be there. And
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I found out that they had a son. He had to learn
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how to walk. I mean, I know it sounds like kind
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of like derogatory, but yes, it happens. So that
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question is that for him to play for this character
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in music, to play somebody who's being restrained,
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I know what you're talking about. So it's not
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a bad idea, but it's not. completely a good idea
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because it's a very you know maybe you know see
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it goes it goes back and forth with me you know
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there's no hack there's no like i think there's
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no major opinion it's kind of like it can go
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either way well i mean you think can you see
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like could you like could you uh in your opinion
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do you think you well may not in your opinion
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but like I've seen people from the autism community
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post about, talk about this movie. And they said
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that one of the biggest turn offs for them was
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that the person wasn't autistic. For me, I would
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have to say that doesn't really bother me as
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much, but the restraint part bothered me. And
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just then Director's negative view of autism
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bothered me. And I would never buy a movie ticket
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to a director who has such high, strong opinions
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about that. And the director also said that autism
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needs to be fixed. Do you think it needs to be
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fixed? Absolutely not. I think it's not like
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the person's broken. It's a neurological disorder.
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That's like saying that diabetes has to be fixed
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or cancer has to be fixed. Cancer, I could see,
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needs to be fixed. Well, cancer is a horrible
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disease, but unfortunately we have no cure. They're
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getting closer, though. Yeah, they're getting
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closer. But see, this is a person that's speaking
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from the heart. For example, autism is just like
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a learning disability. You learn to overcompensate
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for, you learn to compensate one part of the
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brain, one part of the brain that doesn't have
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as much neurological, you know, wires in it.
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The creative side compensates for, you know,
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we all have things like whether I like it or
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you know, so that was the first time I was sitting
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in a doll corner, not speaking that much at the
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time. And so this teacher who had no training.
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um called a nursing who had no training with
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special needs and they told me that they were
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tired doing this um so i went to i went to the
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montessori school where they didn't believe in
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that um it was all behavior modification and
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um so the whole idea is then come back to later
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on a 21 year old adult You know, who gives them
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the right? Secondly, that you're never going
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to fix autism because people have asked me on
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panels. What? It's DNA. It's in our DNA. But
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here's another thing to tell you that scientists
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don't even know because you can't fix Down syndrome.
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It's an extra chromosome. You know, somebody
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said to me, can you get rid of it? Can you get
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some kind of an operation? Like, and it really
00:29:48.009 --> 00:29:50.670
bothered me because it's been a part of me for
00:29:50.670 --> 00:29:55.569
so long. Like, I was really, you know, I think
00:29:55.569 --> 00:30:00.910
that, you know, my mom did something really good
00:30:00.910 --> 00:30:03.349
and she had a family meeting and I don't remember
00:30:03.349 --> 00:30:09.349
it, but like. You know, I think I was like six
00:30:09.349 --> 00:30:11.329
years old, seven years old. So my sister was
00:30:11.329 --> 00:30:14.569
four and we had these family meetings, you know,
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not that we did it all the time, but one time
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my mom said, well, this is your sister. You have
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to be nice and be patient. Her brain works less
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than yours. It's not her fault. So the whole
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idea was, you know, with any kind of learning
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disability, it's neurological. It's all about
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compensating. It's frustrating because teachers
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get burned out because they think that they can
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have 100 good kids. And maybe you can only deal,
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maybe one makes progress. Maybe you can only
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raise the bar so far. There was somebody that
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said, Don't ever raise the bar for your daughter
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because she's not going to go far. And I'm, you
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know, I finished college. I've been on my own
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since I was 19. And, you know, as techno idiot
00:31:17.849 --> 00:31:22.990
as I feel, I'm kidding there, mind you, but this
00:31:22.990 --> 00:31:25.549
technology is not my thing because I'm old school
00:31:25.549 --> 00:31:29.640
at 53 and you're younger. I didn't say I love
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technology. I have a love -hate relationship
00:31:32.140 --> 00:31:35.500
with it. Yeah, so do I. I mean, some days I love
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it and it works perfectly when it agrees with
00:31:37.619 --> 00:31:39.819
me, but when I'm having a bad day and it doesn't
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work, you know, sometimes I can, you know, so
00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:47.519
the whole idea is because I'm neurologically
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impaired and it's not my thing, but you give
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me a pad and a pencil. And I'll be able to put
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together a story for you. So we're all good at
00:31:57.430 --> 00:32:01.009
certain things. So what happens in this movie,
00:32:01.069 --> 00:32:03.890
it seems that they're lumping all autistic people
00:32:03.890 --> 00:32:10.009
together and stating that they can fix us. By
00:32:10.009 --> 00:32:13.589
using restraint. Yeah, by using restraint. So,
00:32:13.589 --> 00:32:17.430
you know, that's why I really don't like the
00:32:17.430 --> 00:32:21.170
message it's sending out. But Dan Sickles, who...
00:32:21.420 --> 00:32:25.359
who made my film, had said that we're not these
00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:27.779
raving reporters that are going to jump in there
00:32:27.779 --> 00:32:31.599
and say, oh, I got to get a juicy story out for
00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:33.660
Dina. I mean, yeah, they're there. I feel like
00:32:33.660 --> 00:32:35.900
they were grasping at straws with this movie,
00:32:36.099 --> 00:32:39.099
like because because of the pandemic, they didn't
00:32:39.099 --> 00:32:42.160
have enough movies to review. So there's like,
00:32:42.299 --> 00:32:44.519
oh, you know, we're going to give this movie
00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:47.740
two nominations for two Golden Global Awards.
00:32:48.339 --> 00:32:51.480
I'm like. That's a stretch. You know what they
00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:59.299
put this movie under? In the Golden Globes? Music
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slash comedy. Do you see any comedy bits in this
00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:07.339
movie? No, I see it as insulting. I see it as
00:33:07.339 --> 00:33:13.349
insulting to... A person like myself who even
00:33:13.349 --> 00:33:16.410
went out to teach people like me because I saw
00:33:16.410 --> 00:33:19.250
what Ed Sickles did. That's Dan Sickles' father,
00:33:19.410 --> 00:33:23.630
who was a self -proclaimed advocate. And I used
00:33:23.630 --> 00:33:26.210
to say to my mom, hey, if Ed Sickles has a learning
00:33:26.210 --> 00:33:29.569
disability, which was dyslexia, by the way, and
00:33:29.569 --> 00:33:33.650
he graduated with a bachelor's and a master's
00:33:33.650 --> 00:33:38.470
degree, I can certainly be him. And then I found
00:33:38.470 --> 00:33:42.339
my way to other. um things like i'm an autism
00:33:42.339 --> 00:33:46.359
peer uh specialist and that's exactly what i'm
00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:49.000
an autism specialist so i specialized in being
00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:54.000
a friend first um so it's like under a therapist
00:33:54.000 --> 00:34:00.640
um yeah and like um so the whole idea was a lot
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:03.180
of people end up in the mental health system
00:34:03.180 --> 00:34:06.660
like myself from the traumas i mean i have ptsd
00:34:06.660 --> 00:34:19.800
from the way i was treated but also So with other
00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:23.500
movies, Dan had made a very good point. He said
00:34:23.500 --> 00:34:25.880
that people would came to him and said, oh, look,
00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:28.699
they have friends. And Dan was like, oh, no shit.
00:34:29.900 --> 00:34:33.760
That was his response. You know, like, oh, these
00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:36.159
people, they have friends. These people, you
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somebody in one of the the um there were some
00:38:58.380 --> 00:39:02.440
people he showed it to a bunch of people um i
00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:07.500
think i was at the q a um and then We were on
00:39:07.500 --> 00:39:15.880
with a college, a bunch of professors, and they
00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:23.679
were like, oh, like somebody had said, you know,
00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:28.480
most people thought it was amazing. They felt
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:31.820
they had felt the same dreams and hopes that
00:39:31.820 --> 00:39:34.500
me and Scott had felt as two autistic individuals.
00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:37.199
They thought it was great. that Scott and I were
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:43.860
setting this new trend. Even before Scott, I
00:39:43.860 --> 00:39:49.400
had a pretty big life. So just one more question
00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:55.179
before we wrap up. Do you think, and I'm just
00:39:55.179 --> 00:39:59.199
going to list off the rest of what the movie
00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:01.139
is about real quick before I get to the question.
00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:07.159
So because of this movie, has a negative view
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:11.800
of autism and it needs to be fixed and there's
00:40:11.800 --> 00:40:14.320
no fix in sight and they've been trying to work
00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:17.199
on a fix for many, many years and still hasn't
00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:24.199
gone anywhere. Two, it uses restraint in the
00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:29.800
movie and their message is it's okay to use restraint
00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:32.699
with people on the autism spectrum. It has a
00:40:32.699 --> 00:40:37.840
thousand bad reviews. And it's under a category
00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:41.980
that I don't really think it belongs under this
00:40:41.980 --> 00:40:48.239
category. Now, to be fair to it, I haven't seen
00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:54.980
it, and you haven't seen it. Perhaps it might
00:40:54.980 --> 00:40:59.480
have really good music. And, well, that sounds
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:05.070
redundant. in the movie music. And perhaps maybe
00:41:05.070 --> 00:41:08.070
it does really have good music, but I don't like
00:41:08.070 --> 00:41:18.610
their message. But what I want to ask, in your
00:41:18.610 --> 00:41:23.869
opinion, would you see this movie based on just
00:41:23.869 --> 00:41:28.170
the bad message, the bad reviews, and do you
00:41:28.170 --> 00:41:32.860
think it deserves at two Golden Globe nominations?
00:41:36.139 --> 00:41:41.820
You know, me personally, I don't think because
00:41:41.820 --> 00:41:45.059
of the way that I feel about it, I have to say
00:41:45.059 --> 00:41:52.340
no. Would I see this movie? I don't think so,
00:41:52.340 --> 00:41:55.500
as much as part of me wanted to take a peek into
00:41:55.500 --> 00:41:59.119
what it might look like. I even had some people
00:41:59.119 --> 00:42:05.400
said to me in my family that some people suggested,
00:42:05.780 --> 00:42:12.360
hey, maybe you want to just watch it to learn
00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:19.639
more and research it. But I don't, in my opinion,
00:42:19.860 --> 00:42:24.340
and maybe you feel the same way as well, I don't
00:42:24.340 --> 00:42:29.429
want to buy a movie ticket. There's no movie
00:42:29.429 --> 00:42:31.650
theaters are open at the moment anyway, and if
00:42:31.650 --> 00:42:35.829
there are, that's news to me. I mean, at least
00:42:35.829 --> 00:42:39.210
the ones near where I am, there's nothing. They
00:42:39.210 --> 00:42:41.510
just advertised Tom and Jerry, which I'm dying
00:42:41.510 --> 00:42:44.050
to see. It's a cartoon. I would like to see that
00:42:44.050 --> 00:42:47.730
movie. I like animation, and I used to watch
00:42:47.730 --> 00:42:49.989
it when I was a kid about the cat and the mouse,
00:42:50.110 --> 00:42:51.769
and they're supposed to give them a voice, which
00:42:51.769 --> 00:42:57.230
I'm excited about. Yeah, me too. These were silent.
00:42:57.610 --> 00:42:59.969
keep cat they were silent and they were so funny
00:42:59.969 --> 00:43:02.889
because they both had a voice in silence now
00:43:02.889 --> 00:43:05.409
they're getting a voice and tom is going to be
00:43:05.409 --> 00:43:08.050
the aggressor and and jerry's going to be the
00:43:08.050 --> 00:43:15.110
kind one yeah but as i was saying um uh whatever
00:43:15.110 --> 00:43:19.949
a movie ticket costs uh after this pandemic or
00:43:19.949 --> 00:43:22.389
during the pandemic if there's movie theaters
00:43:22.389 --> 00:43:27.289
open uh wherever any wherever in any location
00:43:27.289 --> 00:43:30.610
where there's a movie theater that is open. I
00:43:30.610 --> 00:43:33.789
don't want to spend an expensive movie ticket
00:43:33.789 --> 00:43:38.409
and give it to a director with such strong opinions
00:43:38.409 --> 00:43:42.909
that you're basically telling me she's basically,
00:43:42.949 --> 00:43:48.230
in my opinion, that I need to be fixed. There's
00:43:48.230 --> 00:43:51.769
something wrong with me. And why do I want to
00:43:51.769 --> 00:43:55.250
support that? I'm sorry. Right. I agree with
00:43:55.250 --> 00:44:01.179
you. Well, you know, I've had people say to my
00:44:01.179 --> 00:44:06.820
mom, well, will she get rid of it? You know,
00:44:06.820 --> 00:44:12.920
before I had the test. So it was like somebody,
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:16.500
the person, first of all, when I first, it came
00:44:16.500 --> 00:44:20.079
out like some learning disabilities. The first
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:23.849
couple of years of my life, it was like. well,
00:44:23.949 --> 00:44:25.829
if she has a learning disability, what are you
00:44:25.829 --> 00:44:27.670
going to do to get rid of it? Well, my mother
00:44:27.670 --> 00:44:31.250
said, well, where have you been? Because people
00:44:31.250 --> 00:44:34.309
with learning disabilities and Down syndrome
00:44:34.309 --> 00:44:41.849
and autism, I'm not going to be upset anymore
00:44:41.849 --> 00:44:44.429
because if she does have autism, we'll get her
00:44:44.429 --> 00:44:48.230
to schooling because people were keeping babies
00:44:48.230 --> 00:44:52.420
that have Down syndrome. And my theory also is
00:44:52.420 --> 00:44:55.340
that people need to stop getting tests for Down
00:44:55.340 --> 00:44:58.239
syndrome and let it be whatever God wants the
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:02.099
child to be. Because it's not so bad. Because
00:45:02.099 --> 00:45:06.340
with babies today, Down syndrome, people with
00:45:06.340 --> 00:45:10.059
Down syndrome have a full life. And so it's not
00:45:10.059 --> 00:45:13.619
the life that you wanted for your child. Or it's
00:45:13.619 --> 00:45:16.780
not the life that these doctors might have wanted.
00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:24.519
I was brainwashed to believe that it's bad. So,
00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:27.619
you know what, as an advocate, I grew as a person
00:45:27.619 --> 00:45:32.300
because like, you know, we live in such a prejudiced
00:45:32.300 --> 00:45:37.000
world that our thinking becomes like a certain
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:38.940
way. Do you see what I'm saying? Everything that
00:45:38.940 --> 00:45:43.280
was told by my wonderful mother that we're not
00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:45.519
going to fix you. We love you just the way you
00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:48.820
are like that song. So, That's the whole idea.
00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:54.119
So I bet you that if I saw that restraint movie,
00:45:54.239 --> 00:45:58.659
I might start to cry and feel like I'm being
00:45:58.659 --> 00:46:02.679
a hypocrite in my thinking. I have to add something
00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:08.820
real quick before we wrap up. The movie music,
00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:15.500
the director also stated, and I haven't seen
00:46:15.500 --> 00:46:19.530
any. other recent articles that said that it
00:46:19.530 --> 00:46:24.190
has been fixed at the moment. The director said
00:46:24.190 --> 00:46:28.289
that she's going to cut out the restraint parts
00:46:28.289 --> 00:46:35.510
in the movie. And she also said that there would
00:46:35.510 --> 00:46:39.090
be a disclaimer or a warning message on the movie
00:46:39.090 --> 00:46:46.920
for people who because of this movie and the
00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:51.000
messages sends and whenever it was released guess
00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:55.119
what you know what was missing the the uh the
00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:58.820
message i mean the um the warning message and
00:46:58.820 --> 00:47:03.280
warning label was still not added so we need
00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:06.219
to say with these warning labels some of the
00:47:06.219 --> 00:47:10.000
subject matter yeah but i'm saying that that
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:14.840
didn't that those uh Those morning labels were
00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:19.079
not even there. And I don't think it still is
00:47:19.079 --> 00:47:23.000
there. And if it is, I'll take it back. But I
00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.639
haven't seen an article recently that I haven't
00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:27.559
seen anything that was updated recently that
00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:31.239
says it's now there, but it should have. Well,
00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:36.340
you know, the way that I deal with things, because
00:47:36.340 --> 00:47:40.320
today we have a clearer view and the difference
00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:46.659
between people now. Unfortunately, and people
00:47:46.659 --> 00:47:52.480
like myself from when I was a child, we had a
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:56.400
different view. And if you have good parents
00:47:56.400 --> 00:48:00.820
that, like my mom, was an advocate for me. She
00:48:00.820 --> 00:48:04.860
went to the school board a lot and complained
00:48:04.860 --> 00:48:08.099
about work that was beneath me and didn't let
00:48:08.099 --> 00:48:13.050
me get by on things. um and treated me like you
00:48:13.050 --> 00:48:15.030
know sometimes you don't like that you want to
00:48:15.030 --> 00:48:19.050
get off easy but the whole idea she used to tell
00:48:19.050 --> 00:48:21.250
me that's because i believe in you because you're
00:48:21.250 --> 00:48:24.230
just like everybody else you might have a learning
00:48:24.230 --> 00:48:27.710
disability but then they started calling it learning
00:48:27.710 --> 00:48:32.429
difference like in the 80s and people stopped
00:48:32.429 --> 00:48:35.829
going to special schools and you know it's a
00:48:35.829 --> 00:48:39.170
big mixed bag everything is mixed bag there's
00:48:39.170 --> 00:48:43.380
no Not one theory that works, you know, it's
00:48:43.380 --> 00:48:48.320
kind of like a person who has mental illness.
00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:50.920
And I'm going to say mental illness because it's
00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:53.360
up in the brain, whereas cancer and diabetes
00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:56.380
are physical problems. So like, for example,
00:48:56.900 --> 00:49:01.579
autism is a learning disability, sort of. It's
00:49:01.579 --> 00:49:08.679
neurological in the brain. With ADHD, it's the
00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:12.019
same thing. Sometimes there's drugs to regulate
00:49:12.019 --> 00:49:16.360
your brain. And there was this brain doctor out
00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:21.019
there, and I'm not making this up, but we have
00:49:21.019 --> 00:49:24.539
all these tests for physical problems, but like
00:49:24.539 --> 00:49:27.920
for autism, like they don't go around saying,
00:49:28.059 --> 00:49:30.099
oh, we need to clean our brains out right now.
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:32.739
But what people, doctors really need to say is,
00:49:33.289 --> 00:49:35.949
You need a fine tune -up. Like there was a doctor
00:49:35.949 --> 00:49:39.190
that actually discovers the autism brain. And
00:49:39.190 --> 00:49:41.590
there was these, I have some good reading literature
00:49:41.590 --> 00:49:44.909
because I had to be trained in these subjects,
00:49:44.969 --> 00:49:50.489
but I got interested in it because first it started
00:49:50.489 --> 00:49:53.730
in advocacy. I still am. I don't, I always remember
00:49:53.730 --> 00:49:58.170
where I started as like a person that had bad
00:49:58.170 --> 00:50:04.190
things happen, like a restraint. And I know what
00:50:04.190 --> 00:50:08.449
it's like to feel low, but I can't harp on that
00:50:08.449 --> 00:50:14.730
because, you know, so my opinion is that when
00:50:14.730 --> 00:50:18.489
you have a baby and they have something wrong
00:50:18.489 --> 00:50:22.670
with them, take them home and you love them and
00:50:22.670 --> 00:50:25.230
you accept them and you find ways to raise the
00:50:25.230 --> 00:50:30.260
bar instead of fixing them. chances are they
00:50:30.260 --> 00:50:32.219
won't end up in that situation where they're
00:50:32.219 --> 00:50:36.820
going to be restrained because like if you kind
00:50:36.820 --> 00:50:38.980
of keep telling them that they have problems
00:50:38.980 --> 00:50:41.780
they're going to end up in situations like that
00:50:41.780 --> 00:50:49.139
and you know um i don't know you um you hope
00:50:49.139 --> 00:50:55.480
that um that this message comes out that There
00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:58.119
are so many more positive movies to see on autism.
00:50:58.340 --> 00:51:00.780
I mean, if people want to go and take a peek
00:51:00.780 --> 00:51:03.800
and see it, I'm not a movie critic. I mean, well,
00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:09.659
kind of. Well, for me, I'm not going to go see
00:51:09.659 --> 00:51:12.539
it. And two, I'm not going to watch the Golden
00:51:12.539 --> 00:51:16.960
Globes this Sunday because of the Hollywood foreign
00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:20.659
press giving it two nominations. Will you be
00:51:20.659 --> 00:51:22.360
watching the Golden Globes this Sunday? Because
00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:27.610
I'm not. No. I don't think so. I'm not too thrilled
00:51:27.610 --> 00:51:30.869
about what's going on anyway. The movie theaters
00:51:30.869 --> 00:51:40.170
aren't open. I don't think the choices are very
00:51:40.170 --> 00:51:45.269
good. I think they're putting a bunch of movies
00:51:45.269 --> 00:51:49.550
out there just by time because people need to
00:51:49.550 --> 00:51:54.219
look at the good doctor that If you get a 75
00:51:54.219 --> 00:51:59.460
% to 80 % chance that your child can become a
00:51:59.460 --> 00:52:03.519
doctor, that's halfway there. And that's because
00:52:03.519 --> 00:52:06.199
parents are like, no, that's not going to happen.
00:52:06.219 --> 00:52:08.940
It's just for TV. No, it's based on a real story.
00:52:09.340 --> 00:52:16.340
It's based on a real story that this boy was
00:52:16.340 --> 00:52:23.880
autistic. So, yes, he had challenges. his ability,
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:30.800
his IQ was very high, but autism faces some social
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:36.539
challenges. And I learned to socialize, you know,
00:52:36.599 --> 00:52:39.039
I'm like one of a kind. I mean, somebody interviewed
00:52:39.039 --> 00:52:41.619
me and they said, you know, it's very normal
00:52:41.619 --> 00:52:44.760
to face social challenges, but then there's me.
00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:49.420
That's what they said. Why was it that I adapted
00:52:49.420 --> 00:52:53.289
so well? I don't know. Maybe I took what I could
00:52:53.289 --> 00:52:57.730
instead of feeling broken. Because, you know,
00:52:57.750 --> 00:53:01.809
I don't like when people say that mental health
00:53:01.809 --> 00:53:04.010
is a broken brain, it's a break in the brain.
00:53:04.150 --> 00:53:06.969
That sounds very derogatory that we need to say
00:53:06.969 --> 00:53:10.570
that mental illness or autism, it's like a common
00:53:10.570 --> 00:53:15.409
cold that when you have a cold, you take medicine.
00:53:15.429 --> 00:53:20.059
Well, sometimes with mental illness, You take
00:53:20.059 --> 00:53:23.159
medication, whatever works, or you fill it up
00:53:23.159 --> 00:53:25.639
with knowledge and you get out of the ignorance
00:53:25.639 --> 00:53:30.539
game. Teach yourself the real meaning. It's with
00:53:30.539 --> 00:53:39.780
anything. Yeah. So I'm going to wrap up the show.
00:53:40.219 --> 00:53:44.860
And thanks for coming on and discussing this
00:53:44.860 --> 00:53:53.840
horrific. movie called Music. And for people
00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:58.699
who want to learn more about the movie Music,
00:53:58.940 --> 00:54:03.139
just do your research and Google it. You can't
00:54:03.139 --> 00:54:06.280
miss it. If you want to hear a positive view
00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:08.880
on autism, watch the Dina movie. Yeah, watch
00:54:08.880 --> 00:54:15.059
the Dina movie. And make sure you share this
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00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:33.000
the stigma that we're not broken if we have it.
00:54:33.460 --> 00:54:36.679
Hey, no sneak peeks on my show yet. Oh, okay.
00:54:36.739 --> 00:54:41.539
Sorry. I'm kidding. But anyway, and make sure
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And I all invite you to boycott the Golden Globes
00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:55.420
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