book/video

I believe that the video Autism: the Musical helped me to understand Christopher more because we were actually able to see someone with Autism as opposed to reading about Autism. In the book there are accounts of Christopher’s behavior and actions by himself and those close to him and that helps but it’s only a piece of fully understanding Autism. In the video, we have the opportunity to see children with Autism and see how they act naturally, not with someone telling us how they act. I like that in the book we are able to get Christopher’s perspective and how he thinks how he does and why he thinks the way he does. This helps us to understand Christopher more so than the disease itself but the disease plays into that as well. In the video, we see children with Autism and we see how that affects them personally with school, friends, and family. The video bridges the gap of not being able to see Christopher in the way that we were able to see Autistic children and we were able to see what kind of ticks they had in the video and we can apply that to the book. The one thing that limits us from fully understanding Christopher is that we cannot see him; the one thing I noticed is that every Autistic kid has a different tick to him or her and we cannot SEE Christopher’s. Even though we are not able to see Christopher personally, seeing a video with Autistic children helped to better understand Christopher and his struggles and successes.