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In My Language Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 515 seconds The first part is in my "native language," and then the second part provides a translation, or at least an explanation. This is not a look-at-the-autie gawking freakshow as much as it is a statement about what gets considered thought, intelligence, personhood, language, and communication, and what does not. Related: autie, autism, autistic, communication, disability, language, music, personhood |
![If You Can Do X, Why Can\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/8WK144ZdxFU/2.jpg "If You Can Do X, Why Can\") |
If You Can Do X, Why Can't You Do Y? My All-Purpose Answer. Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 521 seconds My all-purpose answer to the question "If you can do such-and-such, why can't you do this other thing?" A question that many neurologically unusual people of all sorts get a lot of the time. The target audience has a relatively typical range of hearing and color perception. The video itself is mostly text and spoken words, but there's other things Related: abilities, autism, color, disability, movement, neurological, pitch, skills |
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Re: Re: Disability Characteristics and Political Correctness Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 309 seconds A response to coquidave's video. (And my first conversational video with other Youtubers.) Related: autism, autistic, coquidave, correctness, cripple, dave, disabilities, disabled, ostracism, political, school, thebashar99 |
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A Way of Describing Autism Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 215 seconds Dave Spicer's analogy of autistic people to different kinds of unusual rocks. (He wrote the words, I did the video. Used his words with his written permission.) Related: analogies, analogy, autie, autism, autistic, rocks, stones |
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Reply to Autism Speaks and GRASP Articles of Understanding Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 147 seconds This is a reply to the "articles of understanding" exchanged between Autism Speaks and GRASP, in which both sides pretty much ignored the existence of autistic self-advocates who do not speak and do not want to be cured, reducing us to old cliches. It primarily addresses the assumptions made by Alison Tepper Singer in her article and some of her other work. Related: autie, autism, autismspeaks, autistic, cure, disability, grasp, self-advocacy, stereotype |
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Synaesthesia (Colored letters and numbers) Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 300 seconds A video response to "My Synesthete Samples" by KittiesRock46. Shows my colored letters and numbers and a bit of an explanation of the broader concept of synaesthesia. In other words, yet another synaesthete goofing off. Related: colors, graphemes, letters, numbers, synaesthesia, synesthesia |
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Jen Brings Her Dog to Work Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 358 seconds Jen (my morning staff) brings her Rottweiler to work, where he meets my dog, BJ. Much play ensues, after which BJ is sad to see them go. Related: beagle, dogs, friends, hound, play, rottweiler |
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Happy Dance Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 134 seconds A response to "Exuberance" by ShinyMetalBrain. The happy dance I always want to do when I'm in a really good mood. And how I couldn't be trained out of it by a guy determined to pathologize it. And yes this was filmed while IN that flappy/bouncy sort of mood. Related: dance, exuberance, flappiness, happiness, happy, pathologization, psychologists, shinymetalbrain |
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Father's Day 2007 Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 252 seconds A tribute to my dad, with a song that gave us hope in a lot of scary times. Related: dad, day, father, fathers, fathersday |
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In My Language (Untranslated Version) Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 190 seconds Translation forthcoming. ;-) Related: autie, autism, autistic, communication, language, music, sensation |
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Happy Dance Meme (post your own!) Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 92 seconds Starting a meme for people to post happy dances in response to. And showing a dog happy dance. (See my other happy dance video for my own happy dance, and see shinymetalbrain's "Exuberance" for hers.) Related: dance, dancing, dog, exuberance, happy, joy |
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Double-Flute Messing Around Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 82 seconds Messing around on my double-flute (two pennywhistles stuck together). With a cat trying to interfere. Related: amateur, double-flute, music, pennywhistle |
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Cat and Single-Antenna Theremin Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 57 seconds As requested by blog readers, my cat meets my single-antenna theremin. Captioned, although there's no words in it, just varying tones based on how close the cat is to the theremin. Related: cat, theremin |
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Flute (improvising) Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 87 seconds Improvising on the flute. (I had some amount of flute training that I was not too good at, then picked up a flute over a decade later and could play it as long as I improvised.) Related: amateur, flute, improvisation, music |
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Dog walking in snow Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 76 seconds Walking my dog in the snow. While she sometimes eats it. :-) Related: dog, snow |
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Walking on a sidewalk Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 11 seconds This is just me walking on a sidewalk. It's not all that interesting. I'm only including it here so I can embed it somewhere else to illustrate something. Related: outside, walking |
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Holiday-Decorated Cement Truck Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 16 seconds I heard a big commotion outside, so I looked out and there was a cement truck with Christmas tree lights all over it. I grabbed the camera and got this short video of it (out of a high window). Related: cement, christmas, holiday, truck |
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Cat Drinking from Sink Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 87 seconds A silly little video of my cat drinking out of the kitchen sink. Related: cats, sinks, water |
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Captioned Reply to GRASP/Autism Speaks Articles Posted by: silentmiaow
Video duration: 147 seconds This is a reply to the "articles of understanding" exchanged between Autism Speaks and GRASP, in which both sides pretty much ignored the existence of autistic self-advocates who do not speak and do not want to be cured, reducing us to old cliches. It primarily addresses the assumptions made by Alison Tepper Singer in her article and some of her other work. This is the captioned version. Related: autie, autism, autismspeaks, autistic, captioned, cure, disability, grasp, self-advocacy, stereotype, subtitled |
