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Autism Every Day (2006)
Genuinely horrible portrayal of autism
Watched the 13-minute version for an English essay. As an autistic person who frequents autism rights activism stuff on the internet, I'd heard of the notorious scene where one of the moms says she wanted to kill her child at one point and only didn't because of her non-autistic child, but I didn't realize how awful the rest of it was as well. The entire film is essentially a compilation of these children's meltdowns (which, morally speaking, definitely shouldn't have been filmed without the children's consent), many of which you can tell were provoked by the parents who are complaining about how awful their lives are because of said meltdowns. The scene where one child is being forced to use the swings by her mom and then when she starts crying because she doesn't want to use the swing the mother complains about how weird she must look because of the meltdown is the most egregious instance of this. The children are implied to be suffering while they're acting mostly like normal children when their sensory issues aren't being triggered. For the love of god, listen to autistic people about autism instead of these people. It's not a disease, it's just our lives.