Captioned Reply to GRASP/Autism Speaks Articles silentmiaow 2006-10-30 | 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.
Happy Dance Meme (post your own!) silentmiaow 2007-09-27 | 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.)
Happy Dance silentmiaow 2007-09-17 | 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.
If You Can Do X, Why Cant You Do Y? My All-Purpose Answer. silentmiaow 2007-09-10 | 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
Cat and Single-Antenna Theremin silentmiaow 2007-08-31 | 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.
Synaesthesia (Colored letters and numbers) silentmiaow 2007-07-16 | 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.
Fathers Day 2007 silentmiaow 2007-06-17 | A tribute to my dad, with a song that gave us hope in a lot of scary times.
How to Boil Water the EASY Way silentmiaow 2007-06-17 | A funny-but-serious description of how to boil water, from someone who really DOES find it at least this difficult in real life. While it's presented humorously, this is about something that can be a real problem for autistic people among others, especially if we're either presumed capable of this because of our academic abilities or presumed academically incapable because of our trouble with this sort of stuff.
A Way of Describing Autism silentmiaow 2007-04-02 | 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.)
Jen Brings Her Dog to Work silentmiaow 2007-03-26 | 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.
Re: Re: Disability Characteristics and Political Correctness silentmiaow 2007-01-15 | A response to coquidave's video. (And my first conversational video with other Youtubers.)
In My Language silentmiaow 2007-01-15 | 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.
Dog walking in snow silentmiaow 2007-01-11 | Walking my dog in the snow. While she sometimes eats it. :-)
Walking on a sidewalk silentmiaow 2007-01-10 | 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.
Holiday-Decorated Cement Truck silentmiaow 2006-12-13 | 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).
Flute (improvising) silentmiaow 2006-11-05 | 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.)
Double-Flute Messing Around silentmiaow 2006-11-05 | Messing around on my double-flute (two pennywhistles stuck together). With a cat trying to interfere.
Being an Unperson silentmiaow 2006-11-03 | The words here are from a presentation I gave to staff who work for people with developmental disabilities. It's about the dehumanization inherent in the system they worked in, the results of which they were likely to encounter in the people they worked for. It's drawn from my experiences and the experiences of other self-advocates I have known in the system. The experiences of dehumanization are universal enough that most of them apply far beyond the target audience.
Cat Drinking from Sink silentmiaow 2006-11-01 | A silly little video of my cat drinking out of the kitchen sink.
About Being Considered Retarded silentmiaow 2006-11-01 | I made this video after seeing a number of things: Other disabled people rushing to prove that they were not some thing called "retarded," being referred to here as a "mong" and other such words myself (on and off YouTube) as well as seeing lots of pointless ridicule directed at people with developmental disabilities, and being asked questions about what it's like to be considered "retarded" in casual contacts with people, or to "look retarded", whatever that means. I explore these questions, and the prejudice and dehumanization that surrounds cognitive disability of all sorts, in my video. (Yes, this is a serious video, not poking fun at people.) Apologies for the splicing, the construction noises in the background, etc, that's to do with the equipment I have to work with here at the moment. This video is captioned.
Autie Woman Types One-Fingered Without Looking (Captioned) silentmiaow 2006-10-30 | This video shows me typing one-fingered without looking at the keyboard. While this does not seem like an extraordinary skill to me, when many people see an autistic person typing one-fingered without looking at the keyboard, they claim that person cannot really be typing. They cite their own inability to do so as proof that this is impossible, despite the fact that they are generally not practiced at this kind of typing. As an autistic person who communicates mainly through typing and sometimes types one-fingered without looking at the keyboard, I set out to prove them wrong. This video is the result. (It's also on my website, if you've seen it before that's where.) This is the captioned version (I just got captioning software and am updating my old videos).
Reply to Autism Speaks and GRASP Articles of Understanding silentmiaow 2006-10-28 | 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.
Autistic woman types one-fingered without looking. silentmiaow 2006-08-23 | This video shows me typing one-fingered without looking at the keyboard. While this does not seem like an extraordinary skill to me, when many people see an autistic person typing one-fingered without looking at the keyboard, they claim that person cannot really be typing. They cite their own inability to do so as proof that this is impossible, despite the fact that they are generally not practiced at this kind of typing. As an autistic person who communicates mainly through typing and sometimes types one-fingered without looking at the keyboard, I set out to prove them wrong. This video is the result. (It's also on my website, if you've seen it before that's where.)
