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sc94597 said:
Hedra42 said:
sc94597 said:


I was not referring to the developer reaction, but rather people in this thread and the YouTube comments. The developers obviously didn't know how to answer questions from kids, and particularly the kids in the audience with disorders of various types. 

What I find quite sad about people in this thread is that people are being very quick to 'diagnose' these kids with disorders based on just a few minutes' footage. See my earlier post about an experience my son - who has no disorders of any kind - had.

Sure, but this isn't a baseless assumption. He implied with his question, that he has some sort of knowledge and history of autism - whether that is with himself - or a sibling. He was inquiring about autistic people who are successful. 

Furthermore, multiple children had obvious speech impediments that exceed, the "normal child experience." So I still don't see it as baseless to state that at least a portion of this audience had disabilities which affected the question and the response. 

And quite honestly making fun of the kids, whether they have a disability or not, is quite poor taste. 

What if that kid wasn't autistic? How would he feel about the various posts that have suggested that he is?

My eldest messed up in a science experiment recently, causing one of his classmates to call him 'special needs'. Have you any idea how much that can hurt?

As for the speech impediments, you'd need to define the "normal child experience" for me to even comprehend what you're talking about.

Get a large number of people in any room, and you'll have a proportion of them who have a disability or disorder of some kind. But my point is that the video was not targetting disabled children, but making a compilation of awkward, cringeworthy and funny moments created by children. Unfortunately, in this day and age, it's going to be ridiculed.