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.

To me, the video and this thread are about how kids can create the most cringeworthy awkward and funny situations without realising they're doing it. That one or two of the kids included in the compilation might have been disadvantaged in some way is sad, but I doubt very much that either the video or this thread was made with the intention of mocking disabled kids.

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.

@ Bolded - see my earlier posts addressing those points. In a nutshell, if the thread title had meant to be a serious attack on disabled kids, the thread would have been killed by now. Whether it's in bad taste or not is debatable.

And just because some of us who understand kids better doesn't mean that we weren't once as ignorant as those who posted the comments you've quoted just there. Read back for context.

I think from his question he obviously doesn't view autistic as an insult and in fact thinks it has positive advantages. So he probably wouldn't feel all that bad to be honest. Nobody was diagnosing him anyways. There is just the assumption that he has some type of history with autism to pose the question in the first place. Either with himself, or a family member or friend.

@ underlined: There were 3 posts in this thread, one of them from you, suggesting that this kid was autistic.

The "normal child experience" is whatever you think it is. I don't label people into categories of normal and abnormal unless we are talking about Gaussian distributions and a specific trait. Having said that, I think the speech impediments are not generally considered as normal by others.

Speech impediments don't necessarily indicate abnorbalities. With regards to the girl with a rhotacism, (inability to pronounce the letter 'r') it is considered to be one of the last sounds a child learns to pronounce, and some people never do manage to pronounce it. I'm not sure where you're based, but over here we have a T.V. presenter who is well known for that particular speech impediment. It means nothing.

The boy with the lisp - this is very common. Boxer Chris Eubank is very famous for his lisp. It means nothing.

I only heard one other speech problem and the nature of it wasn't clear, since we didn't see the individual. Without more information,  I cannot judge.

Okay, well your point is misplaced. I was specifically talking about the instance when a disorder was brought up, not the various instances where it was not.

My point was initially posted in response to a comment by -CraZed- , which had hinted at diagnosing the kids from the footage, took the thread title literally and then went on to accuse the OP of saying that Notch sold Minecraft because of special needs kids posing cumbersome questions to him. My point was that neither the video nor the thread were targetting or making fun of disabled children. Interesting you should say that it was misplaced, since you quoted and commented on it the first time, and then made the exact same point yourself, later on.

But I think since we're generally in agreement that it isn't the intentions of the video compiler and the OP of the thread that are the problem, it's the ignorance of many of the people who posted remarks on YouTube and in this thread, we can leave it there.

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.