He seems to be like a mature kid!!!
I love him, I feel like i can seat next to him and speak for hours and hours!!!
i fell in love with that kid.
Always in my ... R.I.P Heath Ledger, a Star, a Diamond, a Pearl
I agree he seems so mature and poignant, yet it's obvious that he has many issues to cope with and I want to get to know him, seems like a wonderful child!
shareI really like him in the movie too, he reminds me of myself alot. I have aspergers too and had alot of the same problems that he had especially with bullying and all.
shareWhat really impressed me about Wyatt was the long monologue he gave about how it made him feel shut out when other autistic children would go off ihn their own worlds and leave him out. Such as Henry and his dinosaurs. And then in an impressive feat of self awareness he admitted to be honest he probably made other people feel shut out too when he went off into his own world. Then the editors, in a very canny bit of editing, cut to a scene of his parents meeting with an advocate. The advocate waved Wyatt's developmental assessment at them and said "I don't know why you call him high functioning, this is a very low cognitive profile".
I wanted to reach into the screen and punch that guy.
So did his parents. You could see it on their stony faces.
It was good editing to put that scene right after his monologue. It showed that regardless of what some test showed, his cognition really was functioning just fine thankyouverymuch.
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I was a bit irritated by that too. Those tests were obviously not indicative of his abilities.
The night is a very dark time for me.
I'm a wyatt lover too! I have a child with autism and I believe she is high functioning but she is still young. I know how those parents felt talking to that laywer. I gurantee that's not the first time someone has told them something like that.
"Who knows where thoughts come from...they just appear!" ~Empire Records
I'm high functioning and my aspberger's is mild but it's still depressing sometimes. I've never had a steady girlfriend, only made a few friends in my entire life and have had trouble holding down jobs. It is frightening to think of being this alone for my whole life, but I'm not totally hopeless feeling. After all, I'm still only 24. But I get by and will always be better off than some of the kids in this movie. I feel bad for them because I can sympathize and empathize with it, but I know that as down on myself as I can get (I happen to be a negative person with low self-esteem because of the asbergers) I am only at least a mild sufferer. This documentary really hit home.
shareI can't believe that they said Wyatt had a low cognitive profile! He seemed much more mature and intelligent than most "normal" kids I work with every day.
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