| Happy Dance Meme (post your own!) - 92 sec 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.) Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:happy dance exuberance dog dancing joy  |
| Happy Dance - 134 sec 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. Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:happiness flappiness exuberance shinymetalbrain happy dance pathologization psychologists  |
| If You Can Do X, Why Can't You Do Y? My All-Purpose Answer. - 521 sec 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 Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:abilities skills disability neurological color pitch autism movement  |
| Cat and Single-Antenna Theremin - 57 sec 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. Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:cat theremin  |
| Synaesthesia (Colored letters and numbers) - 300 sec 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. Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:synaesthesia synesthesia colors letters numbers graphemes  |
| Father's Day 2007 - 252 sec A tribute to my dad, with a song that gave us hope in a lot of scary times. Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:fathersday father dad father's day  |
| How to Boil Water the EASY Way - 432 sec 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. Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:humor kitchen autistichumor boil water autism autie autistic  |
| A Way of Describing Autism - 215 sec 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.) Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:autism analogy autistic autie rocks stones analogies  |
| Jen Brings Her Dog to Work - 358 sec 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. Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:dogs rottweiler beagle hound play friends  |
| Re: Re: Disability Characteristics and Political Correctness - 309 sec A response to coquidave's video. (And my first conversational video with other Youtubers.) Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:thebashar99 coquidave dave disabled disabilities cripple autistic political correctness autism school ostracism  |
| In My Language - 515 sec 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. Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:communication language music disability personhood autism autie autistic  |
| In My Language (Untranslated Version) - 190 sec Translation forthcoming. ;-) Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:communication language music sensation autie autism autistic  |
| Dog walking in snow - 76 sec Walking my dog in the snow. While she sometimes eats it. :-) Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:dog snow  |
| Walking on a sidewalk - 11 sec 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. Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:walking outside  |
| Holiday-Decorated Cement Truck - 16 sec 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). Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:holiday christmas cement truck  |
| Interview with Laura about Autism Recovery (3 of 3) - 487 sec This is the third part of a three-part interview with a 49-year-old autistic woman about the concept of autism recovery. She continues to discuss the problems inherent in assuming that speaking autistic people are recovered, as well as getting further into discussions of discrimination and the proper responses to autistic people's skills and difficulties. This is part 3 of 3, so please watch the other two videos as well in order for this to make sense. (You might want to start with part 1 and 2.) Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:autism recovery autistic recovered autie disability speech language interview discrimination services  |
| Interview with Laura about Autism Recovery (2 of 3) - 388 sec This is the second part of a three-part interview with a 49-year-old autistic woman about the concept of autism recovery. She discusses the dangers inherent in considering herself recovered, and how autistic people's skills are viewed in general. This is part 2 of 3, so please watch the other two videos as well in order for this to make sense. (You might want to start with part 1.) Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:autism recovery autistic recovered autie disability speech language interview services discrimination  |
| Interview with Laura about Autism Recovery (1 of 3) - 348 sec This is the first part of a three-part interview with a 49-year-old autistic woman about the concept of autism recovery. She discusses the great improvement in her ability to speak since childhood, and then whether or not she believes this means she is recovered from autism. This is only part 1 of 3, so please watch the other two videos as well in order for this to make sense. Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:autism recovery autistic recovered autie disability speech language interview  |
| Flute (improvising) - 87 sec 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.) Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:music flute improvisation amateur  |
| Double-Flute Messing Around - 82 sec Messing around on my double-flute (two pennywhistles stuck together). With a cat trying to interfere. Auteur : silentmiaow Tags:music pennywhistle double-flute amateur  |