Autism certainly isn't a fun time. With the varying level suffered, autism effects communication and social skills especially in people, making raising a child pretty difficult. My cousin just so happens to have it. But autism does not have to be a debilitating shackle. A parent writes about how animation, specifically the film Frankenweenie had quite the influence on his son.
-Gabe's speech and vocabulary was improved. His excitement from the movies promotion didn't go unnoticed by his parents, and he started to speak words and phrases from the movie's ads. New words began to be compounded into a constantly expanding wealth of vocab, and even physical action got a hold of him. New ideas and actions all inspired.
-Groundbreaking evidence of feelings. What Gabriel's parents were told is that many autistics cannot express or comprehend empathy, let alone grasp the concept of other beings outside oneself, but this idea was completely broken in front of the family's eyes as Gabe expressed a very saddened emotional reaction in a tragic moment of the film.
-Gabriel had an overall breakthrough in mental development through the movie, to which his parents were both amazed by. If one movie had this kind of effect on Gabriel, many autistic children could be soon to follow in a similar fashion through their own experiences in entertainment.
I was very intrigued with this article having a pretty minor understanding of autism, but the evidence presented really speaks to me. If digital media can go to this lengths of inspiration, one could only imagine what kind of breakthroughs can be made in the future.
I do think the hype and advertisements were a major player for Gabriel's enthusiasm for the movie, and I have a feeling it wouldn't be as incredible an experience for his family had the film not been exposed as much.
Would Gabriel had made the same progress through a different movie?
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