Looking for Autistic (Child) Actors
August 2, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
Thomas Brown, a filmmaker in Ohio, is making two films, one called Ant Boy and the other Silent Hero, which both include autistic characters. Today’s Port Clinton News notes that both films are to be about autism, bullying and the emotional issues that children face. Brown (who can be contacted by email) is looking for an autistic child to play the autistic child, if he can. Would this be one of the few times or even the first to have someone autistic play…..someone autistic, in a film that’s not a documentary?
I’d bet money on it.
Now if they were looking for an autistic boy to play a fictitious rock star, I have just the guy for them…
I am a single mom with four sons. My 12 y/o is autistic. I am not able to hold a job, bc of his needs. Everytime I secure employment, a situation at school or medical appt interfers with the job. THus, I am terminated. He has been placed in a short term behavorior hospital on 4 occassions, and on one of those occassions sodomized by 3 other juvinilles. He cries that no one understands his life. He is a wonderful boy. I reassure him that God does have a destiny for him, only to believe!! I would love for his story to be told. His name is Joshua. An appropriate title could be Joshua’s Journey.
He has been subjected to gay taunting at school, bullying, abuse, sexual abuse, isolation, and more. (all documentation can be provided to substansiate the claims)I would love for someone to give voice to his pain.