That mouth… that's Michael C Hall's mouth, isn't it?

I'm not sure the medium matters. By the way, I'm not disputing that autistics can learn to write/type - they may be impaired but don't make the mistake of thinking that they can't do anything. But have a look at some of the videos on that page that rubi-kun linked to - it's a looooong way from that to the…

Yeah, I struggled to parse that first sentence, the problem being that there's a couple of typos in there. If I had to guess how this could have been 'faked', I'd say these were rehearsed statements - i.e. his mother has tried to teach him to memorise the letters, perhaps with the hand-over-hand approach first, then…

Here's an example: in the part about 8 minutes in, he types "donna ni" ("no matter") by himself. Then his mother repositions his hand on T, at which point we get "tutrakutekmo" - it's been a long time since I studied Japanese but I know that doesn't even follow the form - at which point the camera cuts away from his…

Neat kid. I'd like to know what language he's typing in, since it's not Japanese.

There are loads of parents who have written about their experiences with an autistic child… that's not the premise of this book. Try actually reading the review. Or if that's too many words, perhaps the top line on the cover.

Thants: exactly, thank you.

"why in the hell would his very verbal aspie son's perspective have much in common with a severely autistic kid's life?" Because I assumed that they would have some aspects in common, being on the same spectrum of disorders and everything. Too simplistic maybe, but not stupid.

It's not a matter of how it manifests; there's no question that the kid is severely autistic. It's the attempts to explain his behaviour that seem fishy. Honestly it reads more like a description of cerebral palsy, which incidentally is where FC arose from.

I thought there was something a bit fishy about this book when I was reading it; the perspective of this non-verbal boy seemed so at odds with that of my very verbal Aspie son. Having looked into it more, it appears that this book is the product of 'facilitated communication' and is most likely fabricated. While the…