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''Normal People Scare Me: A Film about Autism'' is a documentary film about autism, produced by Joey Travolta, older brother of actor John Travolta.〔 The documentary initially began as a 10-minute short film co-directed by an autistic teenager named Taylor Cross, and his mother Keri Bowers. Joey Travolta first met Cross at a program Travolta led teaching the art of filmmaking to children with special needs. He helped educate Cross about filmmaking, and the documentary was expanded into a feature-length film. It includes interviews with 65 people, including those that are autistic as well as friends and family. Cross asks them about their experiences with autism and how they feel about it, and elicits multiple insightful responses from his subjects. The short version of the film was shown at a student film festival at Chaminade High School in West Hills, California in April 2004, and co-director Cross won multiple awards at the festival. In November 2004, Cross was honored for his work on the film, at a gala benefit dinner for the Bubel-Aiken Foundation in Los Angeles, California; the foundation's co-creator is Clay Aiken of ''American Idol''. The feature-length version of the film was released on April 1, 2006. Special screenings included the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in October 2006, and the Staten Island Film Festival in 2007. The documentary received positive reception in the ''Daily News of Los Angeles'', ''New York Daily News'' and the ''Tri-Valley Herald''. ==Contents== The documentary's purpose is to educate the public to gain an understanding of autism.〔 Taylor Cross interviews autistic children between the ages of 9 to 19, and asks them to describe their perspective on the world and to share their thoughts.〔 The youngest autistic child to appear in the film is a boy named Ricky, and the oldest at age 19 shares the same name as the co-director, Taylor.〔 An autistic boy named Brian appears in the film and voices frustration due to experiencing teasing from girls at his school.〔 Brian's sister Elizabeth also appears in the film – she communicates with her brother in a language only the two of them comprehend.〔 Cross also interviews parents of children with autism, including surfer Izzy Paskowitz.〔 In addition, Cross interviews the dean of the film program at New York University.〔 Cross asks subjects in the film: "Do you like having autism?".〔 One middle school girl responds "I feel okay. It makes things hard for me that might be easy for others."〔 A little boy tells Cross: "Everyone's good at their own things."〔 An autistic woman tells Cross "Yes, I do. Because why should I not--why should I feel bad about something I can't really change? I might as well look at the good things about it." Another boy says to Cross "I don't like being autistic", and when Cross asks why, the boy responds: "Because it's hard for me to have changes and all the other stuff."〔 A woman states to Cross of her experiences with autism: "I cry, I scream, I wish to God I wasn't different and I didn't have to struggle with everything...", and a boy tells him of the negative aspects of the condition: "The bad thing about autism is that it gets hard to understand other people and to understand what people say and what--what other people try to tell me to do and how to explain me better."〔 When Cross asks his subjects "Tell me how you feel about having autism", he elicits responses including: "I have first thought, because people don't understand me", "Over the years I have come to accept it as a part of who I am. When I was younger I wanted to go away" and "It is not the biggest part of my life but knowing that I have something that makes me a little different, it sometimes makes me question myself". He also poses a question to the interviewees related to the film's title, and asks "Sometimes normal people are scary to kids with autism. They talk funny or too fast. Do normal people ever scare you?"〔 Responses include "All the time", "Yes, because it is hard to keep up when people are talking", "Not really", "Yes. They do" and "A little, yes".〔 Cross poses the question to those with autism: "What is normal anyway?". Cross interviews autistic students in the film and asks them to cite the most difficult things about their condition.〔 Answers include "making friends", "driving", and "making people not hate you".〔 All students acknowledge to Cross in the interviews that they have been teased for being different from others.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Normal People Scare Me」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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