Lan Tingwei, 20, not only suffers from autism, but also has a language disorder. He never spoke, he just cried.
Ting Wei was in pain, like a lost boat, and could only live in his own world. He couldn't express it until his mother started teaching him to type.
The mother held his hand, and he quickly identified it with his index finger on the cardboard with the root of the word. He typed while his mother helped him translate. His first words were "After learning to type, I found that my mother was the person in the world who most wanted to hear me." ”
In duobao art school, in addition to Ting Wei, there are many "trek" autistic people.
Shu Wei, 45 years old, who is full of emotions and is not good at expressing, and replaces language with painting; Pei Xuan, who often hallucinates and firmly believes in the existence of aliens; Hui Lun, a high-functioning autistic boy who cannot adapt to school and takes a six-year break from school for 4 years...
How do these autistic people communicate with the world in their own way? In the documentary "Ground Fan Aviation" released in 2021, director Lin Zhengsheng used the camera to record the daily life of 4 elderly autistic people.
He couldn't speak
He can write poetry
Constantly twitching, shaking legs, loving to sit in the corner biting fingers, frantically scribbling, this is the daily life of Lan Tingwei, a 20-year-old autistic youth.
The mother did not think of letting him learn social etiquette and rules, but what ordinary children can learn in a few days, Ting Wei will spend several years.
Ting Wei likes to swim, but it took him nearly 3 years to learn the action of burying his head in the water. He learned to type longer.
He doesn't type on a computer, he just pokes a list of words, and his mother helps him translate.
The director asked Ting Wei, "Why does your mother need to hold your hand when typing?" ”
He replied, "I type very slowly and without instant language. Ting Wei seemed a little embarrassed after saying this, and looked down and smiled.
An extremely ordinary root table became a bridge between Ting Wei and the world.
Poems written by Ting Wei
Because there is no way to fully control the problem behavior, there is always someone pointing out behind Ting Wei's back. Ting Wei typed and told her mother, "At school, the teacher said that I couldn't learn in my life, I was miserable, I was angry, but I couldn't say anything to refute it. ”
Once, Ting Wei told her mother to take her back to her hometown in a few years. The mother asked, "What if I've seen you again in a few decades?" Ting Wei trotted all the way and quickly left her mother. When his mother caught up with him, he slowly wrote, "I don't want to say goodbye to my mother." ”
But the mother said with red eyes, "Mommy will say goodbye to you one day, have you ever thought about this?" ”
Ting Wei replied, "Then I will take you to be my first guest." ”
Ting Wei showed his paintings to the director
Although Ting Wei's language is not so easy to understand, he often tells his mother, "Mom, I will grow up, and when I grow up, I will complete my dreams." ”
When a child has a conflict with a teacher
What would you think of a 21-year-old boy with autism who insisted on the existence of aliens and excitedly told you about his hallucinations?
Lin Peixuan is such a boy.
He loved to draw and painted countless cosmic atlases. But he loves to lose his temper when painting, he feels slow when he draws finely, and he feels rough when he draws simple.
For Peixuan, painting is his bridge of communication with the world. Because of the hallucinations, the characters that ordinary people cannot see are the real beings in his mind.
In Peixuan's world, he has a concept of the universe, and he can see the alien "Rui Juekong" that ordinary people can't see.
When he was preparing for the college interview at home, he took the painting with the painting "Rui Juekong" and introduced it with great interest, "Rui Jue Kong was a murderer who killed 14 people when he was a child, and when I grew up, I turned on the switch, he became a rotten man, and then he became an artist when he got old..."
Mother interrupted him and said, "Mom suggests that when the teacher asks you who RuiJuekong is, you can directly tell the characters of your fictional story, so that you don't have to say so much." ”
Pei Xuan and his parents prepare for the interview
He may not fully understand his mother's words, but he nodded and chose to do so.
The seemingly well-behaved Pei Xuan once had a serious conflict with his teacher. When I was going to school, pei xuan once beat the teacher, and the teacher asked pei xuan to withdraw from school.
Peixuan's mother was also very sad and asked Peixuan, I have been working this road, and you have made progress, but why do you have to go back today? You are like this, we don't want to go out in the future. ”
Pei Xuan was silent for a long time and finally spoke, "I think the most wrong thing I did was to talk to you about it, and I wouldn't tell you anything in the future!" ”
The mother said that Pei Xuan was no longer angry.
Pei Xuan's mother
She asked Peixuan to write a letter of repentance and give it to the teacher, but Peixuan wrote on the letter of repentance, "I may not live to become an adult, Mom, you don't have to worry about the future, I can't live to be an adult at all." ”
As soon as the camera turned, Pei Xuan participated in the interview of Xuanzang University in Taiwan. After leaving the exam room, he excitedly asked his mother, "Did I pass?" ”
There is no mention in the film of whether Pei Xuan was admitted to the university. However, it is certain that Peixuan will not only face many difficulties in the future, but also have many gains.
Autistic person, 45 years old
Is there a midlife crisis?
Chen Shuwei, 45, was diagnosed with autism in 1980.
He has no problem with his language, but he lacks logic in his speech. The director said, "Shu Wei loves to talk about things when he was a child, interspersed with talking about high school, sometimes he can't speak clearly, he uses paintings to express it." ”
Shu Wei shows off his paintings
Shu Wei's family conditions are very good. In 1986, Shu Wei's parents wanted to send their children to the United States for rehabilitation training. But at that time, there was no bilingual teacher, Shu Wei could not learn English, and the family had to return to Taiwan.
Today, 45-year-old Shu Wei is not much like an autistic person. Except for verbal expression and emotional management, he is no different from ordinary people. Even because he didn't have to carry the midlife crisis, Shu Wei looked much lively and relaxed.
The staff animated Shu Wei's paintings
Once, he and his family went to a museum. Seeing the piano on display in the fence, he suddenly became interested and wanted to go in and play. His mother told him, "I'd love to let you talk about it too, but this is a piano in someone's museum." Shu Wei stood where he was and said loudly, "What a pity! ”
Shu Wei would occasionally lose his temper at home, and sometimes he would say for no reason, "I want to cry, I want to cry loudly." At this time, the mother will come to stop him, "the neighbors are sleeping, you will affect the rest of the others." Shu Wei would continue to repeat his words, repeat them for a while, and then he would calm down.
But after his mother left his room, he could only wipe his tears silently.
"I ho tho ho can raise such a child, I only hope he has a good life, a happy and comfortable life." We are getting older day by day, and one day we will leave him, how can we see that he still has no way to live on his own? ”
He uses the piano to communicate with the outside world
At duobao art school, people can often see Shu Wei and Hui Lun playing the piano together.
In Huilun's life, the piano is a tool for Huilun to communicate with the world. When playing the piano, Huilun is radiant, passionate, and fully engaged in the state that makes the audience envious.
At the age of 3, Huilun was diagnosed with typical high-functioning autism. The doctor and Hui lun's mother said, "The child is like this, it is almost impossible to recover, and the whole body is soft." ”
Huilun's mother asked the doctor if the child could learn music and play the piano, and the doctor didn't think about it, saying "impossible". Huilun's mother is not convinced, and she wants to take her children to try to break the so-called "impossible" by these experts.
"I have my way of training. Just like I trained him to pronounce blowing, I'm going to train his hands so that he can throw his hands out and throw them on the piano. ”
After many spring, summer, autumn and winter, her mother finally trained Huilun to be an excellent piano player.
But even with his skill, he still can't integrate into the collective life.
After going to college, he first took a two-year break. Six months after resuming school, he extended his suspension for 2 years. "I felt like I didn't fit in with the university environment," he said. ”
The mother said, "I feel that half of his ideas are understandable to me, and the other half I don't understand." It was as if I was on Earth, and he was outside of Earth. ”
An academy that houses autism
In May 2016, Duobao Art School was established. In this school, Han Shuhua, who has been engaged in art therapy for 25 years, helps these autistic people express their hearts through poetry, music and painting. At present, more than 30 autistic people in the academy are involved in daily activities.
People with autism sell their work and design licenses with the help of teachers to realize their self-worth and self-reliance.
However, they cannot support themselves on their own income. For nearly 6 years, Duobao Art School has been able to survive thanks to multi-party donations and support. This documentary that focuses on the lives of older autistic people, "Ground Fan Aviation", has also been delayed due to lack of attention.
Director Lin Zhengsheng hopes to use this film to arouse the attention of more ordinary people to autistic people.
"In Taiwan, 1 in 50 people is an autism spectrum disorder," he said. I've been in contact with autistic people for 18 years, and I don't think they're sick now, it's just that they're different from us as ordinary people, just different from us. ”
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