In this world, there lives a group of people: although their appearance is no different from normal people, it is difficult to integrate into group life; most of them are not deaf, blind, or dumb, but they cannot communicate with others normally; although they are healthy, they can always do monotonous repetition. They are children with autism, also known as "children of the stars".
There are always exceptions to everything, and for children with autism, music and art are their "exceptions." Although they always live in their own world and turn a deaf ear to everything in the outside world, when they encounter music, the wonderful chemistry begins.
Chen Weijian, a 41-year-old man living in Guangzhou, is engaged in piano education for autistic children, although he has no autism. Unlike ordinary teachers, Chen Weijian is not a sound person, he has had poor eyesight since birth, only 0.03. Fortunately, later he met the piano, so that his lonely life has a reliance, the gray life has a light, but also let him as an adult because of this skill, passed the national registered piano tuning lawyer, at the same time, from a blind masseuse, became a piano teacher, which also gave him the rest of his life to have the tools to make a living.
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Because of his poor eyesight, every time Chen Weijian teaches students to learn the piano, he has to use the magnifying glass of his mobile phone to see the score. Despite the difficulty, Chen Weijian was still very patient with each student. So far, he has been engaged in piano education for autistic children for 11 years, and there is a student named Yang Yang (pseudonym), who has been learning piano with him since he was 4 years old, and this year, it is already the 6th year.
In the past 6 years, Chen Weijian has patiently and carefully taught Yang Yang about piano, and Yang Yang's current piano level has also made Chen Weijian very satisfied and satisfied. Chen Weijian said that his requirements for Yang Yang are very strict, and if Yang Yang does not do it, he may also kill him, but what makes Chen Weijian very impressed is that Yang Yang will continue to practice every time even if he cries, and Yang Yang will never resist.
In an interview, Chen Weijian said: "Autistic children are relatively weak in receiving information (ability), and I feel like a computer programmer, I want to input this code (piano related knowledge) into his head and let him play it." This code is too difficult to type, and if his input can reflect it and play it, he will feel very accomplished."
Why are children with autism called "children of the stars"? For they are like the stars in the sky, lonely, but still shining. And music is the catalyst that makes them shine, adding brilliance and the possibilities of diverse life to their world. Shenzhen Philharmonic Orchestra is a special orchestra because most of the members of this orchestra are autistic teenagers, and 17-year-old Xiao Dai is one of them.
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When he first saw Xiao Dai's performance video, his body swayed back and forth with the music as he stood on the stage, and after finding the rhythm, he blew the pottery flute in his hand, and when he was intoxicated, his face raised a happy smile. According to Xiao Dai's mother, Xiao Dai was diagnosed with autism when she was 3 years old, and when Xiao Dai was 10 years old, her mother let Xiao Dai accompany her to the Tao Di parent-child class, because of the relationship between autism, Xiao Dai was an "auditor" in this class, but out of a strong interest in music, Xiao Dai learned all the tracks in the class after a year of entering the class.
After discovering Xiao Dai's interest in music, Xiao Dai's mother took him to learn a variety of instruments such as gourd silk, pipes and piano, and won multiple medals and certificates. When asked what kind of changes music has brought to Xiao Dai, Xiao Dai's mother shared that xiao Dai was a timid, cowering, and almost no communication with others, but now he has become more cheerful and will often take the initiative to express himself, and music has made Xiao Dai out of his own world.
Music can improve the behavior of autistic children, allowing them to gradually come out of their own world and embrace the outside world, but not all autistic children love music from the beginning. Babe was one of them, and it took him several years from resisting playing the piano to not resisting playing the piano, but after not resisting playing the piano, he passed the piano level ten in five years.
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Babe's father found that after Babe learned piano, he was more sensitive to music than anything else. This makes Babe's parents feel very pleased, because Babe, who used to be able to recognize words and read words but did not understand the meaning of words, now finally has a channel to read the world, to understand this society better, to contact society, and to get close to society.
Through the study of music, Babe, who originally did not care about the world, began to become more extroverted, smile, and began to know how to open the door of the unit for her parents when she returned home, and waited for her parents to arrive at dinner. Although these things may seem trivial, they are very hard-won things for parents who have autistic children at home. For Babe's parents, it is music that gives Babe more room for improvement, and also allows Babe's parents to see more possibilities for his future.
It is often said that music is great because it never "interacts" with people based on external conditions such as whether it is rich or not, whether it is healthy or not, whether it is social class, age, beauty and ugliness. On the contrary, it is like the sea, whether you are a trickle or a rushing river, it embraces everyone in the world with the same embrace, allowing people to draw a steady stream of energy and warmth from it.