The Black Balloon Essay

Understand how autistic spectrum conditions can impact on the lives of individuals and those around them

Temple Grandin’s autobiographical book, Thinking in Pictures, opened the door that revealed the true aspects of autism. The author, who is an autistic woman, portrayed autism not as a complicated developmental disorder but as a unique characteristic that is a compliment to society. To break apart from society’s stereotype on autistic individuals, Temple focused her book on issues such as how her disorder was initially misdiagnosed, her issues with learning acceptable behavior and social cues, her connection with animal minds, sensory sensitivities, and explored the possible treatments with medication.

This is a story about how the balloon explores the public's response to it and the relationship with the narrator conscience. The balloon itself is the symbolic representation of the story, so that the reader is forced to confront and respond to the story in the same way that the citizens of New York City must confront and respond to the balloon. The balloon can represent any imaginative origin, as the public demonstrates. The mention of the balloon as having a “deliberate lack of finish” which gave the “surface a rough forgotten quality” reinforced the idea that the balloon is an art object designed to provoke public and private reactions.

Self-stimming is necessary for a portion of the autistic population because it provides a “reliable way of gathering, processing, and expressing information (Bascom, 181). Higashida speaks for the self-stimulatory autistic community as he talks about the necessity of the pleasure that accompanies self-stimming. Spinning, for example, provides autistic individuals bliss and comfort due to its calming unchanging action (Higashida, 68). Flapping, one of the most common and stereotypical self-stimulatory behaviors, provides not only a pleasurable light “filtered fashion”, but also another chance to express their happiness as the light consoles them (Higashida, 69). Self-stimming speaks for many autistics, a joyous and momentous occasion that releases emotions in a way a portion of the autistic community cannot do due to lack of speech. In literature, the release speaks miles, including portraying ideas and feeling proud (Sequenzia, 346). The immediate necessity of self-stimming that is portrayed through literature is extremely important to recognize, as it echoes on the way

Black balloon and the curious incident puts a mainly focus on both of the main characters, Christopher, a disabled person from curious incident and Thomas, a brother of a disabled sibling from black balloon being outsiders in various ways by comparing the similarities and the differences as to how they are displayed as an outsider throughout the film and the novel. The first topic is about Thomas and Christopher facing senses of hatred and isolation from their families, the second topic is about how they don’t fit senses of superiority at school due to their classmates making fun of them and not accepting of who they are or of who one of their disabled relatives are. Finally, the last topic will be about both of their dads showing major frustrations

The film Black balloon unfolds around an Australian family, The Mollisons, in the early 90’s who have just moved to a new home. It begins with Charlie, banging a wooden spoon on the grass with neighbours pointing and staring, establishing he suffers from autism and the introduction to the social stigma of the disease in which the film explores. We the meet Maggie who is the prime care giver to Charlie and Thomas, Charlie’s brother, who is anxious to start at his new school, and make new friends, he strives to fit in and be considered ‘normal’. We learn more about Charlie as the movie develops, he enjoys dressing up like a monkey, playing computer games and receiving gold stars for good behaviour, we learn that Charlie communicates with the

 Have you ever wondered what Autism might be like? Throughout this passage, I will describe what each picture represents and how it relates to Autism. Autism differs amongst every individual, so we have to include many different things that each could have. There are some autistic individuals who have extreme sensory issues, which will cause them to have a melt down. When there is to much commotion they began to frantic. This would represent the bottom two picture with the boys who are covering their ears. However, I chose the picture to the far left bottom, because many people tend to replay things over and over. For

Jason's Introduction: In 1943, a psychiatrist by the name of Leo Kanner discovered a difference in the brains of some children. He called it autism. Hi. I'm Jason South. I’m an 18-year-old cartoonist. You may not be able to tell, but I have high-functioning autism. My parents have always described me as someone who is "in between neurotypical and autistic". Autism is a neurological disorder that often affects the ability to socialize. It also affects the senses. For example, autistic people may lose focus easily, go on and on about a narrow subject of interest, not realizing others may not share the enthusiasm, and not understand that other people have different thoughts. As far as the sensory stuff, certain

Temple Grandin was born with autism. Her novel, Thinking In Pictures, provides readers with many issues that she faced from autism and how she resolved them. Included are many detailed descriptions on how the autistic mind perceives and interprets the world. This book is divided into many chapters that talk about different aspects of autism. Temple Grandin’s book opens with the lines, “I think in pictures.

The media portrays different exceptionalities within different movies. Cinema seems to be one of, if not the most, viewed media resources today and has the largest influence on how different exceptionalities are viewed. Autism spectrum disorder is one of the main exceptionality portrayed in the movie industry. Rain Man established a new standard for the realistic representation of autism.

No two people with autism are alike. This assignment not only allowed us to see how the overall representation on autism has changed, but how autism varies among different individuals. Specifically, this paper will discuss how characteristics associated with autisms such as communication, movement, sensory, and social vary between the films Rain Man, Autism is a World, and The Story of Luke. Due to these films being released over the course of twenty-four years, we are able to see how representation of autism has changed. These films also dispel common misconceptions of associated with autism.

The curios mind of Charlie prompts him to exhibit a distinctive and bizarre array of observable behavior that often result in disturbing conclusions, some that may not be easy to hear. Within my short time of getting to know Charlie and having shared a seat near him, a great deal has been learned. Charlie is remarkable at observing the physical appearance of

Jolliffe’s first-hand account of what it is like to be autistic, allows the reader to invariably emphasise the difficulties she has with the processing of sensory-perceptual information. ‘When I was young I was thought to have a hearing problem – it was noticed that I did not always respond to people when spoken to and I had difficulty understanding what people were saying and in learning to speak’ (quoted in Jolliffe, Landsdown and Robinson, 1992: 12). Being under-responsive to sound can be evident even in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) whose hearing is normal. Similarly, Rosenhall et al. (1999, pg. 359) suggest over-sensitivity to sound, also known as hyperacusia is not rare, and specific sounds may evolve into the focus

The Photography work of Sarah Hobbs entitled Untitled (Sublimation), created in 2006 and printed by chromogenic. In this work the thirty-six pot cultures be sequenced organized and the other two pot cultures be separately placed on the two-tier workbench, accepting the shines from outside the window. This clear and uncomplicated photo representative the inner world of autism.

He doesn't know what to do anymore. He feels lost. All of a sudden he hears a loud cry in the distance that sounds like a screaming banshee. He stops crying and starts wiping the tears from his face. He looks across the misty marsh and sees a ghoulish figure rising from the mist. It begins to scream like a banshee forcing CHARLIE to his knees, covering his ears from the loud blaring sound. The ghoulish figure then seems to fly directly towards CHARLIE to attack him causing to scream in fear. But suddenly, it vanishes right before his eyes. He begins to cry again.