Horizon
Season 51 Episode 9 - Living with Autism
When pioneering developmental psychologist Professor Uta Frith started her training back in the 1960s, she met a group of beautiful, bright-eyed young children who seemed completely detached from the rest of the world. It turned out they had just been given the then-new diagnosis of autism. Uta passionately wanted to know more about these children, and they inspired her to dedicate the rest of her career to studying the autistic mind. On the eve of National Autism Day, Horizon reveals how Uta's lifetime study of people with autism has transformed our understanding of this mysterious condition. In this film Uta shows how people with autism perceive and interact with the world and how, for them, another kind of reality exists. She meets people with autism who have extraordinary talents, and explains why they often fail to understand jokes. She also explores whether many of us could be just a little bit autistic.
Episodes in Season 51
Monitor Me
60 min
Defeating the Hackers
60 min
Dinosaurs: The Hunt for Life
60 min
Sugar v Fat
60 min
Swallowed by a Sink Hole
60 min
Man on Mars - Mission to the Red Planet
60 min
The Power of the Placebo
60 min
How You Really Make Decisions
60 min
Living with Autism
60 min
Where is Flight MH370?
60 min
What's Wrong with Our Weather?
60 min
