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Music Video: Aspergian Pride (I Don't Fit the Template)

Submitted by Landon Bryce on Thu, 09/06/2012 - 11:37
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Thanks to Lucy Berrington of the Asperger's Association of New England for sending me Johnny Medlar's fantastic music video "Aspergian Pride (I Don't Fit the Template.)"

Johnny says:

“The song and video started as a school project during my junior year of high school. My biology class was doing projects about diseases or conditions that have a genetic factor. Since I have Asperger syndrome, which is believed to have a genetic link, I persuaded my teacher to let me do my project on Asperger’s so that I might have that personal motivation to do the project well."

The video is impressive on several levels-- the music, the animation, the message:

Some say I ain't got no emotions
That I'm a mule who's good at math
And I may not know how to show it
But that don't make me a sociopath

Some folks hold me in disfavor
'Cause I can be inflexible
So I get punished for behavior
Over which I have no control

So, ya, I stand out from the natives
But that don't mean I can't survive
Give me a chance to be creative
And on this planet I will thrive.