Name: 【TED】Faith Jegede Cole: What I've learned from my autistic brothers (Faith Jegede: What I've learned from my autistic brothers)
Uploaded: 2013-04-21T06:24:54.000Z
Duration: 5 min 21 s
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Now I'd like to introduce you to my brothers.

in a way that some of the best orators cannot.

He shares it unconditionally and he shares it regardless.

He's not greedy. He doesn't see skin color.

He doesn't care about religious differences, and get this:

attempting words that not even I could remember,

how little we know about the mind, and how wonderful

Samuel is 16. He's tall. He's very handsome.

He doesn't remember if he stole my chocolate bar,

but he remembers the year of release for every song on my iPod,

weeing on my arm on the first ever episode of Teletubbies,

And in fact, because their minds don't fit

they're often bypassed and misunderstood.

But what lifted my heart and strengthened my soul

Now, for you who may be less familiar with the term "autism,"

it's a complex brain disorder that affects social communication,

It manifests in each individual differently,

And across the world, every 20 minutes, one new person

is diagnosed with autism, and although it's one of

the fastest-growing developmental disorders in the world,

And I cannot remember the first moment I encountered autism,

I was just three years old when my brother came along,

He didn't want to play like the other babies did,

Remi lived and reigned in his own world, with his own rules,

and he found pleasure in the smallest things,

and eating anything that came in between.

And as he grew older, he grew more different,

Yet beyond the tantrums and the frustration

a pure and innocent nature, a boy who saw the world

without prejudice, a human who had never lied.

moments where I've wished that they were just like me.

But I cast my mind back to the things that they've taught me

about individuality and communication and love,

I wouldn't want to change with normality.

Normality overlooks the beauty that differences give us,

and the fact that we are different doesn't mean that one of us is wrong.

It just means that there's a different kind of right.

And if I could communicate just one thing to Remi

it would be that you don't have to be normal.

We've got a gift! Everyone's got a gift inside of us,

and in all honesty, the pursuit of normality

The chance for greatness, for progress and for change

dies the moment we try to be like someone else.

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【TED】Faith Jegede Cole: What I've learned from my autistic brothers (Faith Jegede: What I've learned from my autistic brothers)

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