Loving Lampposts

Loving Lampposts is a 2010 documentary film directed by Todd Drezner, exploring the neurodiversity movement and the principle of autism acceptance through a series of interviews and candid footage.[1][2][3] Drezner is the father of an autistic child whose attachment to and fascination with lampposts gave the film its title.[4]

Loving Lampposts
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Directed byTodd Drezner
Release date
  • May 28, 2010 (2010-05-28) (DocMiami)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Autism rights movement
Philosophy
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People
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The film premiered at the 2010 DocMiami International Film Festival.[5]

Background

In Loving Lampposts, Drezner interviews several neurodiversity advocates and autistic activists about their views on autism, including Kassiane Asasumasu, autistic activist and blogger; Dora Raymaker, autistic activist and co-director of the Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education, originally a project of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network; Phil Schwarz, an autistic activist affiliated with Autism Network International who is also the father of an autistic son; Stephen Shore, a formerly nonspeaking autistic person who is now a professor of special education at Adelphi University; anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker, father of an autistic child; Estée Klar, creator of The Autism Acceptance Project; and English professor and blogger Kristina Chew, mother of an autistic child.[1][6] Loving Lampposts also features interviews with parents and autism professionals opposed to the neurodiversity movement, who instead support finding treatments or a cure for autism, including Jenny McCarthy and Doreen Granpeesheh.[1][6] Drezner also interviews Sharisa Joy Kochmeister, a non-verbal autistic individual who is purported to communicate through the scientifically discredited technique of facilitated communication.[7]

References
  1. ""Loving Lampposts," A Groundbreaking Documentary About Autism, Love, and Acceptance | NeuroTribes". NeuroTribes. 2011-03-29. Archived from the original on 2018-05-20. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  2. Drezner, Todd (2010-05-28), Loving Lampposts, Nadine Antonelli, Simon Baron-Cohen, Billy, retrieved 2018-05-20
  3. "Anti-Vaccine Film, Pulled From Tribeca Film Festival, Draws Crowd at Showing". The New York Times. 2016-04-01. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  4. "Movie Review: Loving Lampposts: Living Autistic". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  5. "DocMiami International Film Festival Schedule". docmiami10.sched.com. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  6. "Loving lampposts". Left Brain Right Brain. 2011-03-30. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  7. Auerbach, David (12 November 2015). "This Pseudoscience Preys on People With Disabilities and Is Infiltrating Schools". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 25 August 2019.


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