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Neither 'retarded?nor 'freaks', just different

By Sun Li | China Daily | Updated: 2011-04-14 07:57

Neither 'retarded?nor 'freaks', just different

Before making his documentary, Taiwan filmmaker Shen Ko-shang believed autistic people were all like Dustin Hoffman's character in the 1988 Oscar-winning film Rain Man: blabbering, frightened and gifted.

"I was seriously wrong," says Shen, whose four-episode documentary, Children from the Distant Planet, is aimed at raising awareness of this developmental disorder.

Started in 2008, it took Shen two years to complete.

Neither 'retarded?nor 'freaks', just different

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