Britain's Got Talent 2011--Autistic Boy wows the crowd with his dancing

[Emaheevul07]

<p>Who laughed and where?</p>

[Cardinal_Fang]

<p>First of all, you’re accusing two people with Aspergers of not having good social communication skills? Gee, film at 11.</p>

<p>Second, having poor proprioception or poor balance doesn’t “feel like” anything. It feels normal. Imagine someone asking you, what is it like not to have perfect pitch (assuming you don’t have perfect pitch)? It’s not like anything. You don’t have a sensation of lack until you compare yourself with others. You don’t listen to music and feel dizzy and blurry-- you just listen to music.</p>

<p>Or, imagine you still had your normal proprioception, but everyone else moved like Fred Astaire. You would still have the same sensations of proprioception, but you would notice that everyone else could do things you couldn’t do. It’s like that. You’d have a deficit in comparison to others, but you wouldn’t have an intrinsic feeling of dizziness.</p>

[Cardinal_Fang]

<p>I’m bringing this topic back to the top to link to this great little essay about one’s umwelt, the world the individual experiences.</p>

<p>[Responses</a> | 2011 Annual Question | Edge](<a href=“http://edge.org/responses/what-scientific-concept-would-improve-everybodys-cognitive-toolkit]Responses”>Edge.org)</p>

<p>Scroll down, a lot, to get to the essay entitled The Umvelt.</p>

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[The author explains that a bloodhound’s superior olfactory ability means it experiences the world largely through smell, but we humans don’t.] Obviously, we suffer no absence of smell because we accept reality as it’s presented to us. Without the olfactory capabilities of a bloodhound, it rarely strikes us that things could be different. Similarly, until a child learns in school that honeybees enjoy ultraviolet signals and rattlesnakes employ infrared, it does not strike her that plenty of information is riding on channels to which we have no natural access. From my informal surveys, it is very uncommon knowledge that the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to us is less than a ten-trillionth of it.
Our unawareness of the limits of our umwelt can be seen with color blind people: until they learn that others can see hues they cannot, the thought of extra colors does not hit their radar screen. And the same goes for the congenitally blind: being sightless is not like experiencing “blackness” or “a dark hole” where vision should be. As a human is to a bloodhound dog, a blind person does not miss vision.

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<p>Similarly, an autistic person won’t notice her lack of proprioception-- her diminished sense of balance is her reality.</p>

[nysmile]

<p>[YouTube</a> - Ronan Parke - Britain’s Got Talent 2011 Audition - International Version](<a href=“Ronan Parke - Britain's Got Talent 2011 Audition - International Version - YouTube”>Ronan Parke - Britain's Got Talent 2011 Audition - International Version - YouTube)</p>

<p>The 11 year old dancer is up against some stiff competition. Here’s a link to a 12 year old singer in the competition who had the audience on their feet. The little guy was a nervous wreck, but once he started singing, he gave his all.</p>