Another viral video from YouTube.  This one however, is actually educational and even inspiring.

The short homemade film is entitled "In My Language" and it shows the Amanda Baggs in her typical routine.

Amanda Baggs has severe autism. She didn’t cry when she was born. She had to be taught how to nurse. As a little girl, she rocked her head back and forth but could speak. As she grew, she would go longer and longer without speaking, until her spoken language disappeared altogether.  She slowly learned how to type. Now, she relies on her computer or a voice synthesizer linked to a keyboard to interact with people. 

For Amanda, it takes a great deal of energy to think in words. It is not her natural state of mind. "It’s like being bilingual," she types. "A lot of the way I naturally communicate is just through direct response to what is around me in a very physical sort of way. It’s dealing with patterns and colors rather than with symbolic words."

The first part of the film is simply her being, well, autistic.  The second part of the film is Amanda’s translation, in her own language, of what she is doing and thinking.  As the description reads:

This is not a look-at-the-autie gawking freakshow as much as it is a statement about what gets considered thought, intelligence, personhood, language, and communication, and what does not.

In the film, Amanda poignantly asks why her inability to learn our language is considered a deficiency, yet nobody bothers to understand the nature of her language.

A really good YouTube video, so popular that even CNN picked up on it.  Enjoy: