A film shot in 1957 at the Maudsley Hospital, London, captures children under observation for atypical behaviour. In the | dG1fQmdfM0ZCN0hJVUk
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00:00The movement of the children is very natural and relaxing, and you kind of feel it's very
00:19difficult to not want to start stimming, almost in solidarity.
00:29It's beautiful, that is the thing of beauty. In a chaotic world, that's why we need more
00:35lining up of things.
00:42Autistic people are natural dancers. Personally, I find that if I have something that I like
00:49to express, sometimes words aren't the best way to reflect that to the outside world.
00:57So I connect with these girls.
01:04Wait, stop, stop. You can see him recognising, just for a second, you see a little bit of
01:22his face, you see it in the eyes, and the general muscles around the eyes. It suddenly
01:27stops. That's the face of somebody who has just understood something.