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24 Oct 2008

Author: Sullivan
Comments: 21

Story Time With Darwin

When Autism’s False Prophets hit the shelves—heck even before—there was a lot of buzz in the online community. Lot’s of reviews were posted on blogs. There seemed to be a strong correlation between people who actually read the book and people who favorably reviewed the book. AFP was chosen for the Science Blogs Book Club.

There have been a lot of approaches to discussing Autism’s False Prophets online, but I don’t think I would have ever predicted this:

Darwin-AFP Introduction

Yep, someone (not just someone, and autistic adult) reading from Autism’s False Prophets.

I saw that video and thought, “AFP isn’t a really long book, but there’s no way that this guy can cover much of the book.”

I underestimated the will and stamina of Darwin. He has 59 videos up. He’s at least to chapter 8.

Here’s a “commercial” for the YouTube series. You gotta click on this one. It’s short, and made me laugh out loud.

Darwin-AFP commercial

Note: I’m having a little trouble embedding the YouTube videos. I hope to figure that out soon.

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21 Responses to “Story Time With Darwin”

codeman38
October 24th, 2008
06:36:17

Am I missing something, or is the link to the video clip missing?
codeman38
October 24th, 2008
06:37:30

...ok, never mind, it seems to have been fixed now.
Sullivan
October 24th, 2008
06:44:27

Codeman38—you are fast. I just put this up!

I did mess up the links at first.
Ms. Clark
October 24th, 2008
09:03:12

Cracks me up every time I watch it!! Thank you Darwin and Amber and kids
Amber
October 24th, 2008
13:59:30

Hi everyone!
You have no idea how time consuming this is, but it has been very fun. We were trying to make it serious, while interjecting our own brand of humor, hence the intros. Thanks Kev, and Ms Clark, you guys are great!

Amber
jypsy
October 24th, 2008
14:35:44

Absolutely fabulous! I’m so grateful to Darwin for accommodating me with this. The cognitive issues MS & seizures have caused me can make reading (with comprehension) all but impossible. I hope he throws more commercials in….
Amber
October 24th, 2008
14:51:06

Thanks!

He is busy right now, but wants me to tell you he is honored, and just received your youtube message! In case you haven’t figured it out already, and for other readers, I’m his wife.
Bunny
October 24th, 2008
15:13:33

What an unbelievably beautiful baby!
codeman38
October 24th, 2008
15:14:03

Sullivan: I’m following the Twitter feed; that’s how I found it so fast. :)
Amber
October 24th, 2008
15:18:23

I don’t know what twitter feed is, but I should have thanked you as well, as I just realized you our the author of this post, Sullivan.

Bunny, thanks for the complement!
Sullivan
October 24th, 2008
15:50:27

Bunny—you got that right. That kid is darned cute.
Darwin
October 25th, 2008
13:56:15

Hi everyone. My wife and I couldn’t decide who would get to read AFP first. We had preordered it, and were so excited when it came. I suggested that I read it outloud so we could discuss it together, but then I thought if I was reading it outloud I should YouTube it, so others could hear it as well.I felt that a book this important really needed to be shared with as many people as possible. Thank you Sullivan, Ms. Clark, Jypsy,Bunny,and Codeman for your very nice comments. I have a bunch of loyal viewers who have been following the videos as soon as I put them up. It makes me very happy that I have chosen to record them. I am also honored to have been featured on LeftBrain/Right Brain!I am also glad you liked my comercial. I plan to make another one.
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October 25th, 2008
16:10:39

[...] week, it’s from LeftBrainRightBrain, who report that an autistic adult has taken to reading Autism’s False Prophets on YouTube. Here’s the “commercial” for “Story Time with [...]
Darwin
October 26th, 2008
21:37:57

Okay, you guys asked for a new commercial so here it is!
This one features my wife Amber and dog Princess.
Darwin
October 26th, 2008
21:40:25
Darwin
October 26th, 2008
21:42:24
Darwin
October 26th, 2008
21:47:07

I guess I don’t know how to embed here so here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG_tPk09KHo
Ms. Clark
October 27th, 2008
08:19:19

Laughing hysterically.
Ms. Clark
October 27th, 2008
08:22:03

Darwin, I’m not sure, but I think I can embed videos because I am a blogger on LBRB. I tried to do it when I wasn’t signed in to wordpress and it didn’t work.
cheri
February 20th, 2009
01:41:30

hi name cheri story sad have boyfriends have autism but know he mild autism low autism have autism all is life hard for him to learn at school know what do love my boyfreinds hard me sleep wrong about him
he cant read cant write me on the phone text me hard time hope help him
cheri
February 20th, 2009
01:45:41

boyfriends hard time long cause autism like am alone in this know why happen to him all do cry for my boyfrends cause love him thank
god save my boyfriends was say that love him
this real life about boyfriends life wrong
about him no body love him love him know had aall my love god throw this god bless my boyfriends