Samuel+K.

Sam K.

=Synesthesia, ADHD, Autism, and Diabetes: Diseases With Real Impact=

**Description:**
This movie will show the reality of socially impairing diseases.

Characters: There aren't really any characters, since the movie is made of mostly animated text. On the other hand, though, the script can always be edited, whether by request or by other means, so this isn't a final statement unless it is perfectly fine. Even then, though, I might decide to change the script. Don't totally expect that this movie will or will not have characters, but you can expect a little bit.



Script
Synesthesia is a disease that is rare ("Synesthesia" is blue, kind of sizzles in, "rare" is green kind of bounces in, rest of sentence wipes in), but it is more common is those with autism ("more common" is red, bumps "rare" off screen, "autism" is yellow, bumps "Synesthesia" off screen, the words "more common" and "autism" into their positions in that part of the sentence, the rest of sentence fades in). When you have synesthesia, your senses are merged (sentence wipes in, each letter in "senses" is a different color [red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple], "merged" is blue, "senses are merged" condenses, then zooms in and fades out while rest of sentence fades out). For example, you can “see” music or “smell” color or “taste” the letters of the alphabet ("see" (red), "smell" (blue), and "taste" (green) come in from different directions with motion trail, each individual letter in "music" (alternating yellow and orange in color) kind of dances in, "color" sizzles in, each letter is a different color, "letters of the alphabet" [purple] is jumbled up, then unscrambles, rest of sentence fades in, then moves down and fades out). A psychologist proved that everyone has a small degree of synesthesia several centuries ago, but it’s not significant enough for one to notice ("small degree" fades in and zooms out, rest of sentence fades in and zooms in, then the sentence zooms in opposite directions, and fades out). It’s not life-threatening, but people can easily discriminate others because of it ("life-threatening" [red] falls fast from top then bounces, "discriminate" [blue] spins and fades in then the "i"s in the word kind of retreat from the word and run away, rest of sentence fades in, appears for a few secs, then fades out, whereas "discriminate" doesn't fade out, then each letter explodes in another direction). The cases of synesthesia can vary from person to person, but the most common is grapheme, in which each letter of the alphabet or each number is assigned a certain color ("to" appears first, then "person" and "person" [yellow] fade in, circle around "to", then stop in correct positions, "grapheme" [purple] is seperated into two parts [graph-eme], "graph" zooms out to place, "eme" zooms in to place, "alphabet" [rainbow] cycles through letters of the alphabet, then stops at the right letters, "color" [rainbow] cycles through colors, then stops at regular rainbow colors).

ADHD is a disease inhabiting itself in 5% of the population. It is a learning disorder that typically presents itself during childhood, and it can cause patterns of inattention, hyperactivity, forgetfulness, poor impulse control, and distractibility (making the person easily distracted). A related disease is dyslexia, which is a reading disability that also makes writing difficult. Evidence suggests that dyslexia is a difference is interpreting and understanding written and/or verbal language. For example, someone can easily confuse the letters “b”, “d”, “p”, and “q”. Both diseases put children at an academic disadvantage. There are several kids that were in my brother’s 3rd grade class that had these problems.

Autism is a severe brain development disease. Autism can involve symptoms like showing less attention to social stimuli, having less eye contact, having trouble making friends, and self-injury. I know someone who is autistic. He can be or is obsessed with asking the same question. He laughs at things that aren’t exactly funny. He likes riding on elevators, even though I'm not against obscure interests, because some people have them. He is one of several children who will have trouble enduring childhood.

Diabetes is a very restricting disease. It is where one’s blood sugar is never quietly contained, and is constantly unbalanced. This is can be life threatening if unhandled, so parents would have to prick their children’s fingers and enter the blood into a machine which tells the parent what their child’s blood sugar is. Having to be monitored like this is very restricting. The same person I told you that is autistic also is diabetic. He just wants to fit in. Is that too much to ask?

SCRIPT


 * layout of recorded scene (with dialogues) in storyboard

Act I – Introduction

Text: Some diseases are deadlier than others. Some diseases aren’t deadly, but they can be. Some aren’t deadly, but can leave social impairments. That’s the kind of disease that I’ll be talking about. They are raising more attention and not enough people are doing something about it. The kids with these diseases are simply trying to work their way through childhood. Adults have these diseases, too. We are all members of a community, and as a community, we should help guide the less fortunate through life.

Act II – The Big Problem

Text: These kids may seem normal and insignificant to some people, but to me, they are struggling to fit in. Their road to success is longer and bumpier due to their disabilities. They have these learning disabilities that give them a disadvantage at school. These diseases force them to be independent. The pressure people give them don’t help their situation. Everyone has their problems. These children have problems that are monumentally greater.

Scene 1, Act II – Learning Disabilities

Text: The learning disabilities of children that have diseases such as synesthesia, ADHD, or autism include: independence, misinterpretation, low grades, and somewhat negated education. These disabilities make life at school difficult. Children with diseases like synesthesia will misinterpret often. Since they see and sense things differently, their ideas are independent. This means that they can believe preposterous ideas that are different from everyone else. This can lead to embarrassment. Kids with synesthesia and diseases like that also have social problems.

Scene 2, Act II – Other Disabilities

Diabetes may not have learning disabilities, but it may have other effects. Diabetes definitely leaves social difficulties. Diabetes can leave children feeling atypical since they have a problem with their blood sugar. While we race for the cure, these children have to endure independence. They may get teased and they may be ignored.

Act III – What We Could Do

We could pay attention to them and make the consequences larger for those who tease such children. We could give them more support. I’m not the only one who has all of these ideas. You could think of various ways to help these children. Your own children may possess one of these diseases. The least you could do is give them a chance. Would you ignore your child?

Credits, any and all music made by GarageBand