My Name Is David

YouTube: Autism Speaks Video Presentation

This is a short animation from Matt Manning, one of the animators of Robot Chicken. It depicts a young student's speech to his fellow classmates about his autism. The film features the actual voice and words of the author of the speech, David Shapiro Sharif, who is 14 years old. Sharif's speech aims not only to educate children and adults about autism, but also to give a voice to the more than one million young men and women with autism in schools throughout the country. Watch, learn, and help spread autism awareness.