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non-verbal

Double Rainbow: Sweet, Sweet "Chocolate"

Movies post by Caroline Narby on January 10, 2012 - 12:04pm; tagged autism, disability, martial arts, non-verbal.

Zen, a young Asian woman, holds a bow staff of some sort and looks ready to fightI'm about to wax rhapsodic about a cheesy, transparently manipulative martial arts film. But seriously: Prachya Pinkaew's 2008 movie Chocolate is the best film I've ever seen that features an autistic protagonist. And it's the only piece of media I've personally encountered that features a nonverbal protagonist.

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