Yesterday, in his program on LN+, the journalist from Edward Feinman invited his program to Ian, an autistic boy. During the program, Feinmann and Ian talked about this problem, and at one point, he explained the difficulty of people with autism to understand jokes, metaphors and double meanings.
“We perceive and sometimes feel things and stimuli in a different way (…) Autistic people are often very, very literal, for example, sometimes we don’t understand jokes,” Ian said. Then the driver played a prank on his guest who got nervous.
“They’re going to kill me, they’re going to kick me off the channel, you’re going to get me kicked off the channel,” Feinmann began. “Look Ian, there is a man there who says that they are going to cut off my head”, Feinmann told Ian, pointing to someone in his production. What the driver intended to be a joke unsettled Ian, who began yelling to please “don’t chop off Feinmann’s head.”
Immediately, Ian’s mother, who accompanied him on the show, had to reassure him that it was a joke. Although Ian managed to calm down, the moment went viral on networks and there were those who questioned the driver for his joke, claiming that it had been a cruel moment.
However, there were also people on networks who congratulated Eduardo Feinmann for making a problem with autism visible, inviting a person who has this condition to his program. Even Ian uploaded a photo to Instagram of him with the driver. “Today was a wonderful day, I met Eduardo Feinmann,” said Ian in his post, who carried a photo of himself hugging the journalist.
It was even Ian himself who contacted Feinmann through Instagram to participate in the program, explaining that he intended to talk to him about autism.
It didn’t feel that way IAN. https://t.co/q7UAUMhKRN pic.twitter.com/UKOoOoHy9s
– Eduardo Feinmann (@edufeiok) September 7, 2022
On his Twitter account, Feinmann also shared an audio Ian sent him after the show via Instagram. “Thank you very much for talking about autism, I send you kisses and I love you,” Ian told the driver. Later, in another audio, Ian told the driver that he “hope they didn’t kill him.”
It didn’t feel that way IAN. https://t.co/q7UAUMhKRN pic.twitter.com/UKOoOoHy9s
– Eduardo Feinmann (@edufeiok) September 7, 2022
by RN
