This documentary was beautifully done. Janet’s love for her students was more than evident. It would be amazing to get an update on her and her students!
Me too, in all likelihood I know this documentary is at least a few years old based on how channels like Only Human circulate documentaries, but I'd like to get in touch with her if that was possible just to thank her for the work she's doing. (I live on the opposite side of the country from her and am an aspiring autism/intellectual disability professional and am also on the spectrum myself, I see people like her as an inspiration.)(EDIT: Nevermind, I see this was from 2012.)
What an amazing woman and message...I'm in the uk and I worked as a support worker in a day centre....we tried our best but the funding isn't there and its heartbreaking ❤❤
Ms. Mino is an earth angel and an amazing teacher. She is a blessing to every person she touches. I wish every autistic student had a teacher that was invested in their future as she is. It is sad when they age out of funded education and lose all of the skills they have learned. Our country should be better prepared and continue to offer them places to be successful, happy, and productive.
For most adults with autism and other neurological disabilities, the only housing options are mom and dad's place or some semi-institutional group home.
I'm in supported living and it's great. I fell apart after I left school, was doing great up until then and was basically doing what my peers were doing. I did my A levels, army cadets etc. There are places that will support you in adulthood, but it takes a while to figure out your options once you hit 18, and so much stuff just ends. I got depressed, thought my life was over at 18. I was very wrong. I actually became symptom free of my depression and my autism symptoms improved in ways I didn't think possible. Then the pandemic came along and I got badly depressed and ED'd, ended up on a psych ward (which was really helpful) and from there supported living.
Childhood was way, way more miserable than adulthood. Once I had freedom to make my own choices, life was SO much easier. The number of forced choices pushed onto autistic youth weighs them down a lot. As an adult, I have the freedom to eat anything I want or don't. I have the freedom to leave any noisy place. I have the freedom to stop going to places with people that want to touch me a lot. I have the freedom to make my home the perfect environment. These kinds of freedoms are impossible for youth, and all those little things weigh on you until you can't do basic things. Then, once you finally have control over some aspects of your life, the possibilities explode and you start to realize your potential. But it does take a while of living with mom and dad. I couldn't move out until I was 24
If there were more people like Janet Mino in the world it would surely be a better place. They're essentially children and it was disturbing seeing them put into work programs I can imagine how Janet felt seeing them loosing the skills was able to teach them. Great documentary it was Heartwarming and Heartbreaking!
Currently there is nothing between day centers (day centers of various types that are not really helpful for individuals but just warehouse groups of people with disabilities and that do the very least challenging activities possible if any. they’re really just daycare that adults go to, but they are still treated like daycare age or even less able than daycare children… sometimes treated more like livestock)… there’s nothing available between day centers and just being expected to struggle as little as neurotypical adults. So the accommodations for people with disabilities that aren’t physical disabilities is literally a form of daycare/warehousing or NOTHING! People who don’t have a family member with a disability and people who don’t have a disability assume that there are “all sorts of programs for that”, because there should be and they should be affordable. In current reality, there’s not and whatever exists is either only something for very rich families or is for EXTREMELY low functioning individuals who are not actually expected to learn and grow or EVER be independent at all and usually those places are both for only people with at least well off families and only for people who are not expected to ever grow independence skills. I’m 30 and public schools didn’t try to teach me anything, so I have both lack of basic education and 3 disabilities (anxiety, adhd, & a barely disabling variety of autism) and this combination combined with how society treats people with disabilities (other than physical disabilities) is what has been keeping me from being able to attend community college. Without college, potential employers will not hire you except for entry level jobs or something that you would somehow already have enough experience in. I want to work with animals or something, but jobs like that either pay $8-$10 per hour part time with no option for growth… or they require college or even more challengingly some positions require vet school (animal version of medical school). Any other type of career path I might enjoy, that actually works my brain, would also require college. On another relatively related note: I have tried community college twice before (when I was younger than 24, but “graduated” high school. With diploma, but without actually being fully educated in all the required subjects.) and colleges don’t offer any accommodations for students with disabilities other than physical disabilities (including being blind or deaf)! Just recently some community colleges have started offering either day services or pretend classes at the colleges or a combination of both, but neither of those provide college credit and they’re for rich families to make some very low functioning individuals with disabilities FEEL like they’re going to college and independent. They’re not. It’s like making those institutions have a fake sense of becoming independent and being included, but it’s all staged. I am independent enough and educated enough to be able to tell that they aren’t teaching anything beyond very early elementary school level education if that. (It’s usually first grade or kindergarten level subjects in colleges that do classes for people with disabilities, but some universities will actually break down college level classes just for people with disabilities and NOT give them college credit even if they manage to learn it AND still charge the same amount as if they were college credit classes). Luckily I once my brain finished the last stage of development around age 25, I was finally able to safely learn how to drive and be able to process situations much faster and even multitask! That, combined with anti anxiety medications and then recently switching to ADHD meds, has helped me make HUGE strides towards being able to live more and more independently. So now that I’m 30, I’m going to try community college again. The community college is still pretty much the same in what they provide, but at least they have supplementary classes that are supposed to help people (who didn’t get a proper education before) learn skills needed to be able to take college classes successfully. (For example: I wasn’t even taught how to read a textbook other than trying to memorize it cover to cover. I wasn’t taught how to memorize times tables, yet expected to learn algebra without being allowed to use a calculator. I’ve never been taught how to write/type in a way other than like I’m telling a story to a child, so I’ve never written an essay.)
Much love to you and you please try community college again. You are so bright and articulate yourself amazingly. I’m sorry you have to go through these experiences. Just don’t ever give up. Ever!
@ I won’t give up on doing my best and trying to improve my skills, but there are some things that it’s ok to give up on because there are some things that I’ll never be able to do and that’s ok.
@@D-is4-DAWG thank you. i work with adults with disabilities and alot of the stuff in the video would not be ok today. the important thing is to get them comfortable with the world and the world comfortable with them.
@pandorasnow You're welcome. My sister works with them too. And yeah I agree 100%. As someone on the high functioning austism spectrum, I sometimes have my "moments" when I'm out and about in public and interacting with people, but it's really nothing compared to them, so I really feel for them.
We need answers as to why there is such an increase in autism in our children. I hope and pray that RFK along with President Trump will find the answers we seek.
autism has been a thing for a long time. there wasnt as much coverage on it before as there is now. they used to lobotomize ppl with autism. there is nothing to be found out
I hope Janet's dreams come true and her wishes. She is one of the very rare people in this world. She deserves her dreams.
This documentary was beautifully done. Janet’s love for her students was more than evident. It would be amazing to get an update on her and her students!
Me too, in all likelihood I know this documentary is at least a few years old based on how channels like Only Human circulate documentaries, but I'd like to get in touch with her if that was possible just to thank her for the work she's doing. (I live on the opposite side of the country from her and am an aspiring autism/intellectual disability professional and am also on the spectrum myself, I see people like her as an inspiration.)(EDIT: Nevermind, I see this was from 2012.)
Janet Mino is an earth angel. Godbless her and all of the special people throughout the world with autism. Wonderful documentary.
Janet Mino is an angel!❤️🥰👏🏾
What an amazing woman and message...I'm in the uk and I worked as a support worker in a day centre....we tried our best but the funding isn't there and its heartbreaking ❤❤
Ms. Mino is an earth angel and an amazing teacher. She is a blessing to every person she touches. I wish every autistic student had a teacher that was invested in their future as she is. It is sad when they age out of funded education and lose all of the skills they have learned. Our country should be better prepared and continue to offer them places to be successful, happy, and productive.
For most adults with autism and other neurological disabilities, the only housing options are mom and dad's place or some semi-institutional group home.
I'm in supported living and it's great. I fell apart after I left school, was doing great up until then and was basically doing what my peers were doing. I did my A levels, army cadets etc. There are places that will support you in adulthood, but it takes a while to figure out your options once you hit 18, and so much stuff just ends.
I got depressed, thought my life was over at 18. I was very wrong. I actually became symptom free of my depression and my autism symptoms improved in ways I didn't think possible. Then the pandemic came along and I got badly depressed and ED'd, ended up on a psych ward (which was really helpful) and from there supported living.
Childhood was way, way more miserable than adulthood. Once I had freedom to make my own choices, life was SO much easier. The number of forced choices pushed onto autistic youth weighs them down a lot. As an adult, I have the freedom to eat anything I want or don't. I have the freedom to leave any noisy place. I have the freedom to stop going to places with people that want to touch me a lot. I have the freedom to make my home the perfect environment. These kinds of freedoms are impossible for youth, and all those little things weigh on you until you can't do basic things. Then, once you finally have control over some aspects of your life, the possibilities explode and you start to realize your potential. But it does take a while of living with mom and dad. I couldn't move out until I was 24
If there were more people like Janet Mino in the world it would surely be a better place. They're essentially children and it was disturbing seeing them put into work programs I can imagine how Janet felt seeing them loosing the skills was able to teach them. Great documentary it was Heartwarming and Heartbreaking!
I can tell mrs mino cares about her students and her students care for her and put in max effort to make her proud.....bless this angel on earth
Amazing work you do. May your star always shine bright.
Bless her ❤
As always, does someone know if they did a follow up on these people?
Why would Robert’s aunt give Robert back to his mom after she knew she still was on drugs and had no home. That makes me furious 😡
It's more common than ever, 100% I can see the whole planet with this in 10 years.
You can see the whole planet with what, autism?
Currently there is nothing between day centers (day centers of various types that are not really helpful for individuals but just warehouse groups of people with disabilities and that do the very least challenging activities possible if any. they’re really just daycare that adults go to, but they are still treated like daycare age or even less able than daycare children… sometimes treated more like livestock)… there’s nothing available between day centers and just being expected to struggle as little as neurotypical adults.
So the accommodations for people with disabilities that aren’t physical disabilities is literally a form of daycare/warehousing or NOTHING!
People who don’t have a family member with a disability and people who don’t have a disability assume that there are “all sorts of programs for that”, because there should be and they should be affordable. In current reality, there’s not and whatever exists is either only something for very rich families or is for EXTREMELY low functioning individuals who are not actually expected to learn and grow or EVER be independent at all and usually those places are both for only people with at least well off families and only for people who are not expected to ever grow independence skills. I’m 30 and public schools didn’t try to teach me anything, so I have both lack of basic education and 3 disabilities (anxiety, adhd, & a barely disabling variety of autism) and this combination combined with how society treats people with disabilities (other than physical disabilities) is what has been keeping me from being able to attend community college. Without college, potential employers will not hire you except for entry level jobs or something that you would somehow already have enough experience in.
I want to work with animals or something, but jobs like that either pay $8-$10 per hour part time with no option for growth… or they require college or even more challengingly some positions require vet school (animal version of medical school).
Any other type of career path I might enjoy, that actually works my brain, would also require college.
On another relatively related note:
I have tried community college twice before (when I was younger than 24, but “graduated” high school. With diploma, but without actually being fully educated in all the required subjects.) and colleges don’t offer any accommodations for students with disabilities other than physical disabilities (including being blind or deaf)! Just recently some community colleges have started offering either day services or pretend classes at the colleges or a combination of both, but neither of those provide college credit and they’re for rich families to make some very low functioning individuals with disabilities FEEL like they’re going to college and independent. They’re not. It’s like making those institutions have a fake sense of becoming independent and being included, but it’s all staged. I am independent enough and educated enough to be able to tell that they aren’t teaching anything beyond very early elementary school level education if that. (It’s usually first grade or kindergarten level subjects in colleges that do classes for people with disabilities, but some universities will actually break down college level classes just for people with disabilities and NOT give them college credit even if they manage to learn it AND still charge the same amount as if they were college credit classes).
Luckily I once my brain finished the last stage of development around age 25, I was finally able to safely learn how to drive and be able to process situations much faster and even multitask! That, combined with anti anxiety medications and then recently switching to ADHD meds, has helped me make HUGE strides towards being able to live more and more independently. So now that I’m 30, I’m going to try community college again. The community college is still pretty much the same in what they provide, but at least they have supplementary classes that are supposed to help people (who didn’t get a proper education before) learn skills needed to be able to take college classes successfully. (For example:
I wasn’t even taught how to read a textbook other than trying to memorize it cover to cover. I wasn’t taught how to memorize times tables, yet expected to learn algebra without being allowed to use a calculator. I’ve never been taught how to write/type in a way other than like I’m telling a story to a child, so I’ve never written an essay.)
Much love to you and you please try community college again. You are so bright and articulate yourself amazingly. I’m sorry you have to go through these experiences. Just don’t ever give up. Ever!
@ I won’t give up on doing my best and trying to improve my skills, but there are some things that it’s ok to give up on because there are some things that I’ll never be able to do and that’s ok.
I wish i was rich.... id spred my money to the best places like this!!!
I would like to see a life update on everyone. ❤❤
2:57 isnt that inappropriate asking a student for a kiss? I know its innocent but still.
all that this woman did for these kids and this is what you’re focused on? something is wrong with yall fr
@@ayeasten just because someone does something good doesn't mean I can't call out something.
I have AUSTM my name is lachelle🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
when was this filmed?
2011/2012
@@D-is4-DAWG thank you. i work with adults with disabilities and alot of the stuff in the video would not be ok today. the important thing is to get them comfortable with the world and the world comfortable with them.
@pandorasnow You're welcome. My sister works with them too. And yeah I agree 100%. As someone on the high functioning austism spectrum, I sometimes have my "moments" when I'm out and about in public and interacting with people, but it's really nothing compared to them, so I really feel for them.
Trump???? Are you high 😂😂😂😂
The did the water the air I can’t pretend this is normal
Sounds like he regressed after high school
We need answers as to why there is such an increase in autism in our children. I hope and pray that RFK along with President Trump will find the answers we seek.
autism has been a thing for a long time. there wasnt as much coverage on it before as there is now. they used to lobotomize ppl with autism. there is nothing to be found out