Once in a while, something jumps out from the corner of our vision and turns all our assumptions about people and the world upside down and inside out. "In My Language" is one of these epiphanies, if one allows the film to do its work and shake us out of the fuzzy cloud of our conventional thought and what we believe normalcy is. Created by a young autistic woman, the film shows how she communicates in her own native language, then explains to us through a computer translation "in our language" how she interacts with the world. We believe that our thought, our language and the world exist in a transparent relationship -- and this allows us to operate in normal society -- but hopefully after watching "In My Language," some of us will wonder about personhood, thought, communication, normalcy, and if we're experiencing the world around us at all...

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