"Autism, my child, my battle" and "I hear voices that speak to me": the programs recommended by Eva Roque

It's time to watch what will happen on our screens this Tuesday evening.

What is the theme of the selected programs?

The theme can be summed up in one word: incomprehension.

Faced with the lack of structures that can accommodate people with autism in France.

Children and adults.

The incomprehension in the face of the pain inflicted on families between medical wanderings, misdiagnosis, guilt of parents to whom we repeat that all this is a bit their fault.

Elizabeth Tchoungui, mother of a little boy with autism, heard the words of these distraught mothers and fathers.

However, she manages to capture a few smiles.

With Paul's mother, for example.

She recounts her relief when at last we were able to tell her what her son was suffering from.

"Autism, my child, my battle" is a powerful documentary, also revolting, even if Elizabeth Tchoungui admits that it is better.

But how can we accept, for example, that children are forced to go to Belgium to benefit from an adapted structure.

Incomprehension also on France 2 with the new documentary of Gérard Miller which was interested in the hearers of voices.

Misunderstanding because these people who hear voices are most of the time stuffed with drugs, little listened to and therefore poorly taken care of.

The testimonies are surprising, disturbing.

Listen to what happens in the middle of an interview with Julie.

Since she was 18, Julie has heard hundreds of voices all the time.

All the testimonies are very different, and demonstrate the complexity of the subject.

That Gérard Miller, psychoanalyst, points out the failings of psychiatry on this point is extremely interesting.

Two regrets, however: the absence of advice from psychiatrists precisely and Eva Roque would also have liked to know how these people live on a daily basis, in particular in the professional context.

To summarize :

"Autism, my child, my battle" is not to be missed on France 5 at 8:50 p.m. and "J'entends des voices which speak to me" on France 2 at 11:30 p.m.