Autism Stories, the first ever video-on-demand platform that will offer informational resources to subscribers through engaging interviews and documentaries featuring individuals with autism, has been launched. Remi Tetot and Alex Plank are its founders. The platform will provide video content about impacted families, scientists, researchers, professionals in the field, and more.
Autism Stories will act as the place voices that support and propel the autism community will be heard.
This will be a subscription-based service (subscription fee is $12 per month) focusing on three sections: living, growing and succeeding with autism. Each section will provide interviews with world-renowned individuals on the spectrum, such as Temple Grandin and Steve Silberman, as well as conversations with parents, kids and prominent leaders in the space.
“My son Rio was diagnosed with autism at 4-years-old and I was immediately hurled into a spiral of confusion,” says Remi Tetot, Founder of financial media company Real Vision TV and Co-Founder of Autism Stories. “Along with wanting and needing to know more about the disorder, I wanted to know what hope Rio had for his own future. I envisioned a place to unite parents and Autistics together with supportive, unique content, and so with that, I helped to create Autism Stories.”
Autism Stories was started as a Facebook group that provided visually-stimulating and engaging content. It quickly amassed over 100k followers in six months. The style and diverse perspectives set the group apart from anything else offered on the internet.
“Everyone has a story to tell,” says Alex Plank, co-founder of Autism Stories. “I wanted to give people that opportunity. I started Wrong Planet when I was 16 and I have learned a lot about how to connect people together.”
Tetot and Plank’s meetings, discussions, and mutual dedication to helping others better understand autism led to the formation of the in-depth subscription service, which launches today. The platform aims to improve the way autism is portrayed engaging users through shared journeys.
“For 20 years, the movie ‘Rain Main’ was the only face of autism,” says Tetot. “We now know the reality is so diverse and characteristics aren’t always visible. The true stories of people not only living with autism, but being successful, are incredibly powerful and motivating for those living it themselves.”