According to Chinese Scientist Autism is a allergic reaction to pollution.

i have all of these tho😭

Thank you for your effort for this video!

I don’t think I am autistic but I relate to many of those traits. The thing that separates me is I can read other people so well I find it hard to interact as knowing too much of what people really think and feel but expected to maintain a social script overwhelms me. This leads me to avoid social situations or crowds. I maintain mainly one on one or very small intimate group socialising.

When i am low energy, people often interpret it as sad, or as inattentive. In general life I am seen as "too much" when it comes to my voice and body language (When socializing, I am rather wiggly, and i have a good deal of difficulty keeping my voice to the levels people expect and I have very little control over my tone which is by default extremely active and varied.) When I am not giving as much feedback verbally and expression-wise, people assume something is wrong when it may just be my brain's way of going into power-saver.

This was a great response video! Encompassed a lot of the feelings I had about the scishow video. While it was made with good intents and in a lot of ways did help progress a better mainstream understanding of autism, it failed to recognize the systems at play. I think Scishow could stand to give more attention to the truth that science is not and never has been unbiased. What questions get funding, who is studied, and who gets to do the studying will always be important, and that shows especially when it comes to science around historically and socially marginalized groups.

So, when someone can check all of the boxes to a greater or lesser degree, what then?

My family don't eat preservatives or pesticides before giving birth

Who’s normal in this world doc, we are all 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

Yeah, sometimes I wish I had disappeared as well.

"Due to gender roles in heterosexual relationships, in our society, life, the world, culture, reality, nature, whatever you want to call it, men are usually expected to take the lead, pursue, and escalate, court women,initiate romantic/sexual relationships. This requires a certain amount of confidence and social skills, social dynamics and social intelligence, conversation ability and human interaction ability, certain social behaviors, which can be very difficult to develop for those who've faced a lot of social isolation and rejection for many years, or have a condition that affects their ability to socialize, such as autism, etc. People who fail to develop these traits due to lack of positive experiences, are much less able to compete with their peers for romantic/sexual relationships. As said before, men being generally expected to pursue, take the lead, initiate and escalate, the lack of these traits affects their ability to find and attract a romantic/sexual partner, or to get into a relationship, to a much larger degree than it does for women." i thought that was a very powerful and valid post, perfectly worded. That is a powerful mindset I've had for several years now or longer and I've always felt that men with autism will have it much harder than women do when it comes to dating

Amusing myself because other peoples' concepts of amusing are in fact less than amusing.

59/63 Can we add having an overly large selection of hoodies or is that just me? :)

i can't wait to here this i been dealing with this i was a small child now i'm age 21 going on 22 still dealing with my autism i'm i from germany berlin it's 9:41 right now and yes i am in(GMT+2)time

I walk through the drive through at McDonald's & b king , because I can't use the ordering screen.

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Can u make a video about infantilization and how to deal with it?

2-3 years ago when I decided to go in for evaluation as 39 year old.. I was told Asperger was already phased out at the time and they don’t give it anymore and all just the one spectrum- which just felt so terrible, because the spectrum IS SO WIDE SWEEPING- oh your son is on the autism spectrum- how old was he before he became verbal- when the son is actually 2e with 130 but 90 memory.. and then reframe your lifetime of struggle. Here in the states.. and I was like.. so if I came in a year or two ago.. I’d have Asperger’s on record as a diagnosis but now it’s just yeah spectrum.. from a nonverbal like my cousin was.. to gifted. Just a spectrum of 60-140 iq. What could go wrong??? Surely gifted kids won’t struggle and get traumatized by having a label that is equal to the entire opposite side of the spectrum- like, yes they are both autistic but they need ENTIRELY DIFFERENT TYPES of help to succeed… smh.. surely people won’t get their lives ruined by removing Asperger’s and will 100% get the support needed in early school without the burden and damage to self worth and no stigma traumatizing will ever happen.. Missed 2e students that burn out during college? Say whattt…??? /end

I am going through this right now. I have received a referral to see a psychiatrist where I'm being assessed soon. This is finally going to give me a huge chunk of closure, allowing me to heal a huge portion of my childhood trauma. However, my biggest fear is masking. I hardcore mask and it really is not healthy. The masking I'm pushing myself to do just to pass as a human. I just want to be myself and be accepted as myself but it has cost me jobs, friends, and family. I'm scared I'll get misdiagnosed or they won't understand the way I think and won't be able to diagnose me.

I've been absorbing so much content about autism in general and specifically adult undiagnosed high-masking people and despite really resonating with a lot of it I was still feeling exactly how you described yourself at 12:03 For example, when I saw it the other day I was almost nervous to click on your "Isn't Everyone A Little Bit Autistic" video because I inherently knew that the answer was no and I was scared that I'd consider myself to be one of the people that you were diplomatically putting in their place for invalidating the autistic experience. But just a few minutes into that video I found myself subconsciously identifying with your side of the issue rather than feeling like I was the one being 'lectured'. Still I had/have very serious doubts and have been struggling with whether to try and pursue a formal diagnosis, so I was very excited when I found this video hoping that, like so many of your other videos have, maybe this one would contain something that I'd find helpful. This video has literally changed my life, I started crying at the same time you were getting emotional near the end and I'm still crying as I write this. I resonate so strongly with everything you said, and this is the first moment I've felt empowered to be able to say that accepting my self diagnosis is going to be helpful for me, and maybe a formal diagnosis wouldn't be and that's fine so I don't necessarily need to go through with it if I'm scared they would misunderstand me, and that even if they didn't a formal diagnosis probably wouldn't change much anyway. Thank you

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✨🕯️🌻thank you.

Most of those points did fit with me until i was a late teenager and i lost most of the "awkward" ones by having a extrovert friend that took me everywhere. I think many of these points can happen by having a cultural shock as a kid, my mother tongue is spanish and when i got into kindergarten in germany, no one was fitting with me. Not only languagewise, but also with all i am interested in (Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, Dinosaurs :P). So i got really introvert and i had problems having small talk with people for a long long time, also nowadays i am more of an quite guy, even if i speak four languages. And yes, i am also very good in analyzing stuff. My wife has a similiar story, she spoke bulgarian as a small child until her father did forbid it. She didn't talk for half an year and she has social problems until today (she's in her late 20s). She also needs a very structured day. She actually did a autistic test and "failed". So i would say, there is some kind of autism in every human, depending on the circumstances. And real autists just have their brain formed to be like that by genes, as some are taller and smaller because of their genes.

If anyone wants the perfect example of what an autistic person put through ABA will wind up like…just chat with me. I was abused from birth by parents that couldn’t deal with how I was. The things they did to me…I am unable to really watch or read anything too detailed about ABA because it is so triggering! They brainwashed me to accept that 1. I am worthless and 2. I have no right to be happy. My life has been…🫣…and I was undiagnosed ASD until 2021, at age 50. 7 months later I almost became THE statistic…and woke up in ICU. Therapy and therapists added to the damage over the years and the ones I had after my diagnosis were completely uneducated about autism. They kept giving me psych meds for anxiety. Welp, those meds put me in ICU. Self-diagnosis is valid in THIS world, where the ones that give diagnoses aren’t educated enough to and the ones that are (educated enough) cannot fit anyone else into their practice!

SCISHOW?!?!?!

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Ooohhhh theres a lot of internalised ableism in the comments so far 😮

my brother was diagnosed with aspergers as a kid! its always been weird to me that they seperated “low” functioning and “high” functioning autistics because theyre all autistic at the end of the day and i feel like it just incites more ableism towards those with higher needs as theyre more othered, even by other autistics, with the seperate label of aspergers for lower needs autistics

Im in Mensa yet always felt like a dumb little girl in a sea of adults. Just got diagnosed age 53.

I agree with a lot of the people in the comments and think Asperger's fits me better than autism. When I think of someone autistic, I think of a nonverbal person that can hardly function in society. The DSM is just a tool for the establishment to exert control over us and shouldn't be held as the gold standard for psychiatry.

13:26 - I laughed out loud... that's so real! (Recently diagnosed, and finding it fascinating to think about what signs folks might have detected earlier, had they been looking...)

That's what happened to me with the burnout after the pandemic.... It really went downhill from there and absolutely crashed after I got sick myself and lost my sense of smell. And I (still) couldn't cope...and it made me realize that I have an abnormal "relationship" with smell. In hindsight, smells were always extremely important to me and I used them to calm down. Combining aromas etc gave me such joy in my life and when it was gone, I felt shattered, like I'm not part of the world anymore...like a ghost. I just couldn't get over it, everyone else was like "well that sucks, but hey it's just smell" and to me that was mind boggling, because to me, it was everything, my whole world. 😔 Anyways this made me realize that my brain might be working a little bit differently and well I was right. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The eighth category, definitely me 😂

Weeeell *&^, that wasn't supposed to be 100% relatable from beginning to end.

You can't just say, "this isn't a new thing, it's been here all along," and say it like it's a fact. It's glaringly obvious there's more autism today than 50 years ago. Yes it's now diagnosed, but there's more of it.

The uncommon associations resonated with me because my editor is always telling me that the metaphors I come up with are a little uncommon/hard to relate to because the connection isn't super evident on the first try

I wonder if I'm a mix of both . Thank you for these videos.

duck. I'm autistic

I want to say , he's been dead for decades.

I am 65 and AuADHD, have no problem lying when the situation demands, I theorize that it developed as a part of masking and as part of my fear of confrontation. I’m pretty good at it too!😂 (years of experience). But I do trust far to easily as referenced.

I can relate with what you said from 6:45 to 7:30.

Human nature is ambiguous so they only want to find an excuse to continue hating because of their own ableism ; their low self-esteem because of whatever it's like " well,at least I don't have bla bla whatever (in an autistic person case, autism")

Very humanizing 👍

If they were going to take another swing at it, they should really change the format altogether and have a range of autistic guests speaking for themselves. If the goal is understanding, this is the best way imo.

"is asperger's disappearing?" I SURE HOPE SO! hans asperger was a literal nazi who sent hundreds of disabled children off to be murdered in horrific ways! justice for Grunya Sukhareva.

Also Hans Asperger dealt with Nazi's. DSM or not, who wants to be associated w genocide?

yeah I found out at the age of 38 that the reason I'm the way I am is down to my ASD and most people are very reluctant to except that I've got autism but if I use the term ashburgers they'll usually agree and say that's why I'm so annoying to socialise with but never understand that feeling frustrated with people who don't think and act in the ways we want them to do is a 2 way street and we all have to give eachother a little time, respect and patience if we expect it from other people

ABA is the modern equivalent of evangelists forcing native kids in christian schools by force to "kill the indian in them and save their soul." It is as damageable and leads to terrible outcomes. As much as I am good with their intent their research is poor.

Normal people keep running out of terms to label those who could care less about their bs

My old friend told me he had Asperger syndrome and I literally did not know that meant he was autistic, but he was super super smart, but it’s a shame because he got into drugs just like all of us did smh