Wonderful video. Thank you.

Let kids make their own decisions, until they make the "decision" that they are queer....🙄 Wait, is Missy a queer woman or is this just how people perceive her?

I am not legally diagnosed, but I have self diagnosed with autism because I have shown multiple traits of autism... And also because i keep shocking autistic people when I tell them I am not diagnosed.

So you're just saying that artists need to be more method about acting like a culture vulture lmfao, ain't nobody tryna stay a rapper for all they life

Thanks for the content. Really love the channel. I have a question (possibly playing devils advocate): is there an argument that Grande (whatever her motivation) was indirectly helping make the style of speaking more familiar in a way that means people in the workplace who don’t have a choice about how they speak are marginalised less? Obviously it would be better if the person in question spoke like this authentically and wasn’t adopting the voice for a temporary promotional schedule. Perhaps clutching and straws here

Frank Ocean is pretty popular and doesn't try to hide his queer side while being bi. Or at least I think so. Though he's more androgynous than Tyler. Lil nas X has sometimes even if not usually some of the grittier side of rap while not being typically masculine(and rather fem) most of them time.

I wouldn't say the patriarchy *only* maintains itself through limiting the expression of men's feelings, it does so to women too , just repressing different ones in different ways. Masculine and/or queer women do theaten and disrupt the status quo but its true that femenine and/or queer men do so more and thus get more judgement from society... Society loves to box things and keep them continuous yet it forgets or rather tries to bury that current things assigned as pertaining to women like dresses,skirts (the romans considered pants as fem instead),pink and heels were once though of as pertaining to mainly men in past time. About make up i dont know if it started as of women or men or both(/neutral) and there was even a time around franklin roosevelt when (rich) little boys and girls both wore dresses. Great topics brought to the vid, thumbs up!

You look crazy.

Diagnosis isn't so great. A lot of the support programs are pretty bullshit, and pretty gaslighting. Even something like noise-cancelling headphones could have helped far more than any programs. About 11th grade, my parents got government money to see autism specialist consultants. They didn't help me at all to be honest. And the whole thing really ruined any trust between me and my parents. At the same time, I found out I had ADHD when I was 29. Getting an ADHD diagnosis, and getting on medication really helped me. I had gotten into a toxic place in college. My life is still a mess but at least my room is clean. I don't know how life would have turned out if I had an early ADHD diagnosis. I am extremely critical of the autism industrial complex, and the deep ongoing harms of institutions like Applied Behavior Analysis therapy. I don't know this stuff is complicated. Applied Behavioural Analysis is also tied up in conversion therapy, and specifically conversion therapy for transgender girls. Lookup The Feminine Boys project. Luckily, I was never directly harmed by ABA therapy unless you count the consultants in 11th grade but I still don't understand the situation there. I am still working on learning and deconstructing the false beliefs I have been told about myself and others. My energies have gone more to learning about the intersection of neurodivergence and transfeminine issues because I am a transgender white woman but I know that there are deep links between racism and eugenics. In large part, eugenics is the application of colonial logics of racial caste to the ingroup. The disabled are made surplus in a similar fashion to how people of color are made surplus and marked for extractive abandonment. There is also the whole school to prison pipeline stuff I need to read on of which Black people are affected twice as much. Not sure how to put this right. Anyhow, I liked "Authoring Autism" and "Empire of Normality."

I don't know what I have. All I know is that my parents beat the sheet out of me for being myself, a smart ass.

As an undiadgnosed Black man on the spectrum myself, I knew there was a reason I gravitated to your channel.

The company man described the setting of this video and made me check this out

Black girl here. I got professionally diagnosed 8 months ago at the age of 21. It's been an emotional journey. Sometimes i grieve my younger self and the childhood i feel i maybe could have had if my autism was properly identified when i was a child. At the same time, i Sometimes feel that being diagnosed as a child most likely would have made certain aspects of my already stressful life harder. I was actually evaluated as a toddler because i showed signs of social and cognitive delay. My parents were told that i was not autistic. My autism was missed primarily because of my social and economic status, as well as the general lack of understanding of autism in the early 2000s. I always disconnected from the world around me. I felt disconnected from my cultural community. I struggled to understand social norms within my own family, community and the world. It all never quite made any sense to me, why things were the way they were and why people didn't seem to question these social norms. I got bullied A LOT by other kids, and even some adults. Kids thought i was weird, especially other black kids. I didn't feel like i really belonged anywhere but i couldn't figure out why. I'm thinking about writing a book about my complex experiences with autism, misogynior, poverty, and religious trauma.

"Hey, QuestLove is in the house!"

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Post Malone He likes all their pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his 🔫 But he DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS

Appreciate this, fam. There's a feeling of recontextualizing and piecing together failed relationships and other things in your life that didn't make sense before. It's the feeling of disappointment knowing how many people in positions of authority that could and should have noticed your disability but didn't. It's the feeling of recontextualizing why people dislike you and I've come to be expected to be hated by most people which I'll live with. It's the feeling of recontextualizing my experience in being profiled and stalked by police when I learned I'm not just Black but disabled. It's not easy and I wouldn't change it. there's a term for for the feelings you have, interventions for the more frustrating parts of autism. resources for the "thing" you could never put to words.

Drake going to r&b next

idk but why does all the str8 men get credit why can't the ACTUAL gay artists get the recognition for being QUEER ARTISTS. smfh

it's really weird how this guy will have locs and braids and stuff but then raps racist maga shit. it's like racists want all the pretty culture of black people without any respect for them.

I can’t handle letters mixed with numbers, either. I have a PhD that heavily revolves around statistical interpretation… …still yet, I find very few things equally as frightening as just seeing a binomial equation.

We need more black autistic representation. There are so many autistic creators now, but so few of them are any darker than vaguely tan. I'm planning a video to deep dive into where all the black creators are, and why we often feel alienated in autistic spaces that we should feel safe in. Would love to get your perspective to put in the video.

I used to laugh: listening at dudes talking about being in the "friend zone" with women and thinking "How many of these dudes have queer homies that think they, too, are in the friend zone?" 😅

the term, "gay" is another term white people forced on an entire community w/o everyone's buy-in. white people went/go around the world renaming people, places and things that the indigenous people already named. mt everest is a prime ex. the mountain's original name is Sargamartha. when everest climbed the mountain he needed the help of the people of Nepal to climb it. w/o their help the british guy would have never been able to climb the mountain. after he climbed Sargamartha it was renamed Mt. Everest because it is said that everest was the 1st person to climb it. so sad.

1:27 moving like Steve Urkel

Dang i heard all the same stuff as a young kid and never got diagnosed til later in life. "You act white" "you're just weird" "you were a good baby and never cried or anything" "why dont you ever go out with friends" but also being raised by the black half of my family, they probably thought since I'm half white my stranger subtle behaviors were just because I'm just genetically different. They didnt even know about the autism spectrum.

HE DID NOT JUST TRASH CATAN

Alot of white people come in through the Hip Hop doors to launch thier carriers.

oh thats why ur goated

Glad to see ur embracing it man

Why am I just finding out that Questlove's autistic?

NOOOOO NOT THE BIONICLE NOVEL😭

You kinda look like quest

Questlove when Refusal of the call hate walks in:

allyship matters.

Oh thank god I found a non white autistic person!!!! I'm white, but I'm trans and queer AF. I really like your way of communicating! Never knew QuestLove was autistic but it kinda makes sense given the pure love expressed through beats. I made it to 40-something until complete meltdown. My body tells me what it needs, needs not, and don't care much about now. Doctor tried giving me drugs to reduce convulsions and anxiety. Dude, that's my body telling me about how "we" feel about the world. I'm not going to take your "act more normal" pills. I just want that feeling like when I was a kid and snorted one ritalin pill and I felt calmness and taught myself how to play guitar. Give me that Male autism and female autism is trash theory. I was assigned male at birth and my autism is WOMAN as hell. Stimming since I was very young. Good at reading some social cues. Horrible at capitalist survival. "oh, you're such a good writer" spoken by the same em effers who say, "wait what did you mean by that?" Holy crap, If I write it you love it and if I say it out loud you have no idea what I mean?!?!?! NT/Allistics are so messed up.

Thorough and informative. Thank you!

Even though im white as the sand on tulum beach i still honestly relate to both you and quest love alot now i lived in a more neurodivergent accepting area but hearing stories from both of you i just kept saying to myself yeah i did that and yeah i can relate to that having neurodivergence has honestly connected me so much to people who are also ND

#AutisticMusicianGang

Thank you for sharing this. It relaxes me in such an important way to witness someone else experiencing an understanding that I am now about myself. It’s hard for me to connect with other people, but hearing your story removes my loneliness while I listen. Life feels possible- beautiful even. I’m not alone. I’m really not alone.

I've been recently coming to terms with the possibility that I'm undiagnosed autistic and I gotta say: a lot of stuff that I didn't have an answer to beforehand suddenly made a lot of sense with that in mind 😅

Bro, it felt like i knew you from somewhere without ever meeting you. I was just diagnosed. ADHD at 34; ASD at 35. It's freeing now, but the grief of what my life COULD'VE BEEN if i was diagnosed as a kid was something else. Not to mention finding out why i was always considered not girly enough, not black enough, hell and not human enough since i was a child. Thank you for this. I found my people.

I'm Autistic with ADHD (AuDHD) with moderate support needs and appreciate this video. These types of videos are so needed. There aren't many videos from Black and other Autistic people of color on KZbin.

It's sad that you don't have more subscribers.

Bro, I fuck with this, you about to blow up I know it!

Did you do the READS program? I have friends who worked there. Building was on W Ford Rd n Daphine Rd Edit: oh duh, you said undiagnosed

Tupac was the first gay rapper

I thought I recognized you. We don't know each other, we're family in this way. My parents were born in the 1940s, grew up in the segregated rural South, among lots of family and neighbors. So many of us are neurodivergent that it's normal. Everyone knew someone who was sort of like this person or that person, etc. The community didn't have money, but there was social support for everyone to more or less get to who they were and what-not. It's hard to convey how much of this was lost as people moved to bigger cities up North.

Intersectionality of race and mental health really should be discussed more, so thank you for this

YT here. You are seen. We don't have a color, just the unwavering "otherness."