Autism: Some assembly required.

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@GuacamoleKun Күн бұрын

When I was maybe 7, my mom told me "Don't tell your friend Emi she's adopted, she might not know". And I was like ????? why would you think I had that information to begin with? Who would have told me? Years later I understood that Emi was Asian and her parents were white, and that people give birth to children that look like they do. But at 7, I had never had a biology class. Kids don't just know these things! Nothing to do with autism.

@KashviAnand-qu1iq 4 күн бұрын

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@aphotic_grae 4 күн бұрын

I'm autistic and I couldn't make it halfway through this video. The sound effects, the different volumes, the interjections that derail the content, the premise that "they" don't understand things the way "we" do... Did it occur to you that autistic people might watch this?

@autismsomeassemblyrequired5657 4 күн бұрын

Please accept our deepest apologies for offending you. The purpose of this page was to help educate others regarding the traits of those with autism. We fully understand that each human is unique in their own way. We sincerely appreciate your response and input.

@johnolamide6469 14 күн бұрын

I remember when peed myself peed myself in class because the teacher didn't want anybody else going out to ease themselves. I was 6. A lot of students were asking to ease themselves and the teacher started to think they just wanted to escape the class and go play. So she forbade anybody else. I heard that and thought there was no other choice. When she realized, she was like why didn't you tell me. I'm not diagnosed yet, but what baffles me about normies is how they go blaming you for obeying their instructions when it fails instead of acknowledging that it lacked foresight. As to what made me pee on myself- fear, nutured by the previous blames when you tried disobeying.

@adolfohernandez5970 19 күн бұрын

I was exactly like that as a kid. Im high masking now but it took a brutal process of trial and error.

@readyrock3242 26 күн бұрын

This is literally how I think

@victoryamartin9773 28 күн бұрын

So literally true!

@Cat_theft_auto Ай бұрын

The moment i heard “they” i stopped watching, it makes sense you have it so rigidly wrong and disconnected from what its like to be a person also, i don’t wanna hear someone speak about someone else’s experience, and get it wrong.

@Taoscape Ай бұрын

"No if-then thinking". That sheds some light on things, thanks!

@constancematthews3834 Ай бұрын

I once ate an entire loaf of bread because I wasn't allowed to leave my seat till I finished my homework while I was left home alone. I was awful at math, so couldn't finish without help at 11 or 12 y/o. NO ONE thought to look into why anyone would do that. Over 30 years later, I've only recently been able to self-identify my autism. I still don't think my family fully believes my assessment. I'm just glad I used the bathroom before sitting down!

@aslammmmm181 4 күн бұрын

it also happened to me. i was terrible at math (still am and still feel like shit because of it) and one day my dad put me on a chair a bit far from my house and tell me not to get out of it until i finished it. it was near my aunt's house. i cried so much she came out and took me out of the chair

@REGjr Ай бұрын

Autism doesn't abstract because it's pathogenic etiology is postpartum psychosis (wish for the child to become "unborn"). So concrete thinking is the only defense against a psychotic mother's delusions. Using the blacksheep child to regulate one's emotions works out to the benefit of the other children. Child sacrifice is endemic to civilization because intraspecies predation is the inevitable consequence of civilized society's obviation of our omnivorous need to hunt. So masks of sanity are maintained by directing irrational barbarism toward culturally approved outgroups (usually by way of fixed religious or political delusion). That's why disturbed parents use their children to enhance their own image. Kinda like Psycho Abe used Isaac to overcorrect damage to his reputation from schwarzeneggering his maid during the era of animal sacrifice. Clearly Ishmael was the one induced to autism. And since the adoption of a child signals rejection to one's natural children his autistic literal thinking was a defense mechanism against parents who thoughtlessly inflicted trauma onto him. Remember Rachel Dolezal? Probably still trying to be black because her parents scapegoated her but doted on the black kids they adopted. So no your autistic stepkid isn't stupid, he's naive which is an evolutionarily adaptive defense strategy groomed by his exploitative guardians.

@laurabeigh283 Ай бұрын

My ex partner is ASD. He sees no utilitarianism in being particularly nice to anyone. so he’s not. Hence, my ex.

@markdeffebach8112 Ай бұрын

The idea of autistics using black and white thinking is flawed. I am nearly always perplexed by all the possible meanings a neurotypical person may mean when they say something. Some how other neurotypicals see only one possible meaning. I feel like most neurotypicals are grossly ambiguous in their speech. How do I pick the particular shade of gray that a neurotypical intends when speaking as if they were speaking plainly in black and white language? I feel like neurotypicals wear blinders that prevent them from seeing all the shades of gray in what they say, then they ridicule those who point out their imprecise speach by asking for clarification. 😢

@siyashilla6885 Ай бұрын

Females move the same way . They keep it vague because they want to insult you without it being obvious

@aphotic_grae 4 күн бұрын

This is such a good way to describe it.

@foljs5858 3 ай бұрын

Well, when people say a person with autism looks "normal", they mean they don't look like full-on Sheldon or an ASD 3 case. Which is also a totally valid autism demographic. People just need to know more about higher functionism autism. The fact that it's all bundled into "autism" or ASD, instead of called Aspergers as before, doesn't help either.

@davehud2552 3 ай бұрын

It feels like am watching animation 😄

@internetcancer1672 3 ай бұрын

The autistic community has gone too far. Constantly feeling like it's okay to ask strangers for accommodation. 😂 Sure, maybe the music's too loud, maybe they shouldn't use puzzle pieces, but like, why do you have a right to like, complain about that stuff? This is a video you get access to for free, it's ridiculous. I get coming from a place of not feeling understood. It feels good to be able to be autistic and not have to mask, but at the same time, if you want other people to accommodate you, you have to accommodate them. 😮

@CasMcAss 3 ай бұрын

as an autistic person the audio in this video is hard for me to listen to. The construction noises were painful and the constant pitch shifted voice is extremely distracting and hard to understand

@autismsomeassemblyrequired5657 3 ай бұрын

I'm sorry. I'm not the best at editing videos. Especially audio.

@jessaustin1122 Ай бұрын

Oh waah

@Ikigai747 3 ай бұрын

Great video!! Covers everything, LOVE THIS

@Koalarix 3 ай бұрын

Hi I went to a general practitioner, I was told not to pursue it because there is no benefit to being labelled. Outside of that, they said because I can make eye contact and not take idioms literally, there's a low chance that I have mild autism. Is it true because of these 2 factors there's no need to pursue a diagnosis.

@miraid06 2 ай бұрын

No. Most people do not understand autism unless they study it, which is a specialty. I lived with a therapist for most of my childhood and had about 7 years of therapy. It was a therapist that I wasn’t even seeing, that suspected it. I also have ADHD, which masks some ASD symptoms. I can make eye contact (it’s often a conscious effort), I understand certain types of jokes and am actually quite sarcastic, myself. I’m officially diagnosed. I shall add…ASD looks very different in women and in POC. It’s called high masking. Your GP doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The DX is more for you, but it does have one major drawback: some countries won’t let you immigrate if you’re on the spectrum.

@HiIAmGabe 2 ай бұрын

Psychologists with check boxes are so frustrating! neuro typical people have a hard time grasping the neuro diverse mind. There are so many misconceptions displayed in this video. I assume you are good at logical thinking? To my knowledge autistic people often prefer logical thinking. So, if a person can logically think, they should also be able to logically analyze situations or humor. Some people might have a lower motivation, capacity or tendency to logically analyze communications which could result in always taking things literal. Others on the other hand can be very good at analyzing communications and especially humor.

@HiIAmGabe 2 ай бұрын

Let me give some further examples: I think black and white thinking could relate to the need for order. Probably NT peope blindly follow the implicit social rules around crossing the street and therefore lack the ability to explain how they (the rules) are constructed and can't help replacing a simple rule with a logical explanation and underlying logical reasoning. I am not saying this will work for every autistic person (note: not people with autism, since it is simply a different way of thinking and not a disease), especially if the set of literal rules could give a sense of structure and comfort in an unstructured world. This is especially the case for autistic people who might have other intellectual challenges and find it hard to understand the complex logical alternative to the literal rule. Furthermore, the end of the video displays another possible misconception about the autistic person as they could indeed have the ability to follow the abstract thought process of understanding that the situation has changed but it is simply hard to deal with change as it brings disorder. In addition, autistic people often can have a higher need for mental preparations as executive functions, sensory sensations and social situations can be more draining for them. In conclusion, there are many dimensions to neurodiverse thinking that might be hard to grasp for a neuro typical mind.

@Koalarix 2 ай бұрын

@@miraid06 Thanks for the response, what's this DX you mentioned?

@HiIAmGabe 2 ай бұрын

@@Koalarix Dx is short for (medical) diagnosis. As I understand the "x" in "Dx" is a crossbar and just indicates that "D" is an abbreviation.

@neogoats8738 4 ай бұрын

Okey so why dont we have a similar video about neurotypicals?

@alizaatta2201 4 ай бұрын

I am subscribing because this is cute....

@drachnae 4 ай бұрын

This video does a lot of things right, namely by not pathologizing autistic ways of thinking. However, this video repeatedly frames these differences as a lack of understanding in autistic folks of neurotypical ways of thinking and communicating. Such framing is an example of neuronormativity, i.e., the centering and normalization of neurotypical ways of being. For this reason, it would have been better to frame these differences as, well, exactly that: differences. The misunderstandings that result from communication and thinking differences between autistic and neurotypical folks is a problem that cuts equally in both directions, and should be represented as such. Thank you for your commitment to spreading awareness about autism. I hope my feedback provides insight that you will find helpful in continuing this important work.

@mjolnir3309 2 ай бұрын

I agree and i would add that i don't like the idea that autistic people don't or can't think in the abstract or that our thinkingis black and white. It may be true for some, but i feel it's a gross oversimplification. The way i try to describe my "black and white" mentality is that i understand and am well aware that everything is a shade of grey. However, we can break that into two groups, dark grey and light grey. I label these categories by their most extreme examples for simplicity : black and white. This does not mean we miss the nuance or abstractness of the subject matter. In fact, I'd say we are hyper aware of it. Most of the time, I'm trying to find a reasonable and logical place to draw that line of demarcation while people are telling me that I'm just thinking in terms of black and white. In my experience and belief, we don't really have issues with abstract or concrete thoughts or concepts, we like to categorize. If you tell me there is a grey area all i hear is that there needs to be a third category. I'm fine with that, but to just tell me it's a spectrum without explaning how that is a better viewpoint for purposes of our discussion is meaningless to me.

@drachnae 2 ай бұрын

@@mjolnir3309 Excellent addition! In my exploration of autism research, I’ve often found that “abstract thinking” functions as a messy catch-all category referring to things like metaphorical thinking, top-down thinking, social cognition, etc. Of course, for many autistic people, these are not strengths. However, there are many other things that could be called “abstract thinking” - logical analysis, mathematics, pattern recognition, etc. - which many autistic people excel at. It’s problematic, to say the least, to claim that autistic people are lacking in abstract thought.

@mjolnir3309 2 ай бұрын

@drachnae yeah, it's a broad category, and often, there isn't a good sense of what is meant. I don't think it's fair to say autistic people have issues, in general, with even the more common aspects. I think the issue is more communicating these thoughts and understanding that we are expected to see things in a certain way. For instance, with metaphors, maybe it's not the case that we can't think that way, but that we also think of the literal interpretation as well. Most metaphors are poor analogies for the subject and have many possible meanings. I know i often get lost in this, especially when metaphors are used incorrectly. E.g. it's only a few bad apples. Are you talking about actual apples? If so, where are they, and why are they bad, and how is this relevant? If not, what are you referring to as the apples? How is that bad? Do you mean literally rotten, or is that also metaphorical rot? Is the situation bad? Are the things bad? Is this sarcasm or satire? Most importantly, did they intentionally leave off "spoil the bunch" or did they not know that's part of the phrase and are misusing it? Easy to get overwhelmed by this and just pick one, probably the literal one since it has the advantage of being what was actually said. Thus, we look like we can't think that way, but perhaps it's just a case of not understanding wth people are trying to say. Sorry, rough day. Hope this isn't harsh or something.

@drachnae 2 ай бұрын

@@mjolnir3309 Not harsh at all! I find it thought-provoking and engaging. I think you might be gesturing at a fundamental issue here: autism research has generally failed to define symptoms of autism in ways that are coherent and in alignment with reality, largely because said research does not generally do a good job of incorporating autistic people’s first-person descriptions of their own perspectives. As an autistic person myself, this is immensely frustrating to me too. I greatly appreciate you taking the time to share your own perspective. Hope your day gets better.

@turtleanton6539 5 ай бұрын

😊😊😊

@gotobassmsn 5 ай бұрын

I did know I had High Functioning Autism till I was in my early 40's. And I never knew how to properly respond to people, for I didn't understand the non verbal social ques.

@delilahhart4398 5 ай бұрын

I wasn't diagnosed with autism until I was an adult. There's something I said when I was a kid that I'm really ashamed of now. When I was 11, my aunt had a baby who only lived for a few hours after he was born. I had an interest in decomposing bodies back then, and one day I told my aunt my little cousin was decomposing in the ground! All of the adults were horrified! I didn't say it out of spite, though. I was merely making an observation that I found interesting. And before anyone calls me a psychopath, I want to mention that I cried when my cousin died! I really was sad, so I'm not some unfeeling monster.

@autismsomeassemblyrequired5657 5 ай бұрын

There's no need to be ashamed of something your 11 year old self said. We've all said and done things that we look back on with regret.

@SnappyWasHere 2 ай бұрын

Same thing here. All through childhood I said all sorts of totally socially inappropriate things like that. At my own dad’s funeral I poked at his body like it was a science experiment when I was 9 and I never cried. I had no supportive family so it was just punishment. My life was just a mental book of behaviors that was acceptable in situations. Never once did anyone say I was autistic, found out on my own at 46.

@victoryamartin9773 28 күн бұрын

I'm Autistic, and I have no problem with what you said. Your observation was truth. Nothing wrong with that.

@JayakrishnanNairOmana 6 ай бұрын

This video is about Autism Level 3 with Low IQ. Autism is a spectrum, there are people like Einstein and Musk at the other end. Do you think they cannot understand simple concepts like adoption or a fire drill? This channel is spreading wrong info and must be taken down.

@zzdogger 6 ай бұрын

I'm 29 and I think I've been masking my whole life, I think I'm now learning to stop masking, and that outro was SO LOUD I panicked to turn down, lol

@fluffyunicorn1515 7 ай бұрын

I am 32 female and I was diagnosed with dyspraxia and adhd several years ago. I was being assessed for autism before lockdown but I moved away for a while and did not end up finishing the assessment. I am going to be seeing my psychiatrist soon and I need to speak to him about why I think I'm autistic. It is so complex because I have these other conditions. I spoke to student services and they said it sounds like I'm taking things literally and struggling with metaphors but that I'm able to think things through. I did not understand Steven Pinker's Book Is the Mind a Blank Slate? It took me some time to understand that he was talking about the nature vs nurture debate. For years I have puzzled over this concept and the term 'is the mind a blank slate' does not make any sense to me. So the mind is like a blank piece of paper? In another class the lecturer asked if any of us would fight for anything. I asked what do you mean fight like physically? After thinking about it and asking ai I figured out he means would you stand up for something. I am still confused by this and I'm not sure if I would fight for something or not. I feel so stupid sometimes. I ask my lecturers questions then get embarrassed, thinking I should probably already know this and it is a stupid question. I struggle with dichotomous thinking. I don't understand how it's possible for me to get a degree in social sciences if I am neurodiverse and have dichotomous thinking, but that in itself is an example of dichotomous thinking. I have social issues, struggle to make friends and maintain friendships, struggle with eye contact and worry about my own body language and what is appropriate. Sometimes I say things that don't make sense. I am not sure what my special interest would be as I have lots of interests but I have adhd and that is quite common I think in adhd. I love animals, ballet, roller coasters, and social science and philosophy. I struggle to read things that don't interest me. I am reading a book about animals and I can do that no problem. If I have to read one chapter on something that's not relevant to my interests and 'read aloud' is not an option it can be a very long and tedious process and sometimes I'm simply not able to finish reading it. I read some theories recently that questions the existence of adhd and the less extreme view, that it is over diagnosed. This concept makes no sense to me. Either is exists or it doesn't. How can people question this? Or do they just mean it is not a disorder but instead a variation? I worry as well that people will think 'another woman diagnosing herself with autism' like I am jumping on a band wagon. I am frustrated because I can't figure out if I have autism or not. I have spent lots of time with many different autistic and neurodiverse people and usually I get along really well with them. I am also very emotionally reactive and I experience a lot of empathy and I get upset about things like I feel like sometimes I asked my lecturers stupid questions and they will think I'm dumb or not following instructions but I have tried to follow the instructions and I have got confused. Or a concept can completely confuse me and it might not even be important. I am so confused. I don't know if anyone can help me.

@Serena-yn4pg 7 ай бұрын

why do we draw the sameee! I think I have autism tho

@brettbarnett9823 9 ай бұрын

I have seen many of these with my girlfriends adult(21 year old) son. He is however totally Non-Verbal. The only way he communicates is with a "talker app" on an Ipad. Do you have any sort of help videos for this circumstance? I am so lost, and I haven't been the greatest help when it comes to him. I would like very much to be able to deal with this better. For the son, my gf, and me as well.

@Papiliodani 9 ай бұрын

Interesting...someone who is undiagnosed autistic in my life who was adopted has believed his parents lied to him his entire life, not informing him he was adopted until he found out on his own as a teen but i feel something exactly like this scenario is the likely truth...he didnt understand the concept of adoption

@Secret-Serenity 10 ай бұрын

I dont understand this and im autistic and think visually

@klavczarkalafan4191 6 ай бұрын

You definitely do think visually. We have 10x as much brain dedicated to understanding visuals as we do to auditory processing. Neurotypicals have the same amount of space dedicated to auditory processing but only 1/10 of that (1/100 of what we have) dedicated to processing visuals.

@PaPaWizdom 10 ай бұрын

A very annoying video coupled with a very annoying comment section.

@SuperAwesomeReasons 11 ай бұрын

I pulled this shit on the Temptations when I was a child. I met one of their (fantastically talented) guitar players that they were accompanied by at the time, and because I understood the Temptations to be the four singers and no one else, I didn't count the guitarist as one of the Temptations, and I offered him my left hand instead of my right hand to shake while saying to his face that I did it because the right hand is for the real temptations. I wonder if I can find that guy and clear up the misunderstanding.

@annemariemiguel2541 11 ай бұрын

literal thinking, and fixed thinking. Same thing?.

@rohanking12able Жыл бұрын

What am i supposed to learn from this?

@rohanking12able Жыл бұрын

So like npc prompt scripts. Filed and have to be manually edited

@alfiemcallister-smith2750 Жыл бұрын

First comment out of 5 yearz huh

@MS-yf9dw Жыл бұрын

I'd actually like to read the things you write at the end of your videos... I guess I'm a slow reader, because they disappear, and are replaced by the next quotes, before I'm half way through! I've always had this problem. In school, I struggled to copy the things from the blackboard before it got wiped by the teacher. My kids are autistic. I guess, they got it from me... And school is a struggle for them too. It's interesting how autism works. The part of your video where you talk, I watch at x2 speed, I watch all the videos on KZbin like that, and mostly, I have no problem in keeping up. But the part where you write, I have to slow it down to half speed, and often that's not enough... I have to press pause, in order to read the longer texts. Don't you get complaints from other people, that the end part is too fast?

@tracik1277 10 ай бұрын

I absolutely get you.

@The_Vanished Жыл бұрын

I love how i obviously thought in the autistic fashion my entire life, and was constantly picked on for not understanding when someone was messing with me. "Haha you stupid idiot!". "Why eo you talk like that?" "That" is not an understandable way of speaking. Then around 30 i went to see doctor after doctor and theyre like oh youre catastrophizing, flat affect is due to depression, theres no diagnosis with speech issues, youre lazy it you eont understand people's emotions. You just have every cluster b personality disorder, thats the least common denominator because im a doctor, i have the control and it makes the most sense to diagnose the most possible conditions with the most profoundly negative and discrimintory connotation possible. Then they give me pike ten years of weekly therapy to convince me i have sero empathy and that i should embrace being a psychopath and they have me qll figured out and its because my personality that I had meltdowns even 5hough i didn't understand why i was doing that while being completely embarrassed. That i couldn't control how emotions affected my demeanor, etc. "oh, its because you dont care or respect people around you"

@commonwisdom5333 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Flanders can't say I like Baumhauers though.

@stupidvickfan3744 Жыл бұрын

I don't hate being autistic I hate finding out in my mid 20s. I just walk in a store and hear a little of everything. The fact people can block off sounds amazes me. My parents took their chances with sports and I didn't care about school. I feel like a waste of life at 26.

@Repentforthekindomogiah Жыл бұрын

Nice drawing

@autismsomeassemblyrequired5657 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@ZzedZed Жыл бұрын

on behalf of the electromagnetic/colour spectrum i an offended. ! :)

@denxylboart4403 Жыл бұрын

Autistic meltdowns are not bad behaviour. Us Autistic people can't help it!

@ashleyjones1976 Жыл бұрын

My first meltdown it felt like the walls was caving in on me as I tried to get heard

@ashleyjones1976 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for you comment and would like some support plz

@queerantine69 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed this but the end music was really loud

@beethechange257 Жыл бұрын

Words mean things.

@CarlosRodriguez-cj8oo 7 ай бұрын

But things don't mean words, necessarily.

@jn1211 4 ай бұрын

neurotypicals aren't aware of this in the same way.

@alexiscarte5044 Жыл бұрын

I'm autistic and I understand in between and grey areas. Do research autistic brains are very different from eachother. Lol right there and isnstance of things not being black and white.

@artisticautistic9664 Жыл бұрын

Meh... I don't think you know what abstract thinking is.

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