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Olivia, you are helping many, many people, both ASD and everyone in-between. Thank you!

quick question.. how has nobody liked the video except for me ?

I relate to this so much x

I would like to object to the words “normal function “. I only think it’s a disability if you compare to what society expects from the citizens. This society is very very unnatural!! No wild animals live in the made up and sort of domesticated societies humans have designed, and it’s indeed very complicated. In a natural world we would not have unnatural sounds, movements, smells, unnatural foods, chemicals and such. But we are surrounded by this shit all the time. Wild animals that come into the vicinity of human modern cities are terrified by all the sounds, traffic, lights etc. And why wouldn’t they? It’s a very natural response! Autistic people are very sensitive to many of these things. To react to these sensory assaults and feel very stressed about them all the time, all our lives, that is not disordered, that’s just a natural response to a very unnatural environment. Plus everything else that we’re expected to do in our everyday life - not natural at all! So I would say that although this society claims every single person should be able to fill in forms, participate in meetings, go through job interviews, have a lot of different issues to deal with everyday, it’s not disordered to not be able to do these things. It’s actually this complex society that MAKES people disordered.

This video gives a "NT" person no answers, move on.

i always had trouble watching movies at the theater, whenever there was a fighting,shooting scene i would close my eyes and put my fingers in my ears as weirdly loud noises , fighting scenes and stuff like that made me have trouble breathing .

It's not autism, it's modernity.

My wife step dad groomed her he would say that he was going in to hospital when my wife phone the hospital he was never in hospital my wife has special needs health issues made her unwell would you say this is a typical of a groomed

yes i never could play follow the leader.. didnt know how to let someone else lead...i still dont... i got a leader award in high school.... so... i guess leaders just cannot be followers to save their life....but i always tried to be benevolent as possible.... but still people misunderstand me and just gang up on me after any slight mistake i make

0:59 hey Blue get well soon & yes very interested to hear your journey xx 1:55 #me2x20 xxx

I got super crazy itchy within days and started having a rash appear on all four of my lower limbs when I tried to go ON Lexapro I think it was I’m really scared to try something else. I’ve heard mixed things, and a lot of women saying they have an enormously difficult time getting off of

Spectrum is the wrong mathematical concept for autism then, whoever coined is not qualified to use it. The words field, gradient and space ae much closer to what;s being explained here.

It's been 4 months since you posted a new video already 😕

I don't like it when people say "I'm sensitive".

Yeha, I save up things too. I've got a whole box of sweets I wanted to be thrifty with, the most is nearly expired or is already expired. And most video games I never finish xD

Can someone be 62 and just realize they are autistic?

OMG. JERSEY SHEETS!

Gosh, same same for sure ;-) !!

9 out of 10.

I don't believe in God.

Those types of comments are the ones I'm not looking forward to when I start posting more but I know they tend to come with the territory

hey beautiful!! by watching your video's made me cry!! you gotta remind yourself that you are beautiful and strong i may not know you personally but we are all not stupid nobody deserves to treat themselves like this. keep your head up high don't let your disability talk down about you beautiful you are smart <3 <3. i also have a learning disabilities and going through the same thing as you so your not alone in this

Wasn't there a recent scientific study that proved that antidepressants are complete BS...

Thank you! I told someone at a dinner party that I had a meltdown at something recently, but when I described it she thought it sounded more like a shutdown. I'm pretty new to figuring out shutdown vs meltdown, so I found your video. I think what I was talking about qualifies.

Olivia I was just diagnosed about a year and a half ago with high functioning autism. Throughout my entire life people called me a liar and got angry with me. Every single time I lied it was to avoid social interactions because they always led to problems. They still do and I'm still hiding but I'm working on it. I just subscribed and I'll be checking out all of your videos, this one is absolutely wonderful. I'm sharing it with the rest of my family with the hopes that they watch it and understand I wasn't really lying, I just couldn't find the right words and didn't want I feel like "by not participating in those social activities I was letting someone down" so it was easier to make up excuses and continue hiding. You're not alone, none of us are alone. It's still hard for me to accept that I'm not the problem and that the problem is everyone else's inability to accept me for who I am. However I do really believe this. PS - this isn't a lie. 🤓❤

Neurotypical here. Masking isn't just for individuals with disabilities. Unfortunately it is a requirement of making it in the work world. IT SUCKS

I think my meltdowns start with feeling angry. Then it progresses into crying and mentally beating up myself. 😠😡😢😭

i remember being upset as a teenager and i was kicking and screaming in my room and accidentally kicked and broke my window, thats when my mom slapped me. worst thing ever. only to now find out im autstic

You didn’t misunderstand because of autism. You didn’t understand because he lied and because females as a whole group are groomed to accept this from men.

Thank you for standing up

I wonder if I have ASD. some of these things you say I have. I would spin around in the yard, I have dealt with anxiety and depression and gut issues all my life. That's beside the dysfunctional home I grew up in. Church was the only thing that saved me.

I was on SSRI and SNRI meds for chronic pain (not depression) because my pain doctor at the time prescribed it. He too failed to mentioned addiction and withdrawals. I found out the hard way when he switched me from one kind to another. There was no weaning off the old but I titrated onto the new (unnecessarily) and felt awful. I called the doctor and didn't get a response until like a week later when I managed to get through it on my own with online research. The worst symptom was brain zaps and dizziness. I stayed home from work freaking out because I wasn't familiar with this until I read about others going through withdrawals and described the symptoms well. When I did finally get a call back from my doctor's office (I left a lot of messages) it wasn't the doctor but some staff member who seemed clueless. I told off my doctor through the caller and said he is fired. I was livid. After that I weaned off myself by reducing the dose very slowly over the course of a couple months and did not have any major problems. I won't go on them ever again unless I have to for actual depression (not for chronic pain, which I consider gaslighting the patient). Sounds like you learned a lot in your experiment. I think it's good to know how your body reacts to these things in case you do ever need to come off or change to another medication as better ones are developed. It also sounds like you do need the medicine so I am at least glad you have something that helps your depression. Autistic people tend to live with a lot of stress and pain and we take a lot of crap from other people. I think this video is an important one for many of us who may be on medication that can have withdrawal symptoms. It's part of an important decision about whether it's worth taking it for the primary benefits. I applaud your desire to come off the meds, but also applaud your going back on some of them. I hope you are feeling good about what you learned and are teaching everyone about this journey.

Hello Olivia, I’m Mike, I have autism. Do you?

I have "high" functioning autism. I have struggles as well. In public, I can be good at hiding it for the most part. Until I get frustrated.

Thank you so much for sharing this. For the longest time, I tried to figure out what my crying fits were, and now I'm pretty sure they're meltdowns. I've never heard of someone whose meltdowns were so similar to mine. I hope you've found a way to diminish their frequency as you've gotten older!

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It sucks u live so far away, I'd so go out with u.

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The dumbest thing that I think I have ever heard about autism is: “You’re just doing it on purpose.” 😔

Sensory issues--if I have them, they're very mild. I have some sensory-seeking traits with touch. Mental illness--YUP Inflexibility--to a degree. I hate when things like logos change. WHY do they have to change if they were fine BEFORE? Socializing--I'm very sociable, but I have a hard time making deep connections with people. I also NEED my alone time and don't make eye contact. Not the best at body language, but I can read facial expressions and tell when someone is annoyed at me/sad. Selective mutism--eh, only when I'm super anxious/overwhelmed (like when I'm getting fussed at or something). Logical thinker--hard to say since I like literary analysis. Gut issues--typically only as an anxiety symptom Memory--I remember facts and information really well. I have a few early memories. As for short-term memory, I misplace things frequently because I set something down and forget (ADHD). Meltdowns--they still happen to me sometimes. I remember being a crier as a kid. Empathy--I don't have empathy problems as far as I know. Maybe in the context of having a hard time relating to major tragedies.

I was diagnosed with autism in my 70's, ten years ago. I am a "high" functioning person, or so I'm told. I paint, I write poetry and stories, I love gardening, making my own cosmetics and candles and other things. Good program, well explained.