I'd like to study the anthropology of childcare for grad school, would you be able to ask him about his grad students or some of his contemporaries who are taking on grad students?

He’s spot on. Should avoid “Asperger” though.

Obama is literally the exact opposite of this.

What, 41.59. Is this wonen calling us far right? That is a good observation. Yes logical common cense. She can not grasp it.

Thinking about why someone would do this to me. That one hit me hard!

This is a fantastic upload and VERY validating for me! I’ve done a lot of research on myself, and so glad the YT algorithm pointed me this way so I can listen to and take in. Top notch stuff, thank you 🙏

How do I contact him

thanks for this ❤

Do individuals with Autism have unusual areas on a MRI?

"Full Prefrontal" lol

We shouldn't use this term, any longer

Your video quality is good

Wow

I like your video very much. ❤ But your channel and videos are not optimized. Because of this, you don't easily reach your desired audience with the videos.

Full PreFrontal, I really liked this video! I subscribed too!

Dear @Sucheta Kamath, many thanks for doing this episode with Dr. Tony Attwood. Could you please do an episode with Dr. Olga Bogdashina, a very insightful Occupational Therapist.

I was ostracized alot during my life . I will say the best way to deal with it is to get completely new social circle. the best thing is using ur hobbies. Having multiple hobbies means multiple social circles. . Also never alow someone who ostarcized you back into your life. This does require u to be outgoing i realize . theres always new people about 7 billion of them lol lol

thanks

Great podcast!

Strongly dislike the dramatic “angle” and sensational (external source or ego driven) approach. Sound/production seem out of whack with content. Bigger ain’t necessarily better. But then, when you actually engage in dialogue it’s beautiful, real and becomes accessible to my mind’s ear 🐝

Yes school was very difficult for me and always felt on the outside of groups I am now 64 yrs and it has been exhausting at my work place with understanding people and what they mean when they are saying things . I thought to myself today what if I am normal and neurotypical people are abnormal , funny I know but actually it think things like this and I was a target at and during school especially when I hit puberty 😢 and it only got worse from that point on because I had a hard time why then and was very hurt as a young boy and adult.

I have had a head injury in the pre frontal cortex and I have a dent in my forehead to prove it . But also have always had social anxiety and social queues since childhood any thought on this ?

I love Tony- thank god for him and all the valuable work he continues to do

And yes many People call me Sheldon

I agree😊 i love odd carthters cuz I can relate

Congratulations for such interesting episode. I am just discovring your podcast and find it so interesting. Cool name full prefrontal. I have a lot of content to go through 😃

I don't have diagnosis, but I've suspected since my early teens that I'm probably on the spectrum (in my thirties now). There was a lot of relatable things here on this video, but there's some points I want to share from my personal experience. First, not knowing "who you are". I had an identity crisis in my teens because I'd tried to be just the expected: a feminine, well-behaving and laborous girl, until then. And I thought that's what all the girls do; I thought we were all just pretending to meet the expectations. It was a great shock for me to realize at my teens that some girls actually love feminine style, makeup and all that. As a result of the realization, I turned to a tomboy literally overnight. It was like a coming out experience, many people thinking I'm (ironically, closeted) lesbian etc. I'm still questioning my gender to some extent, but the topic is not so important to me so I'm just ignoring it most of the time. The another point, about knowing yourself + alexithymia, is that I recall I was very irritated since I was a small kid, when my mum would name what I'm feeling right now "oh, you're nervous?", or she would describe me as a person to someone "she's very determined, but empathich". I didn't know any of these things about myself, so I was mad at my mum throwing "guesses" like that in the air. Because they could've as well been guesses to me. I could have never came up with those description of me by myself. And the point with factual vs. social discussions. I'm usually very bored when it comes to discussions about people, what they're up to, what're their plans for the weekend etc. I'm simply not interested in people like that, so I struggle to motivate myself to keep up with conversations like that. I know it probably doesn't give a very good picture of myself, but I just can't help it. On the other hand, Factual discussions are so very engaging to me. Even better if they're about a special interest of mine, but any factual discussion really is fine, and I'm more motivated to participate than to any person-driven discussion. I struggled with this a lot when I was younger. I used to consume nonfictional encyclopedias about animals as a kid, but I still could never have any discussion about animals with my peers, because they only wanted to talk about which one is the cutest. You can imagine how frustrating that was as a kid. So, conversations with NTs are very unsatisfying to me, whereas hardly anyone's eager to go as deep in discussion on any given factual subject as I'd like to. I struggle with this to this day when interacting with people irl. Luckily I've found some groups online where I can truly have great discussions from the bottom of my heart. It's just a pity that it's not a daily irl luxury to me. And last but not least, the connection between knowing who you are and fact-based interests. I think that the reason I'm so driven by the factual things, is probably because I never have had that very strong connection to any people - myself included. I literally never think of myself as an individual person - how I look to others etc. Most of the time, I don't exist to myself inside my head, and that's the same with all the other people. My focus is on things other than people as persons. As much as I might just not know how I'm feeling or what I'm like, may as well just be more interested in other (factual) subjects, so I never got the practice on emotional introspection, never really spent time building up my personal image like my peers did etc. I've just never been interested in myself and always been interested in other things. So it's impossible to say which one is the cause and which one is the consequence - or if there even is a causal correlation between the two.

This is a lovely interview with Tony Attwood, a gifted, compassionate, generous, wise, inspiring, and kind clinical psychologist who has done so much to transform the lives of so many so much for the better. Thank you so much for your wonderful work, and for sharing this!

I was a victim of fundamental religion as a growing up autistic.

I'm so glad I've found this podcast!

This guy is a quack

Thank you both, I'm already read her book and definitely made a difference in my understanding of myself!

Intresting and informative conversation

Many thanks!! Don't get left behind > Promo>SM!!!

We need a new episode of this with "Saint Tony" and her. It's so good. Very refreshing uplifting humour.

Halfway in the video, fascinating! It seems that a lot of these strategies would be good for any child, regardless of color. It's a lot about teaching 'personhood' (is that a legit word?) and the foundations of coexisting in harmony, with kindness, empathy and compassion. I wish we would have learnt this. It was just assumed that we would figure things out, and race specifically wasn't discussed.

great conversation. thanks

What a beautiful introductory ! 🥰❤️ Gratitude Empathic autistic ....? ......🤔 44:30..Black & white thinking NA If anything more like technicolour compassionate appreciation of limitations of thinking of the human avatar .. & fine being a loner if the only other choice is adjustment to a profoundly sick society ..... 😜 So yes solitude & nature helps 58:.. spirit animal wolf

This Attwood creep is full of shit. Asperger's Syndrome is only a 'gift' when 'special interests' in our warped sub-animal brains can produce money.

Su heta good interview thanx but DAVID S DISTORIONS re not exactly new concepts he wrote about them 30 years ago Also I he s not the guy who originated CBt... dr BECK was! The thing about BURNS is that he a good writer with a catchy style,, whose sales went thru the roof because 9f his writing skills , something to commend naturally Warmly CLAUDE REBILLE PARIS

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In response to the categories of strategies girls on the spectrum use to try and be accepted I can actually say that I wasn’t limited to only one group of those descriptions but actually used them all from the introvert to the extrovert depending on situations in my life on a day to day basis and even on a minute to minute basis

The worst thing to do to us is accuse us of lying, being drama queen, exaggerating or being hypercondriacs

Wasn’t diagnosed until 23 and diagnosed with ADHD at 40

Help me get into professional acting in Australia I’ll sort that rubbish out really fast. I’ve wanted to be a professional actress for nearly 40 years but have been denied opportunities due to inter generational poverty and disability. I’ll take the industry by Storm I have multiple skills in singing, dancing and drama

I’ve always said that my lifetime as a Neurodiverse individual is the essential training for being a professional actor

Personally I had anxiety from 2 main sources: From trying to manage my behavior in everyday live as mentioned in the talk, but also from abusive parents who leveraged shame as a tool for behavior modification. This later developed into CPTSD, and disassociation, so really everything from my teenage years through my mid twenties is a blank.

I was very late to a diagnosis of Asperger's. I still am figuring out implications of that. Dr. Tony Attwood

I was chronically aware I was different than others in a bad way from a very young age. I even had problems relating well to the dogs and cats my family owned through my childhood.

I started binge watching your episodes from yesterday, they're very informative. I just wish the episodes were longer, like 2-3 hours. The guests you bring are very knowledgeable and helpful and it seems like I'm missing a lot of what they have to say due to small episodes!