If I die and I’m not autistic anymore, I’ll be sure to update you guys

I like this movie it makes me happy ☺️ I have watched at least 3 times.

Talk therapy made things worse for me.

My AP psychology teacher didn’t really know anything about psych that wasn’t in the textbook. We spent a lot of class time watching educational videos made my Phillip Zimbardo. Finding out about the Stanford Prison Experiment after the fact was…a strange experience.

One of the main characters in the pre-school Pupstruction is an amputee who is treated very respectfully and like an equally valid member of the team ☺️❤️👍

I just got my late autism diagnosis on the 22nd of may 2024. Just 8 days ago. I'm 43 years old. I'm forever grateful for autistic youtubers like you. It means the world to me. Thank you. 🏆❤

awesome video

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I am happy to report I have received my first pair of apd hearing aids and was tested with them on and off and scored fairly high with them in. I don't recommend them for everyone but they have significantly helped me. Otherwise I have struggled with apd extremely bad since childhood. But I'm ok now

Your curly hair is so pretty!!!

I’m so glad I started watching your reviews. I’m 2 episodes into this show and I really needed a show like this 😭

I love all the people who are redoing these “famous” older studies to see the outcome with our standards today, I hope it never stops

Pokémon has autism and ADHD coding EVERYWHERE across ALL forms of Pokémon media! Pokémon is my main special interest and all the autism coding makes it even more enjoyable and the characters even more relatable in my opinion. Also my other special interest right now, the DreamWorks Trolls franchise, has two neurodivergent-coded characters in my opinion...and they're the two main leads! Poppy is ADHD-coded and Branch is autistic-coded (and SO relatable) in my personal opinion and I will hold this headcanon till the day I die!

the timing of this is great, i just did a project on this and unethical research for my sociology class

So just a couple of days in and your descriptions sound VERY much like the religious homeless shelter I stayed in and the arbitrary rewards and punishments creating chaos happened there, too. I had autistic meltdowns so often simply because the rules and expectations seemed so selective and changeable each new day. I almost wanted to go to actual prison, knowing it was more structured. Treating people this way in real life just might have something to do with their mental state and trust in the system! I am due for years of therapy from this kind of experience.

34:00 - 35:00 to the end (sorry incomplete thought. ) yes, American society's madnesses stem from Cold-War era disinformation & christian religion

Prison Abolition now!

15:50 Damn America, why are we so stupid!

I wonder if Philip Zimbardo was reliving/reconstructing a previous trauma and that’s why he was so obsessed and lost in it. That OBVIOUSLY doesn’t make it ok, but that’s the only theory I can concoct to explain his behavior and why he’s so invested in maintaining that the results are real, even if they are ethically invalid. I mean. That, or ASPD, because who would do this if they had a moral compass?

38:24 What is the name of “false memory syndrome guy”? I would love to read more about that (or watch a video by you about it 😁)

Nobody in academia discusses the ethics of pop psyche, and considering it affects what professionals think, too, because they’re also exposed to pop psyche concepts and no one is going to deep dive into every single specialty to understand all of the nuances of the real research, pop psyche misrepresentations is a MASSIVE issue 😅

14:29 Could you expand on what you mean that psychopaths do not exist? I learned about antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy) in my undergraduate abnormal psychology course but don’t know much about it beyond that. P.S. I love your videos!

Oh wow I speak a lot like you! Wild. Why won’t my face hole keep up w my brain?? It’s so annoying. Thank goodness for computers. 😂

I already made a comment on the other review you did, just wanted to say how cool this entire idea of reviewing rep in short bits is :3

One of my fav nd rep books of all time, honestly. I really related to her struggles with sensory stuff!

I didn’t know there was a show :D I LOOOVE El Deafo as a hard-of-hearing kid, it’s one of the only pieces of media that resonates with me so well (as someone who speaks, doesn’t really know sign, was mainstream schooled, etc.) Other stories that explore other realities and ways of being D/deaf and HOH are super important and interesting as well, but THIS ONE. it was incredible. It’s also nice to note how the book includes the experiences of having an auditory processing disorder!

I watched Avatar for the first time last year or so, and ALSO found this really problematic. If had this video to send to the person I watched it with when I attempted to explain what’s wrong with this whole thing, it would’ve been much more concise and informative! So thanks for this, and thanks for reminding me to check out other Avatar reviews (and your other vids)

I noticed that in a lot of critiques of the movie, the reviewer claims that Ben Platt stays hunched over in an attempt to “seem younger”. As someone with social anxiety and is pending an autism evaluation, whose body language has always been similar, I’m glad to finally see another interpretation.

great video, always found avatar dull, but more importantly also super problematic

Honestly, who the fuck cares how you respond to small talk. I respond with my truth, so yeah If someone asks how I am doing and instead of saying good or whatever like everyone says. I'll say, I'm really stressed because of this situation because I am a perfectionist blah blah blah. There are no rules of how you should respond to anything just be yourself and be honest and I don't care if that's socially acceptable or not, because I don't care what other people think, I am going to be me. So fuck em!

not considered spiderman as autistic coeded now id do having watched this

most people's "that's just life" kind of conformism is insanely dangerous in the face of all these wars, climate change, all-encompassing surveillance, hunger, homelessness, and neglect of healthcare. they are literally killing themselves and many others around. but as it's not "deviant", i guess it's okay, not a disorder. /super sad sarcasm

I am in this picture and don't like it. "If it makes no sense and I have no choice, it's not happening"❤❤❤❤❤

Okay, that explains why I was drawn to the 90s animated Spider-Man series as a kid! Also, I think that the MCU version of MJ Watson (aka Michelle Jones-Watson, to differentiate between Mary-Jane Watson in the comics), as portrayed by Zendaya, is very autistic-coded.

I hadn’t even considered Spiderman as autistic-coded, even though his before-bitten state is… all too similar…. Hmmm… Time to go find a radioactive spider!

Very well spoken and well researched video about a fascinating aspect of autism. And you even provided all of that without obnoxious reminders about likes, subscribing, donations or sponsors (which sadly is very rare nowadays). Thank you for your excellent and hard work! The only thing I'm surprised about, is why you have so few views.

Amazing videos! I really enjoyed your passion and perspective, it's something that we need more of these days.

My dream is to make my own production of ride the cyclone (I’ve already written a lot a lot of notes script and lyrics and costumes), and in this I wouldn’t want to take away Ricky’s disability but rather give him like, a notepad, that he brought to the fair as his alternative communication, that he writes on during the show that the choir members react to accordingly to whatever is written for them to react with in the script. I feel like it could be good and still give for very funny moments! Like when Ricky goes on his tangent about how…that genre….is magical and tells a story, he could be like shaking his head at ocean and then he starts scribbling on his notepad. Then ocean walks to him and looks all shocked reading it. Then she could say the “now you’ve got sweet little Ricky Potts explaining why 🌽 is magical!” Is this anything guys I feel like this would be a great way for people to do Ricky

I really like this video. It felt like a nuanced and well rounded look at the topic.

I do want to say that there have been all neurodivergent and all disabled casts in plays and theater shows but it's yet to happen on Broadway. For example I live in minnesota and I saw an incredible play this fall that was performed entirely by a disabled acting troupe through a local org specifically for disabled artists. And I've been in performances where everyone was disabled. Honestly alot more disabilty centered work is happening on the fringes of the performance world and when orgs/grant resources specifically fund programs for disabled artists. And unfortunately, Broadway hasn't caught up. There's alot to be done for the theater world regarding shows with disabled actors but I do think it's really dismissive of small theaters, arts orgs and grass roots projects that are specifically for disabled artists that are doing a lot more then Broadway has ever done.

Wait, at 2:17 did you just say “this was right after it became possible to get both an autism and adhd diagnosis?” I’m confused by this wording. Autism had been a diagnosable thing since the early 1910s, so you must mean people couldn’t be diagnosed with both at the same time until recently. Do you have a source for that?

Omg I'd love to see you interview the actors from the show if you ever do end up doing that.

I agree that good and bad are subjective terms but there are abusers who do choose to cause harm. I had to make the choice not to empathize with my worst abuser because they deliberately caused a lot of harm to me, and I developed a sort of Stockholm syndrome. It was much healthier for me to not forgive or try to understand where he was coming from because nothing could justify what he did. I have had accidental harm done by people. I was a 90s foster child with medical issues and my adoptive parents did their absolute best, but the info on how to help kids like me was just not there yet. That is forgivable. I don’t even fault the doctors and specialists. I do have dissociative amnesia from my childhood and I have some fragment memories. I don’t discuss them much because I get gaslit enough about things I remember clearly and have remembered since it happened. I’m not neurodivergent. But I do have CPTSD. People think I have made up the lighter stuff that I am healed enough to admit, like being a foster kid and some of my medical stuff, because ‘you function too well so you must be misremembering that.’ I did years of therapy and I also mask when I am having difficulty because I can’t function, and not functioning isn’t an option for me. People really don’t want to admit that some people go through some really serious shit that they imagine would break them, and somehow these people manage to heal enough to live their life. It’s extremely difficult but not impossible. It often takes a lifetime of maintenance others can’t see, but the old wounds are there. I definitely had anger after my worst situation. I preferred that to the hurt because anger is easy to channel. Listening to music, writing, etc. that was the easy stage to channel appropriately. Not crying at work during the hurt and grief stage was way more difficult. I had to make up so much so I didn’t have to talk to coworkers about this and feel even worse. I’m not a big vulnerability fan. It is physically and emotionally uncomfortable for me, and therefore I only keep it between very few close people.

I couldn’t finish this movie either, but for different reasons. It seemed to me that it was written just to cash in on 9/11 without an attempt to give new insights to the event. It also just felt really pretentious, like it thinks it’s a lot smarter than it really is.

So happy someone is treating this musical with respect in 2024. Really interested in the perspective of Evan being autistic.

I heard, " honk honk dog" and you could've put your hand to cup your your eyebrow and see how far I went. LOL

If you are using your phone to record you can wait till it locks focus on you then long press on the screen and that will lock the focus where it looks best.

Now THIS is poggers

I am very Happy you”re making thesee videos since musicals is one of my special interests😀🙏❤️❗️

As a plane, cat and dog purrson I detest being labeled by otters. I do however chill in boxes of my chooseing. I currently chill in the ADHD, and autism box, but Im annoyed with the addicted to youtube box, Ive tried biting it, but it hasnt destroyed the box yet.