Thanks for making this video. I'm extremely cynical about all of this, and really don't have the energy to think about the strife, so I'm very very grateful that someone is trying to educate those that will isten. I fear that those that need convincing will not listen.

👋 pattern recognition❓🤔 hypersensitive ❓ Now I know but younger didn't and felt weird about it... Predict future? Well, learned experience and grand imagination. I would try to inform/tell/explain an out come to others.. but they not believe or give me negative feedback. Awkward. Through past experience I am aware of the outcome . So, I am Spok , I am logical. Not 🪄 magical . Thank you for informing. Yes, trauma affects how I behave. ✌️ Peace out

Good to catch up on what we might not have known about. It is easy to go for the most contentious but harder to leave that to content that already exists.

Thank you for this video!❤

A fantastic video. I learned a lot. As an aside, my mother encountered the refrigerator mother theory in college. She was doing a report on autism and read about it in a book at the library. She either was suspicious of it at the time or already knew it was false. Either way she didn't believe it. But if she did it could have been so damaging. She ended up having autistic children (including myself). Misinformation is so harmful on every single level. I think it is important to get to the heart behind why people believe in it.

I love your quote about "before I was able to conceptualize the concept of nuance in general" -- it very much describes me and many of the ways I deal with life (for instance when I ruin the meals I cook because I want to put in as much seasonings as possible instead of just the right amount (more is better, right?), or when I refuse to trust my own intuition because it is too subtle for me to handle). I also am autistic and share most of the physical problems you have (although to a MUCH less extreme degree).

Honestly, my brain makes connections rapidly without conscious effort. I can't count the amount of times where I dismissed myself as the idea was irrational only to realized later on I was right. It's as if my brain has a mind of its own. Pattern recognition and telepathy aren't the same id say... it's just like solving a puzzle. Everything's there, your brain can just analyze the shapes that fit before you can

If you research the behavior of the autonomic nervous system in autism in general, particularly its roles in PDA and anxiety, you start to suspect that a lot of autistic traits simply ARE dysautonomia.

I guess this is why Doctor Mike did a video about the Polio Vaccine recently

i have a nonverbal autistic child who was completely fine until that damn vaccine i dont believe anything any of these scientists doctors say they have their own agenda i think in some children it happens some it doesnt

Wow you’re so right, before I knew I was autistic, I would see some autistic characteristics as "probably not proper indicators" because I have those, and I’m not autistic. Bear in mind everyone around me did and still do say that I’m not autistic. But I am, was diagnosed. Undiagnosed autistic people can be ablist too because as you say, by making autistic people different to you, it confirms in your mind that you are not one of them.

I got the MMR twice. I looked in my childhood medical records, found the evidence, and asked my mom. She explained she forgot she had it done the year before and brought me back in a year later for another.) This explains my two autisms. (light sarcasm) It's true I have two separate diagnoses from two different years, one from when it was called Asperger, and after the DSM-IV came out i went in for a second one so I could get that name off my chart and now my diagnosis is ASD level 1.

Obviously the refrigerator mother is a misogyny-based "just so" story did fill the gap of medical ignorance. That being said, because autism is genetic and autistic mothers are more likely to have autistic kids, allistic people/researchers are less skilled at reading autistic people's emotions and attachments, I can see how this wrong-headed hypothesis could be based on observations. I remember my midwife being concerned about my lack of bonding with my newborn infant. There was nothing wrong with my bonding, I just didn't emote the way she expected based on her experience with allistic mothers. I remember rules about ERs banning parents during stitches and stitch removal. My allistically expected dysfunctional bonding with my child (and my autistic perspective that rules should be functional rather than arbitrary and dysfunctional) meant I wasn't about to leave my child alone with strangers for a procedure he was stressed about. I calmly explained to my autistic son what the issue was, why stitches were needed and what they'd do, what the procedure was (including local, what that felt like, and how that would work), and then we talked about different types of knots, how they used a "butcher's knot" to tie off stitches, and what it might be about human skin and meat that might make the same knot useful. The doctor was amazed that my presence was steadying my son rather than meeting his expectation of emotionally dysregulating him. My autistic parenting of my autistic son looked very different than what he expected and it was evidence of my "getting" him and my caring, loving, and effective support of him. But to outsiders, my not amping up the dramatic feelings might look like a refrigerator mom behavior. <eye roll>

If you want to hear more about this topic I can recomend kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6Sbh3uuiNB9jc0 it's 3hours on the anti vaccine movement. My family has started to doubt vaccines ever since the covid vaccines and I don't have the time to keep them away form that

Thank you. I mostly just like hearing your voice. Dead horse, maybe. But let's discuss.

!!! Amazing video!!! Also, idk about other viewers but a video about the weird "cures" sounds fire. I wish I could check out Eureka Day </3 hopefully it tours or releases rights soon!

one step forward two steps back

Question: what disabilities are specifically referenced? I know selective mutism, bpd, and schizophrenia are all referenced, but any others? Viktor also has a cane, and some characters are missing a limb or finger.

This is such an issue in the world of caregivers, you'd think they would in fact be BETTER not worse, but nope ableism is rampant, and I like other disabled adults have to be extra careful! Somehow its logical that kids can be disabled and seniors can be disabled, but adults? Nahhh that'd be "weird". Would help if the trainings had better representation vs the standard here's a senior, we'll base everything off of that!

Also, I feel very similar about the overuse of trauma. There is a lot of gray area, but there are also a lot of people who are trying to exaggerate their experiences to make themselves sound more dramatic and sympathetic, and that IS insulting to people who have more objective trauma. I have met plenty of people in that camp. Having a more mild trauma than me isn’t insulting, but telling me point blank that being catcalled is just as traumatic to you as being trafficked was to me, because ‘I haven’t been through anything like that so this is the worse trauma in the world for me’ is insulting. I knew trafficking was worse than anything I’d been through, including other abuse, life threatening car crashes and injuries, foster care, and a chronic pain disorder, before it happened to me. I still know that surviving a house fire and living with 75% of my body burned, or being an orphaned child in a refugee camp who’s already seen genocide, are probably much worse than my shit, so I’d never think of comparing my experiences to theirs. It’s not making people take more mold stressors seriously. It’s just minimizing the more extreme end of the trauma scale, and holding us to the healing rate of these more mild, loosely related traumas. I’ve literally had people tell me ‘well I had a boyfriend who was controlling and I wasn’t in therapy for 6 years over that’ and ‘my sister was SA’d once, and she was fine afterwords.’ It is also making people see things as bigger than they are, and I don’t see that as healthy at all. It just creates bigger emotions to manage and reign in, which sucks. I hate crying. I’m currently learning how to stop minimizing my own experiences to the degree that I do, but I personally feel like some level of minimization has been necessary for me. I’d be homeless if I wasn’t able to hold it together for work and handling out of work responsibilities. I’d also be completely alone, and a total shut in, since I struggle with agoraphobia.

My therapist recommended this book (body keeps score). He told me that it is a hard read, and you do have to be far enough into healing for it to be helpful. The concept of trauma being stored into the body is something I’ve been skeptical about, but as someone who lives with chronic pain, I’m interested in this topic. I have not heard anything bad about this book, at least in person. It feels like I’m the only person that hasn’t read it. But when I first started hearing about it years ago, it sounded like pseudoscience and the woman who recommended it to me was not the pillar of healed authority. She was very, for lack of a better word, fragile. She was also very much into toxic positivity, woo woo stuff like ‘manifesting,’ and believed that everyone had to forgive everyone who’s ever hurt them, including serious traumas. She was ‘friends’ with the man who abused her for 6 years of her life, and almost boasted about the fact that she chose to do that. She told me to forgive a man who trafficked me. But she loved that book and I thought ‘ok… I don’t think this is the ‘healing’ I want.’ So I’m guessing this book is something that can be very helpful or harmful, depending on where you are when you read it. I do like that it sounds like it’s not very clinical. Something that dry and monotone would be too boring for me to read and actually take away anything of value. I may read it, though, because I’m not finding anything but super clinical, peer reviewed articles about the subject that could put an insomniac to sleep.

i really enjoy your reviews especially how you look at works of fiction not in a vacuum but take into consideration the circumstances in which it was created! it has honestly changed the way i view media and express my opinions on it

Interesting video.

Maybe I'm just missing it but i don't see where you linked the 45 minute podcast with them talking about reducing number diagnosed.

Just discovered this, love it! So happy to be reminded of it and not disheartened by bad rep because whooo it was actually good!

In my opinion the issue of what is representation is mostly subjective, because with anything like this some people will feel represented by it and others won’t, which happens also with deliberate representation. I think both interpretations are valid but I also agree that discretion is important in this kind of situation regarding the potential negative outcomes of connecting autism with robots and aliens.

Is that a tiny microphone or are u a giant woman

It was ableist of you to include the ADHD vs NPD video. The patarachy highly stigmatizes childhood trauma disorder because the patarachy views children as property and not as people. You cannot stop abuse while there is a high degree of stigma around cluster B Diagnose. Plus, autistic people are more likely to have personality disorder due to minority stress and the fact they have a more sensitive nervous system than their neurotypical counterparts.

The welfare state exists to squash unions to prevent people from getting radicalized to more extreme politics. Also, the existence of the Soviet Union meant that capitalists had to stop people from going left this is also why as soon as the soviet union failed the welfare state started deteriorating. This combined with the elimination of Jim Crow the welfare state was destroyed to prevent black people from accessing it.

The pathologization of deviance makes a significant part of the mental health field pseudoscience.

Watching this because I wasn't feeling productive enough but couldn't take reading more for research, so some of those tips hit hard <3.

Holy shit Elhers Danlos mention? Very cool. After watching the new movie I definitely thought Glinda read as Nuerodivergent. Popular just sounded like "How to Mask: the Song!"

Interesting how Bright Bill also has Autistic Coding, but that's implied to be because of how he was raised. That reflects the interesting question on if autistic traits can ve learned from a family member.

Can i request 2 characters for ur autism media reveiew ? The only problem is... these characters are from a spanish soap opera show...so idk if that would be too much to ask for..if so its okay thank you anyways for your reviews theyre so helpful !!

I’ve been looking into this for two years and I still believe that HSP is different from autism. I’m an HSP through and through. I do not meet the criteria for autism and I think anyone pushing for the 20% of people who are HSPs to be classified as autistic are watering down the term to the point of it being meaningless and useless. Terms differ in definition for a reason. We don’t need to lump everything together.

That’s imposter syndrome which is also a part of autism.i understand you I’ve been misdiagnosed too it’s crazy like i feel I know more than the drs! I research all day for weeks! That’s also a trait of the special interest I found out.

I am 47 years old, and always knew I was socially awkward...but I was honestly not 100% sure I was autistic, until I recognised so much of myself in your videos! Thanks for sharing with the world.

I must disagree with you that Autism is non-existent. That is simply not the case. I'm 66 years old and only 1 year ago I was diagnosed with high functioning ASD that was a complete surprise to me, but it was a realization that answered so many questions that have been the source of communication conflicts I have experienced being married to a neurotypical spouse for the past 40 years. Bottom line, we think differently and act differently and sometimes that creates barriers to mutual understanding. Autism is a spectrum of neurological disorders and one size does not fit all. Saying that it isn't real is damaging for those of us who have wondered why we periodically or habitually behave or act the way we do and the awkwardness of having to mask our identity. I have met someone else who also didn't believe in autism and I totally disagreed with her assertions. It appears that perhaps some neurotypical people fear accepting that all human beings are unique (which shows up in terms of both genetic differences as well as environmental factors. We cannot cure these neurological disorders. Nor should we feel pressured to assimilate to how neurotypical people want us to be, instead of what is part of our own identity. We are born with these disorders (the good, the bad and the ugly) and we will die with them as well. I think your research is a bit dated and you need to examine more closely changes in scientific literature since you made this video.

13:16 When I would speak when I was little, there would always be a prolonged "a" at the end of the sentence. This happened all the time, but it was VERY NOTICEABLE when I was upset or angry. I remember when I would say "no" when I was little, it would sound like "noaaAAAA", and my dad would be like "who's Noah? Noahs Arc?" It would always get under my skin when my dad would say that. A lot of kids would tease me at school for this aswell. This calmed down over the years, but I still do it till this day.

Wait, you make/made music? Now I want to get the patreon to hear it (I don't even have a patreon account. Never done jt before). Crazy news to me. I just switched my notifications to all and I'm already subscribed so hopefully that helps the algorithm.

Believe it or not the thumbnail thing IS important to me, and general all the creators I watch have a general visual “scheme” to them. Meaning that as someone who is blind and hates attempting to fight yt and screenreader at the same time I can look at the blurry big pictures and figure out who it is if I’m in the mood for something specific!

Excited for this new period of your channel 💜

I just wanted to say thank you so much for your videos! They are what i watched almost exclusively working on an art final for school and I have accidentally woven parts of those videos into the final piece, although this is not a bad thing (I mean this metaphorically, my brain now connected different videos to different stages of the artwork). Your videos are very informative and i’ve learned a lot about disability and theatre!

I really appreciate this info. I don't really have much insight into what it's like to be a creator. And it's nice to know some behind the scenes info how it works for you. And thanks for telling me about the January thing. I will add increasing engagement with my favorite KZbinrs as a January goal. And of course, even if I were not a disabled, ND, chronically ill person, I would wholeheartedly be supportive of your decision to do less and post less often if that's what you need. I am subscribed, I get notifications, I comment when I remember. I love your channel. Thanks for all the work you put into it and I'm proud of you for reevaluating what would make you happiest and most strategic toward that happiness. ❤ Edit: fixed the dictation typos. Dictatos 🥔🥔🥔!

I'm subscribed. Oh gosh some of my playlists will have holes in them now.😂 womp womp. I'm glad you're growing for yourself. I'm here for the ride. I want those updated essays (I admit I'm greedy for them lol) because they help me explain things to other people who don't get (insert particular subject). ❤

Huh. I didn't even know past Sydney made music. I have turned on notifications for your videos, so hopefully I won't miss any! I've really enjoyed your perspective on media and theatrical productions as a damaturg with a focus on disability.🙂

Wish I could sub to Patreon (even one dollar is somewhat unfeasible at the moment) so heres a comment! So glad to have been introduced to your content this year, and so hyped for whatever 2025 brings for/from your channel!!

Time to ban private jets and yachts. International class solidarity ❤️✊🏼

thank you for this! so many things here clicked immediately...

I'm very happy that I got my diagnosis on paper now. When I say I'm autistic I am now sure that I'm telling the truth. On the other hand, it can have a negative impact on you. For example, I've been suspended without pay from my job, and it looks like I'm going to be fired. People don't like autistic people, and when you have the paper to prove it, you give employers the reason to fire you. Of course, they have to get around not violating the ADA act, but it is probably easy to do.