Donnie is my favorite comfort character and I kin him as I’m autistic so this was so fun to watch

It's things like this that make me wish I had siblings. As an only child I'm forced to be the oldest, middle, and youngest child. I have to take on ALL the roles of the turtles and it's constantly a battle inside myself. Sitting here watching this made me cry. Very hard, literally started sobbing. Especially around the time when she was talking about emotional negelct. My family is completely torn, both parents and grandparents going back three generations from both sides ended in divorce, me being shoved from one side of the family to the other and being emotionally neglected by my mother and not getting to see my father very often definitely makes life really hard. This is one reason I'm very scared to be a parent because emotional neglect is I guess "hereditary" so hearing everything you said about that specifically affects mine and many others' relationship with having relationships, typically the parent-child relationships. I mainly vibe with Donnie as we are both autistic and are very very similar, but now watching this video, Mikey is definitely a big character to vibe with. Not having someone or many people to rely on is very crushing and even though Mikey gets treated the way he does, he still has it better to have someone to lean on. Even though I don't have any siblings to feel like this towards, me and my bestie are really the only people we have. Side note, I'm very sorry this is so long, I just needed to vent real bad and there are some important things to be said regarding being an only child living through very similar circumstances-but no the same obviously.

25:58 This line is so.. realistic, if that makes sense. It's so simple, yet so full of delusion, hatred, bigotry, and pure hypocriticalness. It's twisted, given the context. No Philip, *you've* warped your *own* sense of reality.

And also - thank you for the wise words in the final of video! In these difficult times this is the message we need

I don't understood - why Leo became a very interesting character for me bc he is not my type and he is very selfish(I thought!) and etc but... Thanks for this video - now I know why. He is my kinnie! And,yes, this is a very nice inferiority complex representation Rottmnt is good, I really grateful for creators

fuck man watching this movie already broke me, and watching this with a clear explanation on WHY Leo is the way he is along with clips that show it made me almost start bawling my eyes out I absolutely loved Leo's growth in this movie, of him owning up to his mistakes, to learning from them and becoming the person he can be confident in both broke and warmed my heart this movies message was perfect, the overall showing and telling of it was done so well, and it just makes me wish this show wasn't canceled

I love how Donnie isn’t humorless either, like you can’t tell me the “flavorless juice” thing isn’t him playfully and healthily poking fun at himself. Just because we might not pick up on humor doesn’t mean we won’t be able to put it down. Great video! I’ll admit I had been conditioned into equating low empathy with low emotion and low compassion, so when fellow autistic people started saying they feel low empathy, my “oh shit my preconceptions on how the world works must be off” alarm started blaring _loud._ It’s also giving me a ton of inspo for an autistic character I’m writing, which is a big cherry on top.

I’m proud I’m autistic I wouldn’t give it up for anything. But sometimes my superpower has its weakness and i understand where your coming from

And this show was cancelled....why? Exactly?

Like Gus I took an Autistic, but I have the opposite view. I automatically assume the worst, thinking someone is unreliable or stupid.

my god i acutally live in connecticut i dont exist i and crumbling to dust and the guy who killed harambae was-

Autistics don’t have less empathy. It’s just the failure on the non-autistics’ end bc they view us as apathetic.

Where is the raph analysis video 😔

I can’t articulate into words why I love this video so much, but thank you for making it :)

I might be autistic, I don’t normally connect with people this well and I connected with a lot of those traits. Thanks for helping me out. I was a little suspicious of it this year but I think this might have cemented it.

"High empathy" ohhh now I understand myself a little better 😅

As an older sibling, I realize I coddle my younger sibling - and in extent, my friends and cousin (who are younger than me) - *A LOT.* Because of my parents, I bottle everything up and now I can't feel or connect with my emotions properly. My sister is more empathetic and is so much more mature than I give her credit for and sometimes I hate myself for not being enough. Without her I can't function, but she would probably do just fine on her own. Starting the new year I am making promises to myself and others that I will *try* with all my might to keep ❤

This is a new episode of "Realising my autistic traits thanks to fictional characters". Good analyzation.

4:27 If this doesn't confirm I'm autistic, I don't know what will 👏 Edit: Literally tho 'cause my grandma died recently and sure I felt sad but I'm confused because I thought I'd be inconsolable but I'm not? Same when my birb died a few years back. My sis had a stronger bond with the little shit but I loved her too. I thought I was a sociopath or something until this analysis video on my sister's favorite turtle made me realize I have low empathy (meanwhile she's the empath)

Had Season 3 not been cut so short and given the chance to be a full Season, I reckon we may have gotten an episode where Belos/Philip explore the human world and see how it’s all changed. He would see that all the things he believes in are now either considered wrong, outdated or complete nonsense. But he would continue to deny that everything that he knew is a lie.

"Wdym you feel personally attacked by a video essay about a rebooted series of an old cartoon about specifically an orange turtle?" Yes.

Mfw when the whole “that wasn’t sarcasm” thing Donnie said is basically something I’ve said many times

Alexitheymia isn’t having low-empathy, it’s struggling to articulate your emotions?

2:55 i hav to pause every time bc it makes me so nauseated

I didn't know that was what low empathy was. Man I just thought I was weird and that like I needed to get better or something. I remember my friend telling me of how something died and I was literally thinking about how whenever I was sad when the same thing happened to me. And I knew she was sad and all that stuff like you said and I basically did the same exact thing. Also I feel like half the time I'm horrible at expressing my emotions which gets seen as an attitude or something that it's definitely not and then people will keep bugging me about it orrrrrrr I'm extremely expressive. No, like I hate it. Because I'll be somewhere and I'll be completely fine and then someone will ask me how I'm doing and I'll literally say I'm happy and then they'll just completely ignore whatever I say. I guess its cause I'm hyperactive and stuff most of the time so it kinda makes sense but still.

I’ve been looking for a KZbinr who goes in depth of characters personalities and why they do things!! New sub earned! I’ll definitely be watching your other vids on rottmnt, if you haven’t already I’d love to see a vid on Raph :]

My idea to why he had created the Grimwalkes, the clones, is because he thinks that the witches, maybe the witch that Caleb had loved, manipulated his brother into being pro witch, that the witches took the brother he once loved and twisted his mind in such a way that he became broken. Shattered. So, using the clones, he is, in a way, giving his brother a "chance of going the right path", a chance of "purging the evil" together with him, a chance of rejecting the witches and saving humanity, in his twisted selfish ways

Daaaaaang, he just like me fr.

Lmao, I'm the youngest and I don't see any of this in myself other than the ✨ADHD✨

When is Raph's in-depth analysis?

I agree blurry orb

I am honestly a weird case, I myself am autistic but for some odd reason I don’t fit into either category of low or high empathy I sometimes have low empathy and sometimes I have high empathy. The thing is I also have AdHd so that makes me have AuDHD which is a combination of both. I am so confusing to myself and honestly I don’t know where to find the answers to all my questions so if anyone can help me. Please do so-

Somethingn that has often irritated me about autist representation is the idea that we can’t empathise or the like; we often know the emotions of other so greatly that it can be overwhelming, so as a defensive mechanism often come off as cool and nonchalant, because empathy without boundaries is self destruction, and there isn’t much metering possible. It’s either the floodgates are open, or closed. Often, we understand emotions far better than neurotypicals, but simply display them differently, or don’t outwardly note that we have picked up on certain emotions. I myself also have CPTSD and a few other mental acronyms of much less grim nature than CPTSD, and so being almost cold came about as a defence mechanism. We operate on a higher frequency to neurotypicals, which their less advanced minds frankly cannot fully comprehend.

Both me and my nephew are Autistic, and I intend to teach him what I know. I have also told my brother, and I quote 'there are plenty of worst things then Autism. He could be a psychopath; hurting other kids, or killing animals for fun.'

I've always liked Donatello. And, as an autistic person myself, I find this version of Donnie very relatable.

Thanks, I really needed to hear that, because I was getting really insecure about my alexithymia

The stereotype with having low to no empathy is in my opinion hurtfull. Most autistic people (myself included) are empathetic, but it can be hard to show it the "right" way. It can also be hard, when you don't precisely know what the other person is feeling, when you've never expirenced it yourself. Hope this makes sence :)

As a possibly Autistic person myself and a fan of this show, I relate so much to Donnie. how can I confirm if I do have Autism?

Very happy to see Dr. Delicate Touch brought up, especially in a serious manner

I think a common misconception among the ROTTMNT community is that Leo thinks he's always right. He's doesn't. In fact, he thinks he's incapable of becoming the perfect leader Casey views his future self as. When he says "I'm done thinking I have all the answers," I don't think it's exactly how he says. He never thought he HAD all the answers, he thought a good leader needed to know everything. I'm kinda rambling because I have an idea for my own video essay.

Every time I watch this video I end up in tears. I have a low-functioning autistic sister and it’s so incredibly hard to connect with her emotionally. She’s a very all-or-nothing kind of person with her emotions, one thing will set her off. And I’m not blaming her at all for that, I completely understand. What sucks is my mom doesn’t get it and will make her feel bad about her feelings, so when I try to talk to my sister about her feelings, she doesn’t want to. She thinks it’s wrong. This leads to arguments almost every night due to stress our entire house faces every day. I just feel like a shitty sister, but I’m trying, and I hope if I sort out my problems I’ll be a better sister.

You have gained an Sub from me. Great video and i did not know about this but...... Can you rank all the characters that has austism in a tier list about how well the character is written

Love this video analysis!! I love what they did with the characters in rise especially Leo. He's never been a favorite in any other variation of the turtles but rise really made leo may favourite character.

I was playing minecraft while watching this, and hearing the background minecraft music in 24:21 messed with me a second

relateble.

I have autism myself and I really love the owl house because it gave me a sense of belonging and it felt like a show that understood me . I’m happy I’m not the only one who felt that way

OHHH right yeah she is that’s why she got sent to summer camp cus she was acting weird and pranking a lot too when i first saw that before even knowing what neurodivergent was i thought she might’ve been like that

rise donnie also embodies the most important underrepresented autistic trait: being funny on purpose