James Stanley - Autism

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Thanks so much for all the love on the video everyone! Feel free to subscribe! I’m always posting standup clips and podcasts clips and episodes 😊

[@Psyche_MMA]

Bro you 🔥

[@geoffrose9647]

"And I did not know how to respond to that... because of the autism." Masterful delivery. Great line.

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Thank you !

[@killingtimeitself]

i saw it coming from a mile away, really was the perfect line.

[@NovaG0]

Same I am autistic and when people say I don't look it....most of the time I don't know how to respond.

[@Somebody-tx8gy]

@@NovaG0 because of the autism

[@lisasteel6817]

I wish I could go back in time and use this on the many occasions I was accused of not having autism. While working for a disability service. By managers.

[@erich930]

"Turns out I'm not the 'memorize a phonebook' autistic, I'm more the 'it's hard to make friends' autistic" So hilarious! And me 🤚🤣

[@drumset09]

Well lady, you know the old saying. Once you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.

[@petecoogan]

No one has autism

[@user-vp6cq4sv3d]

​@OdinsSageNo need to sperg out sheesh.

[@Arktierus]

​@@petecooganOh hey, look, a moron.

[@Arktierus]

​@@user-vp6cq4sv3dWhy? He is absolutely right to mock that child.

[@72marshflower15]

@@petecoogan ..we are that rare and if I were allowed to, I’d be able to prove a lot of things here. Dude to recent efforts at censorship here on YT, however, I’m not even gonna bother to try, lol..

[@Belisonte-dl4gd]

My mom told me "you're not as disabled looking as I thought you would be" in middle school

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

That is wild lol

[@Belisonte-dl4gd]

@@jamesstanleycomedy funniest part is that it means that I still look a little disabled

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

@@Belisonte-dl4gd hahahaha

[@erich930]

What'd she expect? You'd be all lopsided and drooling? Not cool on her part

[@Lucidplays34]

"It's not that bad, stop complaining you just scraped your knee" the disabled version

[@garymericano]

I know how you feel, I've got 2 autistic friends, one of them has photographic memory and the other is a piano prodigy who is next level amazing at math. I just got the kind of autism that makes me really good at remembering who is and isn't jewish….

[@garymericano]

So moral of this story: parents - pay very close attention to your child's vaccine schedule, it determines what type x-man they become (Charles Xavier doesn't want me in his school (probably because he's (you-know-whoish)))

[@Sheriden.]

I have that one but with Asian people(I can tell the difference between them wry well) and not being able to have close friends.

[@lanceknuth5300]

I mean if you ask George Soros to loan you a time machine, a video camera, and a bunch of USB drives you could make a fascinating reality show.

[@clicheguevara5282]

I'm autistic and I also know a lot about the Jewish community - but I'm also German, so I really don't know where that talent comes from. Lol

[@garymericano]

@@clicheguevara5282 you wouldn't happen to have any painters in the family tree, would you?

[@SoloDad905]

"If every ugly person had Autism, you would have Autism". hahahaha, my new favourite thing to tell people

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Hell yes hahaha

[@cattime2044]

“I’m the hard to make friends autistic. “ This is the best description for me LOL.

[@petecoogan]

Just meet up with the other autistic people in the comments. I'm autistic too

[@scootover7]

This is hilarious. when people say to me you don't look autistic or disabled, I didn't realize being autistic or disabled had a look, when disabled i respond am I suppose to walk around with my arm looking all messed up.

[@SybilKibble]

The next time they try with me, Imma ask them "what do autistic people look like?"

[@mygoldenwitch]

I've gotten to the point where my go-to response is, 'And you don't look like an asshole; looks can be deceiving :)' Does it endear me to that person? No. Do I give a damn? Hell no. The type of people who say this shit tends to be a very specific type, one that I don't want anything to do with, so good riddance.

[@scootover7]

@@SybilKibble sounds like a great response to me

[@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse]

@@mygoldenwitch Well thanks for making people think all autists are spineless pansies. I get that it is tiresome to have to deal with such idiotic answers but reducing a person immediately to asshole status for not reacting perfectly when put on the spot in an unfamiliar situation doesn't exactly endear you to me either. Isn't that what we struggle with, socially? Having a hard time reacting properly when being put under the spotlight with no preparation? And there YOU go give other people a hard time as if not being autistic made everyone else king in that skill.

[@spiralpython1989]

@@mygoldenwitchmy reply is “and you don’t look like a d!ckhead… but then again…”

[@PatriciaKeel-ig9ni]

In the 1960’s I read many times that parents could not believe their child was autistic because they look completely normal.

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

lol that’s wild

[@91bpatrick]

So they beat the bloody lights out of them to "make them normal" like soooooooooooooooo many parents did.

[@DeathnoteBB]

I’m convinced people who say that conflate down’s syndrome with autism. Down’s syndrome has physical traits

[@MonicaBarney]

whenever someone reminisces about how good it was in the 80s, I immediately know they are likely white cis gendered and not disabled in anyway. Def not on any spectrum of any kind. I'll take today, thank you. And even more so, tomorrow. 😜

[@mechanicalbow]

-Video posted 4 years ago. -A response to every single comment even the latest one a month ago Me: Ah yes, autism tracks. I am amongst my people.

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

😎😎😎

[@r_and_a]

chuckled reading your observation, then made my way through every single comment because - autism 🤪

[@emilyfarfadet9131]

Person picturing their awkward 12 year old nephew: "you don't look Autistic!" Mam that's not the autism you're seeing, that's being 12 years old, I haven't made that mistake in decades.

[@---yl4mf]

I can memorize a phone book. I remember that it's under the coffee table and the pages are all yellow.

[@EMLtheViewer]

I know every single phone number there is. I just don’t know who most of the numbers belong to.

[@sonan333]

But what about the white pages? Or is that not a thing anymore?

[@sonan333]

@@EMLtheViewer Right?! I mean, there's only, like, ten of them. It's not THAT hard. Though, I will say, it's the order that stumps me...

[@EMLtheViewer]

@@sonan333 lmao

[@mattlesnak2387]

I have asbergers and ADHD and add and anxiety from the abuse of just having it and people always say that you don't look like I have asbergers and I responded with no I got it on sale at Walmart clearance section

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Lmfao

[@petecoogan]

​@@jamesstanleycomedyare you autistically responding to each comment? Bc that's what I would do

[@matturner6890]

nobody wanted that perfectly good ADHD/aspergers combo pack??

[@clicheguevara5282]

I'm a 90s kid autistic, so I slipped under the radar and didn't even get diagnosed until a few years ago - which is obviously a very tough process to go through as an adult. ...but luckily for me, it all happened right as "autistic comedians" were starting to become normalized, so you guys have kept me laughing through it all. Comedy has always been a refuge for me anyway, but now that "autism comedy" exists, it's even more helpful.

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

That rocks

[@Lobo-g4k]

Yep 80s when autistic was basically being recognised as distinct from idiot savant syndrome what autistic people were originally diagnosed as it was interesting especially when you are five years old being dosed up on anti-psychotic medication

[@JDMimeTHEFIRST]

I’m definitely going to use “if every ugly person had autism, you’d have autism” 😅

[@henrikhumle7255]

Really digging the deadpan delivery. Good stuff!

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Thank you!

[@petecoogan]

​@@jamesstanleycomedyisn't deadpan delivery just autistic delivery?

[@sonnyajvoll5865]

About a year ago I was talking to my doc about how I might go about figuring out officially if I'm on the spectrum, and he also assured me that I don't look autistic. I, too, didn't know how to respond to that, so I just did the thing where I sat there pretending this whole interaction hadn't been super unhelpful and disheartening and never followed it up in any way ever again 👍

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Lmfao some doctors are so dumb

[@Optimegatrongodzilla]

It's so wild for someone to say "You don't look autistic"! I'm like "You're not thinking of autism! You're thinking of Down Syndrome!".

[@Archisphera]

I am autistic and love legos. I don't build with them. I sort them into 67 plastic bins. I separate them by color. Neutrals in one bin (white, gray, black, brown, tans). Colors in another bin. I have a huge bucket that holds everything in old light and dark gray. I'd break it down further for clarity, but I don't want to be verbose. Please see the following comment below for what "verbose" means.

[@bibsp3556]

I love this. That's so satisfying

[@petecoogan]

I love that you both have these categories and just posted a comment on it. That's autistic

[@bibsp3556]

@@petecoogan yeah boi! And?

[@joshy_jones]

You absoluely crushed :)) I work at an autism research lab at a university - - I'm sending this on to my colleagues to mark World Autism Awareness Day

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Oh hell yeah thank you!!

[@prsee5969]

I had to pause after a min. I’ve been stuck in the system longer than half my life and you are so spot on. Like “oh really I don’t have a complex understanding of this topic….” Topic is like something you should be going through after high school yet I’m 13 LOL 😅 bless you dude

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Haha thank you man you too 🙏

[@kaiishere016]

This was great, I loved the delivery on the jokes. These definitely deserve some more views

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Thank you !!

[@sub-zero710]

This guy is living my dream.... Being an autistic comic.😊

[@aviatorgamer3057]

I was diagnosed with Autism at about the same age. When I was in high school, my boomer neighbor boldly told me I wasn’t autistic, and his benchmark for saying so was Dustin Hoffmans performance in Rain Man. This guy literally pointed at the screen and said “That’s what Autism looks like, and you don’t have that.”

[@justv7536]

"You don't look autistic!" Fuck my bad I guess

[@NekoFoxLvr]

Are you hitting on me? Cause I dunno. Also part of the autism!! I CANNOT figure out if people are flirting with me or not...

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

You literally have to spell it out for me lol

[@NekoFoxLvr]

@@jamesstanleycomedyI need one of those notes from elementary school Do you like me? with the yes or no check boxes.

[@caninehelicopter5200]

Laughter every line, good lord!!!! You had the crowd down!!

[@SkyeCB-uq9wd]

If autism has a "look," it would look like me too!

[@ValexNihilist]

Gotta find more of you, this was hilarious! Subscribed!

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Hell yeah thank you so much! I have lots of newer stuff up!

[@jadeeaton2188]

My autistic boyfriend is incredibly intelligent and great with computers. I'm just awkward lol, I totally relate. I love the comedy and am looking to watching this with him :)

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Power couple 😎

[@vespertinecat]

I dont understand why this doesn't have more views. It's a wonderful bit; I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you for posting it to share with us. My neurologist of eleven years recently told be she strongly believes I'm autistic, but she can't diagnose me and I don't have insurance so that's fun. For the last two years I slowly came to accept that I likely have adhd after (adhd/audhd) friends pointed it out, so the new revelation kind of hit me like a train. Looking back, though, she's probably right. I relate to stuff like this a lot. So yeah. Enjoyed it. Thanks.

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

@@vespertinecat aw thank you so much!

[@beast7842]

i started the video and just said out loud; "yeah this guy's got autism." and then I heard you voice and that just cemented it in for me. (sorry if this sounds offensive i didn't mean it that way)

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Hahahaha no that’s great

[@CiaranMcHale]

Ah come on, he's not _that_ ugly.

[@beast7842]

@@CiaranMcHale now that, that one rude, and I should clarify it wasn’t his look that made me know he was autistic but more just the general vibe he had.

[@CiaranMcHale]

@@beast7842 My comment was intended as a joke, because part of the video involved a supposed correlation between ugliness and autism.

[@beast7842]

@@CiaranMcHale oh sorry I’m not the best at realising that sort of thing and it’s been three months since I watched the video so I forgot.

[@YoMommazNUTZ]

I think us autistic people are better at communication, we will not bother having conversations we don't want to have 😊 so at least you know we are not pretending to want to talk to you. Also while I didn't memorize the phone book I did memorize the entire collection of encyclopedias at the library. All it did was make my teachers mad when I thought I was helping by explaining why she was wrong, honestly it may have not been so bad but when I was a kid most kids that were autistic were sent away to homes and it was thought to mainly be a dude only issue because of the lack of understanding anything about it. I was not diagnosed until I was in my late 20s same for my ADHD. Instead I was labeled a moody problem child.

[@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse]

I disagree. We are better and factual conversation. Which is usually pretty useless unless you're among autists or scientists. Actual communication among humans consists of non-factual components that are not irrelevant. They aren't filler. So we suck at communication. The males that is. The women are quite a bit more complex, it seems... unlike in every other regard, where women are simplistic and straight forward to comprehend :D.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Sadly allistic people don’t grasp that first paragraph, they’ll be pissed because we didn’t understand something before we were told and then insist “Well now you’re just being polite” like I can assure you we are not polite

[@TheMASTERofAMV]

Hey there I live in Fresno California and I’m 33 years old with autism and I’m starting to do stand up comedy myself here locally. I love your humor and this is very inspiring thank you for your work 😊🙏👍

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

That’s what’s up!! Have fun and enjoy the wild ride that is comedy 😎

[@lilythecakequeen7530]

1:47 this sent me! Your work is great❤

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Thank you very much Lily!!

[@d4n737]

When people say "You don't look autistic", they most likely think of Down Syndrome, because that condition, as far as I remember does have certain facial structure linked to it. Don't remember the studies or the actual name, but that's from what I know. But COME ON. What do you EXPECT me to look like? A chubby teenager with a half-grown mustache in an undersized shirt and glasses so thick, his eyes look like they've melted? Should I also be wearing a child-size bike helmet?

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Hahaha for real

[@caiden3396]

As someone who was misdiagnosed, I love that first part.😆

[@jbisthedj]

This was great, super funny jokes and delivery

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Thank you so much !

[@amberscoutstarwatcher]

I was diagnosed at 16 and have had people say don't act autistic... that's because I've had lots of help with social skills and I try to mask when I'm in public. It's soooo exhausting and I usually need a nap after being around people.

[@justvibin1447]

Reminds me of an interaction I had with a customer once. First he put his hand on my shoulder without asking, assuming I was someone else. Then, when he apologized, and the conversation went as such: "Yeah I have PTSD so touching without permission is not good." "Oh, my son has aspergers so I understand." "Oh, I have autism." "Wouldn't have guessed that." "I mean you've only been talking to me for two minutes." "You must've had good teachers, good parents." "Not good parents. Good therapists, though." "Well they must've been good parents to get you those therapists." "No, I got therapy after high school." "Ah. Well, I'm sure your parents meant well." "They really didn't. Well, my mom did, not my stepdad." People really just be out here assuming your entire life. I didn't get diagnosed with autism till I was 25, and I had to do all the hard work of therapy (which I needed becausd of my abusive parents) on my own, fuck outta here 😂

[@imblue2551]

For me when I was a kid. A lady that ran a daycare told my mom I needed drugs since she assumed I had ADHD. She was annoyed that I wouldn't sit still. Bruh, I was 4 or 5 years old. What did you expect?

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

@@imblue2551 yeah lol if there’s one thing everyone knows about 4 year olds is how well they behave!

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

I once had a person say something like this about me once. That person was MY TEACHER. "He can't be autistic", he said. "He doesn't get angry." Which was something that was noted down IN MY DIAGNOSIS. When he was told that, he didn't believe it. He even doubled down. So the school got a special needs person. To BACK UP THE TEACHER. This person pretended to help me with my problems in school, both socially with the children AND the teachers, and with the subjects themselves. In actuality we just played Minotaurus. Which is a boardgame made out of Lego based on mythic Greece. So the perfect counter to my inherent incessant need to talk all the bleedin time. So she could distract me from stuff she didn't want to talk about with the game. Meanwhile she fed totally the wrong information to the school, lying about what was said and such. She, and thusly also the school, did not stop claiming I wasn't autistic, for the reason stated above. Even when the experts chimed in and said "no, he definitely is". I left within the year. All the better I say, even if it meant I moved school four more(+) times afterwards.

[@Feral-Orange]

Just got diagnosed a couple years ago before I went into college. When I was younger, it was brought up to my old psychiatrist, who had diagnosed me with ADHD, that I should be tested for autism. She just took a look at me and said, “No. ‘She’ can’t be autistic.” …Man, was THAT a major goof 🙃

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

@@Feral-Orangelmfao well welcome to the club!

[@henrietta9206]

omg James, *LOVE YA!*

[@MaxwellVerduin]

As an autistic myself, I can say this is 100% what I would think with that lady

[@charlessaint7926]

That one mean grandma, "Your child has autism. He refuses to talk to me!" Dad, "Maybe he just doesn't like you. Have you thought about that?"

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

😂😂

[@Psyche_MMA]

Where is this guy today. I’m so late and I love this vibe man. Where he at I need to know someone lmk

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

@@Psyche_MMA still doing stand up comedy! I have a bunch of much newer videos on my channel 😎

[@SWIIIMS]

That's my kind of autism! Figuring out what exactly this means is left as an exercise for the viewer.

[@michaelmackenzie2569]

Brilliant

[@Kirijoestar]

As an autistic person I can relate to this so much😂😂

[@Albumancer]

Ever since I figured out that I'm likely autistic, I've been wondering if I also look that way. After watching this, the answer seems to be a resounding "maybe?". Like, I might, but it probably doesn't correlate with me actually being autistic.

[@Arktierus]

After 36 years, I've finally got to the point where I'm comfortable telling people they don't get to decide whether or not I have autism. I'm just sick of people thinking they're right when they don't know what the heck they're talking about.

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

@@Arktierus hell yeah brother

[@LostMercenary99]

As someone who was diagnosed in his mid 30's this is just way too funny.

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

@@LostMercenary99 hell yeah thank you 🙏

[@Ilovecielp]

When i was diagnosed with autism my dad told me i cant be autistic because I'm not dumb 🙄

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Lmfaoo wtf

[@Jean-dd1sl]

when i was a kid, my pediatrician told my parents that i was a little eccentric but totally normal. after all, her son went through all the same challenges as me! anyway guess what her son was diagnosed with a couple years after me lmao

[@thecatlurking]

Lazy comedians are always saying "you can't joke about anything anymore! People are always getting too offended! 😢" Thanks for ACTUALLY being funny and proving them wrong!

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

@@thecatlurking thank you 🫡🫡

[@NaudVanDalen]

He destroyed that woman. 😆

[@standupformentalhealth]

great stuff!

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Thank you kindly 🤝

[@ShadowDemon_4]

I have autism and I've been insulted by many people who refuse to believe I'm autistic. A lot of people I've met seem to think autism is just a fancy word for being physically disabled or stupid for some reason. That's not how it works. Autism is in a spectrum as in it can effect different parts of your brain and not everyone will act the same. For me social situations are what I had trouble with and basic stuff like jokes and sarcasm took a lot longer for me to understand. However I am very talented at visualizating objects in a 3D space so puzzles, origami, and other forms of physical objects is something I could figure out easily.

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

@@ShadowDemon_4 yeah it’s crazy people try to pigeon hole autism. I fucked heavily with origami in middle school!

[@ShadowDemon_4]

​@@jamesstanleycomedyI still make stuff sometimes if there's nothing else around. My favorite thing to make is a miniature book out of a single sheet of paper.

[@ricethericey]

this is really funny

[@KellyMues-bj7nj]

People tell me that all the time it's nothing you can see it's in your brain

[@towzone]

You don’t look ignorant, but here we are.

[@henrikhumle7255]

You're the voice in everyone's head that gives them the perfect rebuttal 6 hours later when they're thinking the conversation through in the shower.

[@deathreus]

That's the worst pickup line she could have possibly come up with

[@trashotaku]

As someone who also has autism, I physically cringe every time I hear the phrase "You don't look Autistic" 😬😬😬

[@tarapatrick5794]

So funny!

[@nobsreviews8814]

DON'T READ THE COMMENTS BEFORE WATCHING THE VIDEO

[@alisultancomedy]

Beast

[@technird652]

"you don't look autistic". Well you don't look stupid, but i guess we're both wrong.

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

@@technird652 hahahah

[@jasperdoggydude]

fuckin' solid

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Thank you !!

[@dalekblep8136]

As an autistic person with a mole on their face, I feel attacked /s

[@reideley4398]

When She said you don’t look Autistic I thought to myself excuse me and what exactly is Autism supposed to look like? I didn’t know that people with Autism were supposed to have a certain look too them so other people could tell and know that they have Autism 😆

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

@@reideley4398 lmfao right 😂

[@TommyNicoletti]

Holy shit this is good!

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

God bless

[@zmarilu5016]

That was great 😂

[@drulamane]

@1:28

[@petecoogan]

I look like i have autism, ir, i dont look you in the eye.

[@loki5595]

i guess one day people will understand how our brain works ;) . Then again we dont even know how our own brain works most of the times ....... LOL One Love

[@JDMimeTHEFIRST]

Other neurodivergent get me. I gave up on neurotypicals. I’ll never understand why they make up arbitrary rules and only apply them to certain people so they can feel superior. It’s so dumb. But they actually bond by bullying/gossiping and exclusion. That explains a lot. We bond by hobbies and interests 😊

[@loki5595]

@@JDMimeTHEFIRST ^^

[@loki5595]

@@JDMimeTHEFIRST Its like having church bells ring on sunday for all to hear but also say its a off day . GL sleeping out with them cunts ringing in your ears from 7 till wut 1 on and off hmmmmm

[@Sylar-451]

Brilliant ❤ 😂😂😂

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Thank you!!🙏

[@manuella218]

So funny 😂😂❤

[@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse]

I think your cadence could use a bit more work and I don't know if the audio equipment was bad but I have a hard time understanding you. That being said (because it HAD to absolutely be said... you know how it goes), I'm not sure jokes about autism can ever go beyond cliches and tropes because it seems to me people still have a very hard time grasp the breadth of the spectrum. Personally, I hate that they want to get rid of the term "asperger's" for that very reason. That told people something. If I talk about autism today, all I get is "Well, you are a bit peculiar but aren't we all?" And I go "Well, yes and no. That peculiarity is what remains after I've put on a whole theater spectacle for you to think I'm 'just a bit peculiar' instead of pretty darn weird and 'what the hell is this guy's problem??' and now do excuse me because I have to go home and crash for three days due to exhaustion"

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Well it is a four year old video so my cadence and stage presence has changed a lot (you want to look at more recent videos I have) and I wasn’t recording with anything very professional haha.

[@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse]

@@jamesstanleycomedy Ah yes, sorry, I completely forgot to check the date. KZbin rabbit hole and all that. In that case, I formally put the criticism on hold... still had to spew it forth :D.

[@garymericano]

I also like trains.

[@pauljordan4452]

I'm ASD LEVEL 1 - stroke and rewiring. Learned Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and am an author. Fuck the begrudgers!

[@Tony36271]

Hammer meets nail 😂

[@aa898246]

you could memorize pi

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

I certainly could try

[@aa898246]

​@@jamesstanleycomedy try memorize it backwards so its even more impressive

[@O.....x-l7i]

😅😂

[@davidlythgoe4079]

Excellent 😂😂

[@PleaseHelpICantThinkofaName]

This is the best skip I've ever heard. 😂

[@PleaseHelpICantThinkofaName]

Skit not skip

[@Jacobcoleyray]

I’m autistic and I don’t look it

[@Lya-189]

hii❤❤

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

Hii

[@kuibeiguahua]

❤

[@lesio80]

Is this woke comedy? It ain't funny, it ain't mind opening, it's just boring

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

@@lesio80 lol thanks

[@TheShapingSickness]

1:44 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jamesstanleycomedy]

@@TheShapingSickness god bless