I love how Orion goes from "I can't imagine who could possibly want to watch this" in one post to "I'm addressing the bloody U.N." in another.
@Rabaheo11 ай бұрын
Sometimes I feel like living a life where you've been criticized so often, you develop a kind of dichotomy of "I'm terrible/I'm awesome" as our sense of self feels in the moment.
@autumnishere42011 ай бұрын
@@Rabaheooh yeah i definitely experience this 😅
@Bugg...0_o11 ай бұрын
Speaking of addressing those in power.... I live in one of the bad states in the U.S. I also have a lot of labels attached to me that would make it unsafe for me to stay here if things keep getting worse. I'm scared to get an official diagnosis because I've heard there are quite a few countries that make it hard to immigrate (Australia being one of them). As things continue to deteriorate here (and authoritarianism in general rising across the globe), I'm afraid the restrictions are just going to get worse. I've heard that if you can prove you won't be a drain on the system, you can immigrate. I'm really sick, so that's never going to happen, but maybe my daughter can at least get out when she's 18. The thing is, she is having a little trouble in school. It varies year by year with the teacher, and I think a diagnosis would help. She's only just turned 10, so she has quite a few years that a diagnosis could benefit her and could even alter the trajectory of her life. But I worry that because she is already diagnosed with Ehler's Danlos Syndrome, adding another diagnosis might make her chances of immigrating somewhere deceent much worse. Idk how many of Orion's viewers keep up with the chaos over here, (and that goes for his American viewers as well). Y'all know how we are able to see patterns. It's like no one realizes what a powder keg this is. And those who want to bring America back to a time where only cis straight white men had any place in society (a place worth having that is. The rest of us need to learn "to stay in our place" again),but those people, they are getting elected in local elections. Their statagy is to kill the tree by rotting the roots. And once they have people in all of these places, they can really make a go for it this time and actually succeed. It's terrifying. And I know that bad things would happen to me and my family, and so many who call themselves my neighbors would do nothing to stop it. (Except my one neighbor who is a neonaz¡ . He would join in, I'm sure. Our kids are friends. Smh. What a world.)
@knrdvmmlbkkn11 ай бұрын
@@Bugg...0_o"I live in one of the bad states in the U.S." Are there any other, like, say, "non-bad" states in the U.S.?
@AutisticAthena11 ай бұрын
@@knrdvmmlbkkn No. It just changes who's getting swept under the rug and not listened to, who's shoving their ideology down people's throats. The left wants to say that they're virtuous, but it's virtue signaling for the most part. They're psychotic people on both sides, trying to radicalize as many people as possible to agree with them while frothing at the mouth... America is in SERIOUS trouble.
@emilyh5011 ай бұрын
Let's not forget, some families ( like mine) discard us because of lack of understanding and empathy. Or if one was raised in a narcissistic family like mine and we make easy scapegoats.
@distortionpedal11 ай бұрын
Yep I have a narc mother she left and now I’m stuck with my dad who has Narc tendencies and is racist .and old . I feel like I’m living in hell . Im Almost 40 I really dont want to leave my cat and dog .
@0hffs11 ай бұрын
@@distortionpedalomg samesies! im almost 40 myself, unemployed even though im looking for work, live with my father but im surrounded by closed minded conservatives in my family who absolutely have no idea who i am or cares enough to meet me halfway. everything is all about them suggestioning that I change myself in hopes to convince me to be like them, ya know... so i dont continue to be outcasted and socially normal for them. Clearly they have no understanding that all i want is to be loved and be seen as who i am, as is... exactly what is supposedly expected of me accepting them! its so ridiculous. im a fookin adult!
@asmrambioticfluid946711 ай бұрын
@@0hffsnormies don't find inner beauty in anything other than conformity, status and money.
@thegamingps511010 ай бұрын
Exactly what i am going through at 33 and people telling me to do it ways have been doing tweaking since 6years old.
@petranyberg579110 ай бұрын
❤ yes
@runningraven11 ай бұрын
Train freaking professionals! And don't disregard moms! We KNOW when something is different! Autistic bean is my third kid. She's wonderful, but different. One doctor I went to with the bean asked her whether she feels empathy. She obviously said yes. "Well, it can't be autism then." 🤦🏻♀️ As a baby, with OBVIOUS sensory processing difficulties, screaming at the top of her lungs for hours and hours..."Oh, don't be hysteric. Babies cry. It'll get better with time and patience." 😫 Toddler tantrums? Never had them! What she had were full blown meltdowns, and we COULD NOT ever figure out what triggered them. It was nothing like a neurotypical tantrum. "She'll grow out of it. Just be consequential." Or even the first assessment, at four years of age. "Well, there are certainly a few autistic traits she has, but it's not severe enough for a diagnosis. She'll grow out of it." At 17 she tried severely harming herself. In the clinic that was supposedly a mental health crisis center, the doctor said "Well, who decides what's normal and what isn't. I don't diagnose people with autism, it breeds prejudice." Meanwhile the kid and the whole family got increasingly desperate every day. We were at the end of our wits... but then we found a daycare clinic that was supposed to help her get back into school. They had a specialist there. She watched the bean for half a week, then asked me whether she could officially assess her because she suspected she might actually be an autistic bean. She did. Diagnosis confirmed by a second doctor. Proper help acquired. Autistic bean is freaking THRIVING! The whole family is. We love her, she loves us, and now we have the tools to actually help her. WHY DOES IT TAKE 18 YEARS AND THE STUBBORNNESS OF A BULL TO GET HELP??! 😫
@cindyhoover911611 ай бұрын
Hi Running Raven, I’m in the the States, and my “beans” are 17 and 12. Goodness. My heart bleeds for you and what you and your family have been through. I only realized two weeks ago that my 12 must have ASD. But since it’s PDA, it’s hard for me to convince even people in my own family (my 17, my 33 daughter with 6 kids, even my husband, who I was junk just doesn’t want to accept it) that he’s on the spectrum. Pray for me as I’m only just now pursuing a diagnosis. (One place told me 5 year waiting list!) God Bless
@Autism_Forever11 ай бұрын
Many so called specialists are thrown off by mis-categorization. Autism vs Schizophrenic Autism. Autism as neurodevelopmental disability vs autism as symptom of schizophrenic disorder. We have Eugen Bleuler to thank for this mess. To this day many specialists are incompetent enough to think that Autistic people are incapable of feeling emotions. I suspect this is where they get this rotten idea from.
@srso466011 ай бұрын
Females with asd are rarely correctly diagnosed, it typically takes years to find someone willing to test for it. I'm a 48 year old woman and just now received my autism diagnoses. I've been self diagnosed for over a decade, I realized I was autistic after both of my children (2 boys) were diagnosed. I went to several clinicians who gave me every diagnoses under the sun but refused to even consider I had asd. I actually had one Dr that said "Oh you don't want to be autistic, that's a terrible disorder" 🤦🏼 I finally went to the psychologist who diagnosed my eldest son, he was willing to do the testing and sure enough, I have asd. Again, this is a common experience for asd females. There are so many of us middle aged and older women who are just now being correctly diagnosed after years of being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, BPD, schizoaffective disorder etc everything but asd. I'm happy to hear your daughter was finally correctly diagnosed and is thriving! I wish you all the best! 💜
@Autism_Forever11 ай бұрын
@@srso4660 I was diagnosed at birth. My Mother was told that I am an imbecile. I don't know what is worse - specialists who think they know all or specialists who don't know anything :)))))
@fernglade11 ай бұрын
@@Autism_Forever In my experience, the ones who think they know it all end up being the ones who don't know anything most of the time 🙃
@soundconjurer438011 ай бұрын
I'm an autistic person whom is housed and have a job. There's no way I did this out of knowing how to do it. It really happened by chance for me. I have people who are willing to make sure I don't fall through the cracks, but if no one had my back. I'd be homeless or dead. I live in the United States, neurotypicals barely make it now. There's no hope here for people like me.
@soundconjurer438011 ай бұрын
I'm 35, I was diagnosed when I was 34.
@isotope7311 ай бұрын
Agree. I'm 50 and no one has my back. I'll probably be a statistic. I've already begun to have severe burnout with depression/suuicide attacks.
@mlr452411 ай бұрын
Hang in there@@isotope73 - not easy I know. Unemployed at 60 and have no one except my cats, who give me a reason to be here.
@asmrambioticfluid946711 ай бұрын
@@isotope73I burned out just after lockdown and handed in my notice but by sheer fate landed a new job that feeds my soul. I hope the same for you.
@Anotherhumanexisting11 ай бұрын
That’s the scary part about the US job market and social system right now… even the NTs can’t keep their heads above water. Anyone with any kind of disability is extra fucked.
@wanderingpanic742911 ай бұрын
I'm facing homelessness right now and have been fighting with the department of housing since June this year. It's very likely I will have nowhere to live come December through no fault of my own. I realise the current rental crisis is tough for everyone but the thought of having nowhere to live (again) as an autistic woman with other disabilities is terrifying. But no one cares. Thank you for continually showing up and speaking the truth on how screwed up the system is. Unfortunately I feel that only those of us who are neurodivergent are either listening/watching and we are the only ones whocare
@CricketGirrl11 ай бұрын
I'm so sorry. :-(
@njay436111 ай бұрын
I'm in the same boat. Renting a room from a friend is keeping me off the streets but is not a long-term solution. Terrifying is the right word...
@Maaracha9 ай бұрын
I'm currently going through it. Nobody had my back and I fell through the cracks. 20+ years
@wanderingpanic74299 ай бұрын
@@Maaracha I am sorry that you too are going through this and that you also have fallen through the cracks. It's not fair. I wish I could help but there really doesn't seem to be any help for those like us out there. In a perfect world, I would start a advocacy business of some sort for us and do what each person wants/needs rather than what others think we all need, because we are all different. But it's just too hard. If you are in Sydney, Australia Wayside Chapel has quite a few of my friends get off the streets
@jimmyh31089 ай бұрын
I was going to say I was on the same boat,but someone beat me to it 😄..I have my sister helping me but she has four kids and a single mom and struggling with her job..and I'm trying to get diagnosed because I believe I'm on the spectrum and also have ADHD anxiety and dep..hang in there 👍🏻
@hellequinm11 ай бұрын
I tried 3 times to attend university, could not handle the social demand. I got sick every week, to a point where rather I focus on my health or die trying to graduate. I didn't know I was autistic at that time and it was hard to come to terms with that, I felt broken, weak, a total failure. Today I understand that it was all about demand.
@zee101011 ай бұрын
This is exactly the situation I'm right now!! .....and have been, for the past couple of years. It really feels like there's just no place for someone like me in this world.
@petranyberg579110 ай бұрын
I guess you didnt had problems with the studies, thats the sad thing
@Love_Mel10 ай бұрын
I'm the same Im held back so much because of the social demand.
@MaryKDayPetrano8 ай бұрын
A couple things helped me get through University - as an undergrad, I tended to hang with Indonesians and that helped lower the social demands, and in law school I tended to hang with an Native American Indian and that helped reduce social demands. If you're Autistic and trying to go to University, it doesn't really work to hang with Neurotypical Americans. That's real bad, and would cause almost any Autistic to be forced to quit.
@AutisticAthena11 ай бұрын
You know... I've been to Jail. The judge thought I was unapologetic because I was stonefaced during proceedings and he became emotional and aggressive with me because of it... And when I was in there, their idea of helping me with the sensory issues I had while I was in there due to the fact that they NEVER TURN THE BLINKING FLORESCENT LIGHTS OFF was putting me on antipsychotic medication that made my liver enzymes elevated, made me gain sixty lbs in four months and made my joints ache so bad that I shuffled like an old person when I walked. When I got out and saw a REAL doctor, they were HORRIFIED by what I was on, and said flat out "you don't need this medication".
@AutisticAthena11 ай бұрын
There's something here in America called Club House. They provide peer to peer and community support for people with emotional/cognitive/mental health disabilities and they're holistic. They address social well-being, physical health, employment support, legal and education assistance, as well as clerical support with paperwork, ect... And the members all have an equal say on how Clubhouse is run. It's not Autism specific, but it IS Autism inclusive, and my quality of life has increased immeasurably since I joined a year ago.
@joycebrewer415011 ай бұрын
I never heard of that! Where are they based? how do I contact them?
@sarahsovereign452211 ай бұрын
Wow, compassionate vibes to you! Hope you're in a worlds-better situation now!
@Autism_Forever11 ай бұрын
Sue. For many millions. Don't miss your statute of limitations if there is one for your type of case.
@GuitarTunings3311 ай бұрын
Yes!! I have hyperempathy so I become hyper emotional if I get emotional but in between emotions I can be stone cold stoic and people think I have no empathy. I have hyperempathy! Sorry you went through that.
@roblouw11 ай бұрын
As someone autistic it's really hard for me to be as articulate as you are mate. Thanks alot
@Rizuzua11 ай бұрын
I'm not embarrassed to say that a shorter life is alright to me. I welcome it because I'm ready to enjoy paradise wherever it is 🙎🏾
@keylanoslokj180611 ай бұрын
I always had a feeling I will go to hell both in this and the next life. Talk about luck😂
@musicmamma7 ай бұрын
Me too
@sksk-bd7yv5 ай бұрын
Same here. Longing for this life I never asked for to be over. I lived like that for forty + years. Now, things have changed for the better. Some days I really look forward to my future. Things got so much better once my daily life was adapted to my needs.
@SummerOf19872 күн бұрын
I swear
@CherrysJubileeJoyfully11 ай бұрын
In the US I was told that the people giving assessments CAN NOT TEST just for asd/adhd because they would be too busy to care for more extreme cases. .... so we're not getting diagnosed because so many of us were overlooked and ignored. So you're going to keep overlooking and ignoring us. We're not invisible we're expendable.
@joycebrewer415011 ай бұрын
Oof!! I feel that Too! Got diagnosed at 59 because my sis-in-law can be a bear when she sets her mind to something, and she was determined that I squeeze in a few solid years of work before retirement. I had only a spotty work history at Best. It was a shock to her when the mental health worker who diagnosed me told her, "There's no treatment for autism!"
@sandybravo162611 ай бұрын
Dear God you take too long to get to the point
@hannahbrown272810 ай бұрын
@@sandybravo1626 If one paragraph is too much for you why are you watching an hour long video?
@sandybravo162610 ай бұрын
@@hannahbrown2728 I didn't. I stopped a few minutes in then left this comment about why I couldn't finish it
@sandybravo162610 ай бұрын
@@hannahbrown2728 also, what are you talking about with "a paragraph"? I watched a portion of the video and commented on why I couldn't finish it. That's it
@CuteCatsofIstanbul11 ай бұрын
The support for late-diagnosed people would also be such an eye-opener; it would be like puzzle pieces finally coming together. 'Oh that's why they do that', 'oh that's why they react like that'. I grief for the years I did not receive any guidance, mainly on employment. Work has been true hell for me. I've had 15 jobs, all administrative background jobs despite having a master's in linguistics (which is perfectly fine for me, I love admin work!) I don't understand the world who wakes up and 'JUST' goes to work every day. It's such a complex topic if you ask me; from the commute to the actual being there, with different humans, different tasks, the roles people have, the ego's, the very big ego's, the office policies, gossip, expectations ... I also love to work hard, it's like game to me, but I now get that people don't like that. It's exhausting, it's overwhelming, work nearly killed me a few times. You quit and walk away wounded, with no hope and no money. It's simply awful 😿
@tomtroy379211 ай бұрын
I'm 64 and retired from doing concrete work on my life the only reason I kept a job is because I worked so so hard but driving there was a job in itself and dealing with all the attitudes with the people at work was very confusing for me and stressful driving home with just as bad and less if I stopped at the bar and had a few beers I don't drink anymore I have found that Kratom has tooken the the urge for alcohol away I want to go back to work because Social Security is not near enough cuz I think I'm unemployable because of the way I am and I never know how I feel in the morning sometimes I can hardly walk. Bottom line is that I am scared
@sonoftorin11 ай бұрын
This is why I advocate for screening for adults. I guarantee there are tons of autistic people stuck in the US prison system as well as many other places.
@georgespiese738811 ай бұрын
I’ve had hundreds of “jobs” at 72. However i had businesses where i was the only employee for decades! Sheesh!
@sammymakeitmakecents11 ай бұрын
I don’t have a diagnosis (I am fairly certain I am high functioning autistic, masked by being female with a high IQ and education). But you summarized my feelings about the regular work world to a T.
@etcwhatever11 ай бұрын
😢 im at the verge of having to quit. On top of asd symptoms i have a type of arthritis. I cant even live in my head...i keep getting pulled into my painful body 😢😢😢 my job is too stressful they force me to socialize all the time. I hate it. No clear rules fo4 my work...and it drives me crazy..i need rules and order. A rotine. None. My fave job was dealing with data...just opening and modifying accounts in the system.. but it was in banking and my colleagues loved gossip and backstabbing. Most of it went over my head until some started to be openly bullying me, including the manager. So i had to quit even the job i liked better. And yeah when we walk no unemployment benefit. 😢
@WHISTLEPEG11 ай бұрын
This is brilliant! Thank you Orion, from a 68yr old self- diagnosed autistic in Canada. Why self-diagnosed? Can't afford the nearly $3000 for official diagnosis from our national heath care that I pay taxes for....and at my age, why bother. Please continue your videos and podcasts you, are very much appreciated!
@celestialstar645011 ай бұрын
If you pay out of pocket, you may be able to claim it on your taxes (medical expense)
@kated316511 ай бұрын
@Player-400 As Orion says, autism is just not well understood yet. It will be fully covered by Canadian healthcare, and the diagnosis and treatments will be more readily available once it is, but its unfortunately still one of those areas where medical science is still in its infancy. It will get there for our grand-children, perhaps children, but most of us will slip through the cracks.
@kated316511 ай бұрын
@Player-400 Don't worry about M.A.I.D. Its not some free-for-all anyone depressed can access, nor can anyone use it to murder someone else. Its actually pretty strict. Its only for people who are ill beyond any medical help and trapped in perpetual suffering, but who are fully aware of the decision they are making of their own accord.
@ALADDIN2209197811 ай бұрын
Great video . I think for a few autistic people, especially , those who have an early diagnosis, they may have a better outcome , especially if they have a good support network including the environment. However , the world is more competitive and demanding , which is likely to work against autistic people, despite increasing awareness. Most autistic people might have other neurodiverse conditions such as ADHD. Late diagnosed , neurodiverse people , might have developed secondary comorbid mental health problems. Highly educated, highly intelligent autistic people , are likely to be diagnosed late . Highly educated and highly intelligent people who are autistic does not mean a better outcome , especially if the diagnosis occurs as an adult . Support is biased towards children and their parents .
@thesaddestdude357511 ай бұрын
Im sure i know why, society is cracking down harder and harder on standing out and not performing socially. it wasn't that bad when i was a kid but now with the internet bullying can follow you anywhere and if you're just slightly different you are quickly ostracized and degraded. Everything in the world is becoming more and more superficial.
@fluffycloud352911 ай бұрын
Yeah, and why is the world so competative and demanding? What is the one system that commands us to be like that or else we get left behind and end up homeless? Capitalism. It's a big, systematic issue. The more people we can make aware of that, the more we can fight for the community focused, socialistic approach that would make lives better for not only autistic people but every person that needs a little bit of support (and everyone needs a little support here and there). Going back to caring about each other instead of chasing a vapid idea of perfection.
@fluffycloud352911 ай бұрын
@@thesaddestdude3575 Check the comment I wrote below you, in case you didn't get the ping. I think that is the origin of why things are like this
@tomtroy379211 ай бұрын
I self diagnosed myself at 50 years old after reading Temple grandin's book animals in translation if I was diagnosed at a young age I might have used it as an excuse for not trying harder to be like everyone else
@wadz66810 ай бұрын
I'm fascinated by the statement that autistic people have a shorter life expectancy. Before anyone takes that the wrong way, I AM autistic and I see this as both a blessing and a curse. A blessing in the way that hopefully my suffering will come to an end sooner and a curse because I haven't done all the things I want to do in this life. I also may never get the opportunity to do so anyway. I strongly do feel that the stress of trying to maintain employment will be the death of me.
@musicmamma7 ай бұрын
Yes!! I've had 9 jobs in 7 years, since I bought my house. Before that, my last stable job was for 4 years, in dietary. Is it me? Or "regular" people!??!!
@SummerOf19872 күн бұрын
Yes, it’s kinda weird, really… even more when you know it’s not all about health or lifestyle but even more about the fact that autistic people have a 9x higher suicide rate than neurotypicals…
@Skyjamb11 ай бұрын
Doctors a long time ago 30-50 years knew nothing about autistic kids. Now the adults trying to find a diagnosis is unbelievable hard. Why is it so damn hard, I mean it's 2023, but it still feels like it's the early 60's.
@ildyivy11 ай бұрын
Because this world is controlled by wicked people in high places. Our world only seems advanced but it’s actually quite barbaric. Depending on where u live, have u seen how unhealthy some people look? It’s not an accident, it’s by design.
@friednoodles66611 ай бұрын
i'm still in my early 20s and i've already been homeless 2 times since i was 17, for multiple years in total. it took me 5 years to find a safe place to live and now that i'm alone here i have no consistent help, as someone who never had help to even get a license let alone be able to afford a car, i survive on a meager welfare sum monthly. i'm alone almost every day all day except if i'm lucky and get a house visit check from a case worker. i survived extreme child abuse, was rescued by CPS, and now sit here feeling like i'll never have anything to show for it because seems like nothing and no one in power exists that is compassionate and able to meet me halfway. i am extremely aware of how little i'm worth to society, including my own family. and my crime is my autism. i cannot win.
@kryssalou5 ай бұрын
this is too real
@kariannep154811 ай бұрын
I was reading the comments before I watched this. I’m 72 and I’m on the spectrum and only recently diagnosed. Self diagnosed but there are siblings and children with autism. I suspect my mom was too. I was definitely abused and isolated in junior high through high school and didn’t talk about it. I got through, married, and had 2 kids. I divorced twice. Now days I wonder if by getting married at 18 with having direct attention to nesting saved my life. What wrong path could I have taken by my fawning? My masking was exhausting but I could do a desk job like crazy, I can meet with the public when I have a structure to follow but I’m totally unable to mingle, chat or network. My grandson and his wife are here from Miami and I went to breakfast at his other grandma’s. There were about 15 family members there. I feel so confused in gatherings and I talk to loud and get over animated. I feel polite tolerance. I’m so exhausted that I declined the invite with the same people to watch the Bills game yesterday. I felt bad again when my daughter asked again and I said I don’t like football. My daughter countered that it was to see my grandson and his wife while they’re in town. I did yard work and feel awful guilt, I felt shamed again for being me.
@DappsJames11 ай бұрын
25:00 thats so spot on and profound. My therapist agrees, autism is about the only condition where it is incumbent on the sufferer to adapt themselves to the world. I would absolutely become an autistic employment lawyer, and never bore of absolutely rinsing the NT opposition
@Dancestar198110 ай бұрын
And then if you have the ASD and combined ADHD dual diagnosis it’s even worse plus those fcuk ing Covid jabs that caused rage in us like roof rage when we never had it before
@MaryKDayPetrano8 ай бұрын
OMG !!!!!!!!! I actually had the U.S. Magistrate, Gary R. Jones, who sanctioned me $43,000 for my immutable Autistic language and language processing traits WRITE IN ONE OF HIS ORDERS, "she suffers from Autism." !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His decisions were "adopted and approved" by Chief U.S. District Court Judge, M. Casey Rodgers. !!!!!!!!! When you tell me I "suffer from Autism," as you say, you are Ordering BY FORCE OF A U.S. FEDERAL COURT ORDER that I have to adapt myself to the Neurotypical world and rules. But, I'm AUTISTIC - I HAVE A DIFFERENT BRAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@oleonard731911 ай бұрын
The real problem is knowing you are autistic doesn't really fix anything. It simply gives you a reason why things are the way they are for you. The reality is I'm unsure society is willing to do thing to accommodate autistics
@keylanoslokj180611 ай бұрын
This. You just got the weirdo dysfunctional label. Now what? NT society still wants us gone. They can barely muster enough love and depth to sustain themselves. Less to say include divergencies in that mix.
@LinauLee11 ай бұрын
Orion, what we really need is ASD school teachers. We need ASD doctors & psychologists. Maybe then we will find understanding. Channels like yours are utterly wonderful. It breaks my heart that things don't seem to change, because you are still hitting the same walls (lack of understanding) in school with your son today that we had to face with my son back in 2003. I am pretty sure, it's a group of neurotypical professionals that came up with that whacky DSM-5 in the first place. To them we are like ants under a magnifying glass, how will they ever get us when they are outside looking in? Plus, they really don't look very carefully before they decide we are too much bother. So they ended up making conclusions about us that are not helpful. I look forward to the day when we can turn to educated ASD professionals leading the way to understanding our ASD place on this planet. The key to our health is educating each other, like your channel. You may not be able to get them to understand us, but the more we understand ourselves the better we can handle ourselves in this world. hUgz from an old gal in Ohio, Lee
@bensabelhaus728811 ай бұрын
My autistic sons fourth grade teacher this year has two sons on the spectrum. So far he hates his teacher, so he must be getting through lol He just does not engage him at all lol If he runs out of the classroom who cares. He'll get bored in a couple minutes anyway lol Bold strategy this year, we'll see how it plays out lol
@ainedunne41211 ай бұрын
There are tonnes of Autistic teachers in Ireland so it stands to reason their must be in other parts of the world. I’m one and there’s three in my school.
@emilwandel11 ай бұрын
@@bensabelhaus7288What does it help of the professional people are autistic themselves when they learned to hide themselves, they learned they are wrong and all care guidelines don't include autistic people. In the worst case they reject people even harder because of internalized rejection they have been taught.
@ericnewport94111 ай бұрын
I started grad school because I was burned out from ESL teaching. I was always broke, didn't have much help at all, and I crashed after two years (and the pandemic started). Wasted all that money. No degree. Still making crap wages. Still trying to cope with burnout. Still unable to get a formal diagnosis. Not surprised suicide is so prevalent among the ASD crowd. I've been suicidal all my life, but never knew I was autistic, though it's laughably obvious looking back.
@zee101011 ай бұрын
I'm going through the same thing/My life sounds similar to yours... Solidarity 🙏
@ericnewport94111 ай бұрын
@@zee1010 Cheers, same to you... 🙏
@abbagirl88198 ай бұрын
❤❤
@sksk-bd7yv5 ай бұрын
Same, same here.
@maxwolters11 ай бұрын
I am 29 and was diagnosed 2 years ago with both autism and ADHD. I live in The Netherlands and I am glad I am. Reading some of these comments makes me sad. Just want to throw out here, in The Netherlands, we are taken care of. I got psycho educational therapy after my diagnoses. This morning I seeked help again because I am suffering autistic burnout. I was able to choose from both a personal personal specialized guide and/or psycho education. Keep up the great work Orion. I love your videos and will receive your book any day now!
@orionkelly11 ай бұрын
I hope you enjoy reading it.
@rita.amstlv11 ай бұрын
Hi, it is not moonshine and pink roses everywhere in Nederland. I have been bullyied more or less all my lifetime. It is exhausting, it is very difficult.
@rural_girl5553 ай бұрын
id rather move to the Netherlands because my country (south africa) is hostile to autistic ppl and are way behind and backward with autism education system. ive been treated very badly and felt like an outcast because of my autistic traits and literally everybody ( except for my 2 close friends) hates my guts. I plan to go move there in the near or far future. really tired of being treated like an outcast or a criminal throughout my life.
@dawnhughes994211 ай бұрын
A problem I've seen as an autistic parent with an autistic son is a lack of support for the parents. All the funding goes to kids, which is important, but what I've learned is, if I'm struggling as his mom, he struggles. We are so closely linked. You can't care for one and not the other. It's not enough.
@visionvixxen4 ай бұрын
Yes! This is so important. It’s like attempting like a drug intervention but so much more complicated without the intervention part it’s it’s a exercise in futility and confusion. First of all adults on the spectrum are not dead and sometimes they are functioning members of the society, grandparents and parents, and if they don’t understand themselves and get help, they’re not in a position to help their kids this means understanding themselves resources you know help with jobs like help with their relationships a lot of things and then helping the kids, but it doesn’t just start from helping the kids in the school system if everything around the kids This functional and lacking resources and just the human level it’s not just about kids like people and nursing homes to middle age to college age to kids are valuable and deserve recognition and help and thus intern to be in a position where their valuable members of society and help others so the dialogue needs to switch from being just about kids to like to their families to everyone to even old people and even neurotic and the people involved in the autistic person, space and understanding them like, it’s it’s a whole dialogue and it’s a whole lot of help. Thank you for your comment.
@visionvixxen4 ай бұрын
“There’s no backpack where you can out your autism.” 😂Truth.
@visionvixxen4 ай бұрын
Social communications and interactions at a level that is diagnosable now this is really hard when you’re I don’t want to say smart, but you’ve been educated a good school raised to work really really hard. You’re a female who didn’t even know what was up and this was five times as hard to mask and learn to be human, and if someone thought you talking on site, they would say he’s an extrovert. He’s greater communication you know he loves people in that place. You’ve gotten medical school school where you’ve gone to Ivy League school where you’ve worked 10 times as hard to the point of being depressed and anxious, sad and luckily, you’ve never been suicidal even though you had ideation because you always had the support of your parents at least, that is a very hard place to get diagnosed from and you even gaslight yourself like I wanna be sure I don’t just decide I have this but I’m seeing enough family members and I’m seeing 25 years of me being treated with depression bipolar with medication and to no avail I think I won’t even say I’m hoping I strongly think these aspects of whether they’re so personal and so embarrassing to even admit yourself it might admit defeat we’re being weird or trying even less certain point when you’re 50 they can’t be ignored and you can’t keep doing the same thing so basically I’m at the place where I know I have to trust. My insurance isn’t gonna cover it. I have to be willing hope to find the right person first of all again waiting through all the information of like is it a psychologist is a psychiatrist I’ve had neuropsych testing. Do I need to ask for the AOL? Should I wait for my insurance as my insurance not gonna cover it Some days I can’t even formulate my thoughts like all of it overwhelmed me and I’m upset that I’ve been trying to figure this out for the past five years but at some point find someone cough up the three to $5000 and take a risk and hope that getting that diagnosis will help you be clear and change your course of your life so maybe it’s doing work for people in this round so one day they can actually have a life even if you were not able to or you know going back to school but being sure that you’re not gonna try your hardest and not be seen and be kicked out and be like $60,000 in debt or even help to realize your limitations and your gifts and guide into doing something that you can support yourself withand will keep you from having meltdowns or falling apart. I hope this isn’t too long but I just want to say thank you for your work and I really want to be a part part of it takes a lot of bravery and it’s so necessary.
@visionvixxen4 ай бұрын
Educational professionals so many times I would get scholarships or go somewhere and my mind would unravel it. It wasn’t always performing the same or even ADD drugs wouldn’t work. It was so sad and so demoralizing like it’s one thing when you’re not trying it’s another when you’re trying each time and each time is your redemption and you care so much and your desperate to try to get the help and it wasn’t there and you were gaslit for it and then you go before the board. This is happened so many times in my life, I won’t say what schools but they say we think it’s best you leave or we don’t know what’s going on or they think you’re intentionally doing something to not turn your assignments in on time and you’re thinking I also don’t know what’s going on but I’ve been cursed and you just want to figure out so bad this needs to change like there is so much trauma around this that I wish sometimes I was super low functioning. I know that’s bad or I don’t care Because I would have hopes and interest in doing things, but then I was missing the scaffolding. I didn’t know what I was missing others didn’t know and was like I’m wasting peoples time and I’m disrespecting them and I thought of myself. I tried not to myself. It’s just like you Absorb that and that really needs to change. It’s been five years now that I will not get up and do anything and it’s not just I don’t wanna get up and do anything. I’m not gonna go through that again to work on whatever this is, it seems so big and I don’t know where my place is or where the start with the usual medication and counselors or career counselors in, you trying to get into school for a different profession or even dating none of that stuff works so it’s just me and the autism and I have no idea where I’m going from here
@visionvixxen4 ай бұрын
What is the hardest thing with having this and being in school when I was a kid and taking algebra or chemistry I was in the school were so many didn’t care that the teachers would deal with my question and I usually had to ask several times for different angles sometimes I forget a principal and have to re-ask and re-ask and at one point it was click Other times I’d have to do it with them or have them do it for me, cut pace and coffee and sometimes when it got to things like physical problems, you literally have to executive function assemble permutations of ideas. That’s why I couldn’t do it, but you know changes if you’re not in the situation where you’re literally the top student because everyone else is a wreck or because you just care and it’s texting the teacher so no teacher has time to stand over your desk and ask all the questions and the tutors aren’t educated about it and here’s another thing. It’s good that we’re able to record, but you need to take that back and for me for example if I’m missing one major gap in my knowledge, the rest doesn’t go forward so I’d be stuck and there’s always a time when I knew I’d fallen behind and it should probably drop it and not go on, but I used to not and then I learn I had to learn over 20 years when that has happened and it’s too late and I have to start over again and make sure to get the bits and pieces or even learn like I just have to get through this subject. I have to take a teacher for which test the facts or they don’t use computers I literally Felt so dishonest, but I had to learn where I feel and where I can find the holes in the system which I can ensure I’ll pass the class and you were talking to Val in the school and someone who got into several Ivy programs so that part is really hard and they need to know autistic and they need to know when we’re asking these questions you know how our brains work and this is what we’re paying them for. I mean education isn’t cheap anymore. We are paying them for this and we’re just as loud as everyone else so even having universities were, we can learn this way you know and not fall in the gas after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars or more points were embarrassed and looked upon discussed and the changes are personalities. All of this is so I have no idea what it’s gonna look like and what it’s gonna take, but I do know moresciences, I’m making money and having autistic children they’re gonna be finding such things so at least that’s a plus because only money makes the world go around seems
@ilFactotum11 ай бұрын
I'm unemployed, live with an elderly disabled parent, have no friends, have an alcohol addiction, SH, have had daily thoughts of death for years, and already attempted to unaIive once... but I was barely diagnosed last year 2 days before my 36th birthday. My country's support towards ND people is non-existent and understanding on the part of its people is poor at best so yeah, I have already lost any hope for a future.
@reii371411 ай бұрын
literally almost my same situation, just a weed addiction instead. been living with my elderly mom, unemployed with 0 luck, absolutely no social life. days are miserable I can feel my time coming
@ilFactotum11 ай бұрын
@@solarhydrowind Not a bad idea at all. It would also be good to try to get a diagnosi, as it can make things less hard, though I understand there's barriers depending on where you live.
@visionvixxen4 ай бұрын
To be honest, I hope I’m not offending you by saying this gonna pray for you.
@Scorched_Earth11 ай бұрын
As a 43 year old late-diagnosed autistic mother of five autistic children, may I say that you, Orion, are truly doing god's work with this kind of content. You have PERFECTLY delineated my experience, and what I am facing in trying to advocate for my children. Thank you.
@asmrmetalman106111 ай бұрын
Society has a material interest in addressing this because if you do not pay for it through social services, you will end up paying in the form of psychaitric crisis intervention, or prisons (Its said that autistic people are overrepresented in prison populations)
@LittleSeasonSojourner11 ай бұрын
Eugenicists have no problem with allowing things to get worse.
@MaryKDayPetrano8 ай бұрын
Yes, and all society is doing by not paying for it is shifting WHO PAYS to other people. For example, in the U.S. there is a revolving door of Bankruptcy Court for Autistic people because someone has to pay for Autistic people and if the Autistic person tries but fails to be able to pay these extraordinary Autism costs, then every so often the Autistic person is forced to go through the revolving doors of Bankruptcy Court. Again and again and again. Or, when the California Bar Examiners accuse an Autistic person with specifications of "being evicted" from housing, for the Autistic person (1.) obeying the advice of disability organization and agencies ("fawning), (2.) in good faith trying but failing in the face of an around 86 % U.S. National Autistic unemployment rate to earn income to pay the rent but failing, and (3.) having the effect of shifting the costs of Autism the U.S. is not paying for to landlords, Society CAN'T SEEM TO ARTICULATE OR UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM !!!! The problem is, (1.) You, Neurotypical Society, are not funding Autistic people, (2.) the costs of being Autistic DOES NOT EVER GO AWAY - IT CONTINUES TO EXIST AND TICK UPWARD IN $$$$ AMOUNT whether or not you, Neuroptypical Society, choose to ignore it, and (3.) by choosing to ignore it and not fund the supports and costs of Autism, you, Neurotypical society, SHIFT THE AUTISM COSTS ONTO OTHER PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!! SOMEONE has to pay for it. When the government does not pay the lifetime costs of Autism, IT DOESN'T SIMPLY GO AWAY !!!!!! SOMEONE ESLE has to pay for it. Neurotypical society does not understand this.
@casperssleepsalot141711 ай бұрын
When ur bullied ,it don’t make is easier for us ,than u get mocked n called a lier . When I hear things like that n I’ve been through hell and back, but I will fight till the day I die.
@Jenn1214198311 ай бұрын
I am a 39 year old autistic female presenting person and I was diagnosed only 3 years ago, after my 8 year old daughter was diagnosed at age 2. I suspected it for years but was dismissed for many of the same reasons as you were. I’m thankful that she will grow up and be able to get the supports that I never had, but I mourn for my younger self too. I continue to be invalidated by people in my life and it really sucks 😢
@kls70111 ай бұрын
same age as you sister and I was diagnosed 3 years ago as well. Same thing happened to me.
@SilverMoonbeam211 ай бұрын
On the healthcare issue that’s what I’m currently dealing with. I refuse to go to any kind of doctor unless I legitimately think it’s something life threatening. And this is horrible because I have chronic diseases that are supposed to be monitored. But I can’t even count on one hand the times I sought help and actually got it…through my entire life experiences. So I’ve learned how to treat myself now. I even know how to do stitches now. And that’s sad.
@sksk-bd7yv5 ай бұрын
I didn't go to the hospital when I had a fever of 41,2° C and pneumonia. I have a kidney stone that sometimes give me extreme pain, but I treat it with the help of Dr. Google alone, bc it's still safer than Swedish hospitals. Swedish doctors, nurses and teachers gave me severe ptsd. If you're ND - don't come here! But if you find a safe place for us - please Tell Me!
@Baptized_in_Fire.5 ай бұрын
Most chronic diseases in humans and animals go away when fed a species specific diet. Humans are Apex predators that evolved thru ice ages eating fatty red meat from ruminant animals. Hope that helps. It's not sad that you can treat yourself, even if how you got there is sad. It's resilient, admirable, and a ton of other positive things. Keep learning and building these skills. It could save a life. Maybe yours, maybe someone else's. Have a great life! You're awesome 😎
@alanguest197911 ай бұрын
This video should be watched by every decision maker at every level of government, local and national, should watch this - AND TAKE NOTE!
@nataliyahorbachova995311 ай бұрын
When they bypass you every time for promotion because there's always someone even if less experienced and less professional but always more "socially interactive", "communicative". Or because they've asked several points of reference before promotion and of course there are at least one or two who said "We don't know what's with her but we don't recommend..."
@keylanoslokj180611 ай бұрын
Its so sad that in NT its mostly the corks that float. It's not about skills or work ethic
@kitty_ab11 ай бұрын
I would like to see police and health professionals to have some sort of training on how to deal with those who are nerodivergent.
@Baptized_in_Fire.5 ай бұрын
Police shouldn't exist
@FerTaylor10611 ай бұрын
ASD Life expectancy based on research - 58 yrs. Uk NHSs mental health support - available for children and Teens; limited for adult males; none for adult females. UK NHS Covid treatment for ASD - DNR UK housing and social housing (not group housing) - ASD does not qualify as disability. ASD most common cause of death of adults - suicide. ASD research shows increasing numbers of late diagnosis females dying - cause - suicide. ASD life expectancy - 58 yrs.
@ALADDIN2209197811 ай бұрын
For ADHD worse , in the U.K, it is not possible to get diagnosed with dyspraxia as an adult. I also have autistic traits combined with dyspraxia and ADHD, diagnoses as an adult.
@keylanoslokj180611 ай бұрын
I doubt i will even reach that. Im 33 and feel 70. I see me hitting the bucket at mid 40s😂
@sksk-bd7yv5 ай бұрын
Yup, that goes for Sweden, too.
@sergekronz11 ай бұрын
I hope you get some people to understand this, I feel burned by life as a 57 year old autist that also only know what his difference is for a few years. I got disability retirement at 51, I feel lucky for that, at least I don't need to face work days anymore, but I guess it came too late. I am writing a photo book to make difference accepted, the gains will go to my Country's Autism support. Thank you for your work.
@rita.amstlv11 ай бұрын
Yes, I am 60 plus woman with the diagnosis: BPD, depression, anxiety and schizofrenia. The professionals have missed that I am aspergers, I have all the traits of aspergers. It's frustrating
@LittleSeasonSojourner11 ай бұрын
WOW! I'm one of those too, though I'm just 50 this year. I got the BPD Diagnosis when I was 35 and it ruined my life. I was never BPD, I've ALWAYS been on the spectrum.
@rita.amstlv11 ай бұрын
Okay, I get it, very funny indeed. If you would be bullyied for all your life 24/7, even physically harrashed and here around where I live, people shouting enz. enz., then you would know how that is. I totally get it when people choose to end their own life after a lifetime being bullyied. I cannot smile about your joking of being aspie
@SoLongSpaceCat11 ай бұрын
@@rita.amstlv I think the person who responded to you was trying to empathise with your frustration by saying that's been their experience too
@Maaracha9 ай бұрын
They miss a whole lot of people. I'm one also.
@paulrudd106311 ай бұрын
Seriously Orion, we need you as a representative of autistic people in Australia! I cannot express how much I agree with every single thing you said in the video.
@ronoldcross818911 ай бұрын
Years ago, a young autistic man was shot, resulting in a lifetime of a paraplegic life, arrested and charged. His crime - being autistic on his own property and (of course) " acting strange" and not properly following the shouted instructions from the police. Turn out he was never a threat not threatening the police. His responses were perfectly normal for an autistic person but not the norm for nondivergent persons. Needless to say, there were legal action taken on his behalf. But the damage was already done. Education and awareness on the part of the "normal" people is lacking. It hasn't changed very much. The professionals and police are given more instruction in awareness. They seem to sleep through much of it. Bandaides do not fix the problem.
@filthism16597 ай бұрын
If I'm remembering the right story I actually think it was his carer who the police shot if I'm not mistaken super sad story tho either way what they did to both of them
@okitssteph11 ай бұрын
Thank you for every single word of this. This is my life experience. All of it. I’ll sum up the failure of the health system here in the States with this: at 28, after I had dropped out of grad school due to severe mental health struggles (meltdowns I’m pretty sure), the first psychiatrist outside of the university told me right before I walked out the door at the end of the appointment “You’re not normal for your age.” 39 now and on my way to diagnosis. Now I know it’s not all my fault. And you Orion have helped me immensely. Thank you.
@soundbeast495711 ай бұрын
yes my friend...I've had SOOO much frustration with being isolated by my family and doctors.
@soundbeast495711 ай бұрын
btw, in texas, they are bunching ALL students into the same class...like 50 of them, bad ones, good ones, illegal oes that don't know english, ones that do know english, disabled ones...all of them...my question to my siblings who are teachers, got offended when I asked what happens to the ones who need help learning...dude, it makes no sense at all...
@LexMouse11 ай бұрын
My autistic child was recently admitted to hospital. Those people were very kind and trying to help but they just had no idea how to handle a child like mine. They were trying to go ‘by the book’. And it made the experience one of the most traumatic we have ever had to date. At one point I honestly thought to myself - if I wasn’t here to advocate for him, what would happen to this child? Things need to change. Just going a little slower, considering what needed to happen, turning the lights down, quieter machines, listening to him when he said he needed pain relief - they didn’t believe him when he said he was hurting. I had to try make all this happen myself. It all would have made a big difference. Oh well. You keep talking about this Orion. It really matters. I mean it matters for everyone, but it especially matters for the people who can’t speak up for themselves because they are not able, or are not believed when they do speak up 😢
@teresawesterlind16779 ай бұрын
I am a retired RN with decades of experience that included pediatrics. When my son suspected his son had autism and asked for my opinion I had nothing for him. I knew nothing of it and had, to my knowledge anyway, ever encountered a child or adult with autism. They struggled to get a diagnoses for their 3 year old non verbal son. They had no access in their state of TN to an affordable diagnoses, so they moved in with us in CA where there was a new program at the local uni. They applied, were accepted free of charge for an assessment for their son. He got his diagnosis and we got in home treatment for him. The difference that made in the outcome of my grandson also affected the great outcomes of his two autistic younger brothers. I learned so much about autism by being immersed in it and loving three little neuro-atypical boys. You hit the nail on the head when you say the healthcare community world wide have a deficit when it comes to autism understanding.
@neurodiverselabor167211 ай бұрын
Hi Orion (you've got the same name as the ship that brought me to Australia). As a very late diagnosed Autistic and Autism mum and migrant, I have a few specifics: Dyspraxia, difficulties in sport, in our sport driven culture is a big one for us and more common amongst Autistics. Not enough research is done to help Autistics who struggle with Phys Ed and fitness. It is genetic, we are not just couch potatoes. My older daughter (self diagnosed Autistic ADHD) just got her ancestry genetic test back which gave her ethnic make-up. It also says, based on her genes, she is more likely to be introverted, a picky eater and her muscles tire more easily after exercise, all of which is true and is part of Autism. So where is the Integration support at schools for kids who struggle with sport? The issue is lost in the noise about an obesity epidemic and difficulty with sport is seen to have a moral cause. As an Autistic I excel in maths and tutor students (I don't teach in a regular school because of my issues with hierarchy and the social and sensory environment, especially chit chat and power politics). I have never called a kid who struggles in maths a couch potato or made them feel responsible for their issues - when will there be a similar level of understanding for kids who struggle with sport? My younger (diagnosed Autistic) daughter couldn't walk until she was two and a half, but was constantly bullied in sport at school and I was always complaining to the school, but sporting culture and Phys Ed is so competitive that the bullying always returned. I sent my kids to several specialised fitness programs after hours but these weren't subsidised and were closed down when they failed to make a profit. As a migrant Autistic/Autism mum, I get in involved in research advisory groups looking into the needs of Autistic children in immigrant families. Migrant children are often diagnosed later and end up with more social/learning issues. This is partly because so much research centres on white boys. Information about Autism isn't targeted towards ethnic communities (it's not just a matter of google-translating a brochure) and there is a lack of peer support for migrant Autistics and Autism parents, including educating and supporting extended families, since extended families play a bigger role in the life of Autistic kids from CALD backgrounds. Because many newer migrants come from poorer countries which have directly or indirectly been impoverished by European colonialism, old fashioned attitudes towards disability and Autism still hold sway with many migrants. Stigma plays a part in delayed diagnosis, isolation of families and hiding Autistic or disabled family members. More will come out of the Disability Royal Commission. In 2019, Father Dominic Valanmanal from Kerala state in India planned to visit Australia to conduct a residential retreat for Autism parents from India in Philip Island Victoria. But this priest blamed Autism on parents' "sins". An Indian Autism dad successfully petitioned the catholic church to cancel the priest's visit. My point is: why does the Australian government allow people into the country who practise hate speech towards Autistics? Why didn't they step up and deny Father Valanmanal a visa? The Department of Home Affairs refuses visas to Nazis and others who practise racist hate speech. When will they offer Autistics a similar level of protection? Nothing is being done to make it easier for older immigrants to get a diagnosis. Autism is assessed through looking at social differences, but migrants are made to feel "othered", that our differences are because we are non-Anglo - if we are stressed we are made to feel like hysterical foreigners eg Mediterraneans. If we are shy we must be repressed by traditional families eg Muslims. If we have trouble communication people assume we can't speak the language or have cultural difference etc. These assumptions are prevalent and seem to explain away differences, so make it harder for an adult migrant to gain a diagnosis. No research has been done on this and I have complained directly to Autism researchers when i have volunteered as a research subject. One researcher has promised to contact me later this year with a view to starting Australia's first ever research project specifically into the needs of CALD Autistic adults. It sounds great, but the lack of CALD Autism research to date is nothing to celebrate. Hundreds of submissions were made to the Australian Bureau of Statistics to count ethnic identity and LGBTIQ+ people in the 2026 national census, but there were only 2 submissions made to count Autistics, one of which came from me. We have to stand up and be counted and start somewhere.
@blondequijote11 ай бұрын
I think the question in ur 4th paragraph has an answer in a similar line fo thinking to ur own. Nazis are bad because they are anti-semites. Show some stats about autism in the semitc community / culture and how being anti autist is anti Semitic. Then the govt has to take it srsly.
@MaryKDayPetrano8 ай бұрын
OMG ! Sports ! When I was an Autistic kid, schools and camps always played the Neurotypical game of "Red Rover." That's where two opposing lines of people lined up in a big long line locking hands with each other in the line, and the lines faced each other a distance apart. Then the line up for action would call out "Red Rover, Red Rover, send so and so over." And, the line upon whom the demand was made, would expel and shove the named person forward and push them to "go over." The side who made the action demand was allowed to use their body and locked hands with the next person in their line to block, push, and even hit the person they demanded to be sent over - "anything goes" so as not to let that person "break through their line." Now, being Autistic, I was always very disproportionately demanded to be "sent over." And, it was open season on me, where I was always knocked down on thre ground and hit hard and repeatedly by the Neurotypicals in the line of the side who demanded me, and almost without exception I got black eyes, nose bleeds, and worse. And the teachers and camp counselors saw nothing wrong with this. It was Neurotypicalized VIOLENCE they were allowing and encouraging be used against me, in "Sport," and those Neurotypical adults in charge SAW NOTHING WRONG WITH IT !!!!! I was physically injured and very traumatized by being forced as an Autistic person to play in that Neurotypical game.
@connied850711 ай бұрын
The public education system should understand that people learn differently. There are auditory, visual, and kinetic learners. Autistic people have a hyper focus on narrow interests. That is a trait of a genius. It is necessary to teach to reach the auditory, visual, and kinetic student. Acceptable social skills to resolve issues should be taught to all students.
@jasminewatchmerise11 ай бұрын
I was diagnosed with Asperger's 30 years ago as a child. Those records are long gone now. However, I cannot seek diagnosis as an adult to access support services that I need. I have an autoimmune liver disease that requires transplant and I can be denied transplant with an autism diagnosis. The system is so messed up!
@InAHollowTree11 ай бұрын
Wtf?? The world that NTs built is so evil. 😢😭
@chloestokes260310 ай бұрын
What? Why? That's terrible!
@MaryKDayPetrano8 ай бұрын
Not only are records gone for older Autistic adults who were diagnosed Autistic as kids, but then there was the whole "Refridgerator Mother" blacklisting going on. It was VERY REAL that Moms of Autistic kids in the 1950s-1960s-1970s COULD LOSE THEIR JOBS AND CAREERS if it came out that their kid was Autistic. It was so bad in the U.S., it's like in the McCarthy era, being accused of being a "Commie." So, all these people today from government workers to health care people who do not have Autism education and training fail to understand the culture in which older Autistic adults grew up in, and this also contributes to older Autistic adults having to go be "re-diagnosed" with the same Autism they were already diagnosed with as kids. It's all just a VERY BROKEN SYSTEM. And, who does it harm ? NOT Neuroptypical people. It harms Autistic people.
@Truerealism7476 ай бұрын
What country is this? Terrible
@fluffycloud352911 ай бұрын
Just finished watching the video and it only solidified what I've already seen. I'm going to try and become an experience expert and make it my goal to speak at every police station in the country, as well as big companies and as many schools as I can. The more people understand us, the better we as people can help each other
@sksk-bd7yv5 ай бұрын
Go, go, go! Speak up for us! But do it safely, in a way that doesn't harm you. When you find out how to do all of this - please tell me.
@mooreanonumbers11 ай бұрын
We have a boatload legacy institutions that were designed to literally beat deviancy out of people, then the same people who run those institutions wonder "why [insert outgroup] does badly with cops/medical system/judicial system/prison/etc". Well... duh. Those systems were always designed to make life a living hell for whatever the outgroup of the day is. It was never about crime, the truly successful career criminals are ruling you and me, not getting randomly shot for walking strangely.
@sksk-bd7yv5 ай бұрын
I couldn't have said it better myself.
@Baptized_in_Fire.5 ай бұрын
Thank Goodness someone gets it. The government hates you and wants you unalive.... After they take everything they can from you
@visionvixxen4 ай бұрын
True. I’m a harmless young woman who had cops assault me when I couldn’t get my body to get out of the car when they were pulling in my arm to take me to jail because I was “refusing to obey” by asking them to let my poor mom to get her car insurance information which she didn’t have with her so that she wouldn’t have been charged for a double ticket I’ve never gotten in trouble with the police and in our area there there to protect and serve but lately they’re hovering behind things to give you a ticket for the most in things to make money and not just a little money like $600 worth of money I thought I was living in the twilight zone, and my rights were so violated. He was pulling my arm out of his socket, threw me in the back of a jail and only stopped when my mom said she needed to call the police chief because they couldn’t take me there without my asthma medication we still had to fight $1000 fine And I’m surprised, but there is trauma like anytime I see a police car behind me. I’d like to get out of the way to not give them an excuse to solve me in this. This makes me really worried cause I’m I’m pretty good but what if you had other issues or you spoke a different language or you had a hearing problem they could kill you and not all the police out there are nice and they’re not undergoing counseling servicesor education about people they’re just it’s really really scary so yeah something has to be done because we could get thrown in jail we could get killed we can get traumatized and we are and I still wasn’t able to take that guy to court was not fair what he did he not be allowed to be policeman ever again it was psychotic
@jeremiahinyangotu402311 ай бұрын
26:57-27:01 i can relate, because 8 months ago, I had this group project for my entrepreneurship module, and I got too scared to ask to be in a group, because 99.9% of the class (except me) were all popular and extroverted. And so, this one particular Monday morning, I was *gonna* ask the lecturer if he could put me in a group, but then I realised that he was all the way at the top of the classroom, and suddenly felt embarrassed that everyone would know that I'm too socially awkward to asked to be in a group, so I just sat frozen in my chair, and looked down to the ground in shame 😭
@sksk-bd7yv5 ай бұрын
This is so important! Society is ki💥lling us! Teachers, doctors, nurses - You Must Shut Up And Listen! You must change, because you are ki💥lling us. I live in Sweden, and school + healthcare for our tribe sucks. It's so brutal I now have severe ptsd.
@StridentSloth11 ай бұрын
I'd like a specific city to go to that is exclusively populated with people on the spectrum. That would solve a host of problems I've encountered.
@sksk-bd7yv5 ай бұрын
Oh, I just wrote a comment about how we should have our own country! ❤❤❤
@rita.amstlv11 ай бұрын
I watched yesterday a documentary of a Dutch teenager who had been bullyied at school for years. He couldn't take it any more and he ended his own life (age 16). I am an old aspie and I have been bullyied actually all my life more and less (mostly more). When the NT's never accept you and keep bullying and also trying to crash on me with a car which has already succeeded once with a leg broken on 2 places, then you can say that it is a miracle that I am still alive. Orion, I want to thank you for great content!!
@Lion-rf8xi6 ай бұрын
Yeah I've had a few people try and murk me. Kinda wtf is it about me that attracts psychopaths.
@leslieyancey508410 ай бұрын
I’m in the US, but the thing I struggle with is the inability to find decent employment. I wish they would simplify the process and make it inclusive because everyone needs money to live in this world! Why is everything so damn complicated?!
@its.Lora.9 ай бұрын
Oh the US is all about this weird cringe culture of "recruiting process". The HRIS systems literally are built to reject resumes that don't specifically hit all the corporate jargon and buzz words. Big discrimination against autistic people and BIPOC. This is how people are being discriminated against because employers know the loopholes. Applicants have no chance to even know when it happens to fight discrimination. Autistic people are routinely discriminated against in the workplace but US govt does nothing. It's never been about people here. I mean so many companies still cling to outdated models from the industrial age in general. The 19th/20th century US was all about grooming and assimilating to make obedient workers. It's still like this. They just want the cookie cutter worker who does not question a thing, just obey and making the big people more money. Autistic people don't think like this so we often struggle in jobs. We see life as it is and see through the bs.
@rcarrick35511 ай бұрын
This doesn't just resonate. This screams out. You need to be hired to help with these strategies. Thank you for all the info you broadcast and the book you wrote!!!
@keylanoslokj180611 ай бұрын
They want us genocided. Don't delude yourself. The elites already see their NT normie slaves as "carbon to be eliminated". Imagine how they view us who are also emotionally taxing to them, and introduce extra medical care needs. They'd much rather see us gone.
@scottstarkman632111 ай бұрын
I would say one of the most difficult challenges/sources of anxiety for me as a child was gym class. I believe outside the relatively more structured, safe, and predictable environment of the classroom, it can be difficult and/or distressing for an (especially, undiagnosed) autistic child. I believe all children (especially those not yet diagnosed as autistic) should be assessed for their relative comfort and ease and overall enjoyment in regular gym class and be given the opportunity to participate in equally physical activities but those which are more geared to those with, for example, the social challenges and struggles of being autistic. Interestingly, my most positive and memorable activity in gym class was when we did square dancing. It was one of the few times boys and girls mixed, and I feel also there was a certain degree of structure and "rhythm" (and messing up the various moves!) that made it more comfortable, more enjoyable, and more safe for me as a not-yet-diagnosed autistic boy than the more typical competitive sports where one can feel more judged and also possibly more subject to ridicule.
@JennaGetsCreative11 ай бұрын
I'm 35 and returned to school last year. I'm self diagnoses ASD at the moment and I've explained it to my doctor and expressed my concerns that I can't afford assessment right now but I think it might be helpful. What I got was "there are things we can do if you find transitioning from school to work difficult." Great, but what if I burnout this year trying to finish school?
@kellyschroeder743711 ай бұрын
Thanks Orion. It does make me sad that it’s taken so long for me to be diagnosed (58-59). If I look back w little fragments of memories esp frustrating interpersonal and work situations I’m like “oh my gosh” - ASD - no wonder I’ve been so demeaned and struggled so much to be understood as well as understand others ….
@natalierochon11 ай бұрын
thank you for raising awareness about autism there are still so many people that don't understand autism or disability
@lasalaverria11 ай бұрын
Hello, I am Neurotitypical and i really appreciate your channel raisin awarness it is the best way to buid the world all of us deserve.
@sksk-bd7yv5 ай бұрын
Wow! 👍👍👍
@dellseasandoval818711 ай бұрын
You said thank you at the end of this video, but it is the artistic community that should be thanking you for your super cool channel. Keep up the good work. I’m awake diagnosed autistic adult & it sure was nice to hear I’m not alone because the hospital system is absolute crap. Eventually I’ll get an ADHD diagnosis formally just for the fun of it because there’s no way I don’t have that too.
@dellseasandoval818711 ай бұрын
Stupid auto, correct. That is Autistic not artistic.
@dellseasandoval818711 ай бұрын
Again late diagnosed not awake. Stupid computers.
@colletteprops870811 ай бұрын
"Any woman born autistic will have everything ELSE thrown at them" 🫣 Adhd, ocd, major depression, anxiety, ptsd, cptsd, bi-polar.... only been seeing mental health professionals for 5 years. Am 42. I'm either autistic, or, like, an oblivious sociopath or something... but if I was a sociopath I'd be devastated, because I really do feel like I have love for every human, so.... 🫣😖
@ChaoticAnswers11 ай бұрын
I just watched the Four Corners episode of the failure of the NDIS to protect the most vunrable. Its so heartbreaking.
@dtroutmann11 ай бұрын
As an adult with autism in America this podcast keeps me alive really appreciate your help keep continuing no matter what
@gamewrit005811 ай бұрын
39:40 "As an Autistic person, there's nothing quiet about 500 keyboards." 😆😱
@terrigoulding55911 ай бұрын
Why don’t governments include autistic people and their families in developing the strategy? They know what they need and their families know what they need.
@jmaldo923 ай бұрын
Because the government doesn't actually care
@RV199247 ай бұрын
I’m 31 I self diagnosed myself a couple days ago. I’m so relieved to find you all beautiful people ❤
@jeremiahinyangotu402311 ай бұрын
47:07-47:21 I'm starting to look at all those appointments I had with this one learning support centre after I finished primary school in vain. I personally feel like the support I got was too consuming for me in primary school, and that it should've stopped at secondary school, but it didn't. And also, I didn't even consent to going to those appointments, and all that happened there was yoga, "interventions" in terms of how to act "normally". And even that one time 4 years ago, when I had this "review" of all the learning support I got, I told the lady that I didn't like having the learning support assistants around, because they kept telling me what to do, and that subsequently there was severe pathological demand avoidance building up inside of me; but my dad was there like "but, there just trying to help you". WHEN HE WAS THE ONE TO CONSPIRE WITH MY OLD SECONDARY SCHOOL TO FORCE ME TO HAVE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! 😡
@leslieyancey508410 ай бұрын
The thing that would really help is if the system could treat all people as *people*. Regardless of their disability, race, social class, etc. We all have the same basic needs for safety, security, accessibility, and dignity. Autistics are no different! Just treat everyone as a person with needs!
@shannonlyons88711 ай бұрын
Im in discussion with RDP in Canada about an art project to solve an issue of direct prejudice being recommended as a response to autistic self regulatory behaviour as part of the curriculum. I deeply appreciate this talk.
@benjaminvoss798711 ай бұрын
You are helping so many with your openness and sharing your story.
@chrisbrommer27511 ай бұрын
CANT PUT YOUR AUTISM IN A BACKPACK,...... So funny and true
@jackass31511 ай бұрын
i have often wondered , is it just my fault ? am i lazy ? when every institution you interact with fights you your whole life its easy to be convinced you are the problem
@martinkaczynski852611 ай бұрын
Unfortunately that is extremely dangerous. - As we learn from a young age that we are the problem. - As where ever we go we get the message that we are unwanted and not welcome. In the end it really does affect your mental health and you try to change who you are. - Probably for the worse.
@musicmamma7 ай бұрын
I agree!!
@alanhiggins129411 ай бұрын
Ive been diagnosed about two months ago. It felt great, straight away. I made sense. Then i tell people. I get, poor you, no your not. Dont put a lable on it, a pause then change of subject, that sort of thing. Now they have an excuse to ignore me. Its strangely possitive over all. Organisations could ask the autistic community. If you want to know how to look after an autistic person? Ask a person that already knows about autism. Neurotypical people dont seem to think that way. Even if they're told the answer!???
@bluntforcetanya11 ай бұрын
Man, the US doesn't think about us at all.
@sksk-bd7yv5 ай бұрын
Neither does Sweden.
@gothboschincarnate39314 ай бұрын
Dont be silly...in the USA, they (the worthless govt agency's) think of reasons and ways to get out of their responsibilities. they hate the disabled because we cost them precious money.
@a.miller698811 ай бұрын
Thank you for touching on uni, from the noise of keyboards in the library (also frantic writing sounds in exam rooms) to the lectures being based on a single learning style. I struggle with audio based learning, and that was the norm at the uni I went to. Ended up flunking out of first year bachelor of science, despite having an scholarship, because it got to the point I couldn’t handle the noise and learning style and stopped leaving my dorm room. 2 decades later, I’d love to go back for engineering, but I think the same hurdles would remain. More time in a noisy exam room, or even in a lecture hall won’t help. In Canada.
@softconstruction11 ай бұрын
So so much to agree with, to think about. And real talk. Our lives experiences of this are exhausting and then we're expected to advocate, educate, and pass as typical enough in our daily lives. And dead on about expecting the answers in the "engagement " without already listening to what we've been saying. Huge probs for what you've said about uni. It's outmoded, it's impersonal, and often unhelpful. If we succeed it's despite of everything, not because ... anyway, preaching to the converted but so grateful for your voice, acceptance and appreciation.
@TheSilentChloey11 ай бұрын
Undiagnosed and you're absolutely right the book was thrown at me when I was younger and I'm 99% sure that I'm autistic.
@user-go5zp7gv1c7 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for sharing this It’s nice to know that I’m not alone in a lot of these struggles cause the world can be quite a lonely place
@andoryuu311 ай бұрын
I think a big challenge is that you can't identify an autistic person by their appearance, and this makes acceptance in a mostly natural way hard to achieve. Being singled out is a big of part of the problem. Thinking out loud here, but often times I find that if I spend time with people one on one for a bit and get to know each other, I sidestep a lot of the crappy misjudgements that could go wrong. This in mind, I had a community support idea that may or may not work. The general idea I had was to have people volunteer for something and have the event set up to be a 50/50 split of autistics and non-autistics, somewhere along the lines requiring one on one collaboration or pair work in a group. I'm sure that if segregated afterward, the non-autistics could together identify commonalities in their autistic peers, and so could the autistics about their non-autistic peers. A group activity isn't going to trick any of us into thinking there's more of us than there actually are (feel good lies about demographics would confuse people more), but it would create a handful of potential community allies. Interesting that Microsoft has a total separate hiring process for autistics. Instead of a one day interview, it takes place over a week. Less pressure to perform in one short burst (a common stumbling block for me), and less harsh judgement. Similar concept to the one on one bonding I mentioned. Because it's a diverse spectrum, going by textbook understanding doesn't seem totally ideal. Autism Speaks claims "If you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person". Yeah, I'd agree. There's an underlying unconscious thing about the spectrum though that allows us autistics to click with each other in a way not as common with non-autistics. Post diagnosis, I look back on my friendships and realize some of these other oddballs like me were on the spectrum too (they too got late diagnosis). I don't struggle to communicate with them. We generally just get each other's odd manerisms.
@Thilosophocl3s7 ай бұрын
Tailoring the approach would include making the latest autism research/findings part of continuing education. A lot of continuing education in the US is hosted and presented by the fields that they focus in. Optometrists have optometry conventions, but more and more are including occupational therapy, and to a limited extent, vision therapy and a other various specialist areas. You've got me all kinds of worked up. I had no idea 3 days ago about whats been wrong with me for my whole life, and to learn that i can learn more about autism from TikTok and KZbin than medical personnel already know, just serves to continue weakening type of authority i can assign to them.
@emilyjacob2842Ай бұрын
This was therapeutic to watch. I have had so many of the same thoughts and experiences. I have been failed in the diagnostic process (undiagnosed until adulthood), employment (unemployed), and in getting necessary care and supports (healthcare professionals completely lacking in autism education, lack of access to disability services). Thank you for articulating these ideas. ❤
@fredseekingbibleturth11 ай бұрын
yep social isolation of us is a real thing. I am from the USA though.
@Buggy_The_Spy_6911 ай бұрын
Hey, I am first - this is a first. 😂 Great video so far. I am 16 and only just been diagnosed with asd.
@turtleanton653911 ай бұрын
😊😊🎉😊😊
@josephineramirez282611 ай бұрын
I know how true is. Because I went through it myself. I am 55 years and I got diagnosed almost 2 years ago.
@allythearts543910 ай бұрын
I got my diagnosis yesterday 😂❤❤❤ I'm autistic officially confirmed. Knew all these years though but I'm glad it's on paper now ⭐
@darongw11 ай бұрын
Great video! It's hard to be a self advocate but also important to addressing these issues. But you got to takecare of yourself first. I have been struggling with this balance. I'm on the Diversity Advisory Committee at my work and I have focused on Autism and neurodiversity. As a late diagnosed Autistic adult it's important to me. But at the same time it's hard and really draining. Right now I'm leading a team reviewing our hiring process to try to make it better for neurodivergent people. Good work and I have been given awards for my work. But it's so draining too and I often want to just focus on my job and have more time to rest...
@ChaoticAnswers11 ай бұрын
After years of occasionally but persistently being kicked out of pubs or bars made sense. Im so friendly and have never been in a fight. I would always leave with no resistance but very upset as i walked down the street confused especially with a loud and agro dude allowed to stay and i didn't. Slight stimming? No eye contact when asking for a drink? My awkward gait i have when i walk?????
@OwenLeBlanc-l7h7 ай бұрын
I ended up finishing a law degree and loved commercial law. The small attention to detail that we have has been a strength. Although face to face negotiations can be a bit rough at times.
@adzmac51510 ай бұрын
Every point you have made is 1000% true in my experience also. This was quite distressing to watch but I was determined to hear it all. As for the drugs, weed made me comfortable in my body and improved my fit in the society. My most successful period of my life was done stoned but that made me a criminal and forced me to clean up my act. With abstinence I have lost everything. My career, my home, my family, my physical and mental health all gone. The Family Law Court process destroyed me and I agreed to give away everything just to get out of the process and now I’m really suffering for doing that. I don’t know why someone didn’t spot what was going on and pull it up. I nearly took my own life because of how bad I was deliberately made to feel by my ex wife’s female narcissistic barrister who has moved up the ladder since and is also known to have badgered fellow practitioners to tears, (total bitch). I was traumatised which was also used to prove what a bad person I am as I couldn’t communicate and demonstrate my true caring nature. I love what you are doing, thank you for dedicating your energy and expertise to this important conversation
@micheals199210 ай бұрын
I use cannabis/weed to process my emotions. I've been on the brink of suicide before because I didn't really understand my feelings and the reasons causing my suicidal urges (that time I realised my masking and obsession to keep other people happy was making me extremely unhappy). Cannabis saved my life. I only use cannabis as a last resort it does improve some social awareness but for me the reduction of my struggles associated with alexithymia is extremely useful. I don't use cannabis on a daily basis as it worsens sensory issues for me. I don't buy cannabis anymore, I grew my own. I don't use allot though, I have one with 12% THC 5% CBD and another with 5% THC and 12% CBD (if the seeds spec sheets are to be believed, they seem to be but I don't have a lab to test that xD).
@filthism16597 ай бұрын
Im 39 now and I was misdiagnosed as a kid with ADHD and as an adult addict with bipolar just getting diagnosed at 35 was eye opening and did really change my life as I had already raised my son who was diagnosed as a child thankfully I see the difference in him the help he got his whole life and the fact that its too late for me makes me sad I just keep working keep my head down keep marching on wish there were more help in the USA for adults with autism
@elizabethpiela738911 ай бұрын
You didn't mention clergy. In the US, clergy are often remarkably ignorant of autistic needs and communication styles. We are Catholic, and my son is an excellent church organist. Despite his willingness to work (even for free), he has been refused even fill-in positions for when the main organist can't make it. The staff give no valid excuse for their exclusiveness. Autistic people in the community have literally been kicked out of masses. I've spoken to priests about the need for training, and NOTHING has been done.
@FaethorFerenzcy11 ай бұрын
I was once in a "Taskforce" for inclusivety at my then current workplace. It was known that i am diagnosed as autist. But sadly i lacked that one course about inclisivety another person on the "Taskforce" had. So i got lectured about how i can only talk from my own perspective and that i have no idea about autism in general. Sometimes i wish, that neurotypical person could see the irony in his statement. All in all, i got booted cause the person lecturing me was my direct superior. "He disturbs the peace and inclusivety at the workplace. Also he is not able to adapt to the new course of management". It is frustrating. Also i am unemployed since then, feeling like i am in a vegetative state since i don't even get to the part with a first interview. Only jobs available near, "supported" by the state are as Programmers or in IT. Also you need the experience to do those jobs. Both things i do not have and due to my financial status am not able to get (besides that, it is not a strength of me and i already have a very diverse CV.) So yeah Orion, good video, even when you're in Australia and i am in Switzerland, i can relate a lot to the topics.
@wildfireamv11 ай бұрын
Thank you for bringing this to our attention! What an exciting development as an aussie
@ErinMokhtar7 ай бұрын
To Orion: You are such a unique advocate; very articulate and insightful. You are realizing your potential!! I'm learning more from you then years of training, classes, and reading. We all struggle in different ways; and I hope a new compassion is emerging at least in the younger generations.
@jeremiahinyangotu402311 ай бұрын
23:56-24:09 we have a similar policy in Ireland called "D.A.R.E." (disability access route to education), and like you said, they don't disclose why you're offerd the supports. I think I had it worse than anyone, because when I had those meetings with my guidance counselor in my last year of secondary school, she didn't bother telling me that all the colleges I applied to had to be registered with the D.A.R.E. program. And so, I was forced to give up my first college place acception, because there were "no special needs supports" (even though I didn't consent, or really need them, because i'm only mildly autistic, and i've been craving to live more independently since I started secondary school, because I feel like i've been extremely infantilised since being diagnosed autistic at 3 years old). And although I *did* apply for this other college, I had to take 2 buses for 2 hours just to get there, so my dad forced me to give up my place there, too. And keep in mind that when I was applying to a third college, I had to constantly call up the national college application board, and when that hadn't worked, I was depressed, and crying in my room. And although I *did* get accepted into the third college, they deliberately a round offer, because I put them second, because I put the second college first as per my mom's request. And even when I *did* ask for help from the support services from the third college, specifically with the social aspect of things, because for a marketing assignment, I had to carry out this focus group, and considering the fact that my dad never lets me out of the house to hang out with people my own age, that wasn't gonna happen. So anyway, they were super sloppy with their services; they had this humongous turnover rate with their staff, so I was practically in limbo. I mean, the lecturer was understanding, and only had me interview my sister for the focus group, but the point of this whole tangent is that, what was the point of me sacrificing the anti-learning support college, when the current college I attend has farcical learning support? 🙄😂
@kayjay-kreations11 ай бұрын
Orion for parliament ! How great if they used you as a consultant before they made decisions for and about us . "NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US" Diagnised at 58 in Australia, no assistance , no offer of any help in anyway just here is your diagnosis bye.......is there any assistance for "asd1"or am I not autistic enough? We are on our own. Thanks Orion we need YOU
@Kauyla11 ай бұрын
Thank you for making this video. I hope that change for the good starts to happen for us all, everywhere. We deserve to have a higher quality of life. We have so much we can contribute if given support. We have value because we exist, and it is time that value is reflected in the collective. ❤
@distortionpedal11 ай бұрын
I don’t want to live in a group home , I hate living at home but I refuse to leave my cat and dog with my old dad who is abusive to me and my narcissistic mother left a year ago .. I feel like I’m living in hell but I guess I’m just lucky I have a roof over my head even though being here drives me nuts… I can’t function right now . I don’t frigen care about footy results , my dad keeps telling me to stop doing things I can’t help like when I get scared of everything or every noise … I keep screaming and crying into my pillow because I don’t know what else to do . Sleeping pills have stoped working . I’m hate people . Ndis are a bit shit as well . I just want to sleep or go away .. I dont know what to do??? I keep thinking I’m going to die soon . It would not bother me but I have to look after my cat and dog
@diesalott11 ай бұрын
Fantastic video, I'm going back to school and this will help me. Thank you for your work, self-advocacy is hard. 😅
@TauvicRitterАй бұрын
I love your comic approach. Its really necessary to survive in this crazy world.
@kated316511 ай бұрын
I'm a 35 year old female and my own family doesn't know I'm autistic. Heck, my autistic father doesn't know he's autistic and I have no idea if my autistic brother knows that this is the case either... and I don't even want to bring it up because our narc.issistic mother would only weaponize that knowledge against me.
@_blue_vision_11 ай бұрын
this kind of stuff is why i have very few neurotypical friends. almost all my friends are nuerodivergent because we're the only ones who bother to try to understand each other. nt's just find you uncanny and want to sweep you under the rug. they care more about maintaining a status quo that's comfortable for them and no one else.