AUTISTIC PEOPLE TALKING Ep. 8 PODCAST ft. Ella

[@Autistic_AF]

Yippie! I'm looking forward to this! :D

[@WoodshedTheory]

Ooooo first comment nice

[@Autistic_AF]

@@WoodshedTheory Of coourrrse. Listening now, Ella's a fab guest to have on!

[@Pete_1972]

I enjoyed this so much. Thank you for painting your Woodshed Purple for a day. 😊

[@Holly-tw6bt]

I love Purple Ella!!! I squeaked out loud when I saw both of you were going to be talking together!

[@whitneymason406]

What a treat! Purple Ella was one of the first KZbinrs I found after getting my diagnosis! I appreciate their perspective as a fellow parent. Thank you both for sharing your experiences! 💞

[@Catlily5]

Me too! Purple Ella and YoSamdySam

[@whitneymason406]

@Catlily5 yes Sam too! ❤️👍

[@janepearce5424]

I love how these podcasts get into really specific corners of autistic experience in a natural way. It is so much more nuanced than a 'list' style presentation. I recognised for the first time that i can allow myself time to process thoughts in conversations. Thank vou both. Also the benefits of crafting ❤

[@Sanderini63]

Two of my favorite people here on KZbin. 💜💜💜 Purple Ella was one of the very first people suggested to me to watch, which opened up a whole new world of understanding for me. Thank you both for making this. I am a 60 yr old currently officially undiagnosed but seeking out more information consistently for the past 2 years. So much resonates for me throughout my life, but still searching for the right place for diagnosis. Hate feeling like an imposter, but also feel so very much at home here, for once in my life. ❤

[@JustMyAutisticalities]

Dear Claire, Thank you for this very nice and easy to enjoy podcast! I always love watching your podcast and learning more about other autistic content creators I haven't checked out yet, like Purple Ella. Thank you for feeding my special interest 🤭👌🙏 Have a lovely day and treat yourself for a job well done! 🎉❤ With gratitude, Ella

[@stephenie44]

Great episode I might move soon. I’m determined to have a craft room come out of this mess.

[@FreehandlyMadeAuCrochet]

Awe YUSSSS Ella!!! I love her content! She was the very FIRST channel I watched when I started searching KZbin for Austic Adult Content!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TessaCoker]

I am so happy you are featuring Ella!! I was worried about them...

[@Minakie]

I have gladly nominated Ella as a TED speaker, not only because I love her videos but because her idea for a talk on the unique experience of having both autism and ADHD seems like a really interesting topic and I'd like to see it happen. /gen "Thank you for your speaker nomination -- a valuable contribution to our community! We confirm that we have received your nomination and will review it. There is no deadline for nominating a speaker. If you've submitted a nomination, it will stay in our database to be considered for future conferences. Due to volume, we are not able to respond personally to each suggestion, but someone from TED will be in touch if needed. You can now go back to enjoying TED Talks..."

[@wendyheaton1439]

Great to hear 2 fabulous female autistic people sharing a conversation all so relatable... let's get Ella onto a TED talk ...

[@RuiNa42]

"Time's not real, so...." SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. I mean, I know time is a dimension of the universe, but it's a slippery one.

[@soundbeast4957]

Just diagnosed @ 47

[@murtazaarif6507]

Congratulations 🎉

[@okitssteph]

Congratulations! I’ll be shortly behind with a late official diagnosis coming this year at 40 🙂

[@BlueRoseHelen252]

What a lovely podcast, Purple Ella was one of the first people I started watching when I started watching content about Autism, I've also enjoyed her short form content too. You have a great interview style Claire and I always look forward to watching your content. I think Ella would make an excellent Tedtalk her educational material is always so well done. Really enjoyed this, thank you. 😊 edited.... I have just nominated Ella for a Tedtalk I think she would be an excellent speaker.

[@FreehandlyMadeAuCrochet]

LOL! I never would have thought that your channel would have anything to do with carpentery or wood! LOL! So funny! I never really thought of it as anything paticular except "what a cool name for a channel". I'm so oblivious some times! 🤣😂

[@markigirl2757]

Same I thought it was super creative and was like dang this is why I’m not a youtuber I can’t even think of what to say other then make references to my vices bc I find them funny now 😅😅😅😂😂😂😂

[@lindaT82]

Thanks Claire and Ella for sharing a great podcast!! Interesting, joyful, and the importance of kindness ✨

[@TheCassierra908]

Such an awesome podcast! Purple Ella was one of my first KZbinrs I watched when exploring about my autism. Thank you to you both!

[@erynmorgan1717]

What a wonderful episode, amazing to see Purple Ella. It was watching Purple Ella that I first starting exploring autism and she really resonated with me because we are both based in the same city! Thank you Claire for yet another wonderful chitty chat with an amazing autistic person!

[@vickimaroney800]

I'm so glad you've had chance to talk to each other. It's been interesting and helpful. Thank you!

[@EricAllenGriff]

Great Accomplishment. Thank You Ella and Claire!

[@shapeofsoup]

I would absolutely watch Purple Ella’s TedTalk!

[@cindianajones9049]

you two are great together! and YES Ella on Ted Talk will be a knockout. Thank you

[@Catlily5]

Good to see you Purple Ella! Thanks for having them, Claire!

[@isabellammusic]

This was so inspiring and uplifting! I want to do what Ella's doing or something similar.

[@ghill8587]

I love how you keep your upcoming guests a surprise! Great convo per usual. 😎

[@WoodshedTheory]

I’m glad you like that! It’s not really a secret but I don’t want to promise something if I not 100% sure it’s gonna happen yet and then let people down. I have some other great guests lined up though!

[@lauraburystedmundsyoga8231]

Thanks for making this & being so honest in your discussion, both of you! 💚

[@WoodshedTheory]

Thanks for your support

[@mikaeljacobsson1437]

Some things are done for your own mind and for different reasons than what might be expected. I started playing guitar in the 80s and in later years i have added piano and some bass. I have never really had any thoughts about being an artist or being in a band. Maybe just a fun rehearsal thing sometimes just to play with others. But playing instruments is a personal thing that i do because my mind needs it. I did some photography and photo editing from around 1998 to 2004 i think. I started drawing/sketching in 2013 to deal with my restless hands. Its been an on and off activity that has helped some with my restless hands and to deal with focus and having no patience. My passion though i think would be the maker world. I love all of it but for me on a personal level its more about electronics, microcontrollers, robotics and such. But the whole DIY mentality fits me. I need to be able to solve things myself, to build things myself. To solve problems i did not know i had. There are so much to find within the DIY/Maker world. DIY/Maker things also helps me a lot with stimming.

[@pikmin4743]

another great guest and conversation!

[@Imperfect_Eric]

Another great episode of a wonderful podcast! Thank you Claire & Ella! 😊💜

[@marisa5359]

Ah. Yes. Much to relate to. My kids diagnoses definitely impacted my understanding of self. Dyslexia...dyspraxia. Words we are currently discussing much with my youngest after his recent diagnosis of both. Looking at homeschool next year for certain as a result. He manages but even his 504 is not relieving much stress so would like to approach his education on his level. Scared but excited all at once. Want to see his young life less overwhelming than it has been for me, his dad, and his siblings...Thanks for a good podcast!

[@crystallefay]

I loved this!! So validating!! Thankyou to both of you beautiful Souls for sharing your journey with us!

[@WoodshedTheory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@avgirlaustintx]

Thanks for sharing this Claire & Ella. I'm loving the podcasts! ❤

[@KayleenGnwmythr]

It's after 2am here so I am going to have to finish listening to this great yarn tomorrow, but I am very much enjoying this: thank you to the both of you. Purple Ella was one of the first channels I found on my autism journey (and purple is the favourite colour of both myself and my partner 😊)

[@speardagger]

Great episode you guys! Good to see Purple Ella!

[@shapeofsoup]

Ella! And Grace Kelly lyrics!

[@terrigoulding559]

Loved this interview. I can relate to both of you so much. Thank you.❤

[@WoodshedTheory]

Thanks

[@Catlily5]

I find other people's lives very interesting too.

[@PossumMedic]

Great to see you two teaming up! 💜

[@WoodshedTheory]

thanks!

[@kiliya89]

I really enjoyed the conversation!

[@Crouteceleste]

It's interesting what you talked about with the camera/sound issues. For years I have been getting ringing in my ears when I'm listening to people talking (on KZbin only) without background music in the video. I have to turn down the sound. When I'm on Twitch, watching a video on another platform, or speak to someone on Facetime, I don't get any ringing. Weird huh ? Must be KZbin's compression or something.

[@lisabmpls]

Re: camera hiss...are either or both of you using the microphone that's on the camera as opposed to a mic that's completely separate from the camera?

[@Pjolter365]

Really intreating talk you two!. Ella is a grat person:). I really identify with the way they used to mask. I was also the force smily cheerfull people pleaser working so hard to making people feel good and feeling I needed to perform to be accepted, at the sam time suffering on the inside. Thanks for sheering Ella, that made me see it my self an understand it on an emotional lvl!

[@x.pillsnraz0rblades.x]

Yes!! Another autistic person who loves building legos with step by step instructions but can't free build! Legos was an obsession of mine when I was younger. Only the power ranger and spider-man legos though, as they were my other obsessions. I'd probably still enjoy building legos today if I bought a set. I would always complete my 300-500+ piece lego sets in one sitting, reading and following each step carefully. This would drive my mom crazy, as these large, expensive lego sets were meant to last all summer 😂

[@dus10dnd]

I was diagnosed at 42, I get it. It is crazy.

[@WoodshedTheory]

welcome

[@lesliekarl3594]

Maybe the channel name should be changed to "Woolshed Theory" haha! 💚

[@WoodshedTheory]

Ohhhh. Nice!

[@charlottehorwitz4283]

I was diagnosed at 61!

[@WoodshedTheory]

thanks for sharing!

[@dus10dnd]

Are you recording the video on the camera entirely separate from your computer? I use my computer to record directly (you could setup your camera as a webcam with something like the Elgato CamLink 4K, if you're recording on the camera). I have a separate mic and this gives you the controls within macOS to adjust all of that as it records.

[@WoodshedTheory]

thanks for sharing

[@x.pillsnraz0rblades.x]

Personally, I love hearing neurodivergent rambles and hate short form content, partly because it limits key, context-building details, which also tend to be more relatable than the "main points." So, if Ella wants to ramble more on youtube, I would be a happy listener, as I don't watch tiktok or shorts.

[@Simplyinfamous-yc4pi]

Holy moly. Cambridge. What were you majoring in?

[@gardockis.playground]

👈 space filler

[@murtazaarif6507]

Good evening ladies. I don't mean to sound rude. I don't know how else to say it but Purple Ella's episode in the past featuring her daughter being gifted made me cringe and not so happy. I know that only 0.2 percent in the general population have this ability but it has becoming stereotypical by attaching it as a label that it applies to every autistic person which it does not. The subject makes good viewership on KZbin. Sorry Ella. Its just constructive criticism. Ella I haven't watched your videos for a long time. Anyway I hope you are keeping well. All the best. Hello Claire thank you for making my days interesting with your American accent.

[@PurpleElla]

Hi; can you let me know which video this is please? Don’t mind constructive criticism but I’m fairly sure I’ve never made a video about my child being gifted?

[@murtazaarif6507]

@@PurpleElla Hi, the video titled "Getting an autism diagnosis as a child" posted on 13 Jan 2023 is similar but I think there may have been another video or a Live discussion which I cannot find. I had posted a nice comment on this video as you see but I didn't express my opinion in relation to statistics. I think in the other video which I cannot find I mentioned the 0.2% rate of gifted autistic people in a general population according to official government health statistics in Australia which makes the gifted amongst autism very rare. Having watched this video again I agree that you do not specifically say gifted but I just perceive it that way at least as a general theme of the video but I still think there was another video.

[@PurpleElla]

@@murtazaarif6507 I am confident I would never ever insinuate that giftedness was common or typical in autistic people. I am also confident I have never made a video to exclusively discuss my child’s giftedness because I have never described her as gifted. She is highly academic, and I may have mentioned that in the video you mentioned. I can’t see an issue with accurately describing my child 🤷. I guess I can’t be everyone’s cup of tea ☺️

[@murtazaarif6507]

​@@PurpleEllaWell all I can say is that the issue for me was at the very least the perceived perception I had.