Wow, I'm Not Crazy - A Love Letter to the Neurodivergent Community (Animatic)

Thank you all so much for being a part of my journey - I hope this helps you in yours! :)
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Psalm 139:14 - "I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Your works; my soul knows it very well."
All music belongs to AJR. Art and home videos are mine.
You are so loved! Have a great day! :D

[@nuham1332]

This is wonderful !!! It’s kind of sad that people like us feel this way but it’ll always get better :) and your feelings are always worthy,love your work and hope you have a nice day !!!

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

Thank you so much!! The same to you, my friend!

[@Roux36Prod]

As someone who’s entire family (including myself) is neurodivergent, I won’t lie when I say this made me tear up a little. I know I didn’t have the same experience as other people on the spectrum growing up, since I was raised with my autism and ADHD in mind, but seeing other people discovering that they’re different, not broken, is exactly the feeling of “wow, I’m not crazy!”. That being said, a good portion of this video was literally me. =)

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

I'm so glad that you had a knowledgeable upbringing! But I'm also glad that this animatic was able to encourage you 🥰💖❤

[@Ari_C]

brb. crying at this wonderful little animatic ;﹏; 💙💙

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

AWWW!!! 🥺💙🥺💙🥺

[@littledevil3186]

I have ADHD and this video makes me happy. Thx for making it. ❤

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

You're so welcome! I'm glad to hear that you found yourself in my story ❤

[@galaxymew5138]

AHHHHHH!! SOMEBODY DID IT, I'M SO HAPPY!!

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

FJSKSHSJSKSK I KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT APPARENTLY

[@user-uj8vs8ol7y]

(Sorry this is so long!) I *cannot* express how much I loved this! I relate to it so hard, and I love how the whole story was set up. I used to do google searches trying to figure out what's wrong with me and never found the answer. About six months ago, I started researching autism and ADHD and they explain everything so well! I finally started figuring out what's RIGHT with me instead of what's wrong. I was able to get things to help me like chew necklaces and fidgets. AND THE ENDING! Literal chills when the bubbles started popping, because that's exactly what the ND community has done for me. Thank you so much for making this, it'll always be my favorite animation!

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

Omg you're so sweet!!!! This is one my my favorite comments ever 😭❤ I'm SO glad that you've been able to find good coping mechanisms for yourself!! That's such an amazing thing to celebrate!!! It was life changing for me to find a community of people who felt the same way that I did. p.s. What kinds of fidget toys are your favorites?? :)

[@user-uj8vs8ol7y]

​@@camerontaylorsmusic I gotta say my favorite is the chew necklace! After that, probably the infinity cube and ofc anything that spins! :)

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

@@user-uj8vs8ol7y That's awesome!! I don't have a chewy (although I do chew on my nails a lot, oops) but my sister ADORES my fidget cube. My personal favorites are my putty, simple dimples, and monkey noodles 💜

[@user-uj8vs8ol7y]

@@camerontaylorsmusic Cool! I actually want to buy the simple dimple one but I wasn't sure what it was called until now! So thank you! :D

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

@@user-uj8vs8ol7y Of course! Anytime! 🥰⭐

[@kelseyfenwick423]

I adore this 💕🥰💙 it brings so much happiness to me knowing I'm not the only one who is different 💕 I have autism and adhd with bad anxiety so this video made me smile 💕💙

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

I'm so glad that this resonated with you! Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one. It makes me feel better to know that I'm not! Thank you for your comment, you really made my day!!!

[@8willtodraw881]

This is awesome I love this I was taught my who life to mask my neurodivergence and I only recently started to stop that and I'm much happier and I surround myself with people who love and support me and it's awesome. Also your is so good

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

I'm so happy that you're finally able to come into your own! Thank you for watching!! 💛💖💛💖💛

[@adventuresinlondon674]

Oo this is such a beautiful animatic! :) I love this!! I don’t know a lot about neurodivergent people or anything related to it but I’m very interested to keep learning because there are some things that I can relate to X3

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

No matter if you're neurodivergent or not, thank you for your support! You're always welcome in ND circles to find any coping mechanisms that make life easier for you! ⭐❤⭐❤⭐❤

[@casanovatwentytwo]

omfg... this is the greatest animatic ive ever watched

[@donniefan9000]

this is incredible, this made me cry, tears of joy that is, so thank you for this. as someone with autism, adhd, rsd, anxiety, ocd, tics, etc. (there's a lot, but most fall into my autism symptoms) this means the world to me. amazing representation of all the stages of ones self. to finish this off, i shall say it once more, this is INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!

[@doutkast4970]

we gotta look out for our own.

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

We sure do. ♡

[@dahlinlol]

This legit made me cry, I love everything about this

[@The1stPurpleCat]

This video was very well made. I love it! I’m surprised it doesn’t have more likes. Now I have a sad story. I just wanted to say it out loud. You don’t have to read. All my life it has been hard to focus on homework and other boring and important things, but I knew their importance so I force myself to keep going even when I took hours to get any homework done. I can’t make decisions because I might make the wrong one. A complement feels useless and just wrong so I must be tricking people into thinking I’m good at things. When I hear a small constructive criticism, I take it to mean everything I’ve ever done and will do isn’t good enough. I hate how I look because I pick at my skin without thinking and will do that for a long time without realizing how much time passed. This also happens with staring at a wall, I just stare at a wall for a long time without knowing how much time passed. I have severe object relativity problems and everything is so messy all the time. Late fall 2019, I accidentally happened upon HowToADHD, and I think I watched “What is ADHD?” And her opening was of three kids, one staring at a wall, another working on work still, and one kicking a kickball in class. Which one has ADHD? Obviously the boy with the ball... but dang those other two are so relatable. But then she said all three of them actually have ADHD. I started to study ADHD and slowly realized I probably had it. Most people would think “oh no, if I found out I had [insert mental disorder] I would be worried because I’m different!” But that’s just it. I thought I was broken. I thought there was no way to fix me, I was just broken. Finding ADHD made me feel different. Yeah I’m not normal, but I never was. Now I’m not broken normal, I’m just different. Early 2020, I took tests to see if I had ADHD. However, it also had other mental disorders on there. So I got re-diagnosed with depression (not a shocker) and got diagnosed with social anxiety. But when it came to ADHD, I was too smart, I didn’t stun enough, and I wasn’t hyperactive enough. But I was allowed to try ADHD medicine for a week. It didn’t do anything from what I could feel or think of. No second chance. I wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD. So here I am. More broken then before. All alone. No reason to be the way I am. Just broken...

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

Oh, Cat, I'm so sorry I didn't see this comment sooner! I'm going to be dead honest - you just told my story. Almost verbatim. We've been going on our journeys at the exact. Same. Time. And I think that's awesome! Can I tell you a secret? I don't have a Dx either. But what I DO have is a community that supports me, a family that cares for me and accommodates me, and peace in the knowledge that I am the ONLY person who truly knows myself and my experiences. If there is a coping mechanism that works for me, THERE ARE NO RULES! I'm allowed to use it! Just because a human being can survive without food doesn't mean it doesn't suck to be hungry! All this is to say that you are welcome in ND circles. You are welcome to find other brains that think like yours, you are allowed to be upset about things that might seem small, and you are allowed to celebrate things that might seem silly. We are all here for you. You were made exactly the way you were meant to be made. The prayer I've been praying lately is, thank you, God, for the brain you put in my head. Because it isn't a mistake. YOU were not a mistake. Just reading your words, I can tell that you are articulate, intelligent, and tender. You care deeply about others. Please care that deeply about yourself, because there is so much to love. Thank you for sharing this with me. I promise that things get better with time. It's going to be okay. It WILL. Keep on trucking! ❤⭐

[@Dgidsbjgsxggeaxgj]

You know doctors are only people too they can be wrong too. I got my diagnosis when I was in a mental healt clinic and when I went back to my regular psychologist after I was out again he straight up told me my diagnosis was wrong and that it didnt fit me because I was too smart and not hyperactive enough. All that whil I still couldnt go to school most days because I was so exausted trying to be neurotipical and good in school and be just perfect. It took me another year and another three months in the mental health clinic to finally accept my diagnosis and start getting the help I needed. All because one jerk of a psychologist was such an idiot. So please dont make the same mistake I did and let one stupid doctor keep you from getting what you need. We neurodivergent people need to fight for ourselves and our diagnosis especially if you arent a little white boy (which most adhd and asd research focuses on). I would never have gotten my autism diagnose if I hadnt fought for it. You know yourself and your needs best so get yourself what you need.

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

@@Dgidsbjgsxggeaxgj That's a wonderful point. Going for a second or third opinion can be very beneficial. Be an advocate for your own health - whether that's mental or physical. You deserve for someone to take you seriously. ❤

[@_itslilacgacha_595]

Well you know you could have ADD it's like ADHD just without the hyperactive so you might have it, my little cousin has ADHD and I have ADD if you compared us and "normal person" then I would seem like a middle ground between the two.

[@definitelyreal.]

love you. love all of us. all of us neurodivergents and neuroqueers in the comments here, i love all of you.

[@sexeelexee]

Thank you for this!!! 💛 Just sent my friend/other mom this song to express how I feel when she gets me, but I felt like I should look at other videos to the song for some reason and found this! Always knew I was different/thought differently but always was treated like my discomfort in it didn’t matter since I still performed well in a classroom… I am glad as an adult to be figuring myself out and not feeling/being so trapped and alone 💛

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

SO happy for you!!! Thank you for the encouragement! I knew I wasn't the only one who heard it like this! 🥰❤️

[@SpoonedCranium]

It’s my favourite Ajr song, along with the dumb song, because it feels like it was written for me. I never quite knew why, until I paid closer attention to the lyrics.

[@ArgentumCoyotl]

That was so amazing it made me cry

[@DoMorrMusic]

1:22 "any website except autism speaks" HECK YEA THAT MADE ME SUB

[@SharkyCharlotte]

This is such a wonderful video!!!

[@camerontaylorsmusic]

Thank you so much!! ❤

[@izabela4801]

I heard this song and instantly thought "It was written for Neurodivergents" lol

[@themgc1353]

ryan from ajr has synesthesia