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Authentically Alexis
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Welcome to authentically, Alexis! This is a creative outlet for me to express my experience as a neurodivergent woman and mom. My wish is to build a loving supportive community built on a mutual acceptance of neurodivergent brains.
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Welcome to authentically, Alexis! This is a creative outlet for me to express my experience as a neurodivergent woman and mom. My wish is to build a loving supportive community built on a mutual acceptance of neurodivergent brains.
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10 Autistic Traits | AUTISM IN GIRLS
Here are 10 autistic traits and symptoms by experience on a daily or a regular basis as a autistic woman. This is just my experience that I want to share with you. ☺️🫶✨
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#autism #autismawareness #autismo #autismmom #autismspeaks #autismacceptance #bautismo #autismfamily #autismmemes #autismlife #autismawarenessmonth #autismlove #autismparents #autisme #autismdad #autismspectrumdisorder #autismsupport #autismspectrum #autismobrasil #autismawarenessday #autismrocks #autismparent #worldautismawarenessday #ilovesomeonewithautism #autismmoms #autismoinfantil #autismwarrior #autismstars #autismkids #bautismos #autismadvocate #autismmum #autismjourney #autismmommy #autismworld #autismcommunity #autismteacher #autismstrong #autismawarness #ig_autism
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#autism #autismawareness #autismo #autismmom #autismspeaks #autismacceptance #bautismo #autismfamily #autismmemes #autismlife #autismawarenessmonth #autismlove #autismparents #autisme #autismdad #autismspectrumdisorder #autismsupport #autismspectrum #autismobrasil #autismawarenessday #autismrocks #autismparent #worldautismawarenessday #ilovesomeonewithautism #autismmoms #autismoinfantil #autismwarrior #autismstars #autismkids #bautismos #autismadvocate #autismmum #autismjourney #autismmommy #autismworld #autismcommunity #autismteacher #autismstrong #autismawarness #ig_autism
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Adult ADHD | What is it?
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As always I want to give a disclaimer that I am not a medical professional just a neurodivergent woman, sharing my experience, opinions, and advice. In this video, I give a brief very basic explanation of what ADHD has, and how it can present. . . . . . . . . • • • • #adhd #autism #mentalhealth #anxiety #adhdawareness #depression #mentalhealthawareness #asd #add #adhdproblems #adhdlife #autisma...
What is Stimming? | Why it’s Important ✨How I Stim✨
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In this video I explain what stemming is and why it is important for us to educate the world on it. . . . . . . . . . #autism #autismawareness #autismo #autismmom #autismspeaks #autismacceptance #bautismo #autismfamily #autismmemes #autismlife #autismawarenessmonth #autismlove #autismparents #autisme #autismdad #autismspectrumdisorder #autismsupport #autismspectrum #autismobrasil #autismawarene...
Girls With Autism | My Signs and Traits
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In this video, I talk about the traits and symptoms. I portrayed as a young girl from when I was a baby up through middle school. . . . . . . . . . #autism #autismawareness #autismo #autismmom #autismspeaks #autismacceptance #bautismo #autismfamily #autismmemes #autismlife #autismawarenessmonth #autismlove #autismparents #autisme #autismdad #autismspectrumdisorder #autismsupport #autismspectru...
What is Autism? ✨NEW✨ | Autism Symptoms/Traits
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I’m so excited to see this community growing! This video is sort of a textbook definition of what autism is. I go into some personal details, but I think there is so much more that could be said about what it’s like to be on the spectrum! I hope I was clear and concise in the video, and I hope that I said nothing that could be construed as offensive. It is a password. I was pretty exhausted whe...
ADHD and Autism - similarities, differences & overlap | AuDHD
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This video is a brief description of the similarities, differences and overlap when it comes to ADHD and autism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . #adhd #adhdawareness #adhdproblems #adhdmom #adhdlife #adhdparenting #adhdkids #adultadhd #adhdsupport #adhdbrain #adhdisreal #adhdwomen #adhdprobs #adhdmemes #adhdentertainment #adhdry #adhdtips #adhdcoach #adhdawarenessmonth #adhdadult #adhdparents #junaga...
Autism Sleep Problems PART 2 - TIPS for Better Sleep
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Here are my best tips for better sleep fighting sensory overwhelm and other autism related sleep issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #insomnia #insomniac #insomniacevents #insomniamag #insomniacgames #insomniasucks #insomniaproblems #insomniacookies #painsomnia #thanksinsomnia #insomniacs #insomniatrain #insomniamagazine #insomniacspiderman #obatinsomnia #insomniabyvara #insomniaevents ...
Autism and Sleep Issues ✨NEW!✨
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Who else is struggling with daylight savings time!? I know I am! Here are three key sleep disturbances that you may experience living on the autism spectrum. 😴 💤 . . . . . . . . . . . . #autism #autismawareness #autismo #autismmom #autismspeaks #autismacceptance #bautismo #autismfamily #autismmemes #autismlife #autismawarenessmonth #autismlove #autismparents #autisme #autismdad #autismspectrumd...
AUTISTIC MOM | ADHD- 6 TIPS neurodivergent |✨NEW✨
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Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional or a professional on parenting so take my advice with a grain of salt. However, I am a mom of four so here are six tips to help you regulate and be a better mom, while navigating the challenges of Neurodiversity. 
✨NEW✨Autism and ADHD - intro to me
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This is an intro video to my new channel Authentically Alexis, where we talk about neurodivergent brains, and our beautiful differences. Here’s a little backstory on me. I hope you subscribe and stick around for more videos to come and of course thank you for being you. ♥️ #neurodiversity #neurodiversityacceptance #celebrateneurodiversity #neurodiversityrocks #neurodiversityisbeautiful #embrace...
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Put me immediately into tears when you mentioned being ahead of milestones as I was. That’s one piece of me that I couldn’t find any info on. I’m officially adhd, unofficially asd (therapist had me do all those online tests and another doctor has spent hours with me and believes I am.) Just waiting on official diagnosis and I’m still so scared I’ll get someone who doesn’t understand. My thing was language, drawing, books. Total language fascination. Unicorns! Thing is, my mom doesn’t remember a lot of details and to her it was normal mostly. Exception was my need for alone time all the time.
You’re talking about meeee 😲!!!! My collection of bouncy balls, I still have it, I have over 100…. And I spent as much time as I could hanging upside down .. I haven’t met anyone with this sort of quirks! And of course lots of other things, sounds so much like me! Wow it makes sense….
Wait a minute, you've been with your husband for 8 years , you're 24 and he has a 13 year old daughter?
I'm not a fan of my Aunt Cindy's blender😢.
Very concerned for my Granddaughter who is 5. She was in a kindergarten class and bit the teacher on the hand. She seems to be a very busy young girl. So concerned and live quite far away 😢
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Diagnosed with ADHD in my 50s, 3 years ago, and it explains so much about the previous half century. Having said that, ADHD, at least as described by professionals and in the literature, doesn't explain some problematic stuff (especially social / interpersonal) which makes me think that either I'm ADHD and ASD, or there's a much bigger overlap in presentations of the two conditions than is understood or acknowledged. On the subject of stimulant ADHD meds, here's my penny-worth: I've been on Elvanse (aka Vyvanse) for almost 3 years. Given that it's a stimulant the massive paradox is that it Calms My Head Down. It slows down the racing thoughts, and to some extent keeps intrusive / unwanted trains of thought at bay, which otherwise tend to take me to bad places. An unexpected result is a more stable mood for the time the stuff works most effectively (for me, around 6 hours - it differs for different people). On difficult days, when I know, as soon as I wake up, that it's going to be an uphill kind of day, I can sometimes feel the Elvanse kicking in, almost like a switch flipping, an hour or two after taking it. Then, my brain is suddenly no longer racing in neutral, 8000 revs and going nowhere. Instead it's cruising along at 50 in 5th and then, often, stuff just starts working.
Oh! The boing-ey door stops- I could not leave those things alone!!!
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You've described me as a little girl. Like EVERYTHING 😮 and I don't know how to feel about it. I'm 47, just self diagnosed. The things I thought made me me are autistic traits. The rest is masking. Who am I then, what is left, do I even exist? Is it really a simulation, and we've given preset avatars? 🤯
Wtf you are not autistic. Relax lol
Thank you so much for this video. I realised I was autistic at 36, and have two young children. I had been looking to UA-cam for videos on how to manage overwhelm as a neurodivergent parent and there is very little out there. I feel so overwhelmed at times - I have no family support to help raise my kids, just me and my Husband. So I’ve been having burnouts because I never get a break and I have realised how important my own alone time is to prevent me having meltdowns and burnouts. The more information out there on this kind of stuff, the less people will feel isolated and alone.
At no2 I thought about my wife and how wonderful she’s coping with her trauma-she asks our boys for 30 min alone time after work, and then they do stuff together- it’s has become “routine”. #3 - I don’t think we should worry about telling what we think is wrong, but how to do it without “bullying” people,and not to gaslight ourselves into oblivion afterwards. ❤
This is 100% my experience. I'm going to have your video in my back pocket when I'm trying to explain my experience to people. I am very recently in my self acceptance phase. Thank you for the video!
This is 100% my experience. I'm going to have your video in my back pocket when I'm trying to explain my experience to people. I am very recently in my self acceptance phase. Thank you for the video!
You’ve got 4 kids … is it easy for you to have eye contact with babies when you nurse/take care of THEM .. 🤔🤗
Thank you!
They weren't based on "white adolescent males"... they were based on "white adolescent males that fit some set of stereotypical presentations". I think the notion that females present differently is also a false premise. People that mask highly present differently, whether they're male or female, though more females certainly seem to fit that criteria than males... by a lot. If you look at all people that are diagnosed later in life, they're going to be in a similar boat. I wasn't diagnosed until my 40s. And I remember more things that I did as a child every day that seem like a big, "DUH!". I still have "imposter syndrome" with respect to my formal diagnosis, and then I get another slap in the face waking me up. I had some memories come back up this morning about a time when I was with some stranger (to me, but this person knew my mother), for some reason, and he had a car phone! So, I was compelled to count to 100 on the car phone... inputting all of the numbers. Fortunately, he was really patient and let me get all the way to 100 before saying it was probably a good idea to stop... which worked for me because it was a nice stopping place for my rigidity towards "completeness". I still don't know why my mother wanted him to give me a ride to the place we were all going to... nothing happened at all. Maybe she just thought it would be fun because he drove a convertible... or maybe I even mentioned something about never riding in one before... because I know to that point that I am not aware of riding in one before that. I think there were a few things that kept me under the radar. My grandparents mostly raised me until I was school-aged and they were very patient and proud of me (turns out, my grandfather was also likely autistic... and a couple of my cousins are... and my grandfather had a lot more affection for us than the other grandkids... 3 of us versus 17 in total... what a coincidence). Despite meltdowns and many ailments that are now considered highly comorbidties with autism (sleeping, digestive, etc.), it never was a problem for them because I was just me in their eyes. But, I had some tragedy happen shortly after entering Kindergarten and my behaviors were likely chalked up to the trauma... and then I think the masking started after my stepfather came into the picture because I wouldn't have survived in my own home without those skills, let alone the normal and routine issues experienced by autistics from peers at school. EDIT: I also worry that this lack of representation has been detrimental to everyone, considering that it is probably entirely genetic (I don't why people say, "mostly" genetic... whether it is inherited, epigenetic, a mutation, or a combinatorial set of inheritance from two parents of which neither are autistic... it is still "genetic"). My mother and aunt have some serious issues. I don't know that they're autistic, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are. My mother is a massive attention seeking narcissistic jerk. I don't think it is a misdiagnosis and that she could be autistic instead, but that if she is autistic, she is also a narcissist. If she is autistic... the narcissism is probably from the feedback she received and not having support and accommodation. And that absolutely ruined my relationship with her.... and not having a father around (the tragedy I experienced early was that he died in an accident), I could have really used a good relationship with my other parent. And when we see the cringe "autism moms" out there... how many of them are just other versions of my mother? Somebody that could likely be autistic and has had a lot of negative feedback that has horribly shaped them. And the cascading repercussions that their children and grandchildren have experienced is due to this horrible job of identifying autistic people of all types. It is a horrible shame.
3 out of 4 kids with autism are boys, this number still holds up today. The more the understanding of autism expands more people are diagnosed but it’s still mostly boys. The kids that were diagnosed when I was going through grade school were profoundly autistic people with a disability you couldn’t simply ignore. Most people that seek mental health services are women. This will lead to a disproportionate amount of women getting diagnosed. We also aren’t considering there are male dominated industries that if you do get diagnosed you’d lose your career. One thing about masking, boys are more like to receive corporal punishment and it’s typically more severe… how many young boys had the autism beaten out of them. Try learning to unmask that shit.
I'm recognising all of this what I was like as a child tickling all the boxes reconiseing stuff that I didn't realise before. The bullying really effects what kind of adult you become
Fantastic synthesis, thank you. 🙏🏼💓
Two points: - the expression "The isn't. A concrete science" is not true since this implies there is a lack of a large body of study and evidence. - Executive functioning includes emotional regulation & expression not just time blindness Please change these two parts on your explanations to avoid misrepresenting the science of neurodiversity We know A LOT about it but we can always know more. See Dr. Barkley for studies on executive functioning and comorbidities Other than that, I agree it is like a constant battle between two different brains
That salt lamp is not good to have around your cat, it’s poisonous. Especially, don’t allow kitty to lick it.
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I am tired of people like this. She doesn't have autism. Speaks clearly with a bunch of tattoos on her body. NO autistic person can sit through the tattoo process. That would cause way too much sensory issues.
It’s a spectrum Dear
I wish I had realized in my 20’s. I didn’t get diagnosed until 35 with 3 kids when I had a major meltdown. :-(
I always wet the qtip before putting it in my ear, cant deal with a dry one, but when wet no sound and doesnt feel horrible
I did the exact same thing. Researched the crap outta autism and realizing I actually know absolutely nothing about it. And really nobody really knows anything about it except the doctors. Parents don't normally know the symptoms to look for and if their kids are not delayed then they think nothing is wrong. We could be geniuses lol. Nobody would ever think Austism and I am still not diagnosed but I'm seeing the signs in myself and my kids and my boyfriend even and my kids friends and literally everybody around me seems like they may be undiagnosed. It's insane.
Autism ddlg abdl age regression d.i.d my channel
That about covers it. Two people on the inside and 10 on the outside. Yay...
Autism ddlg abdl age regression d.i.d my channel
Good topic
You give me hope for may daughter to be independent when she grow up.
Autism ddlg abdl age regression my channel
I love your tattoos. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
The toilet thing I remember I went through a phase for years where I'd have to run away from the toilet before it finished flushing so it didn't "get me". I have no idea why but there we are 😅
I was really into The Kinks for a while and I felt I needed a role model so I would dress the way The Kinks did on stage in 1964 and dress like Mick Avory in general because he's the member who resonated with me the most. That was 10 to 14 years ago. I don't do that anymore. Now I just wear whatever I want, no matter how strange I look.
Very helpfull thank you
Wow you stopped me cold with this video. I also had a bully at home. 😮
Thanks for the video
Excellent description thank you!
Yeah, I'm a full believer that the biggest violation The Florida Bar and Florida Courts are making as to their Autistic parties and litigants is that they are not reading and listening to all these accounts of actually Autistic people. They don't listen to us. At all.
I used to chew on the ends of my hair. I also used to cheswon blankets. In fact, I chewed up several blankets over time. Even now, I chew on towels I use when it's super hot outside and I get sweaty.
I was diagnosed adhd when i was 20 and then asd when i turned 40. I am wanting to get the most factual information on this subject and am wanting to know what qualifications you have in order to make your video. Im doubting anything that was said i just dont want to waste more time trying to figure myself out with false statements so im asking. 😅
Thanks for demonstrating all your sleep aids 😊 I’m going to seek some of those products out. Thank you 🙏
ADHD comes from most typically mothers that don't have emotional empathy that's what puts the H in ADHD
I would have the crud knocked out of me for fidgeting as a child also when I be getting beat I would stem and so I would get beat some more and I would also be beat and slapped around for not looking my dad in the eye
Did you know that ADHD comes from being raised buy a refrigerator mother which means the person that raised you didn't have emotional empathy so more than likely the leading causes to be raised by a mom that has the dark Triad machiavellianism which means sociopath or narcissistic sociopath also Psychopathic mothers and sometimes bipolar will cause ADHD in children
Also a lot of times if it wasn't bad enough that the moments like this it gets worse a lot of the times the dad will also be a psychopath I don't always have to be blood related this could be a stepdad in the house
Not true You are born with it
There is a ton of overlap of autism characteristics and childhood trauma characteristics. But they are still different. Same with autism and adhd. Look up vinn diagrams of the above comparisons.
"they're"? "their"!
00:22 Isn't that the same?
So validating as an autistic mom. My one son has asked me before if I was mad at him and I wasn’t. I just looked grumpy and was kind of hiding from the chaos two little boys can make just being children. So loud with hardwood floors, hockey sticks, balls bouncing off walls…. I live in MN and winters can be long and cold so I do let them play like this inside but I find myself getting so overwhelmed and I don’t want my boys to think I’m upset with them cuz I’m not.
I am also high masking. I never thought I had an issue with eye contact until I realized it isn't normal to conscientiously match my level of eye contact to someone else's. With family and close friends, I have found it freeing to not make much eye contact.