I understand what you're telling us. pretty cool feel. i think the term 'holistic thinking' fits in well here. Seeing that everything is connected, and seeing the dynamic more than the static. I'm obsessed with metaphors. They're like bridges between different iterations of a fractal. and to be able to see those in the real world, and share them with others who don't notice them, it's an immense joy. I hope others can also appreciate finding the metaphors in the world.
Recently became involved with a man who has high functioning autism and ADD. I see parts before I see the whole, he sees the whole before he delves into the parts. Despite what I think I perceive how he and I converse, this video helps me understand so much better how my boyfriend's mind may be cranking away. It is also helping me to decide how to better communicate how my mind works to him. Thank you so much for this video Christian.
I have Aspergers myself and by now I am working hard on re-accepting myself for who I am. Until three months ago, I was in active addiction (from the age of 17 to 22) and I partially figured out why I kept using, what the underlaying causes were and which mechanisms were into play (one of them was masking some autism characteristics and dealing with overstimulating, because I am very sensitive to say the least). But when you mentioned rejecting everything and going inside your head where everything is just the way it is, it totally struck me like a big lightingbolt, that that is exactly what I was doing constantly for the last 5 years. And indeed, since I am in recovery and especially the last three weeks, everything is just overstimulating all the time. But how you deal with that, is just brilliant and I am for sure going to train that. Thanks a lot for making this video, it really helped a lot.
I absolutely love this video. I have only recently started to suspect I might have autism. I have never fully realized that most people just don't see those missing puzzle pieces and they are able to live with the illusion that those few pieces they had put together are the whole universe. I am not able to do that. But I refuse to withdraw.
Hey man, I genuinely love the way you described everything! I was diagnosed with Asperger's too and I actually had to think about it for a second but the way you described your preference for the "whole" of things rather than the Singular parts of the whole really made a connection with me! I personally find details to be WAY too tedious and hogs far too much mental R.A.M to where my brain can't make sense of any of the incoming stimuli from the outside world. Fantastic job, man! 👏
@@ghioophodlbrook4497 1999. I use the term "Asperger's" because a lot of people identify with it and don't like the 2013 manual change. Many other UA-camrs do the same thing.
Great video man, I´ve been diagnosed with autism last year at 33, and most typical descriptions don´t really fit me, but this that you have just described and seeing the system, seeing the whole, it´s pretty much how my mind works, thanks a lot ^^
Thanks for sharing. This is a delight to hear. I 've a degree in psychology and I think that is where the great word gestalt was heard for the 1st time. It was the most descriptive word I'd heard that related to my thought life. I'm one of those esoteric aspies that is really caught up in patterns, recognition of abstracts and other great things like fractals... Such fun😀👍
I'm a septuagenarian who very recently discovered that I have had ASD all my life, but have had many years to learn how to compensate. I too tend to see things in wholes. I see the big picture without analyzing all the parts first. I work first by intuition then can analyze the parts later if I need to prove my intuition.
Due to noticing and observing things all at once that others may not even notice, it is easily overwhelming. Right now is my ideal world, no required socialization, no worry of making mistakes. I am able to do everything individually as it should be. Though, my brain has adapted to this world. When I resurface to reality, I won’t be able to handle all of this new information. With each year, comes a new set of expectations and rules based on how society tries to morph others. As my peers progress through life, all I can do is try my best to mimic them. Unfortunately, my brain has already deleted that skill out of the equation. Sure, I have learned some new skills such as group-working, though I still tend to be the only one actually contributing. Learning comes easy to me, since most of my obsessions have to do with such. Therefore, I’m just repeating the same actions over and over; it gets quite tedious and boring. I’m not learning anything new or challenging, which is why I can barely make time to focus on my friends because I indulge myself into my own thoughts which is simultaneously healthy and unhealthy. With that being said, have you had similar experiences to this and how have you adapted to the newest standards?
I have had experiences like this a lot. The social world is complicated, and I don't always have the instincts most people don't realize they have. You're in good company.
I think I know what you mean. I'm 29 and undiagnosed. Id say I'm fairly sociable but I have this thing where the world feels so overwhelming that I can't focus on it all. I have to narrow my view and have hyperfocus to be able to deal with it. I get obsessed with various hobbies which change every few years. It's becoming circular now that I'm 29 though. But this resonated with me because of the hyperfocus and having to narrow down what I want to focus on and I get totally absorbed with it.
"For My Ally Is The Force. And A Powerful Ally It Is. Life Creates It, Makes It Grow. It's Energy Surrounds Us And Binds Us. Luminous Beings Are We, Not This Crude Matter."
Hi, I've recently come to terms with the fact that I may have high-functioning autism. I came across your video while attempting to conceptualise what this developmental difference truly meant for me. I think you illustrate it really well. I get that neuro-typical people watching this video might not be able to understand what you're saying, because it's difficult to convey differences in perception to someone who does not perceive those differences. I love your analogies. Personally I think of a puzzle piece, not seeing the piece in itself but rather how it fits. Another analogy I like to use is that of an ant colony, not seeing the ants but rather seeing the properties that emerge when they are put together, such as the paths they follow, the patterns, etc... Thanks again for your video, it has helped me to understand who I am and how I think much more concisely.
i found myself enjoying listening to you speak about this... the word beautiful kept rising in me. i am a bit in awe and very grateful for the learning i just received and am tendered by the genuine and gentle invitation you extend. thank you.
Thanks for this, now I can come out of hiding. I have been abused and after realising there are such people in the world, it's like my mind continued to see the whole as always, but suddenly this whole became full of dynamics where abusive people are a part of it, and I began to obsess just over the abusive people completely ignoring the whole now, sticking my head in the sand.
Love it. Makes me think of the film Sound of Metal. The same point is made there - silence will always be there, it will never leave you; and that is a comforting thought. I've found "listening for silence" helps calm me. It's hard to do, and most of all hard to remind yourself to do (I have add as well as high functioning autism).
At first I thought I was going to disagree, but by the end I realized I completely agreed. I do this with something I call "Cognitive Negative Space" when I'm learning new concepts I can map them out into a physical terrain and combine them into a single gestalt then examine the construct for holes. These tend to be one of two things: 1) good insightful questions to ask that people thank me for asking or turn into good research questions or 2) the elephant in the room, something that was relevant but was being avoided for some social reason. I remember seeing quotes from famous artists about the importance of negative space.
My 11 year old son was diagnosed with High functioning autism. I see a lot of his symptoms in myself. I have always felt different and always seem to say the wrong things and upset people. I hope that I can help my son to his full potential and that he will be happier in his own skin than I have been. Thank you for your explanation. You lost me in places buy I think I understood the jist of it :D
The way I have come to understand and express this concept so as to be more or less understood, is by narrowing the focus of conversation to the word 'simple'. Simplicity in its colloquially forms refers to a subjective experience of a single aspect of the world working towards a preexisting goal. We all have goals all the time, whether we become aware of them or not. It seems to me like Neurotypicals perceive the world as composed mostly of an interconnected web of subject relations and the simple tools used to facilitate those relations. Things are simple when the tools are working, and complex when the tools fail. Only when their tools fail do Neurotypicals venture into the world of complexity that people on the spectrum experience ALL of the time. People on the spectrum experience pure complexity, we have trouble compartmentalizing. Existential philosophers speak themselves into the experience of the world that we are born into. Every experience is endlessly dynamic and detailed. Nothing can be taken for granted. The world is dissected into inexhaustible pieces and meaning must be built out of that pure chaos. No prepackaged meaning. This makes social interactions difficult because human relations are built primarily upon prepackaged value judgments which do not make rational sense. Most behaviors are alien, nonsensical emergent phenomenon to me. So I require explicit statements of goals and intentions in order to navigate emotional conversations.
Very well put, Christian! I thought that the way you described your experienced seemed very poetic, though still analytical and precise, somehow. My younger brother is on the spectrum- I find this video helpful in understanding what my brother too may experience :)
@@tetkai64030 Or maybe because everyone describes things differently. I've got Asperger's but couldn't identify with the language and descriptions used in this video yet have done for dozens of others by different Asperger's sufferers.
This video is abstract and jargony, but I've gotten lots better at explaining things simply in the past few years. I'd encourage y'all to watch my more recent videos. :)
Yes, I hope you make more videos. I have two children with autism, 2 teenagers. And my number one reason for helping children with autism is to try to understand what they do and why they do it. I love the job that God gave me, no complaints.
Very well explained, thank you, the anxiety and sheer energy used in our style of thinking can be difficult for people to understand. As you say everyone with autism is different and those differences bring strengths and weaknesses. I pick up minor errors which others do not but also miss out because of that detailed way of functioning.
You articulated that very well. It is reassuring for me to come across videos like this of autistic folks concisely and clearly explaining aspects of their autism that I can relate to; often having never been able to find the words for them myself. Thanks for sharing.
I love the way you describe autistic perception! Just wanted to recommend a book that was recently published which deals with related topics: The Autistic Subject: On The Threshold of Language by Leon Brenner. The book itself is very expensive but it can be rented online at Amazon.
can you tell me about yours small age like 4 & 5 year old can you tell me about that age I have Son high-function autism he can read books he can sing full song he can use some words but not all time my English is not very good but I neede that information if you give me I will be very very thankful thank you
Thank you for explaining this Christian. As far as I know I am NT, but I am able to understand what you are describing. And not to belittle your condition or anyone else's, but thats the way I see things when I take certain mind altering substances. Again, not trying to offend anyone, I'm just pointing put that different states of mind can be reached by activating and deactivating certain parts of the brain, and I believe I have heard how lsd and similar substances were used in the past on people with autism and they began functioning like NTs. Are you familiar with this?
Holy shit that's fascinating, but I literally can't tell if I relate to that or not. Maybe its a combination of both I know that's probably not the case, but your description almost sounds metaphorical
My high functioning Autism kid found a different ways to do some mathematical problems which I thought was great. His teacher thought otherwise. She found it a bit disturbing. She told him "this is my class so until you have your own class you can do it your way. I'm wondering if you had to deal with people like this in your life?
I love your videos I’m 13 and I don’t understand most of the time what I think or feel so I try to learn more about it I had to practice my speech for years and I have Asperger‘s
Fmblogger04 Bracketing refers to separating parts from a whole. I.e. you may be able to separate the units in a set but he means he struggles to see the units but instead perceives the set and struggles to separate it.
I think what he means is that: (example) When I walk into a social situation. I bracket things according to what I see. How many girls are there? What activities are there? Do I have friends there? In a small sense, I "bracket" according to what I want to bracket in my head. I can easily convert from one thought about something to another completely different thought and not "recluse" or turn my thought into an obsession. Yes, if something gets to me I might obsess. But I can still turn my attention to something else. In my research it appears that individuals with high functioning autism have difficulty separating thoughts. This is why often, individuals with HFA can focus and hone in on one particular thing so well. Because they are comfortable and it slows the ticking down. In a broad sense. I look at the world and cultures within it and look at these different cultures and see their implications in different ways. The "big picture" if you will. For individuals with HFA, they have trouble seeing the big pictures of things. Their brains aren't wired that way. It's very micro. I'm obviously not speaking for this gentleman as I am a neurotypical. I am very interested in the subject though. I hope I cleared something up for ya bud.
Like, instead of breaking a social situation down in his head it's all "bracketed" together. Most of us kind of unconsciously look at the inner Dynamics of a social situation like a house party. It's almost instinctual for us to break the setting down and find a comfortable place. That's not so easy with HFA.
hmmmm....Interesting....It was once thought, many years ago, that I might have a form of high-functioning autism and because I was very young, I had no basis to either agree or disagree, but then came to a point where you could say I either disagreed, or disagreed that this "condition" was a "problem" (which seems to be the fabulous message of this video) I can relate to some of the ways of seeing that you describe....for example the ability (even "proclivity") to see processes, relationships and dynamics playing out....My mind often feeds me "images"...or "video shorts"...that convey complex ideas. (I really should have been an artist considering the endless supply of Gestalts I experience) All I can say is exactly what YOU said...that there are many ways of seeing, all of them not only valid, but so NEEDED....and when we think of this "autistic" way of seeing as a symptom, rather than a superpower, I believe we are missing something so important. Really, I would say that there can be problems "relating" to others depending on where one is on the spectrum, but in my own case, I don't really feel I have a problem relating to others...and that my "way of seeing more" is something like a "choice". The analogy that's coming to mind at the moment is this: The difference between watching a movie in black and white vs. color. I can put all of my focus on the basics contained in the black and white version, or I can divide (dilute) my focus and also marvel at the larger experience that color brings....or I can choose to ignore the basics (that, I admit, I sometimes feel a little bored by) and focus on the "ideas"...or "processes" etc... I still don't know whether I would fit the criteria for high-functioning autism...I've never had a need to go back and find out...I don't consider myself "broken"....but I can see how some might need to put some extra effort in just to keep them reasonably connected with others.
MaCoeur I once had a dream where God told me that my purpose on earth was to incarnate love at the “lowest” level of Being, where love hasn’t been for a long time. I literally just had the idea (before you posted this) that this means something like seeing colors and tones AS colors and tones, and not just as ways of assembling various “things” that we use as human beings. Don’t just see the chair, but see the swirling brownness of the chair’s wood, and don’t get lost in it, but let the brownness become a window to a primordial level of Being that’s been lost for a long time. Your comment seems connected somehow to this realization, but now I can’t really pinpoint why, haha. I’m sure you can figure it out.
It makes perfect sense to you perfectly, I am sure, but the concepts are not understandable by most people, I am equally sure. Bracketing? You are expressing yourself from your own frame of reference, not realizing the majority of people will be totally lost. It is an experience that needs to be experienced, to be understood, I think.
Most people like the video. But you're right: a few years ago, I was a lot more jargony and less clear. I'm better at that now, and I'd encourage you to watch more recent videos where I use simpler language and clearer ideas.
@@Xianomega I will check them out. I am quite surprised that you replied so quickly....I really wasn't expecting an answer, really. I know you were speaking through the lens of a high functioning autistic person, which almost sounds like a foreign language, without the common ground necessary to interpret it. I want to understand better, so I will check out your other videos. Thanks much.
I am learning more and more about autism spectrums so your comments help me. Do asbergers brains feel anger and hate or is it too, just an abstract process-??
Gestalt? Bracketing? If you want to explain better, better to use descriptive words that are in common vocabulary (or define the words that not in common vocabulary)
Yes. I wouldn't call it a mechanism, though. I'd call it a "ground" behind and through everything. To the extent that I'm in a good place, I see things as a part of the "ground" they're embedded in. It's not "back-ground." It's not "fore-ground." Autistic people have a hard time distinguishing those two. It's both of them together. The whole. The trick is embracing the whole and not hiding from it.
Are you discussing melt downs specifically; or are you talking about a more...chronic...problem? Not to take away from the whole, I just want clarification of it.
Hi im an aspie! Be straightforward and blunt. In other words dont give hints or she might misunderstand you. Say that you are interested in her bluntly (:
@@luperodriguez2869 Give it time :/ admittedly aspies can be very introverted sometimes its harder because she may not text back not cause she doesnt want to. But might forget or be absorbed in interests or a whole host of things. Anyway I wish you luck hope it works out (:
Neurotypicals see world as a gestalt, but we do filter for meaning and emphasize different aspects of reality. Both ways of thinking have different advantages and disadvantages. We can obsess too, but are much less inclined to do that. My brother is autistic - he was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome about 45 years ago. I know it's now called ASD-1. I have read that people with high-functioning autism often have above-average IQs, and you seem to fit that. You're also an excellent speaker.
Lol u say u see processes..its like this one guy i know..😂 he's just so into computers, he fixes them on a daily basis, and just sees everything like a windows programs😁
Everything is nothing and nothing is everything, stimulation of your senses and feeling to a degree that becomes overwhelming. The need to determine what as a sensory input is creating a personal dibilitating output becomes the battle. If you accept things as they are they do not need to be proccessed. If for the most part you accept people as complex or simple, you can determine what is missing by interacting and getting information directly. let your body and mind aclimatise to situations instead of having the situation create a climate from a lack of accepting that not all things are known or unknown. As a flow of the gestalt, properties can be static or transient, like weather, music or conversation. You are not in the wrong if you cannot interpret something that either cannot, does not or will not interpret itself. Relationship is a good way to accept and aclimatise to each situation or environment as a new experience that you control and decide later if you want more or less from it. Inner peace is from power over self, self control and a long suffering nature than be content with levels of discomfort make life bareable, endurable, believable and not without hope. Muscels need training so it is with our emotions, thoughts and behaviours.
Im probaby not neurotypical lol. I mean i think just having ADD is not neurotypical and i have that. I always had issiues with school and crowds and stuff. Its weird..most the things hfa's have issiue with are almost the same with me and add or ADHD, . like i totally hate noises....atleast if its something i cant control easily, and background noise...cant concenteate if there is noise in the background. Cant stand if my nephews and nieces are here making a ruckus. Im ussually down here in the basement..doing my own thing. As i get older i want to be more reclusive but then again im generaly an introverted person anyways..
Not all with HFA are the same. I think that he is romanticizing and passively glorifying this condition. As the Godfather movies do ... The great mayority of people in that environment do not appreciate it. Christian, this is not nice to do. You know what I'm talking about, you know what you're doing.
I'm sorry you didn't like it. HFA is hard for me a lot of the time, and I would honestly prefer not to have it. I was just giving a description of what that world is like for me. It shouldn't be romanticized, just described.
U seem so normal.. and cute!! Im so excited lol cuz theres this older guy i like and he has HFA . he has a really high IQ and was invited to be in mensa. His grammar and typing is ok. Everything seems ok., but i dont how he sounds. Im over the moon thinking that he sounds just like a normal man lol. He does opera and stage performing and things. Im so attracted to super nerds lol
You tend to use your own terms and/or jargon without explaining exactly what they mean, for example 'bracketing' things. This unfortunately detracts from and audiences ability to understand what you are trying to convey.
This is something I'm aware of and is something I've gotten lots better at in the years since I published this video. Check out more recent ones, if you're curious.
@@Xianomega thank you for taking the time to reply, I am interested as at 46 years old I'm just finding out that I probably have high functioning autism. I shall definitely check out your channel.
"You aren't connecting, you aren't loving, you aren't seeing other people."
That explains perfectly.
I understand what you're telling us. pretty cool feel. i think the term 'holistic thinking' fits in well here. Seeing that everything is connected, and seeing the dynamic more than the static.
I'm obsessed with metaphors. They're like bridges between different iterations of a fractal. and to be able to see those in the real world, and share them with others who don't notice them, it's an immense joy.
I hope others can also appreciate finding the metaphors in the world.
Recently became involved with a man who has high functioning autism and ADD. I see parts before I see the whole, he sees the whole before he delves into the parts. Despite what I think I perceive how he and I converse, this video helps me understand so much better how my boyfriend's mind may be cranking away. It is also helping me to decide how to better communicate how my mind works to him. Thank you so much for this video Christian.
I have Aspergers myself and by now I am working hard on re-accepting myself for who I am. Until three months ago, I was in active addiction (from the age of 17 to 22) and I partially figured out why I kept using, what the underlaying causes were and which mechanisms were into play (one of them was masking some autism characteristics and dealing with overstimulating, because I am very sensitive to say the least).
But when you mentioned rejecting everything and going inside your head where everything is just the way it is, it totally struck me like a big lightingbolt, that that is exactly what I was doing constantly for the last 5 years. And indeed, since I am in recovery and especially the last three weeks, everything is just overstimulating all the time.
But how you deal with that, is just brilliant and I am for sure going to train that. Thanks a lot for making this video, it really helped a lot.
I absolutely love this video. I have only recently started to suspect I might have autism. I have never fully realized that most people just don't see those missing puzzle pieces and they are able to live with the illusion that those few pieces they had put together are the whole universe. I am not able to do that. But I refuse to withdraw.
Hey man, I genuinely love the way you described everything! I was diagnosed with Asperger's too and I actually had to think about it for a second but the way you described your preference for the "whole" of things rather than the Singular parts of the whole really made a connection with me! I personally find details to be WAY too tedious and hogs far too much mental R.A.M to where my brain can't make sense of any of the incoming stimuli from the outside world.
Fantastic job, man! 👏
Thank you!
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders do not diagnose with the term Asberger's Syndrom. When where you diagnosed?
@@ghioophodlbrook4497 1999. I use the term "Asperger's" because a lot of people identify with it and don't like the 2013 manual change. Many other UA-camrs do the same thing.
Great video man, I´ve been diagnosed with autism last year at 33, and most typical descriptions don´t really fit me, but this that you have just described and seeing the system, seeing the whole, it´s pretty much how my mind works, thanks a lot ^^
Thanks for sharing. This is a delight to hear. I 've a degree in psychology and I think that is where the great word gestalt was heard for the 1st time. It was the most descriptive word I'd heard that related to my thought life. I'm one of those esoteric aspies that is really caught up in patterns, recognition of abstracts and other great things like fractals... Such fun😀👍
I'm a septuagenarian who very recently discovered that I have had ASD all my life, but have had many years to learn how to compensate. I too tend to see things in wholes. I see the big picture without analyzing all the parts first. I work first by intuition then can analyze the parts later if I need to prove my intuition.
Due to noticing and observing things all at once that others may not even notice, it is easily overwhelming. Right now is my ideal world, no required socialization, no worry of making mistakes. I am able to do everything individually as it should be. Though, my brain has adapted to this world. When I resurface to reality, I won’t be able to handle all of this new information.
With each year, comes a new set of expectations and rules based on how society tries to morph others. As my peers progress through life, all I can do is try my best to mimic them. Unfortunately, my brain has already deleted that skill out of the equation.
Sure, I have learned some new skills such as group-working, though I still tend to be the only one actually contributing. Learning comes easy to me, since most of my obsessions have to do with such. Therefore, I’m just repeating the same actions over and over; it gets quite tedious and boring. I’m not learning anything new or challenging, which is why I can barely make time to focus on my friends because I indulge myself into my own thoughts which is simultaneously healthy and unhealthy.
With that being said, have you had similar experiences to this and how have you adapted to the newest standards?
I have had experiences like this a lot. The social world is complicated, and I don't always have the instincts most people don't realize they have. You're in good company.
I think I know what you mean. I'm 29 and undiagnosed. Id say I'm fairly sociable but I have this thing where the world feels so overwhelming that I can't focus on it all. I have to narrow my view and have hyperfocus to be able to deal with it. I get obsessed with various hobbies which change every few years. It's becoming circular now that I'm 29 though. But this resonated with me because of the hyperfocus and having to narrow down what I want to focus on and I get totally absorbed with it.
This is exactly how I feel. oh my god.
Thank you for this, Christian. I appreciate your time.
I find high functioning autism to be a fascinating topic. Thank you for sharing!
"For My Ally Is The Force. And A Powerful Ally It Is. Life Creates It, Makes It Grow. It's Energy Surrounds Us And Binds Us. Luminous Beings Are We, Not This Crude Matter."
Hi, I've recently come to terms with the fact that I may have high-functioning autism. I came across your video while attempting to conceptualise what this developmental difference truly meant for me.
I think you illustrate it really well. I get that neuro-typical people watching this video might not be able to understand what you're saying, because it's difficult to convey differences in perception to someone who does not perceive those differences.
I love your analogies. Personally I think of a puzzle piece, not seeing the piece in itself but rather how it fits. Another analogy I like to use is that of an ant colony, not seeing the ants but rather seeing the properties that emerge when they are put together, such as the paths they follow, the patterns, etc...
Thanks again for your video, it has helped me to understand who I am and how I think much more concisely.
i found myself enjoying listening to you speak about this... the word beautiful kept rising in me. i am a bit in awe and very grateful for the learning i just received and am tendered by the genuine and gentle invitation you extend. thank you.
Thanks for this, now I can come out of hiding. I have been abused and after realising there are such people in the world, it's like my mind continued to see the whole as always, but suddenly this whole became full of dynamics where abusive people are a part of it, and I began to obsess just over the abusive people completely ignoring the whole now, sticking my head in the sand.
Love it. Makes me think of the film Sound of Metal. The same point is made there - silence will always be there, it will never leave you; and that is a comforting thought. I've found "listening for silence" helps calm me. It's hard to do, and most of all hard to remind yourself to do (I have add as well as high functioning autism).
Yes, Systems Thinking, you nailed it.
About two minutes in you really started to make sense. Thank you for your insight
At first I thought I was going to disagree, but by the end I realized I completely agreed. I do this with something I call "Cognitive Negative Space" when I'm learning new concepts I can map them out into a physical terrain and combine them into a single gestalt then examine the construct for holes. These tend to be one of two things: 1) good insightful questions to ask that people thank me for asking or turn into good research questions or 2) the elephant in the room, something that was relevant but was being avoided for some social reason. I remember seeing quotes from famous artists about the importance of negative space.
My 11 year old son was diagnosed with High functioning autism. I see a lot of his symptoms in myself. I have always felt different and always seem to say the wrong things and upset people. I hope that I can help my son to his full potential and that he will be happier in his own skin than I have been. Thank you for your explanation. You lost me in places buy I think I understood the jist of it :D
The way I have come to understand and express this concept so as to be more or less understood, is by narrowing the focus of conversation to the word 'simple'. Simplicity in its colloquially forms refers to a subjective experience of a single aspect of the world working towards a preexisting goal. We all have goals all the time, whether we become aware of them or not. It seems to me like Neurotypicals perceive the world as composed mostly of an interconnected web of subject relations and the simple tools used to facilitate those relations. Things are simple when the tools are working, and complex when the tools fail. Only when their tools fail do Neurotypicals venture into the world of complexity that people on the spectrum experience ALL of the time. People on the spectrum experience pure complexity, we have trouble compartmentalizing. Existential philosophers speak themselves into the experience of the world that we are born into.
Every experience is endlessly dynamic and detailed. Nothing can be taken for granted. The world is dissected into inexhaustible pieces and meaning must be built out of that pure chaos. No prepackaged meaning. This makes social interactions difficult because human relations are built primarily upon prepackaged value judgments which do not make rational sense. Most behaviors are alien, nonsensical emergent phenomenon to me. So I require explicit statements of goals and intentions in order to navigate emotional conversations.
Very well put, Christian! I thought that the way you described your experienced seemed very poetic, though still analytical and precise, somehow. My younger brother is on the spectrum- I find this video helpful in understanding what my brother too may experience :)
Dynamics. Yes. Always. That is comfort.
Really wanted to understand this, but I was completely lost 😦
Lol same
Maybe because you're NT
@@tetkai64030 Or maybe because everyone describes things differently. I've got Asperger's but couldn't identify with the language and descriptions used in this video yet have done for dozens of others by different Asperger's sufferers.
This video is abstract and jargony, but I've gotten lots better at explaining things simply in the past few years. I'd encourage y'all to watch my more recent videos. :)
oh dear makes total sense
Yes, I hope you make more videos. I have two children with autism, 2 teenagers. And my number one reason for helping children with autism is to try to understand what they do and why they do it.
I love the job that God gave me, no complaints.
Very well explained, thank you, the anxiety and sheer energy used in our style of thinking can be difficult for people to understand. As you say everyone with autism is different and those differences bring strengths and weaknesses. I pick up minor errors which others do not but also miss out because of that detailed way of functioning.
You articulated that very well. It is reassuring for me to come across videos like this of autistic folks concisely and clearly explaining aspects of their autism that I can relate to; often having never been able to find the words for them myself. Thanks for sharing.
I love the way you describe autistic perception! Just wanted to recommend a book that was recently published which deals with related topics: The Autistic Subject: On The Threshold of Language by Leon Brenner. The book itself is very expensive but it can be rented online at Amazon.
I don't know if I have Asperger's or not but I feel like I can relate to much of this. Good job on the video.
can you tell me about yours small age like 4 & 5 year old can you tell me about that age I have Son high-function autism he can read books he can sing full song he can use some words but not all time my English is not very good but I neede that information if you give me I will be very very thankful thank you
As an undiagnosed autistic person this makes a lot of sense for the way I saw things growing up and to this day.
I love that view 💖
This video was really helpful
Thank you🙏🏽
Thank you for explaining this Christian. As far as I know I am NT, but I am able to understand what you are describing. And not to belittle your condition or anyone else's, but thats the way I see things when I take certain mind altering substances. Again, not trying to offend anyone, I'm just pointing put that different states of mind can be reached by activating and deactivating certain parts of the brain, and I believe I have heard how lsd and similar substances were used in the past on people with autism and they began functioning like NTs. Are you familiar with this?
Brilliant! I almost wanna cry
Holy shit that's fascinating, but I literally can't tell if I relate to that or not. Maybe its a combination of both
I know that's probably not the case, but your description almost sounds metaphorical
I just learned my son has aspergers.
Thank you for the insight.
Hoping it helps me to help him.
He's 15.
My high functioning Autism kid found a different ways to do some mathematical problems which I thought was great. His teacher thought otherwise. She found it a bit disturbing. She told him "this is my class so until you have your own class you can do it your way. I'm wondering if you had to deal with people like this in your life?
Every waking second of every damn day!
I love your videos I’m 13 and I don’t understand most of the time what I think or feel so I try to learn more about it I had to practice my speech for years and I have Asperger‘s
so basically you conect the dots in beetwen you do the correlation and interconection between things ? impresive .
finally, someone like me. very accurate
Can you give a specific example to illustrate this? Also please further explain "bracket". Thank you, I'm trying to understand.
Fmblogger04 Bracketing refers to separating parts from a whole. I.e. you may be able to separate the units in a set but he means he struggles to see the units but instead perceives the set and struggles to separate it.
Compartmentalization perhaps?
I think what he means is that: (example)
When I walk into a social situation. I bracket things according to what I see. How many girls are there? What activities are there? Do I have friends there? In a small sense, I "bracket" according to what I want to bracket in my head. I can easily convert from one thought about something to another completely different thought and not "recluse" or turn my thought into an obsession. Yes, if something gets to me I might obsess. But I can still turn my attention to something else.
In my research it appears that individuals with high functioning autism have difficulty separating thoughts. This is why often, individuals with HFA can focus and hone in on one particular thing so well. Because they are comfortable and it slows the ticking down.
In a broad sense. I look at the world and cultures within it and look at these different cultures and see their implications in different ways. The "big picture" if you will. For individuals with HFA, they have trouble seeing the big pictures of things. Their brains aren't wired that way. It's very micro.
I'm obviously not speaking for this gentleman as I am a neurotypical. I am very interested in the subject though. I hope I cleared something up for ya bud.
Like, instead of breaking a social situation down in his head it's all "bracketed" together. Most of us kind of unconsciously look at the inner Dynamics of a social situation like a house party. It's almost instinctual for us to break the setting down and find a comfortable place.
That's not so easy with HFA.
@@luciusclay969 We asperger's CAN NOT do that no!
hmmmm....Interesting....It was once thought, many years ago, that I might have a form of high-functioning autism and because I was very young, I had no basis to either agree or disagree, but then came to a point where you could say I either disagreed, or disagreed that this "condition" was a "problem" (which seems to be the fabulous message of this video) I can relate to some of the ways of seeing that you describe....for example the ability (even "proclivity") to see processes, relationships and dynamics playing out....My mind often feeds me "images"...or "video shorts"...that convey complex ideas. (I really should have been an artist considering the endless supply of Gestalts I experience) All I can say is exactly what YOU said...that there are many ways of seeing, all of them not only valid, but so NEEDED....and when we think of this "autistic" way of seeing as a symptom, rather than a superpower, I believe we are missing something so important. Really, I would say that there can be problems "relating" to others depending on where one is on the spectrum, but in my own case, I don't really feel I have a problem relating to others...and that my "way of seeing more" is something like a "choice". The analogy that's coming to mind at the moment is this: The difference between watching a movie in black and white vs. color. I can put all of my focus on the basics contained in the black and white version, or I can divide (dilute) my focus and also marvel at the larger experience that color brings....or I can choose to ignore the basics (that, I admit, I sometimes feel a little bored by) and focus on the "ideas"...or "processes" etc... I still don't know whether I would fit the criteria for high-functioning autism...I've never had a need to go back and find out...I don't consider myself "broken"....but I can see how some might need to put some extra effort in just to keep them reasonably connected with others.
MaCoeur I once had a dream where God told me that my purpose on earth was to incarnate love at the “lowest” level of Being, where love hasn’t been for a long time. I literally just had the idea (before you posted this) that this means something like seeing colors and tones AS colors and tones, and not just as ways of assembling various “things” that we use as human beings. Don’t just see the chair, but see the swirling brownness of the chair’s wood, and don’t get lost in it, but let the brownness become a window to a primordial level of Being that’s been lost for a long time. Your comment seems connected somehow to this realization, but now I can’t really pinpoint why, haha. I’m sure you can figure it out.
@@Xianomega god is about as real as Santa is.
Thank you. ❤
It makes perfect sense to you perfectly, I am sure, but the concepts are not understandable by most people, I am equally sure. Bracketing? You are expressing yourself from your own frame of reference, not realizing the majority of people will be totally lost. It is an experience that needs to be experienced, to be understood, I think.
Most people like the video. But you're right: a few years ago, I was a lot more jargony and less clear. I'm better at that now, and I'd encourage you to watch more recent videos where I use simpler language and clearer ideas.
@@Xianomega I will check them out. I am quite surprised that you replied so quickly....I really wasn't expecting an answer, really. I know you were speaking through the lens of a high functioning autistic person, which almost sounds like a foreign language, without the common ground necessary to interpret it. I want to understand better, so I will check out your other videos. Thanks much.
I don’t think you can speak for “most people?” His explanation is completely clear and I’m one of the “most people.”
I am learning more and more about autism spectrums so your comments help me. Do asbergers brains feel anger and hate or is it too, just an abstract process-??
you are brilliant, genious !
Makes sense. Monet?
Thank you for haring your perception! ✌︎
i am totally the opposite i never see the whole i only see totally unrelated parts
thank you i hope my little brother will be great and smart like you 💜
What do you think about Autistic Sevant? 🤔
I'm autistic too I completely agree with you
Gestalt? Bracketing? If you want to explain better, better to use descriptive words that are in common vocabulary (or define the words that not in common vocabulary)
Agree. I find this person disturbing and ungenuine.
So basically you are capable of seeing the( inner )mecanism through and behind everything.Is that right?
Yes. I wouldn't call it a mechanism, though. I'd call it a "ground" behind and through everything. To the extent that I'm in a good place, I see things as a part of the "ground" they're embedded in. It's not "back-ground." It's not "fore-ground." Autistic people have a hard time distinguishing those two. It's both of them together. The whole. The trick is embracing the whole and not hiding from it.
Thank you. I understand.
Thank you!
Im in love!
Thank you brother
Are you discussing melt downs specifically; or are you talking about a more...chronic...problem? Not to take away from the whole, I just want clarification of it.
Not exactly a 'problem' but it's a 24/7 part of the experience. It's a feature of autistic perception that differs from an NT person.
Mute it or deliver it.
I have Asperger's and this guy doesn't make any sense. I get some of it but I'm not really sure what he's explaining.
Thanks a lot. That's the way I think! I have high functioning ASD.
The struggle of perfectionism.
I love this
Thanks.
Tysm my brother has autism ❤💕
There's a girl that I like that has a high functioning autism and I have a learning disability my question for you is how can I ask her out
Hi im an aspie!
Be straightforward and blunt.
In other words dont give hints or she might misunderstand you.
Say that you are interested in her bluntly (:
@@BIGALIENSHAFT Thank you I gave her my number and she hasn't texted me :(
@@luperodriguez2869 Give it time :/ admittedly aspies can be very introverted sometimes its harder because she may not text back not cause she doesnt want to.
But might forget or be absorbed in interests or a whole host of things.
Anyway I wish you luck hope it works out (:
@@BIGALIENSHAFT Thank you for your help I really appreciate it greatly
Neurotypicals see world as a gestalt, but we do filter for meaning and emphasize different aspects of reality. Both ways of thinking have different advantages and disadvantages.
We can obsess too, but are much less inclined to do that.
My brother is autistic - he was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome about 45 years ago. I know it's now called ASD-1.
I have read that people with high-functioning autism often have above-average IQs, and you seem to fit that. You're also an excellent speaker.
Aspergers NOT ASSBURGERS thank you very much!
@@fr33kSh0w2012 - Fixed.
@@technowey Thank you!
Lol u say u see processes..its like this one guy i know..😂 he's just so into computers, he fixes them on a daily basis, and just sees everything like a windows programs😁
Thats not what "Gestalt" means. Its a german word and it means "Shape" or "Appearence" what you are describing is "Emergenz"
It's from "gestalt psychology." It's a thing.
My son has high functioning autism I really dont understand him but I know how to be his mom.
Can I talk to you?
The Adderall crises brother
I really really REALLY want to be your friend lol .-.
he's Swedish
I did not understand at all.
Everything is nothing and nothing is everything, stimulation of your senses and feeling to a degree that becomes overwhelming. The need to determine what as a sensory input is creating a personal dibilitating output becomes the battle. If you accept things as they are they do not need to be proccessed. If for the most part you accept people as complex or simple, you can determine what is missing by interacting and getting information directly. let your body and mind aclimatise to situations instead of having the situation create a climate from a lack of accepting that not all things are known or unknown. As a flow of the gestalt, properties can be static or transient, like weather, music or conversation. You are not in the wrong if you cannot interpret something that either cannot, does not or will not interpret itself. Relationship is a good way to accept and aclimatise to each situation or environment as a new experience that you control and decide later if you want more or less from it. Inner peace is from power over self, self control and a long suffering nature than be content with levels of discomfort make life bareable, endurable, believable and not without hope. Muscels need training so it is with our emotions, thoughts and behaviours.
Im probaby not neurotypical lol. I mean i think just having ADD is not neurotypical and i have that. I always had issiues with school and crowds and stuff. Its weird..most the things hfa's have issiue with are almost the same with me and add or ADHD, . like i totally hate noises....atleast if its something i cant control easily, and background noise...cant concenteate if there is noise in the background. Cant stand if my nephews and nieces are here making a ruckus. Im ussually down here in the basement..doing my own thing. As i get older i want to be more reclusive but then again im generaly an introverted person anyways..
well ultimately the people as individuals are less real than the Gestalt, really. I is actually true.
Not all with HFA are the same. I think that he is romanticizing and passively glorifying this condition.
As the Godfather movies do ... The great mayority of people in that environment do not appreciate it.
Christian, this is not nice to do. You know what I'm talking about, you know what you're doing.
I'm sorry you didn't like it. HFA is hard for me a lot of the time, and I would honestly prefer not to have it. I was just giving a description of what that world is like for me. It shouldn't be romanticized, just described.
@@Xianomega Thank you for your response and your interest. Much appreciated.
U seem so normal.. and cute!! Im so excited lol cuz theres this older guy i like and he has HFA . he has a really high IQ and was invited to be in mensa. His grammar and typing is ok. Everything seems ok., but i dont how he sounds. Im over the moon thinking that he sounds just like a normal man lol. He does opera and stage performing and things. Im so attracted to super nerds lol
And yet you look like and sound like the most normal person ever... Maybe i have autism too
I see the world as a hole (a sh*thole).
We Asperger's Knew that from birth My first words were "Oooh FUCK!"
Functional labels are harmful.
Yeah, I know. I've learned a lot since I posted this video.
You tend to use your own terms and/or jargon without explaining exactly what they mean, for example 'bracketing' things. This unfortunately detracts from and audiences ability to understand what you are trying to convey.
This is something I'm aware of and is something I've gotten lots better at in the years since I published this video. Check out more recent ones, if you're curious.
@@Xianomega thank you for taking the time to reply, I am interested as at 46 years old I'm just finding out that I probably have high functioning autism. I shall definitely check out your channel.