1. 1:26: insomnia 2. 2:04: bad posture 3. 3:20: different way of walking to abled people 4. 5:01: a connection with animals 5. 5:59: clumsiness 6. 6:51: trouble with directions 7. 7:20: rituals with no outcome 8. 8:04: intense empathy 9. 9:31: a large and unique vocabulary 10. 10:24 a lack of organization hope i helped!
1. A lot, but also sometimes hypersomnia. It's rare, though. 2. Yes. 3. I guess? My shoes always wear out in the same place, and my mom said I put too much weight on that part of my foot. I couldn't figure out how I could have been walking differently than other people, though. When I was in San Francisco in a group, a homeless guy singled me out for how I stood and walked and asked me why I was so high strung and nervous... I didn't even see how I was walking and standing as being different. 4.This is not me, though I did get a bird to calm down once by letting it bite me (it was very small, no risk of injury) I was in Australia at the time and super jet-lagged, and a man was talking to his baby and said "Look, there's a quiet Yank. You don't see many of those." 5. Sort of... I mean, with some things. I never tie my shoes right (they always come undone, or I have to double knot then they are hard to undo at the end of the day) which is why I prefer velcro. I also can't figure out ties for the life of me. That's not clumsiness per se, but it's related. I am actually quite adept at recovering from a stumble, mostly because I can break rather easily when I don't recover. 6. Yeah... This is a problem for me. I wiggle the fingers on my writing hand, though, because I have a clear dominant hand, and it's my right hand. I look at which hand is wiggling and that's how I know. 7. Yeah. I have some rituals, but they change over time. 8. I can be super empathetic, but I can also shut down pretty easily. 9. Yeah. Including words I'd never heard out loud, which was the source of embarrassment from time to time(i used genre in a speech in high school, repeatedly, and was told the actual pronunciation by a teacher after it was over). 10. Yes...
Like literally, me and many other autistic people i know are actually hyper empathetic! There’s a difference between not spotting emotions in peoples body language, and not feeling empathy even after the emotions have been confirmed.
I think i'm on the spectrum and my personality is the type of an empath, i'm naturally extremely empathetic but it gets extremely overwhelming all the time
This video makes me feel so seen. I am *painfully* empathetic. I have a hard time just watching the news without getting really emotional. And I'm often afraid to talk about this trait of mine because I don't want to seem like I'm bragging or something. Our society idealizes the concept of empathy so much that if I say I have an excess of it neurotypicals will probably just think I'm showing off.
I have become physically ill from over identifying with the emotions of others. I didn’t know this was a trait. I just thought I was weird in one more way. Then it became a “fad” to claim to be an empath and I didn’t want to talk about how I am for the same reason you don’t. You aren’t alone.
It's funny, before the election I got too depressed by whatever news I heard (I avoided looking at it on my own). But after it, I felt nothing when I heard the news, because the chaos around the election burned it all out.
I walk like I’m drunk all of the time and I trip over my feet all of the time. One reason I love animals so much is because I can understand their communication style. A cat will hiss, growl or scratch, I wish humans did the same instead of subtext and passive aggressive.
and adhd.. also it's her channel and if that's what makes her more comfortable to able to get her words out then she's fine to do that, I talk super fast cause the thought leaves my head too quickly so I can't remember the end of my sentence otherwise
Even I have sh*tty awareness of not only my surroundings, but also where the fu*k am I going. Someone's gotta escort me to a destination I wanted to go; I'm still working on it, though...
Kendell Warner it gets better with age we have difficulty with special awareness. The best way to navigate somewhere is google maps. Dancing is wonderful for creating the connections in the brain and the body where our limbs are in space and improving motor coordination
3 months ago I found a small beetle on my student apartment, they was dizzy so I gived them whater and organic food. That day spended a lot of time searching what tipe os beetle they was (rosemary beetle). I found that it was posible that they only lived 2 weeks more bc they only lived one year, they was an adult and it was mating season. The next day I buyed a rosemary and "buil a hause" for they (eaven knowing that eventually they'll die). I talked to them, singged to them, protcted them from the cool... 4 days later they died, it was so sad. I was scared of they all the time, but I loved they so much and I miss they. I miss you litle beetle
Oh, I saved a bumblebee in the early spring, als the weather get's freaking cold with snow. For two days I fed him with honey and made hin a house too in my plant... It gets warmer then and I opend the window and he flew away.... Still hoping he has survived...
I recently got diagnosed with adhd and a lot of my friends also have it and I’ve noticed I don’t really act like any of them.I check off so many boxes that are signs of autism and I’m going to talk to my therapist about it and I’m currently learning more about it. Btw I’m 14 and these are the things I check off ig: I walk on my toes, I always have never new why and its just very uncomfortable not doing and I walk fast I have really bad insomnia and can go days without any sleep until I finally crash because I’m thinking of things I like or just sensory around me I’m a huge animal person I care more for my pets than people sometime I easily get overwhelmed if to many things are happening at once and will lash out if it’s bad I’m ridiculously clumsy and get injured easily I don’t memorize things by what they are but what they look like. Especially numbers I’m really emotional and if someone tells me something upsetting I’ll either freeze up having an inner panic on what I should say or I’ll start crying I speak with a lot of weird words that probably don’t exist and I’ll use super wrong words which people think are odd I’m ridiculously unorganized nothings in the correct place ever. I can’t touch specific things or smell them. Wet dishes are one of the things and metal on metal is a nightmare. I could keep going but then this would be a whole novel
I found out a year ago next month that I'm autistic....at 51 and have all 10 of these. I've been asked, several times: "Why do you talk like that?" "Just use simpler words, you don't sound smarter using big ones," etc. Every time, I would be like "Huh?" this is how I talk. Then, if you go quiet, they ask "what's wrong." Difficulty with directions has been life long. If I go right going in/getting there, my brain tells me to go right going out/leaving as well. I have to consciously remind myself, it's the opposite of how I went in that I need to go back out. Thank you for what you do, for making these video's. If this information wasn't available, I might not have ever recognized myself. It was a relief to find out I'm not "weird," after all. I'm me and there's nothing "wrong" with that. :)
The thing I can relate the most to is the intense/extreme empathy/compassion! Sometimes I find it really hard to walk where there's ants on the ground because the thought of accidentally stepping on some of them makes me so sad, while the others seem to be okay with it
I am starting to think i am the phycopath of the autism community ;-; because i love killing bugs (NOT THE AMINALS THO) and uhh- THINKING about hurting people... Yeah i need mental help.
omg the empathy thing, I cried once when I was buying a small christmas tree because I saw one that barely had leaves and stuff and I thought that if I didn't buy it no one would
Great video! Executive dysfunction is probably my most biggest everyday struggle as an autistic person. My therapist helped me realize that because I grew up undiagnosed and my parents always got upset with me for struggling with chores (being called lazy, the 'queen of excuses' even though they were actual reasons) , I never truly learned how to function and do things within my own framework. It's a big reason why my transition into adulthood blew up in my face, and at 25 I'm still struggling with how to do a lot of things. I'm starting to do better though! I set (multiple) alarms for everything I want/need to do - literally everything, including getting out of bed, eating lunch, etc. It's helped me start to be more organized! I'm also one of the lucky 20-25% of autistic people that sleeps well apparently! I do struggle with making myself get ready and into bed and weird night time anxiety that stops me from going to bed, but thankfully I'm really good with falling and staying asleep. Also I have not been able to have my own pet for a few years now and can't get one for potentially another year and a half as well. It's incredibly painful to not have a pet. I feel so lonely without one, despite being married and living with two other people as well.
The insomnia is real! Also, I have a strange bout of spacial awareness at work where like most of the time I know what's going on around me, but I'll still trip over/run into a table at work that I know exists but its almost like my brain shut off regarding it. I'll still drop things and run into things, but I'm aware of when my coworkers are around me and we walk around one another very fluidly. Its strange.
Wow, I relate 100% to EVERYTHING you just said. The direction thing really gets me, I have to take photos to know where I am going, and sometimes I can't even follow maps. Literally, I thought me being bad at direction was just me being dumb. Every time I watch your videos, I feel more understood. Thank you, for being an advocate for girls on the spectrum, and for making us feel less alone in the world. You are AMAZING. I also have Dyspraxia and just have no spacial awareness what so ever, walk into everything and everyone. A door could be wide open, and my dyspraxic ass would walk directly into the door frame and knock myself out.
I think you changed my life I'm 37 and have definitely been misdiagnosed. Thank you. Also I don't drift off when you speak it's definitely the right speed 😍💗😜🤩😘
I understand the walking!!!!!!! I’ve always been told that I walk and run weird and I say as a joke (everyone knows I’m joking) “that’s ableist I have a disability “ but now it is actually because of my disability!
oh my gosh, at school when I walk to class with my friends I always have to stop because they walk so slow. I just want to get out of the hallways while they're just chatting and strolling along
okay look with the whole large vocabulary thing, i didnt even know that was related to autism until you mentioned it in your videos. it makes me think of how my dad has told me that when i went to the check up thing to see if i was developing properly, i knew like 100 extra words than i was supposed to at that age. and even now a lot of times i'll be speaking to my peers and they're like "why are you using such big words?" and im like "im...not???"
I relate to all of these and I'm actually diagnosed with autism, but my grandparents and even my therapist always tell me that it isn't true and that I just have to be normal...
Continuing to watch your videos...I am an Empath...so what you said, was very helpful (especially because of all the "Dark Empath" nonsense now on UA-cam). I had all of those stuffed animals on my bed....but I was kept awake anyway. I'm a Medium...and ADHD...and autistic. I have been given information that there will likely ("possible future") be a lot of research on Autism in the next decade. I hope you will be a part of that. Again, Bless you for what you do, Beautiful Soul.
I was always told by my friends that I have a "gangsta" walk. Sometimes I also get confused by how I'm supposed to swing my arms when I walk or feel like I walk very stiff.
OH MY GOSH! THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I WAS TOLD AS A CHILD TO WALK "NORMALLY" BECAUSE I WALKED ON MY TIPTOES WAS CRAZY! Literally, almost all of these traits are things that I relate to.
When I walk normal, my heel striking the ground makes my eyes jiggle. The sound of the heel thump is also distracting. Most of the time, this does not bother me, but when I start to feel overloaded, I walk on my toes. Great video
Same! I was told that I walk weird so many times in my life, and that's with my shoes on. I don't like the thump when I walk, so I walk really light, and when I'm barefoot (almost all the time in the summer) I walk toe to heel.
I totally have the weird posture and gait thing! Been able to improve it but it's still there (I'm particularly better at walking but I still run really weird, to the point where I'm embarrassed to run in public). I had no idea I walked weird until it was brought to my attention when I was 12. My mom told me she had thought there was something wrong with my spine and that's why I looked so weird, but nope, just had a weird posture and gait! To me the way I was walking before was a lot more relaxed, I basically did the bare minimum to keep my body balanced upright, so I had to learn to use more muscles to mostly straighten my back but also to a lesser extent to control how I moved my legs and hips
When I was younger I was absolutely and completely obsessed with imagine games where I WASN’T HUMAN. I could be a dog, or a fairy, or a dragon or a robot because it meant I could act ‘odd’ and it wouldn’t seem out of the ordinary cause I wasn’t acting as a human I was pretending to be a creature
i literally walk around collecting sticks and leaves and rocks and give them to my friends and talk about them and my dad has literally been scared of me for it and my friends have crumbled or broken the sticks in fromt of me and they didn’t understand why i was so sad
I had no clue about the first 3 and they are soooo accurate, sometimes I will stay up for days straight, my record is 5, simply because I could not get to sleep. My posture is horrible to the point a guy who works at the club recognises me by my posture and my whole life I've been scolded for walking like an elephant. And then also the directions, I get lost going to houses I've been a million times before and I still use the left and right hand trick. This is all mind blowing
I walk on my toes/front pads of my feet, I just make sure to stretch my achilles tendons a lot and to wear boots or shoes that encourages me to walk I need my whole foot. Sometimes it's advantageous, I can move quickly and relatively quietly on my toes.
Me watching this video while hand feeding quesadilla ((aka MY lunch)) to the three dogs, kitten, gerbil, and duck that live in my bedroom with me... 😳🤭🤫
I too had trouble sleeping as a baby I would just calm down by watching a lot of TV at night, until now I am kinda obsessed with movies and tv shows but still struggle with insomnia
1- insomnia. uhm.. i stay up until 3 am and not even notice the time. and not even feel tired. only time ill sleep early is if im depressed and dont want to deal with a single thing and just need to escape. and when i was younger, i couldnt sleep without my stuffed animal cat (had since i was 2 months old. im 17. still have it. wont let ANYONE touch it). and i have major sensory issues. sensory overload is very very common for me. texture (mainly eating). smell. light. noise especiallty. 2- hard to say whats bad or odd posture so no comment 3- odd walking. i walk on the balls of my feet all the time. i have since i was young. i do it now and im 17. ive always done it and my family would get mad for some reason or say its weird. like. IM WALKING. WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME? and i walk the way you said. the "inside" of your feet (hard to even explain) and thats why alot of my shoes are messed up. i walk fast aswell. i blame it on anxiety. 4- connection with animals. i love animals. if im at a party or at someones house. i always focus on the animals. they calm me. i like them more than people. i even have crabs and will hold them and theyre more comforting than people. i love animals. 5- clumsy. idk if im clumsy but i do have bad spatial awareness like you mentioned. and i have so many bruises on me from simply running into things. but i do also just have really sensitive skin 6- troubles with direction. itll take me a bit to comprehend left and right. i dont get them mixed up. but it does take me a second. or a minute to realize which way is what, 7-rituals with no outcome. i have things i do that have no purpose but i feel the need to do it. one of the weirdest being is if i take a sip of a drink. and after i take another sip. the sip i took after HAS to be the same time length of sipping as that first sip. and if its not. then i have to take another sip thats then the same time as the one i just took 8-intense compassion and empathy. definitely. i always try to help others or i understand others so much that it effects me aswell. and as you said, we have too much empathy that its overwhelming. my emotions overwhelm me alot to where i go to a default/emotionless state. and then people think im rude because i struggle with expressing emotions. and just like you, i cry easily aswell. i hate that. people would just call me a baby. 9-large vocabulary. i have been told that i have a more "sophisticated" vocabulary or even use words that teachers dont know. and when the teacher asks "does anyone know what this word means?" while teaching. im like "yeah. who doesnt? its common sense" when apperently its not??? and not many people know it?? and im confused. ive also been reading at a higher level than others since elementary. ik that doesnt deal with vocabulary but it correlates in some ways. 10- lack of organization. true. i have no organization. its not always physical organization. but mentally, im not. with a LOT of things im not. but with otehr situations, it relates back to 7. rituals with no outcome. i have to organize things in specific ways or itll be overwhelming. like in minecraft (dont judge) i HAVE to have a chest for everything. but at the same time, its hard for me to keep it organized, despite my craving to be organized. and welp. thats all ig. i have every single one of these "unusual" autistic traits and can describe in detail how it effects me
I feel not alone anymore! My parents never told me it was normal all my life. And I never felt right about it. I had weird looks for just acting me. 😅 Autism explain everything!
As far as not being able to sleep goes, I hear the idea that an autistic person often prioritizes what grabs their attention over priorities and needs which is consistant with me not eating because I'm hyper focused on something, but its also consistant I think with me not being able to go to sleep because I'm fixated on something and cant stop thinking about it
Thanks for talking about #8 (being overly empathetic). Not a lot of people talk about that one, and personally, that's always been a super huge one for me. Not many people know that that can be a symptom.
My left toe has been hurting SO bad for the last five days. Perhaps it is because I've been taking my dog out for runs more and probably run in my neighborhood.
Relate to everything! People tell me I walk like a cartoon character 🚶♀️ And I could not and will not ever know what's left or right.. usually everything is left, always left haha
I often times find myself pacing around all night to where I might not even sleep until the next night. I just run my brain through my designs for my inventions and how I will use/deploy them and how important it is that I do it.
I’m looking into getting tested for both Autism and ADHD and I relate to so so much of this. Thank you for making this video! (Also your energy is really exciting!! But sadly, it’s a little much for me and I have to slow the video a bit just to process and understand what’s happening lol)
I am and have been so many of these traits. It makes sense given when I was born why they had absolutely no idea what was going on with me and so made the decision to protect me from being pigeon holed so that I could develop intellectually. I myself have a robust vocabulary as well and throughout my life have been criticized for exercising it. The disorganization I feel and excessive empathy I feel on a spiritual level lol. Thanks to your channel and several others I have been able to self diagnose and fight to get a medical one as well as therapeutic assistance.
Always has taken me quite a while to get to sleep. 30 mins is pretty much the normal / minimum. When it is several hours it is a pain! I still often walk on tip toes. I tend to think of it as avoiding making noise. Probably makes it easier to walk in heels! But still walk fast, and struggle when forced to walk slowly. I still don’t know left and right by default. My way of remembering is a memory of which side of a particular road I cycled down occasionally 40+ years ago. But on the other hand pretty good with directions (my better half says I must be related to a homing pigeon). Certainly not organised!
I walk super slow apparently every one says I walk so SLOW hehe so the walking fast doesn't apply to me and I was diagnosed with autism last year 2023 in March lol
i love this, so informative. made me think how i relate. im most of these in some way. i should clarify i do have Aspergers, diagnosed at 12 and i am 31. for example the insomnia comes and goes, depends on my stress level. if i am extremely stressed, i wont sleep well for months. my posture is actually extremely well due to years of piano playing. i do walk weird though. my brother when we were children would say (and i still do) i walk like a duck. i am completely flat footed and walk on the side of my foot. i am extremely clumsy and my sense of direction is nonexistent haha. i am overly empathic but i do not really cry. crying is not normal for me. i work with seniors because i love helping. Messy is my nickname sometimes lol. i am organize at work because i have to be. I think of others. home is so unorganized and i am trying to fix that as well. my learning levels are advance in the arts. not in academics. i have always been bad at school. i am smart, just not patient. and im obsessed with animals!
I remember using those weird black shoes when I was a child. But I thought it had something to do with my arthritis and the fact that I walked with turned outward.
I just got diagnosed with Autism today at 29 by a specialist with a PhD in melb. I was so shocked and annoyed as I thought I had adhd and the more and more was like oh oh oh OH MY GOD MY LIFE MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE. Relating hard to all these and can’t help but cry and laugh watching, thank you for existing darling xx
i'm currently doing intensive research on adhd bc i think i might have it (i'm still not sure when i will get a diagnosis) and also looking into autism bc there's so much stigma around it and i realized that i know absolutely nothing about bc of your videos i'm starting to understand better my cousin's daughter, she's only 5 or 6 and non verbal, it is so eye opening, thank you so much for the content you put out😊
when you have 9/10 and you haven't been diagnosed w autism... lmao i need to try to get assessed. my brother and my half brother were both diagnosed when they were little
Girl I’m with you!!!! I love cats and I feel a deep connection with them Cause they mostly have calm personalities, and always feel safe with them. 😺😺😺 Edit: expect my moms old cat Gigi (she’s crazy and I’m simply scared of her)
I hate having pronated feet. Whenever I was in sports it would just make them hurt really bad after running. I also like ice skating & roller blading a lot so it gets upsetting when I can’t for long periods of time because my feet will be in pain😂
I don't know if I'm autistic or not because my therapist said I was very close to the spectrum but not really in? I walk on my tip toes for example, I had therapy to avoid it. I hope I can finally get the diagnosis (either that I am or I'm not) so I can love myself better. Like better self-care
I was born in 1950 when we didn't know that autism, let alone Aspergers was a thing. Thank God I have a somewhat light case of it because I had to deal with it on my own. I wonder what my life would have been like if there was help for me in childhood. I had to learn how to keep a job. The good news was that I eventually became a software engineer where I fit in a little better and most of my coworkers were men. I hope this is encouraging information.
I actually have a diagnosis of "delayed sleep phase syndrome." I saw a bunch of sleep specialists and tried different meds like topomax and trazodone. But I was never able to change my sleep schedule. I won't even tell you about how angry my parents got with me when I was a kid and I kept pestering them in the middle of the night. I had no idea I was autistic. I was not diagnosed with autism until age 43. The autism diagnosis came years and years after the delayed sleep phase syndrome diagnosis.
*me only half way paying attention* video: "poor and abnormal posture" me: *looks up at screen as i am hunched over, knowing i have such bad posture that i almost look like i have a hunch back.*
Oh my gosh yes I didn’t make the connection between the loads of stuffed animals I HAD to sleep with, I also had to arrange them a specific way each night in a certain order or I’d be so stressed and worried about them. Posture wise I constantly stared at the ground walking and was afraid to look up and had to force myself to walk “normally” as I grew up. Yup walking on toes, sides of my feet, heel rocking yes yes 😂 constantly yelled at for walking too fast mhm! I love animals but struggle with sensory things in regards to dogs, I like them but licking or having a strong odor can be very overwhelming, and they can be a bit more I guess chaotic than cats for me. I hit my head so much more often than my siblings and was always getting bruised but then again I have hEDS so easy bruising. I’ve walked into door frames so many times or turned corners too quickly and would hit walls 😂 Rituals yes! Specific ways of doing certain things etc. When I did start coming out of my shell a bit in college people told me I was like a therapist and so many people said, “wow you’re just like me!” But how could I be like so many people I wondered and had an identity crisis, thinking I wasn’t a real person, masking I’m sure and the empathy hmm! Always have my own phrases I pick up, random things or just things I’d purposefully remember from books or shows, repeat them in my mind and wait to use them in conversations and got excited when I could, people often tell my I have my own language because I will string words together and blurt it all out and it’s nonsense, but my husband and best friend have come to kinda understand it haha! I don’t always catch it until they say what was that? Or after I blurt when I meant to say something else and I’m just like what was that 😅 thank you! Just felt nice to type out some of my thoughts and gist of how I could relate ☺️
My daughter is 9 and has only been diagnosed with ADHD however she has a difficult time sleeping, is very clumsy, says the wrong tense of words, is disorganized, and loves animals. I do think she’s on the spectrum.
I've been watching a lot of videos from a lot of different spectrum folks, and I got to say, at first I was having a hard time keeping up, but by the end of it, OMG I want her to be my bff. She's so adorable and super happy and I wish I had that kind of Aspie experience. Also, the walk thing makes so much sense, can't tell you how many podiatrists I went to as a kid thinking that I had a messed up foot or something. I just have a funny gate my knee kind of bends inward on my right side and it makes me look like I wobble and the way my arms are they kind of turn outward with my forearms facing frontward.
My daughter has Asperger's and I'm trying to get her to watch these videos. I think they will help her understand herself better. I have several of these traits, but I don't know if it's Asperger's or the fact that I had a brain cancer and treatment for that.
I used to be such an animal person, but as an adult now I struggle a lot bc of what I assume is my sensory issues and OCD. Hair, smells, messes, etc Anyone else use to loved animals, but their autism has made them a sensory nightmare for you as an adult?
Omg the gait one!! I had lots of problems with my feet hurting cuz I walked on my toes and the I walked with my feet pointing outwards! I was also told that I walked weird haha (still walking strange yeee)
_I m a super organized person...too much organized in a hardcore level !!! _I love animals and all type of dolls and peluchias. _I m totallly clumssy..and random over 9000 _My sense of orientation is perfect ! _Empathy yes and I have extremly difficult to speak with girls maybe I m gonna die virgin damn it lol _My foots are totally normal .. except to find the right size in shoes store 🤣 _My vocabulary is peculiar and I like to invent new rules and games. _My sleep time is normal even if I live like a Vampire ^^; _ My routines are solid like steel with strange walks and traditions But no one imagine that I m Asperg...it s my secret if I tell them... then I need to kill them ....I feel ashame and at same time a genuine human being cause I don t know how to be phony...I guess Princess Aspian lolololl so funny tks for the good vibes
This is very interesring!There is also a condition called HSP - highly sensitive person. This is when you are so sensitive to the emotions of others and overly sensitive to the world and get overwhelmed by too much stimulation.Same as the intense emapthy in autism but does not necessarily mean you have autism.
Huh, I walk funny that makes sense. My mother used to make me walk around with a book on my head to correct my posture. Now i know why she made me - thanks mum she did help me a lot by doing that.
As an empath, I find myself relating to quite a few things on the autism spectrum and find learning more about these disorders (and other disorders) helps me understand myself, my experiences, and other people better all the time. Are there any other empaths out there that feel similarly? Or empaths that are also on the spectrum?
I used to be extremely organized, up to the absolute maximum. But unfortunately my autnts with their most desirable marriageges told (therefore taught) me: "I'd never read a document ever 😅 that's what I have my dear husband for. 😃" Well, I got left out of testaments quite a bit.
Hmmm... A lot of these could apply to the general population... My brother has autism so let's see how many aplly to him Sleeping problems : none Walking strangely: yeah, all the time and fast Animals: I think... He doesn't speak so we don't know.... Oh wait he is afraid of dogs Clumsyness: no he's so careful Spacial awareness/directions: maybe, I can't tell Rituals: yesssss so many of them! Empathy/compassion: he doesn't speak much so I don't know Vocabulary: he doesn't really speak so no Lack of organisation: no, he's really organised I'd say more of these things ally to me... Not sure any of these other than rituals and a strange vocabulary really help to tell
Stay up late and couldn’t sleep in car rides due to lots of activity going on outside check. walk on toes and walk very fast and weird walking, check. love cats, check. hit my shoulders on walls but still stay on my feet no matter what sort of obstacles or ice, check. used to have trouble with left and right but can never be lost, check. strange routine, check. feels others feelings and have a huge heart, check. Large and unique vocabulary and think too long before speaking, check. Unorganized, check.
when I first started riding horses I couldn't remember my left from my right so my riding instructor would tie a ribbon on my left wrist to make it easier to figure it out. I still have to stop and think about which way is which sometimes.
My mom says I never slept. I still cant and now I have a baby on the way... i use a weighted blanket and have a mini weighted blanket i put over my head.
I can keep everything clean if I start from the start like when I went to school in year 7 I could keep my locker cleanish and my desk was always clean and organised, but my room is always messy. (I’m autistic)
My English teacher gave me back some work the other day and asked me to rewrite the first bit as I used the word objectified too much 😂if I know a big word I use it too much
Hi, I'm a patient advocate for rare illnesses, new to your channel from far in the future. I just want to check that you've also ruled out Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or hypermobility disorders as an addon? Autism, as found very recently, is highly connected with EDS. EDS is also highly associated with poor or "kyphotic" posture and poor proprioception as you also mentioned. I'll add to my comment as I watch the rest of the video, to see if my concern holds true. Walking "wrong": Yeah that's often also an EDS thing, often also resulting in being dismissed as "clumsy". And also is associated with proprioception.
Clumsiness: I literally already mentioned this twice in my first comment. lemme triple down. Subset: Easy/large Bruising and easily cut or torn skin: Also an EDS thing. Especially if long healing is involved.
Poor spatial awareness, and poor awareness of body in relation to itself and within the space (which is the "proprioception" from comment 1): That's another tick for EDS
1. 1:26: insomnia
2. 2:04: bad posture
3. 3:20: different way of walking to abled people
4. 5:01: a connection with animals
5. 5:59: clumsiness
6. 6:51: trouble with directions
7. 7:20: rituals with no outcome
8. 8:04: intense empathy
9. 9:31: a large and unique vocabulary
10. 10:24 a lack of organization
hope i helped!
1 4 5 6 7 10 i relate to these so much-
Thank you so much Im planning on writing a paper to get diagnosed with and this helped a bunch ♥️
@@bunny_does hahah it's no problem
1. A lot, but also sometimes hypersomnia. It's rare, though.
2. Yes.
3. I guess? My shoes always wear out in the same place, and my mom said I put too much weight on that part of my foot. I couldn't figure out how I could have been walking differently than other people, though. When I was in San Francisco in a group, a homeless guy singled me out for how I stood and walked and asked me why I was so high strung and nervous... I didn't even see how I was walking and standing as being different.
4.This is not me, though I did get a bird to calm down once by letting it bite me (it was very small, no risk of injury) I was in Australia at the time and super jet-lagged, and a man was talking to his baby and said "Look, there's a quiet Yank. You don't see many of those."
5. Sort of... I mean, with some things. I never tie my shoes right (they always come undone, or I have to double knot then they are hard to undo at the end of the day) which is why I prefer velcro. I also can't figure out ties for the life of me. That's not clumsiness per se, but it's related. I am actually quite adept at recovering from a stumble, mostly because I can break rather easily when I don't recover.
6. Yeah... This is a problem for me. I wiggle the fingers on my writing hand, though, because I have a clear dominant hand, and it's my right hand. I look at which hand is wiggling and that's how I know.
7. Yeah. I have some rituals, but they change over time.
8. I can be super empathetic, but I can also shut down pretty easily.
9. Yeah. Including words I'd never heard out loud, which was the source of embarrassment from time to time(i used genre in a speech in high school, repeatedly, and was told the actual pronunciation by a teacher after it was over).
10. Yes...
Literally all of them
I know so many people who literally think autism is "an empathy disorder." Such an annoying misconception!
I feel like I had to learn it manually... like everything else that abled people take for granted
MAN I HATE THAT
Like literally, me and many other autistic people i know are actually hyper empathetic! There’s a difference between not spotting emotions in peoples body language, and not feeling empathy even after the emotions have been confirmed.
Amen!
I think i'm on the spectrum and my personality is the type of an empath, i'm naturally extremely empathetic but it gets extremely overwhelming all the time
This video makes me feel so seen. I am *painfully* empathetic. I have a hard time just watching the news without getting really emotional.
And I'm often afraid to talk about this trait of mine because I don't want to seem like I'm bragging or something. Our society idealizes the concept of empathy so much that if I say I have an excess of it neurotypicals will probably just think I'm showing off.
I have become physically ill from over identifying with the emotions of others. I didn’t know this was a trait. I just thought I was weird in one more way. Then it became a “fad” to claim to be an empath and I didn’t want to talk about how I am for the same reason you don’t. You aren’t alone.
It's funny, before the election I got too depressed by whatever news I heard (I avoided looking at it on my own). But after it, I felt nothing when I heard the news, because the chaos around the election burned it all out.
It's funny because I have always felt like this. But I don't know, maybe that's just me and my trauma. 😢
I walk like I’m drunk all of the time and I trip over my feet all of the time. One reason I love animals so much is because I can understand their communication style. A cat will hiss, growl or scratch, I wish humans did the same instead of subtext and passive aggressive.
Ah, felt that mate. Real shit here
Omg yes I’ve literally been thinking the exact same thing for a little while now:)
All of you telling her to not talk so fast clearly don't realise that fast speech is an aspergers trait.. Don't be so rude
and adhd.. also it's her channel and if that's what makes her more comfortable to able to get her words out then she's fine to do that, I talk super fast cause the thought leaves my head too quickly so I can't remember the end of my sentence otherwise
I have both autism and ADHD and it’s actually very nice in my case
I love her talking speed! I wish everyone could match it, but I do have adhd soooo
And I literally don't get what their problem is with that, I LOVE how energetically she talks (she's like the opposite of Harry Styles lmao)
I just changed the playback speed. No problem.
Your sunshine is gorgeous.
I have so much trouble with directions- the only direction I understand is one direction 😂
HAHA ME
Harry Styles says hello...
Chantilly Marie I love 1D!!
Even I have sh*tty awareness of not only my surroundings, but also where the fu*k am I going. Someone's gotta escort me to a destination I wanted to go; I'm still working on it, though...
Kendell Warner it gets better with age we have difficulty with special awareness. The best way to navigate somewhere is google maps. Dancing is wonderful for creating the connections in the brain and the body where our limbs are in space and improving motor coordination
3 months ago I found a small beetle on my student apartment, they was dizzy so I gived them whater and organic food. That day spended a lot of time searching what tipe os beetle they was (rosemary beetle). I found that it was posible that they only lived 2 weeks more bc they only lived one year, they was an adult and it was mating season. The next day I buyed a rosemary and "buil a hause" for they (eaven knowing that eventually they'll die). I talked to them, singged to them, protcted them from the cool... 4 days later they died, it was so sad. I was scared of they all the time, but I loved they so much and I miss they. I miss you litle beetle
Oh, I saved a bumblebee in the early spring, als the weather get's freaking cold with snow. For two days I fed him with honey and made hin a house too in my plant... It gets warmer then and I opend the window and he flew away.... Still hoping he has survived...
I recently got diagnosed with adhd and a lot of my friends also have it and I’ve noticed I don’t really act like any of them.I check off so many boxes that are signs of autism and I’m going to talk to my therapist about it and I’m currently learning more about it. Btw I’m 14 and these are the things I check off ig:
I walk on my toes, I always have never new why and its just very uncomfortable not doing and I walk fast
I have really bad insomnia and can go days without any sleep until I finally crash because I’m thinking of things I like or just sensory around me
I’m a huge animal person I care more for my pets than people sometime
I easily get overwhelmed if to many things are happening at once and will lash out if it’s bad
I’m ridiculously clumsy and get injured easily
I don’t memorize things by what they are but what they look like. Especially numbers
I’m really emotional and if someone tells me something upsetting I’ll either freeze up having an inner panic on what I should say or I’ll start crying
I speak with a lot of weird words that probably don’t exist and I’ll use super wrong words which people think are odd
I’m ridiculously unorganized nothings in the correct place ever.
I can’t touch specific things or smell them. Wet dishes are one of the things and metal on metal is a nightmare.
I could keep going but then this would be a whole novel
I found out a year ago next month that I'm autistic....at 51 and have all 10 of these. I've been asked, several times: "Why do you talk like that?" "Just use simpler words, you don't sound smarter using big ones," etc. Every time, I would be like "Huh?" this is how I talk. Then, if you go quiet, they ask "what's wrong." Difficulty with directions has been life long. If I go right going in/getting there, my brain tells me to go right going out/leaving as well. I have to consciously remind myself, it's the opposite of how I went in that I need to go back out. Thank you for what you do, for making these video's. If this information wasn't available, I might not have ever recognized myself. It was a relief to find out I'm not "weird," after all. I'm me and there's nothing "wrong" with that. :)
The thing I can relate the most to is the intense/extreme empathy/compassion! Sometimes I find it really hard to walk where there's ants on the ground because the thought of accidentally stepping on some of them makes me so sad, while the others seem to be okay with it
I am starting to think i am the phycopath of the autism community ;-; because i love killing bugs (NOT THE AMINALS THO) and uhh- THINKING about hurting people... Yeah i need mental help.
omg the empathy thing, I cried once when I was buying a small christmas tree because I saw one that barely had leaves and stuff and I thought that if I didn't buy it no one would
Great video!
Executive dysfunction is probably my most biggest everyday struggle as an autistic person. My therapist helped me realize that because I grew up undiagnosed and my parents always got upset with me for struggling with chores (being called lazy, the 'queen of excuses' even though they were actual reasons) , I never truly learned how to function and do things within my own framework. It's a big reason why my transition into adulthood blew up in my face, and at 25 I'm still struggling with how to do a lot of things. I'm starting to do better though! I set (multiple) alarms for everything I want/need to do - literally everything, including getting out of bed, eating lunch, etc. It's helped me start to be more organized!
I'm also one of the lucky 20-25% of autistic people that sleeps well apparently! I do struggle with making myself get ready and into bed and weird night time anxiety that stops me from going to bed, but thankfully I'm really good with falling and staying asleep.
Also I have not been able to have my own pet for a few years now and can't get one for potentially another year and a half as well. It's incredibly painful to not have a pet. I feel so lonely without one, despite being married and living with two other people as well.
I can relate to several of these. I struggled with directions for a long time, both left and right and also the north, south, east, west
The insomnia is real!
Also, I have a strange bout of spacial awareness at work where like most of the time I know what's going on around me, but I'll still trip over/run into a table at work that I know exists but its almost like my brain shut off regarding it. I'll still drop things and run into things, but I'm aware of when my coworkers are around me and we walk around one another very fluidly. Its strange.
My cats are my best friends!
I'm also clumsy and I break everything I touch.
I got a tattoo on my left arm, so I remember it's left.
Wow, I relate 100% to EVERYTHING you just said. The direction thing really gets me, I have to take photos to know where I am going, and sometimes I can't even follow maps. Literally, I thought me being bad at direction was just me being dumb. Every time I watch your videos, I feel more understood.
Thank you, for being an advocate for girls on the spectrum, and for making us feel less alone in the world. You are AMAZING. I also have Dyspraxia and just have no spacial awareness what so ever, walk into everything and everyone. A door could be wide open, and my dyspraxic ass would walk directly into the door frame and knock myself out.
Will still misjudge distances and can bump into things
For real, I’m mobility impaired and I still walk INCREDIBLY fast. It’s painful but I want to get where I’m going dammit lol
I love the determination
Why did I tear up a little when she said "You're not alone"
I'm not okay
I think you changed my life I'm 37 and have definitely been misdiagnosed. Thank you. Also I don't drift off when you speak it's definitely the right speed 😍💗😜🤩😘
I understand the walking!!!!!!! I’ve always been told that I walk and run weird and I say as a joke (everyone knows I’m joking) “that’s ableist I have a disability “ but now it is actually because of my disability!
oh my gosh, at school when I walk to class with my friends I always have to stop because they walk so slow. I just want to get out of the hallways while they're just chatting and strolling along
okay look with the whole large vocabulary thing, i didnt even know that was related to autism until you mentioned it in your videos. it makes me think of how my dad has told me that when i went to the check up thing to see if i was developing properly, i knew like 100 extra words than i was supposed to at that age. and even now a lot of times i'll be speaking to my peers and they're like "why are you using such big words?" and im like "im...not???"
I relate to all of these and I'm actually diagnosed with autism, but my grandparents and even my therapist always tell me that it isn't true and that I just have to be normal...
OOOOHH!! I LOVE THESE THINGIES ON YOUR CHEEK IT'S SO CUUTE!!!
Continuing to watch your videos...I am an Empath...so what you said, was very helpful (especially because of all the "Dark Empath" nonsense now on UA-cam). I had all of those stuffed animals on my bed....but I was kept awake anyway. I'm a Medium...and ADHD...and autistic. I have been given information that there will likely ("possible future") be a lot of research on Autism in the next decade. I hope you will be a part of that. Again, Bless you for what you do, Beautiful Soul.
Omg her energy is 💥💫🦄🏵✨
And I love it!
I was always told by my friends that I have a "gangsta" walk. Sometimes I also get confused by how I'm supposed to swing my arms when I walk or feel like I walk very stiff.
OH MY GOSH! THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I WAS TOLD AS A CHILD TO WALK "NORMALLY" BECAUSE I WALKED ON MY TIPTOES WAS CRAZY!
Literally, almost all of these traits are things that I relate to.
Walk oddly to your hearts content!! x
When I walk normal, my heel striking the ground makes my eyes jiggle. The sound of the heel thump is also distracting. Most of the time, this does not bother me, but when I start to feel overloaded, I walk on my toes.
Great video
I have an autistic mom (love you mom) so she never told me that. Or at least.. I dont think so XD I have horrible memory
Same! I was told that I walk weird so many times in my life, and that's with my shoes on. I don't like the thump when I walk, so I walk really light, and when I'm barefoot (almost all the time in the summer) I walk toe to heel.
Haha same “WHY ARE YOU WALKING LIKE YOUR SCARED” haha total sensory overload
I walked on the toes of my feet for 5 years of my life (from 6 y/o to 11 y/o). I have no idea why lmao
I totally have the weird posture and gait thing! Been able to improve it but it's still there (I'm particularly better at walking but I still run really weird, to the point where I'm embarrassed to run in public). I had no idea I walked weird until it was brought to my attention when I was 12. My mom told me she had thought there was something wrong with my spine and that's why I looked so weird, but nope, just had a weird posture and gait! To me the way I was walking before was a lot more relaxed, I basically did the bare minimum to keep my body balanced upright, so I had to learn to use more muscles to mostly straighten my back but also to a lesser extent to control how I moved my legs and hips
When I was younger I was absolutely and completely obsessed with imagine games where I WASN’T HUMAN. I could be a dog, or a fairy, or a dragon or a robot because it meant I could act ‘odd’ and it wouldn’t seem out of the ordinary cause I wasn’t acting as a human I was pretending to be a creature
i literally walk around collecting sticks and leaves and rocks and give them to my friends and talk about them and my dad has literally been scared of me for it and my friends have crumbled or broken the sticks in fromt of me and they didn’t understand why i was so sad
I had no clue about the first 3 and they are soooo accurate, sometimes I will stay up for days straight, my record is 5, simply because I could not get to sleep. My posture is horrible to the point a guy who works at the club recognises me by my posture and my whole life I've been scolded for walking like an elephant. And then also the directions, I get lost going to houses I've been a million times before and I still use the left and right hand trick. This is all mind blowing
Your happiness is contagious :) . Also, love the shirt!
I walk on my toes/front pads of my feet, I just make sure to stretch my achilles tendons a lot and to wear boots or shoes that encourages me to walk I need my whole foot.
Sometimes it's advantageous, I can move quickly and relatively quietly on my toes.
Me watching this video while hand feeding quesadilla ((aka MY lunch)) to the three dogs, kitten, gerbil, and duck that live in my bedroom with me... 😳🤭🤫
I too had trouble sleeping as a baby I would just calm down by watching a lot of TV at night, until now I am kinda obsessed with movies and tv shows but still struggle with insomnia
My little sister has been diagnosed with autism and ur channel has helped me understand and be more educated on autism thank you
1- insomnia. uhm.. i stay up until 3 am and not even notice the time. and not even feel tired. only time ill sleep early is if im depressed and dont want to deal with a single thing and just need to escape. and when i was younger, i couldnt sleep without my stuffed animal cat (had since i was 2 months old. im 17. still have it. wont let ANYONE touch it). and i have major sensory issues. sensory overload is very very common for me. texture (mainly eating). smell. light. noise especiallty.
2- hard to say whats bad or odd posture so no comment
3- odd walking. i walk on the balls of my feet all the time. i have since i was young. i do it now and im 17. ive always done it and my family would get mad for some reason or say its weird. like. IM WALKING. WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME? and i walk the way you said. the "inside" of your feet (hard to even explain) and thats why alot of my shoes are messed up. i walk fast aswell. i blame it on anxiety.
4- connection with animals. i love animals. if im at a party or at someones house. i always focus on the animals. they calm me. i like them more than people. i even have crabs and will hold them and theyre more comforting than people. i love animals.
5- clumsy. idk if im clumsy but i do have bad spatial awareness like you mentioned. and i have so many bruises on me from simply running into things. but i do also just have really sensitive skin
6- troubles with direction. itll take me a bit to comprehend left and right. i dont get them mixed up. but it does take me a second. or a minute to realize which way is what,
7-rituals with no outcome. i have things i do that have no purpose but i feel the need to do it. one of the weirdest being is if i take a sip of a drink. and after i take another sip. the sip i took after HAS to be the same time length of sipping as that first sip. and if its not. then i have to take another sip thats then the same time as the one i just took
8-intense compassion and empathy. definitely. i always try to help others or i understand others so much that it effects me aswell. and as you said, we have too much empathy that its overwhelming. my emotions overwhelm me alot to where i go to a default/emotionless state. and then people think im rude because i struggle with expressing emotions. and just like you, i cry easily aswell. i hate that. people would just call me a baby.
9-large vocabulary. i have been told that i have a more "sophisticated" vocabulary or even use words that teachers dont know. and when the teacher asks "does anyone know what this word means?" while teaching. im like "yeah. who doesnt? its common sense" when apperently its not??? and not many people know it?? and im confused. ive also been reading at a higher level than others since elementary. ik that doesnt deal with vocabulary but it correlates in some ways.
10- lack of organization. true. i have no organization. its not always physical organization. but mentally, im not. with a LOT of things im not. but with otehr situations, it relates back to 7. rituals with no outcome. i have to organize things in specific ways or itll be overwhelming. like in minecraft (dont judge) i HAVE to have a chest for everything. but at the same time, its hard for me to keep it organized, despite my craving to be organized.
and welp. thats all ig. i have every single one of these "unusual" autistic traits and can describe in detail how it effects me
I relate to the first 2 traits mentioned on this list.
I feel not alone anymore! My parents never told me it was normal all my life. And I never felt right about it. I had weird looks for just acting me. 😅
Autism explain everything!
As far as not being able to sleep goes, I hear the idea that an autistic person often prioritizes what grabs their attention over priorities and needs which is consistant with me not eating because I'm hyper focused on something, but its also consistant I think with me not being able to go to sleep because I'm fixated on something and cant stop thinking about it
Thanks for talking about #8 (being overly empathetic). Not a lot of people talk about that one, and personally, that's always been a super huge one for me. Not many people know that that can be a symptom.
My left toe has been hurting SO bad for the last five days. Perhaps it is because I've been taking my dog out for runs more and probably run in my neighborhood.
Relate to everything!
People tell me I walk like a cartoon character 🚶♀️
And I could not and will not ever know what's left or right.. usually everything is left, always left haha
Oh my...!! I do / am all of these things!!
This is a perfect description of who I am as a person. Send help. 😂❤️
I often times find myself pacing around all night to where I might not even sleep until the next night. I just run my brain through my designs for my inventions and how I will use/deploy them and how important it is that I do it.
I’m looking into getting tested for both Autism and ADHD and I relate to so so much of this. Thank you for making this video! (Also your energy is really exciting!! But sadly, it’s a little much for me and I have to slow the video a bit just to process and understand what’s happening lol)
I am and have been so many of these traits. It makes sense given when I was born why they had absolutely no idea what was going on with me and so made the decision to protect me from being pigeon holed so that I could develop intellectually. I myself have a robust vocabulary as well and throughout my life have been criticized for exercising it. The disorganization I feel and excessive empathy I feel on a spiritual level lol. Thanks to your channel and several others I have been able to self diagnose and fight to get a medical one as well as therapeutic assistance.
Always has taken me quite a while to get to sleep. 30 mins is pretty much the normal / minimum. When it is several hours it is a pain!
I still often walk on tip toes. I tend to think of it as avoiding making noise. Probably makes it easier to walk in heels! But still walk fast, and struggle when forced to walk slowly.
I still don’t know left and right by default. My way of remembering is a memory of which side of a particular road I cycled down occasionally 40+ years ago. But on the other hand pretty good with directions (my better half says I must be related to a homing pigeon).
Certainly not organised!
I walk super slow apparently every one says I walk so SLOW hehe so the walking fast doesn't apply to me and I was diagnosed with autism last year 2023 in March lol
i love this, so informative. made me think how i relate. im most of these in some way. i should clarify i do have Aspergers, diagnosed at 12 and i am 31. for example the insomnia comes and goes, depends on my stress level. if i am extremely stressed, i wont sleep well for months. my posture is actually extremely well due to years of piano playing. i do walk weird though. my brother when we were children would say (and i still do) i walk like a duck. i am completely flat footed and walk on the side of my foot. i am extremely clumsy and my sense of direction is nonexistent haha. i am overly empathic but i do not really cry. crying is not normal for me. i work with seniors because i love helping. Messy is my nickname sometimes lol. i am organize at work because i have to be. I think of others. home is so unorganized and i am trying to fix that as well. my learning levels are advance in the arts. not in academics. i have always been bad at school. i am smart, just not patient. and im obsessed with animals!
I remember using those weird black shoes when I was a child. But I thought it had something to do with my arthritis and the fact that I walked with turned outward.
I just got diagnosed with Autism today at 29 by a specialist with a PhD in melb. I was so shocked and annoyed as I thought I had adhd and the more and more was like oh oh oh OH MY GOD MY LIFE MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE. Relating hard to all these and can’t help but cry and laugh watching, thank you for existing darling xx
i'm currently doing intensive research on adhd bc i think i might have it (i'm still not sure when i will get a diagnosis) and also looking into autism bc there's so much stigma around it and i realized that i know absolutely nothing about
bc of your videos i'm starting to understand better my cousin's daughter, she's only 5 or 6 and non verbal, it is so eye opening, thank you so much for the content you put out😊
The teachers in elementary school would always ridicule me for my messy desk and embarrass me in front of everyone :(
when you have 9/10 and you haven't been diagnosed w autism... lmao i need to try to get assessed. my brother and my half brother were both diagnosed when they were little
I am “pigeon toed”, walk on my tiptoes..and my heels.😂 I trip so much.
Girl I’m with you!!!! I love cats and I feel a deep connection with them
Cause they mostly have calm personalities, and always feel safe with them. 😺😺😺
Edit: expect my moms old cat Gigi (she’s crazy and I’m simply scared of her)
I love cats and they are one of my special interests!
Holy moly! I also take a few seconds to figure out my left and right!!
I have to do the thing with the fingers
I hate having pronated feet. Whenever I was in sports it would just make them hurt really bad after running. I also like ice skating & roller blading a lot so it gets upsetting when I can’t for long periods of time because my feet will be in pain😂
I don't know if I'm autistic or not because my therapist said I was very close to the spectrum but not really in? I walk on my tip toes for example, I had therapy to avoid it. I hope I can finally get the diagnosis (either that I am or I'm not) so I can love myself better. Like better self-care
I was born in 1950 when we didn't know that autism, let alone Aspergers was a thing. Thank God I have a somewhat light case of it because I had to deal with it on my own. I wonder what my life would have been like if there was help for me in childhood. I had to learn how to keep a job. The good news was that I eventually became a software engineer where I fit in a little better and most of my coworkers were men. I hope this is encouraging information.
Your enthusiasm is contagious I love it
Yes that's me (5) walking into the door at 3 in the morning
I literally related to every single second of this video
I actually have a diagnosis of "delayed sleep phase syndrome." I saw a bunch of sleep specialists and tried different meds like topomax and trazodone. But I was never able to change my sleep schedule. I won't even tell you about how angry my parents got with me when I was a kid and I kept pestering them in the middle of the night. I had no idea I was autistic. I was not diagnosed with autism until age 43. The autism diagnosis came years and years after the delayed sleep phase syndrome diagnosis.
*me only half way paying attention*
video: "poor and abnormal posture"
me: *looks up at screen as i am hunched over, knowing i have such bad posture that i almost look like i have a hunch back.*
Oh my gosh yes I didn’t make the connection between the loads of stuffed animals I HAD to sleep with, I also had to arrange them a specific way each night in a certain order or I’d be so stressed and worried about them. Posture wise I constantly stared at the ground walking and was afraid to look up and had to force myself to walk “normally” as I grew up. Yup walking on toes, sides of my feet, heel rocking yes yes 😂 constantly yelled at for walking too fast mhm! I love animals but struggle with sensory things in regards to dogs, I like them but licking or having a strong odor can be very overwhelming, and they can be a bit more I guess chaotic than cats for me. I hit my head so much more often than my siblings and was always getting bruised but then again I have hEDS so easy bruising. I’ve walked into door frames so many times or turned corners too quickly and would hit walls 😂 Rituals yes! Specific ways of doing certain things etc. When I did start coming out of my shell a bit in college people told me I was like a therapist and so many people said, “wow you’re just like me!” But how could I be like so many people I wondered and had an identity crisis, thinking I wasn’t a real person, masking I’m sure and the empathy hmm! Always have my own phrases I pick up, random things or just things I’d purposefully remember from books or shows, repeat them in my mind and wait to use them in conversations and got excited when I could, people often tell my I have my own language because I will string words together and blurt it all out and it’s nonsense, but my husband and best friend have come to kinda understand it haha! I don’t always catch it until they say what was that? Or after I blurt when I meant to say something else and I’m just like what was that 😅 thank you! Just felt nice to type out some of my thoughts and gist of how I could relate ☺️
My daughter is 9 and has only been diagnosed with ADHD however she has a difficult time sleeping, is very clumsy, says the wrong tense of words, is disorganized, and loves animals. I do think she’s on the spectrum.
My older brothers are autism.
I once had a meltdown in Walmart bc they were drowning their hermit crabs. I swear... I related to so many of these traits. Thanks for sharing 💖
I've been watching a lot of videos from a lot of different spectrum folks, and I got to say, at first I was having a hard time keeping up, but by the end of it, OMG I want her to be my bff. She's so adorable and super happy and I wish I had that kind of Aspie experience. Also, the walk thing makes so much sense, can't tell you how many podiatrists I went to as a kid thinking that I had a messed up foot or something. I just have a funny gate my knee kind of bends inward on my right side and it makes me look like I wobble and the way my arms are they kind of turn outward with my forearms facing frontward.
My daughter has Asperger's and I'm trying to get her to watch these videos. I think they will help her understand herself better.
I have several of these traits, but I don't know if it's Asperger's or the fact that I had a brain cancer and treatment for that.
I used to be such an animal person, but as an adult now I struggle a lot bc of what I assume is my sensory issues and OCD. Hair, smells, messes, etc
Anyone else use to loved animals, but their autism has made them a sensory nightmare for you as an adult?
This video was so helpful to me!! Thank you! 🙂❤️🙏
Omg the gait one!! I had lots of problems with my feet hurting cuz I walked on my toes and the I walked with my feet pointing outwards! I was also told that I walked weird haha (still walking strange yeee)
Not organised, rituals. got me there😂😂
Thank you for shining your glitter soul so brightly!
When you relate to all of these
_I m a super organized person...too much organized in a hardcore level !!!
_I love animals and all type of dolls and peluchias.
_I m totallly clumssy..and random over 9000
_My sense of orientation is perfect !
_Empathy yes and I have extremly difficult to speak with girls maybe I m gonna die virgin damn it lol
_My foots are totally normal
.. except to find the right size in shoes store 🤣
_My vocabulary is peculiar and I like to invent new rules and games.
_My sleep time is normal even if I live like a Vampire ^^;
_ My routines are solid like steel with strange walks and traditions
But no one imagine that I m Asperg...it s my secret if I tell them... then I need to kill them ....I feel ashame and at same time a genuine human being cause I don t know how to be phony...I guess
Princess Aspian lolololl so funny tks for the good vibes
This is very interesring!There is also a condition called HSP - highly sensitive person. This is when you are so sensitive to the emotions of others and overly sensitive to the world and get overwhelmed by too much stimulation.Same as the intense emapthy in autism but does not necessarily mean you have autism.
Huh, I walk funny that makes sense. My mother used to make me walk around with a book on my head to correct my posture. Now i know why she made me - thanks mum she did help me a lot by doing that.
I relate to all of these!
Aside from the bad posture, ALL of the other things apply to me. However, I can be EXTREMELY organized, or not.
once at 11 i accidentally stepped on an ant and started crying.
I love you Chloe "Princess Aspien!!💖💖💖🙏🙏
As an empath, I find myself relating to quite a few things on the autism spectrum and find learning more about these disorders (and other disorders) helps me understand myself, my experiences, and other people better all the time. Are there any other empaths out there that feel similarly? Or empaths that are also on the spectrum?
I ruin my shoes too and I even ruined the thing to correct it 😂
I used to be extremely organized, up to the absolute maximum. But unfortunately my autnts with their most desirable marriageges told (therefore taught) me: "I'd never read a document ever 😅 that's what I have my dear husband for. 😃"
Well, I got left out of testaments quite a bit.
Hmmm... A lot of these could apply to the general population... My brother has autism so let's see how many aplly to him
Sleeping problems : none
Walking strangely: yeah, all the time and fast
Animals: I think... He doesn't speak so we don't know.... Oh wait he is afraid of dogs
Clumsyness: no he's so careful
Spacial awareness/directions: maybe, I can't tell
Rituals: yesssss so many of them!
Empathy/compassion: he doesn't speak much so I don't know
Vocabulary: he doesn't really speak so no
Lack of organisation: no, he's really organised
I'd say more of these things ally to me... Not sure any of these other than rituals and a strange vocabulary really help to tell
Stay up late and couldn’t sleep in car rides due to lots of activity going on outside check. walk on toes and walk very fast and weird walking, check. love cats, check. hit my shoulders on walls but still stay on my feet no matter what sort of obstacles or ice, check. used to have trouble with left and right but can never be lost, check. strange routine, check. feels others feelings and have a huge heart, check. Large and unique vocabulary and think too long before speaking, check. Unorganized, check.
when I first started riding horses I couldn't remember my left from my right so my riding instructor would tie a ribbon on my left wrist to make it easier to figure it out. I still have to stop and think about which way is which sometimes.
I have lots of friends with Autism & I think you are so amazing as much as you are beautiful!
My mom says I never slept. I still cant and now I have a baby on the way... i use a weighted blanket and have a mini weighted blanket i put over my head.
I can keep everything clean if I start from the start like when I went to school in year 7 I could keep my locker cleanish and my desk was always clean and organised, but my room is always messy.
(I’m autistic)
When I started year 7 I found dirty smelly football boots in mine 😂😂😂🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Also my room is often a mess
my teachers always used to tell me my work was plagiarised because I used long words
My English teacher gave me back some work the other day and asked me to rewrite the first bit as I used the word objectified too much 😂if I know a big word I use it too much
Hi, I'm a patient advocate for rare illnesses, new to your channel from far in the future.
I just want to check that you've also ruled out Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or hypermobility disorders as an addon? Autism, as found very recently, is highly connected with EDS. EDS is also highly associated with poor or "kyphotic" posture and poor proprioception as you also mentioned. I'll add to my comment as I watch the rest of the video, to see if my concern holds true.
Walking "wrong": Yeah that's often also an EDS thing, often also resulting in being dismissed as "clumsy". And also is associated with proprioception.
Clumsiness: I literally already mentioned this twice in my first comment. lemme triple down.
Subset: Easy/large Bruising and easily cut or torn skin: Also an EDS thing. Especially if long healing is involved.
Poor spatial awareness, and poor awareness of body in relation to itself and within the space (which is the "proprioception" from comment 1): That's another tick for EDS
I also have a messy bedroom but to me its a organised mess