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00:00 The ultimate autistic meme review
00:50 Nooo, but this is sad
01:30 This is lying
02:45 Don't get the ick...
04:12 THIS is how you make friends
04:30 If you got out of bed today...
04:58 You're just a dry husk
05:58 I have been disrespected
07:17 -10/10
08:48 Not ladylike.
09:20 Not relatable
09:59 I am a clown
10:32 I'm triggered
13:28 I hope you don't relate
13:52 my new merch???
14:32 Can you read cat facial expressions tho?
15:35 A great time for anxiety disorders!
16:14 Why are we like this?
18:10 This actually makes me uncomfortable
18:47 People will never understand us?
20:40 The opossums
21:39 Swallow me whole
22:22 How to soften interruptions?
24:00 THE PDA meme
25:00 If you need dopamine...
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Where. Did. You. Get. That. Care. Bear. Sweater. 🐻
Nevermind I found it. For anyone wondering, it's an H&M sweater.
As a fellow victim of that duckling, we should file a lawsuit
You might like to know that sunfish, aka the mola mola, often go lay flat on the water's surface so that seagulls and other birds can pick off parasites from their skin. Sunfish don't have scales, leaving them more vulnerable to skin parasites.
That *was* some pretty fowl behavior on the duckling's part. 😤
When you want your printer to have a PDF but it actually has PDA.
Underrated joke
They are very autism familiar devices
My old boss once sent me a PDF file and asked me to print it. 3 hours later he then went looking for the papers and I said: The printer spew the pdf but I did get ptsd from it. He nicely saw sat me down and explained to me how to do it. (it wasn't actually difficult, it's just that he taught me one way and the file required some twirking.)
GENIUS
I had a perfect comment but my printer refused to print it because the magenta ink was empty. Btw. It was a Black/White print.
as an autistic person i feel allergic to lying, i can do it, but it costs mana and i lose hp
ITS so Bad, Like at Most Injustice say Something that can BE misunderstood and then Not correct their assumption, but especially in Like Job Interview sutuationsnor such . . . . I cant Talk myself Up at all, I am painfully honest and I do No benifits in IT either since they will learn of my issues sooner or later anyway
@@arianewinter4266i know this isn't helpful if you don't already have a job, but something i'm doing right now is applying to jobs while i have a job and knowing that i'm not desperate and can negotiate with employers has helped a lot. when i was on my own first applying to jobs after i had just had to drop out of college after a suicide attempt (lol), i didn't have any confidence and i didn't even know i was autistic. i didn't want to lie either and i also didn't know what was appropriate to ask. don't ask them if your interview went well or if you're a good candidate (learned through experience lol). don't look for reassurance in the interview. and something that i'm doing is asking what accomodations if any could be made for me because i'm autistic. that's the biggest one. just get the autism out of the way in the interview so they know immediately what problems it might cause. i know disclosing anything about a marginalized identity can lead to you not getting hired because companies are not "equal opportunity employers" regardless of if they say they are or not, but this automatically weeds out any companies that would think badly of you for being autistic right out of the gate. if you can't disclose in the interview that you're autistic then they will probably treat you badly later on when they find out the hard way you're autistic. it takes a lot of bravery and obviously if you don't already have a job and you're desperate for one this isn't super helpful, but i hope it helps you in the future.
What's really crazy is that all the constant making can make us SUPER good at lying, but we don't do it because it sucks so much
We need to make memes about Autism Speaks for Autism Awareness Month (April) in pure protest
@ville__ Since you continue to identify using the AS label (which is no longer a recognized diagnosis within the DSM or the ICD), I assume that means you think you’re distinct from and/or superior to those of us who merely identify as Autistic.
I mean.... I still use the AS label because that's just what was used when I was diagnosed.... And the fact my family kept trying to fight that diagnosis telling me I'm not
@@GhostIntoTheFognot necessarily. In the 1980s - 2000s in the USA, Doctors were still using the AS diagnosis until the DSM V (5) which was released in 2013.
Possibly it's just someone who is older. My 32 year old son got a diagnosis of "Asperger's" in the early 2000s. The commenter says he's 30+ years old.
Just fyi. It may not be someone who "feels superior" but they have "low support needs for ADLs"
If you already know this, I apologize in advance.
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@@ville__You act like a bot and if you are real you keep saying you're better than this but you're against cyberbullying?
@@ville__I genuinely do not understand what it is you’re saying you’re better than or why the rest is relevant
Job interviewer: "tell me about yourself"
me: *starts a rant about one of my interests*
😂 😂 🤣 🙃 🙃 🤣
Interviewer: So... tell us something about yourself, something you have achieved?
Me: Starts ranting random things I've done in volunteer work and hobbies.
Interviewer: What are your best strengths? And what are your weaknesses?
Me: Strengths? I can pick up things quickly. Weaknesses? I fall asleep at random. And I'm quite bad at math.
Interviewer: interesting. You are hired. When can you start?
Me: Day after tomorrow, I have a breathing day, which I'd like to keep.
All ADHD, Autistic people should be allowed a rest day or two rest days so we don't burn out. 😢 It is not a joke, it's definitely a MUST.
Depending on the interviewer and the position that could be helpful. They might read that as you being passionate and smart.
I do that in a different situation;
Professor brings up Hitler
I don’t start not stop talking about my special interest with Hitler for almost the whole lecture time.
The lecture doesn’t happen for that day. So the rest of the class is happy and wants to secretly leave the classroom due to what they think is I just sidetracked the professor. Or just sit and watch me have the professor for history class hypnotized about Hitler the whole time. Or just leave me and the professor to talk about Hitler in a empty classroom tell the professor realizes everyone else else left except me for some weird reason.
is that, not what youre supposed to do?????
“I’m feeling content today, there’s always the slight pricklings of anxiety in the background…”
✨relatable✨
That was so beautifully put 😅❤
I feel like this always
The self-care thing is one of my wild autistic swings. I used to be dehydrated all the time and then one day my boyfriend was like _"Drink water, drink water, drink water!"_ and I just slammed 32 ounces of water with some drink mix in ten seconds. But it fixed my mood and how I do it quite regularly. Probaly not the most healthy habit but... it is better than being dehydrated.
You gotta be careful about drinking it all at once, apparently. I'd rather just get it over with too. Sipping all day is what keeps you hydrated, and drinking too much water can make things really bad. 😭
Be careful with drinking to much at once. It can imbalance the water-electrolyte-balance in your body which can be deadly!!
@@vampirthelop8442 I have started putting electrolytes in my water. It helps even more now.
@@ville__ oh, I see, you're a bot.
@@C-SDreport them for spam and then pretend they don't exist
Yeah, as a PDAer, I really resent that my parents and teachers tried to teach me self care/maintenance/upkeep stuff via authoritarian whip-cracking. I interpreted it as purely a power trip, like it wasn't something I actually needed to do, just a way for them to assert dominance and control. So, I ended up neglecting myself a lot when the source of domination went away. Because of their shitty teaching style, I had to learn basic life skills the hard way as an adult, when the consequences are more severe and it's much harder to train behaviors to an "auto pilot" level. Even now, it's hard to think of these tasks as something that I'm doing "for me".
i never understood parents like that. i'm not a parent but if my kid struggled with this stuff, like say brushing their teeth, instead of yelling at them or bossing them around or hounding them to do it, i'd say "how about we do it together" that way they could watch me brush mine with them and know that it wasn't a punishment, it's something mom has to do as well, and it's not to harm them. i had a cousin that was raised with self care being that whip-cracking thing. it dawned on me when i stayed with them that of course he doesn't want to shower or brush his teeth because he never sees his parents doing those things. they'd always close their bedroom door and do their self care after he'd gone to bed. asking him to do self care he'd feel singled out and like it was punishment. he never heard "mom's off to the shower" or was perchered up on the counter to watch dad shave or brush his teeth. he never was sat on the floor of the bathroom with a coloring book while mom ran a brush through her hair. i think it's important for kids to see their parents taking care of themselves. kids model what they see, after all.
@promisemochi Oh, wow! So true!
I still have some memories of my childhood when my aunt would ask us girls and the boys to meet her at her bedroom or her bathroom. We each took turns doing each other's hair, and the boys were taught sewing and mending. Same for us girls. We would just sit on the floor, sometimes, while aunt Clarisa got ready for her date with uncle. She let us do our hair, makeup, color our nails, brush our teeth and floss. My uncle also instilled some good hygiene care and boy-to-girl manners and other 'girly topics', which made them feel uncomfortable. Lol!
Now that aunt Clarisa is gone my guy cousins and my adopted sister are excellent young adults and parents. And I learned the fun way how to feel confident in my own skin and in front of my peers, makeup or no makeup. It wasn't until I turned 31 and uncle Maurice turned 60 yrs that I told him of my diagnosis and a big hug for all the love and teachings over the years. We sometimes as young adults forget to say thank you to our guardians. Sure, they aren't perfect but they tried to teach things the hard way or tge easy way in the best they could. ✌️
I can relate tot his so hard damn
I can relate unfortunately. Oftentimes my self care is NOT doing self care because I absolutely hate doing it. And people often think that's because I don't like myself, but I actually like myself plenty. I just absolutely hate the way self care activities feel and I think they're insanely boring.
THIS! Exactly!!
That bit about "what triggered you?" I'm constantly asking people what I said/ did so I don't trigger them in the future... I get blank stares. Is this really taboo or something? Sigh
I wrote this before I listened to all of what you said. That, too, is highly relatable.
I think it's a very NT thing to just assume people know why you're upset and proceed with that assumption. Having someone empathetically ask "Hey, may I ask what I did that upset you so I can prevent this from happening in the future" probably sounds funky to them because they believe you should already know.
In reality, no one (or, at least, no one I know of) is a mind reader or able to guess how someone's feeling with 100% accuracy. I think your approach to things is the ideal way to go, communicating openly and clearly, perhaps neurotypical folks just haven't realized how beneficial it is yet.
The Thing IS, pretty much No one ever cares, they Care about your reaction and how that was Not OK, but Not what actually was the issue and how to improve to make IT better next time. Most people Like assumingnyou are the issue instead of aknowlaging, that they themselfs Had any Part in IT, so yeah, people are confused If you ask cause upsetting someone gets usually read AS Not caring or intentionaly and Not Like, a misunderstanding. Many also never think about the hows and whys of their upset and If WE are talking about someone autistic, since struggles with emotional regulating and communicating emotions IS a huge Part of the diagnosis you are exlpicitly asking for something they are unlikely to BE capable of giving.
So yeah, there are many layers of why that can Not Work well
@@thinecuprunnethoverwithblood I wish people understood this.
Or when I ask did I make you mad or something and they either say nope it it's fine
I think that’s the best description of overstimulation I’ve ever heard! “A bunch of wires tangled up in a drawer”. So true. 😫
Printers are absolutely hateful machines. What really underlines it for me is that my 3D printer - a class of device which was only invented 10 years ago, and only designed for hobbyist-hacker types - is orders of magnitude more reliable than any of the bastard paper printers I've ever owned. That shouldn't even be possible.
It's more or less by design (as in, there's been investigations and I think lawsuits on some of the practices of printer companies). The reality is, there was a few decades in time when printers were an incredibly lucrative market. But much like dedicated GPS devices, as the surrounding technologies advanced, the niche they filled became quickly obsolete outside of commerical businesses. For the average person nowadays, we so rarely need to print something because most things are digital. And when we do need to print something (which can be literally once a year), it's cheaper to spend the dollar + travel cost to go to an Office Depot (or whatever) than it is to have a 100 dollar printer 'just in case' eg you'd need to print 100 pieces of paper to match teh value of just going to Office Depot.
@@PhotonBeast Ooh, that makes a lot of sense!
I always tell people never to buy HP or Canon printers since those two companies tend to be the worst offenders in terms of making their printers unusable and a headache (not to mention their "proprietary" tactics to keep you buying their overpriced ink/toner).
Thrn again, I think most other brands have jumped into the proprietary bullcrap bandwagon so pick your poison I guess? 🤷🤷♂️🤷♀️
@@youraverageviewer9546Yeah, there's a channel called Louis Rossmann that has catalogued (among other things) the seemingly endless problems that HP and Canon have introduced to their printers like DRM on ink cartridges and ink cartridge subscription services!
@@youraverageviewer9546 Then WHAT SHOULD I BUY?! *collapses on ground sobbing*
At my last job interview they asked me for my strengths and weaknesses and i actually told them. Im a great advocate for patients and i work my ass off but I'm shit at paperwork and can be kinda scattered. I thought the interview went great but my friends were horrified that i actually told them my weakness from old jobs. Like if I'm not supposed to tell them why do they ask!!
I lucked out with a super accommodating and reassuring supervisor, and i have been at the same company since! She helped me a lot with responsibility and confidence, even though I'm with a different program now i still appreciate the f out of her.
I found when teamed/partnered with someone superorganised who organised me we were unstoppable and did $millions in sales a year. When things downsized I was expected to do it all, well things fell apart and job hunting started "Sorry, you are not a good fit...."
I think the idea is to reframe a perceived strength as a weakness. I never understood it either, but I’d probably, if I could follow my own damn script, turn hyper focus from a weakness into a strength as it I’m not turned off a task because of how hard it, how much I don’t like to it, how no one else seems to have the patience for these things. I can’t do it though. Everytime, my mind goes blank and i forget my script.
I suck at interviews. Crippling anxiety, social anxiety, and incredibly self conscious about being the center of attention AND being judge… to the point I’m dripping in sweat, my body is trying to shake, and if I can get my mouth to work my mouth goes dry or the words just fail to form in my brain and I say the wrong words.
@@rachelann9362 SWOT, Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threats. I asked my new managers why are they only focusing on my weaknesses? "You must document everything so others can copy what you do." "You must change", asking me to also do customer service because apparently that is no longer the managers job........ my first meltdowns... They are still advertising for my replacement 15months later. As one guy who took the early co vid retirement said to me "I have been here for over 50 years, I have never seen anyone do what you can do". Lots of overthinking, rethinking and a year later after career training I figured out I am also ADHD as well as ASD level 1. Anxiety gets better once you accept your NDness and after 6+ decades of life. I was great at interviews as long as I stuck to my nerd area of expertise. I was bullied out of the job when my new Psychologist told me they cannot ask me to be tested and that it was their fault, "Which I told them as well"... Find career or job you like/love or work for yourself. The last means facing and conquering your procrastination(laziness), that is your real challenge and one |I still need lots of work on:)
"They never want to discuss what triggered you. Just how you reacted".
This is soooo relatable an unfair.
I have been in very unfair or absurd situations originated for something very stupid or unfair or inaproppiate from someone else. They NEVER acknowledge it. They just judge me. Specially if my mother was the one creating this situation (but also in other scenarios). That was a thing even in therapy (with the therapist that NEVER mentioned autism during many years I trusted her).
I hate that so much. Even if their action was a huge problem and my reaction was just a little unpleasant, they focus on me...
My guess is that most of the time they see "normal person" (NT) vs "weird person" (ND) and of course they prefer an a**hole that is NT over the ND that is trying their best...
my therapist LOVED the phrase "you can't control what other people do, you can only control yourself." she used it so much that it felt weaponized against me. like every time i'd try to express why something triggered me or want to work through something someone said that hurt me or bothered me, that would be her response. every. single. time.
@@promisemochi
The therapist didn't see, to understand neurology if they thought saying "you can only control yourself" was valid and useful. It really sounds like "Act like we expect, because it's easy for us to do so it must be on you if you act differently" rather than considering people have inherently different experiences we react to with different available means.
@@hayuseen6683 yes!! and she said it for every single thing. if i was upset about something my mom said or hurt by something by aunt said, that was her immediate response. she'd shut me down and not let me work through any of my feelings. and i was like of course i know i can't control someone but plese help me work through what i'm feeling because of what they said to me. it was such a bizarre experience.
@@promisemochi Sounds a lot like a therapist that didn't know how to therapy with you so put it all on you to figure it out. Unqualified to help you but still wanted the money.
There is a truth to it. You can't actually do anything about some stuff, and to linger your mind on it can be unhealthy, because in the end, it wont give you the ability to change it.
It's kinda like "God give me the strength to change what i can, the willpower to accept what I cannot , and the intelligence to see which is which". Which isn't terrible advice.
That being said, yeah, sometimes you're just reacting to what others are doing, and they're the problem. And it's pretty lame of thrm to just brush things off like that.
I've added into my schedule 1 hour of either going back to sleep or laying in my bed staring at the wall after my first morning alarm goes off, EVERY SINGLE MORNING. I get 1 hour, if I want it, and then I have to start the day. I've found that when I allow myself this option, even if I don't take it (because either hungry or I have energy or excited), I feel more rested, I am more OK with getting ready in the mornings, I forget less things and can focus more, feel less stressed when getting ready, and I have an improved mood for up until something goes very wrong (like missing the bus, or burning the last slice of toast beyond acceptable levels).
These autism meme segments are really great for reminding me that there are other people out me who deal with the same stuff.
Some memes feel like a hard pressure hug (if that's your jam) 😊
2:40 Yes glad you mentioned that 5 is average. I heard in the corporate world: any rating below 8/10 is considered bad.
I didn't knowwww...I left an 8/10 on a rating for the WeWork my company had an office at and got a note back like "We're sorry you had a bad experience and we hope we do better next time." I felt terrible--I thought an 8 was a really positive rating but it turns out that it is not.
this is also why you should always give customer service 5/5 or 10/10 or if you got bad service just don't rate them at all. a negative review is weighed much more heavily than no review. please don't vindictively rate customer service workers badly if they are rude or aren't the best or your order was wrong or whatever. if you've ever worked customer service for anything you already know why, but these reviews are directly related to their pay, their employment at all, like they can get fired, their meetings with their bosses. at every call center job i've had my boss has sat me down to go over each negative review i had and ask me how i could do better to not have that review. it is hell on earth it is awful. please for the love of god if you care about other people at all, do not leave bad reviews. unless you interacted with management. then dunk on their boss as hard as you possibly can.
Yeah, 7 is basically a zero.
the song one really got me. i listen to songs on repeat so much that an artist can become my #1 on spotify wrapped because of just one song! it always bothers me me because the data is so skewed that my favorite bands get pushed out of the top ranks because some guy’s joke parody scratched my brain just right for 30 days in a row 😭
At the end of the year, UA-cam music does one of those Music wrap-up things like Spotify does and it told me last year that I had listened to the song We Drink Your Blood by Powerwolf over 7000 times in 2023😓😳 it really can be like this and it’s very awkward
@@daffadillyoh wow that’s like 19 times a day
@@w1nterdays haha yeah.....oops
oooh yeah...somehow found the "Epic-Saga" by Jorge Rivera-Herrans, and even tho I had to cry at many parts of these songs, It just felt...good
But then Spotify recommended me mostly tiktok-trend songs...Why?? It has to be obvious at this point that I don't like these Hip-Hop-slur-songs >.<
@daffadilly "may I drink ur blood, when the midnight sky is red? We even might call the sanguine saints afterwards..."
In other words...I feel you. So why "oopsing" it's pretty reasonable...it is...right?
@@daffadillyI had a hard 2023, and my UA-cam playlist is mainly melancholy songs that I listened to to have a cry during my nightly bath (soaking is my way of desensitizing as an adult).
3:58 The annoying thing about ready made meals like freeze dried and frozen food is that they sometimes just randomly change the recipe. And the cheaper it is, the more likely they will do so; because very cheap stuff has tiny margins so saving a half a cent here and there by changing ingredients to something "equivalent" that is cheaper makes sense. If they make a change they assume people will notice they will sometimes slap a "new and improved" on it; but if the change is supposed to be equivalent like changing one kind of oil for another they probably won't even need to change the packaging (because it just says "vegetable oil" in the ingredients list for instance); but we tend to be rather sensitive so we probably notice the changes more than they expect. And in this case; they might simply have gotten a batch of tomatoes that is more or less ripe than usual making it taste more "tomatoey", so it might not even be a deliberate change; or they may have changed tomato variety for price or availability reasons.
One of my favorite boxed noodles changed from really fine angel hair pasta to shorter, fatter noodles without warning, and it is just not the same even though the sauce didn't change. But I keep buying it anyway because there isn't like another brand that makes something similar but with the angel hair pasta or anything. It just makes me sad when I eat it that I only get like 75% as much enjoyment from it. 😢
Oh! I figured out an answer to the “what’s your greatest weakness?” But also I’m not the best at interviewing. BUT just plan to tell a story about “how you overcame a challenge in your life”. I think they want to know your problem solving skills and not really your weaknesses. Hope this helps someone!
I think you are right and that question is an opportunity to talk about how you deal with things that are difficult/ a challenge for you. As someone who works in HR tho, I think it’s a stupid question. If you want to understand how someone problem-solves or how well they understand their own working style, ask them that. Not a super-vague open-ended question like ‘what’s your greatest weakness’. Recruitment is a significant undertaking and the company risks missing out on someone who could have been the best fit for the job and an amazing asset to the organisation, by not giving interviewees the chance to give the interviewer the info they actually need to know. If that makes sense.
Sorry, rant over lol. That wasn’t directed at you of course, as the person trying to work out how to answer the question. It’s my frustration at this idea that the purpose of a job interview is to trip people up, when it should be to get information you need to make a decision on a candidate. So the panel should make it easy for candidates to give the information and not ask stupid cryptic questions that you need a code to understand!
Oh god, the cleaning thing. If I decide I need to rearrange something but don’t do it immediately, I will keep thinking about it until I give in and actually do it.
Currently part way through completely rearranging my bedroom due to this but keep pausing until I figure out how to get the next bit ✨perfect✨
Me too! My room was a state once, as it usually is and while I was watching yt out of the corner of my eye I noticed. the fact my drawer wasn’t shut properly & had all the socks bursting out, it started to irritate me, enough to just jump up and close it. From that initial thoughtless action, I ended up thoroughly cleaning & tidying my whole room for hours! Like ah may as well pick up these clothes off the floor, oh and I’ll clear these cups etc. I’d been trying to force myself to tidy it for weeks!
Not having enough space to have a perfect place for everything, and just getting overwhelmed by how much cleaning needs to be done, I end up laying on the couch watching UA-cam instead of doing anything, because I have no energy or motivation.
Can I just say that your voice is so calming. As an autistic person, one of the main things that I don’t like about quite a few UA-camrs is the very loud and rough voices, so it’s nice to have this positive change 🙏
Same. I was suggesting UA-camr channels on autism to someone. I mentioned one and they asked me what the channel name was about. I had to admit to them that I didn’t know because I couldn’t stand the CC’s voice and didn’t watch it, but that others seemed to get a lot from that channel.
I seconds that! Not autistic but hypersensitive, probably ADHD. It's hard to find ADHD content that doesn't feel too overwhelming
My favorite autistic content creator
Thank you so much!! 🥰
same
same
Yes, so much joy!
I watch a lot of autistic, ADHD, AuDHD creators. You and Yo Samdy Sam are my S-tier.
The bed one is so relateable... like I adopted a quote from The Owl house that goes "- WAKE UP! -...are you licking my hand?! I'm trying to help you - why should I believe you?!" And i just mentally scream that nonsense at myself every morning, especially when it's cold outside of my blanket.
wait which characters/episode was this so i can adopt this too??
@@varena04S2E6, Hunting Palismen, it's when Luz finds Hunter with his mask off after his airship crashes
@@bosstowndynamics5488 OHHH now i know exactly which scene you're talking about, HAHA i knew it seemed familiar, thank you!!!
my favorite lines from my favorite episode of my favorite show. you made my day. thank you
Sprinkles: this is why you check with your hand to see what flavor they are first.
Interviews: my last one I got told I was selected for a specific position at the job (I was a shoo-in for the job in general) because I have "integrity" ... so there's a good buzzword for my fellow autistic folks. Also your greatest weakness should always be phrased as a strength, so "because I lack a clear intuitive sense of time, I use calendars and reminders to make sure my day is scheduled and things are remembered, rather than just assuming I can avoid being busy or distracted right before and losing track of time." Don't use "no" or "not," they sound negative. This way your weakness sounds like "I at least know I might lose track of time due to circumstances and I have found a way to work around that, but everyone has this happen sometimes... are your other employees and candidates just trusting they will never have an off day?" without saying it so bluntly.
Food tasting weird: this week ketchup tastes like straight up vinegar. It isn't a change in the ketchup, I just can't taste sweetness this week.
No but falling back in love with a song that you used to love, this time already knowing it by heart >>
YESSSSSS!!! I've been revisiting songs I loved in middle school (10+ years ago) and it's been bringing me so much joy! I keep thinking "Damn, baby me had a good music taste! You go lil dude!" and bopping along while I do household tasks. It's so much fun
God yes! When I was a small child I got sick at Thanksgiving this one time, and I thought I couldn't eat turkey, so for prob 5 years my Mom made me a lil chicken every thanksgiving.....bless her heart! LOL
omg this was me with mushrooms and with peppermint candies. i got sick two big times i remember as a kid, once after having mushrooms and once after having peppermint candy. for years and years i thought i couldn't eat those two things and avoided them at all costs! your mom sounds like such a sweetheart btw
That is the sweetest thing ever, I'm so glad your mom was empathetic and made sure you were comfortably included in the festivities!
My Mom was an abuse survivor (her father) which made her a little arm's length but she found ways other than touch to express her emotions, even though I wasn't always able to comprehend it. I am to this day not sure if she were autistic or cptsd, but if she weren't something after that I mean, it would be a miracle.
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My kink is Karma is definitely going on my "Villain Mode" playlist 😍😍
Hi! I just figured I should say thank you. This comment has been on my mind for a while now - probably a few months - but I just never got around to it (oops).
One of your videos was the reason I started to consider that I might be autistic. I don’t remember which one exactly, but it was in mid-March 2023, I think. It took me a couple months to fully be sure that yeah, I’m autistic, and it took me even longer after that to adjust my life to it, and to give myself accommodations, and I’m still working on that even now.
I’m so much happier, and it’s explained me in ways I’ve never had explained before. I’m very glad I figured it out while I’m still young (currently 16), because I feel like I have the opportunity to exist as myself before I’m an adult.
I’m scheduled to start the process of getting an official diagnosis in a month, and I have you to thank for starting this whole process. I hope you know how much you’ve impacted my life, and I’m sure the lives of many others.
Thank you so much.
I giggled for so long about R word. I do that stuff all the time. I don't hear it until I say it out loud and then blush as I realize what I've just said. 😂
Ive been hanging out on the outskirts of autistic content on UA-cam for a bit, because i felt like i had to wait to get an official diagnosis to be allowed to even enjoy/relate with this sort of content. But i watched your PDA videos this morning, and a couple of meme things and i just feel like i am an autistic person but i cant voice that yet, or use tools others use until that doctor tells me 'hey yeah you're probably that thing you already know you are'. I do feel more like I can watch these sorts of things, and try some of the coping tools out there and just figure out ways to trick my brain into letting me take care of me.
Yeah, I just print over USB. I have a Brother laserjet, and it works with "IPP over USB" protocol, so I don't need ridiculous proprietary drivers to use it. It's a really great "just do what the human tells it" solution.
I learned that a sunfish is also a euphamism in korea for someone who is very accident prone or actively seeks out danger seemingly only in the pursuit of getting hurt as often as possible. I think it has something to do with a local folktale.
Dying at the thought of your mom just ominously standing around in the background like some ghost haunting you
I do the same thing where I listen to a song over and over and get tired of it once I learn the lyrics
But I started listening to purely instrumental music, no lyrics no vocals and it's wonderful. Highly recommend
My brain makes up words/sounds/disconnected syllables that associate with different chord progressions and notes, it's deeply obnoxious. I'll be just trying to listen to an instrumental from a game but every note sounds like "Wahhhh wooo we we wehhhh" or whatever that particular sound would be. For that reason, I stick to music with vocals 99% of the time.
Have been binging your videos after your previous video unleashed my research journey (and realization that I'm probably autistic) and love the content. Keep being awesome ❤
Thank you so much! I'm glad it's been helpful 💛
Same here. Between Meg and Jessica from How to ADHD it's been a year filled with life-altering self-discovery!
Fun me fact: One of my uncles has a lot of animals, like in a farm way, but he does have a few animals inside the house. One of them is a young chicken that is black in color and is very cute, and I like animals so of course I would want to hold him, I would sometimes hold him and cary him around while him being on my arm, I love being around him and seeing the other animals. We are friends now
That's so sweet! Have you named the chicken yet? It seems only fair that you be the one to name them since they like you the best ( ◜‿◝ )
@@thinecuprunnethoverwithblood I tried to make a name for him once but I forgot ;-;
2:45 For me it's important in what mood I am in, considering food.
Bad mood = simple food. Just nourish!
Good mood = over-complicated food, that takes me at least an hour to prepare...even if it's a sandwich.
"Oh I'll roast the toast in garlic butter, and will make a souce, just for this sandwich, some eggs, and matching herbs."
And then, when my 'favourite" cutlery isn't in the drawer...oooh...
The duck irritated me, but I think that was the point: just how pushy self care guidelines can feel to PDAers. I was a teen in the 70s when self help gurus became a mainstream thing, and I still bear the internalized scars...”no matter what you do to live right, it’s never enough!” Being constantly told you’re inadequate is hardly conducive to mental health. It gets even worse when you get oldish and the list of things you ought to or ought not do grows longer still.
5:00 me right now! i'm listening to the song Bones by Imagine Dragons in loop nonstop these past three days until it passes, as it's playing in my head while i'm trying to sleep and focus too. need to get all the dopamine lol
Imagine Dragons? Yippee! Insert special interest over here~ I currently happen to have several of their songs stuck in my head. Anyways, I’ma stop annoying you with special interests now.
@@Aroacerat nah you don't bother me! i;m trying to find other autistic/adhd folks who love them like I do! which songs are stuck in your head right now?
@@anisa2273 blur, its time, and its ok
YES! sensory overload - ppl talking at the same time, songs playing at the same time.....anything happening at the same time LOLOL
My parents didn't understand why I felt this way growing up (and still don't even though I'm 22 and have explained it many times). I used to get in trouble for asking people to pause the TV because I couldn't hear anything over someone moving stuff in another room, or I wouldn't realize someone was talking to me because I physically couldn't hear them while I was looking in a different direction.
So many times I wished I could pause, but alas, I was born so long before the pause was a thing LOLOL I missed so much!@@thinecuprunnethoverwithblood
I have been obsessed with epic the musical lately. The next saga comes out on Valentine's day and I'm so excited
I know only 1/8th of one song from Epic and I LOVE it too… I have entrance exams coming up so I dare not watch any more content from Epic or else… the dragon in me will awaken and I will be unable to concentrate on any work except watching Epic, so I’m waiting for my exams to be over
Omg I also have the HP Envy and I SNORTED when you brought it up!
I swear every time I need to print something, the HP app has logged me out and I need to go searching for my login details.
Also have envy series, mine just goes printer busy … it had one job 😂 like what is it Busy doing! Definitely a lot more issues after a few years in terms of performance.
I'm 40, and I'm currently sitting exactly like in that meme right now. 😂
same, at 56, lol
My therapist and I have been working on feeling things in my body so you focusing on your physical sensations was acutally a really helpful reminder that that's something I can do.
Don't discount noticing what you're feeling in your body! It's really important, and learning to recognize your body feelings can help you understand and regulate your emotion feelings.
9:27 That’s a baby bottle warmer. It keeps water at a consistent temperature for warming bottles.
21:47 Well, when I finally cleaned my room I put the _Belle_ playlist on my speakers (my wireless headphones have not the greatest frequency range, so I prefer using the speakers whenever possible). And that way I _actually got it done_ within a day, which I really struggled with as a child.
10:00 Me, trying to not seem like everything in my life is depressing. But then again, I feel like there are a lot of people whom have low to no tolerance to anything that's not 'positive vibes only'
I've noticed that a lot of autistic folks (including myself) have a higher tolerance and more of an openness/acceptance towards discussing traditionally "negative" circumstances or topics. In contrast, many neurotypical folks seem to be deeply affected by someone around them mentioning anything negative, even if it doesn't address them directly, and prefer to only speak positively with 99% of people in their lives. I wonder if this has anything to do with how our brains process emotions and internal stimuli differently?
I, personally, much prefer speaking with fellow NDs because I'm not afraid to say I'm sad or talk about a special interest. Comfortably going from joking about trauma to watching a horrible 80s movie and eating pizza with no issues is the way to go for me!
Listening to the same song 57 times in 24 hours?? Rookie numbers 😤
I was deeply upset with my mom for bringing me into the world without my permission and that I was going to have to do daily life things every day for an indefinite amount of time. School weeks felt like entire years. It was so exhausting. thinking about my childhood gives me an overwhelming feeling of dread the exact feeling I had back then and I didn’t even experience anything too horrible just everything felt so hard and everything I tried to say was so misunderstood. Living alone I have no one to misunderstand me and it’s been freeing, a huge weight of my chest, but now I’m not sure how to welcome someone into my life I don’t think I want to be alone forever I like people. I just don’t like feeling that overwhelming dread that seems to come with them.
Yeah, kind of in the same boat. I don't even know how to find someone. But I joined a club so I have people I routinely see once a week, that works pretty well for me. But sharing my life with someone - I don't know how that is supposed to happen.
The bugs legs thing... That me and yogurt. I can only eat it if im hughly distracted and not looking at it. Otherwise the texture of it make me want to puke everything I ever ate in my entire life and stop existing.
me too! i love the taste of yogurt but i basically have to drink it to avoid thinking about the texture 😅
Smooth yoghurt is ok, if its well mixed and consistent (not like when it's curds wih the watery sections yuk) Those little fruits bits though in flavoured yoghurt... absolutely the h3ll not. Actually vomit inducing. Bug legs are a good description ahaha
Regarding learning for tests: Most of the time, I did not really have to learn much, because it was easy for me or I didn't want to bother and still got an okay grade. But I remember two incidents where that was definitely not the case.
One was chemistry in 12th grade, where nobody really got the topic and the teacher turned a blatantly blind eye to cheating, so that people could have their dokuments on the table and look up stuff the didn't know - I just was so annoyed by that teacher and her "teaching" and blind eye-ing, that I just did not want to cheat and proudly received my only 5 (=F) I ever got in school.
The other one was biology in 10th grade, where we had the topic "photosynthesis". There had been an experiment the previous class which I found boring and hadn't paid much attention to, and then boom - pop quiz on that. So I was lost for words I could write. As I was pretty good at drawing however, I decided on being "cheeky" and not write but draw what happened, and keep writing to a bare minimum. I answered all the questions and maybe wrote one sentence or two max. I expected to get a bad grade for not answering fully, but instead got a 1 (=A)! This confused me and tbh, I also thought it was a bit unfair towards my classmates, so I sought the teacher out after class and asked her about the grading. The response I got back was along the lines of "Well, I never specified you needed to write, so it counts. Would you rather have me giving you a lesser grade?" So I said no and just let it go, but as you can see, I never forgot either.
We use nonverbal annoyed sounds (intonations without words). If you don't want to be interrupted right now you do that and another person leaves you for now. Then you'll go ask what they wanted when you're ready, or they can speak with you during the switch or when you do something that doesn't look like tunnel kind of activity (if you forgot they wanted something). We both do that to eachother with my husband, and my dog also understands that, if she's too much. It can be like MMMMmmmm😠 or like hissing or like loud vocal fry. It's kinda like when you say "NO" to pets, it's not about the word, but what you do with your voice.
My friend group and I all do this as well! It's extremely helpful, especially since my lovely gf has nonverbal moments that last longer and happen more frequently than mine do, especially when she's tired. I'm not quite sure how we figured all of it out though, we never discussed it beforehand or anything, it just kinda started happening and now we all make animalistic noises at each other and it works wonderfully.
@@thinecuprunnethoverwithblood Yes, it just started happening for us too. We were making noises as jokes and got used to them so much that at some point someone just did it before thinking that it's another situation and it worked.
As an extroverted autistic I try not to interrupt others, but when I have something in my head I want to get it out before I forget. My mind is the exact opposite of a steel trap. It's more like a plastic bag floating on the wind.
Re: cleaning. There’s a video game called Pomofarm. You’re a cute little duck and you plant seeds, do a pomodoro and when you have the break you get to harvest the plants. I have PDA so instead of doing a specific task on my list I just do 20 minutes of anything and then 10 (or more or less) minutes of a break. It really made me look forward to stuff I was too tired to do
3:44 that illness thing is so real! As a kid I had this time I listened to a specific song a bunch but at the same time I had really nasty sinus pressure, which I don't get often. I'm not even sick that often, and I've been sick twice in the last couple months (which is actually odd for me) and both times I had bad sinus pressure that made me think of the song. It's been so long since I heard it that I can't remember how it goes, so the recall is only the name and the visual of the album cover in the old youtube player.
The song is Ride the Lightning by Metallica. Luckily I haven't listened to Metallica in years so I don't have to *actively* avoid the song, but yes the association goes both ways. Just thinking about it brings to mind sinus pressure and I can almost feel it.
Another autistic who has a negative association with a specific Metallica song, interesting! I used to absolutely adore Enter Sandman, it made me feel powerful and helped me learn how to transition singing into vocal fry/screams... But I also was forced to try and sing it at karaoke while with someone who drugged me and I was still coming down from the effects of it. I can unfortunately only associate the song with everything that surrounded the whole situation, and now I get physically sick whenever I hear it.
Ngl, it's a bummer cause it's such a fun song (╥﹏╥)
I just showed my ASD 7yo the first one and she said, "oh, that is not autism, that is a common misunderstanding."
I hope she doesn't feel offended when I laugh my head off at her.
God, I love that kid 😊
Most allistic people are really sweet and will do what ever they can to accommodate autistic people's needs, just as long as it doesn't require any physical, or mental effort on their part, or any changes in their routines or way of communicating. But other than those small caveats they'll generally do anything and some rare people might even forgo one or more of the caveats.
Basically when all they need to do IS feel good about what a good Person they are for accomodating you but at the slightest effort they give Up . . . ..that Not really whatever they can or particulary accomodating, thats confusing beingnannice Guy with someone being Kind. ITS Not Kind If ITS conditional
The first sentence In my cover letter for my cv is, I’m autistic with ADHD dyslexia dyspraxia and a medical 🌳 prescription, people ask me why my reasoning is, well you can’t honestly say that I won’t be discriminated against for being the way I am, so I might as well get it out of the way up front to save some time
Omg I am the same with the learning part, I also kinda remember where on a page something was written without having an actual photographic memory! It's so convenient!
3:46 That actually explains a lot about why I have such a hard time with ginger! I got an awful stomachache after eating soup with way too much ginger and I felt so sick afterwards. I haven’t stopped associating nausea with the taste of ginger.
Yesssss Chappell Roan fan!!!
My roommate thought I would be tired of Guilty Pleasure after one day. But she got to hear it many times for a few days. But yes, I love the whole album!
You’re channel is amazing. I was sitting in bed for an hour, having a tough morning; and decided to go on UA-cam for comfort and clicked this video immediately 😄 You’re stories, and talks are amazing, thank you 😊💙
Thank you for always posting on Sunday! I dont leave my house except on Sunday mornings when I go to the antique store (special interest is history) and when I come home I watch your videos!
As soon as I saw that first one and the way you described it my brain immediately went to Macarthur Park by Richard Harris 😂. If you don't know it listen to it, it's cheesy but in like a glorious masterpiece kind of way. The chorus is 'someone left the cake out in the rain, I don't think that I can take it cos it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have the recipe again' so I'm sure you can see how I got there 😂
I immediately thought of this song and of course had to listen to all the lyrics in my head ....
One of the hardest things for me growing up was understanding why we need to sleep every single day or how you can exist while working 4-5 days a week. Like thats so much of your time in existence that's just gone forever and you have very very limited control over that and I just hated the thought of it
I absolutely LOVE the purple outfit/theme. You look amazing!
Thank you sooo much! 💜
Very sound advice about sleep and food! Hyperfocus has locked me to a painting for three wonderful days - and nights. Tonight I slept 12(!) hours. Now I've had my winter breakfast of porridge and tea. It was beautifully usual. Cheers!
So I found for myself that it takes about an hour from the time I first wake up, to when I’m comfortably able to get out of bed. And I’ve found that when I don’t force myself to get up before it feels right to, I feel so much better after. Sometimes I do like a back and forth kind of transition. For instance I sit up for a few minutes, then I lay back down, on and off, and just going with what feels comfortable has really helped me. Just thought I’d share.
i love the ocean & all the weird beings in it! it's so fascinating! i'm not special-interest level with it, but i'm in love with the sea sooo much, incl sharks.
i'm also all about possum memes. send more possum memes!
Possum memes for the win!
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Not sure if anyone else has said this yet, but IIRC that first blank page is actually the printer calibrating & checking its alignment on the page! A sort of "test" paper before actually using ink to print.
Gah! The song thing! I have been obsessed with Ayreon lately, especially the more recent live albums. Ayreon is a sci-fi themed collaboration project. You have a whole slew of singers from different bands coming together to do space-opera-rock-opera. The first song from Live Beneath Waves just dropped a couple of days ago, The Sixth Extinction, glorious twelve minute emotional roller coaster that song. 🤣
Thanks so much for spreading awareness with this channel, watching your content has really helped me a lot. I hesitate to self-diagnose but I will say I've realized that I have a lot of the same experiences as autistic people do, and score very highly on screening tests.
Furthermore, I was dealing with some very intense anxiety lately and nothing seemed to help, but your content gave me the idea that I might feel better if I intentionally do more of my Weird Finger Wiggling, and spend a lot of time on my Overly Intense Hobbies, and this approach helped when nothing else would. So, thanks for helping me through that :)
16:13 This reminds me that I was always told cramming didn't work. ... And yet if I didn't do that I usually did worse. It was why I always tested very well. It was easy remembering what I just reviewed the night before ... even if it was the *entire* book essentially. .... And I got no sleep. Which ironically worked in my favor because now i didn't have pesky sleep to dull the memory of the info.
Side fact: Some of my best work was projects done last minute because other people in the project just ... didn't do their work. I had a "cover-paper"/combining piece to do for a collective paper we were doing so I literally could not start my part till everyone else finished theirs. *None of them started a day before the last half of the last day before it was due AND none of them finished before midnight*. I wrote my whole part (about 1 page no double space, 11pt font times new roman) in less than an hour before I had to leave for class (Which included studying what they wrote and making references to it). The teacher praised the part I wrote as the best part of the whole paper without knowing anything that happened. .... without knowing the suffering I went through for that. Never again. I refuse. Group work for grades is dumb.
18:38 definitely, and thanks to you, I attribute the hyper fixation on a task to monotropism
Chappell Roan music has been on repeat! My spotify wrapped is going to be so much Chapell Roan
As a former call center worker who supported a well known brand of printers in the 2000s, the one at 7:18 is totally right.
As for the wi-fi provider change causing printer failure, that is probably because the printer has obtained a different IP address. Print off a network settings sheet and it should have the IP address settings on there, so you can see if it's getting it from the router, and what it is if this happens again. With newer versions of Windows, you can often just uninstall and reinstall the printer, and it will pick up the printer's new IP address.
As for the printing things in advance, I had so many calls where someone was calling in frantically trying to print something they needed RIGHT NOW and I would frantically try to help them out. Occasionally, it would be something like a law office, with a "LOAD TRAY 1 LETTER" error and a legal deadline, and I'd have to wonder, why don't you have a backup printer or something?
The blank pages are usually where a program sends something to the printer that it interprets as a "page feed" by mistake. Or it'll get sent incorrect character codes, and you get the printer interpreting your research paper as 50 pages, each with a single character in the top right corner or something, followed by a page full of random characters. If this happens, try uninstalling and reinstalling the printer - it's often a driver issue.
8:28 honestly the pure fear I get when my dad says ‘Lauren can you print something for me’ it feels like I’m going into battle 😅
Okay the listening to song 57 times thing is irritatingly accurate. I've actually done that with bands entire albums so much I got sick of it. Even stopped listening to bands for a long time for that reason. I would tell people I know "please I can't handle that song anymore." I feel pretty called out 😂
I have been to about 4 interviews in the last month, and they often tell me I am too enthusiastic about the job. It can lead to me wandering off from the question. I have been asking fro them to print out the main questions so I can stay more focussed, but I still wander off. I am working on it.
girl, thank you so much for the new music suggestion I needed something new and you were totally right about Chappel Roan!
Re: ick, i just remembered two distinct moments when i was a kid where there was something i had liked for a long time and one day i just looked at it and was all, nope.
Just taking a moment to appreciate your awesome collection of earrings. I love your content, of course (I keep coming back to watch even if I haven´t left a comment before), but I wanted to send some special love in awe of how nice is your choice of earrinsg everytime (very relatable here)
I really relate to the running out of room with verbal instructions. Show me on a map but don't try and tell me 'coz it just won't compute.
07:18 I found funny that you picked a HP printer for that rant, because here in Brasil we have(had?) a band called Enemies of HP (Inimigos da HP).
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All I could think of with the first meme was "Someone left the cake out in the rain..." Macarthur's Park.
Pathological Duck Avoidance.
The one about your safe food suddenly tasting like bug legs is so painfully relatable
This video has just enough funny to balance out the crushingly depressive reflections of reality throughout the rest of it. We have to find laughter so as to not cry. Thank you for sharing these and your feelings around them.
Oh my goodness! Thank you for mentioning Chappell Roan. I have not heard of them before and now I can't stop listening. Beautiful! Their voice soothes my soul. Thank you! 💜
Lately, I've been needing to watch your videos in order to do things. During this video, I was able to make a nice little breakfast for myself while also getting to see some funny and relatacle memes. Thank you :)
I laughed so hard when you said "you know there's always the slight prickling of anxiety in the background" not because that's fun, but just because I relate so hard 😂😂😂😂
Ah the desk chair, my new own has been in the back of the car for 2 days because I was told to remove the old one first.
The thing about cat expressions is that I find them much easier to interpret than people's haha. When people talk about cats being "impossible" to understand or unpredictable I can't relate! I think my cat and I share the same braincells sometimes 😅
We had a female cat that I could read so well. I was constantly warning my husband "she's had enough touching, she's going to freak out"...just as she lays into him with teeth and claws
I like that even though you talked about how underwater shots give you the creeps, you included some at the end that are actually quite pleasant!
the chappel roan bit hit me so hard because that was actually
like for a solid month
I feel you on loving water and swimming but feeling visceral fear at even a photo of large underwater creatures. I also hate giant metal or manmade objects in the water like ships or the piles of a pier 😢
Nice video to recover from surgery :3
Woo, great video. I think going more into accommodations would be interesting. It's a balance of ensuring people can keep their free will and also keeping things manageable.
Hahahahaha! the honesty during interviews thing reminded me of years ago I applied for a job as a bi-lingual short-hand typist. So, I could take short-hand, but I couldn't read back what I'd written, but fortunately nobody mentioned short-hand, phew! They did have me do an accuracy-speed typing test. After that, during the interview, one of the interviewers pointed out that I had made only five mistakes in the typing test and I interrupted and said "no, I didn't! I made six mistakes." There was a bit of a quiet moment where the two interviewers looked at each other, then at me. I remember thinking "should I have said that?" I got the impression that it was a mistake (was it rude?), but I got the job anyway. In the same interview, they asked me "are you familiar with a telex machine" and I answered "yes". I had seen one the year before in a New York office. I had asked "what's that?" and was told "a telex machine". So I was familiar with a telex machine.... I knew they existed and what one looked like. First day on the job, first task: "here, send this telex, please". It was a panicked few moments as I searched through a bunch of books in the small telex room but then was delighted to find a manual.
Oh and about strengths and weaknesses, the question I was asked at another interview years later, I answered (to the weaknesses) "I haven't found any yet" because for the life of me I couldn't imagine what the person meant. About the strengths, I said I could type 60 words per minute. I knew that was a strength because someone had said so in a different context...
It's funny that only now do I realise that perhaps my reactions were not typical.... 🤣
I really identified with the meat comment, I eat it but only the more processed forms, I was once invited to eat "carnitas" and it is like focusing on every piece and why it gets progressively worse and trying to distract yourself from the horror that everyone seems to be enjoying. The one about doing projects a night before, that just hits home.