Great episode! Heard this before elsewhere! 'Don't touch his eye' when they knock on the wrong surgery room! Cameron said nothing about racoons in the neighborhood?
To be fair, the test of Lupus is kind of a running gag in the show. House will pretty much ask for lupus tests no matter who the patient is or what the symptoms are.
My favorite part of the episode wasnt even the medical stuff. It was the incredibly sweet moment of the kid going up to House at the end and looking him in the eye while giving him his game. Something that meant so much to him. Its possibly the most genuine and heartfelt "thank you" that House will ever get from anyone.
It's even better for the parents reaction, the whole House comment on the parents reacting with a 6 out of 10 for saving the kid's life, then the kid giving him the game, then the parents reaction to this and the final "that's your 10" comment at the end.
I also love that he has that PSP for many episodes after its given to him, meaning it was a significant gift to Dr House too. he was playing a nintendo DS or SP in episodes before receiving the PSP.
Remember, this is the same episode where he makes fun of Wilson for keeping presents from his patients. And then House himself melts when the boy gives him the game and even plays it in the next episodes. Love the subtlety.
House is so knowledgable about literally everything, it's just part of his character, kinda like how main characters in movies would be overly strong, he's just overly smart.
Remember he’s supposed to be a Sherlock Holmes stand in. I mean the original Sherlock from the unedited novels. Which by the way he’s a near 1to 1match for. Wilson is unsurprisingly a perfect match for Watson.
@@ronak212 House is based on Sherlock Holmes. Even the name House, is based on its similarity to Ho(l)me(s). It's also not a coincidence that his only friend is Dr. Wilson (similar to Watson). All character dynamics are just imported from Sherlock Holmes.
just find out that Infectious Disease and Neurology do really act like House (based on this Doctor on FB that keeps making impression skits of every medical department)
@@ronak212 thank you for that, however that doesn’t change my statement in any way as the character House, is based off the character, Sherlock Holmes, who is NOT a doctor
I felt so bad for the kid in this episode. He was trying his best to communicate what was wrong to the best of his limited ability and he was so freaked out by everything they did.
This episode terrified me initially, making me worried about getting worms in my eyes. Also the ending of the episode where the kid gives house his PSP is very heart touching, the kid finally made eye contact with someone and it was with House
This episode made me laugh. I’m a veterinarian, and my parasitology professor in school was obsessed with Baylisascaris procyonis (the Raccoon roundworm). He even was on an episode of Monsters Inside Me as the expert talking about it. As soon as I saw the sandbox, I knew where they were going with this episode. I think there were only 10 human infection cases in the history of forever, but they didn’t end well. Not only can it migrate to the eye, but also to the brain. I will never forget the name of that parasite - little did I know it’s only usefulness to me in the last 10 years of practice was sounding smart during a House episode!
@@Kiss_My_Aspergers may actually have been the very first episode XD Staring Robin Tunney as the patient who a few years later would become one of the breakout stars of The Mentalist.
The dad wasn't bullying. Telling him he has to ask for juice is following the treatment plan. The kid is supposed to be communicating with a PECS board.
If you can understand what someone telling you, refusing to listen is bullying Forcing him to communicate in a different way when the way he communicates is harmless and effective is controlling and ableist@@laurelannmoss5859
Yes!!! House MD is back!!! Mike, I hope someday you would do not just "react" but actual "challenge" for House MD, like you diagnose the case before House does.
@@kiljibhoomi8518 TBH, this actually is not my idea, there is a guy(Dr. to be exact) on YT who already did this "challenge" on House M.D., and i liked it so i am suggesting it :) you should check it out if you are curious.
House: "check their house" Team: "we can't break into someone's house" House: "just do it" Next episode... House: "check their house" Team: "we can't just..."
LOL. They broke into a patient's home in the first episode. Heck, they break into each other's home on occasion. And ***SPOILER ALERT*** ran a car THROUGH someone's home, and break other patients OUT of facilities.
I love that House is essentially saying 'they should get rid of the kid and get a dog cause it'll look them in the eye' and Dr Mike is just like ANIMAL THERAPY IS AWESOME
Yeah, as I was listening to this while organizing my room I literally said, "Oh, Dr. Mike doesn't understand that House didn't mean a dog to *help* the kid..."
As a person with autism I can absolutely agree with the getting a pet. I still have very bad social skills and have a hard time understanding other peoples emotions. But my dogs helped me a lot
I am autistic and I never had a pet after childhood, and I probably will never get one. I take horrible care of myself and I am confident a living being left in my care will not be well off. The other autistic people I know with pets are the most dedicated pet owners youll find and they are much better off for having them. Note, this is just pets Im talking about, I don't personally know anyone with a support animal.
In this episode House says he envy this kid because he doesn't have to follow the social norms and can act just like he is. That really resonated with me but I didn't know why it meant so much to me. Years later I was diagnosed with autism 🤣🤣🤣
@@unusuarioimportante when the video showed the clip of a kid rocking with his hands on his ears, I laughed because I’m literally laying in bed stimming rn, slightly rocking
Me too. There was this kid Jason in my school that had eye aversion and would often have specific movements that made him more comfortable while talking to people. He remembered EVERYTHING he was ever told.
I don't, honestly. Lot of people make autism out to be a "superpower" and ignore the struggles of autistic people who don't become astrophysicists, like me. It's not a good thing, it's not a bad thing, it just is. Like any disability.
I love that you think House was suggesting the parents get a dog for their autistic child, when in reality he was suggesting they get a dog in *lieu* of a child.
This was also a really good opportunity to highlight the fact that children with disabilities are at high risk for abuse! It's a serious problem often discounted by medical professionals.
not really. any person (children as well) are at risk of physical or emotional abuse. just because some people (me as well) are born/have learning difficulties doesn't mean we are at more risk of physical or emotional abuse.
@@aliceramdom.s I'm sorry but this is just absolutely false. Theres been quite a bit of research into how children and people with learning disabilities as a whole are more likely to suffer from abuse in multiple forms. It depends where they are on the spectrum but if they really struggle with socializing and communication, it has been known that others will take advantage of that in horrible ways. It's much harder to defend or speak for yourself when you struggle in that area. In fact, if you struggle to understand people's intentions and social situations in the first place, how are you supposed to know if you're in an abusive situation? I could go on.
@@tiredgremlin6315 i dont think it takes a study to believe a parent with a child that requires a lot more attention and effort, causes non-saintly people to lash out and lose to their emotions at a higher rate than parents with children that dont.
I'm autistic and only recently discovered I had the diagnosis since I was a child because my doctors and parents never told me, when I look back on my life I see so many things the people around me did wrong, because they didn't account for my autism. I could never communicate to them what it was I was feeling or how what they were doing is wrong. Watching this is emotional because seeing a medical professional look at a situation where an autistic individual is being handled poorly, understanding why they're reacting like that and recommending alternative action reminds me of how the people around me could've handled the situation differently. Thank you Dr.Mike, thank you for understanding.
Yes! It’s so horrible to keep that away from your disabled child. They acting like their disabled child can suddenly not be disabled just by ripping away the very vital knowledge that helps them understand themselves. I will never understand people like that.
I can kind of relate a little bit, though it really sucks for them to keep it from you. I haven't been able to get diagnosed yet and I'm almost 18 and I always got punished for my autistic traits as a kid because nobody wanted to think and realize I wasn't just being unruly or disobedient on purpose. I had to figure out for myself I was autistic through autistic friends of mine and years of researching and understanding why I experience what I do
@@sky-trevishere9638 My mother did that exact thing. She believes that me knowing that I am autistic will cause me to hold the bar lower and to use it as a crutch. She wishes that she never told me anything of it.
im grateful that you (or your editor) put a vomit warning before it happened, im emetophobic and its awesome that that was taken to consideration,or just for people that just dont wanna see vomit lol
Oddly I have no problem vomiting myself. Especially if nauseous for any reason, puking feels amazing afterward. But I cant bear sight or sound of someone else puking.
Ya. I have cynical vomiting syndrome (basically I get frequent vomiting cycles) so I’ve built up a feeling of normalcy around vomiting but I still appreciated that because I’m currently in a cycle and it gave me a warning so that’s it didn’t catch me off guard making my nausea worse
A lot of people forget that house is like the last stop for all his patients. His position at the hospital is the head of a diagnostics department that only takes special cases that nobody can solve so it makes since that he always looks for zebras when he hears hoofbeats and trying to think out of the box because the patients has likely seen a dozen other doctors who follow the "standard" protocols and way of thinking.
Not to mention Houses IQ is off the charts, he’s travelled around the world being an army kid and patient’s go to him when all the other Doc’s can’t figure it out. I think Dr. Mike there is just a wee bit jealous of House’s expertise.
But were that the case (House as the last resort for odd cases), they'd have been turned away from every hospital for _nothing being wrong_ and not even be there in the first place. Plus, House has turned down others for far more. Like House's crew _and_ Doc Mike said, the parents brought the kid in because he choked on food and then screamed - the 2nd part being most any kid's fear reaction from the choking - thus a non-case. "By the time they reached House" & his team, it was a case of parents worried cos their child choked on food and then screamed, the latter something he was apparently already prone to do, as they note in the episode, iirc. It's still a non-case "at that point".
The most realistic medical series - Today's episode: The doctor is writing a report about his 27th case of a usual cold this year... Sounds like a big show!
As a long time fan of house I think it is important to point out that it is established in the early episodes (i think the pilot episode literally has lisa cuddy spell it out) that house deals exclusively with patients that other doctors cannot figure out (aside from his clinic duties) and that no other doctors like this exist. so we should make the assumption that in this case the kid was looked at by other doctors and they believed something was still wrong with the kid outside of his already diagnosed condition and referred him to house. this explains why this (and most of his other patients) invariably end up have loads of tests that would not necessarily be part of normal process. this would also explain why he is able to come up with these obscure ideas that most other doctors would need to research as he deals with the obscure constantly. All that being said i do enjoy hearing your thoughts about the show as you are a real medical practitioner and it is interesting comparing the show to the real world.
Same thing with how House knows a lot about stuff since he’s basically Sherlock Homes as a Doctor, and Dr.Mike just doesn’t want to acknowledge that even though it’s fictitious, you have to at least suspend your disbelief as it’s house’s character. Even the fact about raccoons is not even about house being all knowing, it’s related to infectious disease specialty which House is an expert of.
I actually really like your highlighting of neurodivergence having pros and cons, the way to respect people with autism, how to actually provide support, etc. I’m autistic and it really matters that doctors have kindness and understanding. But I do think it’s valuable information that treating autistic children like this in medical treatment is nearly always full on child abuse. Forcing children who struggle to understand what is going on and communicate their experiences through painful and risky procedures without sedation, extreme care, and (when it is possible) a slower treatment course has resulted in liability in many medical malpractice suits and has almost always led to doctors losing their license-and even possibly facing criminal charges for child abuse. In cases such as these, respect and understanding are of the utmost importance. Not only is it owed by doctors to their patients, not only does it lead to positive medical experiences and outcomes, not only does it make medicine easier to practice with autistic people, it is necessary so that you do not abuse a child.
What I loved with this episode was how House interacted with the kid. If I remember right, Foreman especially was very frustrated with the kid and kept doing things that triggered meltdowns. Like taking away the gameboy before he had a chance to finish. House kinda understood what this kid needed to a degree. He showed him that the anesthetic wasn't scary by breathing some of it and showing him how to use the mask, where everyone else just kinda tried to force it on him. What I like with House is that he's pretty mean to his colleagues but he'll always try to be nice to the kids. He wants to keep the trauma to a minimum with the kids, and often knows how to do it.
@@allyh7075 yes, but that was directed towards the parents, not the kid. The meaning I got from that is that they shouldn't have had a kid in the first place if they weren't willing to accept him like he was.
I think that's one of the reasons I love House so much, (and I don't like medical dramas) because of the sheer amount of ridiculous knowledge House seems to have on everything. But makes it seem like it's not ridiculous, it's just the natural conclusion that was so obvious. Obviously it's raccoon poop because we can't pass it through our bodies....DUH!
orrrr, more realistic look at that is that he reads a lot and have photographic memory, plus is extremely smart. Though thru the show it was not presented that he is anything like what i wrote, just the best of the best. But we can imagine he is extremely smart and has other 'abilities' :)
He definitely doesn’t have perfect memory recollection because there’s an episode where he treats someone who does have it and he’s really intrigued. He is definitely highly intelligent and has an IQ of about 150 I think. He shows clear signs of autism throughout the show (not severe but still) and, as stated in the video that does come with some memory and learning perks. And although he has some other interests, as shown by when he starts weening off Vicodin and finding new hobbies, the only real thing that stops his leg pain is diagnosing patients so it’s pretty safe to say that he spends a hell of a lot of his time dedicated to being able to do that (ie. reading obscure medical books, papers and journals) so that he doesn’t have to feel pain.
I was diagnosed with ASD at around 8 years old. Back then it was officially known as Asperger's Syndrome. The doctor said it is the mildest form of autism there is. I didn't act like that kid did, in terms of the screaming, but I had no ability to speak until I was around 5 and I couldn't form complete sentences until I was around 6 or 7. I had a moderate case of stuttering and constantly saying "um" in my sentences until I got speech therapy when I was 12. Even when I was speaking simple sentences, I would be like "The dog...um um um um um um...chased me down...um um um...the street" even now I do have a stuttering problem but it's not anywhere near as bad as it was. Also, school was extremely difficult most times, which is interesting because I hear a lot of people with autism have no problem passing school.
I dropped out of high school because people would make fun of me for having autism and being "different " I'm now 21 with 2 kids and a wonderful fiance
I just found out I’m ASD lv 1 at 30. I passed school okay once my comorbid ADHD was managed. But… making friends? Communicating my interest in a friendship? I… don’t even know where to start.
@@tracievanderputten2688 I had my first serious girlfriend at 17 and she was 18. She never knew about my problems. Never really cared. She was entirely head-over-heels in love with me and I reciprocated that. I had a really difficult time understanding physical queues back then, so when she wanted to be slightly intimate, I misread it because she never said anything. I've learned better now but it's how it was for me then
I have it too, had it diagnosed when I was, I think, 2. I can say: making generalizations about people on the spectrum often doesn't work, because autism can express itself in many ways. For instance, stuttering wasn't my problem, and I didn't have much trouble in school, but I've had trouble with social skills and a couple of other things
10:20 _"How'd we get here?"_ The clues were there, the child's behavior was abnormal, drawing wiggly lines, drawing what he was seeing as House put it, the screaming, the lines, those symptoms but the lines were not mentioned by the parents.
Knowing their dismissal of the kid due to autism, I bet they just thought it was some silly autism thing… People severely underestimate our intelligence, and kids’ intelligence in general.
I am autistic, and this episode was very very very frustrating... I have had so many doctors dismiss my symptoms for real health issues as "just autism" I had an extremely bad kidney infection that doctors almost ignored because I couldn't verbalize. I really wish that more doctors were educated about autism in both children and adults. All behavior is communication. With that noted.... I realize that house is a silly drama. I just wanted to take an opportunity to let people know that we are often not just screaming for no reason.
I’m autistic and I get it too. House was the only guy who was atleast understanding but even then still was being mean and degrading. Iota frustrating enough your loved ones don’t care for how you feel at all and doubly so when it’s encouraged in various forms of media beyond House
House knows all those "weird facts" because when he isn't with a patient, he spends most of his time at work on the internet. And he also happens to be one of those people that retain weird information.
That poor kid. I remember being like 8 at the Children’s Hospital getting a catheter put in (I got UTIs all the time as a kid and doctors thought something was wrong) and it took like 6 nurses and my parents to hold me down, undress me and shove a painful catheter in me. I remember mom trying to calm me down saying “they’re just taking some pictures” so I must have been having some sort of dye running through me or something for the procedure. But it was extremely traumatic for me as a kid. I remember not talking to my parents for like a week after that.
Yeah apparently catheters are extremely painful but they never offer pain management for them?? (Reasons I don't trust people just because they're health professionals lol)
I love the connection between House and Sherlock Holmes. It’s why the show leaned so heavily into the “investigation” and prodigious brain of House. Holmes sounds like “Homes,” so they went with “House.” Holmes’ bestie was John Watson (JW), House’s bestie is James Watson (JW). Holmes lived at 221B, House’s address is 221B (it’s shown on his door several times). Holmes has a wild eidetic memory and thus has insane amounts of random, specific knowledge. House does the same. And on and on. Such a clever premise for a medical investigative show.
My 25 year old was diagnosed with Aspergers when he was 8 years old after years of me asking for help. He is incredibly intelligent, he is HYPER sensitive to touch! Like fabric, temperature, noise! Labels on clothes, a pebble in a shoe!! It’s all so frustrating for him. BUT he is happy, in a committed relationship, and has a fabulous job that he loves! He works in a job that others may consider frustrating but his attention to detail and his amazing memory works in his favour… I was once asked in an interview for BBC TV if I could give him a pill to ‘cure’ him of autism would I take it?? I said no… it would change the essential ‘him’ that was my son. When he was older I asked him the same question and he said ‘it’s a moot point because there is no pill BUT if there was a pill I wouldn’t take it’ He wanted to be himself with all the positives and negatives! I LOVE HIM just as he is. He is fantastic, amazing, brilliant and wonderful and I love him so so much
I know he was diagnosed a while ago, I was diagnosed with Asperger's too, but it's no longer a diagnosis as it was named after a Nazi scientist who called us the "good autistics" and would send the "bad autistics" to camps. But yes we can do almost everything other people can depending on our difficulties, we're just a little different :)
@@emerald3392 Ew, definitely not. High functioning implies that I need no support, I do. What high functioning means is my autism doesn't affect others, it's nothing to do with my needs as an autistic person
i swear those doctors are just throwing all kinds of diagnoses all over the place because there was one single symptom 😭 "oh you have a headache? brain tumor. prepare for dying"
I'm late diagnosed autistic and seeing that kid going through what he did in that episode resonated in me so much before I even knew. I have so much medical trauma because Doctors refuse to realize the ques of me being terrified at what was happening and not thinking explaining it to me was necessary. The why aren't you sedating this child comment really hit different.
Indeed. I was diagnosed close to my forties. When I was around 10-12 I went through lots of testing (had Lyme disease/borrelia, but it took forever for them to figure it out). Once they had to take a normal blood test and also prick my finger. When pricking my finger, they said that it would hardly sting or anything. To me, it hurt like hell! Then after that, they warned me that the blood test would probably hurt a bit. Which made me freak out and not want to go through it. Alas, they managed, after much work and lots of tears, take the blood test. Sedating me would probably have calmed me down a lot faster. Sadly, it would take another couple of weeks/months until I finally got the correct diagnosis.
@@Elora445 i actually FINALLY got diagnosed 2 weeks ago. It's been such a long journey. I am afab which makes it so much harder as being socialized as female puts a huge barrier between you and a diagnosis. I also have ADHD so that was a whole mess but I'm so glad that diagnosis is getting so much better as are the resources. I actually feel like my skin is on fire when I get finger pricks but blood work is the easiest thing in the world for me and I'm guessing it's to do with nerve ending being a lot more plentiful in the finger. I once threw a chair across the room when the doctor tried to give me a shot when I was 8 I think. It wasn't pretty and though I'm able to control the reaction a lot better now... I still hate it so much. Especially when it hurts for days after. Still get em... But it's never fun. Also I'm so glad you're on the road to finally getting an official answer. I diagnosed myself about 2 years ago and started the journey to get an official diagnosis and it's been so eye opening and liberating to know a lot of my reactions to life were because my brain works a little differently than someone who does have ASD.
only started trying to get diagnosed this year (17) and they denied my diagnosis because i mask. i also have medical trauma from not being listened too. ESPECIALLY from mental health sections, one of my special interests is psychology so i know A LOT and use the medical terms for it, and then they refuse to even test because im just saying so much (like i have alexithymia and misophonia) with physical issues they've just always gone "well it seems fine bye" without trying any other tests. it took me 4.5yrs to FINALLY get an MRI.. one of the most basic tests, and i have to reschedule it anyways
@@kaelin8775 also if it helps I'm 28 so I'm sure you'll get there and don't lose hope. The understanding of ASD has gotten much better in recent years and I'm sure you'll find someone who will test you and actually listen to what you have to say soon!
@@kaelin8775 you have to unmask during the test. I learned how to not only mask but expand my comfort zone and basic functional abilities sp I don't get as stressed during social situations and have to mask less, to the point that people might be able to tell there is something "off" but unless they have friends or family that they are close with and really in tune with how many of us work, they'll never be able to tell. I have been able to full many professionals. One even wanted to remove the diagnosis. I had to unmask and really sit down and explain to them how I was as a kid and teen to really show case my progress and so they know I'm not exaggerating or that the previous drs weren't overdiagosing me.
Dear Doctor Mike, as a mother of a child which is diagnosed with ASD, I highly appreciate the sensitive and delicacy when talking about autism challenges and benefits. I like your UA-cam Channel and the great videos. Hello from Israel 🇮🇱❤️
my youngest brother was diagnosed with autism and this is a subject close-to-heart for me. highly agree that dr. mike spoke about ASD with grace and sensitivity. especially love him mentioning that it’s not all about the negatives but the positives too. made me a little emotional. generally, we all tend to focus on the differences that highlight what we can’t do rather than those that are a gift. great reminder 💌
@@ryang9802 I dislike the term "ASD" it's such a blanket term. They try lumping autism into one big huge goo ball which it's NOT. I have aspergers and always will use said term...why? Because it's what my doctor diagnosed me with. Autism is not just "ASD" it's more than that.
To correct Dr. Mike, autistic people don’t “choose” not to speak. Selective mutism is an extremely misleading name for literally being unable to get words out of your mouth in certain situations because of extreme anxiety. It isn’t that we suddenly lose our vocal cords. We technically can make sound when we go mute. It’s just that the step between making words in the brain to making those words come out of your mouth isn’t going through. It feels like your brain wants to say so many things, but your lips won’t move beyond quivering. No matter how much you try to force it out, no matter how many people withhold things you want and tell you to “use your words”. It won’t be translated to speech easily, not while you’re in the situation triggering the anxiety. A way to get around this is writing or typing what you want to say, because that process uses a different area of the brain than the one that controls the motor function of your lips to produce speech. EDIT (to add some brain anatomy lingo into this for clarification purposes): Wernicke’s area, which controls whether language is coherent, and makes sense, is active when I have a meltdown and can’t speak. My brain is still coming up with words at a mile a minute. If you give me a pen and paper I can shakily write my replies to you in conversation sometimes. I can write, but not speak the words, because Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls the fluency and conciseness of speech and how it comes out the mouth-hole, isn’t functioning properly when I am in these situations. I am thinking of getting a text to speech or AAC app on my phone to use for that purpose to communicate during emergencies. When I accidentally grazed another car in a parking lot an elderly couple nearly called the paramedics out of concern because I couldn’t say anything besides my first name, so, safe to say I’ll need it…
Your explanation actually makes me understand that way better. I have that sorta brain to verbal block during panic attacks. (+ Minor affecting, think that's the term, Neurodivergency certainly doesn't help when sound and touch sensitivity suddenly gets boosted lmao ) Edit: think the term would be high functioning-
I've experienced some migraines in the past few years and inability to speak or say the correct words is one of my symptoms. Confusion is another. The brain is complicated to say the least.
hello! i’m a computer science major and i’ve been wanting to make an AAC app for a long time. can you please take a minute and tell me features you think would be helpful? please also share any shortcomings or missing features other apps have that would be useful. i want to make it completely free and accessible!
I once worked with a little girl who was a selective mute. She only felt comfortable talking to her family, otherwise she'd have a panic attack. But on her last day in my daycare class she told me she loved me and she'd miss me as her teacher. I swear I died that day. It was so sweet and heartwarming that I was a person she could now talk to comfortably.
Mike (or Mike's editor) - you are golden. This is the first time I have ever seen a vomit warning in a youtube video. I have emetophobia. It's not that severe in my case, I could watch someone vomit on tv without that much of a problem, but that definitely does not mean I won't avert my eyes or turn down the volume so that I can't hear the sound of vomiting
The one thing I did take from this episode when I watched it (as a parent of someone with ASD) is that, AT NO TIME, did anyone involved in his care take a couple of minutes to explain to the child what was going on, what was about to happen, and why. The child is non-verbal. He is not an idiot, or incapable of understanding, albeit possibly at a very basic level, what is going on. I think I would fight and react all "WTF?" if medical staff just came at me without talking to me and explaining things first!
This is one of my favorite autism episodes of any show. Yes, they use some cliches, but they also *dodge* some cliches when Wilson and Cuddy are talking about whether House is himself autistic. They make it clear there's a difference between people who don't get along with others and people who have problems socializing.
Oh, and the thing about House knowing which parasites show up in stool samples and which don't? That's *exactly* the kind of thing House *would* know. He always knows the exception to every rule.
@@PaperbackWizard, I know, but I read some research which points out that people with asd tends to have a higher score on IQ test. But it is not conclusive. I will try to find this information and post it here.
There was alot wrong with how autism was represented in this episode, but the use of a PECS board to tell him what he ate was spot on representation of behavioral therapy. Also only have 4 stimulus on there is great detail as well. As too much stimulus on a PECS board will cause it to be less effective.
Yeah and also the way they strapped him down for the CT scan. Holy frick, as someone who now has some claustrophobia due to being pinned down and restrained as a kid that even conceptually is horrifying to me. It's been known for a while that this is explicitly what you're NOT supposed to do. I had hoped a medical show would have a modicum of research put into what they portray but unfortunately not really :\
@@hannahnewsome6849 I think they like to choose extreme presentation of autism on tv because they would otherwise be too... normal. Still, it shouldn't be an excuse to present it as a mental illness. Also, I think this episode is about 15 years old, so I hope we made some steps forward in neurodivergent rapresentation.
@@ThePenguin369 why do you say ABA is awful? Asking as an RBT: I have seen ABA help a lot of my clients, regardless of if the progress is slower or faster.
Patients only make to House's department after nobody else can figure out what's wrong with them. That's why House employs unorthodox treating methods (like jumping to tests and biopsies) because the normal methods have already been tried by other physicians. It kinda makes sense lore-wise... right?
Eh...it's not really true though. There are cases that go straight to him. Like there are some people that ask for him specifically and other times where he insists on taking the patient just at a glance.
But why wouldn't the previous doctors have run those tests before they went to House? Especially with Web MD and other online systems allowing you to look up symptoms or contact other doctors around the world for ideas. I mean if they have tried everything else then why not try those before giving up? Not to mention they never seem to have what would have been the dozens upon dozens of tests done by the doctors before hand for them to work off of.
@@Nostripe361 The previous doctors haven't run those tests because, as Doctor Mike pointed out, it's not normal procedure to run a litany of tests for something like a screaming child. They will only have done tests or scans for which some symptom sufficiently justified them. Whereas, just like Doctor Mike also pointed out, House's style is to order every test imagineably despite having only a tenous justification for doing so.
@@Nostripe361 Also House is a pretty big misanthrope who thinks pretty much everyone else is incompetent till they prove otherwise, and so will have his team rerun tests if he thinks whoever ran it the first time screwed something up.
I think it was implied at some point that they get permission, I mean if your doctor told you theyre gonna check for things that could be poisoning your child, youd probably let them... although Id want to be there when they do it.
In this episode House says he envy this kid because he doesn't have to follow the social norms and can act just like he is. That really resonated with me but I didn't know why it meant so much to me. Years later I was diagnosed with autism🤣🤣🤣
As I recall in this episode, the other doctors were considering "what if House is autistic?" in this episode. Because socially awkward, wicked smart, has everything memorized...
Honestly, there are a lot of similarities between incredibly smart people and people with autism. I have Asperger's, but a guy my mom used to work with who had an IQ over 170 used to tell her "I don't believe she has autism, she's just incredibly smart which makes her quirky."
@@stephsaguudefan1753 my older brother has Asperger’s (diagnosed before the DSM V), and he is also ridiculously intelligent. It‘s also hard to tell that he has it unless you get him into a debate, which is when you notice he has some spectrum behaviors (I say spectrum as that would be his diagnosis if he was diagnosed post DSM V like my little sister). I’m actually one of the two siblings in my family that doesn’t have autism, while three of my sibs do
And doesn’t do well with change, which was a B plot in the episode. Wilson concluded it was probably just overlap in his case and he wishes he was as he is very socially aware in many ways but just hates people. But that is also based on Wilson’s assumptions about his friend and he is an oncologist not a psychologist, neurologist, pediatrician, or mental health professional
Being as he’s inspired by Sherlock I’d like to think he is but it’s probably not. However he could have a narcissistic personality disorder, he also has chronic pain which effects a person’s mental state and emotional responses to situations. (As someone who has had chronic pain and depression and met others like myself, they share similar traits to autism like sensitivity, affacts, emotionally unresponsive, etc)
No one thought he was autistic. Wilson only said that to Cuddy cause House wanted his old carpet back in his office. Wilson walks out and tells house he doesn't have Aspergers or is autistic.
I love how when describing autism you aren't judgmental. (I'm diagnosed with autism. Verbal communication is hard for me, but I can still do it, but non-verbal social cues...)❤
@Sasha05 hello hello, i also have autism so maybe i could answer your question? But i can't really understand what your question is so if you still want that answer maybe you could explain it a little more
Thank you so much for the vomit warning! I feel like so many people use vomit as a form of body comedy or just for added shock value and I am horribly emetophobic. Wish that kind of warning was used more :)
Same thing, I got severe emetophobia too and although I did get a bit anxious just with the thought of it at least he put a warning and saved me from having an anxiety attack.
@@KiwiZzonk I feel the same, the moment someone says that I get some really bad tachycardia, trouble swallowing and TOO MUCH ANXIETY, and even worse when they do actually puke with or without warning, bro will have me shaking traumatized.
I genuinely appreciate the vomit warning. I grew up with a severe phobia of people vomiting due to childhood trauma and would have severe panic attacks when I would see it or hear it happening. When I was still an active alcoholic, I would force myself to watch videos of it to essentially desensitize, but the panic still pops up sometimes. So thank you, Dr. Mike, for including the trigger warnings in your videos. Also, I'd love for you to do a review on more Grey's Anatomy episodes! It is a comfort show for me (odd, I know). Specifically Season 11, episode 8: Risk. Also, the episode when the Doctors are in the plane crash shows a bunch of field medicine that I'd love your take on. Sending love from Austin, TX!
Eye worms, reminds me of that Japanese eye licking thing - oh that wasn't real. Is this? Probably not, its a tv show. You know what im just going to watch the video.
They explain these things almost every episode: 1 - Houses department of diagnostics doesn't really exist anywhere else, it was created specifically for him since he is so good, and it is the pride of the hospital which is why he gets so much leeway with everything he does. 2 - they break into the patients houses without telling them so they don't have time to clean and hide things which might end up being relevant. 3 - House has his doctors do every test and not leave it to the hospitals departments simply because he doesn't trust them, he doesn't trust people at all so he hand picked the most capable and interesting and they gotta be willing to do the stuff. They always are because he is world famous. . 4 - House is a fictional character, a fictional genius that knows almost every illness and every thing that can cause them. His skills make no sense but they are meant to amaze us the same way his own team is every episode. They all come to hate House to an extent, until he does something amazing, saves a life, and then they decide its worth sticking to him longer Edit. I forgot to mention 1 more. 5 - House is always looking for Zebras because any patient that makes it to him has had a dozen of doctors rule out the horses.
I don't watch the show and I'm not a doctor but I can point out a problem in the first statement: at most likely near end of the episode (I'm guessing since it's the conclusion part), House told them to kill the lights and he then saw the worms, which is pretty much just checking the outward symptoms, in the dark. If I were such a good "expert", I'd have spent on a better and more thorough system to check the patient from the outside. Like with all that money for biopsy stuff you can't afford a better checkup routine and save biopsy money? Also if this department is so rare it should be a "last resort" expensive deal rather than a "ship your child in simply because he's screaming" deal, unless the kid's parents are so loaded they can afford this "one in a million" guy. Or, he's so delusional about rare disease that he's the "last resort" and is just no fee guy, which negates my previous statement about him being rich as well as your point of him being so great. It does beg the question why he's in the hospital then but who knows maybe they like having him. No arguments on 2 and 3 though they make sense.
@@cake6377 If you've got pain in your hand, they won't be checking your foot. A complete, full body workup would probably turn up stuff that's irrelevant to the current case, as there's often minor issues here and there. They'd then spend more time and money following those other symptoms that might not be related in the slightest. House also has his pick of cases that come in to the hospital, after the regular doctors have checked likely culprits. It's very rare that House gets forced to take a patient, unless Cuddy (House's boss) twists his arm. House takes the cases he finds most interesting and has his team work on it. In the show, House also has a track record of diagnosing things that no one else diagnoses so there is viable reason for his department. Also. It's a show... Also, you not having seen said show does explain your thoughts and comments.
If you are familiar with Sherlock Holmes, then the show makes complete sense, since House is literally based off Holmes, and Wilson is based off John. It is meant to be exactly like this to emulate the detective stories.
@@cake6377 Noone said that the medicine used in the show is 100% accurate. Actually there is always something made up or that doesn't make sense every episode, but if the show was medically accurate, it would be boring. For example, most if not all of houses patients deteriorate to a point of near death in the spawn of one episode, or the spawn of 1 day to a week within the show, which in most cases is not accurate to real life. Also, House's department is indeed a last resort department. Rarely, if not never, someone makes it to House without watching other doctors first. By the time they make it to House, all common causes have been discarded. You should watch the show, it's very vvery entertaining.
Never watched the show, but I can tell you what is wrong with 2; doctors are not supposed to break into people's houses for any reason. They are not the police, nor do they have permission from the owners to enter their home. That, and hospitals do not have time to send people out like this. By all accounts, this is breaking and entering - that is a crime if you did not know (read: sarcasm). 3 just sounds like a huge staff issue, regardless of how brilliant he is. I could be wrong since I have never seen the show though.
I think that you cut the most interesting parts of the episode. House being able to reach this kid, communicating with him in ways that the parents never saw and in the end the kid giving House his gaming system as a thank you, and that giving the parents hope for the first time in the future of their kid were for me the most important aspects of the episode. PS - Also House saying that he envied the kid was quite interesting.
@Oliver's 50th Account it's canon that House has ASPD (antisocial personality disorder), but that doesn't rule out autism. maybe! there is a whole another show about an autistic doctor though! "the good doctor", with the same writer/showrunner
That line House said hit me SO HARD when I watched it for the first time. It stayed with me for MONTHS. Almost 20 years later I discovered I'm myself autistic.
@Oliver's 50th Account Not by the creators that I recall, but it has been brought up by a few characters in show that say they think it's possible he is. Usually not when he's around to overhear them.
For anyone interested in the medical side of this video : In the case of Baylisascaris procyonis, raccoons, but not humans, are the definitive hosts. Humans only get accidentally infected by the parasite's eggs, and are therefore called dead-end hosts. Upon ingestion, the larvae migrate into the tissues and cause what we call a "visceral larva migrans", damaging organs including the liver, the heart and in this case, the eyes as well. Other parasites that are associated with a VLM are Toxocara (dog and feline roundworms). However, without a proper tissue examination, it is practically impossible to distinguish between similar parasites (like Ascaris and Toxocara), so that's what I might have issue with. (we used to study this in parasitology back in med school)
I literally was scrolling the comments to see if anyone knew the parasitology behind it!! I am so happy to see your post (thank you)! and you explained it so well! The second they talked about sandbox I was like PARASITES!! But I found it interesting that he narrowed it down to Baylisascaris because typically this has CNS symptoms in Aberrant hosts. Where as Toxocara cati is more commonly associated with ocular issues and is more common zoonosis. Both of which wouldnt shed eggs in the aberrant host. I was like if they were vets they would have figured it out right away! (currently in vet school and we have to know about sooo many parasites and which are zoonotic).
To be fair, when House gets a patient, it's usually because everyone else failed to find what's going on. So what's left? Oh, hello weird and obscure tests nobody ever think about! Totally ludicrous most of the time, but makes a great show for sure! 🤣
As somebody with ASD, this was painful to watch. Why wouldn't they sedate the kid? The reason they gave in the show for not doing it isn't even a thing, making me believe it was purely for the drama of having the kid scream and thrash around. I'm sick of ASD being used in shows like these, just to add some extra drama. Not sedating the child for that is just a bunch of excessive trauma the poor boy has to go through.
Only thing I can think, is that it was because they were doing a lung perfusion/ventilation scan, and perhaps sedating the child will suppress his lung function and not give accurate results? I am a radiology tech, but not a nuc med tech, so if there are any here, maybe they know the answer
Exactly! And seeing so many comments with my same phobia is really comforting, most people dont understand why I react in such a way sometimes just for even thinking about vomit and seeing here that there's lots of people with my same phobia that understand me feels great. Thanks to the editor and/or to Mike.
This is horrifying... mainly because I'm always terrified of getting stuff in my eyes. BUT... I would just like to say I am so so so so so grateful to Dr. Mike for the vomit warning. I have emetyphobia so I absolutely LOVE that they added the warning in there. 10/10, best UA-camr EVER
As someone on the spectrum (ASD formally known as Asperger’s syndrome) may I say a Huge thanks for taking the time to not only explain some of the more challenging aspects of the spectrum but also some of the quite beneficial parts (when utilised correctly) of being on the spectrum as soo many have the stereotype that we’re either weird antisocial almost sociopathic nerds or just plain dumb and most of us are neither. Also yep I flinched at this episode but not because of any of the ‘gross stuff’ but out of empathy for the kid during his breakdowns caused by overstimulation via the different procedures… even if you can’t sedate him (can’t see why not but hey ho) at least talk him through it in a gentle and simple manner, it may not stop the over stimulation but will at least reduce the trauma afterwards, after he may not talk but he clearly understands what’s being said when he’s calm.
I know Dr. Mike doesn't necessarily love House M.D. because of the inaccuracies, but I gotta say, watching these episodes really seems to get him thinking a lot more critically.
I have an irrational fear of something like this in my eye or in my ears so this was crazy. Also breaking into the house and testing literally everything over a scream is wild 😭😭
Ongoing petition to have Dr. Mike react to Grey’s Anatomy season 6, ep 6, “I Saw What I Saw”. It’s a medical whodunnit mystery, lots of medical stuff, good (realistic) drama but not overpowering the medicine, and a TON of medical talking points. It’s one of the most underrated episodes of Grey’s and one of my absolute favourites.
As someone who is potentially autistic (never officially diagnosed) but at a minimum knows I have both sensory and auditory processing disorders (the two most common cooccurring disorders amongst autistics) sensory issues are no joke and trying to communicate effectively when my brain won’t cooperate is very frustrating so I can only imagine what it’s like for those more severely effected than me like this kid is.
its so hard. whenever i start getting overloaded i go completely nonverbal, and sometimes fully non-comunicative (so i cant write, nod my head, anything) and its so hard to do anything to fix the issue when ur basically frozen in place
i’m autistic and i wasn’t diagnosed till less than a year ago and we honestly thought i had selective mutism but nope sometimes it’s just hard to talk so than you for spreading the info about people with asd sometimes being unable to speak
Worm's in the eye's are terrifying but what's the most surprising terrifying is that Doctors Mike always gives us a real way of how proper diagnosis on a real patient in real life than in House MD series 🥶🥶👨⚕️👨⚕️👨⚕️
This is both exactly what I want as a disabled person (to be believed even when the symptoms are weird or ambiguous) and the exact opposite of what I want (to be restrained, have expensive tests run on me without my consent, and to have my communication attempts overlooked)
There were at least two symptoms, screaming and drawing squiggly lines. They haven't been told about the squiggly lines yet. You could say three symptoms, feeling like he's choking without having an obstruction.
Also, I'd assume that if a child choked briefly and screamed really loudly after that fact, it just means the child was hella spooked? Like won't you try to comfort the child when they do that?
i grew up with undiagnosed autism, i was diagnosed when i was 19. autistic children are so much more likely to experience medical trauma like this kid in the video experience. i’ve witnessed it first hand and know a lot of other autistics who experience the same. doctors are unfortunately more willing to disregard my comfort because of my autistic traits. this is especially prevalent in autistic girls.
2:32 - Funny story: I was brought to the ER for an ulcerated wound on my ankle, which had swollen to about twice its normal size. I'm a type 1 diabetic since the age of seven and hospitalized numerous times. So when the nurse asked what brought me to the ER, I joked, "I'm hoping you have a vet on staff to put me down." In all seriousness, she replied, "You're in luck. The physician on call is also a veterinarian." AND HE WAS!
The depression explains the way the father was acting. "If he wants it, he can ask for it," despite the fact that the child actually can't ask for it. I saw pretty much the same thing from my brother in law when he really wasn't doing well. His judgement was impaired and the way he'd manage his kids was... sup-bar, let's say. In a situation like this, I'd almost ignore the father's comments, unless they really appeared constructive, as they'd be heavily tainted by his mental state.
@@Howdidyouknow04 If your child has PICA, is non verbal and a lot of sensory issues that they cannot communicate, it is very stressful and isolating. Thus, it can lead to depression. It is not ableist. It is a progression of events.
I am so with you dr mike! my son is autistic, and needed an MRI when he was 5 for seizures. they didnt sedate him prior, they used a mask of nitr. AT the machine!! he was terrified, it took 4 nurses and myself to hold him down and force the mask on him, and i had to hold my screaming child down whie his body went limp, it was traumatizing for both of us, and i will NEVER let them do anything like that again. ALL further imaging testing I demanding they sedate him PRIOR to going into the machine.
I'm autistic and I have ADD. I frequently forget to tell my doctors symptoms, including vitally important ones, and I don't remember which ones I already told them about, so I end up just repeating ones that they already know about. I also don't talk about any symptoms that they don't ask about, but they only ask about "new symptoms since your last visit," or, in the case of June 2020 when I was was brought in an ambulance (don't remember if I went to the ER or urgent care), "new symptoms within the past 24 hours." At the time, the only new symptoms were intense abdominal pain that caused me to double over and unable to do anything but scream (lactose intolerance paired with constipation), being unable to stand, numbness in my arms below the elbow, in my legs below the knee, and in my face, and atrial fibrillation lasting longer than a couple minutes. Not once did they ask if I had experienced heart flutters before, and I, not knowing what exactly constipation was, never knew I was frequently constipated. By that point, I had actually been experiencing frequent heart flutters for over a decade, but usually lasting only a few seconds to a couple minutes at a time.
My problem is always that they ask me how I'm doing, when my baseline in life is basically 'tired and overwhelmed', or they'll ask me if I've been sleeping well and my answer is 'I never sleep well'. Their questions are always so vague to me, like, I don't know what 'normal' is, so you can't just ask me an open question like that 🙃 and over here you get about five minutes max with your dr, so it's really difficult to get a point across when you have to really go into detail to explain what is going on 😩
@@oceaneo4603 ADD is an outdated term for ADHD without the hyperactivity, its now called ADHD-inattentive type. but some people still call it ADD to make it easier for others to tell the types apart
Yes, they're always breaking into people's houses lol! House is really not known for his ethics. Also, someone already said this in one of your House MD videos, but apparently House watches and reads about animals, so even though it is absurd that he would remember such a thing about racoon poop, his knowledge about animals does not come from thin air out of nowhere
House is inspired by Sherlock Holmes (House=Holmes, Watson=Wilson) so it makes sense the story usually goes a more investigative route than a medical route. Its basically a mystery to find out what the patient did to get sick which usually connects to their personality or lifestyle. Breaking into and searching the homes of the patients while obviously insane is a good way to get a glimpse into their habits etc. and allows the main characters to share their opinions on the usually extraordinary patients to build their characters aswell. And obviously a big theme is everyone lying so House has to get it out of them or deduce it without them just telling him.
This is important to remember. In addition to the team never dealing with run of the mill medical issues, they also deal with things differently because House is more interested in the puzzle than anything. It's why it's a recurring observation about him over the course of the show.
As a low impacted ASD person, thanks for being so considerate in description of my community. Memorization is stellar with my autism, I love medical science as I am doing a mid life career change toward being a dietitian. I love nutrition too. And the Only pre med class, I did not get an A in was Anatomy and physiology but I did get Bs. So you are right some of us are smart, but that does take hardworking for us too. :)
I remember watching this episode when I was younger, and being an autistic child myself, I found the way they treated him upsetting to the point where I couldn't finish.
I love House MD react videos! And no, it's not lupus.
It's never lupus.
Except for that time when it actually was lupus lol
I was just about to make a very similar comment to this one.
Great episode! Heard this before elsewhere! 'Don't touch his eye' when they knock on the wrong surgery room! Cameron said nothing about racoons in the neighborhood?
or sarcoidosis
hahaha!🤣
It's not asexuality either because according to House that just means you either have a medical issue or you're faking it 👍
To be fair, the test of Lupus is kind of a running gag in the show. House will pretty much ask for lupus tests no matter who the patient is or what the symptoms are.
True
One of these days it will work 😂
@@Thenoobestgirl and it does!
It's never lupus.
@@KingKabalIII he gets a case of it at one point
"Do they break into people's homes all the time?"
"This is so unethical!"
Yes, this is House, that's pretty much the show 😂
The fact that this its his 6th episode of house reaction and hes still asking that question? Lmaoooo 🤣😂
no wonder its called House lolol
@@nul4327 lmao underrated
They also left the Mac and cheese out and that is another crime
I like how everyone in this comment t chain has their pfp of real peoples faces and I just have a pfp of a cartoon []u[]
My favorite part of the episode wasnt even the medical stuff. It was the incredibly sweet moment of the kid going up to House at the end and looking him in the eye while giving him his game. Something that meant so much to him. Its possibly the most genuine and heartfelt "thank you" that House will ever get from anyone.
It's even better for the parents reaction, the whole House comment on the parents reacting with a 6 out of 10 for saving the kid's life, then the kid giving him the game, then the parents reaction to this and the final "that's your 10" comment at the end.
Im rewatching and just watched this episode. Loved the ending
I also love that he has that PSP for many episodes after its given to him, meaning it was a significant gift to Dr House too. he was playing a nintendo DS or SP in episodes before receiving the PSP.
Remember, this is the same episode where he makes fun of Wilson for keeping presents from his patients.
And then House himself melts when the boy gives him the game and even plays it in the next episodes.
Love the subtlety.
House is so knowledgable about literally everything, it's just part of his character, kinda like how main characters in movies would be overly strong, he's just overly smart.
Oh hey didn’t think you’d be here. Then again your everywhere unexpected
Remember he’s supposed to be a Sherlock Holmes stand in. I mean the original Sherlock from the unedited novels. Which by the way he’s a near 1to 1match for. Wilson is unsurprisingly a perfect match for Watson.
He's an Internist for a reason
He's like Sheldon as a doctor instead of an astrophysicist.
@urlocalperv , imagine Dr. House having a beer with Rick Sanchez...
To be fair, House is basically “what if Sherlock Holmes was a doctor” so he knows a lot of stuff just in the nature of his character.
Sherlock Holmes was actually based on a doctor's life.
@@ronak212 House is based on Sherlock Holmes. Even the name House, is based on its similarity to Ho(l)me(s). It's also not a coincidence that his only friend is Dr. Wilson (similar to Watson). All character dynamics are just imported from Sherlock Holmes.
just find out that Infectious Disease and Neurology do really act like House (based on this Doctor on FB that keeps making impression skits of every medical department)
@@ronak212 thank you for that, however that doesn’t change my statement in any way as the character House, is based off the character, Sherlock Holmes, who is NOT a doctor
@@eizendragon5141 that is making things way too stereotypical, there is no "insert proffesion" behaves like something
"Why did your date scream, that was a weird revelation." Doctor Mike is so innocent lol
The real question is did she scream because it was great or because she was horrified?
I didn't get the joke at first too, but this guy above me just explained it all
Lol yeah
You know what it's like, a police siren goes by and they just won't stop howling. . .
@@JD867 ayo
I felt so bad for the kid in this episode. He was trying his best to communicate what was wrong to the best of his limited ability and he was so freaked out by everything they did.
“He’s choking”
“Impossible, it’s Mac n cheese!”
Sir, you can choke on your own saliva.
And your own vomit
I think that the point was that Mac n cheese is super slippery. But yeah still nonsense.
Sometimes I choke on my own dang oxygen
This happens to me a lot lol. 🤣
He was saying that cause there was
This episode terrified me initially, making me worried about getting worms in my eyes. Also the ending of the episode where the kid gives house his PSP is very heart touching, the kid finally made eye contact with someone and it was with House
Omg same. It’s terrifying 😭
@@khalilahd. The PSP?
It could be worse, the kid could have given House a CDi.
Now that is terrifying. 😬
And if my memory is right in later episodes you can see House using this PSP
@@khalilahd. I had acanthamoeba keratitis. turns out there's a few little buggies who like to eat your eyeballs out.
it's so rare to see House connecting with any other human, it's almost like seeing a unicorn free in the wild
This episode made me laugh. I’m a veterinarian, and my parasitology professor in school was obsessed with Baylisascaris procyonis (the Raccoon roundworm). He even was on an episode of Monsters Inside Me as the expert talking about it. As soon as I saw the sandbox, I knew where they were going with this episode. I think there were only 10 human infection cases in the history of forever, but they didn’t end well. Not only can it migrate to the eye, but also to the brain. I will never forget the name of that parasite - little did I know it’s only usefulness to me in the last 10 years of practice was sounding smart during a House episode!
thats actually amazing, can't believe someone's education actually came to be useful for a house episode 🤣
They also had an episode where the ultimate cause of the issues was tapeworm in the brain.
@@enlightendbel That was the teacher who ate pork and had a stroke in front of her kids! That was like one of the first episodes, wasn't it?
@@Kiss_My_Aspergers may actually have been the very first episode XD
Staring Robin Tunney as the patient who a few years later would become one of the breakout stars of The Mentalist.
Seriously, how many marvel or DC characters have three to five PhDs?
"Time to institute the Heimlich maneuver and stop bullying your child" -Dr. Mike, 2022
The dad wasn't bullying. Telling him he has to ask for juice is following the treatment plan. The kid is supposed to be communicating with a PECS board.
If you can understand what someone telling you, refusing to listen is bullying
Forcing him to communicate in a different way when the way he communicates is harmless and effective is controlling and ableist@@laurelannmoss5859
Yes!!! House MD is back!!! Mike, I hope someday you would do not just "react" but actual "challenge" for House MD, like you diagnose the case before House does.
Dont read my name,,
Woah that's a nice idea
@@kiljibhoomi8518 TBH, this actually is not my idea, there is a guy(Dr. to be exact) on YT who already did this "challenge" on House M.D., and i liked it so i am suggesting it :) you should check it out if you are curious.
@@daiooji Tell me his channel I want to check it out
Wait this is kind of brilliant
Dr Mike: “Do they just break into people’s homes all the time?!”
Me, who has seen every episode of House: “Yes. Yes, they do.”
House: "check their house"
Team: "we can't break into someone's house"
House: "just do it"
Next episode...
House: "check their house"
Team: "we can't just..."
Suchnothing yup I remember this.
I said the exact same thing.
LOL. They broke into a patient's home in the first episode. Heck, they break into each other's home on occasion. And ***SPOILER ALERT***
ran a car THROUGH someone's home, and break other patients OUT of facilities.
well they had to call him house for a reason
I love that House is essentially saying 'they should get rid of the kid and get a dog cause it'll look them in the eye' and Dr Mike is just like ANIMAL THERAPY IS AWESOME
Yeah, I think the "replace the kid" angle went over his head. Too dark. LOL
What if he meant that too? :v
Oh I thought he meant bring in a dog to calm the kid down
Yeah, as I was listening to this while organizing my room I literally said, "Oh, Dr. Mike doesn't understand that House didn't mean a dog to *help* the kid..."
Nah don't get rid of the kid just turn him off and then on
As a person with autism I can absolutely agree with the getting a pet. I still have very bad social skills and have a hard time understanding other peoples emotions. But my dogs helped me a lot
Dogs R just pure love. 😊
I am autistic and I never had a pet after childhood, and I probably will never get one. I take horrible care of myself and I am confident a living being left in my care will not be well off. The other autistic people I know with pets are the most dedicated pet owners youll find and they are much better off for having them. Note, this is just pets Im talking about, I don't personally know anyone with a support animal.
Aww I love that Dr Mike completely missed the fact that Foreman’s date screaming was likely supposed to refer to a sexual thing. You’re so innocent.
Was looking for this comment 🤣
It was..?
@@kyrawilliams7497 As was I!
@@theratraider9357 I can’t see anything else it could be referring to.
@Vickieh1981 screaming at how terrible the floor is?…
“It’s not only about the challenges, it’s about the strengths, too.”
I love this
In this episode House says he envy this kid because he doesn't have to follow the social norms and can act just like he is. That really resonated with me but I didn't know why it meant so much to me.
Years later I was diagnosed with autism 🤣🤣🤣
@@unusuarioimportante when the video showed the clip of a kid rocking with his hands on his ears, I laughed because I’m literally laying in bed stimming rn, slightly rocking
Me too. There was this kid Jason in my school that had eye aversion and would often have specific movements that made him more comfortable while talking to people. He remembered EVERYTHING he was ever told.
Dr Mike please react to Temple Grandin
I don't, honestly. Lot of people make autism out to be a "superpower" and ignore the struggles of autistic people who don't become astrophysicists, like me. It's not a good thing, it's not a bad thing, it just is. Like any disability.
"Time to do the Heimlich maneuver and stop bullying your child!" LMAO Also Dr. Mike's explanation of the heart was quite cool
I love that you think House was suggesting the parents get a dog for their autistic child, when in reality he was suggesting they get a dog in *lieu* of a child.
House - "Don't touch his eye."
Surgeon - "This is an appendectomy."
House - "Like I said, don't touch his eye."
This was also a really good opportunity to highlight the fact that children with disabilities are at high risk for abuse! It's a serious problem often discounted by medical professionals.
They should have sedated him for the tests, that was medical abuse.
not really.
any person (children as well) are at risk of physical or emotional abuse.
just because some people (me as well) are born/have learning difficulties doesn't mean we are at more risk of physical or emotional abuse.
@@aliceramdom.s not true. If u have problems communicating u can't defend urself as well.
@@aliceramdom.s I'm sorry but this is just absolutely false. Theres been quite a bit of research into how children and people with learning disabilities as a whole are more likely to suffer from abuse in multiple forms. It depends where they are on the spectrum but if they really struggle with socializing and communication, it has been known that others will take advantage of that in horrible ways. It's much harder to defend or speak for yourself when you struggle in that area. In fact, if you struggle to understand people's intentions and social situations in the first place, how are you supposed to know if you're in an abusive situation? I could go on.
@@tiredgremlin6315 i dont think it takes a study to believe a parent with a child that requires a lot more attention and effort, causes non-saintly people to lash out and lose to their emotions at a higher rate than parents with children that dont.
One of my biggest fear is getting worms into my organs/insides, it just freaks me out.
I manually removed one
New fear unlocked 😭
It was horrifying
@@HexabyteSupreme Now I wanna know how it happened.
There's the episode where a girl had a giant one in her intestine. Brrrrrrr this was terrifying for me.
I'm autistic and only recently discovered I had the diagnosis since I was a child because my doctors and parents never told me, when I look back on my life I see so many things the people around me did wrong, because they didn't account for my autism. I could never communicate to them what it was I was feeling or how what they were doing is wrong. Watching this is emotional because seeing a medical professional look at a situation where an autistic individual is being handled poorly, understanding why they're reacting like that and recommending alternative action reminds me of how the people around me could've handled the situation differently. Thank you Dr.Mike, thank you for understanding.
I'm also a late diagnosed autistic person and my experience is very similar you are not alone
Yes! It’s so horrible to keep that away from your disabled child. They acting like their disabled child can suddenly not be disabled just by ripping away the very vital knowledge that helps them understand themselves. I will never understand people like that.
I can kind of relate a little bit, though it really sucks for them to keep it from you. I haven't been able to get diagnosed yet and I'm almost 18 and I always got punished for my autistic traits as a kid because nobody wanted to think and realize I wasn't just being unruly or disobedient on purpose. I had to figure out for myself I was autistic through autistic friends of mine and years of researching and understanding why I experience what I do
@@sky-trevishere9638 My mother did that exact thing. She believes that me knowing that I am autistic will cause me to hold the bar lower and to use it as a crutch. She wishes that she never told me anything of it.
im grateful that you (or your editor) put a vomit warning before it happened, im emetophobic and its awesome that that was taken to consideration,or just for people that just dont wanna see vomit lol
Me too - I cannot bear it. Thanks for the heads up !
Oddly I have no problem vomiting myself. Especially if nauseous for any reason, puking feels amazing afterward.
But I cant bear sight or sound of someone else puking.
I also appreciated it! Being an emetophobe who loves medical procedural shows is probably not a great combo haha...
Ya. I have cynical vomiting syndrome (basically I get frequent vomiting cycles) so I’ve built up a feeling of normalcy around vomiting but I still appreciated that because I’m currently in a cycle and it gave me a warning so that’s it didn’t catch me off guard making my nausea worse
same!! THANK YOU for the warning, editor!
A lot of people forget that house is like the last stop for all his patients. His position at the hospital is the head of a diagnostics department that only takes special cases that nobody can solve so it makes since that he always looks for zebras when he hears hoofbeats and trying to think out of the box because the patients has likely seen a dozen other doctors who follow the "standard" protocols and way of thinking.
Yeah doesnt make sense a show about ordinary cases and house performing everyday treatments.
I mean a show about someone seeing ordinary cases isn't as entertaining, so there's that.
Not to mention Houses IQ is off the charts, he’s travelled around the world being an army kid and patient’s go to him when all the other Doc’s can’t figure it out.
I think Dr. Mike there is just a wee bit jealous of House’s expertise.
But were that the case (House as the last resort for odd cases), they'd have been turned away from every hospital for _nothing being wrong_ and not even be there in the first place. Plus, House has turned down others for far more. Like House's crew _and_ Doc Mike said, the parents brought the kid in because he choked on food and then screamed - the 2nd part being most any kid's fear reaction from the choking - thus a non-case. "By the time they reached House" & his team, it was a case of parents worried cos their child choked on food and then screamed, the latter something he was apparently already prone to do, as they note in the episode, iirc. It's still a non-case "at that point".
The most realistic medical series - Today's episode: The doctor is writing a report about his 27th case of a usual cold this year... Sounds like a big show!
As a long time fan of house I think it is important to point out that it is established in the early episodes (i think the pilot episode literally has lisa cuddy spell it out) that house deals exclusively with patients that other doctors cannot figure out (aside from his clinic duties) and that no other doctors like this exist. so we should make the assumption that in this case the kid was looked at by other doctors and they believed something was still wrong with the kid outside of his already diagnosed condition and referred him to house. this explains why this (and most of his other patients) invariably end up have loads of tests that would not necessarily be part of normal process. this would also explain why he is able to come up with these obscure ideas that most other doctors would need to research as he deals with the obscure constantly.
All that being said i do enjoy hearing your thoughts about the show as you are a real medical practitioner and it is interesting comparing the show to the real world.
Same thing with how House knows a lot about stuff since he’s basically Sherlock Homes as a Doctor, and Dr.Mike just doesn’t want to acknowledge that even though it’s fictitious, you have to at least suspend your disbelief as it’s house’s character. Even the fact about raccoons is not even about house being all knowing, it’s related to infectious disease specialty which House is an expert of.
@@Synecto thing is the Dr reacting is actually.well,a doctor
@Sasha05 you sound like you may have adhd, I do. I’m not a doctor though, so. It’s just what you said about fixation, impulsiveness, talking fast.
I actually really like your highlighting of neurodivergence having pros and cons, the way to respect people with autism, how to actually provide support, etc. I’m autistic and it really matters that doctors have kindness and understanding.
But I do think it’s valuable information that treating autistic children like this in medical treatment is nearly always full on child abuse. Forcing children who struggle to understand what is going on and communicate their experiences through painful and risky procedures without sedation, extreme care, and (when it is possible) a slower treatment course has resulted in liability in many medical malpractice suits and has almost always led to doctors losing their license-and even possibly facing criminal charges for child abuse.
In cases such as these, respect and understanding are of the utmost importance. Not only is it owed by doctors to their patients, not only does it lead to positive medical experiences and outcomes, not only does it make medicine easier to practice with autistic people, it is necessary so that you do not abuse a child.
the date screaming part is actually so funny, and the fact it went over his head is even better
It’s funny because we know Doctor Mike is smart because he’s a doctor, but jokes are always flying over his head 😂
I was looking everywhere for this comment because yes it's so hilarious 😂😂
I came to say this. Like Mike, honey, I hope you know what happens on some dates haha
@@daarnett2x Maybe he doesn't, despite the (I'm sure) many online offers to show him 😂
@@IceMetalPunk poor Doctor Mike. Too pure for this world 😭🤣
What I loved with this episode was how House interacted with the kid. If I remember right, Foreman especially was very frustrated with the kid and kept doing things that triggered meltdowns. Like taking away the gameboy before he had a chance to finish. House kinda understood what this kid needed to a degree. He showed him that the anesthetic wasn't scary by breathing some of it and showing him how to use the mask, where everyone else just kinda tried to force it on him.
What I like with House is that he's pretty mean to his colleagues but he'll always try to be nice to the kids. He wants to keep the trauma to a minimum with the kids, and often knows how to do it.
So he's like Gordon Ramsey
@@melow5142 Exactly
House has actively tried to harm or even kill (abort) children in several occasions
This is the same man who suggested the parents get a dog instead because "it would look them in the eyes?"
@@allyh7075 yes, but that was directed towards the parents, not the kid. The meaning I got from that is that they shouldn't have had a kid in the first place if they weren't willing to accept him like he was.
I think that's one of the reasons I love House so much, (and I don't like medical dramas) because of the sheer amount of ridiculous knowledge House seems to have on everything. But makes it seem like it's not ridiculous, it's just the natural conclusion that was so obvious. Obviously it's raccoon poop because we can't pass it through our bodies....DUH!
orrrr, more realistic look at that is that he reads a lot and have photographic memory, plus is extremely smart. Though thru the show it was not presented that he is anything like what i wrote, just the best of the best. But we can imagine he is extremely smart and has other 'abilities' :)
@@milosstojanovic4623 i like this stance but i think it is significantly less realistic 🤣
I mean, he is based off Sherlock Holmes so it makes sense
@@missTgalman I think people conveniently forget about that to make fun of House, haha
He definitely doesn’t have perfect memory recollection because there’s an episode where he treats someone who does have it and he’s really intrigued. He is definitely highly intelligent and has an IQ of about 150 I think. He shows clear signs of autism throughout the show (not severe but still) and, as stated in the video that does come with some memory and learning perks. And although he has some other interests, as shown by when he starts weening off Vicodin and finding new hobbies, the only real thing that stops his leg pain is diagnosing patients so it’s pretty safe to say that he spends a hell of a lot of his time dedicated to being able to do that (ie. reading obscure medical books, papers and journals) so that he doesn’t have to feel pain.
I was diagnosed with ASD at around 8 years old. Back then it was officially known as Asperger's Syndrome. The doctor said it is the mildest form of autism there is. I didn't act like that kid did, in terms of the screaming, but I had no ability to speak until I was around 5 and I couldn't form complete sentences until I was around 6 or 7. I had a moderate case of stuttering and constantly saying "um" in my sentences until I got speech therapy when I was 12. Even when I was speaking simple sentences, I would be like "The dog...um um um um um um...chased me down...um um um...the street" even now I do have a stuttering problem but it's not anywhere near as bad as it was. Also, school was extremely difficult most times, which is interesting because I hear a lot of people with autism have no problem passing school.
ive always had problems passing school because of how loud it it is.
I dropped out of high school because people would make fun of me for having autism and being "different " I'm now 21 with 2 kids and a wonderful fiance
I just found out I’m ASD lv 1 at 30. I passed school okay once my comorbid ADHD was managed. But… making friends? Communicating my interest in a friendship? I… don’t even know where to start.
@@tracievanderputten2688 I had my first serious girlfriend at 17 and she was 18. She never knew about my problems. Never really cared. She was entirely head-over-heels in love with me and I reciprocated that. I had a really difficult time understanding physical queues back then, so when she wanted to be slightly intimate, I misread it because she never said anything. I've learned better now but it's how it was for me then
I have it too, had it diagnosed when I was, I think, 2. I can say: making generalizations about people on the spectrum often doesn't work, because autism can express itself in many ways. For instance, stuttering wasn't my problem, and I didn't have much trouble in school, but I've had trouble with social skills and a couple of other things
10:20 _"How'd we get here?"_ The clues were there, the child's behavior was abnormal, drawing wiggly lines, drawing what he was seeing as House put it, the screaming, the lines, those symptoms but the lines were not mentioned by the parents.
Knowing their dismissal of the kid due to autism, I bet they just thought it was some silly autism thing… People severely underestimate our intelligence, and kids’ intelligence in general.
@@DeathnoteBB Very true.
Which is crazy to me. They literally mentioned in the first scene of the episode, to each other, but not the doctor.
I am autistic, and this episode was very very very frustrating... I have had so many doctors dismiss my symptoms for real health issues as "just autism" I had an extremely bad kidney infection that doctors almost ignored because I couldn't verbalize. I really wish that more doctors were educated about autism in both children and adults. All behavior is communication. With that noted.... I realize that house is a silly drama. I just wanted to take an opportunity to let people know that we are often not just screaming for no reason.
@Diane Ackleson I really do, please tell me.
Dang your comment was long
@@Katoblep it really wasn’t lol
I’m autistic and I get it too. House was the only guy who was atleast understanding but even then still was being mean and degrading. Iota frustrating enough your loved ones don’t care for how you feel at all and doubly so when it’s encouraged in various forms of media beyond House
THANK YOU
House knows all those "weird facts" because when he isn't with a patient, he spends most of his time at work on the internet. And he also happens to be one of those people that retain weird information.
That poor kid. I remember being like 8 at the Children’s Hospital getting a catheter put in (I got UTIs all the time as a kid and doctors thought something was wrong) and it took like 6 nurses and my parents to hold me down, undress me and shove a painful catheter in me. I remember mom trying to calm me down saying “they’re just taking some pictures” so I must have been having some sort of dye running through me or something for the procedure. But it was extremely traumatic for me as a kid. I remember not talking to my parents for like a week after that.
I mean... I am not a very nervous person, but I know for a fact that that would hurt, so I would ask to be locally sedated, probably
Yeah apparently catheters are extremely painful but they never offer pain management for them??
(Reasons I don't trust people just because they're health professionals lol)
I love the connection between House and Sherlock Holmes. It’s why the show leaned so heavily into the “investigation” and prodigious brain of House. Holmes sounds like “Homes,” so they went with “House.” Holmes’ bestie was John Watson (JW), House’s bestie is James Watson (JW). Holmes lived at 221B, House’s address is 221B (it’s shown on his door several times). Holmes has a wild eidetic memory and thus has insane amounts of random, specific knowledge. House does the same. And on and on. Such a clever premise for a medical investigative show.
It’s James Wilson not James Watson
@@molly7154 LOL, you’re absolutely right. I don’t know why I typed Watson twice. Thanks for catching it!
@@belladharma it happens to everyone.
Omg the limp too! 😂
@@ThePenguin369 yeah, but watson had the limp(from afghanistan) not Sherlock
My 25 year old was diagnosed with Aspergers when he was 8 years old after years of me asking for help.
He is incredibly intelligent, he is HYPER sensitive to touch! Like fabric, temperature, noise! Labels on clothes, a pebble in a shoe!!
It’s all so frustrating for him.
BUT he is happy, in a committed relationship, and has a fabulous job that he loves! He works in a job that others may consider frustrating but his attention to detail and his amazing memory works in his favour…
I was once asked in an interview for BBC TV if I could give him a pill to ‘cure’ him of autism would I take it??
I said no… it would change the essential ‘him’ that was my son.
When he was older I asked him the same question and he said ‘it’s a moot point because there is no pill BUT if there was a pill I wouldn’t take it’
He wanted to be himself with all the positives and negatives!
I LOVE HIM just as he is. He is fantastic, amazing, brilliant and wonderful and I love him so so much
I know he was diagnosed a while ago, I was diagnosed with Asperger's too, but it's no longer a diagnosis as it was named after a Nazi scientist who called us the "good autistics" and would send the "bad autistics" to camps.
But yes we can do almost everything other people can depending on our difficulties, we're just a little different :)
@@HyperKittyArt I am curious to know what the new term for Asperger's is.
@@danusdragonfly6640 I believe it's "High Functioning Autism"
@@emerald3392 Ew, definitely not. High functioning implies that I need no support, I do.
What high functioning means is my autism doesn't affect others, it's nothing to do with my needs as an autistic person
@@danusdragonfly6640 There is no new term. It's just ASD now without the extra term.
i swear those doctors are just throwing all kinds of diagnoses all over the place because there was one single symptom 😭
"oh you have a headache? brain tumor. prepare for dying"
Right, it's just like you asked google what your symptoms mean
House deals with obscure illnesses and conditions. That's why.
People go to house as a last resort when nothing else works
I'm late diagnosed autistic and seeing that kid going through what he did in that episode resonated in me so much before I even knew. I have so much medical trauma because Doctors refuse to realize the ques of me being terrified at what was happening and not thinking explaining it to me was necessary. The why aren't you sedating this child comment really hit different.
Indeed. I was diagnosed close to my forties. When I was around 10-12 I went through lots of testing (had Lyme disease/borrelia, but it took forever for them to figure it out). Once they had to take a normal blood test and also prick my finger. When pricking my finger, they said that it would hardly sting or anything. To me, it hurt like hell! Then after that, they warned me that the blood test would probably hurt a bit. Which made me freak out and not want to go through it. Alas, they managed, after much work and lots of tears, take the blood test. Sedating me would probably have calmed me down a lot faster. Sadly, it would take another couple of weeks/months until I finally got the correct diagnosis.
@@Elora445 i actually FINALLY got diagnosed 2 weeks ago. It's been such a long journey. I am afab which makes it so much harder as being socialized as female puts a huge barrier between you and a diagnosis. I also have ADHD so that was a whole mess but I'm so glad that diagnosis is getting so much better as are the resources. I actually feel like my skin is on fire when I get finger pricks but blood work is the easiest thing in the world for me and I'm guessing it's to do with nerve ending being a lot more plentiful in the finger. I once threw a chair across the room when the doctor tried to give me a shot when I was 8 I think. It wasn't pretty and though I'm able to control the reaction a lot better now... I still hate it so much. Especially when it hurts for days after. Still get em... But it's never fun. Also I'm so glad you're on the road to finally getting an official answer. I diagnosed myself about 2 years ago and started the journey to get an official diagnosis and it's been so eye opening and liberating to know a lot of my reactions to life were because my brain works a little differently than someone who does have ASD.
only started trying to get diagnosed this year (17) and they denied my diagnosis because i mask. i also have medical trauma from not being listened too. ESPECIALLY from mental health sections, one of my special interests is psychology so i know A LOT and use the medical terms for it, and then they refuse to even test because im just saying so much (like i have alexithymia and misophonia)
with physical issues they've just always gone "well it seems fine bye" without trying any other tests. it took me 4.5yrs to FINALLY get an MRI.. one of the most basic tests, and i have to reschedule it anyways
@@kaelin8775 also if it helps I'm 28 so I'm sure you'll get there and don't lose hope. The understanding of ASD has gotten much better in recent years and I'm sure you'll find someone who will test you and actually listen to what you have to say soon!
@@kaelin8775 you have to unmask during the test. I learned how to not only mask but expand my comfort zone and basic functional abilities sp I don't get as stressed during social situations and have to mask less, to the point that people might be able to tell there is something "off" but unless they have friends or family that they are close with and really in tune with how many of us work, they'll never be able to tell. I have been able to full many professionals. One even wanted to remove the diagnosis. I had to unmask and really sit down and explain to them how I was as a kid and teen to really show case my progress and so they know I'm not exaggerating or that the previous drs weren't overdiagosing me.
Dear Doctor Mike, as a mother of a child which is diagnosed with ASD, I highly appreciate the sensitive and delicacy when talking about autism challenges and benefits. I like your UA-cam Channel and the great videos. Hello from Israel 🇮🇱❤️
I also have asd, and I just got diagnosed, I’m also trying to look for delicacy when talking about my condition, so I agree with your comment. ❤️
my youngest brother was diagnosed with autism and this is a subject close-to-heart for me. highly agree that dr. mike spoke about ASD with grace and sensitivity. especially love him mentioning that it’s not all about the negatives but the positives too. made me a little emotional. generally, we all tend to focus on the differences that highlight what we can’t do rather than those that are a gift. great reminder 💌
@@ryang9802 I dislike the term "ASD" it's such a blanket term. They try lumping autism into one big huge goo ball which it's NOT. I have aspergers and always will use said term...why? Because it's what my doctor diagnosed me with. Autism is not just "ASD" it's more than that.
@@Silver_wind_1987_ The DSM-5, the official diagnostic checklist of mental disorders and disabilities, says otherwise.
@@Silver_wind_1987_ autism is an entire neurotype
To correct Dr. Mike, autistic people don’t “choose” not to speak. Selective mutism is an extremely misleading name for literally being unable to get words out of your mouth in certain situations because of extreme anxiety. It isn’t that we suddenly lose our vocal cords. We technically can make sound when we go mute. It’s just that the step between making words in the brain to making those words come out of your mouth isn’t going through.
It feels like your brain wants to say so many things, but your lips won’t move beyond quivering. No matter how much you try to force it out, no matter how many people withhold things you want and tell you to “use your words”. It won’t be translated to speech easily, not while you’re in the situation triggering the anxiety. A way to get around this is writing or typing what you want to say, because that process uses a different area of the brain than the one that controls the motor function of your lips to produce speech.
EDIT (to add some brain anatomy lingo into this for clarification purposes): Wernicke’s area, which controls whether language is coherent, and makes sense, is active when I have a meltdown and can’t speak. My brain is still coming up with words at a mile a minute. If you give me a pen and paper I can shakily write my replies to you in conversation sometimes. I can write, but not speak the words, because Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls the fluency and conciseness of speech and how it comes out the mouth-hole, isn’t functioning properly when I am in these situations.
I am thinking of getting a text to speech or AAC app on my phone to use for that purpose to communicate during emergencies. When I accidentally grazed another car in a parking lot an elderly couple nearly called the paramedics out of concern because I couldn’t say anything besides my first name, so, safe to say I’ll need it…
Your explanation actually makes me understand that way better. I have that sorta brain to verbal block during panic attacks.
(+ Minor affecting, think that's the term, Neurodivergency certainly doesn't help when sound and touch sensitivity suddenly gets boosted lmao )
Edit: think the term would be high functioning-
I've experienced some migraines in the past few years and inability to speak or say the correct words is one of my symptoms. Confusion is another. The brain is complicated to say the least.
I was just about to comment this!
hello! i’m a computer science major and i’ve been wanting to make an AAC app for a long time. can you please take a minute and tell me features you think would be helpful? please also share any shortcomings or missing features other apps have that would be useful. i want to make it completely free and accessible!
I once worked with a little girl who was a selective mute. She only felt comfortable talking to her family, otherwise she'd have a panic attack. But on her last day in my daycare class she told me she loved me and she'd miss me as her teacher. I swear I died that day. It was so sweet and heartwarming that I was a person she could now talk to comfortably.
Mike (or Mike's editor) - you are golden. This is the first time I have ever seen a vomit warning in a youtube video.
I have emetophobia. It's not that severe in my case, I could watch someone vomit on tv without that much of a problem, but that definitely does not mean I won't avert my eyes or turn down the volume so that I can't hear the sound of vomiting
The one thing I did take from this episode when I watched it (as a parent of someone with ASD) is that, AT NO TIME, did anyone involved in his care take a couple of minutes to explain to the child what was going on, what was about to happen, and why.
The child is non-verbal. He is not an idiot, or incapable of understanding, albeit possibly at a very basic level, what is going on. I think I would fight and react all "WTF?" if medical staff just came at me without talking to me and explaining things first!
"Why did your date scream" Oh Mike, so innocent.
"...do they just break into people's homes all the time?"
Yes. Yes, they do!
I audibly replied, "Pretty much," when Dr. Mike asked that lol
@@Penzeera me too! I said “all.of.the.time🙄”
Breaking into people's homes is pretty much the least unethical thing they do too.
Constantly
OMG You’re challenging the king?! I LOVE House!!
PS - you’re right, it would be difficult to scream if you’re choking lol 😊
Dr. Mike is so innocent he didn’t catch the sex joke about foreman’s date screaming 😂😂😂 protect this man at all cost.
Yes! I knew I wasn’t the only one who caught that. The cinnamon roll must be protected! 🤣🤣🤣
@@vll3302 i didnt catch that ether when was that ?
Sex joke?! D:
...You mean "murder joke"? ^_~
This is one of my favorite autism episodes of any show. Yes, they use some cliches, but they also *dodge* some cliches when Wilson and Cuddy are talking about whether House is himself autistic. They make it clear there's a difference between people who don't get along with others and people who have problems socializing.
Oh, and the thing about House knowing which parasites show up in stool samples and which don't? That's *exactly* the kind of thing House *would* know. He always knows the exception to every rule.
@@PaperbackWizard, it was said in one episode that House's IQ is 178.
@@lourivallimajr1579 IQ has nothing to do with autism.
@@PaperbackWizard, I know, but I read some research which points out that people with asd tends to have a higher score on IQ test. But it is not conclusive. I will try to find this information and post it here.
@@lourivallimajr1579 a lot of iq tests are just pattern recognition which autistic people are often good at
3:36 Mike:"They're gonna test the sand!?!?!?"
Turns out, problem was indeed in the sand.
There was alot wrong with how autism was represented in this episode, but the use of a PECS board to tell him what he ate was spot on representation of behavioral therapy. Also only have 4 stimulus on there is great detail as well. As too much stimulus on a PECS board will cause it to be less effective.
Yeah and also the way they strapped him down for the CT scan. Holy frick, as someone who now has some claustrophobia due to being pinned down and restrained as a kid that even conceptually is horrifying to me. It's been known for a while that this is explicitly what you're NOT supposed to do.
I had hoped a medical show would have a modicum of research put into what they portray but unfortunately not really :\
I agree, as someone with high functioning ASD myself. :)
ABA is awful.
@@hannahnewsome6849 I think they like to choose extreme presentation of autism on tv because they would otherwise be too... normal. Still, it shouldn't be an excuse to present it as a mental illness.
Also, I think this episode is about 15 years old, so I hope we made some steps forward in neurodivergent rapresentation.
@@ThePenguin369 why do you say ABA is awful? Asking as an RBT: I have seen ABA help a lot of my clients, regardless of if the progress is slower or faster.
Patients only make to House's department after nobody else can figure out what's wrong with them. That's why House employs unorthodox treating methods (like jumping to tests and biopsies) because the normal methods have already been tried by other physicians. It kinda makes sense lore-wise... right?
Eh...it's not really true though. There are cases that go straight to him. Like there are some people that ask for him specifically and other times where he insists on taking the patient just at a glance.
But why wouldn't the previous doctors have run those tests before they went to House? Especially with Web MD and other online systems allowing you to look up symptoms or contact other doctors around the world for ideas.
I mean if they have tried everything else then why not try those before giving up? Not to mention they never seem to have what would have been the dozens upon dozens of tests done by the doctors before hand for them to work off of.
@@Nostripe361 The previous doctors haven't run those tests because, as Doctor Mike pointed out, it's not normal procedure to run a litany of tests for something like a screaming child. They will only have done tests or scans for which some symptom sufficiently justified them. Whereas, just like Doctor Mike also pointed out, House's style is to order every test imagineably despite having only a tenous justification for doing so.
@@Nostripe361 Also House is a pretty big misanthrope who thinks pretty much everyone else is incompetent till they prove otherwise, and so will have his team rerun tests if he thinks whoever ran it the first time screwed something up.
It makes sense... It doesn't make A LOT of sense, but it makes sense.
House: Parents come in with a sick screaming child.
Also House: send detectives to sneak into their house and invade on their privacy.
Lmfaoo exactly
I think it was implied at some point that they get permission, I mean if your doctor told you theyre gonna check for things that could be poisoning your child, youd probably let them... although Id want to be there when they do it.
@@nawaki4586 most of the time house didn't get permission, too much hassle or they might hide something before they come
More like *sends his fellow doctors to sneak into their house*
@@nawaki4586 That's exactly why House does that without the people knowing it.
They might want to hide what caused the illness.
2:20 "why did you date scream? that was a weird revelation" I think Mike never made a woman moan loud before haha
"time to institute the hymlick maneuver and stop bulling your child" -- Doctor Mike 2022
heimlich not hymlick 🥸
In this episode House says he envy this kid because he doesn't have to follow the social norms and can act just like he is. That really resonated with me but I didn't know why it meant so much to me.
Years later I was diagnosed with autism🤣🤣🤣
As I recall in this episode, the other doctors were considering "what if House is autistic?" in this episode. Because socially awkward, wicked smart, has everything memorized...
Honestly, there are a lot of similarities between incredibly smart people and people with autism. I have Asperger's, but a guy my mom used to work with who had an IQ over 170 used to tell her "I don't believe she has autism, she's just incredibly smart which makes her quirky."
@@stephsaguudefan1753 my older brother has Asperger’s (diagnosed before the DSM V), and he is also ridiculously intelligent. It‘s also hard to tell that he has it unless you get him into a debate, which is when you notice he has some spectrum behaviors (I say spectrum as that would be his diagnosis if he was diagnosed post DSM V like my little sister). I’m actually one of the two siblings in my family that doesn’t have autism, while three of my sibs do
And doesn’t do well with change, which was a B plot in the episode. Wilson concluded it was probably just overlap in his case and he wishes he was as he is very socially aware in many ways but just hates people. But that is also based on Wilson’s assumptions about his friend and he is an oncologist not a psychologist, neurologist, pediatrician, or mental health professional
Being as he’s inspired by Sherlock I’d like to think he is but it’s probably not. However he could have a narcissistic personality disorder, he also has chronic pain which effects a person’s mental state and emotional responses to situations. (As someone who has had chronic pain and depression and met others like myself, they share similar traits to autism like sensitivity, affacts, emotionally unresponsive, etc)
No one thought he was autistic. Wilson only said that to Cuddy cause House wanted his old carpet back in his office. Wilson walks out and tells house he doesn't have Aspergers or is autistic.
I love how when describing autism you aren't judgmental. (I'm diagnosed with autism. Verbal communication is hard for me, but I can still do it, but non-verbal social cues...)❤
@Sasha05 hello hello, i also have autism so maybe i could answer your question? But i can't really understand what your question is so if you still want that answer maybe you could explain it a little more
this child actor either went through so, so much, or is really good at his profession at a young age.
And that thing he does with his eye is amazing.
@@stevennicholas5472 you mean when it rolled back? Im sure they used cgi to do that
@@Sadames03 hahaha, i was being sarcastic. ;)
Thank you so much for the vomit warning! I feel like so many people use vomit as a form of body comedy or just for added shock value and I am horribly emetophobic. Wish that kind of warning was used more :)
My husband has emetophobia as well. There's a website he uses for movies that tells you if/when and how long vomit scenes are!
@@yukifoxdemon What's the website?
Same thing, I got severe emetophobia too and although I did get a bit anxious just with the thought of it at least he put a warning and saved me from having an anxiety attack.
@@figurezs same but kinda like when someone says “I feel like ima puke” or pukes outa no where without warning us I get scared 💀
@@KiwiZzonk I feel the same, the moment someone says that I get some really bad tachycardia, trouble swallowing and TOO MUCH ANXIETY, and even worse when they do actually puke with or without warning, bro will have me shaking traumatized.
Doctor Mike's pure innocence at 2:25 🤣
i wonder if he ever figured it out 😂😂😂
I genuinely appreciate the vomit warning. I grew up with a severe phobia of people vomiting due to childhood trauma and would have severe panic attacks when I would see it or hear it happening. When I was still an active alcoholic, I would force myself to watch videos of it to essentially desensitize, but the panic still pops up sometimes. So thank you, Dr. Mike, for including the trigger warnings in your videos.
Also, I'd love for you to do a review on more Grey's Anatomy episodes! It is a comfort show for me (odd, I know). Specifically Season 11, episode 8: Risk. Also, the episode when the Doctors are in the plane crash shows a bunch of field medicine that I'd love your take on.
Sending love from Austin, TX!
Eye worms, reminds me of that Japanese eye licking thing - oh that wasn't real. Is this? Probably not, its a tv show. You know what im just going to watch the video.
Lol
sadly eye worms are indeed real. there are pictures.
Well there are parasites that can get in the eye and they are worm like, but l don’t believe they would present like this 😂
There are real :s
Dont read my name,,
They explain these things almost every episode: 1 - Houses department of diagnostics doesn't really exist anywhere else, it was created specifically for him since he is so good, and it is the pride of the hospital which is why he gets so much leeway with everything he does. 2 - they break into the patients houses without telling them so they don't have time to clean and hide things which might end up being relevant. 3 - House has his doctors do every test and not leave it to the hospitals departments simply because he doesn't trust them, he doesn't trust people at all so he hand picked the most capable and interesting and they gotta be willing to do the stuff. They always are because he is world famous. . 4 - House is a fictional character, a fictional genius that knows almost every illness and every thing that can cause them. His skills make no sense but they are meant to amaze us the same way his own team is every episode. They all come to hate House to an extent, until he does something amazing, saves a life, and then they decide its worth sticking to him longer
Edit. I forgot to mention 1 more. 5 - House is always looking for Zebras because any patient that makes it to him has had a dozen of doctors rule out the horses.
I don't watch the show and I'm not a doctor but I can point out a problem in the first statement: at most likely near end of the episode (I'm guessing since it's the conclusion part), House told them to kill the lights and he then saw the worms, which is pretty much just checking the outward symptoms, in the dark. If I were such a good "expert", I'd have spent on a better and more thorough system to check the patient from the outside. Like with all that money for biopsy stuff you can't afford a better checkup routine and save biopsy money?
Also if this department is so rare it should be a "last resort" expensive deal rather than a "ship your child in simply because he's screaming" deal, unless the kid's parents are so loaded they can afford this "one in a million" guy.
Or, he's so delusional about rare disease that he's the "last resort" and is just no fee guy, which negates my previous statement about him being rich as well as your point of him being so great. It does beg the question why he's in the hospital then but who knows maybe they like having him.
No arguments on 2 and 3 though they make sense.
@@cake6377 If you've got pain in your hand, they won't be checking your foot. A complete, full body workup would probably turn up stuff that's irrelevant to the current case, as there's often minor issues here and there. They'd then spend more time and money following those other symptoms that might not be related in the slightest.
House also has his pick of cases that come in to the hospital, after the regular doctors have checked likely culprits. It's very rare that House gets forced to take a patient, unless Cuddy (House's boss) twists his arm. House takes the cases he finds most interesting and has his team work on it.
In the show, House also has a track record of diagnosing things that no one else diagnoses so there is viable reason for his department.
Also. It's a show...
Also, you not having seen said show does explain your thoughts and comments.
If you are familiar with Sherlock Holmes, then the show makes complete sense, since House is literally based off Holmes, and Wilson is based off John. It is meant to be exactly like this to emulate the detective stories.
@@cake6377 Noone said that the medicine used in the show is 100% accurate. Actually there is always something made up or that doesn't make sense every episode, but if the show was medically accurate, it would be boring. For example, most if not all of houses patients deteriorate to a point of near death in the spawn of one episode, or the spawn of 1 day to a week within the show, which in most cases is not accurate to real life.
Also, House's department is indeed a last resort department. Rarely, if not never, someone makes it to House without watching other doctors first. By the time they make it to House, all common causes have been discarded.
You should watch the show, it's very vvery entertaining.
Never watched the show, but I can tell you what is wrong with 2; doctors are not supposed to break into people's houses for any reason. They are not the police, nor do they have permission from the owners to enter their home. That, and hospitals do not have time to send people out like this. By all accounts, this is breaking and entering - that is a crime if you did not know (read: sarcasm).
3 just sounds like a huge staff issue, regardless of how brilliant he is. I could be wrong since I have never seen the show though.
As a person with severe emetaphobia I REALLY appreciate the vomit warning. Thank you so much!
Whats emetaphobia?
@@Xarsoajin fear of vomiting
@@imsocringeandidocringestuf7301 ok thank you •>•
9:46
*show shows worms*
*alligator hissing sound*
ah yes, that's what worms sound like
Worms sound like
@@TemnotaVoronya1243 exactly
I think that you cut the most interesting parts of the episode. House being able to reach this kid, communicating with him in ways that the parents never saw and in the end the kid giving House his gaming system as a thank you, and that giving the parents hope for the first time in the future of their kid were for me the most important aspects of the episode.
PS - Also House saying that he envied the kid was quite interesting.
@Oliver's 50th Account it's canon that House has ASPD (antisocial personality disorder), but that doesn't rule out autism. maybe!
there is a whole another show about an autistic doctor though! "the good doctor", with the same writer/showrunner
That line House said hit me SO HARD when I watched it for the first time. It stayed with me for MONTHS. Almost 20 years later I discovered I'm myself autistic.
@Oliver's 50th Account Not by the creators that I recall, but it has been brought up by a few characters in show that say they think it's possible he is. Usually not when he's around to overhear them.
For anyone interested in the medical side of this video :
In the case of Baylisascaris procyonis, raccoons, but not humans, are the definitive hosts. Humans only get accidentally infected by the parasite's eggs, and are therefore called dead-end hosts. Upon ingestion, the larvae migrate into the tissues and cause what we call a "visceral larva migrans", damaging organs including the liver, the heart and in this case, the eyes as well. Other parasites that are associated with a VLM are Toxocara (dog and feline roundworms).
However, without a proper tissue examination, it is practically impossible to distinguish between similar parasites (like Ascaris and Toxocara), so that's what I might have issue with.
(we used to study this in parasitology back in med school)
I literally was scrolling the comments to see if anyone knew the parasitology behind it!! I am so happy to see your post (thank you)! and you explained it so well! The second they talked about sandbox I was like PARASITES!! But I found it interesting that he narrowed it down to Baylisascaris because typically this has CNS symptoms in Aberrant hosts. Where as Toxocara cati is more commonly associated with ocular issues and is more common zoonosis. Both of which wouldnt shed eggs in the aberrant host. I was like if they were vets they would have figured it out right away! (currently in vet school and we have to know about sooo many parasites and which are zoonotic).
Drugs are still the same for any of the vlm causing worms - albendazole
To be fair, when House gets a patient, it's usually because everyone else failed to find what's going on. So what's left? Oh, hello weird and obscure tests nobody ever think about! Totally ludicrous most of the time, but makes a great show for sure! 🤣
love the vomit warnings, something you don't often see in reaction channels, and with lots of warning too
As somebody with ASD, this was painful to watch. Why wouldn't they sedate the kid? The reason they gave in the show for not doing it isn't even a thing, making me believe it was purely for the drama of having the kid scream and thrash around. I'm sick of ASD being used in shows like these, just to add some extra drama.
Not sedating the child for that is just a bunch of excessive trauma the poor boy has to go through.
House does stuff like that all the time. He is a good TV doctor, not a good IRL doctor haha.
Only thing I can think, is that it was because they were doing a lung perfusion/ventilation scan, and perhaps sedating the child will suppress his lung function and not give accurate results? I am a radiology tech, but not a nuc med tech, so if there are any here, maybe they know the answer
Yep, OP is right that it was clearly done for the sake of drama, and I hate it too.
As a person with an irrational fear of seeing someone else throw up, I’d like to thank your editor for the warning!
Agree!
Same!
Exactly! And seeing so many comments with my same phobia is really comforting, most people dont understand why I react in such a way sometimes just for even thinking about vomit and seeing here that there's lots of people with my same phobia that understand me feels great. Thanks to the editor and/or to Mike.
This is horrifying... mainly because I'm always terrified of getting stuff in my eyes. BUT...
I would just like to say I am so so so so so grateful to Dr. Mike for the vomit warning. I have emetyphobia so I absolutely LOVE that they added the warning in there. 10/10, best UA-camr EVER
SAME
As someone on the spectrum (ASD formally known as Asperger’s syndrome) may I say a Huge thanks for taking the time to not only explain some of the more challenging aspects of the spectrum but also some of the quite beneficial parts (when utilised correctly) of being on the spectrum as soo many have the stereotype that we’re either weird antisocial almost sociopathic nerds or just plain dumb and most of us are neither. Also yep I flinched at this episode but not because of any of the ‘gross stuff’ but out of empathy for the kid during his breakdowns caused by overstimulation via the different procedures… even if you can’t sedate him (can’t see why not but hey ho) at least talk him through it in a gentle and simple manner, it may not stop the over stimulation but will at least reduce the trauma afterwards, after he may not talk but he clearly understands what’s being said when he’s calm.
That is 100% wrong. View a disease like something that is just like "neurodivergent" making it desirable cannot be right.
I know Dr. Mike doesn't necessarily love House M.D. because of the inaccuracies,
but I gotta say, watching these episodes really seems to get him thinking a lot more critically.
I have an irrational fear of something like this in my eye or in my ears so this was crazy. Also breaking into the house and testing literally everything over a scream is wild 😭😭
Well, they call him "House" MD for a reason
@@NadaStuff Dr. Trespasser lol
Mike's reaction is so funny! Dr. House will be pissed！
麥克的反應太好笑了啦！豪斯醫生會生氣氣！👍😆👌
I really appreciated the vomit warning. I have emetaphobia and wish more UA-camrs did this
Ongoing petition to have Dr. Mike react to Grey’s Anatomy season 6, ep 6, “I Saw What I Saw”. It’s a medical whodunnit mystery, lots of medical stuff, good (realistic) drama but not overpowering the medicine, and a TON of medical talking points. It’s one of the most underrated episodes of Grey’s and one of my absolute favourites.
I love how House triggers real doctors, just like he does in the show 😂
As someone who is potentially autistic (never officially diagnosed) but at a minimum knows I have both sensory and auditory processing disorders (the two most common cooccurring disorders amongst autistics) sensory issues are no joke and trying to communicate effectively when my brain won’t cooperate is very frustrating so I can only imagine what it’s like for those more severely effected than me like this kid is.
its so hard. whenever i start getting overloaded i go completely nonverbal, and sometimes fully non-comunicative (so i cant write, nod my head, anything) and its so hard to do anything to fix the issue when ur basically frozen in place
i’m autistic and i wasn’t diagnosed till less than a year ago and we honestly thought i had selective mutism but nope sometimes it’s just hard to talk so than you for spreading the info about people with asd sometimes being unable to speak
Worm's in the eye's are terrifying but what's the most surprising terrifying is that Doctors Mike always gives us a real way of how proper diagnosis on a real patient in real life than in House MD series 🥶🥶👨⚕️👨⚕️👨⚕️
This is both exactly what I want as a disabled person (to be believed even when the symptoms are weird or ambiguous) and the exact opposite of what I want (to be restrained, have expensive tests run on me without my consent, and to have my communication attempts overlooked)
There were at least two symptoms, screaming and drawing squiggly lines. They haven't been told about the squiggly lines yet. You could say three symptoms, feeling like he's choking without having an obstruction.
Also, I'd assume that if a child choked briefly and screamed really loudly after that fact, it just means the child was hella spooked? Like won't you try to comfort the child when they do that?
i grew up with undiagnosed autism, i was diagnosed when i was 19. autistic children are so much more likely to experience medical trauma like this kid in the video experience. i’ve witnessed it first hand and know a lot of other autistics who experience the same. doctors are unfortunately more willing to disregard my comfort because of my autistic traits. this is especially prevalent in autistic girls.
2:32 - Funny story: I was brought to the ER for an ulcerated wound on my ankle, which had swollen to about twice its normal size. I'm a type 1 diabetic since the age of seven and hospitalized numerous times. So when the nurse asked what brought me to the ER, I joked, "I'm hoping you have a vet on staff to put me down."
In all seriousness, she replied, "You're in luck. The physician on call is also a veterinarian." AND HE WAS!
3:17 "Do they just break into people's houses all the time?"
Yes, they do! Almost every episode!
"dads depressed" that makes sense as to why the kid screamed,,, totally
The depression explains the way the father was acting. "If he wants it, he can ask for it," despite the fact that the child actually can't ask for it. I saw pretty much the same thing from my brother in law when he really wasn't doing well. His judgement was impaired and the way he'd manage his kids was... sup-bar, let's say. In a situation like this, I'd almost ignore the father's comments, unless they really appeared constructive, as they'd be heavily tainted by his mental state.
@@Howdidyouknow04 If your child has PICA, is non verbal and a lot of sensory issues that they cannot communicate, it is very stressful and isolating. Thus, it can lead to depression. It is not ableist. It is a progression of events.
8:36 New Fear Unlocked.
I am physically and mentally cringing
I am so with you dr mike! my son is autistic, and needed an MRI when he was 5 for seizures. they didnt sedate him prior, they used a mask of nitr. AT the machine!! he was terrified, it took 4 nurses and myself to hold him down and force the mask on him, and i had to hold my screaming child down whie his body went limp, it was traumatizing for both of us, and i will NEVER let them do anything like that again. ALL further imaging testing I demanding they sedate him PRIOR to going into the machine.
I'm autistic and I have ADD. I frequently forget to tell my doctors symptoms, including vitally important ones, and I don't remember which ones I already told them about, so I end up just repeating ones that they already know about. I also don't talk about any symptoms that they don't ask about, but they only ask about "new symptoms since your last visit," or, in the case of June 2020 when I was was brought in an ambulance (don't remember if I went to the ER or urgent care), "new symptoms within the past 24 hours." At the time, the only new symptoms were intense abdominal pain that caused me to double over and unable to do anything but scream (lactose intolerance paired with constipation), being unable to stand, numbness in my arms below the elbow, in my legs below the knee, and in my face, and atrial fibrillation lasting longer than a couple minutes. Not once did they ask if I had experienced heart flutters before, and I, not knowing what exactly constipation was, never knew I was frequently constipated. By that point, I had actually been experiencing frequent heart flutters for over a decade, but usually lasting only a few seconds to a couple minutes at a time.
My problem is always that they ask me how I'm doing, when my baseline in life is basically 'tired and overwhelmed', or they'll ask me if I've been sleeping well and my answer is 'I never sleep well'. Their questions are always so vague to me, like, I don't know what 'normal' is, so you can't just ask me an open question like that 🙃 and over here you get about five minutes max with your dr, so it's really difficult to get a point across when you have to really go into detail to explain what is going on 😩
What ADD stands for ?
@@oceaneo4603 ADD is an outdated term for ADHD without the hyperactivity, its now called ADHD-inattentive type. but some people still call it ADD to make it easier for others to tell the types apart
ADD stands for attention deficit disorder.
im 27 and i only learned i have autism last year!
Fun fact, some years ago a doctor could discover what was wrong with his patient thanks to an episode of this show!
3:43, you can see the veins in Dr. Mike's neck as he speaks. This isn't a joke. This is a cry for help.
Yes, they're always breaking into people's houses lol! House is really not known for his ethics.
Also, someone already said this in one of your House MD videos, but apparently House watches and reads about animals, so even though it is absurd that he would remember such a thing about racoon poop, his knowledge about animals does not come from thin air out of nowhere
House is inspired by Sherlock Holmes (House=Holmes, Watson=Wilson) so it makes sense the story usually goes a more investigative route than a medical route.
Its basically a mystery to find out what the patient did to get sick which usually connects to their personality or lifestyle.
Breaking into and searching the homes of the patients while obviously insane is a good way to get a glimpse into their habits etc. and allows the main characters to share their opinions on the usually extraordinary patients to build their characters aswell.
And obviously a big theme is everyone lying so House has to get it out of them or deduce it without them just telling him.
This is important to remember. In addition to the team never dealing with run of the mill medical issues, they also deal with things differently because House is more interested in the puzzle than anything. It's why it's a recurring observation about him over the course of the show.
the autism positivity in this video was exactly what I needed this sunday morning! thank you , Doctor Mike, for being so wholesome!!!
Watching House MD is almost like comfort food to me. Even hearing the closing quote “That’s some bad hat, Harry!” Great show⭐️
As a low impacted ASD person, thanks for being so considerate in description of my community. Memorization is stellar with my autism, I love medical science as I am doing a mid life career change toward being a dietitian. I love nutrition too. And the Only pre med class, I did not get an A in was Anatomy and physiology but I did get Bs. So you are right some of us are smart, but that does take hardworking for us too. :)
I remember watching this episode when I was younger, and being an autistic child myself, I found the way they treated him upsetting to the point where I couldn't finish.