If anyone with autism would like to be interviewed for a video please let me know. I feel as if it is fair to hear from the perspective of someone with ASD! Sorry for the misinformation and some of the outdated comments. It was not my intention to hurt anyone ❤
It is possible to have aphantasia and autism. I personally believe that having both might reduce some of the sensory overload that can happen with people with autism as there is no internal sensory input.
As an autistic person who is curious about inner experiences and ways of thinking, I have found that autistic people describe as diverse and individual experiences of thinking as non-autistics.
Very true, thank you. I am disappointed in the Doc’s lack of knowledge and understanding of autism and moreover, that of Autistic people themselves. Before this, I had enjoyed and watched with fascination the analysis of the inner monologue study. If you’ve met one Autistic person, you’ve met one Autistic person.
@@tracik1277 Please read the disclaimer 0:01 He doesn’t claim to “know” everyone’s experience, he only speaks about the specific people with ASD, who took part in his studies. And you can’t denounce his findings because those were true to the subjects experience! Besides, it’s really immature to diminish your all around experience on this channel, just because you would have liked a different outcome in a video…
@@soude85 He's free to be/feel disappointed. It's not like you're only allowed to state positive thoughts or only express your feelings if they're not negative. Nobody's hurt or offended by someone stating how they feel (about something) and if that were to be the case, then the hurt or offended person has issues or is what I would see and describe as weak.
I am on the spectrum. I have an internal monolog and I'm strongly visual. I also have a really, really low pain tolerance. This gentleman is generalising on a few cases he met and talks like he knows it all. Yes, I know, the disclaimer. This doesn't change the fact that he as a professional should be careful about how he expresses himself to avoid spreading missinformation. I also want to say that I really enjoy your chanal and like your couriosity! This just needed to be said.
AMEN. He should only say that Autistic minds can be a different a any other population! My son in the spectrum has an inner monologue, thinks in pictures, *and* in musical structures.
I was diagnosed with autism (back then PDD-NOS) at the age of 6 and I definitely cannot attest to the visual only part in the slightest. However I can picture objects in great detail and filter out specific things, such as the skin of a vehicle or certain rotating or otherwise moving parts. Say when I'm visualizing something I want to make, following monologue for coming up with a plan and criteria and such, I evaluate it with monologue. After that I make changes visually while simultaneously talking in my head, basically as if I'm holding the object and modifying it in real time. Also when say driving or shooting, I can have certain steps in my head as both pictures and monologue. However when talking to the person next to me, I see the steps as just pictures. Alternatively I can be more focused on what I'm seeing and the visual thoughts lessen or completely disappear, though while driving it's handy to without effort picture basically a Helmet Mounted Display or a map of the city with my position and destination. Lastly, on a different note, I also have that I can tell you what aircraft or gun you're looking at by just seeing a detail. I memorize hundreds of them in detail, in case of aircraft I even suspect over a thousand. Once I've seen and heard a type in real life, the audio files go into the folder as well, so to speak.
I for one as an autistic person do experience pain. At the same time I can't visualize images in my mind. As long as I can remember, I have a low tolerance to heat. I can't stand it. It is very fascinating to learn how other autistic people experience life in their own way.
not the “mild autism”.. doesn’t matter if he’s speaking on one experience, it’s a red flag if a professional still uses the terms “mild” or “asperger’s” or “low/high functioning”. i understand you wanting to learn more about autistic people and their experiences with inner monologues and lack thereof, but maybe next time pick someone a little more updated with studies :) or ask autistic people, which is even better, if you haven’t already. also, my social skills suck because i feel like i don’t act “properly” like how others do, and it makes me nervous that people will think i’m a weirdo for not smiling enough. or because i deal with a lot of anxiety and it takes so much energy trying to force myself to fit in with others and spend the energy masking. lastly, i have a crazy vivid imagination, and i have a lot of detailed dreams. i actually didn’t know some autistic people lack internal monologues, so that was interesting to hear.
No, autistic people can have very detailed internal monologue, if their cognitive way of expressing their thoughts and feelings are more literate than visual.
In my experience and being in autistic communities over the years, it seems like an incredibly high pain tolerance isn't terribly uncommon with us. There is so much other stuff going on in our heads that we don't have time to pay attention to it. Or you get the opposite where it's a sensory overload issue and even mild pains end up being too much for the person. It just depends on the individual.
Some of this anecdotal summary is positively dangerous for it suggests Autistic people cannot feel pain. I’m not saying he did not witness this one particular person’s experience (although I’m rather horrified to hear he put his hands on the subject in an attempt to cause pain) but this is a terrible thing to suggest. It adds fuel to the fire for those who believe Autistic people are less than human. Personally I can attest that I feel pain intensely and many others of us have very high physical sensitivity. With respect, the Doc needs to bone up on current information about autism and come out of the Dark Ages.
@@tracik1277 Yes, you can definitely give further information but there is no need to attack the credibility of his findings in such a rude manner! It’s understandable that you may feel offended by some of the methods or language used in earlier studies but we can’t turn back time, it is what it is. Lastly, Dr. Hurlburt has worked passionately in his field for 50 years and his studies are very valuable! Hence, it would be nice if you could voice your critique in a slightly more respectful manner.
@@Rlangdon7it still doesn't justify the video's caption on "how autistic people think" because as much as I love this psychologist in his other interview about internal monologue, he is not addressing what makes an autistic spectrum, but rather his assumption on his brief observation, and then go on a popular channel to speak in a generalised way about autistic people that makes them sounds excluded from the human experience. People within the autistic spectrum are a minority group that has already been invalided (disabled or even bullied and harmed) by the general public, a group that he is not a part of. Both him and this channel should have been more sensitive toward a minority group that has already been invalided (disabled or even bullied and harmed) by the general public, hence why it is called a "disability", it is a group that he is not a part of.
So, if you don't see (or hear) a thought inside your mind, how do you perceive it? Can you create a thought without audio / visualizing it at all? (I'm a visual artist and musician, so find this very interesting.)
I’ve only just learned that people hear their own voices throughout the day as their “thoughts”. This, to me, sounds so SCARY! Lol. I couldn’t imagine hearing my own voice.. in my head?! How do you know it’s your voice also? I’m on the spectrum. I don’t always see or hear. Sometimes the thought just appears and I receive it. It just occurs lol. I’ve had split second thoughts occur… I find that this was one of the reasons why I sometimes did or said things before a second thought. 😮
@@adami4664 As someone who does experience internal monologues, I am equally surprised that there are those who don't hear voices in their head. In my experiences, having internal monologues doesn't always mean that I hear my voice... I can't really describe it but when I am reading, in my head I hear a neutral-ish voice with voice inflections following the grammar and punctuation of the sentences I am reading, and it's the same if I think aloud. Sometimes if I try really hard, I can also make up other voices in my head and have diverse conversations in my mind. This said, I'm curious about how it's like for you when reading any text. Of course, you are totally not obliged to answer, but really, how do you read if you don't hear the words speaking in your head?
@@adami4664 also autistic here. I, too, had a hard time believing most people are hearing a "voice" in their head. 😂 Yet here we are. I think strongly visually, but also sometimes without words/image (it's quicker that way). And I absolutely do feel pain.
@@abckidscroblox I love the answer and then the name “ABCKidsSC ROBLOX” 😂 I just read another comment, it’s true we don’t hear the voice in our head, only images appear, or the thought just appears without images. I wish I can explain.. we just receive the thought so quickly on its own sometimes. Also, so fascinating that you hear words whilst reading also! I just re-read your comment again to test. And my eyes pick up the words looool. It picks up the words silently I guess and I know whats being written. I’ve just noticed.. so for you it’s like audible being played at the same time whilst reading?!
@@adami4664 Glad you liked the name 😂 Having images appear is very interesting, I like how you describe reading as just "picking up the words", it still doesn't make much sense to me but I guess I have a better understanding of how it must be like. And to answer your question, yes, its kind of like having audible playing the words I'm reading in my head while I am looking at the words lol
Not me! I'm autistic but my mind's eye is extremely poor, bordering on aphantasia. I do have the ability to conjure up vague images, but it's more like those AI generated images where you can get the gist of it at first glance, but if you look closer nothing is quite like it should be, all the details are wrong. I used to draw a lot when I was younger, up to my early 20's, and I was pretty good at it. I could look at something and copy it. Not picture perfect, but I could make a good looking drawing. A lot of people thought it was something I'd do with my life. However, I have *zero* ability to draw an image from my head. None. I could never just sit down and draw without having a reference, I needed something to work off of, and I couldn't deviate from it. I could never get people to understand that (also the fact that I could only do it when I was in the mood, it didn't work otherwise). The constant pestering to get me to to draw things for them made me eventually give it up altogether. At this point it's been twenty years or more since I've drawn anything. What takes up so much space in my head is my internal monologue, not visualizations. It's incessant and never lets me be.
This psychologist's assumption might be ableist and invalidating to autistic individuals, because he is defining a person's experience of the world based on their cognitive abilities. The autistic spectrum is defined by how you receive and experience information (multiple dimensions of one focused detail with strong sensory experience). How you express your thinking (referencing the interview you did with this psychologist about internal monologue) is a cognitive strategy to make sense of these information, however much and which ever way these informations had been perceived. So therefore, autistic people can be visual, monologue, etc people, because they can relate and recall sounds, words, numbers, conversations, etc to their perception of something, not just their visual memory. An autistic person might have good memory because the information they receive are translated into something sensory (like their physical body, a strong emotion, or a stimulating thought or imagery). A sensory experience can be mesmerising, therefore they can notice deeply and therefore are likely to remember what non-autistic people would not pay attention to or would forget.
its a classic, or become a tiktok legend by making vocal mouth pop make money making people ill, making money seilling pill to ill people, real ill or not, make money pretending being ill.. oh well.. at least grocery store dont sell me corpse or poison
Just by using the word "ableist," you are discriminating against those with autism; you are implying people like us are somehow less than, not as good as, disabled, a victim. I'm just as able to live and love as anyone!
as an autistic person this is honestly really upsetting. i understand that this is about personal experience but some of the things being said are extremely harmful. suggesting that autistic people cannot feel pain, using functioning labels, talking about aspergers, as a few examples are so harmful to autistic people. im autistic and literally cannot visualize anything. my thoughts are only auditory. autism isnt being overly focused on internal thoughts and ignoring social cues its not intuitively understanding them. i know this is from personal experience but professionals agreeing with and sharing “information” about asd that is objectively false is insane.
@@Rlangdon7 i really appreciate your willingness to learn and hear others voices. there is so much misinformation and speculation around asd and hearing from autistic people is one of the best sources of information. if you have any questions for me id be happy to answer!
my family wonder if i am.. extrem minimalist vegan meditation nutrition fitness. calculating 0.1 everywhere bro get a life... "but its my life to obsess with everything?" get a life of eating badly not exericsing and laughing at people that have a life as no life? im lost lol i dont understand this world. i see thier autism calling as an honor super power but its also exausting
@@VJFranzK Ye ik theres many others but I just only meet people with aspergers, I have it aswell and my dad had it and so does my brother, I dont know why ppl wouldnt call it aspergers however since thats just what it is
@@cgstudiosthebaconbroas i understand it historically, asperger’s was used as kind of an “autism-lite,” if that makes sense. to describe someone as being on the spectrum but still “normal” and it was treated as more acceptable than other forms. it’s similar to how terms like “high/low functioning” are falling out of style. since every person on the spectrum is different, some people find those terms to be limiting and that you should address each person’s needs directly. an example i’ve seen is people assuming that anyone who’s “high-functioning” doesn’t experience sensory overload or won’t have meltdowns, although those aren’t symptoms specific to autism anyway. another example is labelling all nonverbal autistic n people as “low functioning,” when in reality there are many nonverbal folks who can take care of themselves and communicate in other ways. hope this helps :) i’m not in the spectrum, but i was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult after having it ignored as a child, and i spent a lot of time researching both neurodivergences while waiting for my official diagnosis.
@@cgstudiosthebaconbrobecause the term asperger’s came from a nazi who would, uh, discard people who didn’t function well enough for his standards. it’s literally just autism, asperger’s is no different, just comes from horrible roots. and there’s no high or low functioning autism because it’s a circular spectrum and every autistic person struggles in some areas and do better in some, and it’s different for us all. instead we separate it as types of support needs. i don’t need many accommodations or support but i definitely do need some on my not so good days. some autistic people need many supports.
If anyone with autism would like to be interviewed for a video please let me know. I feel as if it is fair to hear from the perspective of someone with ASD! Sorry for the misinformation and some of the outdated comments. It was not my intention to hurt anyone ❤
What do interviews entail?
How long and what if you wanted to answer questions but stay anonymous
@@sweathogstickerpicker just talking and answering questions about living with autism
It is possible to have aphantasia and autism. I personally believe that having both might reduce some of the sensory overload that can happen with people with autism as there is no internal sensory input.
I have dyslexia apparently 🤷♂️could that be useful for you?
As an autistic person who is curious about inner experiences and ways of thinking, I have found that autistic people describe as diverse and individual experiences of thinking as non-autistics.
Very true, thank you. I am disappointed in the Doc’s lack of knowledge and understanding of autism and moreover, that of Autistic people themselves. Before this, I had enjoyed and watched with fascination the analysis of the inner monologue study. If you’ve met one Autistic person, you’ve met one Autistic person.
@@tracik1277 Please read the disclaimer 0:01 He doesn’t claim to “know” everyone’s experience, he only speaks about the specific people with ASD, who took part in his studies. And you can’t denounce his findings because those were true to the subjects experience!
Besides, it’s really immature to diminish your all around experience on this channel, just because you would have liked a different outcome in a video…
@@soude85 He's free to be/feel disappointed. It's not like you're only allowed to state positive thoughts or only express your feelings if they're not negative. Nobody's hurt or offended by someone stating how they feel (about something) and if that were to be the case, then the hurt or offended person has issues or is what I would see and describe as weak.
Please see my pinned comment
@@alaskanbas6507 thanks for that 👍
I am on the spectrum. I have an internal monolog and I'm strongly visual. I also have a really, really low pain tolerance.
This gentleman is generalising on a few cases he met and talks like he knows it all.
Yes, I know, the disclaimer. This doesn't change the fact that he as a professional should be careful about how he expresses himself to avoid spreading missinformation.
I also want to say that I really enjoy your chanal and like your couriosity! This just needed to be said.
AMEN. He should only say that Autistic minds can be a different a any other population! My son in the spectrum has an inner monologue, thinks in pictures, *and* in musical structures.
I was diagnosed with autism (back then PDD-NOS) at the age of 6 and I definitely cannot attest to the visual only part in the slightest. However I can picture objects in great detail and filter out specific things, such as the skin of a vehicle or certain rotating or otherwise moving parts. Say when I'm visualizing something I want to make, following monologue for coming up with a plan and criteria and such, I evaluate it with monologue. After that I make changes visually while simultaneously talking in my head, basically as if I'm holding the object and modifying it in real time. Also when say driving or shooting, I can have certain steps in my head as both pictures and monologue. However when talking to the person next to me, I see the steps as just pictures. Alternatively I can be more focused on what I'm seeing and the visual thoughts lessen or completely disappear, though while driving it's handy to without effort picture basically a Helmet Mounted Display or a map of the city with my position and destination. Lastly, on a different note, I also have that I can tell you what aircraft or gun you're looking at by just seeing a detail. I memorize hundreds of them in detail, in case of aircraft I even suspect over a thousand. Once I've seen and heard a type in real life, the audio files go into the folder as well, so to speak.
Please see my pinned comment
I for one as an autistic person do experience pain. At the same time I can't visualize images in my mind. As long as I can remember, I have a low tolerance to heat. I can't stand it. It is very fascinating to learn how other autistic people experience life in their own way.
not the “mild autism”.. doesn’t matter if he’s speaking on one experience, it’s a red flag if a professional still uses the terms “mild” or “asperger’s” or “low/high functioning”. i understand you wanting to learn more about autistic people and their experiences with inner monologues and lack thereof, but maybe next time pick someone a little more updated with studies :) or ask autistic people, which is even better, if you haven’t already.
also, my social skills suck because i feel like i don’t act “properly” like how others do, and it makes me nervous that people will think i’m a weirdo for not smiling enough. or because i deal with a lot of anxiety and it takes so much energy trying to force myself to fit in with others and spend the energy masking.
lastly, i have a crazy vivid imagination, and i have a lot of detailed dreams. i actually didn’t know some autistic people lack internal monologues, so that was interesting to hear.
No, autistic people can have very detailed internal monologue, if their cognitive way of expressing their thoughts and feelings are more literate than visual.
Please see my pinned comment!
This person who does not feel pain might have some other neurological problem that he needs to get help for.
In my experience and being in autistic communities over the years, it seems like an incredibly high pain tolerance isn't terribly uncommon with us. There is so much other stuff going on in our heads that we don't have time to pay attention to it. Or you get the opposite where it's a sensory overload issue and even mild pains end up being too much for the person. It just depends on the individual.
Some of this anecdotal summary is positively dangerous for it suggests Autistic people cannot feel pain. I’m not saying he did not witness this one particular person’s experience (although I’m rather horrified to hear he put his hands on the subject in an attempt to cause pain) but this is a terrible thing to suggest. It adds fuel to the fire for those who believe Autistic people are less than human. Personally I can attest that I feel pain intensely and many others of us have very high physical sensitivity. With respect, the Doc needs to bone up on current information about autism and come out of the Dark Ages.
There is a warning at the beginning of this video for that very reason.
@@Rlangdon7 Nevertheless it needs to be said.
@@tracik1277 Yes, you can definitely give further information but there is no need to attack the credibility of his findings in such a rude manner!
It’s understandable that you may feel offended by some of the methods or language used in earlier studies but we can’t turn back time, it is what it is.
Lastly, Dr. Hurlburt has worked passionately in his field for 50 years and his studies are very valuable! Hence, it would be nice if you could voice your critique in a slightly more respectful manner.
@@Rlangdon7it still doesn't justify the video's caption on "how autistic people think" because as much as I love this psychologist in his other interview about internal monologue, he is not addressing what makes an autistic spectrum, but rather his assumption on his brief observation, and then go on a popular channel to speak in a generalised way about autistic people that makes them sounds excluded from the human experience. People within the autistic spectrum are a minority group that has already been invalided (disabled or even bullied and harmed) by the general public, a group that he is not a part of. Both him and this channel should have been more sensitive toward a minority group that has already been invalided (disabled or even bullied and harmed) by the general public, hence why it is called a "disability", it is a group that he is not a part of.
@@nguyen1455 Thank, you, well put.
So, if you don't see (or hear) a thought inside your mind, how do you perceive it? Can you create a thought without audio / visualizing it at all? (I'm a visual artist and musician, so find this very interesting.)
I’ve only just learned that people hear their own voices throughout the day as their “thoughts”. This, to me, sounds so SCARY! Lol. I couldn’t imagine hearing my own voice.. in my head?! How do you know it’s your voice also?
I’m on the spectrum. I don’t always see or hear. Sometimes the thought just appears and I receive it. It just occurs lol. I’ve had split second thoughts occur… I find that this was one of the reasons why I sometimes did or said things before a second thought. 😮
@@adami4664 As someone who does experience internal monologues, I am equally surprised that there are those who don't hear voices in their head. In my experiences, having internal monologues doesn't always mean that I hear my voice... I can't really describe it but when I am reading, in my head I hear a neutral-ish voice with voice inflections following the grammar and punctuation of the sentences I am reading, and it's the same if I think aloud. Sometimes if I try really hard, I can also make up other voices in my head and have diverse conversations in my mind.
This said, I'm curious about how it's like for you when reading any text. Of course, you are totally not obliged to answer, but really, how do you read if you don't hear the words speaking in your head?
@@adami4664 also autistic here. I, too, had a hard time believing most people are hearing a "voice" in their head. 😂 Yet here we are. I think strongly visually, but also sometimes without words/image (it's quicker that way). And I absolutely do feel pain.
@@abckidscroblox I love the answer and then the name “ABCKidsSC ROBLOX” 😂
I just read another comment, it’s true we don’t hear the voice in our head, only images appear, or the thought just appears without images. I wish I can explain.. we just receive the thought so quickly on its own sometimes.
Also, so fascinating that you hear words whilst reading also! I just re-read your comment again to test. And my eyes pick up the words looool. It picks up the words silently I guess and I know whats being written.
I’ve just noticed.. so for you it’s like audible being played at the same time whilst reading?!
@@adami4664 Glad you liked the name 😂
Having images appear is very interesting, I like how you describe reading as just "picking up the words", it still doesn't make much sense to me but I guess I have a better understanding of how it must be like. And to answer your question, yes, its kind of like having audible playing the words I'm reading in my head while I am looking at the words lol
1:06 wouldn't anyone be annoyed?
Finally find this channel again 😢. I miss you bud
Not me! I'm autistic but my mind's eye is extremely poor, bordering on aphantasia. I do have the ability to conjure up vague images, but it's more like those AI generated images where you can get the gist of it at first glance, but if you look closer nothing is quite like it should be, all the details are wrong.
I used to draw a lot when I was younger, up to my early 20's, and I was pretty good at it. I could look at something and copy it. Not picture perfect, but I could make a good looking drawing. A lot of people thought it was something I'd do with my life. However, I have *zero* ability to draw an image from my head. None. I could never just sit down and draw without having a reference, I needed something to work off of, and I couldn't deviate from it. I could never get people to understand that (also the fact that I could only do it when I was in the mood, it didn't work otherwise). The constant pestering to get me to to draw things for them made me eventually give it up altogether. At this point it's been twenty years or more since I've drawn anything.
What takes up so much space in my head is my internal monologue, not visualizations. It's incessant and never lets me be.
This psychologist's assumption might be ableist and invalidating to autistic individuals, because he is defining a person's experience of the world based on their cognitive abilities. The autistic spectrum is defined by how you receive and experience information (multiple dimensions of one focused detail with strong sensory experience). How you express your thinking (referencing the interview you did with this psychologist about internal monologue) is a cognitive strategy to make sense of these information, however much and which ever way these informations had been perceived. So therefore, autistic people can be visual, monologue, etc people, because they can relate and recall sounds, words, numbers, conversations, etc to their perception of something, not just their visual memory.
An autistic person might have good memory because the information they receive are translated into something sensory (like their physical body, a strong emotion, or a stimulating thought or imagery). A sensory experience can be mesmerising, therefore they can notice deeply and therefore are likely to remember what non-autistic people would not pay attention to or would forget.
Please see my pinned comment!
its a classic, or become a tiktok legend by making vocal mouth pop
make money making people ill, making money seilling pill to ill people, real ill or not, make money pretending being ill..
oh well.. at least grocery store dont sell me corpse or poison
Just by using the word "ableist," you are discriminating against those with autism; you are implying people like us are somehow less than, not as good as, disabled, a victim.
I'm just as able to live and love as anyone!
Who is Dr Hurlbert?
I have that same visual ability to think in 3D but I had to hone it after reading how Nikola Tesla could do it.
Off-topic but jesus you're handsome. Some people are blessed.
as an autistic person this is honestly really upsetting. i understand that this is about personal experience but some of the things being said are extremely harmful. suggesting that autistic people cannot feel pain, using functioning labels, talking about aspergers, as a few examples are so harmful to autistic people. im autistic and literally cannot visualize anything. my thoughts are only auditory. autism isnt being overly focused on internal thoughts and ignoring social cues its not intuitively understanding them. i know this is from personal experience but professionals agreeing with and sharing “information” about asd that is objectively false is insane.
Please see my pinned comment
@@Rlangdon7 i really appreciate your willingness to learn and hear others voices. there is so much misinformation and speculation around asd and hearing from autistic people is one of the best sources of information. if you have any questions for me id be happy to answer!
my family wonder if i am.. extrem minimalist vegan meditation nutrition fitness. calculating 0.1 everywhere
bro get a life... "but its my life to obsess with everything?"
get a life of eating badly not exericsing and laughing at people that have a life as no life?
im lost lol
i dont understand this world. i see thier autism calling as an honor super power
but its also exausting
simple answer; we don’t
HUH??
I feel like every autistic person ive met including me has Asperger's for some reason, ive never heard of any other autism if there is others
there are a "spectrum" of many other possible kinds! (and some people prefer to not use the term Aspergers now, see other videos for why.)
@@VJFranzK Ye ik theres many others but I just only meet people with aspergers, I have it aswell and my dad had it and so does my brother, I dont know why ppl wouldnt call it aspergers however since thats just what it is
@@cgstudiosthebaconbroas i understand it historically, asperger’s was used as kind of an “autism-lite,” if that makes sense. to describe someone as being on the spectrum but still “normal” and it was treated as more acceptable than other forms. it’s similar to how terms like “high/low functioning” are falling out of style. since every person on the spectrum is different, some people find those terms to be limiting and that you should address each person’s needs directly.
an example i’ve seen is people assuming that anyone who’s “high-functioning” doesn’t experience sensory overload or won’t have meltdowns, although those aren’t symptoms specific to autism anyway. another example is labelling all nonverbal autistic n people as “low functioning,” when in reality there are many nonverbal folks who can take care of themselves and communicate in other ways.
hope this helps :) i’m not in the spectrum, but i was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult after having it ignored as a child, and i spent a lot of time researching both neurodivergences while waiting for my official diagnosis.
@@jae15. yeah it do help ty
@@cgstudiosthebaconbrobecause the term asperger’s came from a nazi who would, uh, discard people who didn’t function well enough for his standards. it’s literally just autism, asperger’s is no different, just comes from horrible roots. and there’s no high or low functioning autism because it’s a circular spectrum and every autistic person struggles in some areas and do better in some, and it’s different for us all. instead we separate it as types of support needs. i don’t need many accommodations or support but i definitely do need some on my not so good days. some autistic people need many supports.