Asmodeus is certainly up in S tier. Black templars are in C. They may act like an autistic kid raging in a debate, but outside of that one note stereotype, not much.
Im imagining a space marine in his room meditating with tracks and trains going all around along the walls of his room. I found It amusing so I wanted to share.
@@nickkorkodylas5005 To be fair they took chaos and jammed them into engines, leave it to the extremely acoustic marines to look at the embodiment of disorder and turn them into trains.
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus acoustic iron warriors as opposed to kakophonic emps children. yeah that checks out. isn't that IRONIC within and without XD
I forgot this wasn't Elder Scrolls for a second and thought: Well, organizing an empire and being obsessed with a giant mecha does sound autistic, so this means Barenziah is the bad bitch he pulled by being autistic
Okay so that wasn't just me then! Man gave me big Tism vibes, like I too am a literal son of a bitch obsessed with history and depressed as hell. Haven't gotten any visions of the future yet, but time will tell.
@Lazysupermutant don't forget idolizing your batshit insane father figure and trying to keep a bunch of crazed lunatics crammed together in an enclosed space from murdering each other The first part is especially important
Lets not forget that all the founding legions hyper fixate on something: Ultramarines: Codex Astartes Dark Angels: The fallen Alpha legion: Alpharius Iron Warriors: Autism Sons of Horus: Heresy World Eaters: Lobotomy Word Bearers: Religion Blood Angels: Sanguinius Iron hands: metal Emperors Children: Censored Space Wolves: Wolves Death guard: pain Thousand sons: magic Salamanders: fire Raven guard: Emo Night Lords: war crimes White Scars: speed
My immediate reaction: autism CAN lead to advanced paranoia, which would be incredibly useful keeping guard against chaos creatures who pop up out of seemingly nowhere Source: its me, im the challenged one
Wait, hunter gatherer societies having more autistic individuals would explain why the adversity to eye-contact is there, because animals tend to consider eye-contact a provocation
Artellus Numion was 100 acoustic. Only he listened to 3 primarchs trying to convince him that his primarch is dead. Only for him to go NUH UH NERDS VULKAN LIVESSS. than take his corpse back to Nocturne and jump into a vulcano
I live in México and i am autistic too and i like warhammer 40k but i don't know how to play the game because to me is very difficult to play but i like the miniatures
I remember a story (read on TVTropes) of a US Soldier during the War on Terror was diagnosed later to be Autistic (apparently Armed Forces aren't allowed to sign up people with physical nor learning disorders) But strangely he was put into some seriously stressful situations I.E combat & witnessed seriously horrendous stuff. Even more amazing; this soldier was able to cope with these shocking situations extremely well as he was mercilessly bullied at High-School & found that more traumatic thus was able to adjust. Bare in mind this was from a while back
Weponised autism in 40k? Seems legitimate, we do the same now. Examples: Paratroopers, Marines, everyone over the rank of sergeant, everyone under the rank of sergeant, the guy who hates showering in your barracks 'NOT SAYING NAMES YOU HAVE BEEN INFORMED WHO YOU ARE'.
On the topic of eye contact: i am aware of some autistic people that have learned to make direct eye contact to the point that allistics find it disturbing, so i wouldn't say the ability to make eye contact is a counterpoint.
I'm one of those autistics. It was drilled into me so hard throughout my life that "eye contact is important" that I have developed a stare that can, and has, legitimately unnerved crackheads. If you know, you know that's quite the accomplishment.
As a fellow autistic I definitely think you're on to something, especially if you look at the Primarchs, like there is no way you can look me straight in the face and tell me Guilliman, the Lion and Dorn aren't different types of autistics, like people joke that Dorn is the emotionless autistic, but he absolutely isn't, he's very emotional, he just doesn't show it, or doesn't know how. For example, he still sleeps with a blanket he got from the man who raised him, because it has massive sentimental value to him. Or how in one of the books, I am fairly certain there's a line from Dorn about wanting to cry because he has to ruin all the beautiful art of architecture of terra to reinforce it against the traitor armies, and how once the great crusade was all over, he wanted to be an architect, and artistic architect. My man's autistic, and honestly for me, Dorn and Guilliman are some of the most relatable characters in all of 40k
I can look you in the face and tell you they are not different types of autistics. They are in no way shape or form different types of Autistic. Holding on to sentimental things and loving the architecture that is older then you does not make a person Autistic. following your logic everyone can be autistic for having items that are sentimental, or a passion for Architecture and artwork.. so like everyone is now autistic by your own logic.
@@freed991as a diagnosed autistic person, what he said makes a lot of sense. At least to me. There's definitely different "flavours" of autism. If you are autistic and know other autistic people, you'll probably know what I mean.
Pretty sure that Guilliman is meant to be neurotypical, or at least as neurotypical as a superhumanly intelligent demigod can be. In the new Lion book, the Lion compares himself to Guilliman and it definitely sounds like he's comparing things like his own autistic hyperfocus with Guilliman's effortless multitasking.
As an Autistic,yes. I can genuienly see The Emperor taking certain Autistic traits when making Space Marines and cranking them up to 11. I see a lot of my own traits in The Iron Warriors Legion for example and some of my friends say I'd make an ideal Iron Warrior with my mindset
Agreed, for instance I've heard three different things brought up as autistic traits: Emotional intensity Emotional faintness Emotions lasting shorter than normal in autistic people Relatively faint emotions that are easily let go of are a good trait to have in a purpose-bred shock trooper.
Wait a second is the Emperor Autistic? From what I can gather reading the books he is capable of understanding or picking up human Emotions and even mimic them, but is unable to translate them in a way where he can truly actually be considerate of most human Emotions. He understands humanity and how people think and even capable of even sympathizing just a bit from what we see, but isn't capable of actually translating or even finding it hard to care for long just due to the fact his age and what he is won't let him care. How he had Come to *Eventually* love his sons who when you actually break it down are straight up just warp mimicking, monstrosities that wear skin suits *(which explains why the Emperor displayed emotion for everyone but them till later on)* tells us he had been able care once which also tells us he wasn't scheming on galactic domination at the age of 6 and likely was born, grew and lived like the rest of the farming peasentry at the time, only differents being he couldn't die. Which is why his such an Ass most of the time and modeled the imperium after imperial Rome. His just the text book defenetion of a boomer which explains a lot 😂 though he was likely born with autistic traits, they had just likely amplified as he begun to age with him going full on coocoo and fully drowning in his own sauce after living through multiple apocalyptic events caused by humanity. Which explains why despite wanting to protect them finds it hard to care about normal humans, can't say I blame him to much to be honest😅
Yea, something engineered. Like maybe a dash of Autism, a bit of ADHD, and a healthy dose of Psychopathy as a base. I think Humanity experienced many episodes of unrestricted scientific experiments on humans. We understood the body, brain and mind much more during the Golden Age. Unfortunately, i dont believe all of that knowledge was gained ethically.
I mean space marines arr heavily mind altered during the creation process. It's not entirely a cultural thing, I'm sure there is a physiological component as well
@@riddell26 that is completely untrue. i don't intend to offend you, but it is fairly clear you do not work in research. the amount of ethical oversight that is prerequisite in even the most inconsequential medical studies is maddening. i understand that it is necessary to be this stringent, as a lot is on the line, but its extreme to a point were we sometimes spend entire months just remodeling the smallest of details of just how we inform prospective patients for a study. i can't speak for the entire world, but the ethical standards of the little corner i inhabit are strict, and our region is one of the top providers of neurological research in the world.
It's part of their hypnoconditioning isn't it? Know no fear, follow your orders, observe your surroundings. They become something that only other battle brothers can understand.
for most of them it's probably that. I'm guessing that at least a few are actually autistic as well but given how they're also in conditions that make it really hard to tell if it's actually conditioning or not, most people don't know.
@@sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046it's called sex, something most space marines (and space marines fans) will never experience due to their severe case of autism.
I recall in Horus Rising, Loken referring to polishing his armour with lapping powder as an activity he found "soothing", so yeah, repetitive action = soothing.
Yeah as someone who has Asperger’s I actually found myself able to empathize and relate to the space marine characters in some of the dialogue and relationships that they have because it feels very much how I end up interacting with people around me.
Huh im autistic i never heard of the autistic pain resistance although i guess that explains the time i got hit by a car and just stood back up and started walking
I love the idea of an ultramarine having a model train set and making sure it runs efficiently. With little cargo crates and people who need there deliveries on time.
"They shall be my most autistic warriors, in very specific interests shall i clad them and with the mightiest fidgets they will be armed. They shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe (normie) shall best them in battle." I cant keep writing this garbage but hope someone laughs at it
As a Vet hearing all of this and watching the entire video subscribing and giving a like. I realized that the Army gave me Autism because the symptoms started once I was in. The sorting, the polishing of items, cleaning, solitary activities, especially the trains. I went crazy for trains to the point I planned an Amtrak from Texas to Chicago. I even used to be able too read instructions and now i am a visual learner.
“Malcador! I will make the perfect transhuman super soldier. They will be 11ft tall, and have the best augments I can install in a human body. I will give them the finest armor and the most terrible of weapons.” “Why would those weapons be my lord?” “I will make them autistic.”
I was just chilling and then "are space marines autistic?" Pops up in my recommended by the throne that was hilarious especially when you consider the fact that I'm actually autistic myself
As an autistic person myself I can definitely see how being autistic could be extremely beneficial for space Marines. Just speaking from personal experience I perform my best when I restrict myself from doing other things and super focus on to one thing for extended period of time and the longer I focus the more momentum I build and the better I do. Space Marines have a very restricted life style so I would imagine they have a lot of this momentum on their side. It's also much easier and more enjoyable for me to do things in my cone of interest so assuming that space Marines have war in their cone of interest I could see how this could really help space Marines do their job.
As someone with ASD, you hit the jackpot, explained it coherently and respectfully, not generalizing and using very common traits, yet still mentioning how it’s a spectrum Also, the way you narrate these videos is super inspiring, it never felt boring and it kept my attention all the time, this felt like another one of your shorts, but here I am, 20 minutes later lmao, good job!
I think it has less to do with the medical autism, more to do with how space marines are raised. they don't get proper socialization most of the time because they grow up with the chapter from a young age, as well as all the brainwashing space marines go through as well, it makes most space marines not the best conversationalists. however, traits such as being able to be hyper aware, efficient, and understanding of engineering and complex tactics are something they are schooled in deeply. because of all this space marine social circles are much different then baseline humans. space marines might casually discuss the preferred way to fight different enemies and different tactics the same way normal people might talk about the weather or relationship drama simply because thats how their life and childhood is.
I'd be very careful about ascribing neurodivergent traits to "it being useful back in our hunter-gatherer days". Cause a Lot of evo-psych analyses in that vein can quickly turn into just-so stories where people basically start with a bunch of assumptions on how evolutionary psychology is "supposed" to work, and then start working backwards trying to fit any neurodivergent behaviour into that model. UA-camr Münecat made a pretty good video about it a couple months ago if you're interested
ADHD make hunterers and gatherers go *brrrrrrr* (My family has a lot of hunters in it. All of them with ADHD are significantly better at it. This is anecdotal data that hints towards ADHD being advantageous in history)
I think the Wolves, Salemander, and White Scars are supposed to be the "Big Brother" strain of space marine... Mature and well-rounded to act as a role-model for other marines and even baseline human.
“Trains travel on a set schedule unless you’re in Germany” I did NOT see that jab at DB coming in a video about space marines, but it did make me laugh out loud in the middle of the street.
I’m autistic and scarcasm as a defense mechanism as I don’t know the proper way to interact. I have class 1 autism. But salamader white scars and black dragons can easily get along with humans. Like the book about salamander helping a child find her teddy bear.
The pain resistance thing is real. I’ve had commercial grade ceiling lights fall on me and I get back up like it’s nothing. And then I’ve had walls and other things fall on me just because my job was in construction, and it was nothing slight inconvenience at most.
I crashed with my motorcycle and had a stress fracture on T11 in my spine. The day after at the hospital I was up walking, and I had been given just a minimum of morphine, because it f's up my stomach. They'd never seen that at the hospital before. Most people stay in bed for three days at least, and take as much anesthetics as they possibly can, they said.
I am diagnosed Autistic, as well as a Boxer. Boxing is my soul interest, and my free time is spent shadowboxing and watching 12-15rd fights on repeat and frame by frame, or memorizing every Boxing history fact and date available lol I have nearly no friends outside of Boxing. My wife and daughter Box. My brother is my main sparring partner and introduced me to Warhammer 40K. He is also Autistic and plays Imperial Fists lol I also have greatly reduced pain and disproportionate autism strength. I have to hold back completely in sparring and still unintentionally injure people unless it's extremely light contact. I've had multiple surgeries without anesthesia because it doesn't work on me in safe doses. I learned socialization out of necessity and enjoy speaking with people about subjects that interest them and hearing about peoples passions and troubles. I was very large for my age and was routinely beaten by adults and teenagers as a child. I was bigger than nearly all of them by 12yrs old. I like the intricacies of 40K lore, and it's parallels with reality. It makes you appreciate how good things are and realize how much worse they could be lol I enjoy learning about every faction and lean towards Salamanders for their desire to remain human and Black Templars because they are far more human and less fanatic than in the memes, and because they waste no time in seeking out the traitors and enemies of Mankind.
As someone with diagnosed Autism, I can confirm that the Iron Warriors, Imperial Fists, and Iron hands are Autistic, and at that, they are also my favorite Legions. Edit: Thanks for all the likes! Iron without, iron without.
I don't think the Iron Hands are necessarily autistic, they just hate being human because they see robotics and computers as superior to organic bodies and brains, which they are.
1:13 They still are, depending on the autism in question. I have it and have been able to circumvent or correct pretty much all of the social drawbacks by decades of careful observation and self-adjustment, especially during middle school and high school. I'm actually very happy with my autism, as it gives me several advantages in a wide variety of fields. There are still a few drawbacks I haven't been able to fully correct (though they are accounted for), such as it being very hard, at times, to start or stop doing things (especially if said things are social in nature and not a part of my routine) and my perfectionist tendencies can sometimes get the best of me (I can spend literal hours on a single YT comment, among other issues), but I'm rather proud of the capabilities I have that few of my peers can match (sometimes as a direct result of said perfectionist tendencies). As an example (my apologies if this is a bit long), a former boss of mine asked me to complete a complex task asap because the customers who needed said product were coming to visit the company in two days. I somewhat reluctantly agreed and proceeded to not sleep, bathe, or eat proper food (I subsisted on hamburgers) for a day and two straight nights while sitting in my office chair to finish the task I agreed to do asap. Everyone thought the task was impossible, including my boss. He also meant the sane version of asap - which included sleep and going home. I, meanwhile, provided a literal asap performance. I was putting the finishing touches on the product right as the customers came to visit our company from abroad (Germany) and I was able to personally show them the nearly-finished item in question. It also helped that I happen to speak German and am fairly personable. The customers and my boss were very happy, but they weren't the only ones who were impressed. Some 6 years later, my best friend and often business partner, who also worked for the same company previously and saw the entire thing happen, told this story when introducing me to one of the new partners in a business venture. I didn't consider it much to brag about, but he made it a point to state how impressive it was and it seems the new colleague agreed (I just did my job to the very best of my ability, but apparently that's very rare). It sometimes pays dividends to be autistic.
Ufff, I have a brother and a lot of friends with autism (which... Is weird to have too many?) Anyways, there are soo many simplifications and things that are not true (not universally) about autism that really hurts me to listen. Every autist I know doesn't really understand organization or schedule. In fact their houses like that meme (the one abut having a lot of noise, a really close fan, and a disorganised room to be just focused). And the Savant thing... A lot of autist people talk about their hyperfixation. Put a person overly fixated on a theme, put him next to someone who doesn't know anything about history or humanities or art (usually medics and psychologist huh) and people would read an autist as some kind of savant.
Space Marines are not autistic. They are, in fact, perfectly integrated in their society. As for humanity at large, in 40k that humanity is a rabid mob of religious fanatics, so not being on the same level is a bonus.
This is a very interesting topic that you handled very well. I like that you took autism as a starting point and as a comparison, and went in a unique direction, rather than making something memey out of it. I will say, a lot of this can also be explained by them being a) child-soldiers, and b) monks. Oh, and as you touch on: the less monastic Chapters fit this type less.
I don't think that marines being fine with eye contact or lacking social anxiety is a problem with them also being autistic. After all, eye contact can be frightening because it lets you feel exposed, but marines are trained to face off with terrifying threats. A human staring at them would no longer be a worry. Also the fear of people not liking you I believe stems from a fear of being ostracised and alone. Marines have complete faith that their chapter accepts them, their serfs are used to their ways and defer to them or at least talk to them with respect. Why would they care if some random general gives them a scowl? They outrank them in every way.
The one thing I don't think lines up all that much is from one story about a Terminator space marine somehow (idk) getting amnesia on a planet that's basically just in the middle ages in tech, he doesn't have any issues at all with socializing and becomes a local celebrity, he died defending the town that took him in with a final martyrdom, killing a high ranking tyranid as it also killed the terminator.
You missed AU/ADHD commonly being vey high in the trait contientiousness, or sense of justice. It leads to an uncompromising worldview. Quite useful for a space marine.
@@jakeku2662 how about ADHD alone does that also have a strong sense of justice and contieniousness ? I finding myself agreeing to disagree in trival semantics while others want to talk in circles that irks me a tad. Though it could be old age too.
@@Shugg-Goff-HHoffical I strongly identified as ADHD only once i was diagnosed a few years ago. But this past year I've started to see autism traits. My sense of right/wrong has been very intense since I was a child.
I honestly learned more about autism as a spectrum from this than I ever did in high school or college, and this is coming from a guy who was diagnosed with it in middle school and was sent to a high school program for the mentally challenged.
Iron warriors and Imperial Fists: we don’t just have it, we weaponized it.
Especially the Black Templars.
Sigismund was the first marine to master the "Autistic Screeching" fighting style.
@@UncleAsmos2005 The fighting style put Abaddon the Armless into the healing tube, so he was on to something.
@@ancientgearsynchrogod you are never gonna let that oudated meme die are you?
@@leandrocastello309 This is the warhammer community. If we let an outdated meme die, then we have failed.
The real question is, can we get a space marine, autism tear list
Cato sicarius S tier autism
Asmodeus is certainly up in S tier. Black templars are in C. They may act like an autistic kid raging in a debate, but outside of that one note stereotype, not much.
Black templar: A tier
@@jonathanathor117 as a black Templar player I can heavily confirm this
tear list? Lamenters.
As someone with autism, i can confirm that i am a space marine
Im imagining a space marine in his room meditating with tracks and trains going all around along the walls of his room. I found It amusing so I wanted to share.
I remember that greentext of the guy yelling “FUCKING HOOOOORUUS!!” While weightlifting
Alternative theory - Occam’s Razor… what if actually the people who wrote the 40k lore for space marines were autistic?
Wow, good one)
why not both?
Yes. That would explain why they attract autistic fans.
Of course. Next question ^^
Do you think neurotypical people are writing 40K lore?
Obviously it's autistic fucks like us lmao
This phenomena is called "The Internet"😂😂😂
That one hit me far too close to home 😂😭
Yeah, just go talk to the Imperial fists
Lol exactly
Or a iron warrior
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus
Peter Turbo:
*joins faction called "Chaos"
>his face when they turn out a disorganized clusterfuck:
ϞϞ (๑⚈ o ⚈๑)∩ Ϟ
@@nickkorkodylas5005 To be fair they took chaos and jammed them into engines, leave it to the extremely acoustic marines to look at the embodiment of disorder and turn them into trains.
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus acoustic iron warriors as opposed to kakophonic emps children. yeah that checks out. isn't that IRONIC within and without XD
Me, reading the title:"Yes, without a doubt. Next question"
I wasnt expecting a diagnosis here, feeling called out and we're only 5 minutes in
Literally bro I was like wait a min who's he talking about lol
We're all Warhammer fans here, and ones who watch lore videos at that. I'd be surprised if any of us didn't feel some resemblance, lol
You should be honored, you have the qualities of a Space Marine!
Same
Yep I just learned I'm autistic
Talos does. Such autism it made him immune to chaos tempting him
I forgot this wasn't Elder Scrolls for a second and thought: Well, organizing an empire and being obsessed with a giant mecha does sound autistic, so this means Barenziah is the bad bitch he pulled by being autistic
Okay so that wasn't just me then! Man gave me big Tism vibes, like I too am a literal son of a bitch obsessed with history and depressed as hell.
Haven't gotten any visions of the future yet, but time will tell.
@Lazysupermutant don't forget idolizing your batshit insane father figure and trying to keep a bunch of crazed lunatics crammed together in an enclosed space from murdering each other
The first part is especially important
I thought it was servatar who had autism
@@Bass-ef3dr it's the Night Lords gene defect
Lets not forget that all the founding legions hyper fixate on something:
Ultramarines: Codex Astartes
Dark Angels: The fallen
Alpha legion: Alpharius
Iron Warriors: Autism
Sons of Horus: Heresy
World Eaters: Lobotomy
Word Bearers: Religion
Blood Angels: Sanguinius
Iron hands: metal
Emperors Children: Censored
Space Wolves: Wolves
Death guard: pain
Thousand sons: magic
Salamanders: fire
Raven guard: Emo
Night Lords: war crimes
White Scars: speed
Space wolves: wolves
Yeah, seems accurate judging what games workshop is doing with wolf helmet
Dont forget the Blood Raven's: stealing
You forgot the Imperial Fists, construction and the magic pain glove.
“Night Lords: war crimes”. Made me spit out my drink. Also, accurate.
Autistic pain resistance is a good description of some of the legions.
Short answer, they do
Literally weaponized autism
‘He’s just like me.’ 😂
🤓
@@MercurialStatic🤡
@@alfieingrouille1528 😐
The guy who knows how to make arrows the right way, every single time, is going to be super useful.
And sharpening the scythes And properly thatching huts.
My immediate reaction: autism CAN lead to advanced paranoia, which would be incredibly useful keeping guard against chaos creatures who pop up out of seemingly nowhere
Source: its me, im the challenged one
Well met Battle Brother. :3
Wait, hunter gatherer societies having more autistic individuals would explain why the adversity to eye-contact is there, because animals tend to consider eye-contact a provocation
Artellus Numion was 100 acoustic.
Only he listened to 3 primarchs trying to convince him that his primarch is dead.
Only for him to go NUH UH NERDS VULKAN LIVESSS.
than take his corpse back to Nocturne and jump into a vulcano
The salamander are especially stubborn.
...Numion survived Traois?
But Vulkan did in fact live so your point is invalid
I think that’s leaning more towards schizofrenia than autism. Even if he was right, lol.
I'm just imagining a space marine saying through the helmet, in full, deep space marine voice; "YIPPEE."
I'm hearing my classmate's voice lol.
"Think of The Good Doctor or Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory" No, I would rather think of basically anybody else, thanks
B A Z I N G A ! ! !
Yes they are. Need the poster boys to be relatable to the average 40k fan after all
I have autism and play the Imperial Fists. I can confirm that they have it, and that’s one of the big reasons why I love them.
I live in México and i am autistic too and i like warhammer 40k but i don't know how to play the game because to me is very
difficult to play but i like the miniatures
Same bro
Something eholesome about an irl Fist playing Fists. It's like an alternate universe Space Marine playing with who he would've been.
@@alastor8091 Real
I remember a story (read on TVTropes) of a US Soldier during the War on Terror was diagnosed later to be Autistic (apparently Armed Forces aren't allowed to sign up people with physical nor learning disorders)
But strangely he was put into some seriously stressful situations I.E combat & witnessed seriously horrendous stuff.
Even more amazing; this soldier was able to cope with these shocking situations extremely well as he was mercilessly bullied at High-School & found that more traumatic thus was able to adjust.
Bare in mind this was from a while back
Weponised autism in 40k?
Seems legitimate, we do the same now.
Examples: Paratroopers, Marines, everyone over the rank of sergeant, everyone under the rank of sergeant, the guy who hates showering in your barracks 'NOT SAYING NAMES YOU HAVE BEEN INFORMED WHO YOU ARE'.
Real
I met an autistic corporal who military cook
I’m ligit living proof of this (likely autistic, planing on joining the army). I chew on things and say ruh I should be Australia’s first marine.
On the topic of eye contact: i am aware of some autistic people that have learned to make direct eye contact to the point that allistics find it disturbing, so i wouldn't say the ability to make eye contact is a counterpoint.
Me for real
The Patrick Bateman stare lmao
I'm one of those autistics.
It was drilled into me so hard throughout my life that "eye contact is important" that I have developed a stare that can, and has, legitimately unnerved crackheads.
If you know, you know that's quite the accomplishment.
The train germany joke send me off laughing. Greeting from the land with the worst trainsservice.
"[Trains] travel in a set schedule, unless you're in Germany"
Italy: hold my wine
As a fellow autistic I definitely think you're on to something, especially if you look at the Primarchs, like there is no way you can look me straight in the face and tell me Guilliman, the Lion and Dorn aren't different types of autistics, like people joke that Dorn is the emotionless autistic, but he absolutely isn't, he's very emotional, he just doesn't show it, or doesn't know how. For example, he still sleeps with a blanket he got from the man who raised him, because it has massive sentimental value to him. Or how in one of the books, I am fairly certain there's a line from Dorn about wanting to cry because he has to ruin all the beautiful art of architecture of terra to reinforce it against the traitor armies, and how once the great crusade was all over, he wanted to be an architect, and artistic architect. My man's autistic, and honestly for me, Dorn and Guilliman are some of the most relatable characters in all of 40k
I can look you in the face and tell you they are not different types of autistics.
They are in no way shape or form different types of Autistic.
Holding on to sentimental things and loving the architecture that is older then you does not make a person Autistic. following your logic everyone can be autistic for having items that are sentimental, or a passion for Architecture and artwork.. so like everyone is now autistic by your own logic.
@@freed991as a diagnosed autistic person, what he said makes a lot of sense. At least to me.
There's definitely different "flavours" of autism. If you are autistic and know other autistic people, you'll probably know what I mean.
Pretty sure that Guilliman is meant to be neurotypical, or at least as neurotypical as a superhumanly intelligent demigod can be. In the new Lion book, the Lion compares himself to Guilliman and it definitely sounds like he's comparing things like his own autistic hyperfocus with Guilliman's effortless multitasking.
MY AUTISM BE MY WEAPON, MY SPECTRUM BE THY DOOM!!
Now I'm imagining BigE observing some autistic dude and went "hey... This might be useful later"
As an Autistic,yes. I can genuienly see The Emperor taking certain Autistic traits when making Space Marines and cranking them up to 11. I see a lot of my own traits in The Iron Warriors Legion for example and some of my friends say I'd make an ideal Iron Warrior with my mindset
As a fellow autistic person, who plays Iron Warriors, IRON WITHIN!
Agreed, for instance I've heard three different things brought up as autistic traits:
Emotional intensity
Emotional faintness
Emotions lasting shorter than normal in autistic people
Relatively faint emotions that are easily let go of are a good trait to have in a purpose-bred shock trooper.
@@odinlindeberg4624Oh definitely. The Emperor would see traits like that as perfect for his armies of biological monstrosities
Iron within iron without!
Wait a second is the Emperor Autistic?
From what I can gather reading the books he is capable of understanding or picking up human Emotions and even mimic them, but is unable to translate them in a way where he can truly actually be considerate of most human Emotions.
He understands humanity and how people think and even capable of even sympathizing just a bit from what we see, but isn't capable of actually translating or even finding it hard to care for long just due to the fact his age and what he is won't let him care.
How he had Come to *Eventually* love his sons who when you actually break it down are straight up just warp mimicking, monstrosities that wear skin suits *(which explains why the Emperor displayed emotion for everyone but them till later on)* tells us he had been able care once which also tells us he wasn't scheming on galactic domination at the age of 6 and likely was born, grew and lived like the rest of the farming peasentry at the time, only differents being he couldn't die.
Which is why his such an Ass most of the time and modeled the imperium after imperial Rome. His just the text book defenetion of a boomer which explains a lot 😂
though he was likely born with autistic traits, they had just likely amplified as he begun to age with him going full on coocoo and fully drowning in his own sauce after living through multiple apocalyptic events caused by humanity. Which explains why despite wanting to protect them finds it hard to care about normal humans, can't say I blame him to much to be honest😅
Does that mean the Horus Heresy was the Tism Schism?
Now I know why the space marines are my favorite faction
I have told one of my autistic friends many times that "Your mind is blessed by the Emperor."
Autism most certainly isn't a blessing. I wish I didn't have it.
I'm just imagining "Yippeeeee" but in the Space Marine voice.
"YIPEEEEE, BROTHER."
Every time I watch something like this I wonder if I should be tested
When you realize the black rage is just a blood angel going ”REEEEEE”
My first instinct: They're not neurotypical, but I don't think it's autism, I think it's new and spicy kinds of deviation from the human 'norm'.
Yea, something engineered. Like maybe a dash of Autism, a bit of ADHD, and a healthy dose of Psychopathy as a base.
I think Humanity experienced many episodes of unrestricted scientific experiments on humans. We understood the body, brain and mind much more during the Golden Age. Unfortunately, i dont believe all of that knowledge was gained ethically.
I mean space marines arr heavily mind altered during the creation process. It's not entirely a cultural thing, I'm sure there is a physiological component as well
@@Ghostcamelscientific advancment is rarely done eithicly, if it even can be done so.
@@riddell26 that is completely untrue.
i don't intend to offend you, but it is fairly clear you do not work in research. the amount of ethical oversight that is prerequisite in even the most inconsequential medical studies is maddening.
i understand that it is necessary to be this stringent, as a lot is on the line, but its extreme to a point were we sometimes spend entire months just remodeling the smallest of details of just how we inform prospective patients for a study.
i can't speak for the entire world, but the ethical standards of the little corner i inhabit are strict, and our region is one of the top providers of neurological research in the world.
They all inherited God Tier autism from grandad.
Me, who has Asperger Syndrome(a subset of Autism), "THEY'RE JUST LIKE ME, FOR REAL"! I unexpectedly loved this, lol, great work.
Aspergers is the most superior version of autism
Nowadays they just call Aspergers Autism in most places.
@vidal9747 thats solely because aspergers, the guy who discovered it, potentially worked with the germany c. 1940s.
It's part of their hypnoconditioning isn't it? Know no fear, follow your orders, observe your surroundings. They become something that only other battle brothers can understand.
The autism training
for most of them it's probably that. I'm guessing that at least a few are actually autistic as well but given how they're also in conditions that make it really hard to tell if it's actually conditioning or not, most people don't know.
The Emperor's Children are very artistic
🤓 0:05
would think they were more BPD/narcissism if anything.
I heard Fulgrim does strange things to his warriors
@@ARC5how does one exclude the other ?
@@sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046it's called sex, something most space marines (and space marines fans) will never experience due to their severe case of autism.
I recall in Horus Rising, Loken referring to polishing his armour with lapping powder as an activity he found "soothing", so yeah, repetitive action = soothing.
Huh I know fans joke that Space Marines are autistic but I didn’t expect to see an actual video
Yeah as someone who has Asperger’s I actually found myself able to empathize and relate to the space marine characters in some of the dialogue and relationships that they have because it feels very much how I end up interacting with people around me.
"oh hey this is a cool video idea" 18 minutes later "huh, I might be a space marine"
Huh im autistic i never heard of the autistic pain resistance although i guess that explains the time i got hit by a car and just stood back up and started walking
No, that's called adrenaline, which isn't exclusive to autistic people.
Thats called adrenaline and shock. It probably hurt more afterwards and you got swollen in the area of impact
i feel targeted, called out, and catered to at the same time.
"Literally me. fr fr" The video
I love the idea of an ultramarine having a model train set and making sure it runs efficiently. With little cargo crates and people who need there deliveries on time.
"They shall be my most autistic warriors, in very specific interests shall i clad them and with the mightiest fidgets they will be armed. They shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe (normie) shall best them in battle."
I cant keep writing this garbage but hope someone laughs at it
Thanks man, I laughed, Emperor protects!
As a Vet hearing all of this and watching the entire video subscribing and giving a like. I realized that the Army gave me Autism because the symptoms started once I was in. The sorting, the polishing of items, cleaning, solitary activities, especially the trains. I went crazy for trains to the point I planned an Amtrak from Texas to Chicago. I even used to be able too read instructions and now i am a visual learner.
They got that Caboose Autism Strength.
No wonder I vibe with the Marines despite being a Gaurdsmen enjoyer
I feel the autism overtaking me; it is a good pain.
“Malcador! I will make the perfect transhuman super soldier. They will be 11ft tall, and have the best augments I can install in a human body. I will give them the finest armor and the most terrible of weapons.”
“Why would those weapons be my lord?”
“I will make them autistic.”
Most people watching this: "Shit, I have autism"
Me, an intellectual: "I'm a Space Marine!"🤠
I was just chilling and then "are space marines autistic?" Pops up in my recommended by the throne that was hilarious especially when you consider the fact that I'm actually autistic myself
at first i wanted to think heresy.....but then i was like "hmmm....wait,let him cook.."
@@Vampshroom420 why heresy I'm a loyal servant of the God-emperor
Exact same situation with me
Understanding how things operate brings comfort, not understanding how things operate brings anxiety.
As an autistic person myself I can definitely see how being autistic could be extremely beneficial for space Marines. Just speaking from personal experience I perform my best when I restrict myself from doing other things and super focus on to one thing for extended period of time and the longer I focus the more momentum I build and the better I do. Space Marines have a very restricted life style so I would imagine they have a lot of this momentum on their side. It's also much easier and more enjoyable for me to do things in my cone of interest so assuming that space Marines have war in their cone of interest I could see how this could really help space Marines do their job.
As someone with ASD, you hit the jackpot, explained it coherently and respectfully, not generalizing and using very common traits, yet still mentioning how it’s a spectrum
Also, the way you narrate these videos is super inspiring, it never felt boring and it kept my attention all the time, this felt like another one of your shorts, but here I am, 20 minutes later lmao, good job!
I think it has less to do with the medical autism, more to do with how space marines are raised. they don't get proper socialization most of the time because they grow up with the chapter from a young age, as well as all the brainwashing space marines go through as well, it makes most space marines not the best conversationalists. however, traits such as being able to be hyper aware, efficient, and understanding of engineering and complex tactics are something they are schooled in deeply.
because of all this space marine social circles are much different then baseline humans. space marines might casually discuss the preferred way to fight different enemies and different tactics the same way normal people might talk about the weather or relationship drama simply because thats how their life and childhood is.
I'd be very careful about ascribing neurodivergent traits to "it being useful back in our hunter-gatherer days".
Cause a Lot of evo-psych analyses in that vein can quickly turn into just-so stories where people basically start with a bunch of assumptions on how evolutionary psychology is "supposed" to work, and then start working backwards trying to fit any neurodivergent behaviour into that model. UA-camr Münecat made a pretty good video about it a couple months ago if you're interested
ADHD make hunterers and gatherers go *brrrrrrr*
(My family has a lot of hunters in it. All of them with ADHD are significantly better at it. This is anecdotal data that hints towards ADHD being advantageous in history)
I think the Wolves, Salemander, and White Scars are supposed to be the "Big Brother" strain of space marine...
Mature and well-rounded to act as a role-model for other marines and even baseline human.
“Do space marines have autism? Black Templars. Next question”
“Trains travel on a set schedule unless you’re in Germany”
I did NOT see that jab at DB coming in a video about space marines, but it did make me laugh out loud in the middle of the street.
i don’t know if you’ve read the night lords omnibus but talos valcoran is all but confirmed to have had autism before induction
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@@alfieingrouille1528 so true
Something something *stare in autistic silence*
To be fair, that bit was more of a legion trait than something implied to be common to space marines.
What I've learned from this is, that the arrival time of german trains is also a spectrum
I’m autistic and scarcasm as a defense mechanism as I don’t know the proper way to interact. I have class 1 autism.
But salamader white scars and black dragons can easily get along with humans. Like the book about salamander helping a child find her teddy bear.
Caias grins at his seargeant, "We float for Maccragge" - HH Pharos
The pain resistance thing is real. I’ve had commercial grade ceiling lights fall on me and I get back up like it’s nothing. And then I’ve had walls and other things fall on me just because my job was in construction, and it was nothing slight inconvenience at most.
I crashed with my motorcycle and had a stress fracture on T11 in my spine. The day after at the hospital I was up walking, and I had been given just a minimum of morphine, because it f's up my stomach.
They'd never seen that at the hospital before. Most people stay in bed for three days at least, and take as much anesthetics as they possibly can, they said.
If my son is born with autism im gonna tell him he is a space marine
I am diagnosed Autistic, as well as a Boxer. Boxing is my soul interest, and my free time is spent shadowboxing and watching 12-15rd fights on repeat and frame by frame, or memorizing every Boxing history fact and date available lol
I have nearly no friends outside of Boxing. My wife and daughter Box. My brother is my main sparring partner and introduced me to Warhammer 40K. He is also Autistic and plays Imperial Fists lol
I also have greatly reduced pain and disproportionate autism strength. I have to hold back completely in sparring and still unintentionally injure people unless it's extremely light contact. I've had multiple surgeries without anesthesia because it doesn't work on me in safe doses.
I learned socialization out of necessity and enjoy speaking with people about subjects that interest them and hearing about peoples passions and troubles.
I was very large for my age and was routinely beaten by adults and teenagers as a child. I was bigger than nearly all of them by 12yrs old.
I like the intricacies of 40K lore, and it's parallels with reality. It makes you appreciate how good things are and realize how much worse they could be lol
I enjoy learning about every faction and lean towards Salamanders for their desire to remain human and Black Templars because they are far more human and less fanatic than in the memes, and because they waste no time in seeking out the traitors and enemies of Mankind.
As someone with diagnosed Autism, I can confirm that the Iron Warriors, Imperial Fists, and Iron hands are Autistic, and at that, they are also my favorite Legions.
Edit: Thanks for all the likes! Iron without, iron without.
I don't think the Iron Hands are necessarily autistic, they just hate being human because they see robotics and computers as superior to organic bodies and brains, which they are.
1:13 They still are, depending on the autism in question. I have it and have been able to circumvent or correct pretty much all of the social drawbacks by decades of careful observation and self-adjustment, especially during middle school and high school. I'm actually very happy with my autism, as it gives me several advantages in a wide variety of fields.
There are still a few drawbacks I haven't been able to fully correct (though they are accounted for), such as it being very hard, at times, to start or stop doing things (especially if said things are social in nature and not a part of my routine) and my perfectionist tendencies can sometimes get the best of me (I can spend literal hours on a single YT comment, among other issues), but I'm rather proud of the capabilities I have that few of my peers can match (sometimes as a direct result of said perfectionist tendencies).
As an example (my apologies if this is a bit long), a former boss of mine asked me to complete a complex task asap because the customers who needed said product were coming to visit the company in two days. I somewhat reluctantly agreed and proceeded to not sleep, bathe, or eat proper food (I subsisted on hamburgers) for a day and two straight nights while sitting in my office chair to finish the task I agreed to do asap.
Everyone thought the task was impossible, including my boss. He also meant the sane version of asap - which included sleep and going home. I, meanwhile, provided a literal asap performance. I was putting the finishing touches on the product right as the customers came to visit our company from abroad (Germany) and I was able to personally show them the nearly-finished item in question. It also helped that I happen to speak German and am fairly personable.
The customers and my boss were very happy, but they weren't the only ones who were impressed. Some 6 years later, my best friend and often business partner, who also worked for the same company previously and saw the entire thing happen, told this story when introducing me to one of the new partners in a business venture. I didn't consider it much to brag about, but he made it a point to state how impressive it was and it seems the new colleague agreed (I just did my job to the very best of my ability, but apparently that's very rare).
It sometimes pays dividends to be autistic.
Ufff, I have a brother and a lot of friends with autism (which... Is weird to have too many?)
Anyways, there are soo many simplifications and things that are not true (not universally) about autism that really hurts me to listen.
Every autist I know doesn't really understand organization or schedule. In fact their houses like that meme (the one abut having a lot of noise, a really close fan, and a disorganised room to be just focused).
And the Savant thing... A lot of autist people talk about their hyperfixation. Put a person overly fixated on a theme, put him next to someone who doesn't know anything about history or humanities or art (usually medics and psychologist huh) and people would read an autist as some kind of savant.
I'm so connected to this video. Bullying & public ridicule made me shut down as a person for decades.
This made my day i have autism and I kept smiling the whole time. And I love hearing that space marine are showing some signs of autism.
WHAT THE FUCK IS A SILENT BRAIN NOT OVERTHINKING EVERY SINGLE THING EVER RAAAAAAAAAAAAH
What the ever loving fuck is a moment of silence in a brain?
as an autistic person with asbergers i see a lot of myself in the imperial fists and thats one of the many reasons i love them
It's a popular meme, but in general, no, their personalities are the result of a stunted development and a LOT of conditioning.
So they have autism by nurture, not nature... got it LOL
Funny thing about the Dreadclaw drop pods, their machine spirits were malicious from the get go
Space Marines are not autistic. They are, in fact, perfectly integrated in their society. As for humanity at large, in 40k that humanity is a rabid mob of religious fanatics, so not being on the same level is a bonus.
This is the funniest title and thumbnail for a Warhammer video ever 🤣🤣🤣
The Emperor out here genetically modifying autism into his armies. Well, was.
Talos definitely came off that way when we flash-backed to his childhood.
This is a very interesting topic that you handled very well. I like that you took autism as a starting point and as a comparison, and went in a unique direction, rather than making something memey out of it.
I will say, a lot of this can also be explained by them being a) child-soldiers, and b) monks.
Oh, and as you touch on: the less monastic Chapters fit this type less.
This may be the best 40k video on the Internet
I don't think that marines being fine with eye contact or lacking social anxiety is a problem with them also being autistic.
After all, eye contact can be frightening because it lets you feel exposed, but marines are trained to face off with terrifying threats. A human staring at them would no longer be a worry.
Also the fear of people not liking you I believe stems from a fear of being ostracised and alone. Marines have complete faith that their chapter accepts them, their serfs are used to their ways and defer to them or at least talk to them with respect. Why would they care if some random general gives them a scowl? They outrank them in every way.
The one thing I don't think lines up all that much is from one story about a Terminator space marine somehow (idk) getting amnesia on a planet that's basically just in the middle ages in tech, he doesn't have any issues at all with socializing and becomes a local celebrity, he died defending the town that took him in with a final martyrdom, killing a high ranking tyranid as it also killed the terminator.
Never has a video spoken so well to me and my recent dignosis of the big A it just took 20ish years to get figured out
When I heard the thing about the trains I thought of it like a magic card.
German here: very nice jab at the Deutsche Bahn 🤣!
WHEN THEY'RE COMBAT TRAINING💀
WHEN THEY'RE COMBAT TRAINING💀
WHEN THEY'RE COMBAT TRAINING💀
AND WHEN COMBAT TRAINING NO🧢
0:35 the heretic says that warhammer 40k is not our future. the heretic calls it "fiction"
I'm not a god bro, ffs
You missed AU/ADHD commonly being vey high in the trait contientiousness, or sense of justice. It leads to an uncompromising worldview. Quite useful for a space marine.
They love an arguement. Usually so they can feel " right ".
@@Shugg-Goff-HHoffical Thats the secondary benefit. The primary is showing the opponent the depths of their wrongness :)
@@jakeku2662 how about ADHD alone does that also have a strong sense of justice and contieniousness ? I finding myself agreeing to disagree in trival semantics while others want to talk in circles that irks me a tad. Though it could be old age too.
@@Shugg-Goff-HHoffical I strongly identified as ADHD only once i was diagnosed a few years ago. But this past year I've started to see autism traits. My sense of right/wrong has been very intense since I was a child.
@@Shugg-Goff-HHoffical An intense sense of fairness is a trait of ADHD. AU/DHDers get it from their ADHD, and their Autism makes it inflexible.
Oh god. am i just autistic?
Yes
@@MichaelJohnson-fr8yr well shit
Time to call up a therapist! 😅
@@sussyfallen2914 nah
@@calebhebert2733 i mean, since that is also somewhat a common trait ... doesn't get better by ticking more boxes
"And they travell on a set schedule, unless you're in Germnany"
It hurts how true that is lmao
"Big hats." - Gavriel Loken
As an Autistic person, i feel proud that i have been compared to Space Marines.
Brother... You are Cooking With this One, Well Made, 10/10 Would March To Macrage for This
I honestly learned more about autism as a spectrum from this than I ever did in high school or college, and this is coming from a guy who was diagnosed with it in middle school and was sent to a high school program for the mentally challenged.
Space Marines got that "somehow removed all the parts that leave you good choas toys" job in their heads.
Of course they got it