I think that's the point lol. It's showing how my brain works unmedicated, at least. It's not meant to help you concentrate - it's to show others how it feels. I think. That's how I took it at least.
As a person with autism and adhd, I relate to the Nitwit villager. I am always tired in the day and more awake at night and perfer to do absolutely nothing that involes other people. What is my life.
That is a very interesting way to explain PTSD. It feels so simple, yet so accurate to how that’s like for me lol. Same goes with OCD being a glitchy brain.
It is very clear to me that this is a jokey silly video, however i will also take the opportunity to write about some neurodivergences I’ve done extensive research (and live experience) on. First off, what is a neurodivergence? It is any disorder or disability that impacts the way one thinks, processes, acts or experiences life. Some neurodivergences are congenital, but some are from environmental factors like trauma. Brain injury can often cause neurodivergence regardless or congenital factors Content warning for abuse and hallucinations/delusions in below text -Autism. Pretty much covered it, though it’s worth mentioning that allegory and canon autistic characters are different things. Autism is now seen as a spectrum, not from “more autistic” to “less autistic”, but where different people deal with different traits in different ways, not unlike a color wheel. For example I’m highly sensory avoidant but others may seek sensory input. These can even change over one’s lifetime or depending how they feel. This is also why the symbol for autism is an infinity symbol as there are infinite ways to be autistic and no two autistic people are identical in traits, the infinity is often good as the periodic element for gold is Au. The rainbow version of the infinity is for *all neurodivergence*. There are multiple flags for autism but the most common is the yellow and gold flag. The flags and symbols made by autism speaks or including blue are often disowned by the community as autism speaks is a hate group pretending to be a support group. They advocate for curing autism which is eugenics, support harmful types of therapy that often abuse autistic kids into “acting normal” and often fear monger about autism. “Asperger’s” is also considered an outdated and offensive term due to its ties with eugenics and being named after a Nazi who experimented on people. “High functioning” and “low functioning” are also considered ableist and “high/medium/low support needs” is now replacing those terms. -Evil autism is just for fun and is a sort of silly community thing people started as a joke playing on the fact we are often infantilised by neurotypicals (people without neurodivergence) and to proudly and unapologetically display our autistic traits regardless of society’s view on them. It is a similar concept to the rabies pride flag. It is also not a “type of autism” as that line of thinking no longer exists for good reason. -Kleptomania, pretty self explanatory, the compulsion to steal for whatever variety of reasons, though usually kleptomania is based on stealing regardless on if the person could afford the item or not. -Stockholm syndrome is a concept, not a disorder, observed when someone develops feelings of empathy, love, compassion or an emotional bond with their abuser/s, typically (but not always) from being violently abused or gaslit into believing so and often seen in cases of captivity, regardless of the horrific things they are put through. This happens because of the fight, flight, freeze, fawn response to danger and is specifically the “fawn”. The brain convinces you the person is good or you like them after what they have done often in an attempt to rationalise your trauma and/or to keep you “in their good graces” which often keeps you alive in deadly situations, or safe in general. The brain is also known to compartmentalise and intentionally remove horrific memories (example being dissociative amnesia) from your consciousness in order to survive. There is no official flag for people who experience this phenomenon. More in replies
-PTSD is pretty well-known and yes any traumatic even can cause PTSD, and it can come with a wide variety of flashback triggers which are usually associated with said trauma. Even if you personally think a trauma someone went through was “not that bad” or “silly” it can be debilitating and life affecting to the person. C-PTSD is Complex type PTSD, which doesn’t mean the trauma was “more severe”, (we generally do not compare “how bad” traumas were as it minimises peoples experiences) it just means it was over a prolonged period of time or multiple traumatic events. For example some on who was repeatedly abused would have the latter, someone who had a one time traumatic event would have the former. PTSD can include hallucinations, panic attacks, nightmares, being upset by or having phobias related to trauma, depression, anxiety, paranoia, flash backs and age regression. It is debated if repeated *childhood* trauma causes another form of PTSD and dissociative disorder called DID (dissociative identity disorder) or OSDD1 a and b (other specified dissociative disorder), both formerly called multiple personality disorder before being split into three disorders. The theory of structural dissociation hypothesised that babies are born with multiple states of consciousness, different parts for each emotion, and that at the age of 7-10 these parts fuse to form a whole person. In DID it’s theorised that these parts are not able to fuse due to repeated or significant trauma at a young age and form amnesia walls and dissociation between one another and their own “personalities” and memories, eventually becoming their own distinct identity. People with OSDD1a have less distinct personalities than DID. People with OSDD1b have less amnesia that DID. People with DID are often called “systems”. Dissociative amnesia is common in a variety of other disorders as well. The symbol for plurality is found interlocking rings (emmengards rings) or the ampersand. There are various flags for DID, OSDD, plurality and specific micro labels within the community. The teal ribbon is used for PTSD and the UK uses a sideways interlocking v ribbon shape. -Paranoid Personality disorder is a personality disorder, specifically cluster A which encompasses “odd” or “eccentric” behaviour personality disorders (not the same thing as having an eccentric personality). PPD, is grouped with Schizotypal Personality Disorder and Schizoid Personality Disorder. Cluster B encompasses “erratic” and “emotionally volatile” personality disorders including Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Cluster C encompasses “fearful” personality disorders including Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder and Dependent Personality Disorder. Paranoid personality disorder is often observed as someone being overly paranoid and suspicious of everyone, regardless of validity of that paranoia including delusions and hallucinations of being watched or spied on. This is a deep seated distrust that often affects everything from their social lives and family relationships to being able to go outside. Personality disorders, including PPD are theorised to be due to a combination of environmental and biological factors. Masochistic/self-defeating, sadistic, and similar unnamed personality disorders are not clinically recognised or diagnosable. Many flags exist for PPD and personality disorders in general. The grey ribbon and bpd symbol are often used for the personality disorder community. Not a fan of the joke in this part of the vid as you could actually trigger someone’s paranoia by saying that, jokingly or not.
ADHD is actually has no definitive cause, it’s still being researched. Commonly occurs in conjunction with autism. The ADHD flag is an array of warm coloured stripes and a brown along the top. The symbol is the butterfly or rainbow butterfly-infinity. There are three types, ADHD-I (inattentive), ADHD-H (Hyperactive) and a combination of the two, ADHD-C (Combined). -Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects words and spelling specifically. There are many different types; phonological, surface, double deficit, rapid naming and visual. Dyslexia is often used as an umbrella term for the following, similar learning disabilities. Dyscalculia is the same thing but for math, clocks and numbers. Dysgraphia, for handwriting either the physical letters or knowing what words fit in writing to express themselves. Dyspraxia, for physical movement and coordination. Dyslexia is commonly co-occurring with the other learning disabilities. Yes the name is hard to spell, yes every dyslexic has heard that joke a million times. Dyslexia has many flags including the one used there, but with equal width stripes. The symbol for dyslexia is a circle with four smaller circles inside, none overlapping. It’s also important to not that those savants with dyslexia aren’t only valuable because of their smartness, smartness doesn’t equal worth and dyslexics that can’t read are just as worthy of life. -OCD is a disorder specifically about ritualistic obsessions and compulsions spurred on by intrusive thoughts of bad things happening and can form in any part of daily life, not just cleaning or checking doors. Sometimes it’s “silly” things like blinking three times or something because your brain told you your family would be massacred if you didn’t. Also intrusive thoughts can be about anything and are egodystonic meaning the opposite of what the person wants. For example P3d0phillia OCD exists where the person will have intrusive thoughts about being a predator but they are in no way actually attracted to children and no way are dangerous, they are not actual predators their head just incorrectly makes them think about “what ifs”. “Intrusive thoughts” have been waters down to mean “I impulsively want to die my hair” and unfortunately it further stigmatised people with OCD. OCPD or “pure o” subtype of OCD is often what people talk about when they mention obsessive cleaning or lining things up etc. OCD is also common in religious people, due to the way organised religion is set up. The flag used is one of many flags for OCD. The teal ribbon and an hourglass are also used for symbols. -Dyspraxia. Been over it a bit before. The symbol is a yellow x shaped body with a circle head. -Narcissistic Personality Disorder, is (in my opinion) one of the most stigmatised disorders, even within the mental health and neurodivergent community itself. I went over it a bit before but basically; is self aggrandising behaviours often brought on from deep rooted internal self esteem issues. NPD specifically seems to come from neglect and abandonment trauma and environmental factors. “Narcissistic abuse” is still a term people use even though it equivalent to saying all autistic people are inherently abusive for being autistic. Narcissism does not an abuser make and armchair diagnosing your abuser or someone you dislike as having NPD adds to stigma, making it harder for people that actually have NPD to get appropriate help. “Narcissism” and derivations of that word are specifically for people with NPD only, using those words on people without NPD, specifically in a negative way, again adds to stigma. Use a different word with less ableism attached like “egotistical”, “self centred” or “stuck up”. And toycat please don’t joke about having NPD if you don’t, again it’s kind of stigmatising.
@@n_art_cissist Thank you so much. As part of a DID system with NPD, it really sucks the fun out of a silly video when someone uses us as no more than an acceptable group of people to punch down on. Similarly, despite not dealing with psychosis or paranoia that often, one of my best friends do and it felt so much in bad taste to make jokes that could actually trigger symptoms. It's telling that the conditions like OCD, PTSD, ADHD and Autism didn't have jokes that made fun of the people affected, but simply made light of some of the symptoms that are real struggles. But then the more stigmatized disorders got potential triggers and further stigmatization.
Holy motherlode of neurodivergence information, this is great! And yeah, the stigma NPD has is one that I think is definitely the toughest. Like for all the others, it is at least intuitive that a given person just has a brain that functions differently for one reason or another. But for narcissism? The only thing you think upon hearing that term is "asshole". Even I had that until I recently happened to find someone actually explaining it, despite me normally trying to see the nuance in everything and everyone. Now, a point of criticism I have is that you've ended up with a bit of a wall of text there. Not a stranger to writing those myself, the way I've come to deal with them is to put paragraphs between topics and break lines after each tangent of thought within a given topic. Granted, this does wind up leaving you with a new line for each sentence a surprisingly large amount of times, but I prefer being a bit too legible. Hopefully this does come across as a harmless bit of constructive criticism. Like I said, I'm new to even thinking of NPD as just another form of neurodivergence, so I have no actual idea and am curious to know how a pointer like this is processed / can be made suitably digesteable to not cause distress.
during the adhd segment my eyes drifted over to the subway surfers gameplay and i didn’t even realise i had been watching it until the segment ended and i didn’t hear a thing
I have Autism and ADHD and… I love the awareness this stuff is getting now and that people are understanding neurodivergence better. I can’t say I enjoy life with them, I feel very reliant on family, I experience heavy FOMO and jealousy/envy towards peers, I get depressed and anxious often, I can’t stay motivated to do things, my sleep schedule is terrible, I can’t deal with stress well and while some helps me to do stuff, just a bit over the line and I shut down and do _nothing,_ I flit between hobbies within my interest and can’t seem to just enjoy one long-term, as they become chores when I find a new hobby I want to pursue… like houseplants etc, terrible time management which adds to stress when I waste a day away slacking off or scrolling on social media and then panic about it… I could list hundreds more tbh. Past few years I also lost my best friend (fell apart) and grandfather (literally a week ago, dementia sucks…). So more sad than usual. But I love plants, nature, animals, all that and hope I can make change in some way. It is inspiring that many people who made a difference in this world are autistic or were likely such. :) I very likely also have Dyspraxia too but haven’t been diagnosed. My hands and legs literally feel laggy sometimes and I shake a lot due to tremors too. Can’t hold a camera still for the love of god, and I’m scared of holding small animals since my finger could jerk randomly and crush them. My hand eye coordination sucks and my handwriting sucks… BUT I’m an amazingly fast typer without touch typing! Ironically, due to Minecraft; when I was younger I was always playing on servers and became a fast typer talking to other players as I tried to reply quickly.
I take some issues with some parts of it as a person with some of these disorders/neurodivergences and as someone with a SpIn in Psych. Specifically promoting the idea that Stockholm syndrome is a disorder when it’s a concept observed in survivors, when he “jokes about PPD by saying something that could specifically trigger anyone with a paranoia disorder watching, and the NPD joke which adds to more stigma against people with NPD. Otherwise I enjoyed the rest of
@@n_art_cissist i never said it wasn't offensive at all, just less so than other videos on the topic ;) but yes i agree. toycat is offensive on purpose, he knows LMAO
I have diagnosed atypical autism and add (now inattentive ADHD), as well as dyslexia, had no idea of what dyspraxia was, but after looking it up I'm super certain I have it too, because a lot of potential symptoms fit me like a glove, unironically and genuinely thanks ibxtoycat!! You helped me with discovering something new about myself! =D
This video was uploaded at the perfect time given that several other creators of high-effort "portrayed by minecraft" videos haven't uploaded in a while.
This is hands down the best video you’ve ever made toycat.. pure entertainment with a slice of education! ASD man here and I absolutely love this seriously I do ❤️
First time hearing Dyspraxia get a mention from a large youtuber, didn't imagine it would be in a Minecraft vid lol. Just wanted to say thank you for including it, as it is often forgotten about due to lack of awareness. (Plus having a similar spelling to Dyslexia doesn't help)
Finally, someone has finally gotten back to the roots of the old old old old, old school. I'm talking ooooOoOOoOOOooold school Minecraft videos. Thank you Mr. Cat. This is what I adopted and then put UA-cam thru college for, much obliged. Respect.
As someone with Autism, ADHD, and OCD, I can confirm that this video is actually pretty accurate. I got distracted by the soap cutting video and your voice seemed to trail off, I was satisfied with just looking at the organized crops, and all four of the things listed at the start of the video are things that I find myself doing on a daily basis... Oh wait. Number 4 - Routine and Repetition. :|
When you went 2,3,5 I thought you were doing prime numbers and I became happy. My disappointment to see 6 was equally devastating and I now hate you against my will.
with every single video i can feel my parasocial relationship towards you getting stronger and this might be my favourite video of yours of all time so far (half of it is about me)
This has got to be one of the best if not the best Toycat video of all time. I'm now low key panicking that something is going wrong in my own Forever world even though it's not turned on!
As an AuDHD twice-exceptional dyspraxic parent of an AuDHD dyslexic dyspraxic who was married to a guy with OCD (and probably AuDHD, because that’s how we roll in this family) until he died from polypharmacy-induced esophageal cancer a couple years back, this video illustrates what happens when neurodivergent people try to make videos. 🤪 I don’t approve this message, but I don’t approve at least half of what comes out of my own head, so… 🤷♀️ Do I have evil autism? 🤔 (hmm… 😈)
im dislexic and the sines just make me laf (gave up spelling this one) because i genuinely spell like that as you can tell (some of these words ive tried respelling 10 times then gave up) but this video just felt like a fever dream
I really connected with the villagers when they said "hmmm" it's makes me feel seen (jokes aside this is an amazing video and does a some what good job of explaining a lot of these)
Dude, AuDHD, here, and as soon as that coin game came up... I kinda forgot to pay attention to you! Wow, that sucked me in so fast ahahahahaha! 😂🙃😟 The entire ADHD part was wild. Had to go back so many times; it was doing weird things to my brain!!!!!
Sooo what exactly was the point of this video? It sits bizzarely in between being an overextended bit and actually kind of being educational. But it lacks a punch line to just work as a joke and it has way too many parts where it just brushes past important details or even replaces those with offensive messaging and straight up category errors, so this can't be worthwhile as an educational video either. You can do a funny and just get every form of neurodivergence blatantly wrong or you can play the title of this video straight and actually try to show the gist of how things can diverge from the neurotypical with the help of Minecraft's villagers. You can *not* do a half-baked blend between the two like this without instead just ending up only doing harm by way of being confusing/misinformational.
@toycat And that's overgeneralizing. The best forms of education are also entertaining. It is specifically what you've done here that you shouldn't do, don't address one topic factually and another jokingly otherwise you'll only end up making a joke out of the latter one. That is something you can not afford to do with something as sensitive as commonly stigmatized elements of mental health!
@@remor698 I think that to truly describe some neurodivergences concisely and accurately is never going to be possible - the humour is a way to help people know enough to later understand, as the ADHD section hopefully proved that a long, factual read will be lost quicker than a short simplification
@toycat Well, it certainly doesn't help to put 3 separate, purposeful distractions on screen during the ADHD explanation. And making autism a worse structured topic than evil autism (to the point I genuinely forgot you actually showed the reasons why villagers can work quite well as autistic representation as is) or just pointing to stereotypical narcissism when approaching NPD, which specifically has a tough time escaping its harmful stereotype, are a couple other fumbles in a similar vein. It's not impossible to go over these briefly and respectfully without being boring, I in fact managed to get over that stereotype of NPD thanks to someone doing ~1 minute long animations without dialogue, only adding an explanatory paragraph in the description for context. It's just really challenging to do. If you admit that you don't see a way to give an accurate explanation of the different forms of neurodivergence in this short a video, then why did you even try? This is not the kind of content you can just wing or trial and error your way into making. Either be absolutely sure you know what you're doing in the short form or take the time to make the video as long as you need it in order to be accurate. It's a special and very complex topic, so it naturally comes with a long list of pitfalls. You just happened to hit one of those - trying to tackle it all too fast.
Neurodivergent or not they're going to be locked in my trading hall forever
Tally Hall?
is this video even real like I feel like this is some fever dream
no it's not real, you actually put the wrong sugar in your coffee
Possibly.
If you watched toycat more you'd see how standard this is
Be prepared to fight boss fights in the comments
Be careful, anti update minecraftians could see that mental things exist and think they are to be hated on
As an autistic person myself, I feel very represented when the villages go hmmmm
Whats your opinion, about this fletching table here?
True lol
Real
Also, when the farmers become hyperfocused on crop collection and planting… 👩🏼🌾
me for real
As someone with autism and adhd this video helps put how things are for me into perspective for other people
me too plus adhd!
me too plus ocd!
Exactly
me too, i agree but i was watching it on mute and had to rewatch the adhd part because i accidentally started watching the subway surfers gameplay 😅
@P2_M9 i was reading the comments while watching
2:18 I have ADHD, and I'm sorry, but putting a random clip in the corner does not help me focus. It does the opposite.
same ! lol
I think that's the point lol. It's showing how my brain works unmedicated, at least. It's not meant to help you concentrate - it's to show others how it feels.
I think.
That's how I took it at least.
Yeeah :/
@carimeslockdownedtree2654 no, it's a reference to how people often conflate ADHD with iPad baby brain.
I feel I've somehow slipped into an alternate dimension watching this. Thank you toycat much appreciated
as someone with evil autism, this video made me feel really seen. thanks toycat
R/evilautism yes or no
@lover.of.fidough I'd say probably 7, tho maybe 7.5 or 8.. Not really sure tbh..
are you on the subreddit though yes or no
i can't believe this is a real video
Or is it?
@@Planetmango48 Vsauce, Michael here
@wasikancb Hey Michael Vsauce Here Is Your Minecraft House Is Safe Or Is It
This video is honestly so unhinged, though as someone that has ADHD I appreciate his perspective.
As a person with autism and adhd, I relate to the Nitwit villager. I am always tired in the day and more awake at night and perfer to do absolutely nothing that involes other people.
What is my life.
Same
Same but I Don't have Adhd
Same I Have It Too
Same.
Same
That is a very interesting way to explain PTSD. It feels so simple, yet so accurate to how that’s like for me lol. Same goes with OCD being a glitchy brain.
It is very clear to me that this is a jokey silly video, however i will also take the opportunity to write about some neurodivergences I’ve done extensive research (and live experience) on. First off, what is a neurodivergence? It is any disorder or disability that impacts the way one thinks, processes, acts or experiences life. Some neurodivergences are congenital, but some are from environmental factors like trauma. Brain injury can often cause neurodivergence regardless or congenital factors
Content warning for abuse and hallucinations/delusions in below text
-Autism. Pretty much covered it, though it’s worth mentioning that allegory and canon autistic characters are different things. Autism is now seen as a spectrum, not from “more autistic” to “less autistic”, but where different people deal with different traits in different ways, not unlike a color wheel. For example I’m highly sensory avoidant but others may seek sensory input. These can even change over one’s lifetime or depending how they feel. This is also why the symbol for autism is an infinity symbol as there are infinite ways to be autistic and no two autistic people are identical in traits, the infinity is often good as the periodic element for gold is Au. The rainbow version of the infinity is for *all neurodivergence*. There are multiple flags for autism but the most common is the yellow and gold flag. The flags and symbols made by autism speaks or including blue are often disowned by the community as autism speaks is a hate group pretending to be a support group. They advocate for curing autism which is eugenics, support harmful types of therapy that often abuse autistic kids into “acting normal” and often fear monger about autism. “Asperger’s” is also considered an outdated and offensive term due to its ties with eugenics and being named after a Nazi who experimented on people. “High functioning” and “low functioning” are also considered ableist and “high/medium/low support needs” is now replacing those terms.
-Evil autism is just for fun and is a sort of silly community thing people started as a joke playing on the fact we are often infantilised by neurotypicals (people without neurodivergence) and to proudly and unapologetically display our autistic traits regardless of society’s view on them. It is a similar concept to the rabies pride flag. It is also not a “type of autism” as that line of thinking no longer exists for good reason.
-Kleptomania, pretty self explanatory, the compulsion to steal for whatever variety of reasons, though usually kleptomania is based on stealing regardless on if the person could afford the item or not.
-Stockholm syndrome is a concept, not a disorder, observed when someone develops feelings of empathy, love, compassion or an emotional bond with their abuser/s, typically (but not always) from being violently abused or gaslit into believing so and often seen in cases of captivity, regardless of the horrific things they are put through. This happens because of the fight, flight, freeze, fawn response to danger and is specifically the “fawn”. The brain convinces you the person is good or you like them after what they have done often in an attempt to rationalise your trauma and/or to keep you “in their good graces” which often keeps you alive in deadly situations, or safe in general. The brain is also known to compartmentalise and intentionally remove horrific memories (example being dissociative amnesia) from your consciousness in order to survive. There is no official flag for people who experience this phenomenon.
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-PTSD is pretty well-known and yes any traumatic even can cause PTSD, and it can come with a wide variety of flashback triggers which are usually associated with said trauma. Even if you personally think a trauma someone went through was “not that bad” or “silly” it can be debilitating and life affecting to the person. C-PTSD is Complex type PTSD, which doesn’t mean the trauma was “more severe”, (we generally do not compare “how bad” traumas were as it minimises peoples experiences) it just means it was over a prolonged period of time or multiple traumatic events. For example some on who was repeatedly abused would have the latter, someone who had a one time traumatic event would have the former. PTSD can include hallucinations, panic attacks, nightmares, being upset by or having phobias related to trauma, depression, anxiety, paranoia, flash backs and age regression. It is debated if repeated *childhood* trauma causes another form of PTSD and dissociative disorder called DID (dissociative identity disorder) or OSDD1 a and b (other specified dissociative disorder), both formerly called multiple personality disorder before being split into three disorders. The theory of structural dissociation hypothesised that babies are born with multiple states of consciousness, different parts for each emotion, and that at the age of 7-10 these parts fuse to form a whole person. In DID it’s theorised that these parts are not able to fuse due to repeated or significant trauma at a young age and form amnesia walls and dissociation between one another and their own “personalities” and memories, eventually becoming their own distinct identity. People with OSDD1a have less distinct personalities than DID. People with OSDD1b have less amnesia that DID. People with DID are often called “systems”. Dissociative amnesia is common in a variety of other disorders as well. The symbol for plurality is found interlocking rings (emmengards rings) or the ampersand. There are various flags for DID, OSDD, plurality and specific micro labels within the community. The teal ribbon is used for PTSD and the UK uses a sideways interlocking v ribbon shape.
-Paranoid Personality disorder is a personality disorder, specifically cluster A which encompasses “odd” or “eccentric” behaviour personality disorders (not the same thing as having an eccentric personality). PPD, is grouped with Schizotypal Personality Disorder and Schizoid Personality Disorder. Cluster B encompasses “erratic” and “emotionally volatile” personality disorders including Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Cluster C encompasses “fearful” personality disorders including Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder and Dependent Personality Disorder. Paranoid personality disorder is often observed as someone being overly paranoid and suspicious of everyone, regardless of validity of that paranoia including delusions and hallucinations of being watched or spied on. This is a deep seated distrust that often affects everything from their social lives and family relationships to being able to go outside. Personality disorders, including PPD are theorised to be due to a combination of environmental and biological factors. Masochistic/self-defeating, sadistic, and similar unnamed personality disorders are not clinically recognised or diagnosable. Many flags exist for PPD and personality disorders in general. The grey ribbon and bpd symbol are often used for the personality disorder community. Not a fan of the joke in this part of the vid as you could actually trigger someone’s paranoia by saying that, jokingly or not.
ADHD is actually has no definitive cause, it’s still being researched. Commonly occurs in conjunction with autism. The ADHD flag is an array of warm coloured stripes and a brown along the top. The symbol is the butterfly or rainbow butterfly-infinity. There are three types, ADHD-I (inattentive), ADHD-H (Hyperactive) and a combination of the two, ADHD-C (Combined).
-Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects words and spelling specifically. There are many different types; phonological, surface, double deficit, rapid naming and visual. Dyslexia is often used as an umbrella term for the following, similar learning disabilities. Dyscalculia is the same thing but for math, clocks and numbers. Dysgraphia, for handwriting either the physical letters or knowing what words fit in writing to express themselves. Dyspraxia, for physical movement and coordination. Dyslexia is commonly co-occurring with the other learning disabilities. Yes the name is hard to spell, yes every dyslexic has heard that joke a million times. Dyslexia has many flags including the one used there, but with equal width stripes. The symbol for dyslexia is a circle with four smaller circles inside, none overlapping. It’s also important to not that those savants with dyslexia aren’t only valuable because of their smartness, smartness doesn’t equal worth and dyslexics that can’t read are just as worthy of life.
-OCD is a disorder specifically about ritualistic obsessions and compulsions spurred on by intrusive thoughts of bad things happening and can form in any part of daily life, not just cleaning or checking doors. Sometimes it’s “silly” things like blinking three times or something because your brain told you your family would be massacred if you didn’t. Also intrusive thoughts can be about anything and are egodystonic meaning the opposite of what the person wants. For example P3d0phillia OCD exists where the person will have intrusive thoughts about being a predator but they are in no way actually attracted to children and no way are dangerous, they are not actual predators their head just incorrectly makes them think about “what ifs”. “Intrusive thoughts” have been waters down to mean “I impulsively want to die my hair” and unfortunately it further stigmatised people with OCD. OCPD or “pure o” subtype of OCD is often what people talk about when they mention obsessive cleaning or lining things up etc. OCD is also common in religious people, due to the way organised religion is set up. The flag used is one of many flags for OCD. The teal ribbon and an hourglass are also used for symbols.
-Dyspraxia. Been over it a bit before. The symbol is a yellow x shaped body with a circle head.
-Narcissistic Personality Disorder, is (in my opinion) one of the most stigmatised disorders, even within the mental health and neurodivergent community itself. I went over it a bit before but basically; is self aggrandising behaviours often brought on from deep rooted internal self esteem issues. NPD specifically seems to come from neglect and abandonment trauma and environmental factors. “Narcissistic abuse” is still a term people use even though it equivalent to saying all autistic people are inherently abusive for being autistic. Narcissism does not an abuser make and armchair diagnosing your abuser or someone you dislike as having NPD adds to stigma, making it harder for people that actually have NPD to get appropriate help. “Narcissism” and derivations of that word are specifically for people with NPD only, using those words on people without NPD, specifically in a negative way, again adds to stigma. Use a different word with less ableism attached like “egotistical”, “self centred” or “stuck up”. And toycat please don’t joke about having NPD if you don’t, again it’s kind of stigmatising.
This is a very good comment thread. Thank you.
@@n_art_cissist Thank you so much. As part of a DID system with NPD, it really sucks the fun out of a silly video when someone uses us as no more than an acceptable group of people to punch down on. Similarly, despite not dealing with psychosis or paranoia that often, one of my best friends do and it felt so much in bad taste to make jokes that could actually trigger symptoms. It's telling that the conditions like OCD, PTSD, ADHD and Autism didn't have jokes that made fun of the people affected, but simply made light of some of the symptoms that are real struggles. But then the more stigmatized disorders got potential triggers and further stigmatization.
Holy motherlode of neurodivergence information, this is great!
And yeah, the stigma NPD has is one that I think is definitely the toughest. Like for all the others, it is at least intuitive that a given person just has a brain that functions differently for one reason or another. But for narcissism? The only thing you think upon hearing that term is "asshole".
Even I had that until I recently happened to find someone actually explaining it, despite me normally trying to see the nuance in everything and everyone.
Now, a point of criticism I have is that you've ended up with a bit of a wall of text there. Not a stranger to writing those myself, the way I've come to deal with them is to put paragraphs between topics and break lines after each tangent of thought within a given topic. Granted, this does wind up leaving you with a new line for each sentence a surprisingly large amount of times, but I prefer being a bit too legible.
Hopefully this does come across as a harmless bit of constructive criticism. Like I said, I'm new to even thinking of NPD as just another form of neurodivergence, so I have no actual idea and am curious to know how a pointer like this is processed / can be made suitably digesteable to not cause distress.
during the adhd segment my eyes drifted over to the subway surfers gameplay and i didn’t even realise i had been watching it until the segment ended and i didn’t hear a thing
I have ADHD and the description of the not finishing projects I started couldn’t have been more accurate
I have Autism and ADHD and… I love the awareness this stuff is getting now and that people are understanding neurodivergence better.
I can’t say I enjoy life with them, I feel very reliant on family, I experience heavy FOMO and jealousy/envy towards peers, I get depressed and anxious often, I can’t stay motivated to do things, my sleep schedule is terrible, I can’t deal with stress well and while some helps me to do stuff, just a bit over the line and I shut down and do _nothing,_ I flit between hobbies within my interest and can’t seem to just enjoy one long-term, as they become chores when I find a new hobby I want to pursue… like houseplants etc, terrible time management which adds to stress when I waste a day away slacking off or scrolling on social media and then panic about it… I could list hundreds more tbh.
Past few years I also lost my best friend (fell apart) and grandfather (literally a week ago, dementia sucks…). So more sad than usual.
But I love plants, nature, animals, all that and hope I can make change in some way. It is inspiring that many people who made a difference in this world are autistic or were likely such. :)
I very likely also have Dyspraxia too but haven’t been diagnosed. My hands and legs literally feel laggy sometimes and I shake a lot due to tremors too. Can’t hold a camera still for the love of god, and I’m scared of holding small animals since my finger could jerk randomly and crush them. My hand eye coordination sucks and my handwriting sucks… BUT I’m an amazingly fast typer without touch typing! Ironically, due to Minecraft; when I was younger I was always playing on servers and became a fast typer talking to other players as I tried to reply quickly.
bro did NOT watch the whole video... Glad you feel seen anyway though. I agree that people need to care about this stuff more.
It went from 3 to 5, and in between was a dad joke. I might be type 4 guys.
4 guys
5 guys
four... what now? big guys, you said? four big guys?
Can you explain every single type of addiction in Minecraft next time?
My eyes and brain subconsciously shifted to the Subway Surfers footage for about ten seconds before I caught myself being a distractible fool
I caught myself looking and refused to look away just bc
Terrible video, 10/10
why is this more educational and less offensive than most neurodivergency infographics/videos
I take some issues with some parts of it as a person with some of these disorders/neurodivergences and as someone with a SpIn in Psych. Specifically promoting the idea that Stockholm syndrome is a disorder when it’s a concept observed in survivors, when he “jokes about PPD by saying something that could specifically trigger anyone with a paranoia disorder watching, and the NPD joke which adds to more stigma against people with NPD. Otherwise I enjoyed the rest of
@@n_art_cissist i never said it wasn't offensive at all, just less so than other videos on the topic ;) but yes i agree. toycat is offensive on purpose, he knows LMAO
bc he mentioned r/evilautism which is ironically more of a safe space than most other autism subreddits
"This video should be taken as medical advice, legal advice and emotional advice"
- Toycat, 2024
3:59 help, why did this minecraft video unironically explain my OCD better than 90% of psychology channels?
Honestly I've seen ocd explain a lot and although i kinda got the idea i feel he explained it better in more lame man's terms
I have OCD too and it's the best description of OCD I have saw in UA-cam
This is the funniest Toycat video of all time. Love the banners
Yes.
I guess... Could be offense I've or not
I have diagnosed atypical autism and add (now inattentive ADHD), as well as dyslexia, had no idea of what dyspraxia was, but after looking it up I'm super certain I have it too, because a lot of potential symptoms fit me like a glove, unironically and genuinely thanks ibxtoycat!! You helped me with discovering something new about myself! =D
this might be the best toycat video yet
So I'm a Minecraft villager with adhd
The tism!! Villager
Seems to be the case.
How much for the bread over there?
@DaviNoob11 one emerald for 6 bread
@Astertious- We have a deal
This video was uploaded at the perfect time given that several other creators of high-effort "portrayed by minecraft" videos haven't uploaded in a while.
what? no financial advice as well?
Financial advice with villagers is next week
I was diagnosed with dyspraxia for my mouth as a little kid. I had trouble learning how to pronounce certain letters, especially the Swedish 'R'.
2:00 *flashback to me reinforcing the nether in peaceful so i can safely kill blazes in **_easy mode_*
0:56 This villager mumbling was priceless 😂
Today I learnt that I am a minecraft villager
This is hands down the best video you’ve ever made toycat.. pure entertainment with a slice of education!
ASD man here and I absolutely love this seriously I do ❤️
First time hearing Dyspraxia get a mention from a large youtuber, didn't imagine it would be in a Minecraft vid lol.
Just wanted to say thank you for including it, as it is often forgotten about due to lack of awareness. (Plus having a similar spelling to Dyslexia doesn't help)
Finally, someone has finally gotten back to the roots of the old old old old, old school. I'm talking ooooOoOOoOOOooold school Minecraft videos. Thank you Mr. Cat. This is what I adopted and then put UA-cam thru college for, much obliged. Respect.
As someone with Autism, ADHD, and OCD, I can confirm that this video is actually pretty accurate. I got distracted by the soap cutting video and your voice seemed to trail off, I was satisfied with just looking at the organized crops, and all four of the things listed at the start of the video are things that I find myself doing on a daily basis... Oh wait.
Number 4 - Routine and Repetition. :|
wow, nobody ever mentions Dyspraxia. i feel seen.
1:17 his level is the year the bank robbery take made Stockholm syndrome a thing.
2:18 damn u, I actually just glanced at the SS gameplay 😭
deep down, we're all villagers on the inside
What did he say about ADHD? I was watching the subway surfers and soap cutting clips in the corners. (I have ADHD, I fell for his trap.)
same lol
awe hail naw, not the subway and soap vids on the adhd
I thought my dyslexia would hold me back at poetry, but I was so wrong. So far I've made two jugs and a vase
We're very happy for you
Why do the villagers here sound like fast food drive-in speakers you might find at run-down places?
As a internet schizo this was indeed neurodivergence
legendary youtube recommended pull
3:20 Toycat wth is that sign on the left man
this video is just… i don’t have words to describe it
4:35 "there are always signs" the signs are necessary otherwise we get lost
When you went 2,3,5 I thought you were doing prime numbers and I became happy. My disappointment to see 6 was equally devastating and I now hate you against my will.
My favourite series returns
As someone with both OCD and ADHD, I can’t believe I’m a Minecraft villager.
with every single video i can feel my parasocial relationship towards you getting stronger and this might be my favourite video of yours of all time so far (half of it is about me)
Bro thought he could sneak in 4 without us noticing
Heck yeah, ibxexplainercat is back!
I loved this, please do more
After seeing this video, i can confirm that toycat has every single one of these
I missed this series so much
The return of my favorite series!
Topics explained with Minecraft Villagers!
I love the way subway surfers came on screen when he started explaining ADHD
Finally a Toycat video that represents me
didnt expect to learn i have dyspraxia from a minecraft video
2:17 YOU DIDN'T NEED TO DO THE SUBWAY SURFERS IN THE BACKGROUND 😭 IT GOT ME IMMEDIATELY
I FEEL BRAIN DEAD AFTER THIS
This has got to be one of the best if not the best Toycat video of all time.
I'm now low key panicking that something is going wrong in my own Forever world even though it's not turned on!
That soap shaving thing is so terrible, I forgot how much I hated it until you put it in this video.
This is so bad, that it ends up being a gem.
This video should be classified as a psychological weapon
Pretty good, but I prefer the theory that every Minecraft villager is in fact Squidward Tentacles.
As an AuDHD twice-exceptional dyspraxic parent of an AuDHD dyslexic dyspraxic who was married to a guy with OCD (and probably AuDHD, because that’s how we roll in this family) until he died from polypharmacy-induced esophageal cancer a couple years back, this video illustrates what happens when neurodivergent people try to make videos. 🤪 I don’t approve this message, but I don’t approve at least half of what comes out of my own head, so… 🤷♀️ Do I have evil autism? 🤔 (hmm… 😈)
As someone with ptsd this is very accurate to how I feel when I remember my abuser. Hrr
im dislexic and the sines just make me laf (gave up spelling this one) because i genuinely spell like that as you can tell (some of these words ive tried respelling 10 times then gave up) but this video just felt like a fever dream
ADHD fam in chat?
- ive also got dyscalculia n dysgraphia
Best ToyCat Video
Bro had fun with this video
I really connected with the villagers when they said "hmmm" it's makes me feel seen (jokes aside this is an amazing video and does a some what good job of explaining a lot of these)
Dude, AuDHD, here, and as soon as that coin game came up... I kinda forgot to pay attention to you! Wow, that sucked me in so fast ahahahahaha! 😂🙃😟 The entire ADHD part was wild. Had to go back so many times; it was doing weird things to my brain!!!!!
I have a little of all of these traits so I guess I'm pretty messed up mentally. Thanks for this top tier content. ❤
wait, what if all people in stockholm have stockholm syndrome
think, if you were trapped in ikea you would be happier than if you werent trapped
I subbed. I hope your other 7 thousand videos are just as good.
😂😁
Love these videos! And talking about neurodivergency is a very great idea to relate to your audience!
I am dyslexic and I am glad you acknowledged that dyslexia isn't just about the spelling/reading part
That was interesting, and some of the goofiest stuff I've seen in a hot minute. Thanks for the laugh, and interesting video.
people with ocd on number 10: oh he mentioned ocd, i have that
people with ocd on number 11: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
3:40 about the "leads to different ways of thinking" bit, all forms of neruodivergence do this. Neurodivergents think differently than neurotypicals.
You forgot Bipolar... but I think that one is probably easy to see in-game.
nooo the subway surfers got me. I shifted my eyes to the top left and realized what was happening 😔
I feel like calling them autism representation is bad, people be out here torturing and enslaving them 😭😭
Why didn't you explain autism? I have been diagnosed with autism for 7 years now, but I didn't know what it was until a few weeks ago.
Jesus christ i actually started watching that subway surfers clip without noticing gelp
Exploding TNT returns
4:45 perfect ending 👌
Nice informative video! Hopefully this reaches a lot of people
Hilarious! Great video toycat and team!
toycat this is so peak
Toycat are you ok… ?
Sooo what exactly was the point of this video? It sits bizzarely in between being an overextended bit and actually kind of being educational. But it lacks a punch line to just work as a joke and it has way too many parts where it just brushes past important details or even replaces those with offensive messaging and straight up category errors, so this can't be worthwhile as an educational video either.
You can do a funny and just get every form of neurodivergence blatantly wrong or you can play the title of this video straight and actually try to show the gist of how things can diverge from the neurotypical with the help of Minecraft's villagers.
You can *not* do a half-baked blend between the two like this without instead just ending up only doing harm by way of being confusing/misinformational.
true, videos can only educate or entertain - but should never dare to do both.
@toycat And that's overgeneralizing. The best forms of education are also entertaining. It is specifically what you've done here that you shouldn't do, don't address one topic factually and another jokingly otherwise you'll only end up making a joke out of the latter one. That is something you can not afford to do with something as sensitive as commonly stigmatized elements of mental health!
@@remor698 I think that to truly describe some neurodivergences concisely and accurately is never going to be possible - the humour is a way to help people know enough to later understand, as the ADHD section hopefully proved that a long, factual read will be lost quicker than a short simplification
@toycat Well, it certainly doesn't help to put 3 separate, purposeful distractions on screen during the ADHD explanation. And making autism a worse structured topic than evil autism (to the point I genuinely forgot you actually showed the reasons why villagers can work quite well as autistic representation as is) or just pointing to stereotypical narcissism when approaching NPD, which specifically has a tough time escaping its harmful stereotype, are a couple other fumbles in a similar vein.
It's not impossible to go over these briefly and respectfully without being boring, I in fact managed to get over that stereotype of NPD thanks to someone doing ~1 minute long animations without dialogue, only adding an explanatory paragraph in the description for context. It's just really challenging to do.
If you admit that you don't see a way to give an accurate explanation of the different forms of neurodivergence in this short a video, then why did you even try? This is not the kind of content you can just wing or trial and error your way into making. Either be absolutely sure you know what you're doing in the short form or take the time to make the video as long as you need it in order to be accurate.
It's a special and very complex topic, so it naturally comes with a long list of pitfalls. You just happened to hit one of those - trying to tackle it all too fast.
The war veteran's house got me😆😂
Im having autism, Soo...., what your are saying is that im, technically, a VILLAGER?
Because if so, neat.
My god I've figured it out I'm a Minecraft Vilager!
so i a nerdy minecraft villager with the ticktok diease apparently who is also a linux nerd 🐧 (fedora btw)...