I am a woman with Aspergers who was diagnosed when I was 15 years old which for me was nearly 15 years ago now. It is positive to see that there are good people in this world who are accepting of autism and embrace us for who we are as honestly that is all I have ever wanted in life is feel like I belong that I fit in with everybody else. Autism is what makes me who I am, its okay to be different. We are special individuals :-)
I have level 1 autism, with a speech delay, without an intellectual disability, but I am intelligent. My clinical psychologist said that level 1 autism replaced Aspergers syndrome for two reasons. The main reason is because Hans Asperger was a terrible man and psychologist/psychiatrists no longer want to be associated with his name. The other reason is because Aspergers syndrome and level 1 autism share enough traits that putting both conditions under the same diagnosis made sense.
@@ColorfulBallerina many say I'm intelligent 🧠 but I don't understand why Im told that, especially after I say I have Asperger's, I may just say Level 1 Autism so they can look that up with more clarity, because many say through my poetry it explains a lot. I appreciate your comment
Yes i heard that too from my psychologist but he said that Asperger's can be put in too both lvl 1 and lvl 2 because the both diagnoses are a spectrum and with that comes the individual spectrum of a person. and lvl 3 autism is basically non verbal and other disabilities included.
@@aspiemepoetrybanks6819 I appreciate your comment. If people say you are intelligent you probably are. I questioned why people would say i'm intelligent too. Now that I know how my brain works I understand why I doubted myself. Intelligence looks different in us than it does in neurotypical people.
I did an AQ test years ago and got a 46 out of 50. I realised that’s why I was different to my mates with Asperger’s, i was way up there compared to them. Now I’d imagine they were level 1 whereas I am between a level 2 and 3 like my daughter. I only speak to very few people. Wish I could help with this stuff from a female perspective. We certainly are different. I call us high functioning artists. It can be a lonely world.
Hi, thanks. I never speak to anyone. Have you found any helpful videos for women over 60 being diagnosed? Am waiting for a diagnosis. My female GP, autistic herself, asked me with 2 mins if I had considered I was autistic? It was a huge relief to me that after so many years someone heard me and explained a lot of my behaviours.. Am now awaiting a professional diagnosis, although I don't really know what will change in my life.
Asperger was great for recognising this level of autism, but he was complicit in sentencing many children to die. He saved the autistic children who he decided were intelligent, but he referred children who failed his test to Vienna’s Am Spiegelgrund clinic, which he undoubtedly knew was a centre of ‘child euthanasia’, part of what was later called Aktion T4. This is why people decided to stop using it as a diagnosis term, or generally.
^this, Idk why anyone is so casual with calling themselves after a nazi and I dont get the redundant and outdated seperation with aspergers. Autism is a spectrum, there is no aspergers.
I was diagnosed with ADHD and Aspergers (as my countrys journaling system wasn't updated yet to the latest DSM but I was told and let know that the new system would put me as ASD level 1). I was only diagnosed 6 months before my 40th birthday, shortly before losing even more of my support and burning out completely. I am considered mostly high IQ with some lower levels of language skills (this is most likely due to not speaking or reading my native language as much as I spend using and reading english combined with my dyslexia). I still haven't gotten a grasp of the differences between lvl 1 and 2 yet when it comes to differences in support needs and feel like I need to learn more so I can advocate for myself as I feel like people don't realise I need more support than I currently have available and the support I currently have is in part supposed to be temporary. I understand that it is hard to read someone who can't drop their mask as they don't quite know how to and it's easy to assume that because I can speak properly and articulate quite a bit that I don't need as much support as I feel I do. I understand that this is why I was under the radar until I asked for an evaluation for ADHD (at which point my psychiatrist said she thought it was more likely autism). I currently have to do everything in little bits as I have barely the energy to get out of bed, eat and take my meds so learning right now is slow, but I'm doing my best.
Some people are triggered by terms like "disability" and "high/low functioning", because they have negative implications. You can't really sugar coat a disability. Being near sighted is a disability to see at a distance. Being in a wheel chair, is a disability to walk. Low functioning means that there are some tasks that you can't perform easily on your own. It is what it is.
I have been diagnosed with ADHD. I find Autism and ADHD more alike than different. I have sensory issues with textures and sound. Most differences I think are only separated by why it is done. I don’t want structure but I need it to be more successful. I fidget to help focus. Movement helps me on one task and can be calming. Maybe they both are on the same spectrum.
My son was diagnosed with autism 1 without adhd. After a couple of years I asked the psychologist to test him for adhd. After weeks of testing, he said my son has autism 1 but not adhd.
Branching off this video, could you do a video on how the 3 levels of ASD can change throughout life? My son was diagnosed at level 3 at age 3 but is now considered level 1. I don’t know if this is just something that can happen or if therapy support helped push this progress?
"Codswallop"...interesting term. Similar to our "hogwash". I always love learning new british slang. I just learned "cant be arsed" the other week lol one of my special interests is the different ways that different english speaking countries use the same language. Also, i think that the symptoms of ADHD and autism have enough overlap to cause diagnostic confusion. Not necessarily that all autists have ADHD as well. Autism has a way of masquerading as other conditions.
I don't think it's about inferior or superiority. It's about truth. If I put myself under the same label as someone who is non verbal, really struggles and needs life long care, it feels very disingenuous and somewhat tasteless for me to do that. If I say to a mainstream person I have Asperges, it makes more sense to them. They know I might have some quirks or differences, and might have some really good strengths too. The elephant in the room for maimstream people is the use of victimhood in an authoritarian way. Eg " I have this diagnosis so you must do everything I say or else you are an ignorant and bad person. " This is a massive red flag to people and pushes people away. So to put myself under the same label as someone who is non verbal and may need life long care sounds like I might be angling for victimhood control. Generally I say I have ADHD if I mention anything at all. And rarely mention my Asperges. And just joke that I am a bit of a punk or goth weirdo. 😆. And leave it at that.
Totally agree. A diagnosis is a diagnosis, and you work with it. I find the "feelings" mentality causes MORE issues than simply the diagnosis itself. If it's such a problem being "labeled", either don't label it at all or you could coin the term HFA. Say you have HFA and you'll certainly get a quizzical look! 😂
There’s people I have met that seem to only fit in the current autism mold and not the current ADHD mold. I think it is very common for an autistic person to fit into the ADHD mold but it isn’t 100%
I have undiagnosed level 1 autism which was ruled out by a doctor but he wasn’t specialized in it. I experienced and still experience trouble with social interaction, hypersensitivity to specific sounds, textures, and material. Eye contact is uncomfortable unless I’m provoked, frustrated, or just straight up angry. I take things literally and need more context when giving directions or trying to find something. I learn by a step by step process. Breaking down the topic and walking me through it and with an example or two of how it’s done. When I get stressed, it affects my stomach. I start feeling nauseous, and when Im in large crowds, I can get irritable; overstimulated and I have to go to a much quieter spot to calm down and reset. Sensory overload because once I feel stressed, anxious, overwhelmed or overstimulated, I do not want to be touched otherwise the tingling feeling is like a shockwave throughout my body. I love soft material like cotton, and lovely smells like the smell used by swiffer to clean the floor, that “clean laundry” smell. Or fruity smells like orange. It’s so soothing to me. I always feel the need to look at something so intensely where I block everything out to focus on that one thing. Like a leaf, or sunflower, floor tile pattern, anything that has an interesting pattern or texture to it, I just feel the need to look at it in every single angle and possibly touch it to feel it. But I hate sandpaper and the feeling of sap in my hands. So wet sand, tree sap, honey, funtac, clay…nothing sticky like glue, or from the hot glue gun. I have to put on earbuds to muffle the sound of cars going by, airplanes, car engines, trains, rustling of the leaves, things like that just bother me. If I start feeling overstimulated, I need that one quiet area like my room to go to and reset. I also LOVE routine, steady schedule, and just doing the same thing every day. And monologuing? I talk my best friend to death and if I were to be interrupted I get frustrated. Cuz then I lose my train of thought and have to redo the entire process again. Combine this with ADHD, and it’s like my neurons are having a conversation on what to they wanna do. I could be walking. I look at a leaf, one side wants to take the leaf and look at it for 30 min, but the other half wants to keep walking and let the eyes wander looking at everything outside. Looking at one thing then 5 seconds later look at something else, bounce around different topics in my brain, think about multiple things, try different things but master none of them. All because the spontaneity of trying something new is exciting to me. But then I get bored after like 15 minutes and wanna do something else. However, autism is usually known for hyperfocusing and having few special interests that are done as if they were an obsession. But there’s just so much passion it’s like all you wanna do and talk about until you mastered it, then try something else to master that. It’s very exhausting. Once I found out autism, what it is, checking out the different tests on autism, doing them 3 times each to make sure, then looking back on all the behaviors I exhibited, how I reacted to them, and checked autism again even on videos like this, it was like…a moment of relief; of clarity where I felt it all makes sense. Like a weight was lifted off my chest. I didn’t just wake up one morning and go, “oh I might have autism” no. It was lifelong for 21 years since I was 8. I’m 29 now. I had a bad stutter, was almost nonverbal out of choice so I wouldn’t be picked on for stuttering. So I needed the speech class, social work, empathy sessions, essentially E.S.L. stuff because I needed the extra help and time. Plus I was masking without even knowing what I was masking for. I always felt and feel the urge to flap my hands so I open and close my hands or talk with my hands. I vocal stim by humming either a favorite song, or songs I heard before on the radio, or ones that are just interesting. I’ll start shaking my leg or tapping my foot when irritable. Calming music helps too, but these stims I’ll always have or feel the urge to do, so I try to make sure I bring my fidget spinner cuz I just don’t feel comfortable stimming in public.
Interesting theory on prevalence with ASD (+/- Asperger’s) and ADHD. I have interacted with many late diagnosed women with ADHD who either are AUDHD or are deeply suspicious of being both, and I see such a huge overlap with common traits, more so with women, because so many of their behavior manifested in ways much less socially acceptable for girls than boys. We were punished and ostracized at a much higher frequency. As a result, I think we suppressed the ASD so far down, we don’t even know that innate original part of ourselves that we were meant to be. The inevitable result is women with both get diagnose pd with ADHD only, because even the mental health professional doesn’t see it. The ADHD traits are so much easier to use to our advantage. Women can easily be artists, actors, writers, but still not engineers, surgeons, or have other careers with a higher percentage of men with ASD. For example, I still think the old reference to the quirky or odd math/physics professor brings a stereotypical image of a middle aged man, never woman. She didn’t get the position.
Thx for this video. I have been diagnosed with autism lvl 1 and adhd combined form( I don't know if that is how you say it in English, I'm from Sweden) my adhd is basically a combo of hyperactivity and no hyperactivity and in a scale I think that I have medium severe adhd , here in Sweden we have a little different label or words, like " medel svår" svår= hard, severe etc "medel= medium, middle" and that makes it hard to translate it correctly into English
Officially in the US we don’t use functioning levels or Aspergers anymore and instead use 1/2/3 for support needs since the DSM upgrade in 2013. You will still here people use functioning labels and Asperger’s but we aren’t supposed to anymore
I like support needs better. I think the current dsm5 levels no longer use "functioning" and instead refer to each level as requirining a certain level of support for each individual.
I don’t know my level all I know is I was diagnosed at 2 with high functioning in 2011 and I took an IQ test. I had lots of language delays that eventually went away and I would say that I’m above average in language now, but then when I got to around middle school I started to excel in school. I would like to get like a reclassification to see where I’m at on the spectrum because I have no Idea. I don’t know what’s considered intelligent either because doing well in school is necessarily a decider for that. Autism is such a wide spectrum and everyone is so different I find it very interesting.
I was diagnosed with "Aspergers Syndrome" over 20 years ago, so I have no idea on the ASD level. Since nothing was said about ADHD, I am assuming it would be negative. Maybe they did not know about an Autism and ADHD connection back then. While far from scientific I looked up the symptoms of ADHD and there are a few symptoms that I have to a small degree, but a lot of them I am more toward the opposite.
20 years ago it wasn’t possible to be diagnosed with autism and ADHD. It was only in 2015 that DSM V acknowledged that it’s possible. There is a huge debate about the diagnosis of and subsequent categorisation of autism, ADHD and other states. If you want to know more - and there is a great deal more that’s very relevant to you - check out ‘neurodiversity movement’. It takes a radically different perspective starting with the premise that there is such a thing a neurodivergent brain. That brain is physically and functionally different from a neurotypical brain. Autistic people as well as those with ADHD etc have a neurodivergent brain. Research support the estimate that around 20% of the general population are neurodivergent. Both autism and ADHD are badly derived names and an inaccurate description of the things they’re supposed to describe. So much of things around autism and ADHD is controlled by power, politics and money. Thanks so much more you should know about, that we all should know about. Go on Google neurodiversity movement.
Thank you so much for taking the time to provide me with your wealth of information. I had no idea. I am definitely going to be spending time studying the "neurodiversity movement." I did a quick search and there is enough to keep me busy for quite some time. Thanks again and peace.
I thought the term Asperger's was going away, I guess not, because it keeps coming around, obvious the word needs to stay, just my thoughts. Thanks for your video 🎉🎉🎉
@@aspiemepoetrybanks6819 I must admit that I identified nearly two decades ago as Asperger's. I feel now that me using the word autistic is unfair to those who are deeply affected by it. 🥺
@grooviechickie I do too 🎉 and my name I created myself after I was diagnosed in 2017 with Asperger's because I write poetry mainly to communicate and someday I hope to learn to express myself without poetry or tearing up as I try and get information done, only poetry makes it fun, especially when I get inspired
It did go away but that doesn’t mean people still don’t know what you are talking about when you say Asperger’s these medical professionals didn’t start yesterday.
@@grooviechickieThat’s like saying it’s unfair for people with diabetes type 2 to call themselves diabetic because those with diabetes type 1 have it worse. There are different support needs for autism but nobody is more or less autistic than another. It sort of sounds like internalised ableism where you don’t want to be seen as “bad” as other autistic people.
@specialuset8022 no, it's not that. I just feel it may be unfair to use the term if I'm not struggling as much as others. I don't know if I'm making it worse by saying this! I don't mean any disrespect.
What about the, apparently, bigger difference between Autism and Asperger’s in that Autism is due to the late (under) development of a child’s brain and Asperger’s is due to the early (over) development of a child’s brain. The ‘spectrum’ element therefore includes everyone. Why can’t the social interaction differences be unrelated to either? Many humans have ‘difficulties’ in social interaction due to shyness, being introverted, upbringing, IQ etc etc.
@@grooviechickie, Tony Atwood who lectured and wrote a lot. It is the lumping ‘classical’ Autism and Asperger’s together by the USA that led to him because something the USA does for convenience (which it does quite often) doesn’t seem to be based on the high level of peer reviewed research that should be standard practice. I might be wrong but Dr. Attwood’s research seems to cover my wife and myself’s experience as a self diagnosed Asperger neurodivergent humans. More research needed rather than just accept the USA’s word on the matter. Or have Dr. Atwood’s writings been proved wrong? If so where is that study?
@@ariebirb Tony Atwood who lectured and wrote a lot. It is the lumping ‘classical’ Autism and Asperger’s together by the USA that led to him because something the USA does for convenience (which it does quite often) doesn’t seem to be based on the high level of peer reviewed research that should be standard practice. I might be wrong but Dr. Attwood’s research seems to cover my wife and myself’s experience as a self diagnosed Asperger neurodivergent humans. More research needed rather than just accept the USA’s word on the matter. Or have Dr. Atwood’s writings been proved wrong? If so where is that study?
@@johnkellett7797where are the published, peer reviewed studies confirming Dr. Attwood’s theories? I would not site him as a primary source. He’s pretty questionable.
I agree with the statement to a degree.. having been diagnosed with autism you could also have ADHD characteristics or traits. but not necessarily having autism if you’re diagnosed with ADHD
Thats just wrong. I'm autistic and I don't have adhd. Adhd is a co morbidity of autism but you do not automatically have it. Ask any medical professional who's trained in it and find out how wrong you are
I don’t know if *everybody* with autism also has adhd, but the current research suggests that around 50% of people with asd may also have adhd and only around 20-30% of people with adhd also have autism.
i disagree that all people with autism have adhd - im diagnosed with autism and nvld - which nvld is very similar to adhd and autism - the main differenece is that nvld is known as right hemisphere brain damage and there is no medication that can help with brain damage because brain damage is brain damage and a chemical imbalance ( like adhd can be helped with meds) - and people with nvld have poor visual spatial awarness, gross motor skills, fine motor skill issues visual memory issues and visual processing issues and people with adhd do not - and when drs thought i had adhd - the meds made me worse because nvld responds neg to all meds
will you tell people that either high-functioning or you have Asperger's or you have autism. Belle go home and look it up on their own time try to since I don't understand the history of it or anything. they'll see that it says that it's autism. and then they will look up like the symptoms of it things like that and they'll see that it's labeled under autism and then all the sudden no matter what it's just autism and like there is a different varieties of it.
I do think there is different types of autism. We will know that when scans are more detailed. I used to say i have aspergers but i now say autism. I have met so called high functioning autism. They all do some things better than me. They are not clumsy, they are very physical and agile. They don't have aspie eyes. They suddenly spoke at the age of say 4. As I spoke at the age of one with full sentences. I don't think we are the same.
I was 32 went to rehab because alcohol like gave me some dopamine and they said you turned up different and I'm like how different And then they made me take the test again so I just gave them the answers they wanted to hear
@ I was diagnosed at an autism center at the local university, not self diagnosed, but, yeah, I do not have ADHD. I do have hyper focus and several other hypersensitive traits typical of ASD.
I have tried to fit myself into the mold of adhd, but I cannot. I have Asperger’s/Level 1 Autism. There is some overlap between the two such as hyper focus, but the core differences are real and I cannot squeeze myself into it. I’m too organized to have adhd. I despise being late so I rarely am. I can multitask successfully. Someone with ADHD would really struggle with any of those.
It’s not the only reason. Asperger was involved with the Nazis and therefore there were some serious negative connotations in associating people with a neurodivergence and a Nazi… it can be touchy with some people. I don’t care what people call my diagnosis: Asperger’s or ASD. A lot of people still better understand if you say Asperger’s so I usually say Asperger’s. I’m ASD with ADHD, cPTSD, GAD, MDD, and Val108/158Met Met/Met Homogenous genetic variant (low COMT).
@@ThroughTheLensOfAutism He is saying they are categorized under the same umbrella of symptoms, i.e., autism. Asperger’s is a form of autism. The US stopped using this term and just made levels of autism instead.
I'm almost Seventy and have never been diagnosed with ASD but I've always known that I was alone in the world because my brain functioned much faster than most people around me. I am not the smartest person around but then I spent years through school and afterwards dumbing myself down so that I could fit in just a little bit but, I have an analytically biased mind that allows me to see patterns and mathematical anomalies quickly. I don't have any tic's that I am aware of, but I am very aware of myself mimicking emotions, or I suppose you could say that I mask a lot. As a rule, I much prefer to be alone and it's not that I don't like people, it's just that I am not interested in anything that most people seem to be, and they certainly are not interested in anything I have to say. Most people look at me as if I came from another planet when I try to involve myself in their conversations.
As a very late diagnosed only in the last year, the biggest issue I have with grouping a massive spectrum of people into one diagnosis name, is that it becomes meaningless. We need to type the different classes so it makes meaningful sense. I should be an Aspie and that is the label I resonate with. When I search studies, I’m able to find studies relevant to my sub type when the Aspie label use to exist, but all recent studies on autism are not relevant as they appear to largely focus on the ASD level 3 end of the spectrum. So as a newly diagnosed ASD 1 I can’t find recent research studies that are applicable to me. My type has just been forgotten and any research is now buried in a mass of ASD research when one now has to scroll and read through hundreds of studies hoping to stumble on one that may be relevant. I feel that ASD should be sliced and diced into numerous categories across multiple dimensions to make greater meaning. I’m sure a group of Aspies that have been researching this for many years could easily propose such helpful categorizations. At the end of the day, is ASD level 3 really that much different to saying low functioning, when everyone knows that’s what it means? I thought autistics were about facts not feelings, so are the people that are offended actually the people around the autistics?
I read, "Asparagus vs High Functioning Autism?" I thought, HFA isn't THAT bad. Lol I really hate asparagus. You can wrap it im bacon and bbq it and I still can't choke it down so there was no real choice. As is the case with everyone else with it!
Asperger’s and “High and Low” functioning terms are inaccurate. It makes most sense to me that Autism is Autism across everything. You can’t be less or more autistic. There are levels to Autism spectrum disorder but that’s not necessarily a more or less thing it helps over people understand how much outside support you need. I am Autistic in the Level 2 support area. Some days are better some are worse.
@@TheAspieWorld you are more of a hero for makeing these videos because the miss mis info about ASD and things like it going around and the lack of awareness really pees me off as a autistic and dispraxic individual to see and experiance it and people lile you spread the real side of asd and the info about it instead of the steriotype ty for the wor
I don't agree with the term Autism Spectrum Disorder. Just diagnose it Autism. If I am overweight, we don't call that overweight spectrum disorder, we call it overweight. If someone has hypertension, we don't call it Hypertension Spectrum Disorder, we call it hypertension. And to classify Autism as either high functioning or low functioning is fine. If someone is offended by that, so be it. At least a more specific diagnosis gives the patient more information.
I agree. When I had kidney cancer the doctor diagnosed the type of cancer and cured it (hopefully). I also don't like the "Disorder" part. I suspect people that need support and financial aid might have an easier time if it were more clearly defined.
@@PunkySpunky The Clevland Clinic disagrees with you and I am going to have to side with the Clevland Clinic. From the Clevland Clinic website "Cancer is a genetic disorder. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's inherited. It happens when genes that manage cell activity mutate (change). They create ..."
this is incorrect please see this detail analysis's of the 2018 paper on this very subject about Hans: ua-cam.com/video/gytPftZSCSQ/v-deo.htmlsi=F0fy32ufTXQIRrqm
I have yet to see any proof that he was a sympathizer. He never joined the Nazi party. He was almost arrested by the Gestapo twice. I understand that he transferred two children that were later murdered. One of the two was at the request of the child's parents.
@@TheAspieWorld The BMC published a journal on this in 2018 (updated in 2021) number "s13229-018-0208-6" which stated that (N* replacing problematic word) which appears to be what you are citing and actually says he's worse than that: "Asperger managed to accommodate himself to the N* regime and was rewarded for his affirmations of loyalty with career opportunities. He joined several organizations affiliated with the NSDAP (although not the N* party itself), publicly legitimized race hygiene policies including forced sterilizations and, on several occasions, actively cooperated with the child ‘euthanasia’ program. The language he employed to diagnose his patients was often remarkably harsh (even in comparison with assessments written by the staff at Vienna’s notorious Spiegelgrund ‘euthanasia’ institution), belying the notion that he tried to protect the children under his care by embellishing their diagnoses." It concluded that: "The narrative of Asperger as a principled opponent of National Socialism and a courageous defender of his patients against N* ‘euthanasia’ and other race hygiene measures does not hold up in the face of the historical evidence. What emerges is a much more problematic role played by this pioneer of autism research. Future use of the eponym should reflect the troubling context of its origins in N*-era Vienna."
Really Dan? This isn’t your finest video. Not by a long way. You need to do a lot more research. Look at the comments you’re getting. Knee jerk “my opinion and I’m stickin’ by it” from way too many people. Shame.
I am a woman with Aspergers who was diagnosed when I was 15 years old which for me was nearly 15 years ago now. It is positive to see that there are good people in this world who are accepting of autism and embrace us for who we are as honestly that is all I have ever wanted in life is feel like I belong that I fit in with everybody else. Autism is what makes me who I am, its okay to be different. We are special individuals :-)
Asperger’s is outdated term please learn how it is outdated and tie to the nazi
I have level 1 autism, with a speech delay, without an intellectual disability, but I am intelligent. My clinical psychologist said that level 1 autism replaced Aspergers syndrome for two reasons. The main reason is because Hans Asperger was a terrible man and psychologist/psychiatrists no longer want to be associated with his name. The other reason is because Aspergers syndrome and level 1 autism share enough traits that putting both conditions under the same diagnosis made sense.
@@ColorfulBallerina many say I'm intelligent 🧠 but I don't understand why Im told that, especially after I say I have Asperger's, I may just say Level 1 Autism so they can look that up with more clarity, because many say through my poetry it explains a lot. I appreciate your comment
Yes i heard that too from my psychologist but he said that Asperger's can be put in too both lvl 1 and lvl 2 because the both diagnoses are a spectrum and with that comes the individual spectrum of a person.
and lvl 3 autism is basically non verbal and other disabilities included.
@@Sabatonrex Correct. Also, level 3's ability to socialize is a lot more restricted.
@@aspiemepoetrybanks6819 I appreciate your comment. If people say you are intelligent you probably are. I questioned why people would say i'm intelligent too. Now that I know how my brain works I understand why I doubted myself. Intelligence looks different in us than it does in neurotypical people.
Carn’t you just say Asperger Syndrome and autism as two separate disorders again. 😢
I did an AQ test years ago and got a 46 out of 50. I realised that’s why I was different to my mates with Asperger’s, i was way up there compared to them. Now I’d imagine they were level 1 whereas I am between a level 2 and 3 like my daughter. I only speak to very few people. Wish I could help with this stuff from a female perspective. We certainly are different. I call us high functioning artists. It can be a lonely world.
Hi, thanks. I never speak to anyone. Have you found any helpful videos for women over 60 being diagnosed? Am waiting for a diagnosis. My female GP, autistic herself, asked me with 2 mins if I had considered I was autistic? It was a huge relief to me that after so many years someone heard me and explained a lot of my behaviours.. Am now awaiting a professional diagnosis, although I don't really know what will change in my life.
Asperger was great for recognising this level of autism, but he was complicit in sentencing many children to die. He saved the autistic children who he decided were intelligent, but he referred children who failed his test to Vienna’s Am Spiegelgrund clinic, which he undoubtedly knew was a centre of ‘child euthanasia’, part of what was later called Aktion T4. This is why people decided to stop using it as a diagnosis term, or generally.
^this, Idk why anyone is so casual with calling themselves after a nazi and I dont get the redundant and outdated seperation with aspergers. Autism is a spectrum, there is no aspergers.
@@UffNikname Thank you, I don't understand it either. It isn't an official term anywhere anymore.
I was diagnosed with ADHD and Aspergers (as my countrys journaling system wasn't updated yet to the latest DSM but I was told and let know that the new system would put me as ASD level 1). I was only diagnosed 6 months before my 40th birthday, shortly before losing even more of my support and burning out completely. I am considered mostly high IQ with some lower levels of language skills (this is most likely due to not speaking or reading my native language as much as I spend using and reading english combined with my dyslexia). I still haven't gotten a grasp of the differences between lvl 1 and 2 yet when it comes to differences in support needs and feel like I need to learn more so I can advocate for myself as I feel like people don't realise I need more support than I currently have available and the support I currently have is in part supposed to be temporary. I understand that it is hard to read someone who can't drop their mask as they don't quite know how to and it's easy to assume that because I can speak properly and articulate quite a bit that I don't need as much support as I feel I do. I understand that this is why I was under the radar until I asked for an evaluation for ADHD (at which point my psychiatrist said she thought it was more likely autism). I currently have to do everything in little bits as I have barely the energy to get out of bed, eat and take my meds so learning right now is slow, but I'm doing my best.
Some people are triggered by terms like "disability" and "high/low functioning", because they have negative implications. You can't really sugar coat a disability. Being near sighted is a disability to see at a distance. Being in a wheel chair, is a disability to walk. Low functioning means that there are some tasks that you can't perform easily on your own. It is what it is.
I have been diagnosed with ADHD. I find Autism and ADHD more alike than different. I have sensory issues with textures and sound. Most differences I think are only separated by why it is done. I don’t want structure but I need it to be more successful. I fidget to help focus. Movement helps me on one task and can be calming. Maybe they both are on the same spectrum.
My son was diagnosed with autism 1 without adhd. After a couple of years I asked the psychologist to test him for adhd. After weeks of testing, he said my son has autism 1 but not adhd.
Branching off this video, could you do a video on how the 3 levels of ASD can change throughout life?
My son was diagnosed at level 3 at age 3 but is now considered level 1. I don’t know if this is just something that can happen or if therapy support helped push this progress?
"Codswallop"...interesting term. Similar to our "hogwash". I always love learning new british slang. I just learned "cant be arsed" the other week lol one of my special interests is the different ways that different english speaking countries use the same language. Also, i think that the symptoms of ADHD and autism have enough overlap to cause diagnostic confusion. Not necessarily that all autists have ADHD as well. Autism has a way of masquerading as other conditions.
Same!
I don't think it's about inferior or superiority. It's about truth. If I put myself under the same label as someone who is non verbal, really struggles and needs life long care, it feels very disingenuous and somewhat tasteless for me to do that.
If I say to a mainstream person I have Asperges, it makes more sense to them. They know I might have some quirks or differences, and might have some really good strengths too.
The elephant in the room for maimstream people is the use of victimhood in an authoritarian way. Eg
" I have this diagnosis so you must do everything I say or else you are an ignorant and bad person. "
This is a massive red flag to people and pushes people away.
So to put myself under the same label as someone who is non verbal and may need life long care sounds like I might be angling for victimhood control.
Generally I say I have ADHD if I mention anything at all. And rarely mention my Asperges. And just joke that I am a bit of a punk or goth weirdo. 😆. And leave it at that.
Totally agree. A diagnosis is a diagnosis, and you work with it. I find the "feelings" mentality causes MORE issues than simply the diagnosis itself. If it's such a problem being "labeled", either don't label it at all or you could coin the term HFA.
Say you have HFA and you'll certainly get a quizzical look! 😂
Thank you for having a brain.
There’s people I have met that seem to only fit in the current autism mold and not the current ADHD mold. I think it is very common for an autistic person to fit into the ADHD mold but it isn’t 100%
I have undiagnosed level 1 autism which was ruled out by a doctor but he wasn’t specialized in it. I experienced and still experience trouble with social interaction, hypersensitivity to specific sounds, textures, and material. Eye contact is uncomfortable unless I’m provoked, frustrated, or just straight up angry.
I take things literally and need more context when giving directions or trying to find something. I learn by a step by step process. Breaking down the topic and walking me through it and with an example or two of how it’s done.
When I get stressed, it affects my stomach. I start feeling nauseous, and when Im in large crowds, I can get irritable; overstimulated and I have to go to a much quieter spot to calm down and reset. Sensory overload because once I feel stressed, anxious, overwhelmed or overstimulated, I do not want to be touched otherwise the tingling feeling is like a shockwave throughout my body.
I love soft material like cotton, and lovely smells like the smell used by swiffer to clean the floor, that “clean laundry” smell. Or fruity smells like orange. It’s so soothing to me. I always feel the need to look at something so intensely where I block everything out to focus on that one thing.
Like a leaf, or sunflower, floor tile pattern, anything that has an interesting pattern or texture to it, I just feel the need to look at it in every single angle and possibly touch it to feel it. But I hate sandpaper and the feeling of sap in my hands. So wet sand, tree sap, honey, funtac, clay…nothing sticky like glue, or from the hot glue gun. I have to put on earbuds to muffle the sound of cars going by, airplanes, car engines, trains, rustling of the leaves, things like that just bother me. If I start feeling overstimulated, I need that one quiet area like my room to go to and reset.
I also LOVE routine, steady schedule, and just doing the same thing every day. And monologuing? I talk my best friend to death and if I were to be interrupted I get frustrated. Cuz then I lose my train of thought and have to redo the entire process again.
Combine this with ADHD, and it’s like my neurons are having a conversation on what to they wanna do. I could be walking. I look at a leaf, one side wants to take the leaf and look at it for 30 min, but the other half wants to keep walking and let the eyes wander looking at everything outside. Looking at one thing then 5 seconds later look at something else, bounce around different topics in my brain, think about multiple things, try different things but master none of them. All because the spontaneity of trying something new is exciting to me.
But then I get bored after like 15 minutes and wanna do something else. However, autism is usually known for hyperfocusing and having few special interests that are done as if they were an obsession. But there’s just so much passion it’s like all you wanna do and talk about until you mastered it, then try something else to master that.
It’s very exhausting.
Once I found out autism, what it is, checking out the different tests on autism, doing them 3 times each to make sure, then looking back on all the behaviors I exhibited, how I reacted to them, and checked autism again even on videos like this, it was like…a moment of relief; of clarity where I felt it all makes sense. Like a weight was lifted off my chest.
I didn’t just wake up one morning and go, “oh I might have autism” no. It was lifelong for 21 years since I was 8. I’m 29 now. I had a bad stutter, was almost nonverbal out of choice so I wouldn’t be picked on for stuttering. So I needed the speech class, social work, empathy sessions, essentially E.S.L. stuff because I needed the extra help and time. Plus I was masking without even knowing what I was masking for. I always felt and feel the urge to flap my hands so I open and close my hands or talk with my hands. I vocal stim by humming either a favorite song, or songs I heard before on the radio, or ones that are just interesting. I’ll start shaking my leg or tapping my foot when irritable. Calming music helps too, but these stims I’ll always have or feel the urge to do, so I try to make sure I bring my fidget spinner cuz I just don’t feel comfortable stimming in public.
Interesting theory on prevalence with ASD (+/- Asperger’s) and ADHD. I have interacted with many late diagnosed women with ADHD who either are AUDHD or are deeply suspicious of being both, and I see such a huge overlap with common traits, more so with women, because so many of their behavior manifested in ways much less socially acceptable for girls than boys. We were punished and ostracized at a much higher frequency. As a result, I think we suppressed the ASD so far down, we don’t even know that innate original part of ourselves that we were meant to be. The inevitable result is women with both get diagnose pd with ADHD only, because even the mental health professional doesn’t see it. The ADHD traits are so much easier to use to our advantage. Women can easily be artists, actors, writers, but still not engineers, surgeons, or have other careers with a higher percentage of men with ASD. For example, I still think the old reference to the quirky or odd math/physics professor brings a stereotypical image of a middle aged man, never woman. She didn’t get the position.
Happy Turkey Day, Dan!
Thank you!
There’s also a Sensory Processing Disorder as well !!!
Thx for this video.
I have been diagnosed with autism lvl 1 and adhd combined form( I don't know if that is how you say it in English, I'm from Sweden) my adhd is basically a combo of hyperactivity and no hyperactivity and in a scale I think that I have medium severe adhd , here in Sweden we have a little different label or words, like " medel svår" svår= hard, severe etc "medel= medium, middle" and that makes it hard to translate it correctly into English
In Sweden we do not use High level. We only use autism level 1,2,3.
interesting!
Officially in the US we don’t use functioning levels or Aspergers anymore and instead use 1/2/3 for support needs since the DSM upgrade in 2013. You will still here people use functioning labels and Asperger’s but we aren’t supposed to anymore
I hate functioning labels
Yet we need labels to function.
@@YesBruv105except they don’t work
I like support needs better. I think the current dsm5 levels no longer use "functioning" and instead refer to each level as requirining a certain level of support for each individual.
@@juliazalewski3023 Exactly. I function at different levels on different days lol
I don’t know my level all I know is I was diagnosed at 2 with high functioning in 2011 and I took an IQ test. I had lots of language delays that eventually went away and I would say that I’m above average in language now, but then when I got to around middle school I started to excel in school. I would like to get like a reclassification to see where I’m at on the spectrum because I have no Idea. I don’t know what’s considered intelligent either because doing well in school is necessarily a decider for that. Autism is such a wide spectrum and everyone is so different I find it very interesting.
I have ASD1, but definitely not ADHD.
I was diagnosed with "Aspergers Syndrome" over 20 years ago, so I have no idea on the ASD level. Since nothing was said about ADHD,
I am assuming it would be negative. Maybe they did not know about an Autism and ADHD connection back then. While far from scientific I looked up the symptoms of ADHD and there are a few symptoms that I have to a small degree, but a lot of them I am more toward the opposite.
20 years ago it wasn’t possible to be diagnosed with autism and ADHD. It was only in 2015 that DSM V acknowledged that it’s possible. There is a huge debate about the diagnosis of and subsequent categorisation of autism, ADHD and other states. If you want to know more - and there is a great deal more that’s very relevant to you - check out ‘neurodiversity movement’. It takes a radically different perspective starting with the premise that there is such a thing a neurodivergent brain. That brain is physically and functionally different from a neurotypical brain. Autistic people as well as those with ADHD etc have a neurodivergent brain. Research support the estimate that around 20% of the general population are neurodivergent. Both autism and ADHD are badly derived names and an inaccurate description of the things they’re supposed to describe. So much of things around autism and ADHD is controlled by power, politics and money. Thanks so much more you should know about, that we all should know about. Go on Google neurodiversity movement.
Thank you so much for taking the time to provide me with your wealth of information. I had no idea. I am definitely going to be spending time studying the "neurodiversity movement." I did a quick search and there is enough to keep me busy for quite some time. Thanks again and peace.
@@Ohsqwheezleinteresting because I was in fact diagnosed with both in 1996.
In the states, what Dr does the diagnosing for an adult?
Thank you.
I thought the term Asperger's was going away, I guess not, because it keeps coming around, obvious the word needs to stay, just my thoughts. Thanks for your video 🎉🎉🎉
@@aspiemepoetrybanks6819 I must admit that I identified nearly two decades ago as Asperger's. I feel now that me using the word autistic is unfair to those who are deeply affected by it. 🥺
@grooviechickie I do too 🎉 and my name I created myself after I was diagnosed in 2017 with Asperger's because I write poetry mainly to communicate and someday I hope to learn to express myself without poetry or tearing up as I try and get information done, only poetry makes it fun, especially when I get inspired
It did go away but that doesn’t mean people still don’t know what you are talking about when you say Asperger’s these medical professionals didn’t start yesterday.
@@grooviechickieThat’s like saying it’s unfair for people with diabetes type 2 to call themselves diabetic because those with diabetes type 1 have it worse. There are different support needs for autism but nobody is more or less autistic than another. It sort of sounds like internalised ableism where you don’t want to be seen as “bad” as other autistic people.
@specialuset8022 no, it's not that. I just feel it may be unfair to use the term if I'm not struggling as much as others. I don't know if I'm making it worse by saying this! I don't mean any disrespect.
Think u hit the nail on the head bro 👍🏻
What about the, apparently, bigger difference between Autism and Asperger’s in that Autism is due to the late (under) development of a child’s brain and Asperger’s is due to the early (over) development of a child’s brain. The ‘spectrum’ element therefore includes everyone. Why can’t the social interaction differences be unrelated to either? Many humans have ‘difficulties’ in social interaction due to shyness, being introverted, upbringing, IQ etc etc.
That's an interesting theory. Where did you read that? I'm fascinated.
so um? i have never heard this before, can you link the study where you read that?
@@grooviechickie, Tony Atwood who lectured and wrote a lot. It is the lumping ‘classical’ Autism and Asperger’s together by the USA that led to him because something the USA does for convenience (which it does quite often) doesn’t seem to be based on the high level of peer reviewed research that should be standard practice. I might be wrong but Dr. Attwood’s research seems to cover my wife and myself’s experience as a self diagnosed Asperger neurodivergent humans. More research needed rather than just accept the USA’s word on the matter.
Or have Dr. Atwood’s writings been proved wrong? If so where is that study?
@@ariebirb Tony Atwood who lectured and wrote a lot. It is the lumping ‘classical’ Autism and Asperger’s together by the USA that led to him because something the USA does for convenience (which it does quite often) doesn’t seem to be based on the high level of peer reviewed research that should be standard practice. I might be wrong but Dr. Attwood’s research seems to cover my wife and myself’s experience as a self diagnosed Asperger neurodivergent humans. More research needed rather than just accept the USA’s word on the matter.
Or have Dr. Atwood’s writings been proved wrong? If so where is that study?
@@johnkellett7797where are the published, peer reviewed studies confirming Dr. Attwood’s theories? I would not site him as a primary source. He’s pretty questionable.
I agree with the statement to a degree.. having been diagnosed with autism you could also have ADHD characteristics or traits. but not necessarily having autism if you’re diagnosed with ADHD
I disagree. I am autistic but am not ADHD. I have really looked into this because both are in my family.
Thats just wrong. I'm autistic and I don't have adhd. Adhd is a co morbidity of autism but you do not automatically have it. Ask any medical professional who's trained in it and find out how wrong you are
Im recently very late diagnosed L2 Autistic at 45.
I don’t know if *everybody* with autism also has adhd, but the current research suggests that around 50% of people with asd may also have adhd and only around 20-30% of people with adhd also have autism.
i disagree that all people with autism have adhd - im diagnosed with autism and nvld - which nvld is very similar to adhd and autism - the main differenece is that nvld is known as right hemisphere brain damage and there is no medication that can help with brain damage because brain damage is brain damage and a chemical imbalance ( like adhd can be helped with meds) - and people with nvld have poor visual spatial awarness, gross motor skills, fine motor skill issues visual memory issues and visual processing issues and people with adhd do not - and when drs thought i had adhd - the meds made me worse because nvld responds neg to all meds
will you tell people that either high-functioning or you have Asperger's or you have autism. Belle go home and look it up on their own time try to since I don't understand the history of it or anything. they'll see that it says that it's autism. and then they will look up like the symptoms of it things like that and they'll see that it's labeled under autism and then all the sudden no matter what it's just autism and like there is a different varieties of it.
I do think there is different types of autism. We will know that when scans are more detailed. I used to say i have aspergers but i now say autism. I have met so called high functioning autism. They all do some things better than me. They are not clumsy, they are very physical and agile. They don't have aspie eyes. They suddenly spoke at the age of say 4. As I spoke at the age of one with full sentences. I don't think we are the same.
I was 32
went to rehab because alcohol like gave me some dopamine and they said you turned up different and I'm like how different And then they made me take the test again so I just gave them the answers they wanted to hear
I have ASD but not ADHD.
interesting
@ I was diagnosed at an autism center at the local university, not self diagnosed, but, yeah, I do not have ADHD. I do have hyper focus and several other hypersensitive traits typical of ASD.
I have tried to fit myself into the mold of adhd, but I cannot. I have Asperger’s/Level 1 Autism. There is some overlap between the two such as hyper focus, but the core differences are real and I cannot squeeze myself into it. I’m too organized to have adhd. I despise being late so I rarely am. I can multitask successfully. Someone with ADHD would really struggle with any of those.
Same. I have a niece who is ADHD. She sends me videos and shorts about it because she relates to them... but I don't. I'm autistic but not ADHD.
I agree with you
It’s not the only reason. Asperger was involved with the Nazis and therefore there were some serious negative connotations in associating people with a neurodivergence and a Nazi… it can be touchy with some people. I don’t care what people call my diagnosis: Asperger’s or ASD. A lot of people still better understand if you say Asperger’s so I usually say Asperger’s. I’m ASD with ADHD, cPTSD, GAD, MDD, and Val108/158Met Met/Met Homogenous genetic variant (low COMT).
Yes Asperger was tie to the Nazi and that is how he came up with it because he didn’t like certain people
I'm now off to Google most of that list. ❤
Edit: I'm back now. I didn't know about that genetic thing. Fascinating. 😊
i call myself an adult with irlen syndrome and autism spectrum disorder.
I’m also ASD2 and ADHD
What am I? Sone say Asperger, some say High Functioning autism.
Autistic
@ Are you sure? Do you have a PhD or an MD?
@ThroughTheLensOfAutism I'm pretty sure he's just saying Autistic because it's a spectrum and aren't using functioning terms anymore.
@@ThroughTheLensOfAutism He is saying they are categorized under the same umbrella of symptoms, i.e., autism. Asperger’s is a form of autism. The US stopped using this term and just made levels of autism instead.
I have ASD,but not ADHD....🤷🏼♀️
I am “lucky” enough (sarcasm) to have adhd , Asperger’s, AND am an HSP
Asperger’s is outdated term please learn how it is outdated and tie to the nazi
I have level 1 autism and i'm an HSP- this makes it even more difficult to be in social situations!
@ do autism really have levels? It makes sound like autism is video game
HSP here too, although there are some people who believe that HSP traits are actually autistic traits... still up for discussion. Also INFJ.
@@ColorfulBallerina yup! By leaps and bounds. 😞
Too much ads, man.
Too many sales ads on UA-cam.
A lot of them are just scam ads not big brand ads
I'm almost Seventy and have never been diagnosed with ASD but I've always known that I was alone in the world because my brain functioned much faster than most people around me. I am not the smartest person around but then I spent years through school and afterwards dumbing myself down so that I could fit in just a little bit but, I have an analytically biased mind that allows me to see patterns and mathematical anomalies quickly. I don't have any tic's that I am aware of, but I am very aware of myself mimicking emotions, or I suppose you could say that I mask a lot. As a rule, I much prefer to be alone and it's not that I don't like people, it's just that I am not interested in anything that most people seem to be, and they certainly are not interested in anything I have to say. Most people look at me as if I came from another planet when I try to involve myself in their conversations.
As a very late diagnosed only in the last year, the biggest issue I have with grouping a massive spectrum of people into one diagnosis name, is that it becomes meaningless. We need to type the different classes so it makes meaningful sense. I should be an Aspie and that is the label I resonate with. When I search studies, I’m able to find studies relevant to my sub type when the Aspie label use to exist, but all recent studies on autism are not relevant as they appear to largely focus on the ASD level 3 end of the spectrum. So as a newly diagnosed ASD 1 I can’t find recent research studies that are applicable to me. My type has just been forgotten and any research is now buried in a mass of ASD research when one now has to scroll and read through hundreds of studies hoping to stumble on one that may be relevant. I feel that ASD should be sliced and diced into numerous categories across multiple dimensions to make greater meaning. I’m sure a group of Aspies that have been researching this for many years could easily propose such helpful categorizations. At the end of the day, is ASD level 3 really that much different to saying low functioning, when everyone knows that’s what it means? I thought autistics were about facts not feelings, so are the people that are offended actually the people around the autistics?
Well said!!
TOO MUCH ADS !!
Can’t you just say Asperger Syndrome for people with Asperger and autism for autistic people as two separate disorders again.
I read, "Asparagus vs High Functioning Autism?"
I thought, HFA isn't THAT bad. Lol I really hate asparagus. You can wrap it im bacon and bbq it and I still can't choke it down so there was no real choice. As is the case with everyone else with it!
Lol
I wasn't sure if I should be delighted or ashamed of the diagnosis.
Asperger’s and “High and Low” functioning terms are inaccurate. It makes most sense to me that Autism is Autism across everything. You can’t be less or more autistic.
There are levels to Autism spectrum disorder but that’s not necessarily a more or less thing it helps over people understand how much outside support you need.
I am Autistic in the Level 2 support area. Some days are better some are worse.
Asperger’s is outdated term please learn how it is outdated and tie to the nazi
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HERO
@@TheAspieWorld you are more of a hero for makeing these videos because the miss mis info about ASD and things like it going around and the lack of awareness really pees me off as a autistic and dispraxic individual to see and experiance it and people lile you spread the real side of asd and the info about it instead of the steriotype ty for the wor
I don't agree with the term Autism Spectrum Disorder. Just diagnose it Autism. If I am overweight, we don't call that overweight spectrum disorder, we call it overweight. If someone has hypertension, we don't call it Hypertension Spectrum Disorder, we call it hypertension. And to classify Autism as either high functioning or low functioning is fine. If someone is offended by that, so be it. At least a more specific diagnosis gives the patient more information.
I agree. When I had kidney cancer the doctor diagnosed the type of cancer and cured it (hopefully). I also don't like the "Disorder" part. I suspect people that need support and financial aid might have an easier time if it were more clearly defined.
That is because being overweight is not a disorder and neither is having hypertension
@@jimm2600that is because cancer is not a disorder
@@PunkySpunky The Clevland Clinic disagrees with you and I am going to have to side with the Clevland Clinic. From the Clevland Clinic website "Cancer is a genetic disorder. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's inherited. It happens when genes that manage cell activity mutate (change). They create ..."
@ if it is a disorder like depression then why don’t we treat it the same way?
He was not just a physician, he chose which kids would get to live under the Reich and was a sympathiser.
this is incorrect please see this detail analysis's of the 2018 paper on this very subject about Hans: ua-cam.com/video/gytPftZSCSQ/v-deo.htmlsi=F0fy32ufTXQIRrqm
I have yet to see any proof that he was a sympathizer. He never joined the Nazi party. He was almost arrested by the Gestapo twice. I understand that he transferred two children that were later murdered. One of the two was at the request of the child's parents.
@@TheAspieWorld The BMC published a journal on this in 2018 (updated in 2021) number "s13229-018-0208-6" which stated that (N* replacing problematic word) which appears to be what you are citing and actually says he's worse than that:
"Asperger managed to accommodate himself to the N* regime and was rewarded for his affirmations of loyalty with career opportunities. He joined several organizations affiliated with the NSDAP (although not the N* party itself), publicly legitimized race hygiene policies including forced sterilizations and, on several occasions, actively cooperated with the child ‘euthanasia’ program. The language he employed to diagnose his patients was often remarkably harsh (even in comparison with assessments written by the staff at Vienna’s notorious Spiegelgrund ‘euthanasia’ institution), belying the notion that he tried to protect the children under his care by embellishing their diagnoses."
It concluded that:
"The narrative of Asperger as a principled opponent of National Socialism and a courageous defender of his patients against N* ‘euthanasia’ and other race hygiene measures does not hold up in the face of the historical evidence. What emerges is a much more problematic role played by this pioneer of autism research. Future use of the eponym should reflect the troubling context of its origins in N*-era Vienna."
Congratulations you’ve been duped by propaganda. Happens to us all at some point.
Really Dan? This isn’t your finest video. Not by a long way. You need to do a lot more research. Look at the comments you’re getting. Knee jerk “my opinion and I’m stickin’ by it” from way too many people. Shame.
"you must see", no