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This is hilarious. Thank you 😂

Q: How can you tell if a politician is being manipulative? A: They're breathing.

Ahaha This was educational and made me laugh. Thank you!!

We have plenty of autistics looking into allism 😂

i'm too autistic to get the joke, i'm guessing the guy is allistic..? is the joke that being allistic is being treated like being autistic

Yep. RAGE! 😂 (funny not funny cuz it's truly a struggle 😐)

This was funny until I realized that this is probably all stuff that actually happens. Except like... in the other direction.

Why is everyone talking about how they wipe instead of the word thing 😭😭 for me reading doesn’t feel like words - it’s kind of like the words are symbols that mean different things and then my eyes scan them into my brain to make pictures or ideas. I didn’t realise that some people read every letter when they read, or say the words “out loud” inside their head. (Also my mum just got diagnosed with dyslexia at 49 - you can definitely have it and not realise)

This is literally the only way I know how to do empathy, the only way that makes sense given any definition of empathy I can find and the only way that feels satisfactory for my brain. Keep doing empathy the way you're doing it, I suspect that despite the professionals opinion the people in your life don''t think you're doing empathy wrong at all.

my stupid ass thought this said “sigma” and thought it was going to be some sort of shitty dude arguing with an autistic person or something. time to get off the internet

Why is our society trying to make people think that EVERYONE has some kind of mental imbalance or autistic tendency? We don't all fit into the same cookie-cutter criteria as human beings, and that doesn't mean there's something "wrong" with us.

What IS this?

I worked in Provincial finance on the east coast for 6 years. You can just assume that every politician is trying to manipulate you from jump 😂 But the real mind blowing thing to me was supporting a Minister through public estimates debate. When the camera's are rolling the politicians will rail against each other, looking to argue and get digs in, fire up their base. But then the camera's stop and most of them are buds. It's pure theatre to manipulate tax payers/voters. I suspect our federal MPs are more or less the same 🫠

Thank you for this😂😂😂😂 Made my day👍 🥰🥰Big fan from Ottawa🌹🇨🇦🌹

Brilliant!

Whenever someone texts me a question about a random topic because they know I'll have the answers I get that end feeling

The fucking ending dammit

But he doesn't _look_ allistic....

I have hyperphantasia and when people say they can't relive memories as if they were actually still there I find it weird I because can, like if I rode a roller coaster I can sit there, focus, and get the sensation of spinning and riding a roller coaster. I can't even comprehend not being able to do that😅

It's weird how this vaguely sounds like the criticism I receive socially and I'm not autistic. It sounds like something is wrong yet what they describe is subjective and confusing, too vague or abstract to get what's going on. I've always carried the weight of the conversation or been the social leader. It just gets exhausting how others don't put in effort then have the audacity to complain about my social behavior 🙄

I literally did everything in my power to support my male friends with their mental health, but guess what? Most of them thought I just wanted to have sex with them. So I distanced myself and tried to help from a distance. Then they started complaining that I didn’t care enough or was playing hard to get. Maybe, just maybe, it's not women/afab people's fault that men's mental health is shit. (Also, you can literally just celebrate men's mental health month, no one is stopping you)

That's how I felt about allistic people my whole goddamn life.

*You

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Thanks the only video That explains it

It’s funny, but you could make the exact same video about cancer. Like, autism is a disease and muddying the waters just makes it harder for scientists to find a cure.

Orrrrrr... we could build new non-hierarchical power structures!

I love this content, made me laugh quite a few times + the gut punch at the end (heavens no, you’re in no place to figure out what’s going on up there, we have plenty of autistics looking into allism) 🥲😂

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So...i don't know how helpful this may be but I found out about the STAR Institute a few years ago when i was looking into Sensory Processing Disorder. I wasn't able to go to their facility or set up with doctors in person but did a phone intake. They help adults. I realise they may not help with all things relating to autism or adhd but just the conversation with someone trying to help me, an adult in my early 30s, was a grounding experience, gave me a foundation to stand on and start seeing resources not just for the kids.

The bit at the end about trying to get involved with research + such hits me. I'm not autistic, but I have A.D.D. I wasn't diagnosed until I was an adult. My mother, our counselor, + I attended a......seminar? I think? about grown women with A.D.D. Out of the dozens there, all adults, the three of us were the only ones who fit the description. The rest were all neurotypical mental health professionals. When we introduced ourselves in the mingling times between speakers, we got the "O, *really?* That's so....... *interesting.* " patronizing thing a lot.

We're all a little allistic, I don't see why you would bother trying to get diagnosed, you seem just fine to me. I mean, you can do X, Y, and Z, so I don't see why you would need help. You're just trying to label yourself. This is exactly what I hate about Internet mental health--making people think they have something that they don't, ugh.

If my future kids go non contact I intend to understand and support that descision (at a distance), and my #2 priority as a parsnt will be makinf aurs they know that they're loved and wanted, because I'm sure I'll make mistakes but I know the pain of feeling resented and will not be passing it on. Hopefully I won't perpetuate a cycle of abuse. (I've gone non contact with the woman who raised me and speak of her by her first name because I refuse to accept that that is what a mother is.)

This, but used to justify autistic men/boys who molest everyone and make creepy comments because their only exposure to sex & women is porn or television. The people who dismiss the problem as "autistics dont know better" are the same ones who guarantee an adult who will never understand appropriate socializing or consequences while forcing the rest of us autistics to tolerate confusion, isolation, derision, and the aforementioned molestation.

I have lived with autism my entire life, this is accurate to the point of Hilarity

cute. i hope this is what marriage is supposed to look like. 😂

This when you do not understand the sensation of pain, thirst, hunger, or bathroom. Doctors ask me (what they think) is a basic question and get a 3hr dissertation that they ignore and then mislabel. Now i have perscriptions for things that dont help me and im certain nobody cares about the stuff that actually bothers me. (because they told me im fine, and also making it up??)

This is imposter syndrome intertwined with internalized ableism (living in a society that values humans by how productive they are, framing rest as a luxury that needs to be earned, pushing yourself to Do The Most regardless of the unique day/issues or how you actually feel and then internalizing that exhaustion as satisfying and worthy regardless of your wellbeing and normal healthy pacing) Essentially, trying to be productive to feel successful carries the underlying assumption that unproductive people deserve to feel shitty (low worth and value, tired) because they're lazy or untalented...or that its your JOB as a human on this planet to work for money/gains. Contrast this to the idea that life is priceless and irreplacable, that you have innate inherent worth, that your job does not deserve to OWN you or your time, that disability is inevitable status and tied to ageism that devalues elders for being "useless" to society despite wisdom and experience, that rest is the most effective way to retain maximum efficiency, focus, and speed.

The fact that it took me such a long time to understand this is sarcasm....says a lot

YES YES THIS 🙄 UGHHHHHH so validating that it makes me wanna spit. Just DRIPPING with condescension and "oh, dont worry about that word, you dont need to get it. i'll send the packet to your spouse and parents later." so so so accurate. The poor allistic patient had no idea what hit them or how to cope!! That apparently wasnt clinically significant to the person providing care...just like irl

YOOOO THIS IS SOOO ACCURATE ❤

I am a software engineer, that's my job. I don't think i am on the spectrum, but i think this idea of unmasking and skill regression is a key to understand loss of so-called passion and skill regression. I don't write code on my spare time i much as i used to do, and i feel like in some area i am no longer as good as i used to be. But i realize i was not enjoying writing code and doing pet project as much as i thought. It was a mask to fit it and feel secure in my job and confident with my competence

THIS HAS A NAME?!?!

Pffft! I am a very, very, very Christian woman, and very autistic, and guess what one of my special interests is?? The church! I think I'm pretty demon free, actually, in fact I thank God for being autistic. (Not saying there's anything wrong with not being Christian.)

Yep

I sent this to two different chats before the video had fully finished

So PDA no longer means Public Display of Affection? Thanks for the memo.

Yeah, four energy drinks per day is going to have giant effects on someone! (Speaking as someone who gets ~400 mg of caffeine stretched over a typical day.)

That fact his boss thinks actively working on a project is an excuse for it not being already done 🙄

"an autistic person wouldn't have initiated contact without asking for consent" "but you give sad people hugs?" whys that so accurate to how NTs behave, god damn.