The Neuroscience of Autism ft. 12tone
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- Vaccines don’t cause autism. But what even is autism? What causes it? And what's the difference between an autistic brain and a "neurotypical" brain? We've recruited our friend Cory from 12Tone to hear about his own experience as an autistic person and to discuss the neuroscience of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Huge, huge thank you to Cory for all of his time and help in creating this video. We recognize that this is a complex and difficult topic to cover and we really appreciate all of the effort he put into helping us do it well.
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Sources:
www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/scr...
www.autism-society.org/what-is/
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www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topi...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
www.cambridge.org/core/journa...
www.jneurosci.org/content/26/2...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
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Autism advocacy resources:
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Thanks for having me, y'all! Really happy with how this all turned out.
So are we! Thanks for being so awesome!
I mean, I've had to work to develop my presenter voice (And also my singing voice, as a vocal major in college.) but I don't think I ever had a significantly unusual voice. Well, besides some rhotacism, for which I had speech therapy as a child. That may be where I learned to sound "normal". Not sure. But for the most part, friends from high school were surprised to learn I was autistic, so there probably weren't too many obvious outward clues by that point.
I get the Greek roots, but rhotacism, along with lisp, is just an unfortunately named speech impediment.
Could you please do a video on autism and executive functioning????
12tone I was surprised to see 12tone here! I didn't know about your diagnosis, but I've been a fan of your channel for a long time. Thank you for appearing in this video.
As Someone with Autism its disingenuous to say it is not a Disability, because it does deeply affect my capacity to do everyday tasks.
Okay it's a disability in the context of modern way of living. We structured society around neurotypicals and then we say autistics and ADHDers are broken and have deficits... Kind of strange
Mad respect for Cory putting himself out here like this - thank you for helping us learn!
I fell down a rabbit hole that started with 12tone and now I'm here.
How wonderful! We are happy to be a part of your CZcams rabbit hole. :D
It is totally possible to see autism as a disability while rejecting the dehumanizing deficit-model often used in medical literature. Under the social model of disability, the source of disability is the environment. Barriers in the built environment, in arbitrary social standards, and in attitudes all create an adverse society for autistic people: simply a world that isn't built for our needs. In other words, we are 'disabled by society' even though there is nothing wrong with us.
There isn't anything wrong with being autistic, no matter what level of support one requires. But there is something wrong with the world that shuns autistic people and creates barriers to our participation in society.
I see autistic people rejecting the disability label because it has negative connotations since our society is prejudiced against disabled people. However, I prefer to embrace the term disabled because the social model of disability just makes sense to me.
I love this video, but it's important to note that autism *is* a disability per the 'social model' of disability, and that is also not a negative thing. It's okay to say someone is disabled if they are autistic. You guys are on the right track with everything else here :)
NOT ALL OF US CAME TO THIS PLANET TO BE "DISABLED"! BEING DISABLED ON THIS PLANET, OFTEN TRANSLATES TO BEING VERY POOR AND/OR VERY MISTREATED!! WE DON'T WANT TO BE FORCED TO SETTLE FOR THAT, OK???
yeah, for a second I was like "hold up, wait---autism *is* a disability right? why did they say in the video that it *wasn't* a disability when it *is* a disability*?" /g
I personally think I'm slightly more evolved than neurotypicals. They are the disabled ones from my perspective.
@@taramoonshadow363 First off there is nothing wrong with being disabled. A disability is categorized by how much it affects a persons daily quality of living. It has nothing do with being forced into anything. This just proves we need to focus on destigmatizing the term disabled. But denying it as a disability can be even more dangerous because it could lead to having programs and benefits cut from people who's autism does affect their daily life. Due to being autistic I suffer from sensory overload which GREATLY affects my day to day living. Denying that its a disability completely invalidates the struggles others have had to go through.
@@disaffectedmale Autism is a nifty double edge sword. We can collect store and apply data like a super computer, but cant read the damn room lmao. We got 18 int score and a 9 cha score LMAO
I appreciate the content (I'm autistic, too), but would prefer you name names when it comes to alleged advocacy groups who don't actually listen to or care about the lived experience of autists. It's hard enough getting anyone to listen to us, much less organizations that consider us broken or cognitively diminished. Having neurotypical people, particularly scientists and other authorities, pipe up on our behalf is a moral good.
Yeah, he was making it obvious enough that he was talking about Autism $peaks, so directly mentioning it wouldn't have been too much of a big step to make.
Fab vid! Despite studying autism a little in neuro modules at Uni, I've never seen such a clear and balanced explanation. My brother and sister are both autistic and agree that we need more autistic people teaching and talking about their personal experience of ASD! Nice one guys!!
12 tone is great.
He IS great. We agree!
I started getting counseling from a place that does not pathologize ADHD and Autism, but rather focuses on it as a collection of unique strengths and weaknesses. All this place's staff are either ADHD, autistic, or a combination of the two (primarily - sometimes there's extra stuff that comes along with it). But this place proves that we can function well when we reject the pace the neurotypical world tries to get everybody to function on, and shows that if we listen to our internal cues, we are just fine and do not need to look 'normal'. This was an awesome adjustment in my attitude. I stopped wondering what was wrong with me. I so appreciate help from ppl who don't treat me like a ball of pathologies.
Also wanted to say, I resent the attitude that we somehow are lacking compared to the supposed 70% of the population. First off, I'm fairly certain that number is waaay too high to represent the neurotypical population, and secondly, the ADHD and ASD strength of hyperfocusing often puts us at a greater advantage than neurotypicals. I've heard from lots of ppl in these categories who have PhDs, and sometimes multiple degrees. Folks with autism are more likely to be at genius level than those without. There are areas we excel where NTs do not, and vice versa.
The fact that we aren't the same is just human nature and a result of differences in neurobiology, and in my opinion, a different moniker than 'disorder' should be adopted. Throughout civilization it is thought that the rapid advances have happened while there were cooperative societal attitudes, and those would have been autism friendly periods. During those times there are more examples of autistic patterning. We're perceptive and contemplative people. We notice stuff NTs miss. And during times when it is evident that society was more allegiance based (us vs them), autistic talents are much less apparent. Those are thought to be the periods where we were rejected. We have a unique ability to help society advance, but are less likely to be able to enact and maintain the mechanisms for change. Rejection of part of the system hurts the whole system. As a society, we are stronger together.
Strengths and weaknesses. Everybody's got em. We can't be penalized and forced to function like NTs if we are to develop our strengths.
Does anyone at your counseling place have regular ADD, or just ADHD? Seems not everyone is hyperactive. Those people talk too fast for me to follow, seems like most of the channels about autism are the extroverted and ADHD type. I suppose the introverts who don't want to be on camera wouldn't gravitate to talking about this. But I follow many art channels, and a lot of them are soft spoken and seem content to stay home and not be around a lot of people. Maybe I'd be more hyper if I hadn't been taking barbiturates for my Epilepsy since I was young
Thank you for including an autistic perspective, without naming names, some awareness campaigns paint autism as some intrusive parasite that we need to be saved from (if it wasn’t obvious I’m autistic). Autism has created challenges in my life but the biggest ones were caused by not knowing I was autistic, and assuming my brain should be working one way, and becoming extremely frustrated when I could not force it to. Cory’s line about reminding you you’re not broken is spot on.
I didn’t find out I was autistic until I turned 30, and something a friend said caused me to research autism in women (which is under diagnosed for many reasons. A lot of women find out they are autistic when their sons are diagnosed, and they recognize the hallmarks of ASD in themselves when it is explained to them).
Anyways, very interesting!
I was 42 when I was diagnosed with ASD (a few months earlier it would have been Asperger's). My life and experiences make a lot more sense now.
Me too! Only I was diagnosed just before the shift from Asperger syndrome to ASD, also at age 42. It was the best news I ever received. Suddenly I made sense! I was no longer God's little joke. It's a bit odd how resistant my family members have been to my assessment. I think it was easier for them to just blame me for my troubles. Oh well. That's me.
"the only people who get to really decide what autism is are... autists"
THÁNK YOU!!! Say it again for the people in the back!
And indeed not broken, it get's very frustrating to be treated as less than a "normal" human being.
However, scientists still work in a bubble, we "autists" are not being heard, or even worse: our opinions on the subject are deemed incorrect or unimportant. Our experiences are invalid because (and I quote): "human brains don't work that way". And here are hundreds, thousands of autists saying "well our brains dó". Science in this subject still largely dismisses the greatest pool of experts available: us.
I've studied bio-mechanical engineering with a strong lean towards neuro-physiology and psychology and did a fair bit of research. As soon as my peers found out I'm autistic all my research was deemed flawed.
The fact that I'm autistic means automatically that I can't understand autism. No matter how solid the research my "label" makes it worthless. I've given up on science, speaking to walls for years has not been good for my mental health.
My professor even had a paper rejected and hence would loose grant money because my name was one of the 8(!) on the paper. I would like to say he did the "right" thing but alas...
Excuse the rant, it's a sore subject, there's so much potential lost, so many people made to feel less, worthless. And we are nót broken, there's nothing wróng with us, we are different. I'd go so far as to call it discrimination but I haven't studied law. Maybe there's an autist out there with a law degree that is willing to fight the good fight? Let us be heard?
Here's a slightly different perspective from what you presented:
Dr Michael Merzenich is a neuroscientist who has found a correlation between sound exposure and autism. There is a critical period very early in brain development where every new stimulation (sound, sight, touch, etc) triggers the release of a substance called "brain derived neurotrophic factor" (BDNF), which helps strengthen neuronal connections and promotes the grow of myelin (the fatty covering of myelinated axons). However, BDNF also is responsible for ending the critical period; the brain releases a large amount of it at one time, solidifying all the connections made early in life. Merzenich's theory is that autistic children may have been exposed to too much stimulation of one type all at once, causing too much BDNF to be released and ending the critical period prematurely. This leaves autistic children with below typical levels of neuronal connections, which has been connected to epilepsy. It also explains why autistic children have larger brains, since excessive amounts of BDNF would result in excessive myelin production.
Of course, autism is a complex disorder and there are many theories about it. You did an awesome job in giving us facts without dehumanizing those who have autism. I just found you because of 12tone, but I'll definitely be sticking around to check out more of your stuff!
The Selcouth Mind just so you know, we don’t “have” autism, we are autistic. The same as a neurotypical person doesn’t “have neurotypicalism”
As someone who suspects she is autistic, but KNOWS she has Epilepsy since age 14, this is interesting. Wish my parents were still alive I have so many questions only they could answer.
She mentioned that some studies show below typical levels of connections and other studies show above typical levels of connections - honest question: can this explanation for exposure explain exactly the opposite effect as well?
Fun, interesting video!
Thanks!
I've been diagnosed with ASD recently (1 yr ago when I already was 24 y.o.) and I'm currently still learning how to deal with that. I wish I had learned about that earlier because I've spent a long chunk of my life thinking I was "broken" as 12tone said, and that led to a lot of social anxiety and depression. I really wish the area of mental health was treated with the same importance, prestige and resources as regular medicine, specially in poorer regions/cities/countries.
My ASD wasn’t diagnosed until I was almost 21 years old. I also have ADHD(PI), which was diagnosed a year earlier.
Nillie Jeez. Thats crazy. How'd you feel about that?
Nillie well I was almost 30 when it got diagnosed with high functional autism and a bit of adhd.
I wish my disorders had been noticed while I was still in school, but there's nothing I can do about it now, so I've learnt to live with it.
Nillie I know what you mean, bro.
42. I had suspected for a number of years but I wasn't diagnosed until 42. I guess people just thought I was a weirdo.
Wow. I am currently in a psycho-education group for my autism and I think this video just taught me more about the underlying mechanics than that group will. Thank you so much!
So glad you found it helpful!
I'm autistic too, and I really appreciate videos like these because it feels like nobody wants to cover ASD for some reason. I'm currently in my freshman year of college, and my psychology 101 classes textbook doesn't mention ASD AT ALL. It barely mentions ADHD, and makes sure to spend lots of time talking about phobias for some reason in the section on disorders. At the end of the day, I know more about how a neurotypical person's brain works then how my own brain works, and that shouldn't have to be the case. This condition affects more people then we realize around the world, why can't we teach kids about it in school? After all, the whole "vaccines cause autism" problem is a problem because those people were (more than likely) never taught anything about ASD in school apart from that fact that it exists (and if they're lucky that it involves a spectrum) so maybe making this a less taboo subject would change the world for the better. That's just my two cents.
thanks for coming to my TED Talk
Thank you for addressing the elephant in the room vis-a-vis autism's misclassification as a disorder. It can be hard to deal with, but I still wouldn't change my autism even if I could. There are a lot of unique benefits that make it worth the difficulties. Thank you for making this great video and for being a good advocate for autism awareness!
This was fascinating. Thanks, 12 Tone, for sharing your experience. Allie, I love your bookcase! Especially Antiope!
Love you. I just confirmed I'm autistic at 58. Many subtle problems, symptoms, peculiar behavior. The feeling "I'm loosing something" in several situations ( especially involving humans), smart enough to realize some time later. Genius in the abstract, fool in the social.
You described -somehow- fewer and simpler symptoms explains the behavior much better, maybe not now but in my school days. Psychologists, what a waste of time and money.
Perception. I think we see the world different. I think my peculiar sense of humor is based in this.
Hi Joaquin, thanks for sharing your experience! I hope that having a diagnosis is helpful for you. Having more people speaking out about their experiences can only increase awareness and improve care!
Joaquin Elio Genius in the abstract, fool in the social, yes thank you, I think I'll be quoting you😁
Thank you (and thank you Corey!) for this video. I'm a trans girl on the spectrum and it's nice to hear people talking about ASD without demonizing it and making sure to incorporate a first-person perspective. I really appreciate it! ^_^
Hey Lillian! Thank you so much for the kind words. We were a bit worried about this video because...well...autism can be a bit polarizing. But having Cory with us every step of the way really helped us stay grounded and in touch. It would not have been the same without him!
"Just knowing the term has been really helpful. It's a good way to remind myself that I'm not broken."
You're lucky. I was told I had it too, and it's had the opposite effect. Probably because it's easy to translate "disorder" as "disability" or "defect".
Though from what I'm hearing here, it's sounding more and more as autism's one of those humanly-produced groupings of certain kinds of people that doesn't have much objectivity, at least in terms of connection.
What an interesting video! I think it was your best one (yet). The topic, the way you presented it, the collaboration, everything spot on! 👌
Great work!
Keep going in this direction!
Thanks so much!
The amount of joy I got from this video, finally find someone discuss autism without functioning labels
Thank you for not using "functioning labels" in describing Autistics. Phrases like "high/low functioning" or "mild/severe" describe only the observer's perception of us; they do not in any way reflect our internal experience of the condition or the fact that our abilities can change over time - sometimes on a minute-to-minute basis. Also speaking about looking for "treatments" and "therapies" implies that Autism is something that needs to be corrected or cured, which it's not; things like "coping strategies" would be better terminology - we don't need treatment or therapy to cope with the Neurotypical world, just some help.
bobobobinalong Agreed. I interchangeably switch between saying Asperger’s and HFA because they’re both relatively similar. I only use HFA (High Functioning Autistic) as a label because people are likely to have heard it before.
So I came here from the collab you did with 12tone, but i just wanted to say I am both happy and impressed to see not only a star wars book behind you, but also a mondo rubix cube!
Also, your necklace clasp is off center. I can tell because I can see it.
As someone who's autistic and epileptic(epilepsy is usually in a particular part of the brain,but it can be all over; mine is in my front left cerebral cortex, and that's the part of your brain that deals with executive function, ironic huh?)I really appreciate you bringing this up! I came here from Cory's channel 12tone and I really enjoyed both videos you 2 did together ❤️ 😊
Yep, asking what it's like having autism is like asking what it's like to live in _this_ universe; there is an implied comparison to a something else which so far has been impossible to experience. And that is a good question, what is autism and what is just me; or are they different things - what is your neurotypicalness and what is just _you_?
My current Psychologist had expected, of course, that my Dad probably had autism but after meeting my parents said, nope, it's not that your Dad might, it's that your Mom does. It was also interesting having been diagnosed as an adult: when I told the few close friends who had known me for decades they began a, "You know, that would explain that thing when ... and that other thing when ... and that ... and that ... and ... and ..." And it sure would have helped to have had the diagnosis in the late 1960s, early 1970s, instead of the 2000s because it turned out that part of the reason my life had been more than a bit unpleasant at points was we were, or I was, doing Exactly The Wrong Thing for someone with autism to do to try to cope. Oh well, _now_ I know, for whatever the now is worth.
Great video! I think it's really important that people understand autism better.
It's important to understand that disability is strongly cultural. If elements of my body, which includes my brain, render me unable to meet the demands of my world or create needs that the world will not naturally meet, then I am disabled in that world, and in the world I live in, being autistic means I am disabled. It's important to not treat disability as a dirty word -- as that can dissuade people from leveraging the resources that can allow them to have a healthy life. I simply could not have gotten through grade school or college without leveraging my country's laws for accommodating disability.
A lot of respect for such a person who has the knowledge about such a topic like this. This helped me understand what goes on with brain functionality. After all, a person with such condition can help understand him/herself better. ASD does after all deal with epilepsy (speaking of my experience). I am also not sure if the signs are shown based on any communication (in the high-end spectrum), physical communication and so on. Most importantly, I am still not sure if this also has to do with being an introvert or an extrovert as well. I agree on most parts of this video though based off of doctor’s analysis.
Thank you for this video. I am a father of a child with autism and people need to talk about it and understand it more.
Absolutely! I think that when people hear that someone is autistic, they jump to conclusions based on whatever they are exposed to in mass media or through personal experience. But autism varies so much in its symptoms and presentation. We believe that one of the best ways to reduce stigma and misinformation is through awareness. Thanks for watching!
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Don't blame media. Old days only severe conditions were diagnosed.
Appreciate learning what folks with autism experience. My son is profound and we can't have a conversation. He has no reliable speech, little communication ability, can't care for himself with even simple life skills, and no fear, hence he would engage in a lot of SIB and elopement. His affect expressions are all over the map and erratic. I love him more than life itself, but he needs 24 hour care and at age 14 he needed to be placed in a 24 hour care facility to provide him with proper care. It has been a challenge, but he is a largely happy person. My big concern is that while many autistic folks are quite functional and often wildly creative, there is also the opposite end of the spectrum that is debilitating. I hope to understand why my son's autism is so severe compared to others that have greater communication skills and functional abilities.
I Have Autism.
That Means I Have Big Brain :D
So if we develop a genetic filter to prevent autism, would it be ASDF?
I see what you did there.
Just started watching. As a parent with 3 kids with autism I look forward to hearing what you found out.
Spot on!
What I also would like to add, although I am not sure there is much science on it yet: There's this persistent myth that autistic people "lack empathy". However, that goes straight against the personal experiences of most people who deal with autism, including ourselves. Sometimes, autistic people seems overly empathetic. One way to resolve this is distinguishing cognitive empathy from emotional or compassionate empathy. I personally think it may have ultimately to do with delayed communication between brain parts that manage emotional morality with other brain parts.
Phrenomythic, that's a great point! I (Alie) deliberately avoided getting into that in this video, because it's such a complex topic. There has been some research done - notably the work of Simon Baron-Cohen (fun fact: Sacha Baron-Cohen's brother!) - but because ASD is such a spectrum and because empathy itself isn't well-defined from a clinical standpoint, it's really hard to say anything definitive.
Your point about distinguishing between different kinds of empathy would certainly be helpful for parsing out behavioral patterns. I imagine that as we can better pinpoint how different brain regions and circuits are involved in things like empathy, we might be able to better understand how structural and functional differences lead to behavioral differences.
Thanks for watching, we really appreciate your support!
Thank you! For as far as parents go, we've more or less become "experts" on the disorder. We've latched on early to the idea of delayed communication between brain parts/circuits and, intuitively, that seems to explain a lot of behaviour we see. Especially, how e.g. the rational influence of the prefrontal cortex is not always able to timely dampen a fear reaction or some other kind of sensory distress. It feels like we can almost measure the difference in delay between our children from the time it takes them to calm down again: For one it seems to be 30-60 minutes, for the other 10-15 minutes.
Hi Phrenomythic.
You're quite right. My partner and I are both autistic. Neither we nor many of the people we know who are autistic lack empathy. If anything we over-experience it and so avoid situations where strong emotional events may occur. And of course we tend not to be demonstrative: that is our facial expressions and behaviours do not fit the expectations for these situations but what is going on inside may be quite different to what our exteriors are communicating.
Awesome stuff guys, totally true that we're just people in the end
Cory, I'm with you all the way I was born with aspergers syndrome and now I have achieved many goals in my life and am proud and wouldn't change who I am:) Keep on rockin', Cory !
amazing video, thank you
I wish the people who I thought were my “friends and family” could watch this.😢😢❤️
Thank you for sharing.
This is a very precisive video
Nice video for discussing the ‘male’ version of autism. I’m a female autistic, and I was hyperlexic at 3 years of age, and any social developmental delays were ignored because I was intelligent and articulate. ASD presents differently in different people.
It's so true that autism advocacy groups get it wrong . . . Alot.
One has to figure that a lack of people who have actually been diagnosed with ASD has alot to do with it.
My story is almost the opposite of Corys
I was told I may have aspergers syndrome throughout my childhood but I've never been diagnosed. Every test I've taken (and I'm aware how unreliable they can be) has suggested I am more likely to have it than the average person but I don't score high enough to conclusively say that I do.
I have found myself in situations where I have tried to do what I was told was right to help or assist people with ASD by friends or people I know in ASD advocacy groups only to be told by the person with ASD that I am not being helpful at all and that my efforts are actually counterproductive. Two or three experiences of such things have been enough to convince me to just listen to the person I'm talking with there and then and let them tell me how I can help them if they need help at all.
Great vídeo!
If it’s severe enough it’s definitely a disability lol.. I spend a good portion of my time in a different temporal dimension than everyone else on the physical plane and starting or switching tasks is almost impossible because it feels like I’m dissociating …ugh on the upside people tell me I’m very intelligent and well spoken so it’s not uncommon to feel like the most intelligent but least successful person in the room ..which is an interesting dynamic
I was just diagnosed 2 weeks ago at 22. I'm AFAB, so nobody really thought anything of my behavior, although everyone was aware it wasn't typical. My whole life, I just thought I was faulty, like I must have been doing this to myself. I went through so much unnecessary suffering, and I never understood why, until Now. It turns out I wasn't faulty, my brain is just LITERALLY built different. 😭🙌🏻❤
Excellent video - very respectful of brain differences and points out that it is really autistic people are those who know autism best.
Can you do one about Epilepsy? I have a lot of personal experience with that, but I don't know much about the neuroscience of it.
Hey Michael! Just wanted to say that we really loved your suggestion and made a video about epilepsy not too long ago! Here it is: czcams.com/video/hxRL7Ptihbg/video.html
Completely off-topic, but I really like your bird shirt.
Thanks a lot!
The only disorder I see going on belongs to the neurotypicals: prejudice and fear. I learned at age 69 that I have ASD. Now I understand what caused the seizures (that my parents kept trying to deny). I wonder if Corey has synesthesia? I do, and it's a gift I wouldn't trade for anything.
3:49 it is interesting that the research shows ASD people have more grey matter. There is a genetic abnormality, PTEN Hamartoma Tumor Syndrome and symptoms include macrocephaly and ASD, BUT they have greater white matter to grey matter, the opposite, yet it still presents as ASD. And the greater white matter volume really helps to describe the over stimulation and slower processing speed experienced by them, they are simply overloaded with more stimuli and information than most because of all the extra white matter, but only have the grey matter processing of an average brain. I would love to hear an opinion from a neurologist on this.
Not real autism
Godwin's law of mirror neurons states that any sufficiently long discussion of human or animal behavior will inevitably lead to mirror neurons, and which point there's no point in continuing, since there is no more substance left to be found.
as an autistic i have problems in social interaction and working at school as i have a minor learning disability so i struggle in school as i keep doing hard work
interesting stuff :o
Female from UK diagnosed with #ASD in middle age 💛
6:40
Well, I mean it's a wall...
And a prism...
Unrelated: I watched big hero 6 yesterday, are those birds on your shirt the logo from the company in that movie???
Oh goodness, I don't think so! It's just the pattern of the sweater!
I was diagnosed at 19, I was convinced I was broken. Among all my other disabilities; I'm low functioning and it's like living life on lethal mode 😭
Why aren't we naming names? Autism Speaks does not speak for me. They prey on parental fears to raise money, which has been very effective for them. They have always refused to have anyone on the spectrum on their board. They have gone after people on the spectrum who speak out. They ran a PSA with a mother complaining that her autistic child had no soul. Their record is atrocious. Why not hold them accountable?
It would be a very long list.
I am Autistic myself
And I can’t help noticing that Rubik’s cube in the background unsolved. Is this the life I have to live 😂
I've got some autism in me. Though my mirror neurons are slamming.
I can notice shifts in what vertebra by looking at a person from the front. And I think that I can feel infections in other people, and hear what part of the throat is tensed when they talk. Looking/feeling the nervous system. Smell it... Hard to say how. But it works wonders for giving massage, correcting blocked passageways and emotional cramps and a lot of other stuff.
Did anyone notice that a lot of youtube videos about autism have their comment section blocked? Why is this?
Good content, but I wish the sentences were not run together so closely, I want a moment of time to digest what I just heard.
Do ASD children have a greater amount of metal or other energy conducting material in their brain as is the case with other types of disorders impacting synapses?
Energy is also heat for example. So don't say "energy".
Brain does not work like simple electrical circuit with metal wires and what not. It is insanely complex structure.
Also as I remember in human body most synapses are chemical ones not electric(and neither of them work like metal wire anyway).
And as it was said there is a lot of genetic connections but not single one of those was isolated as causing autism.
No I’ve been tested
I don't like trying to be fooled. Right-hand writing on the back of a music sheet, played in reverse.
I don’t think me being has affected myself physically, rather emotionally and socially.
0:42 This has taken on another meaning after they came out as agender
Would the brain growth also possibly make kids with autism taller in childhood?
"This could also help explain why autism is frequently associated with epilepsy."
Well that explains a lot
People say autism is on the rise as if its a bad thing... clearly mother nature sees a need for it ❤
I love that this video was made but can we please stop saying autism isnt a disability. It is very much an intellectual disability which causes difficulties with social situations which can and does GREATLY affect the day to day lives of folks with ASD. There is nothing wrong with having a disability, It only means my body was born a bit different and that I need support in some areas of my life. Claiming it as not a disability can be very dangerous and harmful for those who's ASD does affect their lives. I deal with sensory overload due to ASD which greatly affects my day to day living and makes working and traveling more difficult for me. I suffer from anxiety due to having difficulties as a child with social situations. Denying it as a disabilities invalidates those who do suffer from it daily. What we need to do is work on destigmatizing what it means to be disabled.
please continue to make more videos covering ASD but please look more into the actual struggles those with ASD have to go through on a daily basis that way people can get a better understanding on why we do certain things we do. We need to stop treating disability like its shameful to be it. Because it isnt. My autism may have helped define me as an individual (because ASD plays a BIG role in personality since a lot of social development involves one's personality as well and since autism affects all that it is basically a part of who I am. My autism will never go away, it will always be a part of me) BUT it does NOT define what I can do as an individual.
Ok, seemingly random question: are the neural connections of women with ASD arranged in penrose patterns?
I've always felt that there's a small chance that I have autism. (Though if I do, it would definitely be a fairly mild form of it)
Then you definitely don’t have autism
What the internet has also made possible unfortunately, is for people to make this and almost any other mental health issue a meme.
To be fair, this is a social behaviour that has always existed (making fun or being discriminatory against the unknown) but people suffering from this or that mental health issue now can get shat on about it by a factor of thousands whereas before it could only come from people who actually knew you... to some extent anyway.
What I mean to say is that this "memeing" everything should have a limit line that should not be crossed and I think armchair diagnosing, ironic namecalling or straight out joking about the issue or specially looking down on people with a mental health issue is a line that needs to be drawn in this new age of over-the-internet communication.
Joking is joking. Just get distance. I know that in some countries distance is something unheard of. But where I live wishing somebody death, name calling ect. is just joking and everybody most of the time laugh.(and that's not because I'm in some group of hooligans quite exact opposite.)
I personally have autism and I know there are autism memes. But now keep in mind that common language isn't scientific language. And as such "autism" in memes mean completely different thing than "autism" in science.
It is a good meme though
Oh my I found a rabbit hole
This video is awesome and I very often come back to it. As a caregiver I need to better understand about my clients' conditions and this is an excellent way to learn. As the video is from 2017 I would like to add my 2 cents, about what was said at 2:09 Fortunately, there is an on going and exciting research where the scientists found neural traces of autism which can be detected with 87% of accuracy. They expect that in the future it can be applied to pre-verbal children and non-verbal adults. Please, find more information at: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190815113730.htm
Hello, what about the positives?
3 kids with autism non verbal I want help my kids before I become mental
It took me about 2-3 seconds.. but is that song The police - Roxane ? And I did not play it back once.
I’ll be watching you. That’s what it is. 🎉
I knew it didn’t have the same energy as rox or the same key but I could definitely 💯 identify within moments who the artist was. Weird
Oh no wait it’s puff daddy just kidding 😂
Even with certain pockets of techno and house music I can tell you who the artist is. What record it’s on; etc etc etc
Maybe it’s not such a bad thing to be autistic
"while the scientific literature call autism a disorder, that does not make it a disability". I'm autistic and I disagree. I believe that autism is a disability, however I don't see it as a disorder.
This video was good but a little confusing, like, it’s explained that it isn’t genetic but then moments later you say that it is. Plus the part of there being “two schools of thought” isn’t true, there’s scientists looking at the over-abundance / or distinctive lack of the neural pathways in the brain, it’s not a war between one way of thinking and another, it’s just an example of the spectrum of its symptoms.
It is highly genetic
Despite this supposedly being a video about neuroscience, it surprisingly talks nothing about contemporary research on autism, pointing out unreliable results instead of the bleeding edge and real science.
more local connectivity, less global connectivity i think is what they say
Fun fact: Nigeria has the lowest rate of vaccination in the world, and an autism rate of 11%, meanwhile Belgium has the highest rate of vaccination, and an autism rate of 0.6%.
Proud Titanic Denier Do you have a source for that claim?
Probably untrue
@@Hamishamishamishamish nope its very true
It has a rate of WHAT!!!
No Alie I am Allie
i hate that i am autistic
This is a good video. Stop tism'm your eyes.
Why was the kid bent over?
I know psy-ops, stop it.
@neurotransmissions a revisit of this topic would be nice, esp in light of the significant shifts in understanding since this video was put together, and to address stuff like referencing 'language delays' as part of dx process... if someone is still doing this (or was still doing it in 2017 for that matter!) they were doing it wrong. if you are interested in this, I can recommend plenty of people who would be happy to riff on monotropism, the double empathy problem, hyperfocus, the key role of sensory differences and a heap of co-occurring characteristics (hypermobility/EDS, LGBTQIA+ ID, ADHD, prevalence of mental health issues and their causes) and discuss stuff like updated assessments of prevalence/ gender disparity rates
I have Asperger's syndrome. I do not have autism (there is a difference as I understand it). The most effects that I am dealing with is that I miss social clues in various levels. I do not do any of the thing mentioned in the video, with one exception. I can do get obsessed with one topic(s). I don't think I get obsessed with people (because, people). I also have dyscalculia (problem with maths). As a kid I was treated as I was an idiot or stupid (or both). Mostly because I have problem learning at the speed used in schools (so I just started to learn for my self as money and time allow). I was unable to keep up and always got delayed.
What I might have is delayed response as mentioned in the video. But it's not all the response, just some and sometimes I get enlightenment of something and at the point I understand feelings and thoughts that I've been struggling with for years before (this happens at random times).
Edit(v3): My feelings do run a little hotter then in person without Asperger's syndrome (this is my personal observation). It's not a long term issue for me since I learn how to control my feelings. What is the difficult is the start and then it gets better as I learn what I am dealing with and how to deal with my feelings. After a period of time everything gets back to normal levels for me.
Asperger's is now a part of the autistic spectrum.
I am clueless as to why you would put sound effects in a video that Autistic people are likely to watch. I cannot continue watching it due to them.
I see numerous comments on here regarding the use of 'disability'... disability is a thing done to a person (they are dis-abled) by an external factor which is generally either of human design or that could be mitigated or eliminated as a disabler by human intervention (classic example is steps into a building dis-abling a wheelchair user). the other word in all this is impairment, where this refers to a human function that is impaired. impairments are inherent to the person as-is, disabilities are external things the person is subjected to. the example I tend to use is of a blind and sighted person working late in an office building. it's dark outside and there's nobody else around. the power goes out and an alarm goes off. they need to exit the building but it is now pitch dark. the sighted person becomes dis-abled by the lack of lighting, the blind person's impairment has actually en-abled them in this instance as they are well used to navigating the building without visual cues. that's not to say any individual autistic person does or does not have an impairment. like most humans, I do and tbh I can't easily think of an autistic person who doesn't have some sort of impairment... but the real question is whether that impairment is *part* of being autistic... or just part of being a human. hint: 99% likely it is just a human thing tbh. a LOT of work has gone into reframing not just what being autistic actually is, but then taking what's left and reinterpreting it, renaming it, changing the language used... there's not a whole lot left in the 'autistic' bucket when you're done and most of that is pretty neutral - as likely to be occasionally useful as not, but mostly just slight variations on unremarkable human characteristics you could find in anyone.
heh... I haven't even got to watch the damn video yet! XD only came on here to grab a link to 12 Tone channel for a list.
Awesome bird jumper
Why is she talking like that
All I noticed was her wrinkly sweater.
It is, but that's just mean. If that's what you have to say about this video, that says a lot about you.
We were crunched for time and I don't have an ironing board ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Always gotta add all the “woke” disclaimers, can’t offend anyone. 😂
It’s also interesting how the author can make liberal use of the words “it may” or “possibly” when describing topics/theories about Autism, but when it comes to vaccines it’s a hard “NO”.
As parents, we fully have the right to say “vaccines MAY be a contributing factor”.
There is such thing as a normal brain and one that isn’t. Not saying it’s always bad, but to say there’s no such thing as a normal brain is false
what causes Autism Spectrum Disorder
Curtis Hall no idea fam lol that's kinda a majority of the video's point
Thanks
Watch the video
Believing that vaccines cause autism is what *_actually_* causes autism, not vaccines themselves!