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- Her teacher was not happy about her use of prepositions.
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"You are being deliberately obtuse!"
"But I'm not a triangle?"
My experience being undiagnosed in elementary school in a nutshell
aBstruse.bEcause.
Can triangles even be obtuse?? Oh wait yeah they can. For some reason i forgot triangles arent only acute or right angles
@@DeathnoteBB : Obtuse triangles are the most fun, because then one of the cosines comes out negative.
“Quit intentionally derailing the class” is one I got a lot
lol. Yeah. As a teacher, if not aware that students are on the spectrum, it can take a while to adjust to such a literal way of processing language. It can seem like 'sass mouth' if one has no understanding of autistic ways of thought. It's even more difficult to recognize when kids are exceptionally bright, which many folks on the spectrum are.
Am I made of box? Or is the box made of me? My teacher screams for she does not know.
Well since a box is really just a container in which another item can be inside of then technically aren't we all boxes? And if we're all boxes then yes the box is made of you.
This
Lol this reminds me of the gingerbread man inside a gingerbread house meme. Is the man made of house? Or is the house made of man? He screams for he does not know.
Jingles woah they should have made a joke about that
Oh my sweet goodness, best comment ever.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my dad when I was in the seventh grade. He had come to visit me and we were walking around the mall and talking about a short essay that I had written in class the previous week. He asks me “what did you write it on” and for whatever reason I answered, very sincerely, “paper”. Turns out he was asking me what the topic of the essay was, not how it was written
@ Jasmine Lawrence I think you have the wrong comment
Hello,❤
lmao
I HAD THAT EXACT SAME CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE LMAO
Idk if it's because English is not my first language and I'm not supposed to know all of the idioms and that's why I take many things literally but I also thought of the same answer as yours and that it was the most logical one
“It’s like being the only sober person in a room full of drunks” is an excellent description of many of our lives as autistic persons.
That’s something an asshole says
“I waited until she felt safe” gETS ME
The right time is the wrong time and I'll probably never figure it out.
Liar. Literallly Nobody (not forced) laughed at this
@Mr. Reptilia you are lying. This is not funny. Its interesting sure like a ted talk. But its not funny
@Mr. Reptilia don't lie to me now
they never do, though; that's been your Autistic "REd Pill" PSA for the day :)
I am also a high functioning autistic person, and when she said “the relationship between you and the box” my first thought was, “Why am i married to a box?!”
Ur lucky ur married to a loving box. Im married to an unloving piece of shit box
My brain always assume spatial relation. I found the box question produces no issue, but I once got asked what relationship I had to a woman I dated.. my response was "well technically I'm currently about 2 1/2 m NW on her left."
@@azarinevil you make more sense than almost every other person I have ever come across.
Mine was "am I dating the box?"
The autism in me: "how are we related?"
The adhd in me: "what type of box? How big is it? What's the colour? Is it a live?".
Diagnosed at 37. Ladies usually get late diagnoses. Enjoying this.
I've always known that there was something wrong with telling a kid that they're being "deliberately obtuse," but it wasn't until I was reminded of that phrase just now that I realized what it was:
Saying a kid is being deliberately obtuse is tantamount to saying, "I'm explaining this perfectly, and in a manner that everyone should be able to understand. Not only that, but I can read your mind, and I know that you do indeed understand me, and are just trying to be annoying."
I guess parents and teachers are so used to any misunderstandings being the kids' fault, they don't consider trying a different explanation before getting defensive.
the part where they assume they know what you think is the worst. grown-ups can lack empathy in that way
My husband is autistic. His greatest horror was being accused of being deliberately obtuse/difficult/awkward/sarcastic. He found this to be, he later described, the foundation for feeling a permanent outsider.
I'm autistic too and this is 100% true.
Teachers so often, when I asked questions, assumed I was joking or being obtuse when I legitimately wanted to understand something.
Same mate
I had a groupmate doing a chemical plant design project. Everyone knows hes high functioning, but his questions..are a bit different. You know how jokes are when something you dont expect people say pops up? Yeah to me it was a bit like that. I know that hes genuine but I just cant stop myself from giving out a chuckle. I guess its what the less gifted have to struggle with. Anyways all the best! Youre probably going to achieve great things.
Omg yes! I remember learning probability and the teachers using a coin flip as an example. I knew there had to be a tiny, tiny possibility the coin could land on its edge and I wanted to know how to account for it or I wouldn't be getting the right answer. It drove them insane.
Maybe I’m Autistic😎 my teachers did the same.
bearcraz18 God that kind of thing bothers me too. They never explain “its just a hypothetical to better illustrate the concept”. Just “dont think about it.” Well I’m GONNA!
“Why are they kissing? I don’t like the sound” is so delightfully relatably autistic and I love it
I’ve been operating under the thought that this was just me and I’m glad someone also understands how TERRIBLE that sound is.
Never heard anyone else point out this particular issue 😂
Whoever likes the sound of kissing is a fucking maniac and I’ll better be my autistic self than listen to that.
@@margaritam.9118 It's like two open-mouth chewers but somehow worse.
I hate the squeak.
As an autistic person and a teacher, I completely understand and have been on both sides of this conversation XD
YES!!
I can totally follow her train of thought when it comes to the confusion about prepositions (And human interactions in general lol), but I also feel the pain of being a teacher and being able to explain something to someone, but unable to understand FOR them.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@yumisayama4110 100% normal child behaviour.
@@yumisayama4110 oh jeez "not being able to understand for them" is such an excellent way to put it.
HOW MANY TIMES TO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS IN CLEAR AND CONCISE LANGUAGE, BLUUUUURHBBHGGG
I too am a teacher. It wasn't until my cousin's kid was diagnosed that a lot of things in our family made sense.
I once got into the school yearbook as 'The teacher who gave the best burns.'
Thing is...I wasn't trying to...
@@TheAspadistra Neurotypicals often interpret honest questions as sarcastic insults.
I'm a "high functioning" autistic person and I quote the first part of this bit to everyone. "It's a terrible name for what I have because it gives the impression that I function highly. I do not."
only in the united states where i live its called aspergers
the problem is they treat two different conditions like they are the same
Yuuuuup I used to say I was “mildly autistic” but that made it sound like I’m a hot sauce. High functioning yup that’s me, doesn’t feel like it
From my understanding (as some who works with autistic people and has two autistic brothers), high functioning just means that you're able to verbalize your thought process and able to have a steady job. However, a lot of professionals have moved away from the term "high functioning."
@@samlynx2016 Technically (from a diagnostic criteria at least) it means you are an autistic person with no associated learning disability. This is usually determined with an IQ test or something similar. If you're average or higher, you're "high functioning". That said, it's honestly a very silly distinction and i think your definition is better. Most of us have at least one associated condition (like ADHD or dyslexia) that makes IQ tests even less reliable than usual.
"You're being deliberately obtuse"
This bit is killing me inside because on one hand this is so very funny and on the other it is too relatable to be comfortable for me
Right there with you, I know I tortured teachers with questions.
@@DarkHorizons13 No. The teachers were tortured _by_ your questions.
That's an important preposition.
I’ve started leading an awful lot of my questions with the words, “I’m sorry; I’m not being deliberately obtuse, but...”
@@bakerfritz4681 : Well, of course you're not, you're not a triangle.
Not only is it painfully relatable as someone on the Spectrum, but it's also giving me Shawshank Redemption flashbacks.
I'm an english teacher, and I always teach prepositions by getting kids to sit on, under and beside their table. Which is both pleasingly chaotic and makes the concept pretty obvious. Thank God I never thought of boxes and penguins!
That’s very helpful. Especially since it will also help kids remember the word “preposition” and it’s meaning if they recall choosing a “position” by their desk.
That would have been delightful. We learned by rote, with rhymes. I still remember the Shirley method rhymes. “Preposition, preposition, starting with an A... preposition preposition don’t go away, go to the middle and see what we say, EFI, LM(?)O... preposition preposition, almost through, start with a P and end with a W, past since through, throughout to toward, under underneeeath, until,” etc. It was... monotonous, and obviously only worked for a certain kind of learner.
Although, as an editor, I admit I will sometimes scan through various rhymes to make sure I’m not overlooking any options, lol. In helping my brother with his Master’s papers, I had a whole lesson called Prepositions are Bitches. 🙃 They get a lot of people tripped up, even otherwise solid writers. Bless ‘em.
That makes a lot more sense than the box!
@MusicalElitist1 They failed to capitalise just one singular bloody word as far as I can tell. Get off your high horse for fuck's sake. Being a teacher doesn't mean you're infallible.
Ooh I love that! I wish I had you as a teacher
I learned a trick to fit in in class: Just never speak.
My survival method
I once had a verbal reasoning exam in which I had to read an extract from a story and answer questions about it. One of the questions was, "Describe the relationship between Molly and Gemma." I was confused about this but my answer was, "They appear to have a good relationship. They enjoy playing together."
Lmao. At first reading this I was like "That's a fine answer if they were in fact playing together in the story", until I realized they're related in some way and that's most likely what was asked. 😅😂
I had ONE amazing teacher who realized this about me, that I would answer questions a different way. So she would still mark it correct, I wasn't "wrong". But then after class she would explain to me what the question actually meant, And what the answer should have been 😂😂🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️ wonderful woman. I wrote an entire essay on the wrong subject one time! She said this should be a Fail but you still wrote a great essay, you tried 🤣😭🩷
@@jadepatrice2276 What was the subject in question? 😄 Great teacher indeed! 🙂
Boxes with names= cereal
Cereal= food
Food= eat
Box= food
Can I eat the box?
Yeah that’s how I assume the logic went! As a kid I had similar association confusions a lot
i was thinking the logic was gonna be more about cannibalism, since she was still caught up on bei g "related" to the box
@@LlamasOnJUPITER if you eat the thing you become at least partially made of the thing, until it's fully digested. I would assume that was the concept, but who knows
You can, it probably wouldn't taste very good though.
Ohhhh I see!!
the perks of an ADHD brain is that i can track *exactly* how she got to the question "can i eat the box." For any of yall wondering, im guessing (of course i can't say for sure) her child-Hanna brain connected "boxes that have names"-->cereal boxes-->cereal-->can eat cereal from box--> can i eat this hypothetical box.
As someone who also has ADHD that is so bad it is still medicated in uní, this is very logical yes. My brain would do this too.
Now that is an extremely deep and at the same time logical train of thought!
ooh i was still thinking about the subject being “prepositions” is i thought she was wondering if she could eat the box so it would be inside of her 😂
Wasn't it.. obvious?
I have add and I immediately thought that, glad some other people thought the same
as an autistic woman I saw this and laughed harder than I ever have at any comedy routine. inspired me to check out the rest of Hannah's work. reading their memoir right now and loving it!!!
All her "weird" trains of thought make perfect sense to me, but the breakfast cereal part was sheer *genius*. I would have wanted to be friends with her in school, but I would have been too shy and awkward to try.
We need to normalize bullying
@@Shakenmike117 wha-
It's not funny, simp.
@@peteywheatstraws4909 Boohoo, jackass.
@@Patrickery10 he said we need to normalise bullying.
My best friend's last name is literally Box
That's a Box with a name
😂😂😂
Jesus imagine if they were in this class.
It is Box as a name
Is she made of box?
Don't eat the box!
I mean, unless you have a nice agreement between the two of you. . .
Oh, this is stirring up old memories. I used to always do poorly in primary school activities that required an understanding of common knowledge. For instance, most people would reply “orange” if asked the colour of a carrot. But I liked to look though vegetable seed catalogues for fun as a child, so I knew that carrots can also be purple, red, yellow, and white. So I would consistently give “wrong” answers because my brain struggles to weigh information according to social use. When asked by an adult and I would explain my reasoning, they would get exasperated and say not to show off and to just put the normal answer. But I couldn’t ever seem to figure out what the defaults were. My brain couldn’t say “hmm. We have seen many colours of carrots and have grown purple ones in the veggie patch. But on cartoons, in my classmates’ lunches, etc carrots are only ever drawn as orange. So I should use that colour as my default when communicating the idea of carrots”.
I think it says more about so called "normal" poeple than you. Carrots can be of all colours. It's not because we arbitrarily and socially selected one type with one color to represent other than others don't exist or do not have the right to be mentioned. Any parallel with humans is inttended 😉
Oh I’ve got a couple stories but here’s one: In first grade my teacher asked the class if anyone could describe Christopher Columbus and I had been reading a lot so I wanted to show off by saying “intelligent”. Only the pipeline b/w my brain and my mouth wouldn’t help me find the word and what came out was “ignorant” instead. All the kids laughed and I felt so dumb :/ In retrospect tho I was right.
🥕🙌 I understand & relate to this!!! People can be difficult. You do you! Kids used to put me down, made me feel not good enough/ different, which makes me want to speak up more & more as an adult, take back the power! You are awesome!😁👍
@@sigh824 Christopher Columbus was ignorant.
While the scientific society back then already agreed that earth was round as he tried to prove, most calculation they did back then also suggested that it was much larger than Columbus expected. They have no expectation that there are a landmass between Europe and India he tried to reach and would suggest that most journey West would run out of rations before ever reaching India.
People get jealous when you understand more than default lol
My utterly traumatizing school experience, especially elementary school and later Latin, made into something I here cry about with laughter. Thanks, Hannah! 💝
A couple of months ago, I laughed so hard and for so long at this bit that it occurred to me that I might be a little more than an ADHDer. I mean, the teacher interaction pretty much told the story of my entire school life. After a LOT of research and self-reflection, I got a clinical autism assessment. And, yes, I am also autistic. Thank you, Hannah! 💙
Hi Lena, Hope you're doing well. May I ask, How old were you when you got diagnosed?
Liar
Man shut up 🤣🤣🤣 everyone is “autistic” nowadays
You're very special and everyone cares a lot
You should get out more
Imagine being a child struggling to understand and your teacher responds with: no one is that “obtuse”.
We did that in watching this video...quit being an imaginist.
That was me and every other autistic person on the planet. At some point your going to need help and the adult in your life will back hand you
Imagine? I lived it
I sincerely hope that teacher saw this and felt like the world's biggest ass.
@@Psychwriteify Given her age, she would've been in school in the 80s mostly and a bit of the 90s. Back then nobody ever talked about or knew shit about autism. It wasn't until 1980 until psychologists made a distinction between autism and schizophrenia and 1987 before they made a check list for behaviors. And this was in the field of psychology, it certainly hadn't been disseminated to run of the mill public school teachers, nor would their education in teaching have included it.
Combine that with the fact nearly every class has one or two joker types who like to say shit like this for a laugh, knowing full well what things being said means but doing it anyway to annoy the teacher and amuse the class. I had plenty of these types in my school years, and none of them were autistic and did it purely for their own amusement.
When you put all this together, that teacher has no reason to feel like an ass at being frustrated by this and couldn't have known this person had a mental disorder. Honestly, if this woman thought like this about everything all throughout her life, her PARENTS should have noticed something was off about her much earlier. She would've been tested for autism in the modern age, but in the 80s and 90s nobody knew about that shit. Nobody talked about that shit. You just assume someone is being an asshole when they act this way.
"Why are they kissing? I don't like the sound..."
Such a simple line, but for some reason it really hits me hard.
That's because you're basic
Yes.
@@wrathza Are you okay? Do you need to talk to someone?
I've occasionally been bothered by the sound WHILE kissing someone. Too much tongue, stop it!?!
@@kidrasan Most sounds dealing with the human body sound awful to my ears, honestly.
As a young child (autistic) I kept answering prepositions with this simple answer "it's there" while pointing my finger.
I am married to someone who has high functioning autism and some of the things he comes out with just makes me crack up laughing - the way his mind things sometimes is so funny,
Well then put his jokes up here, because there's nothing funny about Gabby Hambone or whatever this chicks name is.
Maybe your spouse should have been a comedian because seems like he is funnier than Hannah Gadsby.
This made me smile. I'm the same, high functioning autism and that really is a misnomer because no neurotypical person would listen to me and say high functioning. I am pretty which gets people close to me but then I gently insert my foot into my mouth and they are instantly repelled. I had my person who understood me perfectly for a while and we have a 4yo together but then he died two years ago and left us and it broke me. Edit, I really can't wrap my head around how so many people feel so negatively about this woman. Whether I was on the Spectrum or not I would find her variability to stand up for her beliefs and for herself and to tell her story and speak her truth such an inspiration. Maybe people are coming here thinking they are going to get Sarah Silverman but that is not the case.
@@roadlesstraveled34
News Flash moron
SARAH SILVERMAN HAS NEVER BEEN FUNNY
THE ONLY PPL THAT THINK SHE IS FUNNY ARE MORONS
Yeah I make fun of autistic people all the time
The way she says "No, they didn't, but I had a question" kills me everytime.
“I started naming breakfast cereals” is so high functioning true I’m secretly patting my inner autistic on the head and we both laughing
Wow you mean you watched this unfunny horseshit more than once?
Yeah man- I don’t know how people can watch this as anything other than irionic
@@Vurdox @danecookfannumb1 is in the house!
@@Vurdox may i suggest some water for your hypernatremia? you're looking awfully salty over nothing
Lol 😂 the way she says “To give you a visual..........This woman” and points the laser pointer makes me laugh every time I watch this moment. I love the way she works paintings and her art history degree into the show to support her themes.
i missed the laser pointer lmaooo thanks for pointing it out 😂
@@alexcalk2882 nice pun
I lost it when I saw the painting. 😂😂😂
I missed it too! And Art is MY passion! (I used to know but I'd forgotten that she has an Art degree! THANK YOU FOR POINTING THIS OUT!!!!)
I didn’t even see any laser pointer... I didn’t even know who she was talking about until she said “funeral” lol
Im a high functioning autistc, and the wavelength metaphor is so good! I always just explain it as “I just don’t jive with people the way most people expect to be jived with”. and that tends to inform whomever Im speaking with well enough.
I just say "I'm wired differently"
Bruh that's so well put I'm going to start using that
I guess relating to something makes something that is normally not funny at all enjoyable
"You're being deliberately obtuse'
I have heard that SO MANY TIMES.
It angers me now.
This teacher experienced what it is like to be a Dungeon Master
wow that's actually so true
I played only one game of D&D in my life, with few of my friends, all of us together barely understood the concept of the game, guy that had misfortune to take upon being DM and having me, guy that decided to play it as a genuine open world rpg, as a player was by no means mentally ready for a wave of questions that I had so I can make my decisions. Long story short I went into an enemy camp (guys that hunted my species) because apparently, those flying griffins or whatever are afraid of caves so I couldn't go with the rest of the team, I go into monk rage roll freaking 20 and kill the whole camp by myself including a guy that gave us a quest to begin with, he had plans for them lol. After some times he realized that he probably shouldn've designed it better so that it doesn't all depend on one trow.
LMAO 🤣
Hahaha the noise i made when I read this was not cool 🤣 glad no one heard that 😅
You're a DM every day when you teach 😂
Whenever I am teaching a concept that a student doesn’t understand, I try to explain it in a different way.
And if a child says something absurd, I try to figure out their line of thinking. Or I ask them what made them think of such a thing. It’s often very funny, and in many ways “logical” from the child’s point of view.
Thank you. Probably the best thing you can do for someone. Especially someone like me and many others here with Autism
Good teacher.
It's the best way to make yourself smile.. ask a kid "why do you think that?".. I LOVE asking my autistic kids this! It helps me understand why THEY think the way they do.
Well, its called common teaching (and parenting). Shouldn`t all teachers be like that? Nope, unfortunately they are not. So keep up the good work :)
When I was in school and they gave standard tests, I got extremely low scores even though I was getting A’s in everything. My mom and teacher sat down to look at my test and answers and could see how I’d gotten the answers, just from how I generally saw the world. It’s so important to do things like this.
I dont understand why people hate this. As someone with the same problem as her, I can tell you that she is absolutely spot on about the misconception that we are high functioning.
Edit: Ah, the old Subjectivity vs Objectivity debate. The bane of all Art. The thing that all Artists dread the most. And people wonder why we can't have nice things.
Edit 2: 69 Likes! LOL
Probably cause it isn't funny
@@austinfischer1272 Comedy is subjective...... like a box.
Whilst comedy is subjective there is always a outlier to everything and this is the comedy outlier with objectively not being funny
Bro, I've gotten so cynical and Gothic as of lately, I thought I somehow destroyed all happiness in my life including the ability to appreciate and laugh about comedy. I thought it was me. I was wrong.
This is objectively not funny. Ofcourse to some it will but imagine this woman being on Justin Bieber roast or something for example.
@@rcbarrientos6109 IS JUSTIN BEIBER A BOX?!?!?!?
I love this. I wish there was a "clean" version I could share with my middle school students. Not only does it teach about what prepositions are, more importantly it would help teach them empathy for other people and start a conversation.
What empathy? To not make fun of the unfunny?
It’s stuff like this that convinces me that autism and ADHD are cousins. The way we get through school is so similar. And RIP to people who have both, you’re clueless and distracted and you don’t even know which one is causing it.
They are cousins.
Maya Zulf Right? I know the root is probably different, but the symptoms have so much overlap that I’m surprised I was never tested for autism.
I don’t even have autism but I do have very much ADD, and also the social skills of a seven year old trying to figure out how the world works. Maybe not with this specific example but I do definitely relate to just *existing* on a whole nother wavelength. (A whole lot “What did I do wrong???”)
I know there’s a lot of overlap between the two but I’m not sure of how they’re related scientifically speaking.
Nikko Spelled Like That
Me too. Both with having ADD and not knowing the science behind it. (And a lot of fixating on the wrong part of the lesson or the semantics of things and then making others frustrated when you bring it up)
@@nikkospelledlikethat8140 Are u female? Many females (and some males) are first diagnosed with ADHD or misdiagnosed w bipolar or borderline personality disorder when they are actually autistic. Many "professionals" don't have sufficient knowledge of the different ways autism can present. The Autism Hangout CZcams channel has many good videos.
Reminds me of that time when I was 4. I was yelling at the back of the car for reasons history decided to forget. But yelling with dedication nonetheless. My mom, a school teacher, trained in the arts of screaming children, was out of options, and threatened to abandon me next to a field.
Alas, I was not one for understanding the concept of threats, and knew she wouldn't do that.
So I kept screaming.
My tired, out of options, mom wanting to be taken seriously, stopped the car next to a Field.
I learned later in life, taking care of 4 years old myself, that this is usually the limit of the bluff that works, and the child calms down.
But I didn't do that.
My mother, now committed, took me out of the car, and put me next to the field. No objection from me. Not wanting to back down, she got back in the car and LEFT saying "I'll come back when you're calm".
She came back a minute or two later, estimating that I would be taking her seriously enough to be quiet for the last 5 minutes of the car ride. She got out out of the car. I stared at her straight in the face and said "I'm not calm yet".
She put me back in the car and I SCREAMED for the rest of the car ride, the end.
BONUS : My seven year old sister, contrarely to me, was very impressed at my mom and was crying "please don't abandon my sister" and that's why my mom had to come back quicker than she wanted.
Lol aww you were so self aware of your emotions!
@IsalithLaLame....You seem very proud of that.
Holy fucking shit this is hilarious but also I'm sorry it happened... "im not calm yet" almost killed me tho
This is a great story and I love it. "I'm not calm yet." *Chefs kiss* yes.
This us EXACTLY how i was as a child xD
"You're being deliberately obtuse" omfg, that phrase is practically triggering for me, lol--I remember my mother insulting me with that phrase as a teenager when she was mad at me and I thought I was asking reasonable questions necessary for someone who wasn't a mind reader 😅
I'm getting flashbacks to my school days. Mum sighed when she got my report card: "Aspa allows no question go unanswered..."
Cut to x yrs later when I was teaching in a high school and speaking to a pupil who was high-functioning ASD. Suddenly I was looking at myself as a kid.
It’s like drax from guardians of the galaxy, when rocket says “His people are literal, jokes go right over his head” then drax said “Nothing goes over my head, I have to quick of reflexes” 😂
There is no better explanation of it.😂
"too"
I love Drax.
@@tiffanypersaud3518 I love Groot and rocket
Than they proceeded to completely abondoned that.
High-functioning autism example: in primary school, there was a teacher that genuinely did not like me. I had very good grades but never worked and would always be daydreaming, looking out the window. One time she told me "perhaps you'd like a coffee and a mars bar?" and I thought she was genuinely offering me a coffee and a mars bar and I said yes. Needless to say this didn't go down very well.
My neighbour when I was five, "I have a bone to pick with you." Me: "Is it chicken?"
Somehow, even though this was set up with me knowing she disliked you, I still thought the question was genuine.
@@SJisReading Right? This was very confusing to me when she got mad.
I don't understand why she would ask that.
@@ArgyleDinosaur Because I was looking out the window and doing nothing, I guess? She probably meant that I looked like I was on break so I might as well have a snack while I was at it. She was being very ironic but it took me a while to understand that.
I have Autism and I can't stop laughing because it is all true
Unfortunately, one must be autistic to find any of this funny. Which is why few people actually find this funny.
as someone with Aspergers this highly relatable
Headcannon: Hannah's old teacher sees this. She feels ashamed at how she treated young Hannah back then. "It never occurred to me that she could be autistic. I had no idea. It's all so clear to me now." But then it gets to the part right before Hannah asks if she can eat the box, and the teacher's shame briefly subsides. She's like, "Oh well, at least I'll finally understand what THAT question was all about." And Hannah's like, "now I don't remember my thinking behind this question..." And the teacher's like, "Oh, fuck me!"
Is she reallu autistic? Because she is more of a normal person than i am to be honest...
@@badmotherfucker6328 She is. Being autistic is a way that the brain can develop where sensations and social information are difficult to process (this is oversimplifying). People with autism can have experience it in a lot of different ways and it's not always "obvious" when someone is on the autistic spectrum.
@@badmotherfucker6328 Autistic women, usually not diagnosed until our thirties if at all, are queens of masking. We have to be. I recommend looking up Tony Attwood's videos on the subject, and Yo Samdy Sam.
@@badmotherfucker6328 That is what it means to be a high functioning autistic. You end up looking juuuuuust close enough to "normal" that it really throws people off when you have a hard time seeing the world the way they do.
People expect atypical minds to look, well, either crazy or brilliant. But most things are not so extreme in real life. Its a bell curve.
I honestly would not have described the experience as being the only sober person in a room full of drunks or vice versa, I would say it is more like being the only person (or one among a small few) in the room who can see/notice that something weird is happening.
You go to point it out to other people and realize that they see it too, they just interpreted it in an entirely different manner, like you see the color purple and they see green.
It probably had to do with the listing of cereal boxes before.
When she said "A preposition is your relationship to the box" I thought "Holy shit I'm in love with a box? That's so sweet! Must be a really special box."
SAME
"What's your relationship to the box?" "Nothing yet, but maybe friends."
"So.. friends? Best friends? OOOOHHH like secret lovers?"
Yupp, I did a whole, 'oh, so we're dating now?' In reference to me and the box.
no you didnt
Hannah's penguin box story is what convinced me to get tested for autism, because I swear to God I was absolutely that girl in elementary school. I was gifted and a great student, but I always had those innate, automatic social gauges missing in my brain and I just couldn't understand as a child why people were angry at me all the time. I just got assessed and diagnosed with autism *and ADHD* at the age of 35.
congrats on your diagnosis!! I'm trying to get my ADHD tested as well
@@Wew42 A diagnosis is a very helpful thing. It gives a name to your experience so that you can research it and find out better strategies and ways of living that make everything easier and more fulfilling for that person, instead of living forever in darkness and wondering why you're so different than everyone else and never getting any help.
@@Wew42 What else would you say to somebody who noticed a problem in their life and successfully addressed it?
@@Wew42 You can't overcome autism; it's not a disease but a neurological disorder you can learn to live with. Also, the mental states of someone being diagnosed with respectively cancer or autism are vastly different; one is going to go from being probably a bit worried to knowing they have a potentially life-threatening illness where the other has struggled all their life for no obvious reason, has put in work with probably multiple mental health professionals and now finally knows what the problem is and how to move forward. One is hearing terrible news, the other is accomplishing a goal.
@@Wew42 I wouldn't congratulate someone for just happening to have a disorder, I'd congratulate them for obtaining a diagnosis because it's often an ordeal to get one if you're old enough to have a conversation about it.
Awesome!! Hannah is helping me, in a very entertaining way, to understand her experience of living with Autism. Non Australians and some people who don’t have friends/family with Autism may not understand some of these jokes, but as an Aussie mother of a wonderful son (who has Autism), I laughed lots! Thank you for posting ❤️
Hello from US! My autistic son is super literal too!
We’re autistic, we don’t “have” autism 👍
@@DM-it1qf I am autistic too, and I've been told this both ways. I've been told "We are not our disease, we are a person who has Autism." and also "We don't have anything, we're autistic." Either way you say it, someone is going to get upset about it. So just say it how you like to, and let others do the same.
I remember when I was 10, about a year before I got my autism diagnosis, my class were gonna send letters to this kid's show called Hjärnkontoret (=The Brain Office, aka a program about science and stuff). Everyone got to send in their own question so I wanted to know what the lil black part of the pencil was.
Now, to understand this, you need to know this: in Swedish, that good ol' pencil that usually have an eraser in the butt is called a blyertspenna and the bly-part of it means lead. So when we were all reading our questions out loud, everyone started to laugh. The teacher giggled, from what I remember. Some of the boys shouted "it's made out of lead" and I felt like the biggest idiot on the planet, shrinking even further into my lil shell. It definitely didn't help me get over my constant fear of giving a wrong answer, so this incredibly shy, quiet child became even more shy and quiet.
Today I know that the lil black part of the pencil is made out of graphite and that it contains no lead. Idk why I wanted to tell this story but I did and thus I did. Have a lovely day.
You nailed it. Fuckin a.
God, I just wanted to reply that it's graphite until I read the last part of your comment.
If only you'd known that back then. Obscure knowledge is the best when it actually becomes useful for once.
I fondly remember how I once derailed a lesson by explaining how you can't actually hear the sound of a giraffe.
@@lafeeshmeister I apologize for not responding earlier, as I wasn't notified, but I wanted to thank you for your comment and wish you a great day!
@@goji253 Haha I love it when people go off on a tangent on a super niche subject! I always learn something new and the passion that the person exhibits is a big inspiration for me.
Now I'm curious why we can't hear a giraffe's sound so I'll go look up some giraffe facts haha, thank you for your comment and have a great day!
@@toxiphilia Thanks, you too xD
"I understand what [prepositions] are now; I'm all over it."
That should have gotten a laugh but the audience wasn't fast enough 😁
EXACTLY!!!!!!!
It's more likely they didn't laugh, because it's not funny. Dad joke caliber at best.
@@gordonb7765 You're a nasty person, eh.
I didn't get it till I saw your comment 😅 tx
Hmm I still don't get it now, but okay.
she's still 10 times the comedian Brendon Shaub is
If you don’t understand the humor, it’s not for you. I loved this and could relate so much as a late diagnosed autistic Hahah
Humor check: void
Oh I get it, it’s just not funny…Ps I’m on the spectrum
Maybe the same could be said for those folks who don’t get Chapelle’s humor.
Are you saying people that don't laugh, are somehow mentally incapacitated?
So many autistic people trying to understand comedy lately. Keep trying sport.
"To give you an idea of what it feels like to be on the spectrum, basically it feels like being the only sober person in a room full of drunks."
Speaking from experience, this is very true.
Or the only drunk person in a room full of sober people, depending on the day.
That is me... either that or I feel like the only smart person in a room of complete dumbasses... or vice versa depending on how you want to view it...
Either/or for me, depending on the hour.
Wait, how do we seem like the drunks?
@@deadinside8781 people have a big enough ego they think autistic people dont know what they are talking about and usually dismiss them pretty disrespectfully too
"do you know any boxes that have names"
"i started naming cereals"
thats genius. the kind of thinking outside of the BOX that only someone on the spectrum can come up with. Love her
but it’s not logical. it’s the cereals’ names, not boxes’. the boxes’ names would be “a box of the blah-blah cereal”
@@slonmish but the name is literally on the box. The box has a name on it. Therefore, the box has a name.
@@annasaussieanimals4678 cereal box is the name
I'm trying so hard to figure out the other meaning that the first sentance would have.
@@slonmish I feel like we’re just working with very different ideas of what the definition of “name” is
I´m reading the comments here and I feel so happy to see such a beautiful family of boxes.
It´s strange for them, but not to worry, we are wonderful in our own way.
Love from Venezuela, cousins.
BWAHAHAHA!!!! ... picking myself up from the floor. As a former teacher I can't even describe how teaching shortens one's lifespan but how incredibly much fun it is, the incessant madness minute to minute day in and day out.
You know DAMN well this wasn't funny
I'm on the spectrum, and while visualizing was never a problem for me, my compulsive honesty and irritation with anything that wasted time were. As it turns out, noticing things is contrary to the public school ethos.
Just wanted to note that "public school" has nothing to do with it. Private schools are worse in this regard, in general. Just can't stand to the side while people dunk on public education.
So related to this. My son has Asperger’s and to him homework was a waste of time. Why? Because according to him “homework is for those who didn’t pay attention in class”, it’s hard to argue with that. Inevitably my answer was always, “that’s not the point”.
My son's viewpoint and experiences at school are pretty darned similar. His brutal honesty and impatience get him into trouble.
@@angelfinley6244 it's a bit concerning that you would think that it's hard to argue with that. Plenty of students focus in class and still don't necessarily understand what they're taught.
JustaFruit I was using him specifically. He always had 100% classroom participation scores and aced every test. He just refused to do the homework.
"It implies im high functioning" nailed it.
This is so relatable!!! I don’t know if I should laugh or cry
5:49 “You’re being deliberately obtuse”
Why is a teacher refusing to believe that children are capable of being stupid?
As an autistic person this perfectly describes what it's like for me, took my now girlfriend of four years two years for me to even realise she was into me.
Litteraly me
Never heard of her until Dave mentioned how unfunny she is. Damn, he was right. This was painful to watch.
I came here for the exact same thing.
We all came here for this reason. And we all think she is completely not funny. What happened to those long canes that dragged people off the stage. She needs to be dragged off the stage.
@@aaahhhchew8028 I am a black man do I believe in white priviledge? Yes, but not in the way the media is saying it. I now fully believe in gay priviledge now. She has no talent whatsoever. Dave Chappelle ruined her career.
@@89thunderfoot There was nothing to ruin. Shes terrible. Dave Chappelle saying her name is the biggest thing that will ever happen to her comedy career. The problem is the straight community is ready to fight back weapons in hand. He asked fundamental questions. She is the face of the sexual identification communities assault on free speech altogether.
+1
When I was about 10 our family went on a camping trip. It was raining and we were hungry and whining (4 kids). My dad finally got a fire started and handed me a pot of water for pasta and said “Debbie go put this on the fire” so I did, I poured it on the fire. Boy was he mad, and so were my siblings. My mom laughed as she sipped her cocktail.
One of the funny things about having autism is it’s like being a writer which I also happen to be and explaining writing to other writers or non-writers is the same thing as explaining autism you just can’t do it you got to try to figure it out as you go along and you can’t really explain it to anybody it’s the sort of thing you just got to figure out as we go along for better or for worse it has its perks it’s funny at times but you also have your struggles. It’s unique to each individual
My 10 year old ASD son won a ribbon at his sports carnival; I asked him what he won that ribbon for, he just looks at me as if it’s the most stupid question he’s ever heard and replies ‘winning’ lol.
“Boxes don’t have names.”
Tell that to Tiny Box Tim
Aye Mark reference
markiplier fan SPOTTED
A reference I didn't expect to read, but gladly did.
OH FUCK IVE BEEN STABBED BY A REFERENCE I UNDERSTAND BUT WAS NOT EXPECTING
Cardi B seems like the kind of person to name her box.
If THIS is autism, I was definitely an autistic child
"Why are they kissing?! I don't like the sound!" Too real! 🤣🤣🤣
This is a mood. I ended up turning a lot of teachers against me through sheer cluelessness. But my daughter came out with one of my favorites.
So the teacher in her 4th grade class read them a story about the 3 little pigs in which, in a twist ending, the third pig ATE THE WOLF. My daughter went up to the desk after and quietly asked her whether in doing so the third pig had therefore eaten his own brothers. Some teachers break more quietly I guess because the teacher just asked her to sit back down.
I think most of us can agree that this was actually a very logical question given the usual pacing of the story and I wonder that the author missed that little hiccup.
I broke my teacher when, during a lesson on Christian-Orthodoxy and how there is no purgatory, she stated that people who do equal amounts of good deeds *and* bad deeds, go to neither Heaven or Hell.
So, in the light of this information, I raised my little 9 y.o hand and asked "That means they remain on Earth?"
She yelled at me that I was disrespecting the word of God and never allowed me to ever raise my hand to ask a question ever. That didn't mean I stopped though.😂
@@ioanaprovo6513 Yes, in fact, the whole "equal amounts of good and bad deeds thing" is one of the arguments that *forced* philosophers and prophets alike to create Purgatory in the Catholic Methodology. It's just the only thing that makes sense. And, what about the Atheists that never did any wrong? They did *far* more good than evil, so does that mean they go to Heaven? No! So, where do they go, then? *Christian answer* : Hell. *Catholic answer* : Purgatory. And, now you see why that concept existed in the first place.
I have ADHD and now thinking about I probably might also be on the spectrum because of this Lmaoo
in the 2nd grade my teacher tried to explain greater than or less than symbols, and she was explaining them as if they were crocodiles eating each other, which now thinking about it, it’s really dumb. But I was confused because the symbols aren’t anything like that and I thought she was just being stupid... but since I was the one taking them literally, I did my homework that day, and I did all of them like this for example: 10
@@pronounhoarder_8632 I had trouble with this too, until, when I was doing these problems in school myself, my Dad helped me notice that the larger section of the sign will always be on the side of the larger number.
For example:
33
Five is greater than three
18>9
Eighteen is greater than nine
9
@@pronounhoarder_8632 I'll offer a new explanation and try to break it down.
1 is less than everything, but zero. 1
Congrats, that is the most autistic story ever to autism. Just classic.
This made me laugh so hard! Love it
You are probably no fun
@@HughMorristheJoker Probably not, but thanks for drawing me back to this video. Made me laugh just as much as it did a year ago
As an autistic person, the FIRST thing I thought when she said "how we relate to the box" the first thing I thought was "how the fuck am I related to a box??" .... Sigh .... Autism life 😂😂
My fiance misunderstands me alot because I have high functioning autism and he has ADHD. We both have alot of anxiety. So I will VERY often say stuff that he does not take that way I mean him to. So I try to explain my thought process and it sounds an awful lot like this.
"But I'm not a triangle!" Wait....not everyone thinks like that as a kid? Like I know I'm autistic but I would've thought that was a normal response
If I had responded with, "I am not a triangle", it would have been in a smart-alec kind of way rather than a literal way. The literal vs. figurative language understanding is a common difference between ASD annd neurotypical, isn't it? Please correct me if I'm wrong on that.
I have ADHD and my dad has asperger's and communication is a shit show, so I feel you.
Serenade2461 I have ADHD and I feel like some of what she says in the video is like just a tad relatable to how my brain works. In the sense that I relate things that are totally not related to a neurotypical person but they’re related to me. Like if I’m talking about dogs I’ll go from dogs to some interesting facts about dog breeds then my brain will make a connection from dogs to wolves and I’ll skip over the wolves bit when speaking but I’ll go from wolves to evolution in my brain so really it looks like I went from dogs to evolution. This was a lot and I don’t even think my brain understands it. I guess a better example is math. I can’t just do like 15+16= 31. I have to do 5+5=10 so 5+6=11 and since 10+10=20 you do 10+10=20 but 5+6=11 so you have to carry the extra 1 from 15+16 over to make it 31 and not 21. And do I know if any of this math is right? No. But yeah that’s how my brain works. Why did I explain all this in this comment thread?? I have no idea.
@@beepbeeplettuce5701 the math thing is a hundred percent an ADHD thing and for the longest time I didn't know that other people did not do this lol
mermaidismyname I genuinely cannot think of any other way to do math lol. Like I’m bad at math in general so I always thought me doing that was just because I’m awful at it.
I was accidentally driving a teacher crazy once and he said “HOW do you SLEEP at night!!??” I said completely calmly and sincerely, “on my side.”
Oh you’re so cool…
That is the best position for me as well
@@BBee13 I have tried explaining to that man that I am autistic but CZcams keeps deleting my comment. By simply correcting “so cool…” to “so aut….” I keep getting reported and deleted. I think he is reporting my comment as me bullying him lol. We got a top tier troll here.
Im on the spectrum aswell, i would for sure have said on my side!
@@youtubename7819 I haven’t even seen your reply - CZcams must just have a sociopath detector
A few humble thoughts to all the "haters":
1. Seems like a lot of you are here because you like Dave Chapelle and maybe feel you are sticking up for him or defending him by attacking Hannah. Or maybe you are feeling defensive yourself because someone attacking a comedian or joke you like can feel like an attack on you for liking that comedian or joke. I get that impulse. But I don't think it really helps you or Dave at all. Kind of just makes you look petty and mean, in my opinion
2. We all know humor is subjective. As someone on the spectrum, I found this bit funny and relatable. If it didn't speak to you, that's totally cool. Very few jokes are universal. Except knock-knock jokes. Those always kill, am I right? We all laugh at what we laugh at. Just because it's not your jam is no need to ruin the party for everyone else.
3. Once we understand the subjective nature of comedy, we can see that the human experience itself is pretty darn subjective. This very much includes our perspectives and experiences with sex, gender, race and class. I like Dave Chapelle, but on the trans issue (and others), he is limited by his perspective and seems unwilling to expand his consciousness to see how his words impact, and even endanger, others. I think he has doubled down because he doesn't like to be told what to do. But I also believe in his (and our) capacity to grow, to broaden our scope of what a human can be, to relax and let it all be. And maybe we can start by agreeing that what is funny to some people may not be funny to you and there is no problem in that. It's actually kind of cool that the world of comedy (and the world itself) is big enough to have something for everyone.
4. Knock Knock.
5. Who's there?
6. Dwayne
7. Dwayne who?
8. Dwayne the bathtub, I'm dwowning.
9. See? Always kills.
Thank you for this comment. You've put it much more clearly and succinctly than I possibly could... and it's such an important sentiment to express.
It appears as though you might the intolerant one. Besides, it's not Dave's fault she blows. She's a strong woman and is able to be a terrible comedian all on her own.
@@jamesobrien4013 Yep, nothing more intolerant than saying "I see where you are coming from, but maybe consider another perspective." I'm basically Hitler with all my "comedy is subjective and if it's not funny to you that's fine." How cruelly intolerant of me. Point well made. Thank you, my friend, for pointing me back to the light where I can now clearly see that if she isn't funny to you, she can't be funny to anyone.
As an autistic educator who’s been on both sides, this is my favorite comedy clip
I remember a conversation with my then 6-year-old son who is on the spectrum:
Son: Mom, can I use the vacuum downstairs?
Me: You need supervision to use it.
Son (looking confused): But I don't have super vision; I only have normal vision!
that sounds like a mistake any 6 year old would make
Suddenly, the autistic mind is trying to figure out why using the vacuum cleaner downstairs is so much more complicated than using it upstairs to the point that you need special eyes to accomplish an otherwise mundane task!
@@julieabraham3566 same
So many signs say no children allowed without supervision, but they never specify if it has to be heat vision, or if X-ray vision will do.
When I was little my mom had me try some Chinese takeout and she goes “here, this is Chinese food”
And I heard it as “This is Chine’s food”
And I just looked up at her, perplexed and asked “does she want it back?”
I’m on the spectrum and I remember holding back tears and raising my hand during a presentation about the lifecycle of stars one time and just saying “It’s really sad when stars die.” I find this hilarious now but back then I remember being crushed finding out that stars do in fact, die.
Awwww :'(
Oh my God, I just teared up. The world needs more kids that empathize with stars. Much love to you ♥️
Oh my g*d, YES! I am with you on that! I had a full on panic attack when I found out in school that the Sun would die and that all life on Earth would be dead too, before it finished collapsing. I had nightmares, till my dad spent an entire weekend trying to help me understand the concept of the lifetime of a Star, vs the lifetime of a person or a planet. Honestly, I thought the Sun was going to crush and burn me to death before I was going to get to grow up. 🤣🤣🤣
@@yverocks64 my dad really likes astronomy, so I was taught about that kind of stuff pretty early. But the weird part is, I remember 100% believing that it would die either within my lifetime or very soon after (I was like 4-5 I didn’t really understand how big of a number 5 billion is), but also being completely unconcerned over it. Like “oh yeah, the worlds gonna end or whatever”. But then again, I had a pretty weird attitude towards death as a whole when I was younger.
Same same same! It was just so devastating as a kid to know that the earth will be consumed by our own star at some point and all we have are estimates of when it’ll happen. You’re left questioning why no one is sharing in the shock you’re feeling after hearing such unpleasant news. But years later you learn to recognize the beauty of a star’s end through black holes and supernovae which remind us of the cycle of life. Still teachers need to be more aware of these differences in perception, it’s unfair to add existential space dread to the mix of problems kids face! Patience is key
I relate to this on so so so many levels. God. Feels good to be able to relate to someone in a situation like this
:0 you commented on the video I sent you? I never knew that
I guess relating to something makes it funny. So only autistic lesbian non binary Australian whatever pronoun this person prefers people will understand this "comedy"
This is how my brain works too 😂
High functioning is a blessing and a curse. Blessing that you can still take care of yourself and succeed, but a curse that socially no one can obviously tell you have something you cant control so they hold you to the same social expectations of a typical person without understanding why it's near impossible for you to meet them
You can pass for allistic juuuuuust well enough for everyone to assume you’re an asshole. And then no one tells you what you did wrong. So it will probably happen again.
Yeah, still struggling to grasp that in regards to my sister. Going on nights out, I've given her a "lets get out of here" password in a single word (tomato), in case there's danger or a guy/girl is gets too 'fresh'. I never expected her to use it everytime we go out, and after the 10th time, I was very annoyed and thought of her as a buzz kill. Had to refine the terms and conditions of the use 'tomato'. One time, I was having so much fun, but the noise and the crowd set her off and she said, "Tomato." I roll my eyes and insist we stay. She can't, really really can't, because of sensory overload. Exasperated, I let my mates know that I'd be back. I take her outside and order her an uber. I tell her I'm staying. She freaks out and demands I go with her. Well, i got my back up and said "I'm having fun and want to dance... you do this all the time..." all that shit. She sets her back up and refuses to be left alone and to leave me alone (despite having good friends with me). She stays and we both have a miserable time after that. Sensory overload isn't something she can help, and I should've gone home with her.
Despite being an awesome sister and generally fun to be around, I avoid clubbing/pubbing with her
If you acknowledge the possibility that you may be autistic then you are definitely not autistic. Trust me, I work with autistic children and adults all the time.
@@user-nz4ux4cw2z They call it a spectrum for a reason. You're very off base. Ask me anything I'll answer
@@user-nz4ux4cw2z I think you mean well, but as an autistic adult, I’m going to let you know you’re wrong there. People doubt things all the time, particularly when people contradict them (fwiw, many autistic people, particularly those DFAB, are “chameleons” who work at hiding their traits to blend in, which can lead to serious problems long term). Aside from playing bingo with symptoms, two separate experts diagnosed me (my parents were hoping the first one was wrong).
It’s cool that you work with a lot of us, though! It’s giving you a lot of learning opportunities. Some of those you work with might have more to say on the subject.
As a kid I thought "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" meant that not finding something beautiful would makd my eyes ugly, which I didn't want, so I tried reeeaaally hard to find beauty in everything out of fear. That was pretty cute, most of my stories were less cute and also involve mean incompetent teachers.
I've never understood that phrase and I still don't. Does it mean that beauty is inside the person wearing the eyes? Do I have to cut them open to SEE the beauty? No, that would be cruel. Is it an old mage holding a pair of eyes in their hand and the eyes have beauty/magic inside them that are gonna make the mage pretty again???? I need to know!!
@@zimkaseem it means that nothing is objectively beautiful. Everyone sees things differently. You might think something is beautiful and that doesn't mean that it's beautiful it just means that you think that while someone else might think it's ugly.
@@minksrule2196 ahhh, that makes sense
There was a show I watched where the character thought that "beholder" meant "bee holder," and no one corrected him. My dumbass, not getting the joke, thought the same, since that character was never corrected. So I literally thought that beauty had something to do with getting stung by a shit ton of bees for a while.
I also vividly remember answering the "What starts with an f and ends with a uck" question by straight up saying "FUCK!" I didn't know what that meant, either, so I was saying it joyfully until I asked a lunch lady what it meant.
@@foxcheetah6035 what it would it be if it's not fuck??
"Easy Mac? What's so hard about the regular Mac? What do they think we are, r•t•rd•d?"
1. This is hilarious and relatable; but 2. I'm a writer and editor, but when the teacher kept asking 'does anyone know the preposition here?' I thought surely she's looking for a different answer than the one she's already given because that would be way too easy... So I don't think it was a particularly well-phrased lesson even for neurotypicals! But I love that the whole misunderstanding occurred because the teacher used the word 'relationship' and never actually explained that to anyone who might not have heard the term outside human context. Basically she should have said outright, 'where you are in relation to the box in physical space'. And 'the penguin is around the box' - brilliant punchline!!!
I remember tutoring younger kids when I was in high school and I noticed that the idea of presenting new information while having the class perpetually guess where you’re going with it is an all around terrible instruction technique (it assumes that everyone shares the same thought process at best and at worst people learn it wrong and it gets engrained wrong). But, I am also adhd/autistic ans also dysgraphic and I think honestly from having trains of thought similar to this “penguin in a box” story I realized even when I was younger, how much that technique doesn’t work.
"Does the box have a name?"
Audience laughs
Me: Why are they laughing?
Cuz the box 😂 does it have a name 😂😭😭😐 idk 🤦🏿♂️
Seriously
Because this is kindergarten level of humor.
Just like most of this generation who doesn't want to grow up.
@@jaykotey6228 I don't know, I actually laughed at some of my kindergartners humor.
@@bobbobbington3615 Q) Why wouldn't the skeleton cross the road? A) He did not have the guts!
Almost a full day after seeing this, I only now realized her asking if she could eat the box can be construed as a funny sign in retrospect that she is a lesbian. I am kicking myself for not catching on sooner.
Hahaha
Oh…
that’s why i clicked on the video lol the thumbnail got me!
Wait what
Yeah wow, you really deserve punishment for that. It's basically a crime to "only now realizing thing."
I had a similiar experience at school when i was a kid. I have ADD and autisme.
Our teacher asked us "Who can not go to jail?", and the first thought that came to my mind was time. Time can obviously not go to jail. Time can be very cruel to people, and really should go to jail, but it cannot beacuse it's not a living thing. So that was my answer to the teacher. The teacher just rolled their eyes at me and said "No. It's the King. The King cannot go to jail." And my mind just blew up. Like why would the king do anything bad anyway? He is the king afterall, and our king is known for being well liked by my country because he is so kind. Surely time is the answer!?
I never raised my hand in class after that X'D
She is as funny as a kind old lady with dimensia at a retirement home talking about when she was younger
Nah. That old lady had the best stories. Hannah, not so much.
Lol no way, old people being senile can be the funniezt shit. Hannah might actualyl get a comey boost when she loses her mind comoletely
As a spectrum wielder, I can confirm that is my thought process in almost any situation.
"Spectrum wielder"!!!! I love this, thank you, I've just put this on a sticky note on my monitor.
"only a spectrum wielder can defeat another spectrum wielder."
Spectrum wielder 🤣
The audience for this is the two women making angry faces at Dave when he said "that's not blood, that's beet juice".
I laughed way harder at this tham this video
That's not why they're mad, maybe you missed the whole TERF part and J.K Rowling.
Those two women!! Lmao. I pointed them out to my wife when watching the special. It's like the episode of Sopranos where they told Tony" Tell a joke...look around.. whoever is not laughing wants to kill you"
@@pollaski same here loll
i've seen them post tips on how to imitate periods and they shove tomato sauce popsicles up their ass so dave wasn't far off.
This was actually funny.
My brother sent this to me because "she sounds like you".
So, apparently all Aspies had the same school experiences ... damn, I thought I was special 🤷♀️. Those laughs and "ooohs" from the other kids were so addicting though, I see why she got into comedy.
While I’m not autistic, I have dyslexia and ADHD and I still find this very relatable
"Teacher's pet to teacher's nemesis in one lesson."
I know this
I’m Autistic and wasn’t diagnosed until 18 years old. I always (and still) missed the “memo”. This literally happened to me ALL the time at school I really relate to this story.
My preposition to this story is that I’m in the box. Ha! 😂
As someone who also has autism, the comment about being the only sober person in a room full of drunks resonates so much with me. It's basically how I lived for the past few years.
I was worried self-deprication would come across as ableism, but honestly, I relate so much. She is so good.
Tbh it’s not even self-deprecation, it’s “I was so fucking confused and accidentally pissed of my teacher”
@@DeathnoteBB Yeah she has a way with expressing these experiences in a way others can understand easily, which is really a talent.
Daniel Simpson Yeah it really is. Sometimes I try to explain and sometimes I’m good at it and sometimes I don’t even know what I’m trying to say XD
I had a similar interaction with Jean's and Gene's. If I'm made of jeans how I was related to jeans? If I were related to jeans why am I wearing them? Did somebody die so I could have their jeans? Yes I know my parents gave me my jeans, but where did they get them from? The string of questions were stacking up fast. The teacher got just as livid. Parents were called. Teacher made a similar claim that I was intentionally being disruptive. I don't recall what grade I was in at the time, only that I was quite young. My mum not missing a beat said do you believe my son knows this concept so well that he can thwart your teaching for the benefit of what? Did you show him the different spelling? No? As she pointed to my pants "Well what other noun sounds the same as gene"? In that instant of understanding it was something completely different broke my brain for a while.
My son is on the spectrum and yes…it sounds about right about the way he thinks.
I probably would ask the teacher if she could think outside the box 😆