I'm Rosie, I have high functioning autism and it was only recently at the age of 14 or 15 when I learned to figure out why I get stressed. I'm trying to use my autism to my advantage, such as my special interests in science and music. For my science I am taking Biology and Chemistry in my A levels to become a scientist in later life and for my music I am composing a musical which will be performed by my sixth form next year.
@Lewis C. I'm not. I'm trying to act like a human, I'm having less meltdowns now I'm older. Autistic people aren't acting like victims, it's people who pretend to act like us who are. Also, I'm more like the boy at 21:16, high functioning is the opposite of severe.
That's awesome! I'm also using the fact that I'm on the spectrum as a superpower, my special interest is speech pathology and I can spend hours and hours in hyperfocus study mode. I wish you all the best of luck in your classes, sending all the best from California. :) Ps I compose too!
I'm diagnose with high functioning too and I wasn't diagnosed until I was 14 I'm 15 now and I find it incredibly deficient to deal with I aspire to be like you
As someone on the ASD spectrum, watching Zane’s reaction to going to school had me tearing up. The neurotypical school system is very damaging to children with ASD. Instead of forcing them to be tormented by the sounds, bright lights, and the inconsistencies of other children’s behaviors, i wish there were alternatives, like a low-stimuli school environment.
@@forreal245 wow you're a nasty individual. Of course it's a fucking spectrum, some autistic people have it more severely than others. You have no idea what you're talking about. I'm mildly autistic myself. I struggle with social skills, especially talking to strangers in person. You need to either know what the fuck you're talking about, or shut the fuck up.
If I had been allowed to go to a low stimuli school or even be in a low stimuli classroom, I would have done so much better in school. But none of that existed when I was in school.
It broke my heart seeing jake react with such agony to school. The mom seems wonderful and is really trying to her limit, so nothing harsh meant to her. What she doesn’t know about is the way school with no support is like torture for him. He’s reacting the way any child might run and scream from pain or a place he has been “tortured” mentally so to speak. I work with a young boy very much like him, one on one at a public school. That includes helping reduce sensory stress, giving him breaks in quiet places when he reaches his limit, being like a friend by his side, much like a child wants a parent at a stressful place like the doctor. I explain and repeat directions, warn him about transitions and give him the time he needs to switch gears, which takes a bit longer than peers. I mediate situations with his peers to help conversation and explain their intentions or ask them to step back of slow down or speak a bit softer. Without all that, it would be constant whiplash, confusion, frustration. Im not trying to toot my horn or anything. Plenty of therapists do what I do and do it wonderfully. It’s just that this kind of extra help is so key. I want every child with autism in regular schools to have assistance so they can enjoy school instead of experiencing so much misery. It’s not the moms fault she doesn’t know about this, especially seeing the documentary is older, and clearly the state is not offering her the classroom assistance her son needs. The ways that diagnosis and treatment have changed are advancing quickly. I hope jake is at a better place in life and his poor mom is given more help
one thing that must be said, the boy at the start is doing this thing called "stimming" and is quite NORMAL, this is his way of blowing off all his stress, His Mother is doing the right thing, aka creating a "safe space" in which her son, can be himself, no consequences, just let fly.... if he needs to! PS: I have high functioning Autism too, was adult diagnosed @ 32 years.
@@americanstalker9216 as the parent of a level 2 autistic boy and someone that has an extremely short fuse, I think your wrong, as parents we learn to deal with this- and yes we do deserve medals because what we do is 100 times harder than what most other parents deal with, it’s really frustrating seeing neurotypical parent complain about their children, because they really do complain constantly about the most benign things- and if my child did what they complain about I would be ecstatic. So no I think that’s how she would be away from the camera although what they showed was pretty minimal, imagine what it’s like to have a hand smeared with faeces wipe across your face in the middle of the night to wake you up and discover a room/ bed also decorated with faeces- all whilst having an average of 3-4 hours sleep for the last 12 months and being extremely Ill yourself, this is an extreme but consistent experience in our household and yet most people have no idea this is what we deal with when they interact with us, nor is it synonymous with the autism representation.
@@ryan-anarchist-2535 It seems to get results. Needles are painful, but we still inoculate children. If ABA in early years means independence in adulthood, it seems worth it.
My 20 year old son has autism and my 23 year old son has bipolar disorder. Tankyou for this beatiful dokumentary. I wish all parents to autistic children and young adults strenght. You are heroes.
My god, why is this not a national, worldwide emergency to discover the cause. All these beautiful children. They deserve for this to be more of a priority.
@@beazrichz973 I don't care if you are a f off or not. Perhaps your life is wonderful, and good on you. There are many thousands who wish someone would come up with something to explain why they have such trouble in their own lives. Best not to take everything personally, many autistic people suffer greatly.
I give this mother so much credit ...as a mother of an Autistic Son...I'm having SUCH a hardtime..so thank you so much for showing these VIDEOS cause they help!! Your an AWESOME MOTHER..GOD BLESS U
I commented on another one of you comments. Give yourself more credit, every child is different. Watch some other Autism family vloggers. They can tell you all about support and respite. Channels I watch are... FatheringAutism, The Wee Family, Cody Speaks. All wonderful in their own unique way.I believe in you.
Documentaries made me aware of the reality of the challenges of a parent or a shadow of the children with special needs face and the immeasurable love and enormous support required to sustain the level of care. My Special Child - @MzlE
I will leave school for years my autism and anxiety makes me feel confident and I am happy for students who helped me doing things that I want to be a human being and I love singing and music and watching the x factor and I can go to college when I'm 19 and do law sociology and business and technology and I love school and college and now I have to go and work at mcdonalds and I'll buy chips and cheeseburgers and chips and milkshakes and mcflurry and you know like college helped me get good grades and I feel very proud and my family and friends and teachers and assistants and helpers are very proud of me and supportive
My ASD gives me the upper hand in my chosen career path, graphic design! Attention to detail and seeing things differently from my NT peers my prof say he can't tell the difference between me and anyone else in the class.
Noise canceling Headphones helps me with the noise at shops and I wear sunglasses to block out the bright lights or it will give me a head ache. I don't like the Frozen and cool section it hurts me sensory.
The kid around 37 minutes in, I forget whether it was Zane or Jake, just hits me. And he does because as a kid with autism I was just like him. In year 5 I really didn't like school, it was all just too much. I just had to keep on going though, just keep on going until one day where I just couldn't go in anymore. It took 3 months to go back in full-time. Fortunately things are better now, I'll be going to university in September to study Architecture. But I really don't know how I'm here. One thing I do know is that my mom also spoke to me just like she spoke to her child, kind of. "It's better when you get in"... yeah, right. Never got easier, not for a long time. But I appreciate completely why she said it, I love my mom to bits and would take a bullet for her. If I were her, I really cannot say I would have done anything else. If my child ever has to suffer like I did, it'd destroy me.
The mom that deals with the severe boy and at the end saying she knew he would always end up in care is amazing. She loves him with all her heart but still loves herself too enough to not martyr herself
People a lot of time don't even notice that i have autism, mostly because there are a lot of people who are just not familiar with what it is. So i am not really hiding it, it is more a matter that telling others doesn't change the situation that much.
I just love Tony. He appears to not have a bad or angy bone in his entire body. Very happy, smiley and loving. The way he hugs his mom just makes me all teary eyed. I hope he is happy and doing well.....
I hope he’s doing well also. I have a son with autism, and I dread the day when we will have to choose alternative care. This has to be so hard for the parents.
What are you talking about? The mother said that tony says himself he gets angry all the time 🤦♂️ I find it extremely frustrating how neurotypicals like to lionise severely and moderately autistic people, they are not these enlightened saints that just see the world differently and I find that spreading these cliches is really harmful for people like my son, I understand that you feel compassionate towards them, but I’m not sure if doing this makes you feel less guilty about you not having to suffer like he does, or whether your trying to make up for past stereotypes, but either way it is not helpful and it is not true. These people suffer immensely and not admitting this brings us one step further from helping alleviate this suffering.
For me I would say personally I’m in the center between low to high functioning autism because I don’t have a huge problem with things like speaking although eye contact to someone while speaking is definitely somewhat of a challenge because in my head I think it’s rude for me to do that however growing up I never loved typical childhood things like balloons and fireworks because the sounds they make overwhelms me and it’s too much for me but I think I’m gonna get my mom to spend money on headphones for people with disabilities because I hate that I’d have to stay in a hot car every July 4th I want to actively stay out in the park I go every Fourth of July but I’m gonna need those special headphones so I can physically feel ok while being out there I don’t want to feel like I’m in a world war and I don’t want to force people to stop making fireworks go off near my ears in the air but I’m trying hard to work on it and it’s hard that my mom doesn’t understand that getting me something to bloke out the negative input so that i don’t get overwhelmed so much like she sees from me since I was little but yes some things never changed especially me being uncomfortable with fireworks going off near me…I’m saying I could be in the center of low to high functioning because I actually had a little speech impediment when I was younger but I’ve gotten much better and also going out the house when I was younger was also apparently a big struggle to what my mom says but of course going to various grocery places like Sam’s club isn’t a struggle now a days and anywhere else plus no one has to place me in a wheel chair or harness because I’m intelligent enough to stay near someone I know and if I do run off I don’t go too far away but having special headphones if I had to be somewhere with fireworks would definitely improve my life a lot fireworks is definitely my first trigger and also balloons but no one is helping me get through it I wish people understood sensory overload and what can trigger me to a panicking episode…
There are such a variety of levels of autism. My son was diagnosed with Aspergers at 3. He was reading 12th grade reading level in 1st grade, but couldnt handle lights and sounds. The anger was so extreme. Homeschooling has helped him so much, so we can teach him at college level and help him with sensory overload. In social situations, his vocabulary and knowledge is at such a high level that he makes friends with adults. The children can't understand him. If there is anyone out there who has a similiar problem please tell me what you did for finding friends as a child on an adult level. Thanks.
iuJulieon Six Hi ,I am Jodie and my son Max is 16 with Asperger Syndrome (diagnosed at age 9).We are in the Gold Coast in Australia and we have homeschooled Max since 2014(Max’s anxiety,depression and non-epileptic seizures have increased in the last couple of years.)If you want to message me feel free.Look for Jodie N Carl Anderson on Facebook.
I am a recently diagnosed high functioning autistic/OCD adult(?) individual, they do not diagnose Aspergers up here anymore but I am told it is apparently the same thing. I am now 24 years old I was not diagnosed when I was younger. I believe that means we had kind of a natural approach to how we handled things. I myself am content with having less than a handful of real close friends, but, it may be different for your son. Most of my life I kind of spent a lot of time in different social circles and chose the friends I wanted, a very slow and awkward process and I now have most of my friends online. I'm not sure if your son is the same but I don't really crave social interaction and have actually gone over 2 years without visiting a friend or going out, I just do not have a drive or desire to do so and am perfectly content with that. I was raised in a single parent household and today have a very close relationship with my mom. What helped me a lot was that even though she was very busy pulling 10-12 hour shifts she still made time for me and my siblings and attempted to really take an active interest in my hobbies and still does to this day. As for the anger it may fizzle out over time, I had a few incidents and explosive anger issues when I was younger but that started to fizzle out after I had some time to learn my own limits and approached the age of 16-17. I don't know if you will read this but the important thing to take away is that making friends might be slow for your son and might be awkward, it's kind of a weird preferential system that only he may be comfortable with knowing. Just keep being an awesome mom and don't be afraid to participate in his life if he invites you in.* *I am going to pen in some more here in case it helps; I was the same with my schooling in that I was well above my grade level and was reading at a grade 12 level before junior high/middle school, however I stayed in school. We are a rural community so our class size was less than 15 people, we stuck together for every grade, kindergarten to graduation, which I believe helped me a lot as there were no major shake ups or changes with my base classroom. I made a really good adult friend on an online massively multiplayer online game that served as a kind of close friend and mentor, we are thankfully still friends to this day 15 years on. My mom checked in with us regularly without using hostile terms as she knew I was smart enough to conduct myself appropriately around adults, however that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep an eye on your son.
I was the exact same way. Sometimes it can get lonely, but he will find some people. For me, finding friends a few years older was helpful, but not too old to be unrelatable.
I know this is probably an older video but my 10 year old daughter has to wear noise cancling headphones in some stores because she has issues with noise. She also wears them when its thundering out. If she doesnt have them when its thundering she freaks out till it stops because it's much louder to her then it is to us. She has had the headphones since she was around 5 years old when I found out about them. She would freak out so bad in stores because of all the diffrent noises. She could hear the coolers and the lights and stuff that we can't hear. She will wear them at home sometimes and when she does at home its how I know that she is having a bad sensory day when her senses are heightened
We have earmuffs and they are great. When my son is overwhelmed by noise, he wears them; when he's sensory seeking by making a lot of noise or having a loud aggressive meltdown (this becomes very stressful for me as I'm sound-sensituve), I wear them.
@@lilmisspeace Today I was very thankful to have my earmuffs, I'm glad things worked out for you! Temple Grandin is awesome, there's also lots of other people on the spectrum who make youtube videos, I can recommend some I found the most insightful!
Thier was a video where they did a test on neurotypicals they gave them a virtual reality headset and made it so they would experience what us with autism/aspergers do.. they made it as close as possible to the sensory overload we experience.. the result was satisfying to see it confirmed that were not weak even They couldn't handle it they said how overwhelming it was and although a woman was talking to them they could not concentrate or understand her because of all the distractions. It's nice to see that even neurotypical brain can't handle it but we have this everyday that's why earphones and sunglasses are a god send. It's just smells that hard to block out and it really bothers me. Not sure if this comment makes sense my brain is not working at moment.
I'd love to try this simulator so i can understand what my son struggles with daily and figure out how to help he feel less overwhelmed. Your comment made perfect sense 😊
@@angelmarie7423 Hi marie thanks I have an idea 💡 there are simulations videos here on CZcams that you can view that I believe will help you better understand what your son experiences due to his autism. I'll send you a link to a video that you can use a virtual headset aswell if you have one to get the full experience. czcams.com/video/2arNKLWYu40/video.html I really hope I've been of help to you feel free to respond with your experience I'm interested in how it's helped. I love to help people and it makes me feel like I'm doing God's work by helping other human beings. I just wish peace and happiness for everyone.. Hope this has been of use to you.. wish you all the best with your son Goodluck and Godbless
I know this was a filmed a few tears ago I really felt for Zane especially when he said he didn't like school. I had the same struggles particularly with school.
Same and I don't have autism. I thought that this experiment with the painting wasn't a particularly good one. Many people will not care enough to talk more about the painting or it won't "speak" to them, just like movies or songs don't speak to everyone in the same way. I believe it wasn't a good way to see how autistic people see the world or how they understand emotions.
Same...I don't have autism or aspergers etc but I found nothing moving in that painting of the girl..I love art but that cold blank stare did not 'speak' to me ..Van Gogh however, I could weep over..
God bless this mother , I look up to her both my sons were diagnosed with Autism I agree with her they are very different and she is doing an amazing job and has patience . I cry almost every day because of melt downs and trying to understand each one. I love my kids and would not have it any other way 💙
My Asperger’s syndrome suddenly occurred to me when I was 2 and a half years old it starts with me started talking and then all of the sudden completely silent and that’s when the teacher at my nursery knew something was wrong with me
I felt really sorry for Jake as he was crying and talking about how much he hates school. He was complaining mainly about sensory issues, but I wonder if he was also dealing with anxiety on account of being in a new environment. Starting school is stressful for any child, but it's probably worse for an autistic child because of the emotional dysregulation that comes with autism.
I find the part about the painting interesting. I would challenge the idea that he is not seeing emotion, and that actually it isn't there, and suggest that we imprint our emotions on others all the time. The world is a mirror, we see ourselves(good and bad) in everyone. In other words, we see what suits us perfectly..that can be seen in politics, our choices of what news story to believe, who we favour, or find disagreeable, so on and os forth. Is it a handicap going into it with a fully open mind?
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In order to get the best support and care for zane they need to be removed as king/queen guardian and supervised by someone that can actually connect to their child before it's too late.
38:30 As a mother of a child on the spectrum. I’m angered how she isn’t taking in the words, symptoms and the signs he’s clearly telling her. She’s taking his voice away. I would be mad to, not being listened to. My son was 4, when he was diagnosed, but didn’t verbalize much and didn’t say mom, until that age, either. He said it, but he didn’t know what it meant. My son didn’t hate going to school, but I got him tested based on his lack of interest and no progress in Public Pre-K. The public school wanted him to go back to public school, but my instincts told me otherwise. We drove 3 hrs, one-way, and was properly diagnosed in 20 min. by an ABA Licensed PhD Director of his own ABA Clinic. He was very sophisticated and knew of my son’s uniquely rare SIK1 gene mutation; neonatal onset of severe epilepsy that transitions into autism. The doctor wrote a letter, giving him level 2 autism diagnoses, which excused my child from public school, and therefore was able to attend a local ABA Center where he has excelled beautifully. Please listen to your child’s words, feelings, and actions. Don’t negate it. This extremely traumatizes the child horribly, as shown, and will affect the relationship with any caregiver. My son has several love languages; tickles, chase, running, and Sonic 😂. See the world from their eyes ❤
Thanks for replying .I have a boy. who is a little bit different from other children .If. you upload. this. kind of video it. will. be very helpful for the parents. like. us . Stay safe and be happy.
Tony’s mum could try to get him an assistance dog for autism to help him. I have difficulty comprehending things with that much background noise; I have difficulty understanding what people say in that environment, especially if they mumble or talk quietly. It can be very annoting.
Poor souls my wife has High Functional Autism & my wife cry to see Zane so distress my wife doesn't like crowds noise & certain flashing lights but still you shouldn't force a child with Autism to this sort of things its just cruel & my wife loves your videos they so educational
I feel for the other children !!! So much time spent in working with the one with the disability. So when the parents die. Where are are who will take care of them?
That's true because it shows how it actually affects both the child and parent... I have type 1 diabetes... and it's annoying when people just say "you have had to much sugar"
Imagine an innocent boy like him with autism then one day he is uprooted from his secure safe home to a gang and drug infested neighbourhood Exposed to crime, gangs, and dangers that a normal person would have difficulties handling... Its like throwing an injured dear into a pool of starving crocodiles Ps.. the child was me
The System for Autistic people is unfair, im self Autistic Person the School was a hell for me, i wish more acceptance for autism And a learning System for Autistic people. 🙏
This mother needs help now for Jake and Zane as they both have control issues that need to be dealt with. If they get much bigger, mother may implode. They need to be taught some way of control and the ability to tell when things are feeling out of control and to ask for help.
I have autism too and I didn't like noises and kids and I am 17 years old and I live in the uk and I have a British accent like ed sheeran and I want to be a tribute act and I want to be justin Bieber
I am a support worker for young people with all kinds of challenges. I never label them. I say so and so has autism, not so and so is autistic. They have abilities, personalities and different ways, just like everyone else, which we should focus on, not the challenge. Everyone has a challenge anyway! This documentary showed me things I knew and taught me new things :-)
My son is autistic. It's not something that he "has" (like a disease), it is a description of who he "is". I wouldn't say "he has maleness" or "he has American-ness". These descriptions are integral to his identity and not something that he has. My way is known as "identity first" language. Yours is called "person first" language. I don't think either way is bad when spoken with love and respect. My kid prefers "I am autistic", so that is what I do.
You traded this for that in your choices for pregnancy and ecd then do this um ya either you are highly unfit to parent and reckless about it or a down right monster
Ya i see you laying hands yourself that's just the fan flinging your own shit back at ya reaping what you sown..There's no real feeling cause there's never been a real connection they reached your where unavailable for whatever reason and still are...
I always wonder about what kind of education this interviewer received, when she says things like "the difference between you and I." I have a hard time taking people seriously if they haven't even mastered basic grammar.
I hate these kinds of videos. They make me so angry. I haven't watched the whole thing yet but I am at the part where they are explaining his actions in the supermarket. Instead of saying things like, maybe Autistic people behave this way or that way because of such and such, they could just ask us why we do what we do. We are right here. They can ask us.
@@Avstralo thank you so much for asking. This reaction is called a meltdown. It is actually a neurological response to being completely overwhelmed. You can kind of think of it like when your computer is trying to do too many things at the same time and it crashes. Because with Autism, our brains usually process stimuli and certain types of information more slowly than the brains of neurotypical people, we can't handle as much stimuli as a neurotypical person can. So when too much stimuli comes to us at the same time or too quickly, our brains can't process it and it causes the brain to crash. The stimuli can be too much sound or too much light or it can be anything that can overwhelm the senses. This overwhelming can actually be very painful for us and can be so intense that it causes us to scream and lash out because it is so painful or so overwhelming. It literally causes our brains to crash just like a computer crashes. Meltdowns are very exhausting and draining and are never fun. And if I have one in public, I feel very embarrassed and I sometimes get scared because of how people look at me or things they say that can be very mean.. But there is nothing I can do about the meltdown. I can't control it because it is an involuntary neurological response to stimuli that is overtaxing my system. When I was diagnosed, they measured my brain processing speed. They found that my brain receives stimuli in the 87th percentile but my brain processes it in the 35th percentile. So stimuli comes to me much faster than my brain can understand it and make sense of it. It's like those old video games where you have to shoot the little things coming at you. They start coming faster and faster and more and more and you can't keep up and you basically just crash and lose the game. It's the same kind of thing that happens to us and the painful crash is the meltdown that everyone sees, the screaming and lashing out. So places like grocery stores or crowded places or places with loud music or a lot going on can be so overstimulating for us that they cause us to meltdown. Many different kinds of things can overwhelm us depending on what we are particulatly sensitive to. So if you know an Autistic person and you witness a meltdown, even if the cause might not be visible to you, once the person has settled and regained some strength ask him or her what caused the meltdown so that it can be avoided later. Sometimes giving the person a good deep pressure hug can help as well because deep pressure can help calm the neurological system. Thank you much again for asking. I hope this helps and if you have more questions , I will be happy to try to answer them.
@@mailitedd185 I have an autistic son. He is 5. Outside the house he doesn't seem to be bothered. He is calm the most time except he says weird things that shock people (most of those things he gets from youtube and does not realize what they mean). But he likes to watch crazy videos on youtube like edited advertisements where they added shrill sounds and psychedelic changing colors and only after watching them he starts to steam and scream, but it seems like those are signs of enjoyment. Do you know anything about that.
@@mailitedd185 Another thing is that the boy didn't seem to be overwhelmed in that supermarket - he did the same shouting and steaming at home after watching his favorite cartoons. Just the same as my son does.
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Heavy metals in them and you’re actually right The CDC does their “own” studies on vaccines and pays the scientists to say there safe But independent studies have been done and they claim that the mercury and aluminum increase the risk of autism and Alzheimer’s I still question my mild autism my mom made me get all my vaccines growing up
There are far more toxins out in the world that you breathe in and eat on a daily basis (yes, even if you’re a strict organic vegan) than there are in vaccines. Also, one of the largest vaccine manufacturers in the world (Pfizer) hasn’t used any toxins whatsoever in any of their vaccines in YEARS. The CDC doesn’t tell them to say anything nor give them any $ whatsoever. The CDC shows up at the facilities at random to make sure everything is sterile and will shut the whole place down if they find even so much as a dead fly laying in the floor of one of the labs. You have NO freaking clue what you are talking about AT ALL. Your words are based on paranoia from studying at Google University. Sorry!
@@howtowithelizabeth7513 absolutely. Try Magnesium Oil with Selenium and CBD Oil, if you have any Amalgam dental fillings have them removed and then do a heavy metal detox to reverse the damage.
@@MollyMcBooter that's a lie. All major vaccines have mercury or aluminum as well as other harmful ingredients like formaldehyde, animal and human DNA/aborted fetal cells, Polysorbate, MSG & so many other toxins. And no, most scientists and doctors don't vaccinate their own children, they just lie about to prevent losing their careers and become laughing stocks in the mainstream communities. Look at the Neuroscientist, Mayim Bialik. She stated publicly that she was a non-vaccinated family and got so much backlash that she came and said, "my kids are vaccinated, I hope that clears things up." They quickly bully and shut-down anyone that speaks out, so no one does. Btw, the toxins in the world are definitely contributors, but they aren't being injected straight into your bloodstream and then bypassing the gut & all your bodies defenses, then directlycrossing the brain-blood barrier. There IS a difference. The USA has some of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. The country that has the lowest doesn't vaccinate children under a year old, think about that a bit.
I'm Rosie, I have high functioning autism and it was only recently at the age of 14 or 15 when I learned to figure out why I get stressed. I'm trying to use my autism to my advantage, such as my special interests in science and music. For my science I am taking Biology and Chemistry in my A levels to become a scientist in later life and for my music I am composing a musical which will be performed by my sixth form next year.
@Lewis C. I'm not. I'm trying to act like a human, I'm having less meltdowns now I'm older. Autistic people aren't acting like victims, it's people who pretend to act like us who are. Also, I'm more like the boy at 21:16, high functioning is the opposite of severe.
Rosie Eggleston good for you! 💕 I’m so so proud of you, you should be proud of yourself as well ☺️🧚♀️💚
Wish you good luck dear. God bless you
That's awesome! I'm also using the fact that I'm on the spectrum as a superpower, my special interest is speech pathology and I can spend hours and hours in hyperfocus study mode. I wish you all the best of luck in your classes, sending all the best from California. :) Ps I compose too!
I'm diagnose with high functioning too and I wasn't diagnosed until I was 14 I'm 15 now and I find it incredibly deficient to deal with I aspire to be like you
As someone on the ASD spectrum, watching Zane’s reaction to going to school had me tearing up. The neurotypical school system is very damaging to children with ASD. Instead of forcing them to be tormented by the sounds, bright lights, and the inconsistencies of other children’s behaviors, i wish there were alternatives, like a low-stimuli school environment.
What is this "spectrum" crap? Either you is or either ur not! DO NO PROCREATE!
Not to mention bullies who will make fun of you because you act different or because you are easy to rile up.
@@forreal245 wow you're a nasty individual. Of course it's a fucking spectrum, some autistic people have it more severely than others. You have no idea what you're talking about. I'm mildly autistic myself. I struggle with social skills, especially talking to strangers in person. You need to either know what the fuck you're talking about, or shut the fuck up.
If I had been allowed to go to a low stimuli school or even be in a low stimuli classroom, I would have done so much better in school. But none of that existed when I was in school.
@@forreal245 Clearly a troll, no one should take this comment seriously
It broke my heart seeing jake react with such agony to school. The mom seems wonderful and is really trying to her limit, so nothing harsh meant to her. What she doesn’t know about is the way school with no support is like torture for him. He’s reacting the way any child might run and scream from pain or a place he has been “tortured” mentally so to speak. I work with a young boy very much like him, one on one at a public school. That includes helping reduce sensory stress, giving him breaks in quiet places when he reaches his limit, being like a friend by his side, much like a child wants a parent at a stressful place like the doctor. I explain and repeat directions, warn him about transitions and give him the time he needs to switch gears, which takes a bit longer than peers. I mediate situations with his peers to help conversation and explain their intentions or ask them to step back of slow down or speak a bit softer. Without all that, it would be constant whiplash, confusion, frustration. Im not trying to toot my horn or anything. Plenty of therapists do what I do and do it wonderfully. It’s just that this kind of extra help is so key. I want every child with autism in regular schools to have assistance so they can enjoy school instead of experiencing so much misery. It’s not the moms fault she doesn’t know about this, especially seeing the documentary is older, and clearly the state is not offering her the classroom assistance her son needs. The ways that diagnosis and treatment have changed are advancing quickly. I hope jake is at a better place in life and his poor mom is given more help
@Lewis C. Fucking vile human you are.
one thing that must be said, the boy at the start is doing this thing called "stimming" and is quite NORMAL, this is his way of blowing off all his stress, His Mother is doing the right thing, aka creating a "safe space" in which her son, can be himself, no consequences, just let fly.... if he needs to!
PS: I have high functioning Autism too, was adult diagnosed @ 32 years.
The mum of Jake and Zane needs a medal. How she keeps so calm with them both is incredible. Brilliant mother!
Of course she shows that in front of a camera but away from the camera she may be somebody different
@@americanstalker9216 as the parent of a level 2 autistic boy and someone that has an extremely short fuse, I think your wrong, as parents we learn to deal with this- and yes we do deserve medals because what we do is 100 times harder than what most other parents deal with, it’s really frustrating seeing neurotypical parent complain about their children, because they really do complain constantly about the most benign things- and if my child did what they complain about I would be ecstatic.
So no I think that’s how she would be away from the camera although what they showed was pretty minimal, imagine what it’s like to have a hand smeared with faeces wipe across your face in the middle of the night to wake you up and discover a room/ bed also decorated with faeces- all whilst having an average of 3-4 hours sleep for the last 12 months and being extremely Ill yourself, this is an extreme but consistent experience in our household and yet most people have no idea this is what we deal with when they interact with us, nor is it synonymous with the autism representation.
School is wayyyyy to stressful for him. He needs a very small classroom like 5 people.
Homeschool with ABA.
Absolutely agree.
@@hahna77 aba is abusive so no
@@ryan-anarchist-2535 It seems to get results. Needles are painful, but we still inoculate children. If ABA in early years means independence in adulthood, it seems worth it.
My 20 year old son has autism and my 23 year old son has bipolar disorder.
Tankyou for this beatiful dokumentary.
I wish all parents to autistic children and young adults strenght. You are heroes.
My god, why is this not a national, worldwide emergency to discover the cause. All these beautiful children. They deserve for this to be more of a priority.
As an autistic fuck off. I don’t need a “cure”
@@beazrichz973 I don't care if you are a f off or not. Perhaps your life is wonderful, and good on you. There are many thousands who wish someone would come up with something to explain why they have such trouble in their own lives. Best not to take everything personally, many autistic people suffer greatly.
The word 'emergency' is so often very close to the word 'panic'
...please take heed of that.
I’ve got autism and I don’t like being around crowds of people because I feel cornered.
You sure about it Owen because I don’t do such a thing like this mate
My condition I’ve got Owen is Down syndrome and Asperger syndrome I was aged 7 and 9 when I had both conditions
I give this mother so much credit ...as a mother of an Autistic Son...I'm having SUCH a hardtime..so thank you so much for showing these VIDEOS cause they help!! Your an AWESOME MOTHER..GOD BLESS U
I commented on another one of you comments. Give yourself more credit, every child is different. Watch some other Autism family vloggers. They can tell you all about support and respite. Channels I watch are... FatheringAutism, The Wee Family, Cody Speaks. All wonderful in their own unique way.I believe in you.
Maybe you can also watch videos from autistic youtubers, to hear their perspective.
Very useful excellent documentary, Thanks to CZcams for this priceless documentary and the publisher.
Documentaries made me aware of the reality of the challenges of a parent or a shadow of the children with special needs face and the immeasurable love and enormous support required to sustain the level of care. My Special Child - @MzlE
I will leave school for years my autism and anxiety makes me feel confident and I am happy for students who helped me doing things that I want to be a human being and I love singing and music and watching the x factor and I can go to college when I'm 19 and do law sociology and business and technology and I love school and college and now I have to go and work at mcdonalds and I'll buy chips and cheeseburgers and chips and milkshakes and mcflurry and you know like college helped me get good grades and I feel very proud and my family and friends and teachers and assistants and helpers are very proud of me and supportive
Really a great mother
My ASD gives me the upper hand in my chosen career path, graphic design! Attention to detail and seeing things differently from my NT peers my prof say he can't tell the difference between me and anyone else in the class.
Noise canceling Headphones helps me with the noise at shops and I wear sunglasses to block out the bright lights or it will give me a head ache. I don't like the Frozen and cool section it hurts me sensory.
Really Joanne
The kid around 37 minutes in, I forget whether it was Zane or Jake, just hits me. And he does because as a kid with autism I was just like him. In year 5 I really didn't like school, it was all just too much. I just had to keep on going though, just keep on going until one day where I just couldn't go in anymore. It took 3 months to go back in full-time. Fortunately things are better now, I'll be going to university in September to study Architecture. But I really don't know how I'm here. One thing I do know is that my mom also spoke to me just like she spoke to her child, kind of. "It's better when you get in"... yeah, right. Never got easier, not for a long time. But I appreciate completely why she said it, I love my mom to bits and would take a bullet for her. If I were her, I really cannot say I would have done anything else. If my child ever has to suffer like I did, it'd destroy me.
36:58 Thank God that driver was paying attention to the road.
Really good documentary insightful 👌🏽
These mothers go through what I do..AND WOW THEY ARE AMAZING!!I WISH I WAS AS STRONG AS THEM
But, you really are that strong. You just don't realize it. I bet you're a great mom.
That little boy is sooo cute 😍❤ God bless them all 🙏
GOD BLESS THESE MOTHERS...........
No surprises by radiohead, such a masterpiece... That I never listen to but should listen to.
The mom that deals with the severe boy and at the end saying she knew he would always end up in care is amazing. She loves him with all her heart but still loves herself too enough to not martyr herself
im autism and i have no shame of it
good on you :)
People a lot of time don't even notice that i have autism, mostly because there are a lot of people who are just not familiar with what it is. So i am not really hiding it, it is more a matter that telling others doesn't change the situation that much.
@@ethereal4839 I am indeed. But as i said, it is hardly recognized.
Krijn van Alten good on you for telling everybody bless you
I have it to
I just love Tony. He appears to not have a bad or angy bone in his entire body. Very happy, smiley and loving. The way he hugs his mom just makes me all teary eyed. I hope he is happy and doing well.....
I hope he’s doing well also. I have a son with autism, and I dread the day when we will have to choose alternative care. This has to be so hard for the parents.
What are you talking about? The mother said that tony says himself he gets angry all the time 🤦♂️
I find it extremely frustrating how neurotypicals like to lionise severely and moderately autistic people, they are not these enlightened saints that just see the world differently and I find that spreading these cliches is really harmful for people like my son, I understand that you feel compassionate towards them, but I’m not sure if doing this makes you feel less guilty about you not having to suffer like he does, or whether your trying to make up for past stereotypes, but either way it is not helpful and it is not true.
These people suffer immensely and not admitting this brings us one step further from helping alleviate this suffering.
For me I would say personally I’m in the center between low to high functioning autism because I don’t have a huge problem with things like speaking although eye contact to someone while speaking is definitely somewhat of a challenge because in my head I think it’s rude for me to do that however growing up I never loved typical childhood things like balloons and fireworks because the sounds they make overwhelms me and it’s too much for me but I think I’m gonna get my mom to spend money on headphones for people with disabilities because I hate that I’d have to stay in a hot car every July 4th I want to actively stay out in the park I go every Fourth of July but I’m gonna need those special headphones so I can physically feel ok while being out there I don’t want to feel like I’m in a world war and I don’t want to force people to stop making fireworks go off near my ears in the air but I’m trying hard to work on it and it’s hard that my mom doesn’t understand that getting me something to bloke out the negative input so that i don’t get overwhelmed so much like she sees from me since I was little but yes some things never changed especially me being uncomfortable with fireworks going off near me…I’m saying I could be in the center of low to high functioning because I actually had a little speech impediment when I was younger but I’ve gotten much better and also going out the house when I was younger was also apparently a big struggle to what my mom says but of course going to various grocery places like Sam’s club isn’t a struggle now a days and anywhere else plus no one has to place me in a wheel chair or harness because I’m intelligent enough to stay near someone I know and if I do run off I don’t go too far away but having special headphones if I had to be somewhere with fireworks would definitely improve my life a lot fireworks is definitely my first trigger and also balloons but no one is helping me get through it I wish people understood sensory overload and what can trigger me to a panicking episode…
There are such a variety of levels of autism. My son was diagnosed with Aspergers at 3. He was reading 12th grade reading level in 1st grade, but couldnt handle lights and sounds. The anger was so extreme. Homeschooling has helped him so much, so we can teach him at college level and help him with sensory overload. In social situations, his vocabulary and knowledge is at such a high level that he makes friends with adults. The children can't understand him. If there is anyone out there who has a similiar problem please tell me what you did for finding friends as a child on an adult level. Thanks.
iuJulieon Six Hi ,I am Jodie and my son Max is 16 with Asperger Syndrome (diagnosed at age 9).We are in the Gold Coast in Australia and we have homeschooled Max since 2014(Max’s anxiety,depression and non-epileptic seizures have increased in the last couple of years.)If you want to message me feel free.Look for Jodie N Carl Anderson on Facebook.
I am a recently diagnosed high functioning autistic/OCD adult(?) individual, they do not diagnose Aspergers up here anymore but I am told it is apparently the same thing. I am now 24 years old I was not diagnosed when I was younger. I believe that means we had kind of a natural approach to how we handled things. I myself am content with having less than a handful of real close friends, but, it may be different for your son. Most of my life I kind of spent a lot of time in different social circles and chose the friends I wanted, a very slow and awkward process and I now have most of my friends online. I'm not sure if your son is the same but I don't really crave social interaction and have actually gone over 2 years without visiting a friend or going out, I just do not have a drive or desire to do so and am perfectly content with that. I was raised in a single parent household and today have a very close relationship with my mom. What helped me a lot was that even though she was very busy pulling 10-12 hour shifts she still made time for me and my siblings and attempted to really take an active interest in my hobbies and still does to this day. As for the anger it may fizzle out over time, I had a few incidents and explosive anger issues when I was younger but that started to fizzle out after I had some time to learn my own limits and approached the age of 16-17.
I don't know if you will read this but the important thing to take away is that making friends might be slow for your son and might be awkward, it's kind of a weird preferential system that only he may be comfortable with knowing. Just keep being an awesome mom and don't be afraid to participate in his life if he invites you in.*
*I am going to pen in some more here in case it helps; I was the same with my schooling in that I was well above my grade level and was reading at a grade 12 level before junior high/middle school, however I stayed in school. We are a rural community so our class size was less than 15 people, we stuck together for every grade, kindergarten to graduation, which I believe helped me a lot as there were no major shake ups or changes with my base classroom. I made a really good adult friend on an online massively multiplayer online game that served as a kind of close friend and mentor, we are thankfully still friends to this day 15 years on. My mom checked in with us regularly without using hostile terms as she knew I was smart enough to conduct myself appropriately around adults, however that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep an eye on your son.
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I was the exact same way. Sometimes it can get lonely, but he will find some people. For me, finding friends a few years older was helpful, but not too old to be unrelatable.
@@hahna77 and what to do with this oils? Send me a recipe of this treatment. Thanks
I know this is probably an older video but my 10 year old daughter has to wear noise cancling headphones in some stores because she has issues with noise. She also wears them when its thundering out. If she doesnt have them when its thundering she freaks out till it stops because it's much louder to her then it is to us. She has had the headphones since she was around 5 years old when I found out about them. She would freak out so bad in stores because of all the diffrent noises. She could hear the coolers and the lights and stuff that we can't hear.
She will wear them at home sometimes and when she does at home its how I know that she is having a bad sensory day when her senses are heightened
It's hard to make others to understand autism...I have twins on different spectrums...its hard
I'm not autistic, but I do have a high anxiety disorder. I can relate to some of these things.
I have both, I'm sensitive to heat and smells and anything i don't like i get anxious about
We have earmuffs and they are great.
When my son is overwhelmed by noise, he wears them; when he's sensory seeking by making a lot of noise or having a loud aggressive meltdown (this becomes very stressful for me as I'm sound-sensituve), I wear them.
For GREAT insight, watch Temple Grandin the movie and also her talks on CZcams.
@@lilmisspeace Today I was very thankful to have my earmuffs, I'm glad things worked out for you! Temple Grandin is awesome, there's also lots of other people on the spectrum who make youtube videos, I can recommend some I found the most insightful!
Hi I am from Bangladesh thanks for this excellent video
You're welcome
bless all the mothers in the world !!! she is doing a great job
@Edwina Hatcher lol
Thier was a video where they did a test on neurotypicals they gave them a virtual reality headset and made it so they would experience what us with autism/aspergers do.. they made it as close as possible to the sensory overload we experience.. the result was satisfying to see it confirmed that were not weak even They couldn't handle it they said how overwhelming it was and although a woman was talking to them they could not concentrate or understand her because of all the distractions. It's nice to see that even neurotypical brain can't handle it but we have this everyday that's why earphones and sunglasses are a god send. It's just smells that hard to block out and it really bothers me. Not sure if this comment makes sense my brain is not working at moment.
I'd love to try this simulator so i can understand what my son struggles with daily and figure out how to help he feel less overwhelmed. Your comment made perfect sense 😊
@@angelmarie7423 Hi marie thanks I have an idea 💡 there are simulations videos here on CZcams that you can view that I believe will help you better understand what your son experiences due to his autism. I'll send you a link to a video that you can use a virtual headset aswell if you have one to get the full experience. czcams.com/video/2arNKLWYu40/video.html I really hope I've been of help to you feel free to respond with your experience I'm interested in how it's helped. I love to help people and it makes me feel like I'm doing God's work by helping other human beings. I just wish peace and happiness for everyone.. Hope this has been of use to you.. wish you all the best with your son Goodluck and Godbless
1% I think is a big under estimation
It’s 2% now
I know this was a filmed a few tears ago I really felt for Zane especially when he said he didn't like school. I had the same struggles particularly with school.
2:25 Omg I used to love watching those Disney toy videos as a kid!
to be honest I think the girl in the painting is only having a blank expression too.
Same and I don't have autism. I thought that this experiment with the painting wasn't a particularly good one. Many people will not care enough to talk more about the painting or it won't "speak" to them, just like movies or songs don't speak to everyone in the same way.
I believe it wasn't a good way to see how autistic people see the world or how they understand emotions.
Same
Me too and I don't have autism.
same, she looks blank, AT BEST she looks like she's spooked by whoever is painting her
Same...I don't have autism or aspergers etc but I found nothing moving in that painting of the girl..I love art but that cold blank stare did not 'speak' to me ..Van Gogh however, I could weep over..
God bless this mother , I look up to her both my sons were diagnosed with Autism I agree with her they are very different and she is doing an amazing job and has patience . I cry almost every day because of melt downs and trying to understand each one. I love my kids and would not have it any other way 💙
My Asperger’s syndrome suddenly occurred to me when I was 2 and a half years old it starts with me started talking and then all of the sudden completely silent and that’s when the teacher at my nursery knew something was wrong with me
9:52 That kid's high pitched voice sounded similar to Barry Gibb's voice impression.
I felt really sorry for Jake as he was crying and talking about how much he hates school. He was complaining mainly about sensory issues, but I wonder if he was also dealing with anxiety on account of being in a new environment. Starting school is stressful for any child, but it's probably worse for an autistic child because of the emotional dysregulation that comes with autism.
I find the part about the painting interesting. I would challenge the idea that he is not seeing emotion, and that actually it isn't there, and suggest that we imprint our emotions on others all the time. The world is a mirror, we see ourselves(good and bad) in everyone. In other words, we see what suits us perfectly..that can be seen in politics, our choices of what news story to believe, who we favour, or find disagreeable, so on and os forth. Is it a handicap going into it with a fully open mind?
Thanks for this video .
I want same one to help me about my research ( about autism)
The channel Attitude has a whole bunch of documentaries on autism.
@@autisticzuko2750
Oh thanks for you my friends
but I'm from Iraq and don't know how I can found this channel
again thanks for you to help me
Buy the book fight autism and win. Andy Culter’s Protocol to a low dose chelation therapy and supplements. All details in the book look at Jackson’s recovery story here on CZcams type it in. I just bought the book. I’m ready to cure my son
Keep working progress is on it's way!
In order to get the best support and care for zane they need to be removed as king/queen guardian and supervised by someone that can actually connect to their child before it's too late.
38:30 As a mother of a child on the spectrum. I’m angered how she isn’t taking in the words, symptoms and the signs he’s clearly telling her. She’s taking his voice away. I would be mad to, not being listened to.
My son was 4, when he was diagnosed, but didn’t verbalize much and didn’t say mom, until that age, either. He said it, but he didn’t know what it meant.
My son didn’t hate going to school, but I got him tested based on his lack of interest and no progress in Public Pre-K.
The public school wanted him to go back to public school, but my instincts told me otherwise.
We drove 3 hrs, one-way, and was properly diagnosed in 20 min. by an ABA Licensed PhD Director of his own ABA Clinic. He was very sophisticated and knew of my son’s uniquely rare SIK1 gene mutation; neonatal onset of severe epilepsy that transitions into autism.
The doctor wrote a letter, giving him level 2 autism diagnoses, which excused my child from public school, and therefore was able to attend a local ABA Center where he has excelled beautifully.
Please listen to your child’s words, feelings, and actions. Don’t negate it. This extremely traumatizes the child horribly, as shown, and will affect the relationship with any caregiver.
My son has several love languages; tickles, chase, running, and Sonic 😂.
See the world from their eyes ❤
Thanks for replying .I have a boy. who is a little bit different from other children .If. you upload. this. kind of video it. will. be very helpful for the parents. like. us . Stay safe and be happy.
Edwina Hatcher ok boomer
A little off but which song is playing on the beginning of the video?
Radiohead- No Surprises
For GREAT insight, watch Temple Grandin the movie and also her talks on CZcams.
Temple Grandin is awesome.
Tony’s mum could try to get him an assistance dog for autism to help him. I have difficulty comprehending things with that much background noise; I have difficulty understanding what people say in that environment, especially if they mumble or talk quietly. It can be very annoting.
Poor souls my wife has High Functional Autism & my wife cry to see Zane so distress my wife doesn't like crowds noise & certain flashing lights but still you shouldn't force a child with Autism to this sort of things its just cruel & my wife loves your videos they so educational
I feel for the other children !!! So much time spent in working with the one with the disability. So when the parents die. Where are are who will take care of them?
pgreene62 I have two boys with autism, that’s a good question. They will get $700 for social security but I don’t know if they can live off that.
Same
It's always interesting to see how large amounts of people will respond with "autism is NOT a disability, we just need more acceptance
That's true because it shows how it actually affects both the child and parent... I have type 1 diabetes... and it's annoying when people just say "you have had to much sugar"
@@maryktk6469 I think what we can gain from both your comment and mine is that people are generally fucktards.
@@eatymceatison97 defo agree with that
It is a disability, but it’s not a bad thing. People do absolutely need to accept it
@@Riddickisawesome101 How is it not a bad thing, if it's a disability?
I have autism
I have autism and anxiety
Imagine an innocent boy like him with autism then one day he is uprooted from his secure safe home to a gang and drug infested neighbourhood
Exposed to crime, gangs, and dangers that a normal person would have difficulties handling...
Its like throwing an injured dear into a pool of starving crocodiles
Ps.. the child was me
All I can say is I made it out alive but I have many internal scars that will take along time to heal.
Very sad I hop from God they heal 🕯
Autism cannot be 'healed.' It is a permanent brain difference.
He does provide a lot of hop
...he invented the pogo stick.
18:01 As if Tony was thinking to himself: "Yeah, normies, freaking juice would definetely cure my autsim."
The System for Autistic people is unfair, im self Autistic Person the
School was a hell for me,
i wish more acceptance for autism
And a learning System for Autistic people. 🙏
As a Radiohead Fan where it’s one of my special interests I feel it’s wrongly placed in this video
This is so sad
This mother needs help now for Jake and Zane as they both have control issues that need to be dealt with. If they get much bigger, mother may implode. They need to be taught some way of control and the ability to tell when things are feeling out of control and to ask for help.
8:20 I *NEVER* realized people's eye movements predicted their actions wtf?! I just watched the ball the whole time! 🤣
xD same here!
Is that tony at 5.15
testing if a child have autism by sound testing should only be one of the test. not all autistic individuals will respond to sounds in same acute way.
Where’s his father???
I can communicate brilliantly without using the words nor see the signs on the walls
I have autism too and I didn't like noises and kids and I am 17 years old and I live in the uk and I have a British accent like ed sheeran and I want to be a tribute act and I want to be justin Bieber
Don't read this comment section
...it does get nastily 'American'.
Zane is copying a lot of his brothers behaviour
Tresa Holmes his dad doesn’t seem to be involved
@@user-qr7eb1sf3l He seems to be broken. Women have more stamina than us.
@@Avstralo true he is broken
I have pdd nos
Hello, how is everything?
@@alexkirchhoff9603 waiting for help with my pdd nos
@@corrigana1 can you talk? What kind of help would you like?
dAnne Corrigan what is pdd nos??
@@venusinfurs76 it stands for pervasive development disorder not otherwise specified
I am a support worker for young people with all kinds of challenges. I never label them. I say so and so has autism, not so and so is autistic. They have abilities, personalities and different ways, just like everyone else, which we should focus on, not the challenge. Everyone has a challenge anyway! This documentary showed me things I knew and taught me new things :-)
My son is autistic. It's not something that he "has" (like a disease), it is a description of who he "is". I wouldn't say "he has maleness" or "he has American-ness". These descriptions are integral to his identity and not something that he has.
My way is known as "identity first" language. Yours is called "person first" language. I don't think either way is bad when spoken with love and respect. My kid prefers "I am autistic", so that is what I do.
The vast majority of autistic people prefer identity first 🙄 me included
That's REALLY IMPORTANT!!!!! I mean, it will determine life outcomes! Good on you!🙄
@@inabina2925 ok, that is a good point too.
You traded this for that in your choices for pregnancy and ecd then do this um ya either you are highly unfit to parent and reckless about it or a down right monster
Ya i see you laying hands yourself that's just the fan flinging your own shit back at ya reaping what you sown..There's no real feeling cause there's never been a real connection they reached your where unavailable for whatever reason and still are...
I always wonder about what kind of education this interviewer received, when she says things like "the difference between you and I." I have a hard time taking people seriously if they haven't even mastered basic grammar.
So what are you gonna do about it? Nothing.
@@yasmeen7875 I dismiss them with contempt.
@@theinkbrain Really?! Well, you must dismiss 99.9% of the population.
@@blackalien6873 Show me where you got that number.Then again don't bother. You pulled it out of your rear end.
I hate these kinds of videos. They make me so angry. I haven't watched the whole thing yet but I am at the part where they are explaining his actions in the supermarket. Instead of saying things like, maybe Autistic people behave this way or that way because of such and such, they could just ask us why we do what we do. We are right here. They can ask us.
So why do you do all the shouting and steaming?
@@Avstralo thank you so much for asking. This reaction is called a meltdown. It is actually a neurological response to being completely overwhelmed. You can kind of think of it like when your computer is trying to do too many things at the same time and it crashes.
Because with Autism, our brains usually process stimuli and certain types of information more slowly than the brains of neurotypical people, we can't handle as much stimuli as a neurotypical person can. So when too much stimuli comes to us at the same time or too quickly, our brains can't process it and it causes the brain to crash. The stimuli can be too much sound or too much light or it can be anything that can overwhelm the senses.
This overwhelming can actually be very painful for us and can be so intense that it causes us to scream and lash out because it is so painful or so overwhelming. It literally causes our brains to crash just like a computer crashes.
Meltdowns are very exhausting and draining and are never fun. And if I have one in public, I feel very embarrassed and I sometimes get scared because of how people look at me or things they say that can be very mean.. But there is nothing I can do about the meltdown. I can't control it because it is an involuntary neurological response to stimuli that is overtaxing my system.
When I was diagnosed, they measured my brain processing speed. They found that my brain receives stimuli in the 87th percentile but my brain processes it in the 35th percentile. So stimuli comes to me much faster than my brain can understand it and make sense of it. It's like those old video games where you have to shoot the little things coming at you. They start coming faster and faster and more and more and you can't keep up and you basically just crash and lose the game. It's the same kind of thing that happens to us and the painful crash is the meltdown that everyone sees, the screaming and lashing out.
So places like grocery stores or crowded places or places with loud music or a lot going on can be so overstimulating for us that they cause us to meltdown. Many different kinds of things can overwhelm us depending on what we are particulatly sensitive to. So if you know an Autistic person and you witness a meltdown, even if the cause might not be visible to you, once the person has settled and regained some strength ask him or her what caused the meltdown so that it can be avoided later.
Sometimes giving the person a good deep pressure hug can help as well because deep pressure can help calm the neurological system.
Thank you much again for asking. I hope this helps and if you have more questions , I will be happy to try to answer them.
@@mailitedd185 I have an autistic son. He is 5. Outside the house he doesn't seem to be bothered. He is calm the most time except he says weird things that shock people (most of those things he gets from youtube and does not realize what they mean). But he likes to watch crazy videos on youtube like edited advertisements where they added shrill sounds and psychedelic changing colors and only after watching them he starts to steam and scream, but it seems like those are signs of enjoyment. Do you know anything about that.
@@mailitedd185 Thanks for that information, Tedd.
@@mailitedd185 Another thing is that the boy didn't seem to be overwhelmed in that supermarket - he did the same shouting and steaming at home after watching his favorite cartoons. Just the same as my son does.
Honestly I couldn't do it. I wouldn't be able to lovingly parent these kids.
You could if he was your child.❤️
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this kid has a terrible diet...sugar, white foods, soda...candy.......all of it, anything with red dye, blue dye.....all bad for these kids
Caroline Chase that’s true but can you imagine how hard it must be to get him to eat anything else?
Vaccines?! Director paid not to mention them?
Odd how there was no mention whatsoever on vacs
They will never tell the truth
Vaccines 🤦🏼♀️
Heavy metals in them and you’re actually right
The CDC does their “own” studies on vaccines and pays the scientists to say there safe
But independent studies have been done and they claim that the mercury and aluminum increase the risk of autism and Alzheimer’s
I still question my mild autism my mom made me get all my vaccines growing up
There are far more toxins out in the world that you breathe in and eat on a daily basis (yes, even if you’re a strict organic vegan) than there are in vaccines. Also, one of the largest vaccine manufacturers in the world (Pfizer) hasn’t used any toxins whatsoever in any of their vaccines in YEARS. The CDC doesn’t tell them to say anything nor give them any $ whatsoever. The CDC shows up at the facilities at random to make sure everything is sterile and will shut the whole place down if they find even so much as a dead fly laying in the floor of one of the labs. You have NO freaking clue what you are talking about AT ALL. Your words are based on paranoia from studying at Google University. Sorry!
@@howtowithelizabeth7513 absolutely. Try Magnesium Oil with Selenium and CBD Oil, if you have any Amalgam dental fillings have them removed and then do a heavy metal detox to reverse the damage.
@@MollyMcBooter that's a lie. All major vaccines have mercury or aluminum as well as other harmful ingredients like formaldehyde, animal and human DNA/aborted fetal cells, Polysorbate, MSG & so many other toxins. And no, most scientists and doctors don't vaccinate their own children, they just lie about to prevent losing their careers and become laughing stocks in the mainstream communities. Look at the Neuroscientist, Mayim Bialik. She stated publicly that she was a non-vaccinated family and got so much backlash that she came and said, "my kids are vaccinated, I hope that clears things up." They quickly bully and shut-down anyone that speaks out, so no one does. Btw, the toxins in the world are definitely contributors, but they aren't being injected straight into your bloodstream and then bypassing the gut & all your bodies defenses, then directlycrossing the brain-blood barrier. There IS a difference. The USA has some of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. The country that has the lowest doesn't vaccinate children under a year old, think about that a bit.
@@hahna77 how to use this oils with selenium?
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