This is the first time I've heard someone talk about what I call "autism high." I love the energy I bring to everything I am enthused about. Thanks for sharing!
My employer loves that energy I bring to technology. I have this excitement about what can be done with technology. It's my high. He told me to never lose that. I can't lose it though it's just what happens not something I control. I just get really excited about but I can cause others problems with it as they think of 1 way to do something then I come in all excited 5 other ways to do that same thing. Sometime better way or just other ways but been told it stresses people out as they had path now they have 6.
Paul, your voice has become something that calms me, even if I sometimes tine out to what you're saying and just listen to you speak. And I also love how Elise is so spontaneous and vibrant. Such a wonderful video, thank you both!
I can tell she is giving it her all. She is both embracing her condition and battling it, which is a very tough balance to strike. Respect and best of luck to her.
Oh wow! I just made the connection that this is Elise from the Autism Summit! Her talk on Understanding Behaviour as Communication was one of my favourites - it's so wonderful to see how she turned a potential weakness into a great strength. Super inspiring to hear her story here! 💛
This video is helping me deal with a recent humilating group situation. It was an online course and it became clear to me that the teacher found me too full-on, too enthusiastic, too forthcoming and I must've talked to much. I think I come across very ADHD-y and my Aspie is kinda underneath that, but it's my deeply-felt experience. I was so hurt! And felt very stigmatized. I've been very socially avoidant and agoraphobic for some years, after life-threatening abuse and trauma. I'm not really sporty (probably a bit dyspraxic) but I Iove dancing and am going to a dance festival with my oldest son in a few days. I'm very inspired by this video! Spectrumite and the people who boost my morale the most of anyone!
Elise’s comments about how she moved from shame to realising there were things she was good at because of her autism has REALLY helped me. Im newly diagnosed. I’ve had my first experience of rejection when I told a friend and I’ve decided to be proud of this new thing I’m learning about myself. Thank you Paul and Elise. 🙏🌻
Agree with that Elise. I'm an outlier weird schedule, writer, hate sound love darkness. Claustrophobic so I have almost no ornaments, and spend very little time with people. I get physical exhaustion. My parents are good as we have a nice house and I have a safe space but cant have visitors too often as I feel sick. I let people know of course. I am sad that its so stressful but I cant cope with peoples phones, idiosynchracies and habits for too long at a time. I come and go.
I feel like sports would have been a great outlet for me but have always had difficulty with them. I have dyspraxia and am horrible at 'group think' exercises (especially fast-paced team-work as in something like soccer or field hockey). Solo physical activity is definitely better for me! On a side note with the whole 'crashing' after being social thing: I would always find dark closets to nap in during school (throughout high school and undergraduate education) and absolutely had to sleep after school.
My special interest has helped me socialize, too. My main SI is psychology, which includes analysing myself. At some point, i realised that others might just think and feel like I do and I started using my knowledge about psychology as a replacement for theory of mind.
Same, I’m switching into psychology because I just got diagnosed with autism and realized psych is the only thing I’m actually naturally super fascinated by and can research for hours on end :p (I’m also a girl)
I relate to Elise in some of her treat, when I was in college I was the weird girl that play football (soccer) with the boys… I think they let me play because it was funny for them, I also performed terrible in the first year because I got obsessed playing “table football” I was good at that too but I wanted to fit in so I started to mask hardly and all that part of me went under the rug where nobody can see it😢… I remember once the national team was playing and with a group of girls we went to the stadium, I was so in the game that I yelled to the referee and all and they were so ashamed of me 😢😢😢… I never did it again. I’m very happy to hear Elise story, hope she keep up her mission and success follow her in anything she does.❤
Thanks for all of this, I have found your videos so helpful with understanding myself. In this video the "feeling things more intensely" was very validating because it always seemed to me other people didn't experience emotional pain to near the degree I do in the same circumstances. Also so many other things. being diagnosed with my level of autism as an adult is weird because it's pretty much like "welp! you're autistic. have fun" so i'm very happy there's youtube content like yours teaching me what to actually do with that information
I could totally identify with the way she described being Autistic...Like being "hyperactive" & then the total "crash"...I've often said & felt like "I'm either on or totally off" 😜😎...sometimes I can be somewhere in the middle, but then it's like I'm trying to rev up or start to crash in those moments...I often feel like a robot in this respect or sometimes a vacuum cleaner that someone rips the cord out of the wall suddenly & my body just stops functioning properly...My fave saying are, "Danger danger Will Robinson!" or one that I taught my mom..."I'm dead! Put the coins & roses on my eyes & float me in a boat down the river Styx!" HeHe! 😜...P.S., 😍 LOVE your TOOL shirt! Awesome band! 🙌...These are fun interviews! 😀👍🌈🌞✌🙏
& I agree...Living & learning with a "different" kind of life (whatever it that may be)...REALLY does help make one quite self aware & come to understand life & the universe in a way I really don't know if I would of realized without being having Autism & conjoining physical disabilities. It's a hard way to learn when something really affects you...But I wouldn't change learning & growing & all that jazz, just to be "normal" & or have an "easy" life. Who do you really become if everything is just a breeze really? I mean, sure, there are tough days or what not, but I like being unique & creative & having to think outside the box. So yeah, not sure if I just prattled on or if I made sense...But there you go! 😃😜😊
ive just turned 24 i have aspergers and epilepsy so i spend alot of my time goung to the gym, doing art. im very specific most times with food places etc..
When it comes to rule. I like games. Strategy or role playing. I like them because of massive amounts of rules. I get absorbed into learning all the rules to an obsessive level. I find games base more randomness and few rules causes me a lot stress.
Getting into trouble in school, impulsivity, distractible by sensory stimuli, hyperfocus - there’s a lot of overlap with adhd symptoms too it sounds like
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I'm a bit the same, in the sense that I feel I'm quite opposite to Elise in many areas. i.e. she is very easily emotional whereas I look for emotionally intense experiences just to feel something. Part of the purpose of these interviews is to show how different people on the Spectrum can be (to each other).
I also feel that, for the most part, the female mind in general can be quite emotional which is probably why a lot of people overlook aspergers in women!
Apologizing in advance? Did you happened to be raised catholic? That being forced into my brain resulted in my l-i-f-e-t-i-m-e of automatically uttering that phrase/or those word(s) sorry/I'm sorry >.
This is the first time I've heard someone talk about what I call "autism high." I love the energy I bring to everything I am enthused about. Thanks for sharing!
My employer loves that energy I bring to technology. I have this excitement about what can be done with technology. It's my high. He told me to never lose that. I can't lose it though it's just what happens not something I control. I just get really excited about but I can cause others problems with it as they think of 1 way to do something then I come in all excited 5 other ways to do that same thing. Sometime better way or just other ways but been told it stresses people out as they had path now they have 6.
Paul, your voice has become something that calms me, even if I sometimes tine out to what you're saying and just listen to you speak. And I also love how Elise is so spontaneous and vibrant. Such a wonderful video, thank you both!
Thank you for interviewing aspire girls, as one, it’s nice to hear their anecdotes
Amen Ra 🙏🏼💚✌🏼️
I can tell she is giving it her all. She is both embracing her condition and battling it, which is a very tough balance to strike. Respect and best of luck to her.
Oh wow! I just made the connection that this is Elise from the Autism Summit! Her talk on Understanding Behaviour as Communication was one of my favourites - it's so wonderful to see how she turned a potential weakness into a great strength. Super inspiring to hear her story here! 💛
This video is helping me deal with a recent humilating group situation. It was an online course and it became clear to me that the teacher found me too full-on, too enthusiastic, too forthcoming and I must've talked to much. I think I come across very ADHD-y and my Aspie is kinda underneath that, but it's my deeply-felt experience. I was so hurt! And felt very stigmatized. I've been very socially avoidant and agoraphobic for some years, after life-threatening abuse and trauma. I'm not really sporty (probably a bit dyspraxic) but I Iove dancing and am going to a dance festival with my oldest son in a few days. I'm very inspired by this video! Spectrumite and the people who boost my morale the most of anyone!
Elise’s comments about how she moved from shame to realising there were things she was good at because of her autism has REALLY helped me. Im newly diagnosed. I’ve had my first experience of rejection when I told a friend and I’ve decided to be proud of this new thing I’m learning about myself. Thank you Paul and Elise. 🙏🌻
Agree with that Elise. I'm an outlier weird schedule, writer, hate sound love darkness. Claustrophobic so I have almost no ornaments, and spend very little time with people. I get physical exhaustion. My parents are good as we have a nice house and I have a safe space but cant have visitors too often as I feel sick. I let people know of course. I am sad that its so stressful but I cant cope with peoples phones, idiosynchracies and habits for too long at a time. I come and go.
your smile girl!!!contagious.....thank you both and good luck on your projects
thank you!
Love this 💕 What a charming, lovely, fun person to interview. And the salute was adorable. I’m proud to be a female auti too!
I'm saluting you back Elise!
I feel like sports would have been a great outlet for me but have always had difficulty with them. I have dyspraxia and am horrible at 'group think' exercises (especially fast-paced team-work as in something like soccer or field hockey). Solo physical activity is definitely better for me! On a side note with the whole 'crashing' after being social thing: I would always find dark closets to nap in during school (throughout high school and undergraduate education) and absolutely had to sleep after school.
My special interest has helped me socialize, too. My main SI is psychology, which includes analysing myself. At some point, i realised that others might just think and feel like I do and I started using my knowledge about psychology as a replacement for theory of mind.
nice :)
Feline713 same! It's the same for me :)
Same, I’m switching into psychology because I just got diagnosed with autism and realized psych is the only thing I’m actually naturally super fascinated by and can research for hours on end :p (I’m also a girl)
thank you for being so brave and putting yourselves out here. it is so helpful for me.
Love the interview with Elise, Paul. Good to know more about her...
Glad you like it! I'm really loving stepping out of the limelight for a bit to show off some of my amazing friends :)
Aspergers from the Inside
Yeah that's true as we do need to accept one another and share our stories of others... Keep it up. .. :)
Great stuff, Paul and Elise!
Thanks Jeff!
Thank you for this interview. Elise's story resonates with me one hundred percent.
A great interview. 💕 Elise is lovely and I can relate.
Inspirational stuff, well done Paul and Elise :)
I love that Tool shirt.
I love soccer too! So happy to see these interviews.
I relate to Elise in some of her treat, when I was in college I was the weird girl that play football (soccer) with the boys… I think they let me play because it was funny for them, I also performed terrible in the first year because I got obsessed playing “table football” I was good at that too but I wanted to fit in so I started to mask hardly and all that part of me went under the rug where nobody can see it😢… I remember once the national team was playing and with a group of girls we went to the stadium, I was so in the game that I yelled to the referee and all and they were so ashamed of me 😢😢😢… I never did it again. I’m very happy to hear Elise story, hope she keep up her mission and success follow her in anything she does.❤
I am an Aspie. And I love Tennis 😍
its amazing sensing you remind me of myself
This is a great video. Thank you a lot for posting it.
I thought I was a vampire and was totally not telling anyone from 8th grade to 10th 😂. It really does fill like being from another planet
hopefully, no blood guzzling though
I thought I was just the biggest superstar secretly on tv because surely these people around me have to be perfectly scripted actors.
What a fun gal !
I would love to be friends with her 😃
Me too!
Thanks for all of this, I have found your videos so helpful with understanding myself. In this video the "feeling things more intensely" was very validating because it always seemed to me other people didn't experience emotional pain to near the degree I do in the same circumstances. Also so many other things. being diagnosed with my level of autism as an adult is weird because it's pretty much like "welp! you're autistic. have fun" so i'm very happy there's youtube content like yours teaching me what to actually do with that information
I could totally identify with the way she described being Autistic...Like being "hyperactive" & then the total "crash"...I've often said & felt like "I'm either on or totally off" 😜😎...sometimes I can be somewhere in the middle, but then it's like I'm trying to rev up or start to crash in those moments...I often feel like a robot in this respect or sometimes a vacuum cleaner that someone rips the cord out of the wall suddenly & my body just stops functioning properly...My fave saying are, "Danger danger Will Robinson!" or one that I taught my mom..."I'm dead! Put the coins & roses on my eyes & float me in a boat down the river Styx!" HeHe! 😜...P.S., 😍 LOVE your TOOL shirt! Awesome band! 🙌...These are fun interviews! 😀👍🌈🌞✌🙏
& I agree...Living & learning with a "different" kind of life (whatever it that may be)...REALLY does help make one quite self aware & come to understand life & the universe in a way I really don't know if I would of realized without being having Autism & conjoining physical disabilities. It's a hard way to learn when something really affects you...But I wouldn't change learning & growing & all that jazz, just to be "normal" & or have an "easy" life. Who do you really become if everything is just a breeze really? I mean, sure, there are tough days or what not, but I like being unique & creative & having to think outside the box. So yeah, not sure if I just prattled on or if I made sense...But there you go! 😃😜😊
Thanks -Belue- - Myst- :)
Aspergers from the Inside...No! Thank you for being cool! 😎😃
ive just turned 24 i have aspergers and epilepsy so i spend alot of my time goung to the gym, doing art. im very specific most times with food places etc..
damn, b ench press grand mall autism attack
+nehorlavazapalka speak english or shut up
It was a joke!
When it comes to rule. I like games. Strategy or role playing. I like them because of massive amounts of rules. I get absorbed into learning all the rules to an obsessive level. I find games base more randomness and few rules causes me a lot stress.
Awesome
Cool
Getting into trouble in school, impulsivity, distractible by sensory stimuli, hyperfocus - there’s a lot of overlap with adhd symptoms too it sounds like
Also the need for stimming
you're both so cute 😊
TOOL SHIRT??? LETS GOOOO
I do that salute every fucking goodbye . And get the weird looks or a smile after .
She's Like Me !!!!
Table tennis is the greatest sport ever! 😄
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Is impulsiveness and hyperactivity part of Autism? I would usually associate impulsiveness and hyperactivity more with ADHD than Autism
Finishing someone's sentences:
www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/a30331/signs-youre-destined-to-be-together/
The last part was funny.
09:30 smashing stereotypes 👍
0:20 what is normal 👏👏👏
Nice shirt 👍🏽
Cool.
Have you found other people on The Spectrum who are over 60 years old and recently diagnosed or self-diagnosed?
Yes, it's quite common. There are a few over 60 in my interviews - all realised later in life.
o7
hardly could I relate to you. You seem to be too emotionally driven 'where is I'm the closest person you could get to a Vulcan'
I'm a bit the same, in the sense that I feel I'm quite opposite to Elise in many areas. i.e. she is very easily emotional whereas I look for emotionally intense experiences just to feel something. Part of the purpose of these interviews is to show how different people on the Spectrum can be (to each other).
Aspergers from the Inside good point
I also feel that, for the most part, the female mind in general can be quite emotional which is probably why a lot of people overlook aspergers in women!
Apologizing in advance? Did you happened to be raised catholic? That being forced into my brain resulted in my l-i-f-e-t-i-m-e of automatically uttering that phrase/or those word(s) sorry/I'm sorry >.