Hannah Gadsby Explains How Her Autism Informs Her Comedy | The View
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- After the global success of her comedy special, Gadsby tells "The View" how she opened up about her mental health struggles in her new memoir, "Ten Steps To Nanette."
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"It is a processing disorder, it took me a long time to process..." Truth.
I am thankful for Hannah's comments on women and autism. I had to take my daughter to a second evaluation before she was believed and diagnosed. Being female, high IQ and competently verbal seems to be a disqualifier for ASD, yet she is affected by it very much in her private and public life on a daily basis. Thank you Hannah.
So important for people like Hannah who have a platform to show who they are, for others and always more powerful to go with exactly who you are
So glad I got the best treatment for my autistic son who is only 4 years old I've been using Dr Ehizogie Herbal medicine and it has been really helpful, 100 his speech has improved completely and he can now respond to name when called and can also say
what he want. His channel is #drehizogie
It feels like the same is true with ADHD in women. The diagnosis only happens in little boys because their behavior was more disruptive so the diagnosis was based on that observable behavior. In girl only the individual suffers more often and develops coping mechanisms so decades fly by. It feels like at 40 half of my women friends are getting ASD or ADHD diagnoses or both. The neurodivergence and executive functioning issues were there from the start but motherhood coupled with the Pandemic seemed to have really brought it to the forefront. At least that is my observation.
Yes to all of this! I flew under the radar as ADHD and Autistic for 45 years. I identified both, ensuring that I measured myself against all of the criteria (all of the criterion? 🤷🏻♂️) and then self-advocated. I’m fortunate that I had, probably out of related necessity, surrounded myself with medical and allied health professionals that I could ‘partner’ with - who would genuinely listen to my clinical self-observations. Even then, they all expressed scepticism BUT they listened to my story and did not decline to refer me on to others that would help to assess what I was putting out there.
Lo and behold… ADHD dual diagnoses, and Autistic with level 2 support requirements, confirmed by a professor of clinical psychology and a speech pathologist.
So why did nobody EVER pick up on a very serious medical condition, and atypicality in thinking, learning, perceiving and relating, all of which combining to adversely affect my outcomes, daily?
The answer is this: I present ADHD and as an Autistic human in *exquisitely* feminine ways… despite being a boy, then young man, and now middle-aged man.
Internalising…
Camouflaging…
Coping… until the elaborate, ritualised workarounds ceased to be sufficiently effective, and I was exhausted by them… and until the camouflage became tattered and threadbare… and I was exhausted by it…
Crisis.
Pretty typical.
I love being Autistic… and being permitted to be Autistic! Wonderful.
ADHD can get in the bin though. Horrible illness.
She's not autistic though
"Understand "I'm not a rubbish person." Ouch. That hit hard.
My son has ASD and he is great. He is quite handsome and has a great heart. He is an artist and has a comedic side too. Hannah Gadsby reminded me that he needs to get out and find his future. I hope he does one day.
If your sons "comedic" side is anything like this dudes I wouldn't be bragging about that lol.
My 11 is autistic and Hannah she LOVES you!! Thank you x
My oldest son and husband are autistic and I have ADHD I loved this interview so much 😆❤️
I get that too! I was actually told that I couldn't be autistic because I can have a conversation, because I have children, because I am too imaginative, and because I don't "look" autistic. I too didn't get my diagnosis for ADHD/ASD until nearly 40. I was just the shy, weird, sensitive, awkward, artsy, super-smart girl obsessed with fantasy and cats and Pikachu, also raised in an extremely conservative Christian household, who grew up to be a queer, feminist, tattooed witch who is still obsessed with fantasy and cats and Pikachu. I like being autistic though. The hardest part isn't really my autism, it's trying to navigate a world that was made for and is filled with allistics (that's non-autistic people for those who don't know).
embrace who you are!
I was diagnosed at 39. I am tired of the stigma and how people treat it like a disease. We are some of the most creative and smart people there are.
Filled with normal people. I.e. people without autism. You are the other, remember. Not an insult, just a fact. You can't help it.
I occasionally find creative ways of relating how it is to be Autistic in the world to people. A recent one was a description to a mate who is an IT specialist. I told him it’s like having to function in a world that isn’t formatted for my operating system. It’s Windows and I’m Linux! There is bound to be glitchy behaviour like conflicts, runtime errors, crashes, hangs etc… but when I’m permitted to run in my environment I’m amazing - different, not less.
This resonates so much! I was dx in my early 40s and have been making up for lost time discovering my true self and finding my people. I spend most of my time in neurodivergent spaces now and it's made such a huge difference. Also, I'd love to see Hannah interviewed by other autistics. Personally, it is much easier for me to talk to people wired like I am.
The way the wonderful lady in the nice red top addressed Hannah's trauma, her tone of voice and seriousness gave me such a warm feeling of confirmation, acknowledgment and respect of my trauma, mental health and neurodiversity. A feeling I don't feel and have never felt before. Thank you 🌱
I love her on the show Please Like Me, it’s really funny, I believe it’s on Netflix or Hulu.
Chris Rock also talked about getting diagnosed with non verbal learning disorder when a friend of his though he might have high functioning autism. He’s talked about how NVLD is autism adjacent and how he has trouble interpreting non verbal signals. He’s also sought therapy around his NVLD diagnoses. I would love to see that be part of this conversation as well.
Love Hannah!! She is such a joy!!
NVLD is Autism
Asperger’s is autism
NVLD and Asperger’s is no longer in the DSM -5 no long differentiates between the two.
The autism community is actively trying to get rid of the teens high functioning/low functioning because
We’re all autistic, and we need the world to support our nervous systems and brains.
Chris was misinformed. Functioning labels are outdated and shouldn't have ever been a thing.
I admire this woman… her ability to overcome the world’s injustice, society’s cruelness, her honesty, etc.
signed by a very proud Aussie
Love Hannah!! When she spoke up disagreeing w/Dave Chapelle (sp?), the knee jerk reaction was to criticize her gayness, her gender, not her thoughts/opinion. She was brave to speak up against a very popular man who did say some stupid stuff against trans people.
We deserve our space to say our truths and be respected: and if you don’t agree, reply to the words, not the gender, not the gayness, not the color of our skin.
Wish I could give this 100 likes.
Shame she’s not funny though.
She is not funny
To be fair, he did say she's not funny.
And her lack of funny is based entirely on her lack of funny thoughts.
In 6 years, the first "comedian" to be surpassed by AI in terms of funny, will be Hannah Gadsby.
@@fuckamericanidiot now thats funnyyyy
This is authenticity. Love Hannah.
It's incredible how differently I was treated when I was thin vs when I was larger and older. When I was younger they basically refused to diagnose me with anything but anxiety, and most of my social awkwardness was seen as natural female shyness, but I wasn't shy. I just did not understand, and I was struggling. When I got fatter and older and I had a son who was diagnosed ADHD and autistic, that's when I finally was able to get the treatment I needed. I'm so happy Hannah is speaking up about these things.
Hannah is a national treasure- just love her! 🥰🇦🇺
No she is not
You need to reconsider what a "national treasure" is.
YEA NAH - From an Australian.
I date lesbian men too.
She’s brilliant! Yay Hannah!
So proud of Hannah! I think she's like a trail blazer in many ways, defying all the little boxes we like to put ourselves in. She's showing that it's ok to not fit the "norm" and that can only be a good thing in my book. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi! 🇦🇺🤗🌈 "Go Hannah!"
That's embarrassing. Oi, Oi, Oi. I agree Gadsby is unique, she has enriched herself as a comedian not being funny in any sense, not even unintentionally, like a bad movie. Which means there's hope for us all to earn squillions$$ being the opposite of what we are contracted to do.
Tasmania was very late to the party in taking until 1997 to decriminalise homosexuality. Please let it be known that over the past 25 years, Tasmanians have totally embraced marriage equality and has some of the most progressive anti-discrimination laws on the planet. In fact, in Australia’s national plebiscite on marriage equality five years ago, Tasmania had one of the biggest “yes” votes in Australia. Cheers, Proud Tasmanian. 💙🇦🇺
I have asperger I was told that I don't look autistic it's a stereotype that everyone has not all look or acts the same
Please make her a host. i love her
She’s clear that she processes slow, not a good fit. Her show is scripted. She is very clear about her boundaries.
My son was diagnosed ADHD he is 6. He is so creative!
Yeah, I’m Autistic - I discovered that about myself and was able to have it confirmed about nine months later, all at age 46! Absolutely amazing thing to discover. Lots of learning… absolutely every little bit of it relevant, and absolutely every bit of it new.
Almost everyone has ‘Autistic’ wrong in their understanding - and Hannah has been a big inspiration (and source of enormous cheer) for me along the way. Thank you very much from a fat dad in Adelaide, South Australia Hannah. You’re a superb human.
Now encourage Gadsby to be funny, or tell her to quit her act, its not comedy, its just her venting to a crowd of sycophants.
@@cameronhesketh6814 - have you been to one of her shows? Straight up mate, utterly hilarious. Really superb. It’s worth going with an open mind.
@@michaeltownsend429 Seem them live on TV, tested myself out, I didn't laugh once, not once.
Why is she funny?
@@cameronhesketh6814 - that’s not a question that can ever be answered adequately. Humour and entertainment are just entirely subjective things. There will almost certainly be things that you and I find hilarious, and other things that one of us will crease up laughing at whilst the other just looks on utterly confused. Diversity - it makes us a marvellous species.
Edit: out of curiosity, what was the TV program with her in it that you watched?
@@michaeltownsend429 You did say her shows were utterly hilarious, so that means you laughed at just about every non joke she came up with. Dad and Mum(Mom) for Americans, jokes, and smart quips about how she's a lesbian and looks like a man, sort of.
If you find that utterly hilarious, good for you. Gadsby isn't for the demanding viewer, more for the flaky citizen at best.
i like her humour - being a little autistic myself, i like to think that if people don't get the joke it's their problem too!
You aren't "a little Autistic" you either are or you aren't. Or was that the joke?
@@rahbeeuh this isn't true - there's a very broad spectrum as I'm sure you know! Some people share more autistic traits than others. I have never been diagnosed but I have found that I have a lot in common with autistic people I have encountered.
@@beng1lh00ly I'm aware that the spectrum is very broad. It's more like a color wheel not like a linear line. I'm not denying you're Autistic at all. I'm saying you aren't "a little Autistic". That phrase is frowned upon in the Autistic community. It's the same with functioning labels. They're outdated and imo shouldn't have ever been a thing to begin with. /gen
@@rahbeeuh fair play, i can see why the term might be problematic!
You can’t be a little Autistic. You either are or you are not.
Everytime I see Hannah Gadsby, I think "AT THE DOG PARK!!!" LOL
Your story had me crying. Your pain and anger showed as it should, I’m not sure that ever goes away. I agree we’re not victims, victims pull the sheets over their heads and remain in hiding. We’re stronger and a force to be reckoned with. As you have said, you rebuilt yourself, as so many of us women have. I absolutely adore you, all that you are and that of what I don’t know. I thank you for who you are and all that you share with us. You Rock, you’re Awesome and we Love You 😘
If her story had you crying, then you DO view her as a victim. Quit lying.
"survivor" fits better
@@bennyton2560 whining about nothing woke fool fits even better.
So why does she fool people into thinking she's a comedian? She doesn't do comedy, its just show after show of her venting and projecting.
That's not comedy, I don't know what that is, but not comedy.
The laugh track gets a good workout wherever Gadsby performs.
By definition, she is a victim, your description makes her a perfect example of todays wealthy victims.
I’m from Tasmania and can assure you that this homophobia is still deeply ingrained in the community there. If you are gay in Tasmania you hopefully get out when an adult
Still? That’s so sad 😞
That's a ridiculous statement and an indictment on all of Tasmania. Thankfully you are just one person out there in the ether.
“I broke my leg” - the way they jumped into the next question that had nothing to do with it 😅
Hannah Gadsby is one of the best. Comedic but makes you think. Nanette was brilliant, Douglas was brilliant. They are brilliant!
Except the comedy and humour part isn't present in any of her shows, her deconstructionist approach leeches the hunour out, completely, that's why the laugh track has to be added in, constantly..
I like her sense of humour - she’d be a great co-host on the show 👌
One of the most worthwhile guest you all have had on the show. I think she's absolutely phenomenal.
Same 👏🏻
Are you for real?
@@TheBasedCanadian Are you a republican??
@@TheBasedCanadian What, you don't find this lady extraordinary? You must be very shallow. Or, at least a republican. R u going to delete this comment too?
I love her honesty and humanity.
Lover Her!
I just adore Hannah!
She is so beautiful!
🤣🤣🤣
Whats funny about that? She is beautiful inside and out! 🙄
@@xxxblinxxx 🤣
Get Hannah on the view panel
Love her special and loved her character in Please Like Me.
Awww.. I just love her to bits and her honesty.. and well just her take on life!!! Breath of fresh air for sure!!!
Loved this!
Hannah is absolutely adorable!!!Love her!
Joy too many questions in one breath.... read the blurb about your guest and adjust your communication skills to fit; or you know, at minimum read the clearly overwhelmed facial expression, trying to work out where to start
I never heard of her but she sounds well rounded and rather intelligent.
I wish her well
Watch her Netflix specials - they're brilliant. Nanette will make you question what other comedians present as 'funny'
She made me happy! My son is on Autism spectrum and I'm so worried about him. Seeing her gives me hope that people will get him because he is smart, kind, helpful and very special innocent person.
Wow. Watch her Netflix special, it's strange, awkward, heartwarming and HILARIOUS
@@sunnylilme thanks, but I don’t have Netflix 🙏
She's a pathetic hack who only is getting air time after she went on her "me too" tirade against Dave Chappelle.
Great interview. Hannah is amazing!
She's not funny.
@@bubbiesdad many thousands disagee with you.. so - you're wrong ... see what I did there ?
@@kaiberberich1
Many millions agree with me.
@@bubbiesdad okie dokie - you're always welcome to your opinion !!
Nanette is high art, I absolutely loved it
What?
Love her.
I enjoyed her interview :)
These comments don’t pass the vibe check. I was laughing the whole time
right. glad it isn't just me that found her funny.
You should pull a Christmas cracker one day just for the joke inside.
Make sure you write your will before reading it though.
They're a real hoot!!
Please do have Hannah back on your show. Reading her book now.
The book is very fun to read especially if you read it in her voice
this is a nice interview...I really enjoyed it
I love her! different
She is a gem
Hanna has a very specific following. The message from the media is that she’s really famous back home, she’s not. Most people back home only know about her from overseas media like this.
I knew of her from the Melbourne comedy festival. Oh and also because she dated a girl I went on a date with many moons ago.
i'm a tad confused about your comment and why you're saying it.
@Rachel Savard tall poppy syndrome. People love to try and tear down anyone who makes it big in Australia. It's a tale as old as time.
Speak for yourself. I'm Australian and watched her for years on Adam Hills' show.
@@gdaymates431 Probably someone in the Murdoch/LNP bunker.
Hannah Gadsby is so honest and a down-to-earth comedian and human being.
Except that she doesn't do comedy and gets paid for it. There's hope for us all.
Need to see more of her. Great observations.
There's alot of Dave "we hate women sect" Chapell lunatics in the comment section.
Well, The View and Hannah thank you for your support by clicking and watching the video.
I enjoyed Hannah's comedy special very much. She is brilliant. While respecting her acknowledgment of an autism diagnosis, my take-away from everything about her and her comedy is that she is too intelligent for most of us to understand what she is trying to say. I don't really know what autism or string theory means but I do know Hannah's humor is really just intelligent and honest.
Shame she’s not funny.
If she says her autism informs her comedy, I'd respect that.
I'm autistic and ADHD, as well, and I disagree with you. Autism and ADHD are processing disorders. They don't correlate to IQ. Some folks with these conditions have hyperfixations that lead to discoveries and expertise in specific areas, but this isn't the case for all. Additionally, teaching, conveying complex concepts in simple language, is a skill. Those of us with autism (particularly if we're female) have to spend a lot of time thinking about how we portray ourselves and our ideas in order to not be seen as arrogant. I think that's one reason that autism is often not diagnosed in little girls; we're taught to mask how we feel, anyway. Autistic girls just work at it a bit harder than the others.
" I don't get less awkward." Same.
Hannah is so great.❤
Nanette is still one of the most awe-inspiring performances I've ever seen, using the structure of Stand Up to reveal the lie of what stand up is just destroyed me... and then Douglas came out and proved that she could absolutely do an entire set that's hilarious without ever having to do self-deprecation. Just one of the best comics working today, full stop.
The entire internet would highly disagree. But it’s fine, we know how you people are.
@@tima9083 Ahh yes, the entire internet... AKA a bunch of annoying white guys who yell "WOKE" into a webcam every day in order to keep the night terrors away.
@@tima9083 that’s a big statement! The entire internet?! You speak for the entire internet??!! May I suggest you speak for yourself and your own “toxic masculinity.”
@@joycie014 how’s that whole label everything “toxic masculinity” push working out for ya? You think that’s going to work?
@@tima9083 what do you mean?
Yes, to all your spectrum, rainbow, gorgeous truth vibes. Makes me so happy.
As someone with Asperger’s, I find this person inspiring. You can be anything you want to be. Even a comedian. Even if you’re horribly unfunny.
I don't think she has autism to be honest.
And i have it.
@@dcmastermindfirst9418If I acknowledged that suspicion, I thought it would’ve made my joke even worse.
@@the_original_van_d I agree she's not funny.
She's basically the Australian Amy schumer.
@dcmastermindfirst9418 Thats harsh. Accurate, but harsh.
I love your glasses! Too cool!
Interesting topic. 😏 However do you come up with your brilliant show ideas? SO creative & original! 🤔
Love them so much! Such positive, vibrant energy
Gadsby made it onto The View, well, that speaks volumes.
They’re laughing at the conversation explanation but that made perfect sense to me, you have to follow the rules of conversation and everyone gets along right?
Their laugh is as awkward as that idiot Hannah, who is the most unfunny "comedian" out there.
Great to see her ''on the box''........ :)
I heard so many of those things about my twins when they were diagnosed with ASD. They’re too funny, too smart, too whatever to have autism. It’s been 10 years and still comes up. SMH 🤦🏻♀️
Never heard of her but I could have watched her for another 30 minutes!! Brilliant 😇
She has a Netflix special. Definitely worth watching.
More than that she has TWO Netflix specials! Both are great, Nanette in particular
Not a spectrum. Not a disorder. Not a disease.
Thank you ❤
She loves the color Blue. I been doing the rounds on here on her stuff(Don't worry,less then 15mins in I'm and I'm about ready to wrap this up) and she always wearing blue and oddly quite often her surroundings are blue.
Her personality is better than her stand up. If she had a talk show I'd probably watch
Hannah 👏 Remarkable segment to all
Cate Blanchett know's crazy!!!!!!!!
Well snaps laughed at Chris rock’s joke about his wife but then he seen the look on his wife’s face and got up and done something
Hannah, I am seeing this clip for the second time, and now I have a diagnosis of "autism spectrum disorder -mild."
It needs to be autism spectrum Conditon, not disorder.
I am 74 white gay old autistic and funny. I have always been funny, thank heaven.
Oh and I share your outlook on straight white males. Trying to run the world a bit too much.
I hope you are thriving, and that we will see you perform agaain soon.
Thanks for being you.
I love the way they are forcing the laughter.
I'm pretty face blind so please don't take it as an insult. the woman with the red socks is is Whoopi Goldberg? is that correct?
I like her.
She was shocked it was illegal until 1997 yet was illegal in the US as “sodomy laws” (despite straight cis people also doing it) until 2003 which is also shocking cause I was 7 or 8 in 2003.
Why did Joy ask so many questions at once?
dave chappelle got me here lol
She is brilliant, and you can tell she is funny naturally. She sees people for their quirks is what I think, which makes us all human - and normal!
Yeah right!
What a WILD coincidence! My friend & I were discussing a link between autism & comedy/comedians jussssst yesterdayyyyy: czcams.com/video/Z5u9JiKsOSI/video.html
Haha she’s funny 😂
A true barn burner
Not funny ha ha.
Not even close to funny. Her whole schtick is being woke.
Her memoir is absolutely brilliant, i thoroughly recommend it.
Nanette is one of, if not the, best comedy specials I’ve ever seen. It was funny and disarming and jarring. It was poignant and smart, and it was also simultaneously a love letter and a farewell to comedy that originated from a place of pain but became a source of healing, not just for Hannah but for members of her audience that could relate to her experience. Laughter is after all one of the best medicines, a panacea for the soul, and such an amazing vehicle to speak, inform, and teach, precisely because it is disarming and because mirth and laughter are universal emotions and languages that connect not just the audience to the performer, but to each other. It turned Hannah for me from a complete unknown to my favorite comic. I’m so thrilled for her subsequent success. She deserves every bit of it, and I await with excitement everything she makes. The best way to approach Nanette is with zero knowledge or expectation for full effect, which is harder now because of its fame, but I really can’t recommend it enough.
It's phenomenal.
Is it the only "comedy" special you have seen.
@@bubbiesdad no. I’ve watch a lot of them. Probably from every major comic.
@@LordIstar Bless her for her struggles, but she's anything but funny or a comedian!
@@tkcurtis1725 she’s a comedian in every sense of the word. Just because you don’t like her doesn’t give you the right to write her off and minimize her career and identity.
So that's why she's as hilarious as a bout of shingles?
I love Hannah! She's so clever! And refreshing! ❤️
Why?
@@cameronhesketh6814 why what?
@@louisavevers9709 Why, about your original comment?
That building could have collapsed that day and I would have slept great....
Hannah is effortlessly likeable
She "tried not to make anyone laugh"?
Riiiiiiiiiiiiigghhhtt...
Good one 😂
You grew up in Tasmania?
Well, that explains a lot.
No worries, there's a lot of us that suck at Autism. It's our super power
That was too short...
it doesn't inform "her" comedy as there is no comedy, She only identifies as a comedian.
The best interviewer here was Whoopi. Talk less listen more.
Hannah Gadsby is about as funny as Schindler's List.
I have asd id never have picked up on hers
Gorgeous! So lovely to see frank chats
Hannah is absolutely brilliant and inspiring. To be somewhat questioned on Nanette from two female comedians was sort of distasteful. I feel I need to watch Hannah on Colbert now. Should be a better interview then the train wreck that has become the view.
What low standards you have.
Internalized homophobia is a thing.
Vindictive cunty bigotism is also a thing. They say things like that too.