Let's talk about Autism and Aspergers Spectrum Disorders. Mental Heath with Kati Morton
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You need to do a specific video on people with autism and aspergers who didn't get diagnosed until they were adults. I think there's a lot of people out there who have it and don't even know. This is an important issue that needs A LOT more awareness.
I am one
+David Eason Please watch my videos on my YT channel which address these concerns.
You can view my videos which address these concerns. I was diagnosed recently at 33 and knew I had something but didn't understand or know what it was. Until I got my diagnosis, thinks clicked for me and the missing piece of jigsaw was found! My diagnosis made 'logical' sense to me which spelled out all my obstacles and symptoms I had been suffering. it is important to bare in mind, Asperger's is a hidden disorder that is not easily detected, unless diagnosed by a specialist.
Me too.
Melissa0774 true
I really really hate how autism is always associated with children. Don't those children grow up? Do they become neurotypical suddenly? As someone diagnosed at age 16, it's very frustating.
Umber Moore Yeah, I feel like anyone above the age of 14 or whatever is just expected to grow up and forget about it?? It doesn't make sense
I have Asperger's (symptoms) with other mental problems and I cannot even get a doctor to even talk to me about it. Like adults couldn't possibly have autism. (eye roll*
Umber Moore same I was diagnosed at age 14 but ya I am expected to pass as normal.
i agree i,m diagnoses as an adult
Umber Moore it's easier when you are 25+ because it makes you socialize 5 years back, and who cares if your 25 and you act like 20
Have you thought about making a video specifically about woman and autism or the differences in autism because of gender?
It certainly can be
Gioia Helms there is no difference through gender
Dreamweaver Gaming That's not true, autistic women "on the higher end" often don't know they have it, well sth feels odd and they have struggling issues, but they fit in better in society in general. We're often like chameleons and don't "look autistic".
It’s different because of socialisation not because of gender
kati, i read women are underdiagnosed with aspergers because our symptoms are different (we are often diagnosed with bpd or depression). i'd love to see a video about that so it could raise awareness, since there are a lot of adult women who struggle and have no idea what is going on
lali THANK YOU! YESSSS
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I agree. Incidentally tho, there can absolutely be co-morbidity with ASD and the cluster b personality disorders, as well as mood disorders like bipolar.
I actually have a hypothesis that UNDIAGNOSED ASD can absolutely specifically lead to bpd, Bc the person isn’t aware of why they’re feeling so different from everyone else, and they KNOW they don’t want to cause harm or be odd or insult or offend and yet it keeps happening so it MUST be the other people, but then they see that no one else sees it as the other people, and so on and so forth. A vicious cycle.
Someone diagnosed early would have a better chance of having guardians and teachers that learn how to properly interact with them, and developing skills to be able to communicate to new friends that they are not neurotypical, so they could more easily avoid the personality disorders that come with such abject isolation.
But if someone is never diagnosed, bpd can very easily develop. And with women, they will ALWAYS blame our personalities before giving us a label of a type of impairment beyond our control, you know?
Also, a lot of the symptoms of BPD are socially considered totally normal male reactions (unrelenting pridefulness, lashing out, inconsistency, etc etc.) so when an autistic male shows these signs...
He might not be diagnosed AT ALL.
When a woman shows these signs they’ll diagnose her as BPD.
But when a male shows the more obvious physical signs, they’ll sooner label him as ASD.
When a woman is bashing her head against a wall or rocking back and forth, she’s “faking it” or “doing it for attention” hence the histrionic or bpd diagnoses.
It’s all actually rather cliche at this point. Lol, or maybe I just see it that way Bc I’m tragically jaded to all these very serious things.
I wish I could ❤ this comment
Quick question I haven't finished this video so maybe Kati mentions it later on but how is it different for females? I have already been "diagnosed" with Bipolar and Narcissism but it was more like me saying "hey psych I've never met, I feel bipolar" and the psych just said "yep, I dont know you or your symptoms but you're bipolar. Take these pills." So I dunno if I'm misdiagnosed or not
1st: Autism is a very individual disorder. Just wanted to say that. Our brain is just wired differently. And as we're all individuals the signs and symptoms and number of signs show differently :)
I know Katie talked about the spectrum as for individuality, but i wanted to emphasize that.
2nd: People often have the assumption that autistic people lack social skills and lack empathy.
We miss some tools, that is correct, but that doesn't mean we're robots.
There is a part of empathy that you can learn per se.
And now is the point were i have to talk about my specific autism. Because one autistic person can also only talk about their experiences and you can never generalize them for each autistic person.
Often i have to learn my reactions and actings in very specific situations.
If there are changes it is not that easy.
But if i recognize that the situation has a specific trait i can remember that really well! :)
That makes it hard for new situations, i didn't prepare for, but you know experience all gets us everywhere :)
I just have to have more detailled experience and seem slow but who cares.
I have to care about myself and don't need to be hard on myself. That's just how i function and who i am really.
That went far but it felt nice to write it :)
I really like how you say “we” in a lot of videos. It doesn’t matter if you actually have these disorders, but it’s nice that you’re comfortable with putting yourself with us.
"We don't have a learning disability we're not mentally handicapped." lol thanks
Those with Aspergers have trouble with reading facial expressions and body language too. I had trouble with tone of voice.
I can't look people in the face..especially their eyes.
I think the real problem is we dont know whos rules we are playing by thus not sure what we can say or do without being X
The worst problem is there may be thousands and thousands of cues people pick up and act on every day without a single though. But every single one of those requires brain processing for me and tires me out quickly.
@@rc3151 yup
I have high functioning autism and I am very routine oriented and change is always very hard for me. I love to swing and rock and pet animals to calm me down. I was always so anxious before the beginning of a new school year. Also on top of being Autistic I am introverted and shy. Sometimes I like to socialize with one person at a time or very small groups but other times I just want to be alone. Luckily I got better at sensing emotional facial gestures and understand sarcasm. Also autistic people usually have very specific interests.
I love how she uses the pronoun "us", like she's referring to everybody, not just a specific demographic. Makes it feel a lot more empathetic.
I don't like that. I find it condescending.
@@Melissa0774 That's fair too!
My gf says I'm on the spectrum, it's eerie how I was researching one month all about it... And my gf randomly starts thinking about this and tells me I might have it! It's very very hidden though, I've mentioned it to my friends and they find it hard to believe... Its frustrating to make others understand.
shinzantetsu She probably went thru your phone
I am aware that generalization is a safe thing, but I, an autistic person, am not a picky eater.
Catking19 I'm on the spectrum and I went from selective eating to overeating and now calorie restricting.
I am a picky eater. It is horrible and i can't help it. sometimes i cook an entire meal and i struggle to eat it before it gets cold and i can't eat it.
The Bee And The Rose Knitting Podcast I believe that she isn’t trying to generalize but tries to find ways of how certain things relates. Like she said in the video, She can go on about it but she tries to make it as simple as possible
THANK YOU
I'm not a picky eater either, but think she should generalize some parts. Autism is very different for each person, something I could say coming from a special school for children with autism. If she didn't make a few generalizations, no one really got anything out of this video since case to case differences are very big.
I was recently diagnosed with Aspergers. Despite my disability I am a self made multimillionaire. I failed all my school exams, was bullied at school and was told by my teachers I wouldn't succeed in life.
Philip Carlyn cool to here of your success as a businessman
May I ask what you are doing? I want to find success too
I've scratched and picked at my arms since I was 7 years old and when I was 15 it evolved into a more 'common' ways of self-harm. My eating disorder is also greatly affect by my Aspergers because I restricted to fat free vegan food but I had to restrict even further because I hate the texture of most vegetables and fruits. This was one of the most helpful videos ever. Now I understand why I picked at such a young age.
I tried to tell people around me. They didn't believe me. So I just isolated myself and tried to stay from them. Been eating excessively, picking at scabs on my neck, and probably drinking myself to death.
I feel u.............I too am rejected
As this was so many years ago, it’s incredible how much the diagnostic criteria and spectrum had been defined. As both are now linked to just ASD.
I'm an adult female who was recently diagnosed as being autistic, my daughter is also autistic. I would also question your use of the word 'suffer' it implies we have a disease that we want to be cured from. We are in fact just wired up differently and are difficulties lay with trying to function in a world not designed for us and so finding ways to deal with this overwhelming world. We also have lots of advantages over neuro typical people =)
Barbarian Mage me too
Laura Jaine It isn't curable but people still do suffer from it because they find it difficult to cope with. Not everyone, but many people do. I have two best friends and a brother with it.
Kati, I watched this video twice recently. I think you gave one of the most helpful and informative overviews of the subject of autistic spectrum disorders that I've ever watched online. I confirmed that I have Asperger's just c. 3 years ago, and am still trying to grasp how it has affected my life---I'm 60 years old. I like the way to described how autism and other mental health problems relate to each other, You nailed it.
Katie, you speak with such understanding and compassion about ASC. I want to thank you for your positive and nonjudgemental approach, especially as it relates to self harm. This is not something we do for attention. It is much more complex than that judgemental perspective that does not even try to explain how the person may be feeling, and the degree of suffering. When you say its like 50 times stronger in AS, it shows you get this. I always wondered why I seemed to feel things more intensely than my peers. I berated myself, internalizing the anger of others at me for not fitting in, not acting "normal", or embarassing others. Why can't I just not be bothered by things that don't seem to bother everyone else? I've tried to "grow a thicker skin", and to ,"just get over it." Sometimes all a person needs is to be loved where they are at, so they can heal, and grow.
Thank you so much for continuing to talk about the links between mental illnesses & various chronic illnesses and disabilities. It means so much to me. It's helping me understand more about how my CP & other medical issues relate to my mental health.
I'm 47 and was born with a severe case of aspergers and let me tell you it made life a living hell. I was taken to psychologists at an early age and all they did was try all types of drugs over the years. And none of them did anything what so ever. My parents moved a lot growing up and i was in special ed since 1st grade. I was always getting suspended for bad behavior, had trouble focusing on the school work. I dropped out of 9th grade because i had enough of getting bullied by everyone including the teachers. Everywhere i went schools, neighborhoods, jobs and so forth i had to deal with people saying i was an idiot, or retarded, a bad seed. By the time i was 21 i had already gone thru 18 jobs. I would give it my all but when the only coments you get are negitive it would not only shut my mind down but my body also. The only thing i could do was quit and the employer was lucky if i didn't tell them to go fornicate themselves on the way out. I soon turned to heavy drinking and drugs. And for a long time it was the only comfort and peace i found in the world. I could do a multitude of drink and drugs and no one could tell i was on anything unless i drank way too much. You can't hide the alcohol fumes. I never could hold a job, never did get a gf, never had 1 as a friend. Only made 2 friends my whole life but lost 1 of them once he got married. His wife didn't like me at all. Growing up when the family got together they loved playing trivial pursuit, i despised that game because i never could answer 1 question. Now i look at the world as 1 big 3d trivial pursuit except all the questions in it have 4 answers...1 it sucks...2 it stinks....3 it blows....or 4 all of the above. I pick 4. I have been clean and sober since 2008 and i miss it dearly, but i just have to keep taking 1 day at a time. I just wish these flashbacks i get of all the people who ever abused me would go away. You can tell people your problems but unless they have aspergers as well or have profesionally studied it themselves they will never understand where you are coming from....well i never can understand where they are coming from. Well sorry for the long rant, i did try to keep it as short as possible.
One thing I like about Kati is that no matter the disorder, she always affirms that the person who has it, is ok. It's not that someone is bad for having a disorder, it's that yes, you have a disorder, but here are tools that can help cope with it. The more I watch videos on mental health, the more I think that we all have internal struggles that we must manage.
Thank you for the warm compassion. I have a few friends who deal with these symptoms. It's good to know the education is available here as a way to counter stigma too.
Also, as you'd mentioned about self-harm and anxiety symptoms it, two of the three people had not been diagnosed as children, and are now learning healthier coping skills.
Please make an updated version of this video. There is so much more information available now and this video uses outdated terminology i.e. Aspergers is not longer. Thanks!
I have two brothers on the autism spectrum. I really want understand them. I baby sit my youngest brother a lot and he is really picky with his food and sensitive to sound. He freak outs when someone turns on the hand dryer in a bathroom.
Oh my god, the vacuum cleaner is the worst for me personally. Does he have an issue with that too?
Yeah. We have got him these noise cancelling ear muffs.He loves them. Now we can actually vacuum without him freaking out and crying.
Sam Herondale God why haven't I thought of that! I need to buy some. I don't cry but I get freaked out.
little ipod earbuds can be handy just walking down the street if there is a lot of loud traffic as well. They are discreet and don't even have to be plugged into anything
I hate hand dryers, it hurts my ears
Lol I’ve got sooo many duel diagnosis! Autism, MDD, GAD, ADHD, Learning difficulties, and PTSD! Also, asthma, maintains, and an autoimmune thyroid disorder! Sooo many! Lol
my daughter was diagnosed with Aspergers and we were told that she has High Functioning Autism. Her doctor says the diagnosis is a diagnosis of autism. my child actually has severe anxiety, depression and self harms a lot. she will scratch herself, punch her walls and has cut herself. She has been in therapy, but the therapist referred us to another therapist because any time she tried to talk to her, she'd slip in to the characters she is obsessively interested in.
Katie and Amanda are fun to watch and listen to. I get to smile while I learn. Thanks a bunch.
I don't suffer from autism, I suffer from a world that doesn't want to accommodate my needs.
My experiences may be atypical for the average Aspie. I'm high functioning, and usually passable for a very articulate (a skill strengthened in recent years), socially awkward "neurotypical." My therapist uses the cute term "Cuspie." The thing is that since I didn't fit the description of people more severely affected by the autistic spectrum, I went un-DXed until I was I was 26. My parents had rejected one diagnosis, accepted hypotonia and a mild communicative delay as separate, and I was prescribed for Ritalin for a few months under an ADHD misdiagnosis when I began rebelling against the concept of only learning things to regurgitate on Friday, and binge text books for exams. Those things, emotional abuse, and strict parenting led to extremely repressed teen years. At school, there was excessive bullying from classmates and even a teacher, vivid sexual harassment, and my rare times on AIM were trolled by cyber bullies who knew me through school.
I felt like such an outsider. Church youth groups, my artwork, poetry, comics, and music were for the most part my only release.
In college (especially freshman year), I continued to stand out. I would work late at night in common areas because I could concentrate better in that solitude. It caused me to oversleep some times. I held such high standards for myself that if I slept late, I would go a day without food to teach myself a lesson (I think that's self-harm). I even death with some insomnia after my dad died from alcoholism.
It was a few years after getting my degree that I got my own PCP (who diagnosed my migraines as a byproduct of dangerous hernias (and not what my parents dismissed as my staying up late), and I selected my own psychotherapist. My therapist figured how some things in my past are connected, helps me to deal with anxiety, understanding the world, understanding myself, and learning life skills. I also found two Aspie memoirs relatable and inspiring. Look Me In the Eye by John Elder Robison and Pretending to be Normal by Liane Holliday Willey. I... don't know if it's my possibly having a non-binary gender or just being so close to neurotypical, but I found just as much in Robison's book that I could identify with as I could find in Willey's, though female Aspies are said to be more socially adjusted generally speaking.
I cried when I realized no one replied to your post. It's just so sad. From a complete stranger, I hope life is treating you better.
That actually makes sense about ED and Asperger's Syndrome being tied together. When I was younger I was really picky and wouldn't eat certain foods. As I got older I became less picky but started binging on foods I really liked such as chocolate. When I was younger I was so afraid of trying new foods because I was afraid I'd like them so much that I'd eat them everyday. I guess even when I was younger I had some anxiety around food.
I grew up with ASD and my ED behaviors were related to my obsession with numbers and spreadsheets. I enjoyed chronicling my progress and treated my body like an entity separate from me that I could use like a lab rat in a science experiment. It took a lot for me to understand 1) that people were worried about me, 2) why they were worried, and 3) why I should care that they were worried.
I have Asperger's and I do have PTSD since I was 7 or 8.
Most of the time I never feel safe regardless of where I am and I am on my guard 24/7 and I do end up working on anything I can as my temporary respite which is not long.
I like the phrase "live with" rather than "suffer from"
Thanks for sharing! I'm 34 now and about a year ago (after seeing Free Solo) I suspected that I might have aspergers. I recognize the sensitivity regarding food texture.
As a child, I used problem-solving as an escape. I looked for a feeling of beauty and harmony in solving complex problems. This has made me quite the perfectionist, which caused some problems in the workplace.
For me, ACT worked very well. Mindfulness, although sometimes quite hard, gave me the tools to regularly check in on myself and check in on my emotions before they overwhelm.
My husband is self diagnosed as being aspergers He’s 58 and knowing that he Is aspergers has helped him immensely. He says it’s like everything is making more sense even though nothing makes sense. There seems to be little to no help in Scotland addressing aspergers. He has joined the aspergers society on Facebook and feels at home talking with others this condition.
I can't stand the texture of soft fruit and won't eat fruit therefore. It also irritates me to find fruit pieces in yoghurt... a big no! However, I like all kind of veg as they are crunchier and not soft and sweet... Texture is also important for clothes... Here I like woolen things, can be rough and itchy on the skin but I like that... I have certain soothing techniques when getting stressed, one is to listen to certain movies (not watching them really...) over and over again. It's also a good way to learn a language! :)
I'm actually the other way around because I love Fruit and also everything else you mentioned but something about the texture of of yoghurt and bananas sometimes makes me gag when I try to eat it
• Emily • Same. I can’t eat fruit unless it’s dried, when it then becomes delicious to me
This is a very good video :) I always suffered Asperger's and did not what in had or how to reach out for help. I struggled internally in silence :( With the onset of my heightened anxiety and low mood; I was diagnosed with having Asperger Syndrome by a Psyciatrist, at the age of 33. My anxiety is now managed with medication and I am able to manage or file my disordered thoughts and stress-related anxiety thoughts. I can now have transparency with my thoughts thanks to medicine intervention as the anxiety became a big problem for me in my life. Treatment is very important as paranoid thoughts can interfere with thought process which are confusing e.g. the one where say to yourself: ''do I have Asperger's or Schizophrenia? and left feeling confused. Because paranoia leads to these anxious, intrusive thoughts and it is essential to recognise and distinguish this from being a diagnosis, from being a symptom, which is a huge difference. You talked about soothing behaviour. Also, repetitive patterns of behaviour and interest can be calming and comforting for an Aspie as can flapping their hands i.e. mannerism. This takes their mind of things in dealing with anxiety. This is my experience; understanding of having Asperger Syndrome.
We love you too Katie, this helps so much as a student in Mental Health you have shed light in helping me understand the difference in the two disorders and how they related to depression and anxiety!!! Keep doing the great work you are doing!!!Vernae Hicks
Hi my name is Brennen and I have autism ,OCD depression ,anxiety and a learning disability. I just wanted to say that I really like your CZcams channel and keep up the good work.
Hey Destini,
I find you are doing very well at getting your feelings across. You are lucky to know yourself so well. I would say ''Run with it, girl! Now go explore the world and make it a better place.''
Clearly this video is based on the older dsm and not the dsm-5. I don't know if you have an updated video on ASD that's based on the dsm-5, but if you don't I would ask that you consider making an updated video on ASD please.
She’s sooo nice!!
One of my really good friends has Aspergers, as well as my brother and my boyfriend!
My son has just been diagnosed with “Aspergers” or mild - moderate autism as the dr said it’s called now. While going through this process with him I’m learning a lot about it and the more I learn I am realising how many things really applied to me as a child and still now in my 20s. I am thinking about seeking diagnosis for myself because it explain ALOT about my struggles.
Why do you speak in the first person plural "we"? Thank you Kati. Wonderful videos.
I think she means we as human beings
Kati thank you so much for this video. It FINALLY makes sense to me how these things are linked. I feel like I can breathe right now.
"Suffer"?
As a child with a single undiagnosed parent on the spectrum things were definitely v confusing. It all makes sense as an adult looking back - how they couldn't read my body language or expressions at all. It was all v frustrating as a child trying to communicate. Their managing of their anxiety too was not v effective back then too. So I witnessed a lot of anxiety attacks. I basically viewed my parent, from a v young age, as emotionally fragile and someone I couldn't rely on. It's tough to reconcile the fact that even though my parent had good intentions when raising me I now deal with CPTSD from the emotional neglect/parentification. Just knowing, now, they're on the spectrum is useful information - and it brings me a bit of relief because it all clicks!
Finally i have learned the proper difference between aspergers and autism. Have been diagnosed with aspergers and now sure that I have it.
I'm glad that I stumbled onto your channel.
Thanks Katie. I’m a trainee hypnotherapist and it will be useful to be able to spot this in weight loss clients.
You should update this video as they got rid of Asperger's as a diagnosis, and just refer to it as High Functioning Autism.
I believe they brought it back because people complained
i recently got diagnosed with Aspergers and i really didnt know anything about it, so this video was so helpful, thank you
I'm Aspi and have never ever wanted to harm myself, depression could be when I was very young but not now. We have difficulties to notice body language and in part I can understand more, studying and learning.
Thank you for covering Aspergers on your channel. I am an Aspie female and my channel focuses on what life is like for people like me
Ty so much
great job mentioning some of those hallmark characteristics - including their restricted preference to only certain texture and type of foods and zero in on those and miss out on having an overall broad array of vegetables and fruits that afford them the vast array of minerals and vitamins. Unbelievable. How can you dislike tomatoes is beyond me?? 🙄😒🤔😶🌫
Hey, can you maybe make a video with some more information specifically about aspergers in adult women? Would be amazing since I can't find much information about it :)
Wonderful explanation Kati. Keeping a job is very hard for me, so are certain sounds and various other things..odd. Thanks for keeping it simple and clear. Internal Anxiety.
Someone who wasn't a doctor but a therapist told my mom I had this but she never told my school. I did great. Now I understand why I only binge on certain things haha thanks again!
Hi katie. I'm autistic 31 years old Diagnosed as adult. I miss social qs I take things literal as said not as ment. I get really mad and resentful when some one interrupts what I'm doing. I halfto couscously focus on new tasks if I halfto switch tasks. I halfto stop and completly reset to perform the new task. Autistic people are also experts on there thing and
we will know all the things about the said thing. We like sensations, like how coffee makes sensations in your body, or takeing a shower the sensation of the running water. We like human physical contact way more then we put out there. If you have a
Autistic friend hug them every chance you get they'll like you way better for it. I could go on and on. But I'll stop here
A good friend of mine has Aspergers and another childhood friend of mine was on the Autism spectrum. I found myself slowly relating to a lot of what was being said in the video, especially pertaining to the self-harm to soothe yourself, as well as the pickiness, anxiety, and distorted eating tendencies that were also described in the video. I often scratch my arms whenever I get very upset or angry. I have always had a thing for textures of food, even going as far as to totally avoid food just for the texture, even if I liked the taste. I've always been a very anxious and nervous person, having my first panic attack at 14/15. I am also battling and dealing with bulimia and bulimic tendencies.
I BY NO MEANS AM SAYING THAT I HAVE EITHER OF THESE DIAGNOSES. I AM JUST SAYING THAT I CAN RELATE TO WHAT WAS BEING SAID IN THE VIDEO.
That being said, I did find that this video did help me understand a little about what my friends ae going through or went through.
i have asd/aspergers, and i have experience much of what you are saying in this video, it is very helpful to know there is a reason behind my behaviours, but then again i dont use it as an excuse.
At the age of 60, I’m just discovering this about myself.
And that is one of the reasons I hesitate to “Make it Official”
I have had many struggles in my time on this planet, but I have obviously figured out how to make it work.
And I don’t see the advantage of getting diagnosed professionally.
The info in this video is using lots of generalizations that don't relate to most people with these conditions. As someone with Aspergers who's been around people with Aspergers, these generalizations don't fit the norm. Especially in adulthood.
Thank you. I too have Aspergers and I do not believe it is a mental illness. As a kid I rocked but as an adult I paint because it's soothing to me.
I didn't eat banananananaananananananas for a while because I thought they where to mushy then at about 12 I started to eat them but NEVER the black or brown parts I also don't really like popcorn anything gummy and I dont really like spaghetti but I do eat that because I like it when I eat it in weird ways it makes me think less about the texture
Some of the autism quizzes online are for adults, but a lot of the quizzes tend to have questions that focus on children, rather than adults.
I like your videos. I can practice eye contact. I was diagnosed aspergers a couple months ago. Often I cant stand eye contact but sometimes I crave it.
And you don't talk down to me. That means a lot.
This is very helpful as my son has aspergers
I would not label something as a disorder in every case which gifted the world major advances in arts, science and technology, making a lot us kind, loyal and conscious people. Honestly, my biggest problem with an Asperger "sufferer" is the way judgemental neurotypicals perceive, marginalise and systematically discriminate against us at every level of society. It's the social model of disability.
Hi my sister made a comment that I was autistic a while ago and it hurt but now it made me think about Asperger's syndrome I even sent for paperwork. I am terrified of social situations and had to have extra tuition as a child. I've mentioned this to my doctor and she said it is just deep social anxiety! I actually feel more at easy with children than with adults.
Hi Katie! Can you talk about relationships between a NT and a person in the spectrum (Asperger)
I wasn't diagnosed until I was 50. My therapist didn't believe I was until I saw a specialist and showed him my diagnosis on paper. The people I'm closest with said "oh, yea, I can see it now", but everyone else looks at me like they don't believe it or see it. I should wear a pin that says, "Do I look Autistic now?".
Thank you SO much for these videos, Katie!
Hey I bang my head and body parts on walls! I also binge eat,this helped a lot to explain my aspergers
I am so glad I am not the only person who can't eat certain foods because of the texture. When I was younger, my family were just awful about it and weren't convinced it was a real thing and told me (and continue to tell me) I was just being a brat. But even as an adult there are still foods I cannot eat unless they are sparsely mixed in with other foods to hide the texture. Even thinking about trying to eat these types of foods makes me gag
I was recently re-diagnosed with level 2 autism spectrum disorder and am considered at high-risk for developing psychosis. AS affects its population differently, to where two people with the same diagnosis and with above-average IQs can appear very adjacent to each other. One might be almost normally adjusted to their society, while one is certainly very impaired and shows disorganized speech patterns.
Also, very few studies have shone light on the relationship between schizophrenia and autism, and I've heard that people with autism are at higher risk than their neurotypical peers to developing psychosis due to prior environmental influences like bullying.
Adult female with high-functioning autism here. I engaged in many of the self-harming behaviours up until I was about 21. I would often bite myself and bang my head when I got overwhelmed both in a sensory sense and as an emotional release, usually in reaction to another person upsetting me. I rarely ever do it now unless things are really ugly. I'm still a picky eater though my palate has expanded quite a bit over the years. I find that I'll go through 2-3 week long phases of a heavy preference for one type of food then I get tired of it and move onto a new one. It seems that every time I go grocery shopping I find myself filling the cart with mostly one type of food and it's different with every trip to the store.
EDs and self-harm are interesting in autism because the motives and mechanisms are different than in neurotypicals. It seems that autistic individuals self-harm as a way of helping their brains tolerate their surroundings and they restrict their eating patterns because they don't like the textures of foods. Neurotypicals self-harm for emotional reasons and restrict their eating in reaction to how they feel about themselves. Many people with moderate-lower functioning autism don't have that concept of self and don't make the emotional connection with self-harm.
Many ways to try and get some form of control with food over situations that kids have no control over.
Thank you! For everything.
It's awesome you did floortime therapy! I'm an Autistic adult who studied human services in school and I'm super interested in floortime. I would love to know more about your experience with that.
I don't have any sort of diagnosis in this direction, but I've considered the possibility that I may have some form of asperger's syndrome. I have anxiety and panic attacks, but a lot of things that I connect to that don't really fit with what I read (not online, in psychology magazines and university textbooks), or what other people with anxiety seem to experience, but it fits with a lot of what I read about autism. This really hit a nerve, and I wanna thank you a lot; I'm 19, and I'm not sure I really wanna go too much into it, but it's been bothering me, and it would be really nice to know some stuff about adults with autism, and what that diagnosis might mean to them
Great video I have Asperges Syndrome and I sometimes bang my head on my wall and pick my nails sometimes its a way for me to cope against my brain and sometimes certain textures of food aren't that great for me that's why I struggle eating them, I tend to like my food dry and warm, and even crispy.
I have aspergers and I eat the same foods all the time. I will try new things that don't contain foods on my blacklist but whilst most people get bored of the same things over and over I do not. I do however have a revulsion to bacon, sausages, gammon, pork, lamb, baked beans, strawberries, aubergine or anything strawberry flavoured, most purple food and ham. I am a vegan for ethical reasons but I wouldn't even eat pig and sheep before becoming vegan.
Hey kati I was diagnosed at the age of two years as autism spectrum disorder. I used to do the self harm and sometimes still do... I would rock back and forth and still do as of today. When I was two years old the teachers would say that I was a sweet girl and cute but wouldn’t socialize with the other toddlers. I just had a glazed over look in my eyes and later on in my teenage years I was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic then my twenties it became schizoaffective bipolar disorder. So I still self harm and I am currently like I have for awhile so I binge and purge and I’m trying to get over that. It’s very hard and scary thanks for the video Kati.
I have Aspergers and I am exactly the same with bacon! just thinking about it makes me uncomfortable. Also, adults have it too.
I have aspergers and started speaking VERY young. I actually do have moments, now, that make verbal communication extremely difficult...usually when I'm tired or stressed. It's a tad frustrating, because it happens so little that I don't really have anything I use to communicate during it. I know of resources from my non-verbal friends, I just haven't tried it yet. I had more trouble reading emotional social cues as a kid, but now I tend to hyper-focus on body language and facial expressions because just words and verbal tones have always been EXTREMELY difficult to figure out for me. I have the aspergers on top of a ton of mental illnesses, other behavioral disorders, and learning disabilities, so I'm not sure if mine may react differently to most aspergers cases when everything else comes into play as well. I find that some of my mental illness symptoms can "turn on" my sensory processing issues and my sensory processing issues can trigger my mental illness symptoms(some of them). I tend to say, "they bounce off of each other" though that seems to confuse my doctors often times...
I wasn't diagnosed until I was 13, though, making services quite difficult to get. Honestly, I have no clue how it was un-diagnosed for so long.... I even used to see a neurologist regularly for ADHD that missed it. It was a psychiatrist at my first psychiatric impatient hospital that saw it. Thinking back on my behaviors, it should have been EXTREMELY obvious that I had some form of autism long before I was 13...
Would you consider making an updated video about autism? It sounds like, in this video, you are talking about autism and aspergers as two different things, but really aspergers is just a different label for what people would call "high functioning" autism. It's the same disorder, with the sensory processing issues and the social disconnect/hidden curriculum thing, but it's just that nonverbal or people who have a really hard time communicating with the disorder are more marginalized because they have a harder time "passing" as neurotypical. There other CZcamsrs [Amythest Schaber of Ask an Autistic and Danny Raede of Asperger Experts are two of my favorites because they are so comprehensive] who speak at length on this topic, as well as on the topic of autism self-advocacy. I really appreciate how you highlighted the links between autism and other mental issues, as well as doing your best to try to explain what life is like for people on the spectrum. I would just like to point out that there is more current content out there that you can use to inform this topic and give your audience a fuller idea of what it's about. Your videos are fantastic, including this one. No hate intended. :)
Hi Katie, love this video and can relate. I am 54 and I have neural development disorder. I also have chronic CPTSD. I was premature birth, blind in one eye, hearing loss due to colosteatomas in both ears and brain stem. I have auditory and visual processing deficits and an IQ of 85. I also have trouble with sensory issues and have had this since childhood. I'm not certain if I have FASD because my brother has CP and my mother also had a still birth. All signs of drinking while pregnant. Is neural development a autistic spectrum? Or can CPTSD make one autistic? My mother was abusive and so is my sister, brother and my husband is too. My youngest brother died at 32 from drinking and drugs, but his heart was broken because my mother treated him so badly too. I have a family tree of severe abuse from my mothers side of the family. It seems generational. Hope you can somehow respond. Thank you
Diana Bak CPTSD can appear like autism and symptoms overlap
From my understanding (I recently read the great book "The boy who felt too much" about a famous neuroscientist and his autistic son and their journey together...) you need to have a genetic predisposition for autistic behavior, but childhood and how it is dealt with definitely affects how strong it gets/how you learn to deal with it etc. :)
Autism happens to be the other part of my DX. You might find it interesting that in the past I've read an article indicating there have been studies that linked autism in females and anorexia and it argued that the higher incidence of autism in males was due to anorexia being a more likely diagnosis in females.
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Not only does everything I encounter about autism sound just like me, but with how common it is I really think that the times I was diagnosed with learning disabilities, I should have been put on the Spectrum instead.
I should be diagnosed but it was the nineties so I was misdiagnosed and as an adult it is too expensive to get diagnosed. I have done terrible things during tantrums and I feel so embarrassed afterwards because I'm in town I just lose control and I'm nine years old again. I always go back to nine years old it is always 9 I do not know why but the age is constantly 9. I've also done head banging and biting and scratching and everything, honestly I just sounded like a textbook autistic kid but my medical records just show ADHD, learning disability, and parents decided not to pursue further. Now I sit around, rocking and picking at myself, and going between like no food at all, and CHOCOLATE EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING!
Why the heck does it need to cost $2,500 for the diagnostic test? 😢
This is really good information wise, I'm not autistic or aspergers myself, I use social queues, tone of voice and body language queues way too much to be on the spectrum of either of those. But it's useful to know these things :) Also I love the way you say aspergers haha
You’re a beautiful person.
I gotta say as someone with aspergers, OCD and ADHD I know that sensory issues and not liking change/lack of control of situations or the outcome of tasks cross over heavily with OCD and autism especially in my case. also sorry if this doesn't make sense - gotta love thinking faster than I type :)
I can pick up people's emotions easily with Asperger's and even read most minds though I can't get a joke unless they are smiling I can work them out before they even get to me so that's not correct we cannot read people's emotions I can do it more but I have a problem understand stress I out in myself
Great video Kati, this has been helpful for me getting to know more about autism and aspergers! I just wanted to give you a head up on the titles on the last videos - I don't know if you already have noticed, but it says "Mental Heath" not "Mental Health" as it should be :) Have a great week!
Hi Katie, could you talk about NON VERBAL LEARNING DISORDER?
Sorry Im not sure I understand your comment..are you stating neurology is not under mental health? I was under the impressiin it was. Im just a bit confused by your comment. Im really sorry.
Non verbal Learning disorder or disability share many of the same traits as Asperger. Up to the time Asperger was put under the Umbrella of Autism Spectrum in the dsmv they were both used as sort of the same diagnosis often depending on the psychologist. However they are two very diferent diagnosis.
Ok so does autism not belong to mental health?
My son is diagnosed with Non verbal learning disability and adhd. He is highly intellegent. The Non Verbal part means he cannot process your body language. But his verbal ability is exceptional. His social skills are not quite as well. His diagnosis is a hidden one as you cannot tell he has it until your around him for awhile. However his diagnosis does comme with mental baggage if not cared for properly.
(cont) happier. When I was a child, to self-soothe, I would rock and groan monotonously. The repetitive action and sound would really calm me. Also, I would suck on the collar of my shirt or the sleeves or my hair when in public. A bit less noticible, until there were stains all over my shirts. When I was younger I'd bite myself when mad or even slap myself/others. When I started SHing this time around, it was for different reasons but I still bit, and now cut. You explained this pretty well. :)
Figured out a year or so ago that my mother and one of my sisters have aspergers. I believe my mother's brother and their mother also had it. It seems to run in families.
I would like you to talk about autism in adults.