Let’s chat: Autism & my childhood || Signs missed & my experience
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- čas přidán 2. 03. 2023
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I should not have found this funny, but I did. It's because it's so relatable. I was nodding along listening to you while I was cleaning my oven 😂 I am autistic, I got diagnosed last year. I am 31. I also wish I knew earlier. I have 3 children who are all on the spectrum.. I will tell my kids. I don't ever want them to mask at home. Because I know how draining physically and mentally it is. I'm so glad I found your channel. You are so lovely.. xx
Hahah, I love that you were cleaning your oven, hope it was a manageable task 😅 I'm so glad you found my channel and enjoyed this video, I hope you enjoy some of the others as well. And congratulations on your diagnosis 🖤
Yes, I've lost count the number of times I got called weird too and even after leaving school and going to college and then into the world of work, I would still hear that word follow me around. At the time, I presumed they were right and in a way they WERE right but probably not in the way they meant because when they describe someone as 'weird', they are kind of presuming that the person in question has, for some reason, CHOSEN to be the way they are, so it's "all their fault" and therefore they get no sympathy or allowances made for them and that is the BIG mistake that many non-autistic people will make.
Someone without a mental disability, unless they have been educated to understand it, they will presume that you have FULL control over your behaviour, like the way THEY have full control over themselves, it's something they will generally take for granted. It doesn't occur to them that not everyone can help the way they are. In the same way that someone can't help being born with no arms or no legs, some people are born with certain mental disabilities or traits that they are not able to do much about other than to try to mask, as you said.
Off course, unlike physical disability, which is obvious, mental disability isn't always obvious, you can't literally see it with the eye, and therefore it gets less sympathy, especially if you SEEM at face-value to be 'normal' to them in most other ways, so they conclude that YOU'RE responsible for how you are, which, if you think about it, is actually quite illogical and absurd, I mean, why on Earth would somebody WANT to be that way? It's so obvious that it denotes a problem. but many would rather believe that we're somehow just making ourselves 'weird' because we WANT to be. I guess it makes them feel better to believe that. Thanks for your videos.
Thank you for sharing. This is very insightful xxx
Yayyy! I requested this, such a lovely vid - the camera quality is top notch 😮💨
Ah, I'm so glad you liked it Helena! And thank you so much for requesting it 🖤
Interesting, and very well explained. Well done 🙂
Thank you so much!
school was hell. i was so overloaded ...
same and anxious made fun of etc.
What does hoofie mean? Rude, quiet?
It’s huffy, and I suppose a synonym could be stroppy?