Видео

Ooof around 2:30 it's hard to watch all the camera spinning. Agree with others though, if you say you want time alone, that's surely what you expect from others. Where my ND fam at!! We cut through the crap and say what we mean 😅😂

Wow, I love the way that you captured details of. How sounds affect us. Great job. I hope this helps Neurotypical’s understand.

OKAY SERIOUSLY THE MUSIC AT 2:57 CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD-

I can relate to this alot-

I felt that. I’ve always experienced sensory overload differently than what the media usually presents, full blown tantrums etc being the main thing I’m referring to. Watching this made me feel just a little less alone in that aspect, and so many others. The woman’s words being taken literally, THE WAY SHE WALKED JUST AUGGHH OH MY GOD you did such an amazing job!!! lots of love

Sensory overload is difficult for me. My stimming becomes more intense. I finally have to leave and go someplace quiet and alone until I can function again. This is a perfect depiction of sensory overload.

Excellent work! I'm not a woman, but this really resonates. I'm so high masking that I got used to all these sounds for decades. Now that I know, they drive me up the wall. I really enjoyed this...

Audhd woman here- This is really well done! I relate to the social interaction, I would have left to honor her request to be alone too! And then the anxiety about crossing the street and the cars, that is exactly me too. The volume of the birds (?) and blurry vision I can't relate to at all, but then when she gets home, I felt that in my soul, felt so bad for her I know exactly how awful of a feeling that is when expecting and needing that alone recharge time and not getting it! And then the focus on the dandelion to regulate I related to also.

This is perfect ❤

No it isn’t it’s a 7.5 minute walk

🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🌼💞💓

this left my head spinning

This made me feel tense

I feel like this everyday!

This is exactly it. Especially after a confusing situation with your friend. I usually don’t have trouble walking home but when im confused and feel like Ive done something wrong, everything suddenly affects me, the way the music wasn’t comforting either and the blurry vision. I love the detail on how the camera zoomed out at the traffic showing that on the outside the person can seem completely fine. Noting that autism is mental, not physical.

I have never been diagnosed with anything, but relate to this, except I don’t tend to get sensory overload after an interaction like this. I get the exact opposite - everything feels very far away, muted, and dull. Like I’m completely disconnected from the moment and unable to effectively mask the state I am in.

This is totally how it feels I replay my voice in my head all the time

It's a great artistic depiction. Keep in mind that the symptoms shown are of a severe meltdown. I only had one this severe. ~lucky me I guess~

This is so beautiful. Wow, thank you so much for making this!

Fantastic! You really captured something here. You had me shouting “no!” around 5:50. Please keep creating!

Everything is so on point! It's like... What does that person mean?? Then I say I'm sorry but it doesn't fix the situation? And the fixating on an object while disassociating! It's perfect!

Omg! Absolutely accurate and I was even in very similar situation with a friend. “Leave me alone” and then “you are not a real friend, how could you leave me alone?” I never understand people like that. I’m not diagnosed but I feel it

I like how this portrays the spiral and pain neurotypicals put us Autistics through by not meaning what they say or doing as they say they are going to do and just make excuses. It just ruins our self esteem by making us feel bad for NTs lack of understanding that they should just mean what they say and not make excuses for it or just don’t say things they don’t actually mean and then make us the problem because it just doesn’t help anything and only does more harm to the Autistic person than good.

Wow yes this is exactly how I feel all the time. I just turned 29 last month and I'm currently on the process of getting diagnosed by a professional, researching this topic on my own on the internet every day lately and finally getting an explanation to everything ever happened in my life...

Yes! I understand this so much and I just wanted to hug that young woman. This is what my life is like. I guess I'm autistic. Im 51 and just starting to understand myself. Thank you for this. Excellent video. This is exactly how it feels.

The most accurate depiction of an autistic experience i've ever seen.

They being porn star money dushbags doktors lia for them for incest porn and chilld marriages

a great doco, and BANG ON!!, I am an Autistic MAN, but well done!, this shows clearly the symptoms of a meltdown, and that it isn't always the one cause, but an effect of multiple events during a day, and that even stimming, etc. can't always "get us out" of this situation.

I relate to this video too much... It's so hard... Although the video is extremely accurate and put me in a state of... Well I know what she felt and the video put me there with her... I need a bit of quiet time now too but I stuck it out and I want to know that music at the end... What kind of music was that? Is there a genre to look up? I liked it. It calmed me down a bit. Can anyone get me the "sauce" on the music or am I out of luck? IDK why I said "sauce" other than a term of "tell me about it".😂

Cool

This was like looking in a mirror - I got diagnosed at 31 after avoiding getting the assessment for 7 years. I literally just had a conversation with the neighbors about their honeymoon, and walled away from the conversation, truly, going "I did well, I asked where the went and what the trip was like. I showed them I was interested by asking the right sorts of questions. I did well." And then to literally see that here. God I wish the smallest interactions didn't feel like I needed to remember a script. Thank you.

I lived 35 years thinking everyone goes through the same thing without knowing I have autism. Never had meltdown, but a few times anxiety attacks. I have been using headphones for almost 20 years, not knowing I always treated it as essential piece when going out, maybe because I'm always alone. I love the noise cancelling feature! One thing really bothers me is the new technology (super bright LED) in traffic lights, especially at nights. Streets are dark and any small spotlight really stands out. Cyclists that keep the light in my eyes to car drivers that use high beam in the middle of city as if they have 20% vision left in their eyes. Sound, light, how people are careless about personal space and safe distances. These are 100% of my brain processing for a 500 meter supermarket walk. It's just a five minute walk :) but I feel exhausted..

Putting the headphones on and taking them right back off is so real

Very authentic depiction

can anyone neurotypical explain what the woman actually wanted her to do in this situation? why say you want to be left alone if you don't want to be left alone

As a Autistic Non-Binary, this is too relatable

As an autistic kid this is the most accurate video showcasing a meltdown I've seen! Absolutely how it feels for me, down to the last details. The part where everything became louder while she was getting more and more overstimulated by the call and the surroundings was a brilliant touch. The music too. I really like using music to calm myself down but in situations like that I feel exactly the same; like it can't help me and I'm further spiralling into a terrible pit. The dandelion part was also brilliant. It's probably so accurate because it's based on the 'testimonies of 13 women' with autism too as it includes a lot of different aspects (autism is a spectrum afterall). Overall, this video certifiably describes my experience.

As an autistic man I can totally relate to all of this, excellent portrayal.

Hello everyone, I would like to thank you for all your lovely comments and the time you took to share your opinions on the film. As a young filmmaker, seeing all this engagement and support is truly motivating. I apologize for not being able to answer most of the comments. It is true that I wasn’t expecting the film to be so popular and with my studies still going on, it was hard to really take the time to answer each of them, but I did carefully read them. I’m so glad that the project is now more visible and accessible, and I hope it helps more people become familiar with autism and meltdowns. Seeing all the support you give to each other in the comments is beautiful, and I thank you so much for making this project exceed all my expectations. With love, Laura-Lys

Then you go on to form friendships with men because they seem more straight forward but most of them don't actually see you as a person and are just playing nice in hopes of gaining sexual access to you (regardless of the fact that he doesn't expect sex from his male friends and ya'll have the same interests) and eventually you either end up a cat or rat lady. Not a bad feeling but you do end up watching ID wondering why every serial killer on there seems to have way more friends than you when the worst thing you've ever done is leave a person alone after they asked explicitly to be left alone.

Thank you. Very much. 😊

this is incredible. ❤ as an autistic person, this so vividly displays some of the things we feel and how we take in the world

This was very much my college experience. Nowadays, though, the phone conversation would be more like, "You told me you wanted to be alone. I did what you asked. If you wanted something else you should have said it. I'm not a mind reader." If that person gets pissy about it and drops you as a friend, they weren't much of one to begin with. I'm done playing games and jumping through social hoops for half the respect I should get for just existing as a human being.

Very accurate, I didn't know that was a meltdown. I have those multiple times a day

The video itself it's triggering me lol.

"I just want to be alone right now!" 2 minutes later... "Why did you leave?!"

1:44 what did you use to make the camera smooth and stable like this?

Omg she has todoro on her labtop! 😮

The part where she put her headphones on and the music sounded warped so she ripped them off quickly made me cry.. so relatable

Ty for doing this bc I’m a pre teen with autism and Ty again ❤