Autism: Think Differently
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As an autistic person I'm not a fan of the word impaired...also the left brain logic/right brain creativity is an outdated/disproven way of viewing the brain
The right side of the brain is responsible for episodic memory and the left side is responsible for systematic problem solving tactics. I agree that one side isn't more creative than another. I was referencing a commonly shared opinion, which I try to argue isn't correct. Creative problem solving can come from a number of approaches and not just from episodic memory. The thesis is better laid out in the written piece: www.linkedin.com/pulse/autism-creativity-alex-shifrin/
I prefer Full Retard myself.
And yes I’m ASD.
I have ADHD. Took many years to actually believe that it's a real condition. I still prefer to blame the structure of society as a strange blip, in a history that actually favored ADHD minds. I've been watching an ADHD youtuber who thinks that the whole concept of "losing your creativity" or "becoming a zombie" on ADHD meds is a myth, but from my own personal experience I've noticed an uncomfortable shift in my personality while on Adderall, where - in conversation, for example - I tend to blast people with lists of information instead of linking things in creative ways to say less. The fun I get from conversation switches from sharing a connection to sharing information, and I can tell most people find this exhausting.
If ADHD is related to Autism, then maybe it's a bad thing to be prescribing drugs that enhance systemic thinking. Not really sure what to think right now. I just know that the more I relax and listen to the more spontaneous, creative side of my mind the happier I am, and the more whole I feel as a person.
Impaired is a fairly neutral phrasing imo. If we accept there is a general degree of expected development in certain brain regions, and autistic people do not meet that expectation, then referring to it as an impairment feels fair to me.
@@dotanon Development and lack of development in certain or various areas of the brain is a condition of which everyone has.
One thing I would like to point out is that we, as autistic people, still understand what is being presented to us socially *as long as* it is presented in a way our brains are designed to process it. The issue itself is known as the double empathy problem. Autistic people have no notable issues communicating with each other (as do neurotypicals with each other); the problem occurs when we attempt to communicate with people of the other neurotype. It really is fascinating if you decide to learn about it :)
Thanks for highlighting that! My mum likes the phrase "communication mismatch". We aren't 'impaired' socially at all when we communicate with other autistics.
Albert Einstein wasn't good at math either. He was interested in geometry too.
@@e.a.coldricknow I want an ad, “hot single autistics found in your area!” 🥵
As someone with aspergers I am absolutely obsessed with the things I love and enjoy. If something doesn't hold my interest at all I tend to ignore it.
Similar with me. I also had Asperger's, too, after a few years of being diagnosed with Autism when I was about 3 years old.
Thank you for pointing out that we do see the world, interpret it, and react to it differently than neurotypicals. I would say many of us are quite creative. Please don’t downplay our ability at the arts and having true creativity. Many of us go into acting, as we have to pretend to be NT just to not face discrimination at work and school.
This!
I am an aspie that is a zero at mathematics (though, good at using and figuring out how to use electronic devices. But not at fixing, creating etc, them)
But am a very thick at arts (I draw, play instruments, sing, will try acting at some point), and at languages (half of the time I think in English, it kinda makes me go crazy though 😅, and 70-90% of time I spend on the internet is in English. Am learning also italian, and have Latvian, Turkish, Japanese on my list to learn next)
Some people think when you have autism, they think you’re stupid, but it’s means you have a gift and they don’t
@@fluffymacaw933 true i agree
When you meet a person with autism, you have met ONE PERSON with autism. Videos trying to put it into a box suffer from gross oversimplification, as this one does. Trauma and genetics will cause a brain to overdevelop and/or underdevelop as a survival mechanism. Imagination can be affected either direction, as can empathy, etc. Senses can be so overdeveloped they crash one's nervous system so the individual appears senseless, but in fact one is retreating from gross overstimulation.
I’ve wanted to be a professional actress since I was 3 I have ASD and ADHD Inattentive
I am autistic. My main interest from as far back as I can remember has been visual art. At ten years old i began collecting music, but kept up the art getting into a specialized arts high school. At 17 I became interested in fashion and in my 20s worked for years as a successful model. It is difficult to believe the right side of my brain is impaired as I have always been highly creative. Unlike the stereotype I performed badly in math. I found it boring. The only math I didn't mind was geometry or trig because it's visual (although as a very young child I remember thinking of numbers in my head throughout the day like a game and I loved making patterns out of shapes on the carpet of my grade school). i want to understand. O____O
I am autistic too and my main interests since my early childhood were music, language (literature, foreign languages and stuff) and art. I remember that as a young child, I always wanted to count to the highest number imaginable and I always was playing with the numbers too and I always loved to make patterns out of every shape I saw, but I am really bad at math, when I went to high school two years ago (now, I am 17), I had to do tests from math and our mother tongue which is Czech for me. In Czech, I was one of the highest ranking on the tests, but I got more answers wrong than correct in math. So, I am always thinking how my right side of the brain can be impaired when I always have been highly creative, mostly in music. I also possess the ability of perfect pitch and love to spend hours and hours just making melodies and harmonies in my head and then transcribing or playing them on my guitar and my piano. So, I want to understand it too O.o
This comment makes me happy! I feel much the same way, ESPECIALLY the whole math sucks, but geometry was good. I can do word problems, but you can’t just give me a line of numbers and expect me to understand what you want out of them. I am a physics major now, because I found that physics was awesome because of its mixture of geometrical basis and word problems. I understand the purpose, and can therefore find a way to get the answer. (If I know what the answer should look like, which is why I need to know what I’m looking for.) I worked hard for my math skills. But literature and writing is something that I just naturally have skill in. The whole “creativity/imagination is not something autistic people have” just seems wrong to me.
I recently released a shortfilm about autism, i hope you like it!! ruclips.net/video/dr4bX8qmed0/видео.html
@@chalcanthiteproductions8003 smart
@@chalcanthiteproductions8003 smart boy
My Grandson who is 3 and a half was diagnosed with autism. His main problem is speech but slowly but surely he is learning. He is a precious little boy and his family loves him very much. He is in special pre school and is progressing.
Sometimes I feel like autism is a blessing too. Autistic people think diffrently and they are creative.
My autistic boy always surprises us with his creativity and art, I upload his videos as well to show his creative side.
I’ve always struggled with feeling “different” and even being shamed for feeling so. This was so empowering. This reminds me that there are people who are willing and able to inform themselves and love differences. Thank you so much for this video
As someone with Asperger's, I really enjoyed watching this video!
Even though he defined Autism wrong?
I have asperger's and my stepdad wants me to move out and I don't have a job, he doesn't care that I have asperger's and thinks that's normal for everyone,It's not.
@@BonJovi1987Fan it is
Adhd is not autism. Yeah, people with ASD may have adhd but it is not a dx on the spectrum per se. Also, a bit confused about the creativity vs logic thing. As far as I understand, the right brain (creative) vs left brain (logic) theory has been debunked. I would say that MANY people with ASD are extremely creative. Not sure how you “think differently” without also being creative. I have enough ASD traits that I believe I am on the spectrum. I definitely have ADHD, but also I have felt different my entire life and have trouble relating to people. Was usually ahead of my peers in knowledge and maturity. I have issues with showing affection, which usually isn’t even something I think about as a necessary component to a relationship. I talk entirely too much and often find that I have put my foot in my mouth without even knowing it. I think I intimidate people sometimes because I often assume that their brains work like mine, and will talk about things with people that I don’t realize they have no knowledge of or interest in. I don’t like small talk. I would rather have a deep philosophical conversation. Even with people I barely know, lol. I also talk too much about myself, which I am working on. However, I am extremely creative. I have written poetry since I was about 10 years old, I write music, I’m a highly accomplished singer, I’m a very good artist. But also I find learning languages very easy, if I hear someone with an accent talk, or hear a language that I don’t even know, I can tell you where they are from or what language with 98% accuracy, and I have a memory like a steel trap. I am very knowledgeable on a wide variety of subjects, but I don’t even have to try to memorize stuff. It just gets in there somehow. However, I suck at abstract concepts like most math. I am good at geometry though. I don’t think anyone could accuse me of being logical. In fact, I am very naive, gullible, and have almost zero ability to sense danger. I am way too trusting of people. I’m not saying this to brag, just saying that as far as I understand, these kinds of things are more common to the autistic experience than what this person is saying.
I am diagnosed with ADHD, also always had wonders of whether I'm also "mildly" autistic ( I think you know what I mean by the mild claim) you sound very similar to me in ways, just reading this! I've always felt odd compared to most kids growing up, or adults now. Also been told I was a very odd yet smart kid! I have always been creative hands on especially and usually surprise people with the stuff I come up with! And while adhd and autism are not the same, they are sometimes codependent, and have some symptom overlap! Either way! We're deep people when you really think about who "we" are and how we think
I can do math no sweat, but trying to read someone who isn't direct or honest, if I have other problems I try to solve can be problematic in very obvious ways. Trying to use my gut feeling as much as possible recently to solve some things
They have similarities and often go together
Well Laura you have just described me and my Autsim to a tee. 🤔👍
@@carljones7380 since my last reply I have since been confirmed as having both adhd and autism :)
I have to agree, and I have a story to attest to this. I have a friend who is Autistic and he and I used to draw together back in the middle school. He is a chill, peaceful and creative mind. He and I used to make many simple, cartoonish creatures. They mostly were stick figures though. He and I drew many creatures based on dinosaurs, animals, etc. He sometimes would look at even every day common objects such as chairs, pencils, etc. and make a creature from it. He made more characters than me, for sometimes I struggled making them. I don't know why, but there was something about him that made him see things differently. Like simply looking at a crab or chair and making a creature or something from it, while I just struggled sometimes. But eventually I got the hang of it. He and I made a whole universe within our spiral notebooks.
Now, he and I don't really draw that much together. I still draw, but I'm far from what we did in the middle school. I know his characters were simple stick figures and such, and it might seem silly to some people. But every time I think or look back, I feel a sense of awe and wonder at what we did. I still think our work was creative. Yes, it was stick figure and cartoonish, but I like them. I guess it's because it takes me back in time to the good old days when we used to see each other a lot, I don't know. But who says what's creative and what's not? I like his characters and creatures even now.
Yes, but... I think much of the hesitation to speak, especially when we're younger, comes from seeing how our world actually treats people who "think differently." These brilliant people who think differently are also the ones who survived the abuse of a world that hates "misfits," unless they obtain boatloads of money and fame.
Thanks guys for making this video. Grateful for the support and interest!!
This video is really old
3 things:
•Adhd is similar to autism in some ways, can often end up being confused one for the other, and they often go together, but adhd is not the same thing.
•The whole left-brain and right-brain thing is horribly inconsistent and each variation of it as far as i know has been disproven.
•It has been found recently that autistic people are not really deficit in social, emotional, empathy, or non-logic creativity. Thing is they do those differently to neurotypical people. Autistic people seem to have a harder time with empathy because of "The Double-Empathy Problem", which essentially means they empathize better with other autistic people than with neurotypical ones. Further, there have been experiments done that show autistic people are better at being social with other autistics.
Amazing analyse 🙏
Yes, it's posable to be both autistic and an ADHDer but ADHD is not on the autism spectrum.
@@cash-skywalker4213 correct
this is so inspiring.
especially for me as a person with autism. nice video.
Me too 😊
@Wayne Wallace 😅
If you have Autism you would know that his definition of Autism is just plain wrong...
@@BinyaminTsadikBenMalka I'm open to listening. I can tell that you are passionate. 😊
Love it
I have autism and REALLY need help getting a job. I fear I will become homeless eventually but every job I apply to I don’t hear back.
You can do it, do not give up no matter what. You're strong, capable, and you have the ability to support and care for yourself
Hey Lauren, I just saw this and hope your doing well now. If you have financial issues because of your struggles with autism look up what your state offers for government services. You will find information from how to receive them. Typically you would have to ask a psychiatrist to get started. If you have any questions you can ask me. I can help you find more information about this as I’m going through the process as well. Have a good day ^_^
yep. same here. Applied for every graphic designer company here in the windy city and never heard back from any of them.
Learn a freelance skill and start freelancing
If you in Australia you can apply for ndis
Autism does not always involve difficulty with language. The only language difficulty I ever had is that while I tend to think literally and to express myself clearly and honestly, most people intersperse metaphors and outright lies throughout their communication. The only reason it isn't seen as an impairment is that it's normal, i.e. the majority of people practise it.
I love using metaphors. For me it adds color to speech. I know that might sound weird.
What I think is that autism is all about literal thinking, I am a fairly intelligent person although I am pretty bad at language tests because English isn't my first language but overall I am a smart guy who is just sometimes too literal with things that I can't come up with new things to deal with different situations consistently.
When I was a kid people would call me crazy and now I'm 13 and I am kinda smart according to my teachers but I feel better after watching this
Thinking differently doesn’t necessarily doesn’t mean autism or a mental disorder some ppl are just designed to be born different
Thank you brother as I am noise sensitive I like your calm and congenial way of speaking it allows me to process what you say well.
As an autistic myself, I hate the label, because labels belong on tins not people.. I call it seeing the world in an unique way and I wouldn't ever change it
As a person on the spectrum on the Asperger side, I almost accept myself for who I am and people say Im very creative.
I also struggled most of my life from feeling different than everyone else, like an outcast, I also find it fascinating how my brain is wired differently from others.
We need to accept diverse kind of minds, for better advancement
😭 I have Steve Jobs and this exact quote featured on my website because it was something that described my traits and characteristics as a category to be celebrated rather than shamed and declared unfit for society. I'll take diagnosis for 200 Alex.
I was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in elementary school. In addition I aced the criteria recently for Autism Spectrum Disorder.
I was diagnosed in March this year, at the age of 53, I've always been different to others, but I know now that I'm one of a community of like-minded individuals. NTs are decidedly weird.😁
Wow I forgot I subscribed to this channel
It's been a while! But we're back :) Thanks for watching.
Thought Café very interesting video hope you start making more again :)
Love the visuals tho as always 😂
I actually identify as being more creative than most neurotypicals I've met. I'll say something abstract or funny and it will usually surprise them. I love writing for that reason and think it's what I'm meant to do. I don't think of all of us as more "logical" per se, but just trying to approach the problem to be more efficient or in a way that makes most sense. For example, the neurotypical people didn't answer the paperclip question correctly. It said "alternative", which to me means make it into a different shape. They just kept it the same and used it the same way. I would give them an F and say :"try again" 😂🤓 To summarize, we heard the question differently.
YOU HAD TO PUT THE SPEECH DIDNT YOU! Now I’m crying 😭 amazing video thank you ❤️ 3:28
ADHD and autism are two completely different things.
THANK YOU
While ADHD isn’t on the autism spectrum, it is very similar and can be diagnosed around the same time is what they’re saying despite them being two separate conditions.
There is definitely more to autism than gaps in communication but that is certainly an area that causes me considerable difficulty. Creativity and problem solving are how I have come to cope emotionally with other deficits caused by autism. Thanks for the uplifting video.
I recently released a shortfilm about autism, i hope you like it!! ruclips.net/video/dr4bX8qmed0/видео.html
Beautiful explanation! 😍
Thank you that was really refreshing to watch as an autistic person.
I try and tell people we celebrate bits of difference but not all things different...and no one gets it lol.
You just explain it so much better for a neuro typical to understand in my eyes as well.
I recently released a shortfilm about autism, i hope you like it!! ruclips.net/video/dr4bX8qmed0/видео.html
@@mindmaster58 I'll have a look.... thanks i appreciate the heads up 💯🙏
great video...thank you for helping people better understand Autism.
I have ASD, and it is not a communication problem... communication problems are a symptom of Autism...
Autism happens in people who constantly have too much information to process. This is either due to hypersensitivity and the intake of too much information, or the inability to process information fast enough or simultaneously (Which could also be because we over-process information).
Hi your name seems ETHIIOPIAN
I suspect I have autism and have been watching many videos, reading articles, and talked to my PCP, and I have yet to hear anyone explain what autism actually is until now. Previously I've only heard how it presents and how that affects a person's life.
thanks so much
Simon Baron-Cohen wrote the paper on 'The extreme male brain theory of autism' in the early 2000s. This leads to this book in 2003. He has released this book in 2003. The nonsense about left and right brains in autism is popularised by Simon Baron-Cohen in the 2000s. Left and right brains in autism and The extreme male brain theory of autism' are out of date ideas of Autism. Book: The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain by Simon Baron-Cohen.
Still waiting for Simon Baron Cohen to say sorry, but all he does is bring out another book. Brains are not sexually-dimorphic, that old chestnut has been well debunked. There are no “male and female brains”. So, an extreme version of a figment of the sexist imagination?
"On the spectrum, on the spectrum,..." I HATE THAT EXPRESSION!
Eventually we're going to have people in politics using it. "You're a RACIST!" "No, I'm not." "You demonstrate certain characteristics, so you're on the racist spectrummm..."
You should post your sources in the description or in the comments.
You're right. Most of the sources are hotlinks in this article on my LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/pulse/autism-creativity-alex-shifrin/
Well you can say they are different then regular people thus came with clever solution. But when you compare the number of people who thinks differently to people relatively common thinkers, you will only see few have managed to to be the spot light or have achieved success, while vast number who are more socially common or regarded as common thinker have outnumbered the special ones.
This video seems like it could be better applied to Nonverbal Learning Disorder. Studies have shown that it's likely a result of damage to white matter in the right hemisphere (it's sometimes referred to as Right Hemisphere Syndrome). This results in a severe imbalance of skills and abilities and resembles the issues caused by RH brain damage. Poor nonverbal social skills and difficulties with visual attention and processing are all symptoms of this type of condition, but communication itself is enhanced by virtue of a higher verbal intellect (note that all of the featured figures were great communicators). I have autism and the ICD-10 equivalent of NVLD. Knowing both, I can't consider most of the figures featured as autistic because their quirks just didn't affect them enough (autism symptoms are more severe than NVLD most of the time). I doubt they would meet the diagnostic criteria, even if they did have right-left hemisphere discrepancies.
I have absolutely no idea why or how I ended up subscribed to this channel. I remember none of these videos.
Never thought I'd actually want to be autistic, glad I never thought so
I like this one a lot
Amazing video
☑Einstein - Making the largest contribution to our understanding of the fundamental physics of the world.
☑Mozart - Being one of the most infamous musicians of all time, wildly heralded as a genius.
☑Steve Jobs - Starting and growing a multi billion dollar company and being a tech visionary.
☐ Amelia Earhart - Not even the first person to circumnavigate the globe, just the first woman to try to glomb on and go "me too", and she failed at that. All she did was spend a bunch of money chasing her own self aggrandizement. Why do you list her with these luminaries? There are so many better women through history that you could have chosen.
My alternative use for a paperclip was a lock pick. That’s a thing, right?
Yes
I used to use a paperclip to short the RESET line on my C64 to ground so if my program crashed I could do a warm start and not lose my data.
I’m autistic and I really get into media, particularly obscure media.
ADD is NOT Autism, how can you place it in the same spectrum, it's not even comparible to autism in brainfunctions? I applaude your message, but please don't give people wrong information. ADD and autism are two different disabilities, and are treated completely different as well, to put those two together in the same spectrum is like saying cancer and AIDS are the same disease and can be treated the same way.
JoeyPsych You’re correct. While symptoms of ADHD and ASD overlap, and often times individuals with ASD may have ADHD, ADHD is not on the autistic spectrum. That was my mistake at the time of the interview.
Autism is also not a communication problem and it has nothing to do with left/right brains...
@@justdamon25 First and foremost, social issues and communication problems are not the same thing.
Second, just because you have social issues and are Autistic, does not mean that all Autistic people have social issues.
Third, having social issues can be an effect of Autism and not a defining factor.
I'll tell you exactly what Autism is and everything will become clear. (I have Autism too)
It is a constant excess of information for our minds to process.
That's it.
Some of us are hypersensitive, and we get way too much information into our systems.
Some of us are bad at processing information and have a hard time keeping up with the demand.
Some of us generate way too much information internally and don't have any more room for all of the excess information coming at us externally.
This is a problem that everyone has at one time or another, but we have it on a constant and consistent basis.
Sometimes this results in social problems, but social problems are definitely not what makes us Autistic.
@@BinyaminTsadikBenMalka Sorry to be so late to this conversation, but I've only just seen this video. Binyamin, which what you said is correct about the information overload, there are other problems associated with autism. Communication is most definitely an issue, not because we are deficient, but because we communicate differently to non-autistic people. We can misunderstand them and they can misunderstand us. For instance, most of us tend to be at least somewhat more literal than they do, so when they speak using idioms or simply ambiguous language, it causes misunderstandings. Communication problems can lead to social anxiety, which so many of us have. If left unchecked, this can lead to isolation, loneliness and depression. Recent studies have shown that autistic people suffer from depression far more than non-autistic people and that we are nine times more likely to commit suicide. It's the second leading cause of death for us and is responsible for our life spans being, on average, 16 years shorter than non-autistic people.
@@pawzforthought Some of us are literal as you describe, but some of us aren't.
The only commonality that I've found is the information blockage issue that overloads us if we aren't careful.
I am autistic. I hold the world record for doing over a thousand painting of famous people eating Tacos. I am also a stand-up comic. I will be well known in time.
Interesting video. While I would consider it a disability, I am a 'high functioning' autist and observe certain advantages. I am objectively very good at brainstorming. The ideas seem to flow and drop to the ground, like shaking a net of leaves. In group settings, I can work well, too. My brainstorming capabilities are valued where I work; I am very fortunate. When with other autistic people, brainstorming is even better. I tend to be repetitive sometimes, which is at odds with being 'creative'.
Doesn't it sound like people selected successful people and pointed at certain actions they did that was recorded and said that's a symptom of autism? Do the same for known dictators and other politicians, wouldn't we have the same observation? They were definitely different too.
Also, just because one thinks differently, doesn't mean they make anything of it. Go further than just being different, use your 'uniqueness' to make the world better. My two cents.
70% of this video is false... watching this was cringe
0:50 1. Autism is NOT a gap in communication and people on the spectrum do not have difficulty with sensory communication. It's actually the opposite, people on the spectrum have been proven to have more heightened and accurate sensory abilities than their neurotypical counterparts.
1:10 2. That is so unbelievably false. Autism is a spectrum WITHIN a very binary specification. Autism is a distinct neurodevelopmental disorder which is related to hundreds of genes. Despite the fact that external behaviours and symptoms do vary, either you have it or you don't.
1:16 3. ADHD is not on the autism spectrum. It's often paired with autism but it's not the same. Most individuals with ADHD do not have autism, yet many individuals with autism have ADHD. That's the connection
2:36 4. Right - left side of the brain theory has been proven to be false SO many times. This is arguably the most shocking and least scientific part of this entire video. ASD affects parts of the brain on both sides, it is in no way correlated to this false theory at all.
4:03 5. You can suspect that various individuals have or did have asd, but you can't diagnose others just because they had or have some typical symptoms.
This person is basically using autism as an advertising gimmick and I find that obnoxious.
I'm tired of parents of children with autism thinking they know everything and havs the right to represent all autistic people despite the fact that they have no idea what they are talking about.
Thank you! I was hoping someone would point all this out! I couldn't even watch the whole video, it was so inaccurate. So much for folks understanding what Autism is REALLY like, and not what neurotypicals THINK it is.
Thx
There are still some things I just don't understand about Autism. I need some clarification in an organized list.
1. Are Autistic people normal and not weird? A. Yes, B. No, C. Pretty much, or D. just a little. Pick one letter answer, along with a short written answer to keep me on track.
2. If Autistic people are socially awkward and have problem making friends or keeping relationships, how are some of them outgoing and friendly? That would prove they _aren't_ Autistic
3. Based on the title, how do Autistics think differently? I thought _EVERYBODY_ was different?
It seems to me that autism is a spectrum laying on two axes. It's not a clear-cut single line, like numbers or something. It's complicated. Some people at the extreme corner of one quadrant are completely incapable of self-control and are seemingly lacking of any physical talent. At another quadrant corner you might see an autistic person who never says a word but solves math problems that could earn them 3 Fields Medals if only they could communicate the results effectively.
Then, there are those who are closer to the origin of the spectrum, i.e. the point of normalcy, which is a singularity that can never be reached if one is considered on the spectrum. The closer one is to this origin-point, the closer they are to "being normal" and so their autistic traits are reduced to a bare minimum, and the divergence between quadrant traits becomes less noticeable as well.
As far as I can tell, Asperger's, which is basically low-intensity autism, is the form of autism closest to the point of normalcy. The range in which one has Asperger's and *not* "Autism" shows a more clearer divergence the further one is from that normalcy point.
So, in describing it this way, we might see that some are extraordinarily introverted, some are extraordinarily extroverted, some are talentless, and some are savants. Some are just barely above normal to be considered Asperger's (especially in their youth).
So, are people on this spectrum weird or normal? The better question is, do we even *want* to be "normal"? Ponder that and you may find that being neuro-divergent has its own unique set of blessings, and that regardless of if one is "weird" or "normal", that one can love everybody regardless of how one thinks, for we are all of us children of God.
The problem you have is you're taking an allistic (neurology with no autistic neurology involved, so may involve other traits) viewpoint of what autistics are, and you have no understanding feasible from using that viewpoint, as there is no actual understanding possible when using that viewpoint.
"Normal" is some arbitrary definition, based on viewpoint of the observer. To an autistic individual, what the rest of the allistic population considers "normal" is merely "common" but still alien, because they don't think and act the same way.
Allistic people all too commonly have a different set of expectations out of a relationship and friends than do autistic individuals. They're often incompatible in their demands. Again, to the other, their behavior and expectations are alien in nature. Any attempt at defining autistics purely by the perception they have problems making friends or keeping relationships is heavily biased. Please keep in mind that a HUGE problem that causes autistics from wishing to get too involved in relationships with allistics is how much allistics are bullies, not to mention even those that aren't so blatantly being bullies, have the expectations that autistics act and think in the way that they do, and allistics impose that burden on autistics, but I've not seen the other way around. An autistic that meets an allistic friend that doesn't demand that, is truly lucky, and those are friends and relationships to cherish.
Autistic people tend to think bottom-up, from parts to the whole, while allistics tend to think top-down, from the larger picture to the smaller parts, as one part of things. Also, allistics are wired to filter out most of their incoming sensory inputs, while autistics cannot do that: autistics are always processing all the sensory information from all their senses, with an important aspect being that depending on the autistic profile, they are either hypersensitive or hyposensitive for their various senses, and processing and sensory overload sensitivity is affected by that and other aspects of their neurology. Autistics process everything differently due to their neurology, compared to allistics.
One of the more interesting things I've learned is autistics have a higher temporal resolution for multiple sensory integration than allistics: in order to count multiple sensory inputs as being part of the same event, they must be closer together than that of allistics, so as a result, there's a lot more information to process to (for example) deal with analyzing all sorts of body language, as well as voice tone, etc. and have it fit together.
Either you're autistic, or allistic: there is no such thing as "everyone is a little autistic" as the autistic neurology is distinctly different, and that greatly impacts thought patterns, and thought patterns impact visible and invisible behavior including low-level instinctive behavior for how to analyze things.
I hope this helps you and others that are curious, to get this reported by an autistic, instead of an allistic that doesn't have life experience living as autistic, but is only speculating.
@@strictnonconformist7369 uh...I’m still gonna need some clarification; that was A lot a scientific writing to process. Here, try to explain Question 2. and 3., with shorter, simpler wording. Especially the way autistics and allistics think differently. “Different” could not be any more vague and less contextual
@@strictnonconformist7369 really simplify and clarify this time
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2. Misinformation, there are multiple levels of misinformation going on in the eyes of the public, including what it means to be autistic
In my eyes, if 2 people are willing to put in the effort to understand each other, anyone can become friends regardless of how they think
3. Normal people tend to assess concepts before details, also known as top-down thinking. Autistic people take the opposite approach with bottom-up thinking and use details to build concepts. It may take longer to filter out sensory details with this approach, but you're less likely to miss important information.
Less mirror neurons so focus more on logic.more focus more analytic more complex love puzzle solving.words games. Mind exploration n human connection n cretivity expression n love to solve problems.
Let me guess English isn't your first language? obviously
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Incredible piece. There's actually a type of spectrum Asperger's that RIGHT BRAIN GIFTED and mostly impaired on the left side. They in the same would take typical mundane things in life and repurpose them into beautiful works of art so compelling to others it's embarrassing to that artistic Asperger's person. They try to not create these Incredible things just to avoid the attention, but it's quite impossible. These Asperger's are the most overlooked. Because they tend to dominate in verbal communication and are mistaken ad extraverts but ate absolutely the complete opposite so they are the most most misunderstood beings. Often even mistaken for Narcissistic. They aren't smug, they don't think their superior and they don't mean to seem aloof, they are crippling shy at random moments of the day, highly capable of communicating but absolutely incapable of wanting to. So They focus on their art at beast mode levels and create master pieces bit don't want the accolades so they disappear into the crowd perfectly and suffer the labels and sterotypng from the typical type casting neurotypicals. But when they leave, there their works speak and stands for itself. I think Prince too was this type. That or very well a raging Narcissist☺️
would like to see a video about people with hydrocephalus
I have Asperger’s and I am more interested in Scientific theory than having communication with other people because half of the people attend to discuss things that I am not interested in. I am studying to be a Neurosurgeon I don’t like wasting my time on meaningless conversations about unscientific topics.
No, a lot of perception/creativity is right brain, not left. But the whole dynamic is not so simple.
Well when u download data n new langauges n new designs new ideas n new thoughts at the speed of aspies ...if u could just live it for 1 day just 24 hrs. You would have a meltwon too. Or probably die. We r just used to it.It doesnt stop!!!!its just like high speed train n constant loading n puling of new ideas out of a hat its never lacking.its a rare gift but it can be exhausting n overwhelming n taxing on a human body thats y most aspie just gets sick more frequently than other people.because its taxing. the mind just doesnt stop n allow u to recuperate
I hope this is the case
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Just melt a paperclip and cast it into a tiny ring that no human and wear and sell it for 1 cent and then make a business of recycling paperclips into really small rings and sell them for 1 cent. You gotta start somewhere you know.
Do you know any adults on the spectrum, in the creative field of graphic design and animation?
Creator of Pokémon is for an example. There are a lot
(Mi2)
And still, those who want to better humanity and rethink our relationship to the world - the animal rights movement - is mocked.
These are the people living up to the spirit and logical conclusions of Einstein and Martin Luther King jr.
I have Asperger's syndrome but I use both sides of my brain rather than my left or right
I just think I'm more Neanderthal than normal thats all
or Denisovan
Most neurotypical have a Layer of feelings and emotion that change there Way of thinking.
Like If a person ask em i fat
Nt Arhh noo everybody is different and your strong for not being under social thin norms
At : yes
Or is your BMI over 25-28 then yes
The explanation is wrong or at least misleading.
im on the spectrum and i know i belong to the creative field
What was once a haven for creative minds is now being taken over by group think and sensorship of anything it disagrees with. Glory days are gone.
Humans are and always have been a group think species, unfortunately.
I consider myself more right brained. I am artistic and autistic. That has nothing to do with being social so I don't see why they are on the same side on the illustration.
typically up lifting, thanks, but am i right say, most living in hell, lonely, bullied, abused, stress and employable 85%, whatre the other stats?
It's more then a gap in communication
What is it called when a person has an extreme interest in something, such as cars, yet focuses only on one odd thing - the aerodynamic drag coefficient of cars.
Or a person that is a football fanatic, and knows every technical fact about footballs, such as their weight down to the ounce, the wind resistance of one over the other, etc - yet have absolutely zero interest in the sport itself, and finds a football game on TV boring ?
They love math figures, and as a kid always looked for the " Specifications" chart on things.
And yet, they fail basic math, because they lose their place half way into a math problem.
They remember the wingspan of a jet they liked as a kid down to the inch decades later, yet forget someone's name after less than a minute after meeting them.
They thrive attention and praise, yet are agoraphobic and would prefer to be alone.
Rather than taking three hours to watch tutorial videos on Photoshop, they spend years learning the same thing on their own.
They are extremely frugal and penny pinch to the point of self harm, yet are complaicent at their job and don't seek a higher pay job.
I'm not thinking ADHD, since the person can spend hours and hours doing something they find rewarding ( 3D modeling ) however they DO lose focus right away on things that don't interest them.
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you should read deep work and so good they can't ignore you by cal newport
I Think Different
I doubt Jobs was no the spectrum.
My brother is also suffering from Autism
What's clear is he's suffering from having you as a brother.
I’m border line Autistic in between Autistic and ADHAD Light Blue/Baby Blue
Interesting. I have Autism/Aspergers. I also have an iq of 141 and I'm hoping to provide some use to this planet at some point.
I recently released a shortfilm about autism, i hope you like it!! ruclips.net/video/dr4bX8qmed0/видео.html
The autism spectrum doesn't include what you said. Maybe you meant the neurodiversity spectrum? Also the autism spectrum is a pie shape not a line.
they all got executed?
1:23 Famous on spectrum. EINSTEIN.
Nice message, kind of weird way of saying it tho
I wish I wasn’t just stupid
False. ASD is way more than a “gap in communication”. Geez, do some research.
Can’t say Apeeps just don’t get what’s coming at them. They get it just different than nueros
Awww man I don't have autism
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how do autistic people control anger?
Mindfulness. Have you ever heard of it?
To clarify, Mozart did not suffer from autism. Please do your research before posting fake info to mislead others.
It's hard to say. Some of the traits he exhibited are typical of autism, but may have been signs of other conditions. Certainly his mind was an extraordinary one in many ways, some beneficial and some not. I consider it presumptuous to diagnose people without a proper assessment, especially those who have been dead for centuries.
@@wizardsuth I think he was using a stereotype by diagnosing Mozart. You cant deny the fact that a lot of modern savants are autistic.
Is autistic not has autism
Does Bruno Mars is gay?
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An interesting way to view the world and interpret reality, but ultimately ineffective. If ever a thing was accomplished by anyone on the autism spectrum, it was in spite of the disorder.
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What an achievement 😅😅😅😅😅
Einstein and Mozart did not have autism
They was considered to be autistic.
You can't say they wasn't as they never got checked for it. So they neither had it nor didn't have it.
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