Sarah Hendrickx at Good Autism Practice Conference 2014
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Sarah Hendrickx of Hendrickx Associates speaking about 'Laughing in the face of autism: humour as a means of self-acceptance - a personal perspective', at the Good Autism Practice Conference on Autism, happiness and wellbeing on 14 November 2014 in Birmingham. Sarah's accompanying slide presentation is available at: www.bild.org.uk/gap2014
Good Autism Practice journal is a partnership of BILD - the British Institute of Learning Disabilities, the University of Birmingham and Autism West Midlands.
This woman is AMAZING! She has such wonderful energy, empathy and strategies!! She is truly a lifesaver!!!
I absolutely love this woman!
couldn't agree more. :)
I am sixty-eight and am realising I am on the austim spectrum. This has been a miraculous revelation.
I have so little facial expressions almost no-one understands that I'm making a joke. My humour is so dark that they just think I hate them or am insulting them.
UsseWill hehehe they just don’t get it 😉
This made me feel that finally I'm not alone .
Sarah, I say Sarah cos I feel like I know you from watching/reading everything I can find by you on Utube n beyond, thank you soooo much for your work/imput. As a recently diagnosed 49 year old woman I can honestly say that you’ve become one of my favourite people and I’d gladly spend at most an hour a year with you! Keep up the good and crucial work xx
Your supervisor will not like it if you tell him his idea is stupid. Even when you explain the logic of your conclusion.
I always worried that others wouldn't believe me when I said I was autistic because I slam also funny and the comic one in a group. Sarah just explained why I turned out like this! Not being adept at small talk, being aware of looking serious and unapproachable, making observations not others would notice, and so on. I'm glad to know why I turned to this niche when I tried to fit in and that I am not "faking" being autistic because I was able to make my life easier with the "being the funny one" strategy.
Here another funny autist, my way of fitting in.
Really identify with the difficulty following some flms and TV progs if there are similar characters. Often have to watch on catch up so I can rewind a few secs!
Laughing... I'm an autistic woman and one of my special interests is decorating and I used to sell clothes. Have no use to dress in fashion now and have fallen back into the same top in 5 colours, all black socks, etc. I have a flat expression when I'm not talking (and who knows when I am--my sense is that I do). I can't fake emotion on my face when listening because when I try to fake things--e.g., a smile--it doesn't look like what it should. A faked grin will be a slash; a faked smile, will be a frown. I have no doubt if I tried to fake emotions just to fit, I'd scare people more.
I get that a lot. I've never been diagnosed with autism but have several people in my family who are and parents think I might be, so it wouldn't surprise me if i am as well.
The dull face expression thing sticks home very much. I can just be minding my own business in my own head thinking up all kinds of daydreams and imaginary conversations with imaginary "friends" and I have people getting irritated at me and ask "why are you so angry? Are you mad at me?" etc. I find myself trying to explain that I'm not mad at anyone, and if I were, they'd have to have done something really stupid to make me angry at someone with evidence lol.😅
Trying to fake a smile and making eye contact plus small talk is really hard for me and doesn't make sense to me why do people need it in oder to feel comfortable. That's why I prefer to be by myself and not wear myself out trying to jump through hoops for people just to be acceptable to them. 🤔🙄
I’m autistic and design and DIY is a huge special interest. As is true crime, detective stuff. I guess those are pretty common interests!
You make me feel 'normal' 💓
A lot of what you tell is recognisible for me
💛Thank you💛
I'm autistic, and apparently I'm funny without knowing .
Awesome ..... 👍
So great!
You should do fencing perfect for ashbergers..
Outstanding
6:45 This is funny. As someone who can recognize faces to some degree but mostly default to remembering people by their hair. Which is problematic off course when people choose to cut or color their hair and suddenly I can't recognize them 😅 Or two people have a fairly similar hairdo/color and texture, and so in my mind they become to same person. I'm not great at linking the right name to the tight face eather, and so shuffling two names for the same person without really knowing that is the case gets real confusing.
Or, as I currently do, work with several young men who chose "bald shaven" as their hair-doo, and apparently also chose to wear glasses - yea, that's an immediate lost battle for me 😂
😂that struck me funny. I remember people by strange details like hair too. All the changing colors now, I’ve got to find another way
I wonder how common some degree of face-blindness is in those with autism? I've never met anyone else who admitted to it. Whenever I go to an airport to wait for my mother, I worry I won't recognise her (though I have, so far). Hair and voices are my clues. So interesting.
I also make jokes with little facial expression that people miss.
:( can you link the slides or splice them in as stills?
My Grandad used to say about me, “Too many brains & no common dog”.
I can't recognize my crash
u swore
What's different now than say 20 years ago? Dating sites exposure access infedility......and 1 in 50 kids with autism.
Bacterial infections such as tetanus, sepsis, strep and syphilis have alot of the same behavioral symptoms as Autism. Why do they have an unhealthy gut to begin with? Maybe a bacterial infection was there since birth....
Syphilis causes brain eye ear teeth skin(excema) bone defects. Unfortunately being pregnant it creates false negatives called the hook effect. Too many antibodies from mom and baby can't be detected with standard testing methods. It can be acquired by eating or drinking after someone, kissing, sneezing and hereditarily. It has the ability to mutate our genes so it basically goes unnoticed and disseminates quickly in children to the organs instead of lingering in the blood. So no a simple blood test won't work, if you can even get a doc to agree to one. This is probably why now we are seeing multiple children in families with autism, it never got treated while pregnant.
Unfortunately if the symptoms are subtle, doctors would rather call it Autism than a possible STD while pregnant. $$$$ true testing is with a PCR, not blood. If its spread by mucous, it makes sense to test it that way.
I'd like to see a study with autistic children being treated with penicillin to see if it has any effect. Good luck.
If you don't believe me, here's a pediatric infectious disease doctor claiming the facts
www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2016.141?foxtrotcallback=true
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/CMR.00070-13
Broader autism criteria now = more autistic people.
is your humour really necessary ? keep that in stand up
You are free to go elsewhere. Trying to control the behavior of others is a symptom consistent with Asperger's, or Type 1, by the way.