Getting Diagnosed with Autism | Fern Brady | Comedy Exports
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Fern discusses her autism diagnosis and how her audience were determined to let her know she may have it.
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Filmed live in Glasgow, Scottish comedian Fern Brady talks about the time a politician tried to cancel her, dealing with being bisexual, internet creeps, drunk teachers and her unique method for practicing gratitude.
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"Facial expressions are for when you're around other people"
I'm so tired from being expressive until I'm by myself, thank you for this gem
Really? When jilling off, I am always imagining Arlene Foster, so I make lots of faces.
I love weirding people out with zero emotions.
I guess my kink is making people slightly uncomfortable.
I work the opposite way
🤭😰
but that's not about w-ing, I just laugh at funny people on the internet,
or the wall
I'm about halfway through her memoir, aptly titled "Strong Female Character", and it is heartbreaking. It helps to know it has a happy ending.
I read it recently and I had to take a break in the middle! But it does get lighter toward the end. I finished it, but yeah, it's a hell of a journey.
Omg I thought this meant she died for a second
@@satunbreezeThat's the happy part
Its such a good book. I felt so seen and learned so much about my own experiences i didnt even know.
This is my first clip seeing her, thanks for mentioning her memoir, I'll have to check it out!
I thought the Arlene Foster thing was an actual joke.
Oh no. She wasn't even joking then LOL.
I love a nice fern. They're decorative, liven the place up, and cast just the right amount of shade.
🔥 ❤
You don't think you are the first to make that joke do you? Obvious jokes are never funny
@@WoodworkingforAnyone296 people seemed to enjoy it regardless of how obvious you believe it is.
Hehe, too funny. First time I’m hearing this, so Thank You!
She's not really a fern. She's a person. I know this because I watched this video hoping to find out something about fern cultivation, followed as best I could what seemed to be the instructions and now I have to bury the cat. This video should come with a health warning for horticulturalists. Especially horticulturalists with cats.
When she said the thing about silently shaking the guys hands and smiling, I lost it. Going nonverbal when a well-meaning neurotypical shows up with some ~unexpected~ behavior is such a relatable experience for me and probably a lot of people
Don't say "going nonverbal". It's selective/situational mutism. It's not comparible to actually being nonverbal, comparing the two trivializes being non verbal.
@@robokill387 As someone who was nonverbal and now is ‘only’ situationally mute: It feels pretty much the same to me, just that I am not in this state 24/7.
@@robokill387 but they are comparable, because one is a constant state and one is a situational state. They have the same neurological mechanism.
@robokill387 someone calling a speech loss episode "going nonverbal" does not prove or disprove how much love or support they hold towards nonspeaking autistics. Especially since a lot of us grew up being told this was the correct term and have difficulty changing the language we use. Let's not get into semantics within a community that literally is defined by the speech center of our brains being underdeveloped.
I tend to use verbal crash now as a replacement word, it works for me and my partner and is easy to say
As an autistic person and huge fan of the movie Brave I love this
Fuck it we ball
The intro "As a....." really has got to end. Think of a new way for self-accredidation people.
@@billyghostal As a person who enjoyed their comment...
Nah.
As another Autistic person who enjoyed their comment I think you’re wrong, haha.
@@billyghostal As a cis gay man I find it's gone through all that cringe and ended up in a weird place where it's actually pretty useful (because otherwise we're 100% anonymous and dehumanised and assumed to be The Default) *and* also very funny to use it unnecessarily
Fern,I put black tape over the camera as soon as i bought it just for that reason.
I angle my camera right at my crotch cuz fuck em.
That compulsive truth-telling, gotta love it❤
Ah, let the hackers watch. Theyre gonna see some weird stuff, and its gonna be more damaging to their psyche to watch than it will be to mine to be watched
I sometimes wink at my camera and pull a silly face, before peeing, just in case it thurns them off to watch me pee, knowing I know they watch me pee.
If they watch me pee, that is.
@@Widdekuu91 you should do lik the selfie angle to tease them then lower it before they see anything, then just hold the microphone near the bowl and point the camera at the floor
@@ianh1504 Hahahaha. That reminds me of something a bit more serious, but it was empowering (and upsetting, at the same time.)
I sat in the train and long story short, a man was taking pictures under my skirt, but I noticed the phone being slipped in between the chairs and him tapping the screen. He himself was loudly whistling and facing forward, not looking at the footage (yet.)
So as soon as I noticed, I waited until he checked his pictures and adjusted the camera accordingly, after which the tapping-of-the-screen began again and I leaned forward to the camera, stuck up both middle fingers and showed my teeth with a slightly comical 'GRRR!" face.
He took the phone back, looked at the pictures in chronological order, so when he got to the last ones, he skipped through them real fast, gasped, turned around, I gave him the middle finger, he jumped up and ran faster than I've ever seen any man run and gone he was.
Same happened with another guy and my sandals/feet once, but I was not quick enough to understand what he did.
Either way, I also thought it'd be funny to print out one of those "Please wait, the programme will resume..." -pictures and just put your phone in front of it, haha. xD Or end my phone-use with a; 'You have been watching the broadcast of Emma, we will be back in the morning, thankyou and goodnight.'
Fern you are so comforting to watch. Your voice is soothing
Her voice is wonderful. We had a young Scottish woman interning at our museum. She was a lovely person, and I swear I could listen to her read an instruction manual for a toaster oven.
real
Oh trust me as an american you can shit on far right governments the world over here and we will laugh. Its nice to get to think about someone elses shit instead of ours for once
This explains Taskmaster a bit.
I do love her.
Taskmaster does not need explaining. She was brilliant!
awww why did it cut off just there???? i wanted to hear the next bit of that feud.
The whole show (Power & Chaos) is available on RUclips. There's a link to it at the end of this video and it'll likely appear on the sidebar, too.
As Jayne Cobb once said: "I could stand to hear a little more."
Firefly!
As a queer woman who also has trouble being diplomatic im living vicariously through the ide of telling a homophobic politician to f off😊
She’s like if irl Orla from Derry Girls grew up and started doing stand-up. I love it!
That's a great shout! Very similar vibes
Sharp as fuq, crazy beautiful, and beautiful crazy.😊
Between her and Hannah Gadsby, I'm thinking it's acceptable for an autistic person to just walk up to a comedian after their set and say "I think you're autistic". I'm gonna give it a try...if I ever attend a comedian's set in person.
i mean if you're autistic, whether or not "it's acceptable" is at least _less_ likely to majorly impact your decision to begin with
I always say "They're not interested in you specifically, just you generally," until they hack your webcam and post embarrassing videos online, that seems pretty specific.
"Facial expressions are for when youre with other people"
Yes!!!
Fern, after watching your vids I now realize that I was growing up in a Glasgow slum in rural Canada. Daddy was a committed alcoholic and the home we lived in had no walls, only for the Bathroom mind you, but otherwise the walls were old bed sheets. When Dads payday came, he treated all his pals at the Tavern first before he came home to Mom stewed to the gills. Thank you, Fern, for resurrecting. those wonderful memories.
If the house had no walls how did the roof stay up? 🤪
Not sure if this a reference to 4 Yorkshiremen or not
Pure Magic!@@aliengranpa
@@aliengranpa Pure Magic!
Sudbury?
Being a self-diagnosed American, this style of comedy is hitting me sweet spot
My ass reading this as "self diagnosed AS american" and taking way too long to realize that was probably not the intent
@@NekoChanSenpai don't presume, just hope they find that poor person a cure and feel blessed to not be so afflicted. At least he didn't have to pay or go through insurance to realise where he was born.
@@charliec6020 sure you never know. he might have done. Americans have no comedy any more
Let’s be honest here shes a 10 even before the sexy accent and the kill standup chops 😮
Fern, as a fellow Aspergian, I say, girl, keep it up! I love this! Funny and relatable at the same time. (and I'm not even a girl!). How do you manage that? Respect.
She's giving Scottish Yelena Belova from the movie "Black Widow" and I'm here for it.
justaminx in the good timeline lol
Hmm I think I might have made a mask of being super diplomatic for self preservation
Yep, me too. I lean into the awkwardness to make it two notches more adorkable too :3
"I'm cute; pls don't hurt me"
That bluntness and directness of the woman in Berlin telling you that is so stereotypical 😂 well, if you too are in any way stereotypical irish (rather similar treats) then I guess you took it the right way 😁😛
She's Scottish, not Irish.
Scottish Aubrey Plaza
Fern Brady is my ideal wife.
Love the idea of her agent getting off tge phone thinking phew... i can sort this shit out without her making it worse only to immediatly get pinged by twitter that shes posting
I've watched this a couple times and she's fucking hilarious
I haven’t felt this alive in years 💀 love from Canada
Not very funny
Love Fern. Great book, too.
Lovely husky voice
Keep it in your pants. This is not the place. Maybe comment on her comedy or don’t bother. Seriously women collectively keep saying you can just not speak/comment if you have to make it about what you find attractive because it’s weird, no one is trying to fck you because they exist, and we didn’t ask! Who needed to know this? The comment section needs to know you sexualized her voice? How does that benefit her and not just make those comments normalized? It’s like you hate progress and women. Or you’d shut up sometimes. Yes neurodivergent women will just tell you that it’s not amusing because we hate bs and don’t see the point of indulging it. Also, if you tell an autistic woman that, she’s gonna look at you like you like you’re an idiot that just called her a dog so maybe get a journal if you need to express so much because we do not care and it’s extra weird to make the comments a sexual objectification forum like you think that’s the best women deserve. Like dude I would be
So extra with my voice and point out the worst thing about you if that’s the first into you’ve got to say after my comedy(a comment on my accent like a fricken dolt. You’ll really love the men’s huuusky voices around here.) you probably have fetishes of certain women. No one wants to breathe a bunch of dirty things in your ear holes, huskily , Steven😢.
*exhales harshly to produce “husky” tone* - “Thank ya! Ya ‘ave got sucha stench o’ dog fur an’ must about ya’!” *walks away happily*
In case anyone ever forgot to tell you neurodivergence just means we find you even more annoying when you behave this way, and we’re meaner about it, Predator Jack 😊
accessible observational stuff suitable for the whole family. perfectly accurate.
although i must say that any use of the word suitable is a red flag for me.
What makes 'suitable' a red flag for you?
Dang.
Thought it would be about autism but the first minute at least is just sex stuff.
You'll understand it all one day ❤
@@Lizzifer7 I never said I didn’t understand it; I said it’s not what was advertised.
youtube videos rarely are - the incredibly common phenomenon of a clickbait title
Missed opportunity to finish on "I'm a very privates person" for a double joke.
missed?
Some layers just make a joke worse
Opportunity?
That mf punch line
“Forthright”
:-)
Pretty funny 😊
Beautiful woman
great set!!! went by too fast.
All the mood
Ooh Aah Up the Fern
Fern Brady scares me
O my god !!! There are autism therapists ????
Occupational therapists do a lot of that
Definitely
I have a Wonder Woman Bandaid.
Scottish people have feelings?😂
Fern Brady is a delicate flower, with the distinct advantage of having a badass mouth and an acute intellect. She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me, she makes my side ache, she loves me, did she just say that? Keep at it!
So she’s not a delicate flower. And that’s fine. Women are women. We don’t have to be flowers for men. You don’t even know her sexuality. Not that it would be more appropriate if she was cishet. But to assume she wants to be your delicate flower...in trying to be nice, but as a woman I have to let you know this comes across very infantilizing to us and often just creepy. We do not know men who leave these comments, we don’t all welcome the type of comment, and it’s generally better to just stick to saying what you thought of our content than anything else so that we can be taken seriously. Because all you’re doing is making it okay for men to say weird things to me and my friends who are often like lesbians. But men think women exist for you all and it is so uncomfortable to not have a place where we just are appreciated for our work or left alone when the time is right without male commentary on our bodies, voices, clothes, deciding we’re non human, and then imagining us in scenarios that you share without consent. It’s not cute or romantic. It’s invasive. Seriously stop telling us and everyone else who we love, will love, might love. Or your dreams of love involving us. We will let you know if there are feelings and if you can’t meet us or catch our attention in a dm with a normal hi, how are you, then it’s not meant to be . 🙃 if you already know it isn’t, rule of thumb is just say you think the video is funny or whatever it relevant, then move on
... wait til the end. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you ❤
🤣🤣🤣
I'm soooo sick of female comedians thinking they're being edgy (or just honest) about their sex life. Even as a "flawed character", it's been done to death. Try being funny about things in life which are not so narcissistic.
Male comedians, on the other hand, never talk about their sex life as a joke on stage
@@foxygrin
That they do, is so obvious I didn't bother to point it out. The difference between male and female sexual humour is that most men are just like that, most of the time. They are smutty, immature, dick-obsessed, ESPECIALLY the gays. It's all so clichéd. Call me old-fashioned, but I've always expected a better quality of wit from a wonan. Who's not sick of hearing about Jo Brands and Sarah Millican's fanny.
@@thedolphin5428 I've got the strangest feeling that you don't know many women
What are these people laughing at, she is not even close to being funny. Reminds me of Dane Cook I thought he was great in Mr Brooks, but his stand up, was as funny as cancer, where is he now.
Found your sense of humor yet?
Its weird cause Im also on the spectrum and I cant stand people like her and Greta Thunberg maybe its a sign I just dont get on with other autistic people
Meh, it's called a "spectrum" for a reason. Also, everybody's an individual.
Just because people share a condition/sexuality/opinion does not mean that they will get along. Its okay to not like somebody for whatever reason, as long as people respect each other.
@@wittlekitty3174 most of my friends are neurotypical
Ahaha muh vagina!😂
Have you ever been charged with sexual assault or did you avoid that so far
Comparing this to Schumer just shows in incredible ignorance on your part
30 seconds in, I give up. I don't know what the hell she's saying
Don't worry, mate. Just keep studying and you'll get it. Learning English is hard. You can do it!
The auto-subtitles do help, mostly. Some of the more thickly accented or softly-spoken bits get mangled, though.
Skill issue.
@@ItsNumber84But actually tho. I can understand her just fine. Born and raised in Detroit. They just need accent exposure.
Watch some Derry Girls it helps 😂. I might be on the spectrum or it might be RAW but I tend to start speaking with some of the accent if watch too much. This never has a good outcome.
The diagnosis seems wrong to be honest. She was also diagnosed with something else earlier on and threw that out the door, picking the one she prefers, autism. I'm guessing it's more a PTSD traumatized person thing. Obviously, I don't\can't know and this is an entirely baselsss opinion I shouldn't even bother sharing. But it sure looks like autism has been greatly expanded as a diagnosis and just about anyone can have it, even when acting well within a normal range. Seems silly when many autistic people are incapable of interacting with the world. What she has should be called something else.
It's called Autism *SPECTRUM* Disorder for a reason, bud.
"Even when acting well within the normal range" is kinda yikes man. It's a spectrum, and many aspies mask.
@@foxygrin Placing such wildly different expressions ofnbehavior under one umbrella is what I'm arguing against. Some people with autism cannot function, and some are like her. Being able to mask should be called something else because the set of symtoms isn't the same.
@@foxygrin Also, how come she culd so easily toss aside the other diagnosis and yet this one is for sure the right one? I suspect that traumatized people can express behaviors that mirror many other disorders and that trauma greatly increases the need for a foundation of identity. Some word to wrap up everything to feel less confused, more rooted into a solid identity framework. I get the feeling that our current mental health definitions will be proven quite silly in the long run. It's treated as a rigorous science when it's just a bunch of guesses.
Read her book, you'll get the message. She's a great ambassador for autistic women.
who laughs at this stuff????????? our world is really going down every day more
You're taking this a little too seriously
i suppose its difficult to laugh with the constant feeling of a stick up your arse
Must be European humor.
not funny
I love this bit more every time I see it and it was brilliant from the first
Uploaded two months ago and I'm still waiting to laugh. 🤷🏻
Andrew Tate is probably more up your street, big boy
then get a sense of humour, buddy