I can cook/bake/follow directions very well, but I have a really hard time deciding what I want to cook, and I just generally don't like doing it. I end up eating a lot of junk food because it's pre-made and just so convenient. When I was in the Navy, I loved that I could just go eat at the galley. Everyone else hated it and I can't figure out why. You could just go, eat, and leave with no cooking and no cleanup.
This is very interesting to me. I’m actually in the culinary world. I cook and bake. I Mainly love to bake because it’s so precise and I find following recipes pretty easy for me. Though that didn’t always use to be the case. Going to culinary school really helped me understand why a recipe is needed especially for baking. Understanding the different baking methods to further being able to develop recipes of my own. What I do relate to a lot is that I don’t like cooking for myself. If I work regular hours I’ll eat lunch and dinner and sometimes I’ll remember to eat breakfast. If I don’t work or work later in the evening I won’t eat tell I’m starving then binge eat tell I’m so full I can’t move. I have to prep meals in order to eat or I just won’t. Thanks for the tips of having a timer for the day! I think I’m going to be adding that to the days that I don’t work.
Great video Dan. The juicing is a great strategy to get nutrients in without needing special cooking skills. I have the opposite problem because food is one of my special interests, I am extremely fussy with food others prepare for me and often give unwanted feedback on how it could be better 🤦
Ah yeah, we all have our individual stuff it’s so interesting!! Thank you so much for the comment! Make sure you are subscribed and have the notifications turned on :).
My son is like you in that he has no problem telling me what I did wrong with his meal. LOL Doesn't bother me, but I have to remind him not to do it to other people or else they might be offended.
That first sentence described my entire relationship with food. I never think to eat unless I pick a time and stick with it, even though I like food. Thinking through the cooking process can be overwhelming, so I limit it to meals I know how to do (like cereal) or pre-made meals like a rotisserie chicken. It helps a lot when friends ask if I've eaten lately. I had no idea this could be related to the spectrum but it explains why no one understands my weirdness around food prep.
My biggest weakness is multitasking. I can do simple things like sandwiches, eggs, or spaghetti without messing up but other stuff is proportionately more difficult. If I were single, I imagine I would be making lots of large meals (like catering) and eat off that all week or just have a bunch of premade Tupperware meals.lol
Oh yeah, more than like 3 instructions gets me all messed up and flapping!! Thank you so much for the comment! Make sure you are subscribed and have the notifications turned on :).
@@telayajackson2.023 I heard about this thing called math anxiety recently where just trying to sort something out or being put on the spot for a math formula (even something you might know until different circumstances) can make you freeze up. I feel that way about math and cooking. 😅
Cooking is interesting. If I'm cooking, I have to have a recipe with clear, well-defined steps. If I don't, I can't figure out what to do. I've just recently learned how to make noodles out of squash, but I couldn't figure out how to actually get the noodles out of it (until I read that I actually had to cut the squash in half). I always feel a bit silly when this happens. When it comes to eating, I love food. I love eating. It's comforting. At the same time, I hate making it or cleaning up because it takes time away from things I like to do. Or because I might forget what I was doing and end up burning the food. Timers are lovely things, for that exact reason. I will forget to eat when I'm engaged with something I really like. Video games often take my entire focus and I may forget to eat until my mum calls me down or tells me there's food on the stove. The biggest issue I have, I think, is that I will eat the same foods over and over again. If I'm hungry, I go to the fridge, look for that one food I've been eating, and, when it's not there, I just stand there. Staring at the food, unhappy that the one I wanted isn't there. But I love baking - I like to eat the batter! :D The worst thing for me is shopping for food and the people change where the food is located. I shut down.
One day I realized I didn’t need a $300 juicer that was cumbersome to clean, and I could just blend up my produce with spring water and then strain out the pulp. SO much easier to clean!! 😆
Can u plz make a video about people on the spectrum saying things the rong way? I get told alot its not wat I say but how I say it and I often offend people without meening to :/ this is a big problem for me and it wud be helpful to show a video so people can understand tat I cnt help it and its just the way I speak. Thank u p.s great vid as allway :D
I 2nd this. I say the wrong word choice a lot, too. I remember a couple of years ago asking my teacher if I could work in a threesome on a group project, and the other people laughed and said that meant something inappropriate. I say some things the wrong way or things that mean something else a lot.
i dont think it's about wrong speech, maybe just wrong understanding. Other people's misinterpretations. they want you to think you are wrong. "objects in mirror are closer than they appear" this is wrong and is probably one reason drunk people get in accidents. it should say "objects in mirror appear closer than they are"
I’ve always thought of cooking. I’ve had plenty of ideas of meal ideas, but I never have the confidence do try. My brain immediately goes to “You’re going to fail.”
I can cook just fine, however I usually get anxiety if I am asked to spontaneously cook something that is complex and leangthy. I usually watch a RUclips video on how to make the dish over and over again until I memorized it. But other than that cooking is fun for me 😁
That’s an interesting topic... I actually looooove making food and people are usually impressed with my cooking... I’m a queen at combining what’s left home and improvising with it and make it taste delicious.. I like to think of myself as a Mcgyver of the kitchen 🤣. I don’t like following recipes so much... i guess that’s because I need to have control over what I’m making, and so I always need to make it taste how I want and not how it’s « written ». it’s been one of my special interests since I was a toddler... I’d love to open a restaurant, that’s one of the many dreams I’ll never accomplish... I just couldn’t keep up with the rythme of having a restaurant 😅
My son has no problem remembering to eat but at 17 he still only eats like 4 foods. When he learns how to cook something, he will make it over and over. Lol He does pretty well and I am proud of him. Love the chair!
Thanks for all the work you put into these awesome videos! With every one I watch, I'm even more blown away by how much you explain all the things I've never understood about myself. I'm an almost 37 year old female, and have very recently started looking into Asperger's, and what I'm finding is that most of these traits describe me to a t. So now, even though I'm 99 percent sure I'm on the autism spectrum, I find myself constantly doubting that I 'really' am. Like I'm trying to convince myself I'm just making it up. Anyone else experience this? If so, does it pass eventually?
I have to remind my son to drink (he is 12) and if I didn't make food he probably wouldn't eat either, well unless it was cookies or something else already made. Oh and showers, I have to make him have those too.
I can cook, but I cant bake to save my life, measuring things & math are not my forte... i can usually come up with things on the spot, I'm good with solving/figuring it out/organization type things.
@@MeowMeow-sy2mi lucky lol, what's also weird with me is I have great Longterm memory but short term is terrible, BUT I kicked ass at matching games when I was little, weather it was on the computer like a CD ROM game (90s baby lol) or spreading playing cards on the floor and matching them I was great at that and I always thought it was weird 🤷♀️
I don't bake now because my oven is terrible but I used to when I still lived with my parents. The majority of the time I just eyeballed it after seeing someone making it once or twice, and I don't remember ever ruining a bake. Baking is not pharmaceutics-level precise.
I learned the hard way that starving doesn't work. Thanks, chronic gastritis (; On the positive side, I cook way better than my mom ever has (but not as well as my late dad).
Not only do I have a problem with eating but I have a problem with drinking. I’m never thirsty. I just forget to do both. I older I get the worse it is.
I have major problems with planning meals as well. I usually just don't eat and then order somethin or eat a sandwich or something quick late in the evening. It takes me days to plan a meal, go to the store and then actually go and cook. I don't have troubles following instrunctions, although I do have to read it over and over again, but I always forget to add salt. If I make a meal I'll be making that same meal for weeks. Thank god I work in a kindergarten where I get a free breakfast and lunch plus fruit (I still get payed lunch money, lucky me) so I don't have to cook when I get home. One thing my mum noticed is that when we go shopping, I get really cranky and the only thing that makes me better is food. Even if I don't feel hungry. Idk if it's food or just sitting down and slowing my mind that helps.
I depend on the microwave, pre-packaged foods, but always higher in protein because I am a Pescetarian and even then, eat fish at most once a week and typically stick to a Vegan diet. I can cook, but generally don't like to, possibly because I was forced to from an early age. I also have to remind myself to eat. I do love smoothies, but am super-fussy about flavors. Something I frequently do have to remember is to eat breakfast in the afternoon, which is often an almond butter and honey sandwich on a very particular organic whole wheat bread. Very repetitive. As much as possible organic and absolutely no GMO's. I am adverse to crunchy and "mealy" things. Not as in oatmeal... difficult to explain. Oh yes. I'm totally whacked about what I refer to as the "drop dead dates" on foods. If the bread goes off on the 12th, when the 12th arrives, the birds and bunnies get whatever I couldn't consume. 🐯
I have a different issue. I forget when I ate last. If I dont pay attention, I could eat too much, out of habit. I blame my upbringing, and a medication I was made to take as a child, that caused severe weight gain. In my childhood, I didnt get enough sugar, and I'd even ask for sugar and was told no (I am hypoglycemic, which no one knew when I was a child). I was told "Eat your meal before you get desert" so I only ate the meal just to get the desert, by the time desert came around I was full, but I needed that sugar so I had the desert too. I havent been able to recover from the medication-driven weight gain that happened in 1990. I am still 100lbs overweight. It would be so easy if I could just not eat, but biology doesnt work that way.
I can follow recipes, but I have to have plenty of time to plan and I don't usually stick exactly to it. I tend to guesstimate measurements, usually quite accurately too. I cant cook spontaneously; have to have a meal plan. I'm quite rigid with specific dishes too as keeping a various balance is overwhelming.
Sorry Dan, but as im watching you pull stuff out of the box to sort getting the chair organized and out by yourself im saying to myself "How many ways can this go wrong"?
Cooking is one of the only things I CAN do and enjoy lol the problem is I do not always remember to cook or eat. Some of my biggest executive function fails were as a child, I couldn’t tie my shoes until I was about 10 and I wasn’t fully potty trained until 9. I’m not an Aspie though, I have Classical Autism.
I can't cook. The most I can do is cereal, prepackaged oatmeal, and microwavable chicken tacquitos. I usually end up eating the same meals every day. :D Following directions have never been easy for me and I end up making stupid mistakes.
I found an app called photo cook book and you can look through pictures to choose what you want to eat and there is a list and picture of all of the ingredients laid out and each step has pictures too I wish they explained a bit more though (you have to pay for recipe packages 2.99 it comes with a free one package 60 recipes) I think it might be helpful for some people a problem with online recipes is that the websites are always very cluttered this is very well organized. It might help some people to go over a recipe and write it down in your own words or have someone close to you reword it in a way that would be easier for you to process and maybe read it aloud. You could also take pictures of every step maybe not even do words I think that might be nice. Recipes sometimes say stuff that they just assume you would know like how browned food should be and it can be confusing. I have autism too. Cooking can be overwhelming it takes a lot of energy and multitasking and it can be frustrating. I find it very hard to cook with other people because of the noise and other reasons.
I like cooking as I see it as an extension of chemistry but I find eating annoying... it is time I can be using for other things and I often forget to eat once I get wrapped up in something.
Sorry Dan, i just can't watch these videos where the camera is not fixed, it makes me feel like screaming. I don't get hungry ever, just get increasing anxiety
What I sometimes do is put my empty box outside in the rain... for a few days. And then tearing up is very easy.. ( I could also bring them to the shower but then you have the mess in the house) (this is such a weird comment..I'm aware) I love you're vids...💕✌👋
I'm so bad with eating. Usually I only eat breakfast in the late afternoon because I don't usually get hungry, and even if I do, I don't really mind the feeling of being hungry, so I just ignore it for hours. And a lot of times I just can't find anything I like, so I'd rather not eat anything at all. I need someone to make food and put it in front of me or I'll just not eat for way too long. I can cook when I want to, I just don't enjoy it at all.
I was wondering if the stuff from the juicer that gets thrown out, might actually be healthy , it might be fibre. Maybe it could be put in a container with a tight fitting lid, put the fibre into the container and store it in the fridge for a few days, or it could be stored for months in the freezer. and then when you want to add fibre when you want to make soup, mashed potato, baking (carrot cake for example). I've heard that fibre is good for the gut bacteria and can even help with a variety of health conditions.
Great video man... the editing n lighting looked great. My cousin n I are both on the spectrum n I see a lot of me in him... when I was younger i was like him. Back to what I wanted to say. I can cook but I have to make my own creations if I cook. I tend not to cook cause if the mess afterwards I don’t like dealing with messes i can bake also but I get lucky or my cooking skill is level 100 or something idk. But that juice u made looked mighty tasty if I juice I mainly use blue berries and strawberries and so forth that’s my fav! But anyways love your content keep it up!!
I have a habbit of eating in phases. Its a pain in the arse one week il just want saussage and mash, one week i will want an english breakfast all the time and the next il go mad for chinese. I cant seem to spread it out then i get sick of things and stop eating it and my girlfriend has a hard time understanding it aspecially when i have culinary experience.
(Adhd) I forget to eat if I'm alone, and if there is food infront of me, I can't stop eating. I mean, first I do, when I get full, but then I forget I'm full and then I continue and feel sick next. xD My son with Aspergers loves cooking with me, but he always get confused if there is too many things to do. It's a shame, because he really likes it, but he is easily burning or hurting himself in accident, it's easier for his lil'sister. Thats cool beanbag! Damn, I hope we had space for one!
I have noticed since my kids have left home the routine of 3 meals has gone right out the window. I eat when I’m hungry and that can last till evening. I eat at 6 pm and have a full meal and desert. But during the day rarely do I eat unless prompted like lunch time at uni. I prepare one thing and a afters like a pie or cake that lasts the week, that way I’m not stressing over..omg what do I make?
i can cook on the stove top i never use an oven unless other people are there temperature settings and how long to put things in then i sometimes forget i put it on if i get distracted. but thing in pots and pans i am okay at people seem to like it so i must be doing something right. i tend to also eat at the same times each day so if i wake up after late breakfast time i wont make anything till 1pm.
Hi(sorry I don't know your name). Your videos helps me a lot when I found out that I have ASD. Thank you for helping ppl like me to understand themselves better. I have few questions I hope u might answer them for me: 1- what would happen if Asperger syndrome was diagnosed but not treated (how bad can it get?) 2- How will a professional help me over come Asperger ( pills and sessions) 3- I noticed that I was able to teach myself many social skills I was lacking as a kid and a teen. Would it ever be possible to over come Asperger a 100% in the future and function normally in society without being aware of it?
Hi Dan love your videos I’m on the spectrum also I have autism iv always struggled with cooking I lived on my own for 3 years and basically ate microwave meals and fast food I’m now in a relationship and living with my partner she knows I have autism but asks me a lot to cook and I really have no idea where to start I ask her to show me and tell me what she wants me to do and she says she just makes it up and doesn’t really know what she’s doing herself but always seems to do a really good job but when she is tired after work she sometimes asks me to do it but I don’t know how to explain that I really don’t know what I’m doing unless I’m shown and I need help but once I learn a meal I would probably be fine doing it but it causes me so much anxiety I really dont know how to tell her as I don’t think she would really understand but at the same time I do want to help as I know she gets tired sometimes and she hates cooking
Oh wow. I've long had problems remembering to eat, and I always wondered if it was due to the different medicines I have to take, though few have hunger issues are listed as side effects. I do have problems with doing anything in the kitchen if mum moves something from where I'm used to it being. I've had mini-meltdowns from it, but mum just thought I was overreacting. Now, at least, I can start telling her that it's an autism thing and hopefully get her to stop doing that.
@@TheAspieWorld what dept did she do her work in? I'm an anthropologist by mindset, but academia as is is a terrible got for me. Too slow, too rigid. A dinosaur. Full sentences and paragraphs are so last millennium.
I have trouble understanding you sometimes so this time I decided to put on captions and let me tell you, my phone has even less of an idea what you're saying than I do xD
I never knew. Congratulations! How's dad life finding you? I've got another baby due in October and 3 and half year old going through the system to be diagnosed with ADHD.
I have severe executive functioning deficits. It takes me two hours on average to cook from scratch, whether following a recipe or not. Since I eat different stuff to my kids (I am vegan, they are not and have allergies and food aversions they don't) I end up having to prioritise them and end up not eating myself. I also really struggle to keep up with housework and laundry, I am great at it but organising my time and activities proves impossible. I have tried therapy, diaries, fridge planners, special apps and others and they do not help in the longer term. I also managed to only get 1 GCSE and 1 GNVQ due to it. Which is kind of depressing. I wouldn't want to be cured of autism but if I could cure the executive function issues I would jump at the chance.
did you ever get offered as a kid if you wanted to cook? I had to learn I don't have a way severe disability in anyway but I love cooking I took classes in high school/elementary school and my grandma had to show me.
@@goodra999 yes I did cooking in school. I also lived on my own from my late teens onwards. I can cook very well but it just takes me an incredibly long time, and practicing does not shorten the time.
Very similar to you I prioritise my children’s food and often end up eating leftovers/picking at something if I remember to eat at all. My children have food aversions/fussiness as well. I find the whole cooking thing such a chore now where I used to enjoy it. I’m good at cooking but because it’s now not enjoyable I find it incredibly hard to decide what to cook and figure out everything I need to do to get it done. Any interruption throws me off course and they are in and out like yo-yos...I’m surprised anyone eats and I’m not crying on the kitchen floor every meal time! Same with housework, I’m good at it when I remember but there don’t seem to be enough hours in the day. I wouldn’t cure autism or adhd but some days I wish I could have a typical brain just so some of these things didn’t seem so damn hard. I feel like I’m a kid in an adult’s body sometimes and it’s all too much to think about!
I can make grilled cheese at lunch which is a 12 pm if we have no cheese I make just sandwich my mom sometime cook dinner 6 pm but if no I sometims skip it I'm scare of oil poping when my mom cook and I touch the hot stove before the juicer loud
Hi i left a coment on an older vedio trying to reach you its about my frend with asburgers he has problems and dosent know how to deal with them and might be a danger to him self i was hoping you might have some advice i can give him science you have asburgers two you might know what to say
I can cook/bake/follow directions very well, but I have a really hard time deciding what I want to cook, and I just generally don't like doing it. I end up eating a lot of junk food because it's pre-made and just so convenient. When I was in the Navy, I loved that I could just go eat at the galley. Everyone else hated it and I can't figure out why. You could just go, eat, and leave with no cooking and no cleanup.
This is very interesting to me. I’m actually in the culinary world. I cook and bake. I Mainly love to bake because it’s so precise and I find following recipes pretty easy for me. Though that didn’t always use to be the case. Going to culinary school really helped me understand why a recipe is needed especially for baking. Understanding the different baking methods to further being able to develop recipes of my own.
What I do relate to a lot is that I don’t like cooking for myself. If I work regular hours I’ll eat lunch and dinner and sometimes I’ll remember to eat breakfast. If I don’t work or work later in the evening I won’t eat tell I’m starving then binge eat tell I’m so full I can’t move. I have to prep meals in order to eat or I just won’t.
Thanks for the tips of having a timer for the day! I think I’m going to be adding that to the days that I don’t work.
I was misdiagnosed Anorexic for the same reason.... I get so distracted with my interests that I forget to eat!
Great video Dan. The juicing is a great strategy to get nutrients in without needing special cooking skills. I have the opposite problem because food is one of my special interests, I am extremely fussy with food others prepare for me and often give unwanted feedback on how it could be better 🤦
Ah yeah, we all have our individual stuff it’s so interesting!! Thank you so much for the comment! Make sure you are subscribed and have the notifications turned on :).
My son is like you in that he has no problem telling me what I did wrong with his meal. LOL Doesn't bother me, but I have to remind him not to do it to other people or else they might be offended.
The organisation in your fridge makes me so happy 😂
That first sentence described my entire relationship with food. I never think to eat unless I pick a time and stick with it, even though I like food. Thinking through the cooking process can be overwhelming, so I limit it to meals I know how to do (like cereal) or pre-made meals like a rotisserie chicken. It helps a lot when friends ask if I've eaten lately. I had no idea this could be related to the spectrum but it explains why no one understands my weirdness around food prep.
My biggest weakness is multitasking. I can do simple things like sandwiches, eggs, or spaghetti without messing up but other stuff is proportionately more difficult. If I were single, I imagine I would be making lots of large meals (like catering) and eat off that all week or just have a bunch of premade Tupperware meals.lol
Oh yeah, more than like 3 instructions gets me all messed up and flapping!! Thank you so much for the comment! Make sure you are subscribed and have the notifications turned on :).
I'm not good with multitasking, working under pressure or functioning when a lot of stuff are going on at once.
@@telayajackson2.023 I heard about this thing called math anxiety recently where just trying to sort something out or being put on the spot for a math formula (even something you might know until different circumstances) can make you freeze up. I feel that way about math and cooking. 😅
Cooking is interesting. If I'm cooking, I have to have a recipe with clear, well-defined steps. If I don't, I can't figure out what to do. I've just recently learned how to make noodles out of squash, but I couldn't figure out how to actually get the noodles out of it (until I read that I actually had to cut the squash in half). I always feel a bit silly when this happens.
When it comes to eating, I love food. I love eating. It's comforting. At the same time, I hate making it or cleaning up because it takes time away from things I like to do. Or because I might forget what I was doing and end up burning the food. Timers are lovely things, for that exact reason.
I will forget to eat when I'm engaged with something I really like. Video games often take my entire focus and I may forget to eat until my mum calls me down or tells me there's food on the stove. The biggest issue I have, I think, is that I will eat the same foods over and over again. If I'm hungry, I go to the fridge, look for that one food I've been eating, and, when it's not there, I just stand there. Staring at the food, unhappy that the one I wanted isn't there.
But I love baking - I like to eat the batter! :D
The worst thing for me is shopping for food and the people change where the food is located.
I shut down.
One day I realized I didn’t need a $300 juicer that was cumbersome to clean, and I could just blend up my produce with spring water and then strain out the pulp. SO much easier to clean!! 😆
Can u plz make a video about people on the spectrum saying things the rong way? I get told alot its not wat I say but how I say it and I often offend people without meening to :/ this is a big problem for me and it wud be helpful to show a video so people can understand tat I cnt help it and its just the way I speak. Thank u p.s great vid as allway :D
I 2nd this. I say the wrong word choice a lot, too. I remember a couple of years ago asking my teacher if I could work in a threesome on a group project, and the other people laughed and said that meant something inappropriate. I say some things the wrong way or things that mean something else a lot.
Yes I upset people accidentally too 😕
I have the same issues wording information or words wrong
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i dont think it's about wrong speech, maybe just wrong understanding. Other people's misinterpretations. they want you to think you are wrong. "objects in mirror are closer than they appear" this is wrong and is probably one reason drunk people get in accidents. it should say "objects in mirror appear closer than they are"
I’ve always thought of cooking. I’ve had plenty of ideas of meal ideas, but I never have the confidence do try. My brain immediately goes to “You’re going to fail.”
I can cook just fine, however I usually get anxiety if I am asked to spontaneously cook something that is complex and leangthy. I usually watch a RUclips video on how to make the dish over and over again until I memorized it. But other than that cooking is fun for me 😁
Oh yeah I understand that. Thank you so much for the comment! Please subscribe to my channel to see more videos from me :).
That’s an interesting topic...
I actually looooove making food and people are usually impressed with my cooking... I’m a queen at combining what’s left home and improvising with it and make it taste delicious.. I like to think of myself as a Mcgyver of the kitchen 🤣. I don’t like following recipes so much... i guess that’s because I need to have control over what I’m making, and so I always need to make it taste how I want and not how it’s « written ».
it’s been one of my special interests since I was a toddler... I’d love to open a restaurant, that’s one of the many dreams I’ll never accomplish... I just couldn’t keep up with the rythme of having a restaurant 😅
My son has no problem remembering to eat but at 17 he still only eats like 4 foods. When he learns how to cook something, he will make it over and over. Lol He does pretty well and I am proud of him. Love the chair!
Thanks for all the work you put into these awesome videos! With every one I watch, I'm even more blown away by how much you explain all the things I've never understood about myself. I'm an almost 37 year old female, and have very recently started looking into Asperger's, and what I'm finding is that most of these traits describe me to a t. So now, even though I'm 99 percent sure I'm on the autism spectrum, I find myself constantly doubting that I 'really' am. Like I'm trying to convince myself I'm just making it up. Anyone else experience this? If so, does it pass eventually?
I have to remind my son to drink (he is 12) and if I didn't make food he probably wouldn't eat either, well unless it was cookies or something else already made. Oh and showers, I have to make him have those too.
I can cook, but I cant bake to save my life, measuring things & math are not my forte... i can usually come up with things on the spot, I'm good with solving/figuring it out/organization type things.
See I loved chemistry for the analytical and data / research part, I wasn’t so good at cooking lol!
@@MeowMeow-sy2mi lucky lol, what's also weird with me is I have great Longterm memory but short term is terrible, BUT I kicked ass at matching games when I was little, weather it was on the computer like a CD ROM game (90s baby lol) or spreading playing cards on the floor and matching them I was great at that and I always thought it was weird 🤷♀️
I don't bake now because my oven is terrible but I used to when I still lived with my parents. The majority of the time I just eyeballed it after seeing someone making it once or twice, and I don't remember ever ruining a bake. Baking is not pharmaceutics-level precise.
I just love the feeling of sinking into a comfy beanbag. also, it would be cool if you could do something with the bookcase too!
I learned the hard way that starving doesn't work. Thanks, chronic gastritis (; On the positive side, I cook way better than my mom ever has (but not as well as my late dad).
Ahhh shoot yeah. I suppose the more you do it the better you get. Make sure you are subscribed and have the notifications turned on :).
Not only do I have a problem with eating but I have a problem with drinking. I’m never thirsty. I just forget to do both. I older I get the worse it is.
I DO THIS EVERYTIME I HAVE A MUSIC PROJECT. XD I have to set eating timers. 😂😂
Ah!! Thank you so much for the comment!
I often forget to eat too. I like that at work I have a set schedule so I know when it’s time to eat.
I have major problems with planning meals as well. I usually just don't eat and then order somethin or eat a sandwich or something quick late in the evening. It takes me days to plan a meal, go to the store and then actually go and cook. I don't have troubles following instrunctions, although I do have to read it over and over again, but I always forget to add salt. If I make a meal I'll be making that same meal for weeks. Thank god I work in a kindergarten where I get a free breakfast and lunch plus fruit (I still get payed lunch money, lucky me) so I don't have to cook when I get home.
One thing my mum noticed is that when we go shopping, I get really cranky and the only thing that makes me better is food. Even if I don't feel hungry. Idk if it's food or just sitting down and slowing my mind that helps.
I love the idea of having a place to do editing in the upstairs, being high up with plenty of light to add to the happy feeling. :)
I depend on the microwave, pre-packaged foods, but always higher in protein because I am a Pescetarian and even then, eat fish at most once a week and typically stick to a Vegan diet.
I can cook, but generally don't like to, possibly because I was forced to from an early age. I also have to remind myself to eat. I do love smoothies, but am super-fussy about flavors. Something I frequently do have to remember is to eat breakfast in the afternoon, which is often an almond butter and honey sandwich on a very particular organic whole wheat bread. Very repetitive. As much as possible organic and absolutely no GMO's.
I am adverse to crunchy and "mealy" things. Not as in oatmeal... difficult to explain. Oh yes. I'm totally whacked about what I refer to as the "drop dead dates" on foods. If the bread goes off on the 12th, when the 12th arrives, the birds and bunnies get whatever I couldn't consume. 🐯
I have a different issue. I forget when I ate last. If I dont pay attention, I could eat too much, out of habit. I blame my upbringing, and a medication I was made to take as a child, that caused severe weight gain.
In my childhood, I didnt get enough sugar, and I'd even ask for sugar and was told no (I am hypoglycemic, which no one knew when I was a child). I was told "Eat your meal before you get desert" so I only ate the meal just to get the desert, by the time desert came around I was full, but I needed that sugar so I had the desert too.
I havent been able to recover from the medication-driven weight gain that happened in 1990. I am still 100lbs overweight.
It would be so easy if I could just not eat, but biology doesnt work that way.
😭😍🤩You mean I'm not weird because cooking freaks me out?!!!!
I can follow recipes, but I have to have plenty of time to plan and I don't usually stick exactly to it. I tend to guesstimate measurements, usually quite accurately too. I cant cook spontaneously; have to have a meal plan. I'm quite rigid with specific dishes too as keeping a various balance is overwhelming.
Sorry Dan, but as im watching you pull stuff out of the box to sort getting the chair organized and out by yourself im saying to myself "How many ways can this go wrong"?
Cooking is one of the only things I CAN do and enjoy lol the problem is I do not always remember to cook or eat. Some of my biggest executive function fails were as a child, I couldn’t tie my shoes until I was about 10 and I wasn’t fully potty trained until 9. I’m not an Aspie though, I have Classical Autism.
You know what? I still have laces issues that’s why I use the rubber fake laces on my shoes!!
I learned how to tie my shoe at 6. My little sister used to tie my shoe for me. My mom was forcing to learn how.
I can't cook. The most I can do is cereal, prepackaged oatmeal, and microwavable chicken tacquitos. I usually end up eating the same meals every day. :D
Following directions have never been easy for me and I end up making stupid mistakes.
There's logic and patterns in cooking. If you're not good with instructions just follow the logic and patterns.
I like your room and it’s to me too if i should cook to others. But my self I know what’s I eat bc, I repeat same receptions .
I'm really used to your office background for your videos, and I think it works, so I think you should keep it...
I always want people to appreciate my cooking.
I found an app called photo cook book and you can look through pictures to choose what you want to eat and there is a list and picture of all of the ingredients laid out and each step has pictures too I wish they explained a bit more though (you have to pay for recipe packages 2.99 it comes with a free one package 60 recipes) I think it might be helpful for some people a problem with online recipes is that the websites are always very cluttered this is very well organized. It might help some people to go over a recipe and write it down in your own words or have someone close to you reword it in a way that would be easier for you to process and maybe read it aloud. You could also take pictures of every step maybe not even do words I think that might be nice. Recipes sometimes say stuff that they just assume you would know like how browned food should be and it can be confusing. I have autism too. Cooking can be overwhelming it takes a lot of energy and multitasking and it can be frustrating. I find it very hard to cook with other people because of the noise and other reasons.
I like cooking as I see it as an extension of chemistry but I find eating annoying... it is time I can be using for other things and I often forget to eat once I get wrapped up in something.
Sorry Dan, i just can't watch these videos where the camera is not fixed, it makes me feel like screaming.
I don't get hungry ever, just get increasing anxiety
Can you listen without watching? I "watch" a lot of RUclips that way.
ah this is such an issue for me now i live alone at uni, i eat once every few days if i can but mostly im just unable to do anything
also means all my work is terrible and never fully done :(
I wasn't supposed to but I laughed so much at the end with the box...it was such a struggle ...💕
What I sometimes do is put my empty box outside in the rain... for a few days. And then tearing up is very easy.. ( I could also bring them to the shower but then you have the mess in the house) (this is such a weird comment..I'm aware)
I love you're vids...💕✌👋
Hahahah omfg it was!! Amazing 😂😂😂
I'm so bad with eating. Usually I only eat breakfast in the late afternoon because I don't usually get hungry, and even if I do, I don't really mind the feeling of being hungry, so I just ignore it for hours. And a lot of times I just can't find anything I like, so I'd rather not eat anything at all. I need someone to make food and put it in front of me or I'll just not eat for way too long. I can cook when I want to, I just don't enjoy it at all.
I was wondering if the stuff from the juicer that gets thrown out, might actually be healthy , it might be fibre. Maybe it could be put in a container with a tight fitting lid, put the fibre into the container and store it in the fridge for a few days, or it could be stored for months in the freezer.
and then when you want to add fibre when you want to make soup, mashed potato, baking (carrot cake for example).
I've heard that fibre is good for the gut bacteria and can even help with a variety of health conditions.
This was a brilliant video Dan !! Thank you 👌
Great video man... the editing n lighting looked great. My cousin n I are both on the spectrum n I see a lot of me in him... when I was younger i was like him. Back to what I wanted to say. I can cook but I have to make my own creations if I cook. I tend not to cook cause if the mess afterwards I don’t like dealing with messes i can bake also but I get lucky or my cooking skill is level 100 or something idk. But that juice u made looked mighty tasty if I juice I mainly use blue berries and strawberries and so forth that’s my fav! But anyways love your content keep it up!!
Hey!! Thank you so much dude!! Oh I love blueberries and strawberries to! Make sure you are subscribed and have the notifications turned on :).
This problem with eating is a new one, it’s not eating I have a problem with,and dogs. Different strokes.
What's the brand of juicer you use? It looks pretty easy to clean.
I have a habbit of eating in phases. Its a pain in the arse one week il just want saussage and mash, one week i will want an english breakfast all the time and the next il go mad for chinese. I cant seem to spread it out then i get sick of things and stop eating it and my girlfriend has a hard time understanding it aspecially when i have culinary experience.
(Adhd) I forget to eat if I'm alone, and if there is food infront of me, I can't stop eating. I mean, first I do, when I get full, but then I forget I'm full and then I continue and feel sick next. xD
My son with Aspergers loves cooking with me, but he always get confused if there is too many things to do. It's a shame, because he really likes it, but he is easily burning or hurting himself in accident, it's easier for his lil'sister.
Thats cool beanbag! Damn, I hope we had space for one!
THANK YOU!!! It’s so hard 😭
I believe in ya! I hear ya on the cooking thing, although i’m kind of nervous about the stove so microwave is my best friend in cooking 😂
Haha the microwave is super handy but I have to remember to use it.
The Aspie World 😂 Sticky notes are also my friend. I have more inanimate object friends than real life friends 🤦♀️😂
I have noticed since my kids have left home the routine of 3 meals has gone right out the window. I eat when I’m hungry and that can last till evening. I eat at 6 pm and have a full meal and desert. But during the day rarely do I eat unless prompted like lunch time at uni. I prepare one thing and a afters like a pie or cake that lasts the week, that way I’m not stressing over..omg what do I make?
Did you ever get the chair put together?
i can cook on the stove top i never use an oven unless other people are there temperature settings and how long to put things in then i sometimes forget i put it on if i get distracted. but thing in pots and pans i am okay at people seem to like it so i must be doing something right. i tend to also eat at the same times each day so if i wake up after late breakfast time i wont make anything till 1pm.
Your juicer is LOUD. Lol. I really want to juice again though. One of our juicers broke, and I really want to get another one 😃
Cool beanbag chairs
Since when did you have a baby? How did I miss this? Boy or girl? Please tell all.
J M I’m not sure, but I think it’s a boy that are 7-8 months old. Please, correct if I’m wrong.
does your country have a homeshare program for people with disabilities?
Not sure what that is? Can you elaborate?
@@TheAspieWorld www.sourcesbc.ca/our-services/home-share-program/
Hi(sorry I don't know your name). Your videos helps me a lot when I found out that I have ASD. Thank you for helping ppl like me to understand themselves better. I have few questions I hope u might answer them for me:
1- what would happen if Asperger syndrome was diagnosed but not treated (how bad can it get?)
2- How will a professional help me over come Asperger ( pills and sessions)
3- I noticed that I was able to teach myself many social skills I was lacking as a kid and a teen. Would it ever be possible to over come Asperger a 100% in the future and function normally in society without being aware of it?
Hey my Name is dan!! Thank you so much for the comment! Make sure you are subscribed and have the notifications turned on :).
Dan do you have a PhD? Also could you explain why you need kitchen supervision? If it’s too personal please disregard this comment.
Hi!! Not yet I have a BSc in Chemistry. Supervision because I lack certain awareness it’s related to SPD / EF issues.
Thanks for the reply :)
Could you do a video on if you think Jane Austen had autism? A lot of people think she did but no one has come up with any concrete answer
I love your filming room you've got a stretch arm strong 😀 #retrotoys
can't you " compost" the "rubbish" in the bottom of juicer? or at least save the fiber for soups??
Yes indeed you can!!
Can we have the link to the beanbag, Dan!? Thanks!
Hey!! Erm sure it was from here: www.wayfair.co.uk/furniture/pdx/17-stories-soul-jumbo-cord-bean-bag-chair-hokg3744.html
Hi Dan love your videos I’m on the spectrum also I have autism iv always struggled with cooking I lived on my own for 3 years and basically ate microwave meals and fast food I’m now in a relationship and living with my partner she knows I have autism but asks me a lot to cook and I really have no idea where to start I ask her to show me and tell me what she wants me to do and she says she just makes it up and doesn’t really know what she’s doing herself but always seems to do a really good job but when she is tired after work she sometimes asks me to do it but I don’t know how to explain that I really don’t know what I’m doing unless I’m shown and I need help but once I learn a meal I would probably be fine doing it but it causes me so much anxiety I really dont know how to tell her as I don’t think she would really understand but at the same time I do want to help as I know she gets tired sometimes and she hates cooking
I tell people I have an eating disorder but really I just can't stand the smell and feeling in my mouth. I can always eat bland food though.
Are there any good cooking channels for autistics? Simple recipes for people with difficult tastes.
Can you explain why you are unable to follow a recipe? Thank you.
Ha, ha, ha... Daniel. I did the same thing ...
Oh wow. I've long had problems remembering to eat, and I always wondered if it was due to the different medicines I have to take, though few have hunger issues are listed as side effects.
I do have problems with doing anything in the kitchen if mum moves something from where I'm used to it being. I've had mini-meltdowns from it, but mum just thought I was overreacting. Now, at least, I can start telling her that it's an autism thing and hopefully get her to stop doing that.
What are both of your dissertations in?
Mine was Computational Physical Chemistry and Naomi’s was childhood studies in autism
@@TheAspieWorld what dept did she do her work in? I'm an anthropologist by mindset, but academia as is is a terrible got for me. Too slow, too rigid. A dinosaur. Full sentences and paragraphs are so last millennium.
Fit, not got.
I can do it, but it takes a lot of me to make it!
I have an app that helps me a lot, step-by-step and You can’t see the next step before You’re Done with the actual step.
Yeah for sure!!
I have trouble understanding you sometimes so this time I decided to put on captions and let me tell you, my phone has even less of an idea what you're saying than I do xD
Watch the juicers, they tend to break down fibre and vitamins,but not sugar
I have asd and I'm a professional cheff *flex flex*
Dad do you have a baby? Or am I taking it literally 🤣🤣
I have a little boy 8 months old
I never knew. Congratulations! How's dad life finding you?
I've got another baby due in October and 3 and half year old going through the system to be diagnosed with ADHD.
I have severe executive functioning deficits. It takes me two hours on average to cook from scratch, whether following a recipe or not. Since I eat different stuff to my kids (I am vegan, they are not and have allergies and food aversions they don't) I end up having to prioritise them and end up not eating myself. I also really struggle to keep up with housework and laundry, I am great at it but organising my time and activities proves impossible. I have tried therapy, diaries, fridge planners, special apps and others and they do not help in the longer term. I also managed to only get 1 GCSE and 1 GNVQ due to it. Which is kind of depressing. I wouldn't want to be cured of autism but if I could cure the executive function issues I would jump at the chance.
did you ever get offered as a kid if you wanted to cook? I had to learn I don't have a way severe disability in anyway but I love cooking I took classes in high school/elementary school and my grandma had to show me.
@@goodra999 yes I did cooking in school. I also lived on my own from my late teens onwards. I can cook very well but it just takes me an incredibly long time, and practicing does not shorten the time.
Very similar to you I prioritise my children’s food and often end up eating leftovers/picking at something if I remember to eat at all. My children have food aversions/fussiness as well. I find the whole cooking thing such a chore now where I used to enjoy it. I’m good at cooking but because it’s now not enjoyable I find it incredibly hard to decide what to cook and figure out everything I need to do to get it done. Any interruption throws me off course and they are in and out like yo-yos...I’m surprised anyone eats and I’m not crying on the kitchen floor every meal time! Same with housework, I’m good at it when I remember but there don’t seem to be enough hours in the day. I wouldn’t cure autism or adhd but some days I wish I could have a typical brain just so some of these things didn’t seem so damn hard. I feel like I’m a kid in an adult’s body sometimes and it’s all too much to think about!
Oh no, I hope you get help with that!
I am terrible with keeping my house tidy and in annoys and shocks people sometimes. I like Dan's house and how organized it is 👍
I can make grilled cheese at lunch which is a 12 pm if we have no cheese I make just sandwich my mom sometime cook dinner 6 pm but if no I sometims skip it I'm scare of oil poping when my mom cook and I touch the hot stove before the juicer loud
I love a grilled cheese!!
What's up with the noise at the very start of your videos? 🤔
The audio tag? It’s my intro tag like the Netflix start up sound.
Thermomix is my godsend
Hi i left a coment on an older vedio trying to reach you its about my frend with asburgers he has problems and dosent know how to deal with them and might be a danger to him self i was hoping you might have some advice i can give him science you have asburgers two you might know what to say
Thing with your stuff will be cool....
love you dan
NO, I CANNOT MAKE FOOD, I AM NOT A FARMER BUT I CAN COOK SOME FOOD
I am speed
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