Role plays are the worst and I can't believe that employers really think that is representative of how that person would react in a real life situation. At best it rules out the ones that can't even do it in a fake situation. I remember when I was in high school and had to do role plays for something (I think it was careers class) and I refused to do any of the practice ones. I did it when I had to for a grade and still remember the teacher saying that I did it much better than they were expecting.
I don't mind role playing when it's on my terms, such as in the video. But role playing to impress people at work? No. I have a job to do and I want to get it done so I can do the things I actually want to do.
Thanks for this again great video. I could not articulate it as you can, but I can relate so so much - thanks for finding the words! I love bees , suggesting bumblebees for the next video :-) I also love how you place the objects in the background in line with the theme of the video
Thank you. I think a video about bumblebees might me a bit too niche, but I'm not completely ruling it out! I had to work a bit harder to find a background prop. The bee picture was drawn by my son a long time ago (he turned 13 yesterday).
P.s. Wish I could be myself more at work. I'm working on it. It's too bad people can't feel it's refreshing to hear the honesty for us, but not usually the case. And like you, I feel there's a very small number I can be my real self around.
Work has even more layers of nuance and hidden agendas that I need to navigate just so I can get to the end of the week. A colleague said yesterday that '90% of communication is non-verbal' - this is the problem when I'm trying to communicate with words and receive straightforward answers. I don't want to play games at work - the work is exhausting enough.
How interesting! Thank you for the bee-utiful bee lesson. ❤ I'm still thinking about yesterday at work (a supermarket... the only job I could get because of job interviews, which you articulated perfectly, by the way). I was talking to a co-worker about a problem on the shelves that I had noticed. Our boss walked behind me and said hello. My co-worker said hello but I was mid-sentence and did not stop. She (boss) got offended that I did not say hello and brought it up later. I offered lame excuses that I'm still thinking about today, and will probably be thinking about next week, next year, next decade... I wasn't sure if she was talking to me ffs.
Thank you. The supermarket situation you described so vividly is EXACTLY the sort of situation that I would stress about and then agonise over afterwards. It's because we want to do the best thing, but life moves too fast, and we end up having to compromise. Sorry, didn't mean to try to be so deep.
So relatable.. it is very frustrating to be autistic around allistic people. Standing there trying to figure out when the natural pause in the conversation exists about their weekend so you can ask them a critically important question.
It is very, very frustrating...so I minimise my interactions now, which inevitably makes me even more of a loner. So be it - I need to conserve my energy.
@@Autistic_Not_Alien Same here with minimizing my interactions to conserve my energy and nervous system. Other than my in-person spouse, my friends are online, even the ones that literally live five minutes away from me. I've never met them, though we've been online friends for over four years, LOL. I think that we all prefer it that way, though it's never been mentioned, even though we've all hinted about meeting. 😄
Maybe I should just carry a sign board around that says "I have a question but don't know when I can ask it!" And hold it up for the. We're taught it's rude to interrupt but, isn't it also rude to leave people waiting? When I know my conversation isn't important I will pause it to ask what the third party wants or whether they are just listening in. It seems like the right thing to do... just never happens in reverse.
Thank you ! This is me to ! Interviews I would be masking over masking ! And I spend hours for interviews . I also can't even say hello/ hi because I don't know when to. Thank you for this video
Thank you, Mel. Masking over masking is a great way of describing an autistic person's experience of an interview, and also a quick way of conveying how tiring it can be.
@@Autistic_Not_Alien It's exhausting! I've actually pulled off people hiring me, haha, though I've inevitably quit due to the overwhelm of ... lots of things.
@@username46100 I want to quit but I can't. I want to live in my little autistic world but I can't. Every day is a day of coming to terms with this reality.
Thank you for your transparency and all the time and research you put into creating this for us Neil. Wowzers! All the fun bee facts, history, and thoughtful musings! Wonderful!
The dark and bee humor in here is great, as was the role play skit. That meme that you shared in the beginning is so true, too, "be yourself, just not like that". I don't know why anyone even bothers saying stuff like that, or things like "ask me anything" when they clearly don't want us to be ourselves or ask anything. And I can't even think about role playing without my heartbeat speeding up.
Thank you. Oh yes, there's lots of lip service about understanding autistic people and being nice to them. I like being here on RUclips because I'm understood.
On a side note: I’ve been working my way thru the classic Dr Who and last night in Robot of Death, he Doctor talks about bees😁 He said he loved them because they should be completely incapable of flying due to mechanics, and yet they do!
@@Autistic_Not_Alien lol! I just decided to look into it, and with the help of Google I learned that apparently it was a myth (potentially from the 1930’s) that bee’s wings were too small to fly with; but since they don’t flap like a bird, they obviously have no problems with it! But I suppose that’s why it was mentioned as a fact in a 1970’s tv show 😁
Your videos are so relatable, I've had interviews that have gone like that, and most conversations really 🤔 Loved the bee monologue too, bees are fascinating. Bee well 🐝
Thank you very much, Stephanie. 'Most conversations really' - lol! Me too. I'm in my comfort zone as I type this: taking time over the words I choose, listening to Godspeed You Black Emperor!, and developing bad posture as I'm hunched over a laptop while in bed. (What did I say about 'comfort'? Ah well...)
Eating dinner. Enjoyed this video 4 second time. Good feeling. Myself at least benefit and absorb messages when delivered with personal transparency and humour. Stellar delivery, and work that creates it. Thank you. And responses prove helping others figure out this complicated asd.
I hope you're making autistic skits full-time on RUclips in 5 years time, too (although your content is waaaay bee-yond skits - this was *so* great!) I like your wee bee in the background too 🐝
Thank you so much, Gwyn. I put more into this one than any other video I've made. It took me hours! Bit busy with the day job at the moment, so will be a few days until the next video.
I have to put on the performance of my life in job interviews. They’re 80% personality tests/ whether your face fits and the other 20% is based on whether you can actually do the job in question. I too have to act in my job and pretend to be as NT as possible. I can do my job without speaking to hardly anyone all day unless I need help. Then when it comes to having conversations with co-workers, I constantly have some of the following questions going around in my head; Am I giving enough eye contact? Am I talking too much? Am I looking away too often? Have I spoken about a certain topic for too long? Does the other person think I’m strange? I still go through and recite conversations I’ve had from several years ago.
They shouldn't be personality tests, but they are. The questions you listed are ones I also ask myself while also trying to listen to the other person/people, and while probably simultaneously thinking about my next RUclips video. So, yeah, I'm not great in interviews or conversations in general.
"I still go through and recite conversations I’ve had from several years ago." Oh yeah, and often they'll pop into my head, just cuz. They've often resulted in me feeling badly about myself, but since being on this autism discovery journey, they have provided many lightbulb aha moments that explains my ND. So, these flashbacks in the past few months have thankfully resulted in less self-shaming and self-ableism, and instead more self-discovery and self-forgiveness. I can better leave the past bee. "Does the other person think I’m strange?" 😆 Yep, I know that one, in addition to the others. Add, "What do I do with my hands and body posture? Well, I bet that they think I'm strange."🤣
@@username46100 I have a regular rotation of embarrassing episodes in my head, including my own wedding reception. Sometimes, I wish I didn't think so much. Why can't I just glide through life without a care?
I squeeled with delight once when I was wearing a pink and black hoodie and I accidentally zipped the black to the pink. I think that should be a style. I have always had body temp regulation issues and so layers of hoodies are so nice. I hate the zippers but I hate the feeling of pulling hpodies over my head.
You really do bee funny😊 Excellent humour aside, yes grim subject. Being yrself… how to be yrself? When you spent a lifetime being rejected and reprimanded for it. The idea that one is profoundly inadequate, wrong, truly anchors itself since the very beginning. This is again and again confirmed throughout life. It nests there, roots and becomes part of you. I don’t even know who I am anymore… and yes for me knowing is better but this doesn’t change the fact that late diagnosis is quite inducing of existential crises. I guess at least I’m used to it, so it’s not too shattering (just a little), it’s astonishing mostly…I didn’t expect this one😂
Thank you. You've described the inner turmoil of late autism diagnosis really well. I'll probably come back to the theme of grief if I'm still making videos next year.
"Where do you see yourself in five years?" ... the doctor that did my autism assessment asked me that question and all I could think to say was "I don't know, alive hopefully?" 🤷♀️😂
I strive each and every day to be myself, and not change for everyone else. I will keep striving to be myself, and to not listen to the judgment from others, and to not listen to the judgment from myself. Because at the end of the day, I truly love my autistic self. I love my accommodations, and they don’t involve hurting anybody!
I'm not well liked at work because I don't say hi or bye or make small talk or any of the other stupid things that are expected of daily interactions with people I don't know but have to see daily. I do my job and I do it well, and I think that ought to be enough.
@@Autistic_Not_Alien I initially had a strong urge to blame someone for it; society, the schooling system, teachers... You would think someone would have taken it further. I was however flagged in Kindergarten and held back a year due to my very poor social/interaction skills. It didn't help me. I suppose we are fortunate at the moment to have the ability to heal virtually. Hopefully Therapists can learn from our (your) virtual teachings on real life examples.
@@InterDivergent I like to think that therapists watch my videos, though probably not! However, I'm more than happy that a few people watch my videos and take a little comfort from them.
I have turbo adhd, and i wouldn't mind if anyone was being autistic around me (or any type of different), but i just think they would tire of me 🤔🤣 My youngest (2) is autistic and non verbal, so i'm trying to learn more in order to support him.
Turbo ADHD is me too! I'm annoyed with myself for not having the energy to write a song today. But I'll do it tomorrow! And I'll write a letter to the local newspaper about a terrible government policy! And I'll check the guidelines for two poetry competitions that I probably won't enter! Anyway, thank you for taking the time to comment, and much love to you and your kids.
0:41 - 1:44 So true it hurts!! 😭 I do hope you make a video about ADHD in the future, too! As someone who also has autism and ADHD, I would love to hear your thoughts on it and how the two things tend to link to each other in strange and unexpected (and often inconvenient) ways. :)
Thank you. I won't be making videos for a while, as I'm going through yet another low patch. I really hope I can return to making a video every week, but I'm not ready for that right now. So many good ideas for videos though...
@@Autistic_Not_Alien Hey, no worries man! We're all behind you and wish you the best. I for one am willing to wait as long as it takes for more excellent content. :) Take care of yourself! ♥
Cool you enjoy and educated with history. For any dilema, challenge the best answers are found in the past, i feel. Too bad The Beekeeper, Jason Stratham can't kick some ass for the autistic hive...lol..If one is autistic like anyone often we have positive traits we don't recognise. Google Autism positive traits for emplpyers. We posess many sought after traits. Uplifting to view those for just reminder. Feel for others with masking and unmasking. Myself autistic male. I got a huge silver lining gift out of a not good origin. unaware of autism. Wasn't a real known then. I felt I was a chameleon often. At age 9 my father became off and on terrifying. A monster. Logic said I would be murdered any day so by age 11 ..I chose to just be my wonderfull self always. Incentive gonna die anyway so outweighed hiding.Any differents, weirds all good. People can sense others not o.k. with selves, and we beat ourselves, question ourselves, and so a myriad of issues are created. So free of that i was social, ccnfidant, well liked, resiliant, fun seeking. Allistic like in an allistic world. Outside of home the value of just being freely myself as may be dead that day was powerfull, transforming. Awareness decades later. I maybe would choose to mask to not live the horrors in trade? Uh maybe live that hell not to endure masking as others? And be saddled with all that. Coin flip. The stories are sad and sobering, feel for others. Difficult for me to identify people situations common for asd. Obviously people are fckd with for being true. Somehow I didn't encounter those kind of pepple. Dunno why? I am way hellu intelligent but always masked that part of me. Still people sense that and was a deadly beautiful male. Beautifull people are treated different, dunno what created goods..? Lost on that one as most get some kinda asd kick back. Times and people have changed so much. Thx for the video dude , i myself am a bee. My surname is Bigbee. Old english means royal pain. I live up to it. Lol . Not a monarchist. Cannot be bothered with Charles. But i admire Elizabeth. Being born into that rediculous business she pulled it off. We are distant cousins with our bloodlines. Your channel feels like a mystery series. Love it.
Thank you, Steven. I want to do a video about autistic traits, but I hadn't thought about doing one in the context of sought-after employability skills. Fascinating origin of your surname!
This video was one of the best I've ever seen. As a beekeeper myself I can relate to anyone who speaks about bees as much as I want to 🐝. #BeeHappy
Thank you so much. I love the fact that you're a beekeeper. That must give you a real buzz. (Sorry!)
I couldn't beelieve how many bee references you got in this video 😂. Actually I can believe it... I just watched it and seeing is beelieving 🐝
Ha ha! I welcome more bee references and puns. You can never bee too informed or amused. :)
Role plays are the worst and I can't believe that employers really think that is representative of how that person would react in a real life situation. At best it rules out the ones that can't even do it in a fake situation.
I remember when I was in high school and had to do role plays for something (I think it was careers class) and I refused to do any of the practice ones. I did it when I had to for a grade and still remember the teacher saying that I did it much better than they were expecting.
I don't mind role playing when it's on my terms, such as in the video. But role playing to impress people at work? No. I have a job to do and I want to get it done so I can do the things I actually want to do.
Thank you, great video that's very relatable, funny, and informative.
I have one person with whom I can bee myself, my spouse.
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Thank you. Finding one person with whom you can bee yourself is the lottery win we all hope to have.
So Awesome 🐝🤣😍
Thank you!
@@Autistic_Not_Alien 🥰
Thanks for this again great video. I could not articulate it as you can, but I can relate so so much - thanks for finding the words! I love bees , suggesting bumblebees for the next video :-) I also love how you place the objects in the background in line with the theme of the video
Thank you. I think a video about bumblebees might me a bit too niche, but I'm not completely ruling it out! I had to work a bit harder to find a background prop. The bee picture was drawn by my son a long time ago (he turned 13 yesterday).
🤣this is great Neil!! Very funny but informational...I love your humor and videos, as always.
P.s. Wish I could be myself more at work. I'm working on it. It's too bad people can't feel it's refreshing to hear the honesty for us, but not usually the case. And like you, I feel there's a very small number I can be my real self around.
Thank you very much, Jenny.
Work has even more layers of nuance and hidden agendas that I need to navigate just so I can get to the end of the week. A colleague said yesterday that '90% of communication is non-verbal' - this is the problem when I'm trying to communicate with words and receive straightforward answers. I don't want to play games at work - the work is exhausting enough.
@@Autistic_Not_Alien new October collab details video out on my channel🙂
I wish my job interviews went as well as that 😏 Whenever you talk about anything, it is interesting. Please continue 😁
Thank you so much. Now knowing I'm autistic, I can see why I didn't get previous jobs (nothing to do with my amazing CV, of course...!)
How interesting! Thank you for the bee-utiful bee lesson. ❤
I'm still thinking about yesterday at work (a supermarket... the only job I could get because of job interviews, which you articulated perfectly, by the way).
I was talking to a co-worker about a problem on the shelves that I had noticed. Our boss walked behind me and said hello. My co-worker said hello but I was mid-sentence and did not stop.
She (boss) got offended that I did not say hello and brought it up later. I offered lame excuses that I'm still thinking about today, and will probably be thinking about next week, next year, next decade... I wasn't sure if she was talking to me ffs.
Thank you. The supermarket situation you described so vividly is EXACTLY the sort of situation that I would stress about and then agonise over afterwards. It's because we want to do the best thing, but life moves too fast, and we end up having to compromise. Sorry, didn't mean to try to be so deep.
The tracksuit trousers... just perfect! 🤣
I love my trackies more than I should.
So relatable.. it is very frustrating to be autistic around allistic people. Standing there trying to figure out when the natural pause in the conversation exists about their weekend so you can ask them a critically important question.
It is very, very frustrating...so I minimise my interactions now, which inevitably makes me even more of a loner. So be it - I need to conserve my energy.
@@Autistic_Not_Alien Same here with minimizing my interactions to conserve my energy and nervous system. Other than my in-person spouse, my friends are online, even the ones that literally live five minutes away from me. I've never met them, though we've been online friends for over four years, LOL. I think that we all prefer it that way, though it's never been mentioned, even though we've all hinted about meeting. 😄
Maybe I should just carry a sign board around that says "I have a question but don't know when I can ask it!" And hold it up for the.
We're taught it's rude to interrupt but, isn't it also rude to leave people waiting? When I know my conversation isn't important I will pause it to ask what the third party wants or whether they are just listening in. It seems like the right thing to do... just never happens in reverse.
@@mikko.g Yup - never happens in reverse. Rules are lopsided and not in our favour.
Definitely appreciated the monologue about bees 😀
Ha ha! I'm very pleased about that, because it took me way too long to compile. Still, all worth it for the knowledge and puns.
Thank you ! This is me to ! Interviews I would be masking over masking ! And I spend hours for interviews . I also can't even say hello/ hi because I don't know when to. Thank you for this video
Thank you, Mel. Masking over masking is a great way of describing an autistic person's experience of an interview, and also a quick way of conveying how tiring it can be.
@@Autistic_Not_Alien It's exhausting! I've actually pulled off people hiring me, haha, though I've inevitably quit due to the overwhelm of ... lots of things.
@@username46100 I want to quit but I can't. I want to live in my little autistic world but I can't. Every day is a day of coming to terms with this reality.
@@Autistic_Not_Alien So sorry, and I understand. Despite the ones I quit, I've had a couple jobs that I could stay at longterm, very thankfully.
Yes! I wish, just as you do, that you could do this full time. You really have a gift!
Thank you - that's very kind of you to say.
Thank you for your transparency and all the time and research you put into creating this for us Neil. Wowzers! All the fun bee facts, history, and thoughtful musings! Wonderful!
Thank you so much, Lisa. I had a lot of fun making the video - I just wish I had more time to make more!
The dark and bee humor in here is great, as was the role play skit. That meme that you shared in the beginning is so true, too, "be yourself, just not like that". I don't know why anyone even bothers saying stuff like that, or things like "ask me anything" when they clearly don't want us to be ourselves or ask anything. And I can't even think about role playing without my heartbeat speeding up.
Thank you. Oh yes, there's lots of lip service about understanding autistic people and being nice to them. I like being here on RUclips because I'm understood.
Excellent video, thanks and I relate. I would like to hear those jokes, maybe you can make a Playlist of your witty humor 😊
Thank you. So many dodgy puns in the playlist! Let me know if you have any more bee puns!
😄👍😄👍
On a side note: I’ve been working my way thru the classic Dr Who and last night in Robot of Death, he Doctor talks about bees😁
He said he loved them because they should be completely incapable of flying due to mechanics, and yet they do!
That's really interesting! I'm usually not too bothered about mechanics, but I make an exception for bees.
@@Autistic_Not_Alien lol! I just decided to look into it, and with the help of Google I learned that apparently it was a myth (potentially from the 1930’s) that bee’s wings were too small to fly with; but since they don’t flap like a bird, they obviously have no problems with it! But I suppose that’s why it was mentioned as a fact in a 1970’s tv show 😁
bee facts are awesome. great thoughts on everything. bee well
They are awesome, aren't they? I loved learning about all that history. Workers of the world - bee united!
Your videos are so relatable, I've had interviews that have gone like that, and most conversations really 🤔 Loved the bee monologue too, bees are fascinating. Bee well 🐝
Thank you very much, Stephanie. 'Most conversations really' - lol! Me too. I'm in my comfort zone as I type this: taking time over the words I choose, listening to Godspeed You Black Emperor!, and developing bad posture as I'm hunched over a laptop while in bed. (What did I say about 'comfort'? Ah well...)
Eating dinner. Enjoyed this video 4 second time. Good feeling. Myself at least benefit and absorb messages when delivered with personal transparency and humour. Stellar delivery, and work that creates it. Thank you. And responses prove helping others figure out this complicated asd.
Thank you very much, Steven. If I can entertain people as well as being informative, then all is good.
Enjoying the channel. Thank you!
Thank you so much. Appreciative comments keep me going. New video next week, hopefully.
I hope you're making autistic skits full-time on RUclips in 5 years time, too (although your content is waaaay bee-yond skits - this was *so* great!)
I like your wee bee in the background too 🐝
Thank you very much, Lizzie. Great pun, and I love the term 'wee bee'. The bee will now bee known as 'wee bee' from this day.
Excellent! You always put SO much into your videos. I usually watch them two or three times just to be sure I catch everything. Thanks!
Thank you so much, Gwyn. I put more into this one than any other video I've made. It took me hours! Bit busy with the day job at the moment, so will be a few days until the next video.
I have to put on the performance of my life in job interviews. They’re 80% personality tests/ whether your face fits and the other 20% is based on whether you can actually do the job in question. I too have to act in my job and pretend to be as NT as possible. I can do my job without speaking to hardly anyone all day unless I need help. Then when it comes to having conversations with co-workers, I constantly have some of the following questions going around in my head;
Am I giving enough eye contact?
Am I talking too much?
Am I looking away too often?
Have I spoken about a certain topic for too long?
Does the other person think I’m strange?
I still go through and recite conversations I’ve had from several years ago.
They shouldn't be personality tests, but they are. The questions you listed are ones I also ask myself while also trying to listen to the other person/people, and while probably simultaneously thinking about my next RUclips video. So, yeah, I'm not great in interviews or conversations in general.
"I still go through and recite conversations I’ve had from several years ago."
Oh yeah, and often they'll pop into my head, just cuz.
They've often resulted in me feeling badly about myself, but since being on this autism discovery journey, they have provided many lightbulb aha moments that explains my ND. So, these flashbacks in the past few months have thankfully resulted in less self-shaming and self-ableism, and instead more self-discovery and self-forgiveness.
I can better leave the past bee.
"Does the other person think I’m strange?" 😆
Yep, I know that one, in addition to the others.
Add, "What do I do with my hands and body posture? Well, I bet that they think I'm strange."🤣
@@username46100 I have a regular rotation of embarrassing episodes in my head, including my own wedding reception. Sometimes, I wish I didn't think so much. Why can't I just glide through life without a care?
I am so glad that you are creating videos! This was delightful, from bee-gining to end. 🐝
Thank you so much, and bee-eautiful pun!
@@Autistic_Not_Alien 🐝 💛 🌞
I squeeled with delight once when I was wearing a pink and black hoodie and I accidentally zipped the black to the pink. I think that should be a style. I have always had body temp regulation issues and so layers of hoodies are so nice. I hate the zippers but I hate the feeling of pulling hpodies over my head.
I *love* hoodies. My son got a Ghostbusters hoody for his birthday last week and I really want one.
You really do bee funny😊
Excellent humour aside, yes grim subject. Being yrself… how to be yrself? When you spent a lifetime being rejected and reprimanded for it. The idea that one is profoundly inadequate, wrong, truly anchors itself since the very beginning. This is again and again confirmed throughout life. It nests there, roots and becomes part of you.
I don’t even know who I am anymore… and yes for me knowing is better but this doesn’t change the fact that late diagnosis is quite inducing of existential crises.
I guess at least I’m used to it, so it’s not too shattering (just a little), it’s astonishing mostly…I didn’t expect this one😂
Thank you. You've described the inner turmoil of late autism diagnosis really well. I'll probably come back to the theme of grief if I'm still making videos next year.
"Where do you see yourself in five years?" ... the doctor that did my autism assessment asked me that question and all I could think to say was "I don't know, alive hopefully?" 🤷♀️😂
Yep. Every day is a battle. Ask me where I see myself in five hours instead.
"EWWW I hope not!" LOLZ!!!!!
Ha ha! Autistic me taking things too literally. Or should that be "ewww" literally?!
I strive each and every day to be myself, and not change for everyone else. I will keep striving to be myself, and to not listen to the judgment from others, and to not listen to the judgment from myself. Because at the end of the day, I truly love my autistic self. I love my accommodations, and they don’t involve hurting anybody!
Exactly - you're not hurting anyone; you're just looking after yourself and living the best life you can. Keep being you.
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I'm not well liked at work because I don't say hi or bye or make small talk or any of the other stupid things that are expected of daily interactions with people I don't know but have to see daily. I do my job and I do it well, and I think that ought to be enough.
Yes, it should be enough to do a job and do it well. I know people dislike me at work and elsewhere, and I haven't even said a word to them.
5:05 exactly. Teased all through school for being different, and targeted by Narcissistic people, yet find out I am Autistic @46yo.
Sorry you had to go through all that. And here we are: burned out 40+year-olds healing in a virtual world. Better than nothing, I guess.
@@Autistic_Not_Alien I initially had a strong urge to blame someone for it; society, the schooling system, teachers... You would think someone would have taken it further. I was however flagged in Kindergarten and held back a year due to my very poor social/interaction skills. It didn't help me. I suppose we are fortunate at the moment to have the ability to heal virtually. Hopefully Therapists can learn from our (your) virtual teachings on real life examples.
@@InterDivergent I like to think that therapists watch my videos, though probably not! However, I'm more than happy that a few people watch my videos and take a little comfort from them.
Loved this.
Thanks, Mark! This is one of my favourites, what with all those unbeelievably interesting facts.
I have turbo adhd, and i wouldn't mind if anyone was being autistic around me (or any type of different), but i just think they would tire of me 🤔🤣 My youngest (2) is autistic and non verbal, so i'm trying to learn more in order to support him.
Turbo ADHD is me too! I'm annoyed with myself for not having the energy to write a song today. But I'll do it tomorrow! And I'll write a letter to the local newspaper about a terrible government policy! And I'll check the guidelines for two poetry competitions that I probably won't enter! Anyway, thank you for taking the time to comment, and much love to you and your kids.
@@Autistic_Not_AlienThank you ^_^ And I have 92 tabs open, gotta get to work on those now!! :D
Good for you! Information helps so much! Yr kid is lucky to have a parent that cares enough to learn.
@@gg_ingy Lol!
0:41 - 1:44 So true it hurts!! 😭
I do hope you make a video about ADHD in the future, too! As someone who also has autism and ADHD, I would love to hear your thoughts on it and how the two things tend to link to each other in strange and unexpected (and often inconvenient) ways. :)
Thank you. I won't be making videos for a while, as I'm going through yet another low patch. I really hope I can return to making a video every week, but I'm not ready for that right now. So many good ideas for videos though...
@@Autistic_Not_Alien Hey, no worries man! We're all behind you and wish you the best. I for one am willing to wait as long as it takes for more excellent content. :) Take care of yourself! ♥
@@everett-9199 Thank you so much.
Another great video! And, free Palestine ❤🇵🇸
Thank you. Free Palestine. May those responsible for the present nightmare be held to account, and may people know peace again.
@@Autistic_Not_Alien Peace and justice!
Cool you enjoy and educated with history. For any dilema, challenge the best answers are found in the past, i feel. Too bad The Beekeeper, Jason Stratham can't kick some ass for the autistic hive...lol..If one is autistic like anyone often we have positive traits we don't recognise. Google Autism positive traits for emplpyers. We posess many sought after traits. Uplifting to view those for just reminder. Feel for others with masking and unmasking. Myself autistic male. I got a huge silver lining gift out of a not good origin. unaware of autism. Wasn't a real known then. I felt I was a chameleon often. At age 9 my father became off and on terrifying. A monster. Logic said I would be murdered any day so by age 11 ..I chose to just be my wonderfull self always. Incentive gonna die anyway so outweighed hiding.Any differents, weirds all good. People can sense others not o.k. with selves, and we beat ourselves, question ourselves, and so a myriad of issues are created. So free of that i was social, ccnfidant, well liked, resiliant, fun seeking. Allistic like in an allistic world. Outside of home the value of just being freely myself as may be dead that day was powerfull, transforming. Awareness decades later. I maybe would choose to mask to not live the horrors in trade? Uh maybe live that hell not to endure masking as others? And be saddled with all that. Coin flip. The stories are sad and sobering, feel for others. Difficult for me to identify people situations common for asd. Obviously people are fckd with for being true. Somehow I didn't encounter those kind of pepple. Dunno why? I am way hellu intelligent but always masked that part of me. Still people sense that and was a deadly beautiful male. Beautifull people are treated different, dunno what created goods..? Lost on that one as most get some kinda asd kick back. Times and people have changed so much. Thx for the video dude , i myself am a bee. My surname is Bigbee. Old english means royal pain. I live up to it. Lol . Not a monarchist. Cannot be bothered with Charles. But i admire Elizabeth. Being born into that rediculous business she pulled it off. We are distant cousins with our bloodlines. Your channel feels like a mystery series. Love it.
Thank you, Steven. I want to do a video about autistic traits, but I hadn't thought about doing one in the context of sought-after employability skills. Fascinating origin of your surname!
I'm in for your royal family/parasite jokes.
Ha ha! The hypocrisy ('benefit scroungers' v royal family freeloaders) drives me wild.
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aaauuugggggg I'm not too fond of those interview questions. I always get nervous and it never comes out how I want it to be.
Yep. I either don't say enough or I say too much.