Watching autistic people who are more like me has helped me alot. Thanks for makeing videos. I had an abusive parent and went to autistic convention therapy so I learned to mask very well. But that has cause Hugh social issues. Being a big man who is brooding and scowls 90% of my life leads people to automatically think I'm a mean person. Watching you be open about being autistic and not being attacked for it has helped me very much. Hope this makes sense I ramble.
I'm also fairly big and often scowly. It can suck to have extra obstacles to the already difficult social aspects of life. But in my experience, the higher quality of connections formed despite the difficulty goes a long way toward making up for the failures and frustration.
Love this! I got diagnosed this year, 2 years after my nonverbal son. Growing up in Montana I had a lot of outdated information. I've learned a lot since my son's diagnosis so I appreciate you for sharing this information to others.
@@orionwinterfire sure has been! My son is now communicating with PECS and signing! I've also been a lot more compassionate to myself now I understand why I think and experience things differently.
@@whitneymason406 it sure makes a huge difference in self- perception to understand the why. And I'm glad your son is communicating! Addressing his needs now will make the rest of his life better.
This video helped me out a lot in understanding autism more. As an autistic person, I tried getting my parents on board with it while explaining to them what autism was and boy, did they disappoint me. My dad ignored it completely and denied that I was autistic at all, and my mom didn't believe me from the start either. It's very isolating for me because I live with my mother. My father, though, when I was explaining it to him, some part of your video caught my eye when you spoke about autism being genetic and the link between autism and genetics, my father denied it immediately and said, "I think you are wrong. Autism is not genetic or else your sister would have it too and she doesn't, so I don't think you are autistic." and then later saying "Well how autistic are you (in regards to functioning labels)?" and that honestly opened up my eyes to the way my parents have treated me my entire life... denying my autistic traits and later, me going through and listening to your videos had made me realize that they were basically denying my existence as an autistic person and gaslighting me because they couldn't be the ones the bear with the thought of having yet another child with a disability. Watching all your videos, but particularly this one, has opened up my eyes to a lot of things regarding the autistic community. Thank you so much, Orion.
As someone who works in the Aba field, I truly believe that it is an awesome therapy, I don’t feel that we try to suppress autistic kids but rather help them gain knowledge and abilitys that will help them in their everyday life and function in the world we’re living in for instance going to the restroom in the toilet, not screaming as a form of communication. I feel that just how a “normal” human can’t understand the autistic mind, an autistic mind can’t understand a “ normal mind”.
I refused to entertain that I was autistic…until my son was diagnosed and we started researching ways to help him live his best life as an autistic. Suddenly, so many things about how I was as a child and how I am as an adult made WAAAAAAAY more sense and I realized I wasn’t a “weirdo” I was autistic. And the same for my husband as well. On my car I have the rainbow infinity symbol for autism acceptance. Just accept us as we are. Don’t try to make us accommodate to neurotypicals. Lord knows they don’t accommodate us.
🥰 loved this video I am autistic myself I was a 10 year old kid when I found out that I was autistic now as a autistic adult I love making videos about autism and live with a diagnosis I have made videos were I am stimming by doing things like bouncing on a ball while flapping my hands. I have made a video about how going to major retail stores can be overwhelming for autistic people
The thing that irritates me the most about the puzzle piece is that as someone who only recently learned they were autistic, I wish I could use it, because learning I was autistic was the missing piece to understanding so many things I had not understood about myself and my life.
It would be wonderful if that was want it meant. Unfortunately it was created by the founder of Autism Speaks. His objective when he founded it was to find a cure for his newly diagnosed grandson. The puzzle piece was to find the missing piece of the puzzle that would 'cure' his grandson and make him 'normal'.
Thank you I never knew what the puzzle symbol was for. But I for me it meant like finally understanding my life. The missing piece why I could not understand that I was different, that I did not understood why everything was always a challenge, and i was feeling a total faillure in my life. The diagnose was for me that puzzle. Thank you for this great video
I still see lots of “puzzle piece” magnets on cars and “autism speaks” bumper stickers. I’m definitely going to look more into it. I need more information. 😎
Great video! Love what you do Orion. Thank you for what you said. There was a time I wondered if I was autistic, which I don't think I am, but I tend to be drawn to date men who are on the Spectrum and get along with them. I also worked with autistic children using ABA and it never made sense to me, just like you said. I thought I was crazy for thinking it was harmful for the kids, so thank you for sharing your perspective on it.
a child watches cartoons from a mobile screen for 8 hours a day from the age of 13 months to 31 months........... can it show signs of autism........ and can you recover from the speech therapy behavior therapy occupational therapy?
You often mention that your voice in your videos is not your normal speaking voice. I'm curious how different it is. Would you be willing to show us in a video sometime?
My biggest wish and dream is to cure my autism. I would do anything and give up everything to cure my autism. I don’t care what anyone says, I do not want to be autistic!
I've noticed that the with the infinity symbol that the most popular version is rainbow, other preferences are red or gold (gold because it's symbol is au) also that there is #redinstead to counteract light it up blue. 2 reasons to not light it up blue. 1 it was started by Autism Speaks as autism was something that effected boys. 2 there is a percentage of the population that blue light will set off seizures.
Now on the "functioning labels" I disagree. I am a 55 year old male with Asperger's, thank you. "They" choose to label me as "Autistic" period. I'm not going to have a "rainman" meltdown and scream and beat my head. The analogy of autos comes to mind. If you're looking at a 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis, you're looking at a Grand Marquis NOT a 1997 Ford Crown Victoria. Though they are very similar, though they use the same engines, though they are built on the same automotive platform, panther platform, and though they may run and drive similarly they are different, though they are very similar in body style, the details make the difference. Don't think so? look at the list prices on the both. Now then a Lincoln Town Car was built with the same engines, same platform, but not the same car, there's a difference while very similar even though some options were the same. I do NOT like being blended in with everything as though it's all the same. There are many different apples, so tell me there's no difference between a Jonathan, a Red Delicious, and a Granny Smith, it's all apples right? My first Mother-in-law died of ovarian cancer that spread to her lungs, she DIDN'T have lung cancer. It had spread to her liver, she didn't have liver cancer she died of Ovarian cancer. I'll sell you my 1995 Olds for the price of a 2017 Mercedes, right? It's all transportation, what's the difference. I am not an idiot savant, take offence take a gate... Who does NOT face challenges? challenges which may differ from others? who? You don't think it helps... Well, it's been helpful for some to know that they aren't going to have a "Dustin Hoffman" scene with me. I've lived a few days, I was diagnosed around 28-30 years old. I like distinction, I do not prefer everything that is different being all blended in together as though it's all the same when it isn't. I think it's deceptive.
It would have been better titled "10 of my opinions about autism". Shouting "it's a fact"doesn't make it a fact. As an autistic person I can't get wrapped up in the whole identity politics side of things, but I'm old and set in my ways. On the other hand, I'm amazed you've embraced the word "disability", I don'f feel dis-abled, just different, and time has proven me to be better-abled than most of my contemporaries.
I don't think autism is only genetic.my parents grandparents etc are not autistic and my nephew in law,no autism genetics.are you aware autism can just happen to?
Hi. ABA therapist here and autism mama. I'd like to just state some facts. I'm sorry but please explain how ABA is "dangerous" please stop spreading this information because it is completely false. ABA is not to change who you are, it's social skills training, language, functional communication training. We give alternative methods. We change lives. I have worked with clients that cannot talk dress themselves or do anything for themselves and through ABA they are speaking dressing themselves and doing even more than kids/adults their age! This is absolutely nuts.
Thank you for saying this. My son is Autistic, 4 yrs old, and in ABA. It was recommended to us from several sources. I saw another video about how ABA teaches kids to suppress stims that are a necessary outlet, and it made me ask my son's BCBA about it. She said they let them stim, her main concern was about him stimming at mealtime, where he plays with his spoon and his eye perception instead of eating his food - as this will affect his time to eat when he has short time limits to eat at school. My understanding was he is learning social skills, self care, and communication skills to help him succeed and interact with people around him who might be less understanding or don't understand his "language" like we do at home. Even for us, it's hard to understand sometimes, and he gets frustrated. ABA has helped a lot to give him communication skills. He is always happy to go to ABA. They have a lot of sensory toys and activities. I can tell he likes going and he likes the workers, because he used to tantrum when we would take him to his daycare. He would be fine for a week, then he'd get triggered, and he wouldn't want to go for several weeks. But with his ABA, he is always happy and has never had a tantrum going in. He usually runs in ready to play. That doesn't seem dangerous to me... We just started speech therapy, too. Took a while because there weren't any providers who took our insurance, but there is now, and she already has a waitlist. We lucked out that we got in when we did.
Thank you for this. The great Temple Grandin strongly favors early intervention and wrote appreciatively of growing up in the stricter 1950s. I would have greatly benefited from help, as I was horribly shy and did not have decent social skills until halfway through college, and school is far more tolerant of social deficits that post-school society. Like a lot of people, I was seen as strange and quirky and didn't receive a diagnosis until last year and learn about it this year.
Watching autistic people who are more like me has helped me alot. Thanks for makeing videos. I had an abusive parent and went to autistic convention therapy so I learned to mask very well. But that has cause Hugh social issues. Being a big man who is brooding and scowls 90% of my life leads people to automatically think I'm a mean person. Watching you be open about being autistic and not being attacked for it has helped me very much. Hope this makes sense I ramble.
I'm also fairly big and often scowly. It can suck to have extra obstacles to the already difficult social aspects of life. But in my experience, the higher quality of connections formed despite the difficulty goes a long way toward making up for the failures and frustration.
Regarding fact 2. My daughter was recently diagnosed, and I had that Ah-ha moment where I was like, “This explains so much about me too!”
Maybe Autism Speaks should be called "Shut Up"
Oh man, that was funny. Thanks Orion for that comment. It cheered me up.
All the best..
Love this! I got diagnosed this year, 2 years after my nonverbal son. Growing up in Montana I had a lot of outdated information. I've learned a lot since my son's diagnosis so I appreciate you for sharing this information to others.
I appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment.
That sounds like a helluva journey
@@orionwinterfire sure has been! My son is now communicating with PECS and signing! I've also been a lot more compassionate to myself now I understand why I think and experience things differently.
@@whitneymason406 it sure makes a huge difference in self- perception to understand the why. And I'm glad your son is communicating! Addressing his needs now will make the rest of his life better.
This video helped me out a lot in understanding autism more. As an autistic person, I tried getting my parents on board with it while explaining to them what autism was and boy, did they disappoint me. My dad ignored it completely and denied that I was autistic at all, and my mom didn't believe me from the start either. It's very isolating for me because I live with my mother. My father, though, when I was explaining it to him, some part of your video caught my eye when you spoke about autism being genetic and the link between autism and genetics, my father denied it immediately and said, "I think you are wrong. Autism is not genetic or else your sister would have it too and she doesn't, so I don't think you are autistic." and then later saying "Well how autistic are you (in regards to functioning labels)?" and that honestly opened up my eyes to the way my parents have treated me my entire life... denying my autistic traits and later, me going through and listening to your videos had made me realize that they were basically denying my existence as an autistic person and gaslighting me because they couldn't be the ones the bear with the thought of having yet another child with a disability. Watching all your videos, but particularly this one, has opened up my eyes to a lot of things regarding the autistic community. Thank you so much, Orion.
As someone who works in the Aba field, I truly believe that it is an awesome therapy, I don’t feel that we try to suppress autistic kids but rather help them gain knowledge and abilitys that will help them in their everyday life and function in the world we’re living in for instance going to the restroom in the toilet, not screaming as a form of communication. I feel that just how a “normal” human can’t understand the autistic mind, an autistic mind can’t understand a “ normal mind”.
I refused to entertain that I was autistic…until my son was diagnosed and we started researching ways to help him live his best life as an autistic. Suddenly, so many things about how I was as a child and how I am as an adult made WAAAAAAAY more sense and I realized I wasn’t a “weirdo” I was autistic. And the same for my husband as well. On my car I have the rainbow infinity symbol for autism acceptance. Just accept us as we are. Don’t try to make us accommodate to neurotypicals. Lord knows they don’t accommodate us.
Great video. This feels a bit like the beginners guide to autism for NTs ☺️
Thanks so much. Great title for a video by the way.
🥰 loved this video I am autistic myself I was a 10 year old kid when I found out that I was autistic now as a autistic adult I love making videos about autism and live with a diagnosis I have made videos were I am stimming by doing things like bouncing on a ball while flapping my hands. I have made a video about how going to major retail stores can be overwhelming for autistic people
Thank you for helping me better understand my daughter, blessings.
Thank you yet again. The facts are making more and more sense as my journey unfolds x
I saw a meme once that said, "Autism Speaks doesn't speak for us."
The thing that irritates me the most about the puzzle piece is that as someone who only recently learned they were autistic, I wish I could use it, because learning I was autistic was the missing piece to understanding so many things I had not understood about myself and my life.
It would be wonderful if that was want it meant. Unfortunately it was created by the founder of Autism Speaks. His objective when he founded it was to find a cure for his newly diagnosed grandson. The puzzle piece was to find the missing piece of the puzzle that would 'cure' his grandson and make him 'normal'.
@@amandamandamands I know, that's why it pisses me off.
Can't we take it back?
Thank you I never knew what the puzzle symbol was for. But I for me it meant like finally understanding my life. The missing piece why I could not understand that I was different, that I did not understood why everything was always a challenge, and i was feeling a total faillure in my life. The diagnose was for me that puzzle. Thank you for this great video
Awesome video i love the way you present the facts !! love your channel
Amazing video! I appreciate what you do.
"high functioning utterly disregards any of their challenges" THISSSSSSS 👆👆👆👆👆
Thank you so much for this video. Giving me the necessary informations that my therapist do not give me.
Forever thankful.
~ Sam.
I still see lots of “puzzle piece” magnets on cars and “autism speaks” bumper stickers. I’m definitely going to look more into it. I need more information. 😎
thank u for posting this video u realy helped
Great video Orion! Thank you for this.
Thanks for watching!
Just curious what it took to be diagnosed as a adult, and why it was missed as is the norm?
This is so great. Immediately subbed 🤩 it's so refreshing to see real facts
I know that I'm a year late watching this particular video. THANK YOU! Beautiful Beautiful!
Great video! Love what you do Orion. Thank you for what you said. There was a time I wondered if I was autistic, which I don't think I am, but I tend to be drawn to date men who are on the Spectrum and get along with them. I also worked with autistic children using ABA and it never made sense to me, just like you said. I thought I was crazy for thinking it was harmful for the kids, so thank you for sharing your perspective on it.
a child watches cartoons from a mobile screen for 8 hours a day from the age of 13 months to 31 months........... can it show signs of autism........ and can you recover from the speech therapy behavior therapy occupational therapy?
Thank you.... that is all.
I appreciate fact 10🎉
Nice Video🌹🌹🌹
You often mention that your voice in your videos is not your normal speaking voice. I'm curious how different it is. Would you be willing to show us in a video sometime?
I’m sorry I gave you that impression. It’s definitely my normal speaking voice in the videos.
People get grants to do research for bogus cures and want to do genetic marking for horrible reasons.
My biggest wish and dream is to cure my autism. I would do anything and give up everything to cure my autism. I don’t care what anyone says, I do not want to be autistic!
I feel the same way. It's been so isolating, living life on hard mode.
I've noticed that the with the infinity symbol that the most popular version is rainbow, other preferences are red or gold (gold because it's symbol is au) also that there is #redinstead to counteract light it up blue. 2 reasons to not light it up blue. 1 it was started by Autism Speaks as autism was something that effected boys. 2 there is a percentage of the population that blue light will set off seizures.
Now on the "functioning labels" I disagree. I am a 55 year old male with Asperger's, thank you. "They" choose to label me as "Autistic" period. I'm not going to have a "rainman" meltdown and scream and beat my head.
The analogy of autos comes to mind. If you're looking at a 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis, you're looking at a Grand Marquis NOT a 1997 Ford Crown Victoria. Though they are very similar, though they use the same engines, though they are built on the same automotive platform, panther platform, and though they may run and drive similarly they are different, though they are very similar in body style, the details make the difference. Don't think so? look at the list prices on the both.
Now then a Lincoln Town Car was built with the same engines, same platform, but not the same car, there's a difference while very similar even though some options were the same.
I do NOT like being blended in with everything as though it's all the same.
There are many different apples, so tell me there's no difference between a Jonathan, a Red Delicious, and a Granny Smith, it's all apples right?
My first Mother-in-law died of ovarian cancer that spread to her lungs, she DIDN'T have lung cancer. It had spread to her liver, she didn't have liver cancer she died of Ovarian cancer.
I'll sell you my 1995 Olds for the price of a 2017 Mercedes, right? It's all transportation, what's the difference.
I am not an idiot savant, take offence take a gate...
Who does NOT face challenges? challenges which may differ from others? who?
You don't think it helps... Well, it's been helpful for some to know that they aren't going to have a "Dustin Hoffman" scene with me.
I've lived a few days, I was diagnosed around 28-30 years old.
I like distinction, I do not prefer everything that is different being all blended in together as though it's all the same when it isn't. I think it's deceptive.
To add my own daughters not autistic but I am
It would have been better titled "10 of my opinions about autism". Shouting "it's a fact"doesn't make it a fact. As an autistic person I can't get wrapped up in the whole identity politics side of things, but I'm old and set in my ways. On the other hand, I'm amazed you've embraced the word "disability", I don'f feel dis-abled, just different, and time has proven me to be better-abled than most of my contemporaries.
I don't think autism is only genetic.my parents grandparents etc are not autistic and my nephew in law,no autism genetics.are you aware autism can just happen to?
I have no idea where my son has it from. Maybe hi's fathers side. But I don't know
Hi. ABA therapist here and autism mama. I'd like to just state some facts. I'm sorry but please explain how ABA is "dangerous" please stop spreading this information because it is completely false. ABA is not to change who you are, it's social skills training, language, functional communication training. We give alternative methods. We change lives. I have worked with clients that cannot talk dress themselves or do anything for themselves and through ABA they are speaking dressing themselves and doing even more than kids/adults their age! This is absolutely nuts.
Thank you for saying this. My son is Autistic, 4 yrs old, and in ABA. It was recommended to us from several sources.
I saw another video about how ABA teaches kids to suppress stims that are a necessary outlet, and it made me ask my son's BCBA about it. She said they let them stim, her main concern was about him stimming at mealtime, where he plays with his spoon and his eye perception instead of eating his food - as this will affect his time to eat when he has short time limits to eat at school.
My understanding was he is learning social skills, self care, and communication skills to help him succeed and interact with people around him who might be less understanding or don't understand his "language" like we do at home. Even for us, it's hard to understand sometimes, and he gets frustrated. ABA has helped a lot to give him communication skills.
He is always happy to go to ABA. They have a lot of sensory toys and activities. I can tell he likes going and he likes the workers, because he used to tantrum when we would take him to his daycare. He would be fine for a week, then he'd get triggered, and he wouldn't want to go for several weeks. But with his ABA, he is always happy and has never had a tantrum going in. He usually runs in ready to play. That doesn't seem dangerous to me...
We just started speech therapy, too. Took a while because there weren't any providers who took our insurance, but there is now, and she already has a waitlist. We lucked out that we got in when we did.
Thank you for this. The great Temple Grandin strongly favors early intervention and wrote appreciatively of growing up in the stricter 1950s. I would have greatly benefited from help, as I was horribly shy and did not have decent social skills until halfway through college, and school is far more tolerant of social deficits that post-school society. Like a lot of people, I was seen as strange and quirky and didn't receive a diagnosis until last year and learn about it this year.
U really are acustic