DISCLAIMER: Please refrain from making uneducated assumptions about an individual's diagnosis. You are allowed to express concern of whether you believe someone is faking or not, however, please refrain from leaving harmful comments regarding them. Autism is a spectrum. Everyone is different and exhibits different traits. You may or may not relate to these individuals and that is fine but do not assume that because you have traits that differ from them, they are not autistic! If an individual is proven to be faking or they have a negative reputation in the community, please feel free to respond to this post or private message me on my socials! Also for clarification: Autism as well as any other neurodiversities represented in these videos are on a spectrum! Everyone is different! Do not use these videos as a means of diagnosing yourself or even questioning your diagnosis! Everyone will have different experiences and struggles! You are perfect the way you are and do not define yourself because a lot of autistic individuals don't like a food but you do, or you like wearing socks compared to those who don't! Be yourself and accept that we are all different!
do they really mean "you're invited" when they say "i'm having a party next week" or "we're going to have some beer in town, X, Y and Z are coming too"?
I was so shock, I'm lucky those around me never speak like this at all or at least I can't sense any double sense meaning, I usually stick to that people
Thank you to the person who talked about being able to read social cues in regard to others, but not when it is about ourselves. I’m a hospice nurse. Deal with all kinds of emotional issues, especially my patients’ families. I can enter a home, and within minutes know exactly what type of emotional support each person there needs from me, and can readily provide it. Yet, totally lost when I’m the subject in an interaction. This finally makes sense.
I also think, for me at least, it's about where people's emotions are being directed. When directed at me, I get overwhelmed by other people's emotions moreso than when I'm watching them from the sidelines.
YES this also applies to fictional characters btw!! Bc when there’s like really subtle foreshadowing I almost always IMMEDIATELY pick up on it (even if it relies on social cues!!), but one time a girl literally gave me her number and I did not understand what that meant lmaooooo
the “I’m obsessed with that show” lead me to watch entire series over weekends in high school so I could talk about it and engage with said person, only for them to say that they’d only watched the first 3 episodes before starting a new conversation about something else they were “obsessed with”, rinse and repeat 😭
1:46 Why do people get mad when we don't understand a social cue? LIKE BRO YOU'RE GETTING MAD AT ME FOR NOT KNOWING THAT YOU WANTED SOMETHING BEACUSE YOU GAVE ME *HINTS* INSTEAD OF TELLING MEEEEEEEE
I really need more of these neurotypical conversation translations. I didn’t know the translation of any of the phrases said in the video that neurotypicals say. When I heard those phrases said to me in real life, I always misinterpreted it wrong.
The reason neurotypicals will ask questions instead of give orders is because other neurotypicals will get offended at being given an order. By asking a question, they are giving you a chance to notice something is wrong without them "telling you" anything. That way NTs can figure out "on their own" that they should fix something rather than being told to fix something I do the same thing when trying to correct someone above me, for example my boss. I ask the question because I don't know if the workplace rules have changed, so I get more information and they get to double check that everything is correct!
@@that1fangrl Very well explained! While thinking about it, I second-guessed my neurodivergence for a moment because (1) I've picked up on this kind of thing before and (2) I've approached people like this before ...until I realized (1) I've _also_ been the autistic person in the video and (2) that's probably internalized ableism + masking and/or inability to handle conflict at the time _and/or_ inability to find words to be more direct.
The entire translation tiktok on what neurotypicals mean is exactly why I say I don't like to make new friends anymore. I have met some great ND people, but ever since I got out of HS everyone I ever try to be friends with has ghosted me entirely.
no wonder when i was getting tested for autism last year (end test unsure, too adhd to tell, no dx for now) and in my report she said i made good eye contact even though i only looked her in the eyes a few times during the few hours and mostly looked at her mouth too. i thought that was weird.
@@Star_Rattler Weird. I prefer not looking at people at all, but whenever I can't focus on what they're saying because of too much bg noise, then ill look at their mouth so I can lipread them as they talk
idk about this one? bc in certain circumstances, ppl *definitely* want eyeball-to-eyeball contact (not physically, ew.) but if someone is looking at my face, i usually cannot look at their face.
@@DroplightStudios I've never been diagnosed with anything, and I assume I'm NT or possibly ADHD, but throughout my whole life, I usually look at people's mouths. Really I kinda look at their whole face, but my focus is on their mouth. Whether or not "eye contact" means looking directly into their eyes or not, NTs usually just want you to look at their face when talking to them.
@@TheCimbrianBull ¿what do you do if you need ice cream and the only spoon thats clean is that excessively big serving spoon or that spoon with the weird uncomfortable handle😱? 🥄
This actually is untrue. Don’t worry, it blew my mind and almost sent me into a spiral, but no the literal definition of eye contact is two people looking at each others eyes. (See the Cambridge Academic Dictionary and all dictionaries and reputable articles lol) I think what she meant is that if you look somewhere else on the person’s face, (like between the eyes) that’s still socially passable as eye contact. The other person likely won’t notice and they will feel like you’re paying attention to them
The alcohol thing- THAT IS SO REAL, I JUST GASPED. I have sensitivity issues and the only time I can be in crowds of people or in a disco is when I drink alcohol. Because my senses just shut down, I cannot get overstimulated because I basically can't feel anything (and as a person who feels things very deeply, that is just amazing).
I know some people who are alcoholics. Be careful. I would use psychedelics or weed instead. I feel fuzzy on weed, so mushrooms are good. I also wear sunglasses and loops at concerts. It looks cool to me😅
@@JDMimeTHEFIRST Yess!! I know! Fortunately, I have a lot of control upon how much I drink. I only do it on parties and when I feel like I'm drunk I just stop drinking. Thank you for your advice🥰
Ohhhh god, velvet... It's too freaking smooth, it makes my skin tingle and tickle in an unbearable way, but like that kind of super soft smooth blanket also, it's both super pleasant and also the opposite.
4:21 I actually learned from many years of choir that if you don't want to look at people looking at you look where rhey are but their eyes are not (like a back wall or the floor if you're higher than the audience)
Mitchels vs the Machines is one of the only films that hits so hard for my AuADHD self. I love dinosaurs and heavily related to both of the younger kids in that aspect because I really wanted to talk to anyone and everyone about them as well as blurting out random facts I learned. (Like its actually thought now that the T-Rex wasnt fully covered in feathers, but it's still possible it had a few, and the roar of the T-rex is 10 times more terrifying because us humans wouldn't actually be able to hear it but could only feel the vibrations of the roar.) I didn't have a lot of friends either that would talk with me about dinosaurs, but mainly a childhood friend who we played with a lot because he too likes dinosaurs and would listen to me talk about them and play them with me. We recently reconnected again and its been a blast. I was told I couldn't be an artist when I was younger because "they don't make a enough of money to support themselves" I always felt like a disappointment for not drawing the things my parents wanted/expected me to draw and was told I was weird because of it. (had numerous meltdowns when I did try to do what they wanted me to do) I ended up finding "my people" through an Animation School and was commissioned by the teacher on more than one occasion for a book cover (not school related) and banners/ads for the school. Got hired as an Art mentor at the school and get to talk about art 24/7 with kids older and younger than me, as well as been a guest Teacher in multiple lessons, right out of highschool! I am working on a short film that has dinosaurs in it too!! (Based on one of my favorite games, and the developers of said game saw it and ended up giving me a free copy of the game remake when it first came out because of it
1:25 i wanted to do this so if anyone wants to reply to this with three things they also hate touching feel more than welcome too. Or reply with whatever you want as long as it's not something mean. Here's my top Three most hated things i have touched: At number one we have ✨Water✨ At number two we have ✨Wet clothes ✨ And at Number Three , we have ✨Wet Dog Fur✨ I have realized these are all water based ones... So besides water or anything wet here are the things i would put instead of 2 and 3 Two will be ✨ Anything Sticky✨ Three will be ✨Any fabric that is rough on my skin✨
I'm generally not really that sensitive to physical texture touch (unless it's something slimy underwater, I will cringe myself into the 5th dimension trying to deal with that), but for me personally, when I'm eating something, I cannot _stand_ the texture of either nuts or beans. Beans taste like wet flour and nuts have just a _bit_ too much give to them before they break
Oh jeez, PTSD flashback of getting seaweed wrapped around me in the lake. But even then I don't "hate the feeling", it's just cringe. As much I have hearing and smell and sometimes sight sensitivity, touch with my HANDS thankfully isn't an issue. Now touching any other part of my body, whole other story...
There is a springs in my hometown that everybody goes swimming in, I don't anymore, but when I did swim in it, I would HAVE to wear my sandals in the water because if my feet touched the warm mossy algea I was losing my entire collective shit.
The eye contact part is NOT TRUE. Eye contact does mean looking into the other person’s eyes. There are different levels of intensity that people can employ and there can be different levels of meaning to it. At normal social distance you can generally simulate it well enough socially with a superficial acquaintance by watching the nose or lips and just glancing occasionally at the eyes. But this “oh it’s just generally looking at the person’s face” thing is a lie. When you’re generally looking at the center horizontal line of a person’s face you are looking at their eyes. Neurotypical people are able to gauge how much to ride this line to convey the emotions or social signals they want to in part because they get a feedback loop from what the other person’s eyes are doing. Which they can tell because they are making eye contact by looking at the other person’s eyes.
That’s how I am with video games or tv. If it’s something super popular like Demon Slayer or something that I didn’t like before it was popular, i typically avoid it
this is so funny to me, my special interest was FNaF when it *first* came out & i was in middleschool, no other neurotypical kids liked it and it was seen as a "cringe" fandom/interest. now, all this time later & i have different special interests now, & suddenly FNaF is HUGELY popular and everyone is bananas over it. i was into it befor it was cool, and then as soon as my interests change, it blows up in popularity 😂
For me it's similar. I have a theory about it. It's that we might avoid popular stuff, because it reminds us of the other (popular) kids, by whom we were outcasted for being different. And if we're not like them, their interests aren't for us either, which is why we learn to embrace the niche-interests. What do you think of this theory?
1:33 WOW i missed that one too, when she got mad i was so confused because that felt out of no where, and i thought i was good at reafing social cues, guess not lmao
Is it just me that doesn't get how to mask? Over time I've figured out some super basic and vague things on how to mask, but I can still never really get or understand social cues. I often still say things I'm "not supposed" to say. I wish there was a full list on the specifics of social cues and "unacceptable" to say things so I can figure this out more.
I usually just say nothing in the presence of anybody, and then I have 10 full blown conversations with myself when I’m alone to make up for it. That may or may not be problematic.
@@theletters9623 Oh man, its the same for me. I used to mask better when I was younger. But then I stopped because I found friends I could be my autistic self with. Now I don't know anything.
my special interest is fidget toys and ik that it’s not a crazy cool special interest but it’s my special interest and when I see another fidget I’m like omg!! Ya ik that was random
4:15 Hugh Dancy is actually decent at it. Unfortunately, the network made him drop most of Will’s stimming behaviors etc. Also they use Asburger’s which is not great but the show is 10 years old.
4:35, I ... was not aware of that. When my brother and I say that someone looks familiar, it ALWAYS means to look up the cast to find them. Always. We need to know.
1:42 I've heard a lot of people say the other participants in videos like this are "experiences with neurotypicals " but to me, this and other videos like this sounds like an overstimulated autistic person trying to keep cool while talking to another autistic person.
To the question of naming 3 things you hate to touch: 1. Wet, squishy things (worms, noodles, etc) 2. Sandpaper and similar textures 3. Sticky things are the worst tho
The thing is though, T-Rexs and other tyrannosaurs would not have feathers- at least not in adulthood. They wouldn’t need them for anything that feathers are utilized for. I recommend looking at Prehistoric Planet for possibly the most realistic depictions of tyrannosaurs in terms of film.
@@felwalkr_94 A few years ago a paleontologist showed me paintings of dinosaurs made by her and colleagues that depicted "realistic dinosaurs" and the T-Rex did have feathers. As far as I know we don't have definitive answers regarding these questions (and even if we had we couldn't be sure they're so definitive).
4:20 Excuse me, what? Why the hell do they keep telling me to look at them when they're talking to me when I'm literally looking in their direction then? Ugh what
Because everyone is different. I have learned from observing that different people prefer different things. Generally looking at someone's nose or brow or ears is sometimes fine. Or just glancing at their eyes to show "I see you, I hear you" then looking away is enough. Other people are very demanding that you look directly at them in the eyeballs, and can tell if you're not. Those people are also assholes and on a power trip. They want to dominate over your functions, forcing you to behave a way they deem acceptable. That's a them problem sweetness, not you. They can suck a lemon.
@@TopAnimeLoverEverah so basically I will never get it right, and I will either be staring or will not be looking at them even if I'm looking directly at them....... Well damn
Thank you for the last video I actually have trouble with people telling me their fine because I always initially thought people saying their day was fine or their fine = not ok tell me why what’s wrong and sometimes their like. Nothings wrong I swear and them in confused
I was RLLY smart in primary skl. I had a special group thingy every thursday for it with 2 other kids. Now im in secondary and in top set for all 3 set subjects- But like. I dont understand a thing 0-0 Wait. ‘Look me in the eyes’ Doesnt mean look directly into someones eyes? HUHHH.
According to the American Museum of Natural History: "Paleontologists think feathers may have first evolved to keep dinosaurs warm. But while a young T. rex probably had a thin coat of downy feathers, an adult T. rex would not have needed feathers to stay warm." Also from their website: "A small tyrannosaur from the same family lived in the Liaoning forest. This small cousin of T. rex, Dilong paradoxus, was also a fierce predator. Certain features of Dilong resemble those of T. rex. Both have large jaws with small, tightly packed front teeth. But this tyrannosaur has some surprising features--most notably, a thin coat of featherlike fibers. A team of paleontologists led by Xu Xing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences studied the fibers and thinks these "protofeathers" may have helped keep Dilong warm. A relative of T. rex sporting feathers might seem surprising, but scientists actually expected to find a feathered tyrannosaur one day. Tyrannosaurs are classified as advanced theropods (theropods are two-legged, meat-eating dinosaurs). Scientists have found simple feathers on a wide range of advanced theropods, suggesting that feathers were present throughout the entire group." If you're interested in reading more of the article its titled "A Feathered Tyrant". Thank you for attending my info dump. 😁
ah yes, I love when neurotypicals allude to a party and then they get mad at you for never saying yes to events they never invited you to. as if they wouldn't also be mad if you asked "can I come?" because then you are inviting yourself and putting them in the position where it's not ok to say no.
The thing with people faking disorders or other mental diabilities is that they make it harder for level 1/low help people like me to really be seen because of how little it's noticed in us. And it takes away the seriousness from specific situations we go through too
why "back in my day" doesn't mean "back in my day"? I'm brazilian, and everytime I see this in movies, it literally means what they are saying "back in my day things were different" for example.
I mean statistically ND people get along best with ND people, but also ADHD people are in that category. But why offended at someone thinking you’re autistic?
DISCLAIMER: Please refrain from making uneducated assumptions about an individual's diagnosis. You are allowed to express concern of whether you believe someone is faking or not, however, please refrain from leaving harmful comments regarding them. Autism is a spectrum. Everyone is different and exhibits different traits. You may or may not relate to these individuals and that is fine but do not assume that because you have traits that differ from them, they are not autistic! If an individual is proven to be faking or they have a negative reputation in the community, please feel free to respond to this post or private message me on my socials!
Also for clarification: Autism as well as any other neurodiversities represented in these videos are on a spectrum! Everyone is different! Do not use these videos as a means of diagnosing yourself or even questioning your diagnosis! Everyone will have different experiences and struggles! You are perfect the way you are and do not define yourself because a lot of autistic individuals don't like a food but you do, or you like wearing socks compared to those who don't! Be yourself and accept that we are all different!
Do you know what show the cute cartoon characters are from and that one short
I need more neurotypical conversation translations 😭
do they really mean "you're invited" when they say "i'm having a party next week" or "we're going to have some beer in town, X, Y and Z are coming too"?
Sameeeeeeeee
I was so shock, I'm lucky those around me never speak like this at all or at least I can't sense any double sense meaning, I usually stick to that people
lmao imagine if there was google translate but for nurodivergents 😭
@ana.5687 welp I couldnt choose to avoid my mom. Well now I can😏
Thank you to the person who talked about being able to read social cues in regard to others, but not when it is about ourselves. I’m a hospice nurse. Deal with all kinds of emotional issues, especially my patients’ families. I can enter a home, and within minutes know exactly what type of emotional support each person there needs from me, and can readily provide it. Yet, totally lost when I’m the subject in an interaction. This finally makes sense.
I also think, for me at least, it's about where people's emotions are being directed. When directed at me, I get overwhelmed by other people's emotions moreso than when I'm watching them from the sidelines.
YES this also applies to fictional characters btw!! Bc when there’s like really subtle foreshadowing I almost always IMMEDIATELY pick up on it (even if it relies on social cues!!), but one time a girl literally gave me her number and I did not understand what that meant lmaooooo
I’ve been diagnosed with autism and ADHD. Watching these type of videos make me feel understood.
Fr these make me calm down and feel like I belong. There the videos I go to when I need comfort
the “I’m obsessed with that show” lead me to watch entire series over weekends in high school so I could talk about it and engage with said person, only for them to say that they’d only watched the first 3 episodes before starting a new conversation about something else they were “obsessed with”, rinse and repeat 😭
1:46 Why do people get mad when we don't understand a social cue? LIKE BRO YOU'RE GETTING MAD AT ME FOR NOT KNOWING THAT YOU WANTED SOMETHING BEACUSE YOU GAVE ME *HINTS* INSTEAD OF TELLING MEEEEEEEE
Exactly. Neurotypicals like to get angry over anything so they can bully people. It’s their whole thing. I don’t know telepathy. Pardon moi
I really need more of these neurotypical conversation translations. I didn’t know the translation of any of the phrases said in the video that neurotypicals say. When I heard those phrases said to me in real life, I always misinterpreted it wrong.
1:31 is super relatable and just as confusing everytime; even now as i'm watching the video idk what the 'obvious' social cue is supposed to be
"whatcha doing?"
The reason neurotypicals will ask questions instead of give orders is because other neurotypicals will get offended at being given an order. By asking a question, they are giving you a chance to notice something is wrong without them "telling you" anything. That way NTs can figure out "on their own" that they should fix something rather than being told to fix something
I do the same thing when trying to correct someone above me, for example my boss. I ask the question because I don't know if the workplace rules have changed, so I get more information and they get to double check that everything is correct!
@@that1fangrlthank you for explaining, your comment was very helpful. 👍
@@that1fangrl Very well explained! While thinking about it, I second-guessed my neurodivergence for a moment because (1) I've picked up on this kind of thing before and (2) I've approached people like this before
...until I realized (1) I've _also_ been the autistic person in the video and (2) that's probably internalized ableism + masking and/or inability to handle conflict at the time _and/or_ inability to find words to be more direct.
@@that1fangrl Oh, that makes so much more sense now!!
The entire translation tiktok on what neurotypicals mean is exactly why I say I don't like to make new friends anymore. I have met some great ND people, but ever since I got out of HS everyone I ever try to be friends with has ghosted me entirely.
It took me a long time to realize I can only be friends with neurodivergent people. Just don’t waste time on neurotypicals.
4:21
WAIT, IT'S NOT?!!
I've been looking at people's mouths for YEARS trying to avoid eye contact. ToT
no wonder when i was getting tested for autism last year (end test unsure, too adhd to tell, no dx for now) and in my report she said i made good eye contact even though i only looked her in the eyes a few times during the few hours and mostly looked at her mouth too. i thought that was weird.
@@Star_Rattler Weird. I prefer not looking at people at all, but whenever I can't focus on what they're saying because of too much bg noise, then ill look at their mouth so I can lipread them as they talk
idk about this one? bc in certain circumstances, ppl *definitely* want eyeball-to-eyeball contact (not physically, ew.) but if someone is looking at my face, i usually cannot look at their face.
@@DroplightStudios I've never been diagnosed with anything, and I assume I'm NT or possibly ADHD, but throughout my whole life, I usually look at people's mouths. Really I kinda look at their whole face, but my focus is on their mouth. Whether or not "eye contact" means looking directly into their eyes or not, NTs usually just want you to look at their face when talking to them.
The proper way to eat ice cream is with a fork straight out of the carton. There should be no debate about this.
I use a butter knife some times.
Spoons for the win! 🥄
@@TheCimbrianBull ¿what do you do if you need ice cream and the only spoon thats clean is that excessively big serving spoon or that spoon with the weird uncomfortable handle😱? 🥄
@@Sarcasmarkus spoonception! I have a spork - a combination of both spoon and fork! I've got both bases covered! 😁🥄🍴
I do use a fork sometimes 😅
Idk why, but i got a real kick out of being taken out of the fridge at 0:44. I felt like i had become a carton of milk or smthn
Mitchells vs the Machines has the most UNDERATED autistic characters aka THE WHOLE MITCHELL FAMILY
I need to watch Mitchells vs the Machines now
yes!! plus i loved the queer representation as well
Wait, eye contact isn't EYE looking? Like looking at the eyes?
Wait... WHAT?!
I am also confused by this revelation.
Im still lost for this one... why call it eye contact then? Thought it was looking at someones pupils.
I'm confused what is it then?
This actually is untrue.
Don’t worry, it blew my mind and almost sent me into a spiral, but no the literal definition of eye contact is two people looking at each others eyes. (See the Cambridge Academic Dictionary and all dictionaries and reputable articles lol)
I think what she meant is that if you look somewhere else on the person’s face, (like between the eyes) that’s still socially passable as eye contact. The other person likely won’t notice and they will feel like you’re paying attention to them
The alcohol thing- THAT IS SO REAL, I JUST GASPED.
I have sensitivity issues and the only time I can be in crowds of people or in a disco is when I drink alcohol. Because my senses just shut down, I cannot get overstimulated because I basically can't feel anything (and as a person who feels things very deeply, that is just amazing).
I know some people who are alcoholics. Be careful. I would use psychedelics or weed instead. I feel fuzzy on weed, so mushrooms are good. I also wear sunglasses and loops at concerts. It looks cool to me😅
@@JDMimeTHEFIRST Yess!! I know! Fortunately, I have a lot of control upon how much I drink. I only do it on parties and when I feel like I'm drunk I just stop drinking. Thank you for your advice🥰
Ohhhh god, velvet... It's too freaking smooth, it makes my skin tingle and tickle in an unbearable way, but like that kind of super soft smooth blanket also, it's both super pleasant and also the opposite.
This is so true omg
I had a velvet shirt once that was unbearably smooth in one direction and like sandpaper in the other direction. I didn't keep it.
2:16 IS SO TRUE I HATE THE FEELING OF TOWELS AND RIBBONS JUST EUGH
4:21 I actually learned from many years of choir that if you don't want to look at people looking at you look where rhey are but their eyes are not (like a back wall or the floor if you're higher than the audience)
1:50 i would actually take the spoon and gouge their eyes out like babygirl you won't care about your silverware when you don't have eyes ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Mitchels vs the Machines is one of the only films that hits so hard for my AuADHD self.
I love dinosaurs and heavily related to both of the younger kids in that aspect because I really wanted to talk to anyone and everyone about them as well as blurting out random facts I learned. (Like its actually thought now that the T-Rex wasnt fully covered in feathers, but it's still possible it had a few, and the roar of the T-rex is 10 times more terrifying because us humans wouldn't actually be able to hear it but could only feel the vibrations of the roar.) I didn't have a lot of friends either that would talk with me about dinosaurs, but mainly a childhood friend who we played with a lot because he too likes dinosaurs and would listen to me talk about them and play them with me. We recently reconnected again and its been a blast.
I was told I couldn't be an artist when I was younger because "they don't make a enough of money to support themselves"
I always felt like a disappointment for not drawing the things my parents wanted/expected me to draw and was told I was weird because of it. (had numerous meltdowns when I did try to do what they wanted me to do)
I ended up finding "my people" through an Animation School and was commissioned by the teacher on more than one occasion for a book cover (not school related) and banners/ads for the school. Got hired as an Art mentor at the school and get to talk about art 24/7 with kids older and younger than me, as well as been a guest Teacher in multiple lessons, right out of highschool!
I am working on a short film that has dinosaurs in it too!! (Based on one of my favorite games, and the developers of said game saw it and ended up giving me a free copy of the game remake when it first came out because of it
"they dont want you to infodump" aww
1:25 i wanted to do this so if anyone wants to reply to this with three things they also hate touching feel more than welcome too. Or reply with whatever you want as long as it's not something mean. Here's my top Three most hated things i have touched:
At number one we have ✨Water✨
At number two we have ✨Wet clothes ✨
And at Number Three , we have ✨Wet Dog Fur✨
I have realized these are all water based ones... So besides water or anything wet here are the things i would put instead of 2 and 3
Two will be ✨ Anything Sticky✨
Three will be ✨Any fabric that is rough on my skin✨
I'm generally not really that sensitive to physical texture touch (unless it's something slimy underwater, I will cringe myself into the 5th dimension trying to deal with that), but for me personally, when I'm eating something, I cannot _stand_ the texture of either nuts or beans. Beans taste like wet flour and nuts have just a _bit_ too much give to them before they break
Oh jeez, PTSD flashback of getting seaweed wrapped around me in the lake. But even then I don't "hate the feeling", it's just cringe. As much I have hearing and smell and sometimes sight sensitivity, touch with my HANDS thankfully isn't an issue. Now touching any other part of my body, whole other story...
There is a springs in my hometown that everybody goes swimming in, I don't anymore, but when I did swim in it, I would HAVE to wear my sandals in the water because if my feet touched the warm mossy algea I was losing my entire collective shit.
4:24 what on earth my life is a lie
The eye contact part is NOT TRUE.
Eye contact does mean looking into the other person’s eyes. There are different levels of intensity that people can employ and there can be different levels of meaning to it.
At normal social distance you can generally simulate it well enough socially with a superficial acquaintance by watching the nose or lips and just glancing occasionally at the eyes.
But this “oh it’s just generally looking at the person’s face” thing is a lie. When you’re generally looking at the center horizontal line of a person’s face you are looking at their eyes. Neurotypical people are able to gauge how much to ride this line to convey the emotions or social signals they want to in part because they get a feedback loop from what the other person’s eyes are doing. Which they can tell because they are making eye contact by looking at the other person’s eyes.
Personally, I find that the more popular something is, the less likely I am to get into it.
That’s how I am with video games or tv. If it’s something super popular like Demon Slayer or something that I didn’t like before it was popular, i typically avoid it
@@autistically.autistic i decided to boycott game of thrones specifically because of this.
OH MY GOSH SAAAAME
this is so funny to me, my special interest was FNaF when it *first* came out & i was in middleschool, no other neurotypical kids liked it and it was seen as a "cringe" fandom/interest. now, all this time later & i have different special interests now, & suddenly FNaF is HUGELY popular and everyone is bananas over it. i was into it befor it was cool, and then as soon as my interests change, it blows up in popularity 😂
For me it's similar. I have a theory about it. It's that we might avoid popular stuff, because it reminds us of the other (popular) kids, by whom we were outcasted for being different. And if we're not like them, their interests aren't for us either, which is why we learn to embrace the niche-interests. What do you think of this theory?
ok but for real that last tiktok I NEEDED
1:33 WOW i missed that one too, when she got mad i was so confused because that felt out of no where, and i thought i was good at reafing social cues, guess not lmao
Is it just me that doesn't get how to mask? Over time I've figured out some super basic and vague things on how to mask, but I can still never really get or understand social cues. I often still say things I'm "not supposed" to say. I wish there was a full list on the specifics of social cues and "unacceptable" to say things so I can figure this out more.
I usually just say nothing in the presence of anybody, and then I have 10 full blown conversations with myself when I’m alone to make up for it.
That may or may not be problematic.
@@felwalkr_94 Probably. I can relate. I don't do that all the time but I do it a lot.
I used to know how to mask but then I Forgot and I dont know how to un forget and its the wildest thing
@@theletters9623 Oh man, its the same for me. I used to mask better when I was younger. But then I stopped because I found friends I could be my autistic self with. Now I don't know anything.
same
1:22 ice... every time i have to get ice cubes with my bare hands it hurts like hell 😭
0:10 Help because why is this so true?
my special interest is fidget toys and ik that it’s not a crazy cool special interest but it’s my special interest and when I see another fidget I’m like omg!! Ya ik that was random
it IS a cool special interests ! all special interests are cool !
0:28 i have a hyperfixation on project sekai (more specificly, wonderlands x showtime)
And nightcord at 25:00. My favorite characters are Emu and Mizuki
4:20 are u serious, no way, i actually can’t believe this
4:15 Hugh Dancy is actually decent at it. Unfortunately, the network made him drop most of Will’s stimming behaviors etc.
Also they use Asburger’s which is not great but the show is 10 years old.
What’s the show in this video with the two kids talking about dinosaurs? It looks super cute!
The Mitchel’s vs the machines
1:00
Yes, I’m actually in that group!!
4:22 WAIT WHAT???
1:18 I HAVE THAT SHIRT LOL-
4:35, I ... was not aware of that. When my brother and I say that someone looks familiar, it ALWAYS means to look up the cast to find them. Always. We need to know.
4:21 wait what
1:42 I've heard a lot of people say the other participants in videos like this are "experiences with neurotypicals " but to me, this and other videos like this sounds like an overstimulated autistic person trying to keep cool while talking to another autistic person.
Lmaoo the she was a fairy and swing is so funny 🤣😭💀
4:24
NO I don't believe that LMAO
1:12 be careful tho that lead me to a decade of hell and addiction and now im on the methadone program :D (sarcastic smile)
To the question of naming 3 things you hate to touch:
1. Wet, squishy things (worms, noodles, etc)
2. Sandpaper and similar textures
3. Sticky things are the worst tho
I WANT THAT ROOM 💕💕💕 0:40
What show is the T-rex conversation from?
The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Mitchells vs machines!!
Ok thanks!
The thing is though, T-Rexs and other tyrannosaurs would not have feathers- at least not in adulthood. They wouldn’t need them for anything that feathers are utilized for.
I recommend looking at Prehistoric Planet for possibly the most realistic depictions of tyrannosaurs in terms of film.
@@felwalkr_94 A few years ago a paleontologist showed me paintings of dinosaurs made by her and colleagues that depicted "realistic dinosaurs" and the T-Rex did have feathers. As far as I know we don't have definitive answers regarding these questions (and even if we had we couldn't be sure they're so definitive).
Ima just say my vocal stims here
“aaa”-(high pictched/quiet)
“everyday I’m shuffling👹”-(everyday I’m shuffling)
There’s more but eh..
I'm that person who only this morning realized something huge because of 4:22 and I'm feeling really Simple Simon for it...
Soundoftheforest!
4:20 wait what? I've been doing it right the whole time??? I've been looking generally at the face to avoid eye contact
4:20
Excuse me, what? Why the hell do they keep telling me to look at them when they're talking to me when I'm literally looking in their direction then? Ugh what
Because everyone is different. I have learned from observing that different people prefer different things. Generally looking at someone's nose or brow or ears is sometimes fine. Or just glancing at their eyes to show "I see you, I hear you" then looking away is enough. Other people are very demanding that you look directly at them in the eyeballs, and can tell if you're not. Those people are also assholes and on a power trip. They want to dominate over your functions, forcing you to behave a way they deem acceptable. That's a them problem sweetness, not you. They can suck a lemon.
@@TopAnimeLoverEverah so basically I will never get it right, and I will either be staring or will not be looking at them even if I'm looking directly at them....... Well damn
1:31 so relatable :(
Thank you for the last video I actually have trouble with people telling me their fine because I always initially thought people saying their day was fine or their fine = not ok tell me why what’s wrong and sometimes their like. Nothings wrong I swear and them in confused
0:16 so real I have all 3 and dysgraphia 💀
Wait, you don’t stare into people’s eye to make eye contact?! I THOUGHT YOU ACTUALLY HAD TO LOOK INTO THEIR EYES AND SEE WHAT COLOR THEY ARE 💀
I thought eye contact meant looking directly into one's irises or at least at a person's eyes.
WHAT IS THE CARTOON WITH THE T-REX THING
Is eye contact really NOT staring eyeballs to eyeballs?
apparently not 😔
4:23 WAIT!! REALLY!?!? My world just turned upside down...
I have anxiety not the best but people have wores TwT
4:22
Wait actually???
MY LIFE IS A LIE
I hate touching:
Ice: it sticks to my fingers
Cotton balls: it sticks to my fingers
Ground: it is dirty
I hate touching the ground I wish I was floating so I wouldn’t have to :(
4:21 HUH WAIT WHAT?! IT DOESN'T?!
I was RLLY smart in primary skl.
I had a special group thingy every thursday for it with 2 other kids.
Now im in secondary and in top set for all 3 set subjects-
But like. I dont understand a thing 0-0
Wait.
‘Look me in the eyes’
Doesnt mean look directly into someones eyes?
HUHHH.
i've found that 4:56 tends to mean the next one's on you
I would love to hear everyone’s special interests in depth here:
1:37 if it's my ice cream then let me eat it how I want. What's wrong with eating it out of the carton???
1:17. Some ableist comment. Neurotypicals trying to be funny when they’re just being arrogant bullies who know nothing creep me out.
2:40 EHAT MOVIE IS TGAT I NEED IT
the mitchells vs the machines!! one of my favorite movies of all time :)
@@cyan1dal i've watched the movie but i dont remember those scenes in the edit what
4:25 WHAT I WAS DOING OT WRONG ALL THE TIME NO WONDER IT FELT SO WIERD
Anything stinky and micro fibers cloth anything soggy are my no no touches
Yeah, anything sticky, anything I perceive to have germs on it, a d silicone lol
holy moly, it took me a sec to realise the goth girl wasn't a V-Tuber.
The horrible thing about this is that there is actually no significant scientific reason to believe t-rex really had feathers
According to the American Museum of Natural History:
"Paleontologists think feathers may have first evolved to keep dinosaurs warm. But while a young T. rex probably had a thin coat of downy feathers, an adult T. rex would not have needed feathers to stay warm."
Also from their website:
"A small tyrannosaur from the same family lived in the Liaoning forest. This small cousin of T. rex, Dilong paradoxus, was also a fierce predator. Certain features of Dilong resemble those of T. rex. Both have large jaws with small, tightly packed front teeth. But this tyrannosaur has some surprising features--most notably, a thin coat of featherlike fibers. A team of paleontologists led by Xu Xing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences studied the fibers and thinks these "protofeathers" may have helped keep Dilong warm.
A relative of T. rex sporting feathers might seem surprising, but scientists actually expected to find a feathered tyrannosaur one day. Tyrannosaurs are classified as advanced theropods (theropods are two-legged, meat-eating dinosaurs). Scientists have found simple feathers on a wide range of advanced theropods, suggesting that feathers were present throughout the entire group."
If you're interested in reading more of the article its titled "A Feathered Tyrant".
Thank you for attending my info dump. 😁
@@WanderingInWonderland93 Is this meant to disagree with what I said or is it just a fun related infodump? I admit i should have said “*adult* t-rex”
Im autistjc and have never been in GT cause i told my mom i didn’t want to😂i didnt have to suffer
ah yes, I love when neurotypicals allude to a party and then they get mad at you for never saying yes to events they never invited you to.
as if they wouldn't also be mad if you asked "can I come?" because then you are inviting yourself and putting them in the position where it's not ok to say no.
The thing with people faking disorders or other mental diabilities is that they make it harder for level 1/low help people like me to really be seen because of how little it's noticed in us.
And it takes away the seriousness from specific situations we go through too
S W I N G Y
T H I N G
4:22 WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT WAS NOT LITERAL
2:50 what is that movie? :00
Mitchells vr the machines
Hello!
Hello!
Does anybody knows what’s the name of the show at 2:30 ? Thank you 😊
4:23 Wait what?
2:52 what show is that I’m interested
4:23 wait really?
The autistic people having a interest in fnaf is so true😻🤞
....
ANYWAY ANYONE WANNA TLAK ABOUT FNAF
YEEEEES ! who's your fav ? mine's Glamrock Freddy ! :D
whats the show/movie at 2:30 ???
why "back in my day" doesn't mean "back in my day"? I'm brazilian, and everytime I see this in movies, it literally means what they are saying "back in my day things were different" for example.
2:30 I need the name to this show
Can anyone tell me the name of the movie 2:33?
(idk if my comment went through the first time) it's called michaels vs machines!
Thank you so much 🙏 looks really cool!gunna check it out! 💯
One minute fifty seconds to two minutes three seconds, triggered me. I don't know why. Does anyone have any ideas?
2:30 wait, what movie is that🥺
mitchells vs machines :]
@@Star_Rattler oh!!! thank you!!! i was already planning on watching that movie so this is perfect!!!!
Nice.
I know I'm neurodivergent, but I don't know what I have, but I have Tourettes and it's so dang hard
2:48 does anyone know what this show is?
Mitchel’s vs the machines and it’s a movie
Am I the only person who HATES rhetorical questions
People think I'm autistic. Just because most of my friends are doesn't mean I am.😤
I mean statistically ND people get along best with ND people, but also ADHD people are in that category. But why offended at someone thinking you’re autistic?
What movie is 2:30? 😯
y’all who else hates any kind of touching warm wettish food
Idk how to say it in any other way
Lol