Autism and Misconceptions | PART 1
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Ever since I was diagnosed with autism, I have always been frustrated with the fact that people never understood what it was like for me living as an autistic person, and I have never truly felt accepted as my true self. This is common for a lot of people on the spectrum. I have only really just thought to myself that I can't complain about these things and then not do anything about it - mainly because I never really thought one small person would make a difference to a whole community of people. However, that changes today!
In this video, I talk about how autistic people are constantly being misconceived and misinterpreted as being rude, when in reality, we are just autistic! I hope that by doing this it will help spread more awareness and understanding of autism to neurotypical people and help start making positive changes to a more inclusive and accepting future.
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It was frustrating not knowing I was autistic growing up, because I would always have to leave a wedding to go cry in the bathroom halfway through, and I never understood why or what was making me cry, just that it was a lot. Very confusing to be happy for someone, wanting to celebrate with them, but not able to participate like everyone else.
As a female Millennial, I always thought these were all "normal" behaviors... it's been a big breakthrough in my 30s - thanks to lovely videos like this - that apparently these behaviors are actually not the norm... Potentially explains a lot of problems and strife I've had my whole life. Thank you for sharing.
@@aspenfallen I’m glad the video helped! 🥰
Thank you this is great. We'll ram it home eventually that when we make an analogy that _we know for sure is right because we experienced it ourselves_ we're telling you we think what you said is important because we know what you're going through, which one would think is the _definition_ of empathy.
If enough people state this openly, people should conclude that the one autistic person in front of them _could be the same as that_ rather than being the one outlier who's in fact a thinly-disguised narcissist.
But I doubt they will lol we don't really _get_ the benefit of the doubt..... first assumption always is we're not nice. That's fine. I might try "I'm not a nice person but even _I_ can see that must suck", but got a horrible feeling that'd also not be taken as a gently self-deprecating _joke_
You explained it so well and clearly! Awesome video and very relatable ❤️ I hope people will understand us better because it can be so painful to be misunderstood in all these ways 😢
The touchiness is very creepy! I get it with elders, that they go in close contact, but people mine and thine age? And I love hugs, don’t get me wrong, but being forced…
Apparently the neurotypical folks don’t mean looking directly into someone’s eyes when they talk about eye contact - oftentimes they’re just looking at the whole face. I can’t help looking into people’s eyes when speaking with them, but I do sometimes find this incredibly overstimulating. It only ever happens with neurotypical people - with fellow neurodivergent folks it’s fine.
@@lost_boy even looking at their face is difficult for me sometimes - I understand completely!
That's false, eye contact means eye contact. Anyone telling you that normies don't make eye contact, that person is not likely NT
@HollywoodHRA I have the opposite I can stare down anyone and make them uncomfortable first lol
@@ExistenceUniversity Are you sure you're not just thinking a little too literally? 😉 there's some good heat maps of where Neurotypicals look when making "eye contact" our there, and if what you're saying were true, there would just be two blobs over the eyes of the person being looked at. But what we actually see is a large blob centered around the bridge of the nose and extending down to the mouth. If you search around in the Googles you can find these.
@lost_boy well I have a degree in psychology and people literally look at each other's eyes lol
Thank you for your video. (I'm autistic too.)