I think for me the comfort I drew from it was a grasp at the respect I felt when I was good at academics including science as a class. and having a scientific explanation for someting was one of the few things I was allowed to speak on without getting invalidated or bullied, because I was considered the "good at science girl" and was a desired project-mate for this reason, and I was aware that it was the only voice I could use at the time to command any respect. Nowadays I just hang out with lefites who respect human life and variety but back then i didn't have those choices so pseudoscientific explanations had their appeal to me for this reason.
Have you consumed Ember Green's video essay on Aspie Supremacy? (don't worry about the title, it's clickbait, and she'll explain her choice to use it for the point of the video) She is one of my most respected autistic creators. I find it as necessary as the Munecat one on evo pscyh was. Both these works really heavily made me question where some of my self esteem came from in the years I was a "gifted kid" but before autism diagnosis. To cope with not understanding my differences, I used intellectual supremacy rhetoric and evolutionary psychology to back it up when challenged. I cringe now that I admit this but here we are.
Thanks for reviewing your own video! It's a good post-analysis. And it's great to see someone hold themselves accountable for their past words and actions, process them, and recognize that growth and learning changes the way we see things.
I think I had much the same response back when I was studying pure philosophy. I remember in second year taking the question of the perpetuation of the self in very 'mental first' directions because the idea of connecting the self to the body, when I felt let down by mine, was actively upsetting. Again, lots of internalised ableism there, but sometimes something you just have to climb through (not in the literal sense, more in the sense of 'An ableist society will generate ableist fields of study and one will thus go through a period of internalising those ideologies from the language and structure, before we get a sufficient skill to articulate ourselves out of those normative gaps'). Thanks as always for the brilliant video.
Could you please do a video looking at the research into Williamson's Syndrome? I'm really struggling to find hardly anything about it and i can't afford to get tested (and I'm horrible at navigating research papers....)
And yet, understanding could lead to acknowledging purpose in society from all sides (what role do what neurological types forfill in society?). Purpose may lead to happiness and acceptance... Good video, left much to think about!
If you're in a dangerous or unknown area as solitary forager is probably the safest way to adopt a survival stance and observe to see if it's safer to move on or try to find a group to consolidate power with, yeah?
You should check out Based Camp with Simone and Malcolm Collins. Simone reminds me of you alot. I would watch some of their videos from about 10 months ago.
6:11 "from a common ancestor with apes" I think that phrasing is misleading. Humans *are* apes, even if we don't like thinking of ourselves as animals. 6:35 Both, kind of? Modern people with ancestry outside of sub-saharan Africa have some Neanderthal DNA, so there was some hybridization going on, but not to the extent that Neanderthals were subsumed into the Homo sapiens population or anything like that. AFAIK it's not entirely clear why Neanderthals died out and we didn't, but the current theory is that H. sapiens had an advantage due to living in larger groups. 7:12 friendly reminder that hunter-gatherers still exist and aren't any less human than the rest of us. 7:59 I don’t like the dog comparison. Dog breeds are not a good analogy for extinct human species, let alone the diversity within modern humans, because they are created by selective breeding rather than natural selection.
Or maybe you exist because you do, you matter because you exist. I don't necessarily need to know why a particular rock to know that it matters. (People aren't objects or rocks. They're people).
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Love the idea of updating or commenting on older videos/ideas, it's nice to have updates! Bc understanding is always evolving. Thanks for sharing
I think for me the comfort I drew from it was a grasp at the respect I felt when I was good at academics including science as a class. and having a scientific explanation for someting was one of the few things I was allowed to speak on without getting invalidated or bullied, because I was considered the "good at science girl" and was a desired project-mate for this reason, and I was aware that it was the only voice I could use at the time to command any respect. Nowadays I just hang out with lefites who respect human life and variety but back then i didn't have those choices so pseudoscientific explanations had their appeal to me for this reason.
Have you consumed Ember Green's video essay on Aspie Supremacy? (don't worry about the title, it's clickbait, and she'll explain her choice to use it for the point of the video) She is one of my most respected autistic creators.
I find it as necessary as the Munecat one on evo pscyh was. Both these works really heavily made me question where some of my self esteem came from in the years I was a "gifted kid" but before autism diagnosis. To cope with not understanding my differences, I used intellectual supremacy rhetoric and evolutionary psychology to back it up when challenged. I cringe now that I admit this but here we are.
also the Mad in America podcast
Thanks for reviewing your own video! It's a good post-analysis. And it's great to see someone hold themselves accountable for their past words and actions, process them, and recognize that growth and learning changes the way we see things.
Forgot to say great work Sydney while plugging other youtubers. How faux pas of me
I think I had much the same response back when I was studying pure philosophy. I remember in second year taking the question of the perpetuation of the self in very 'mental first' directions because the idea of connecting the self to the body, when I felt let down by mine, was actively upsetting. Again, lots of internalised ableism there, but sometimes something you just have to climb through (not in the literal sense, more in the sense of 'An ableist society will generate ableist fields of study and one will thus go through a period of internalising those ideologies from the language and structure, before we get a sufficient skill to articulate ourselves out of those normative gaps').
Thanks as always for the brilliant video.
Could you please do a video looking at the research into Williamson's Syndrome? I'm really struggling to find hardly anything about it and i can't afford to get tested (and I'm horrible at navigating research papers....)
And yet, understanding could lead to acknowledging purpose in society from all sides (what role do what neurological types forfill in society?). Purpose may lead to happiness and acceptance... Good video, left much to think about!
If you're in a dangerous or unknown area as solitary forager is probably the safest way to adopt a survival stance and observe to see if it's safer to move on or try to find a group to consolidate power with, yeah?
You should check out Based Camp with Simone and Malcolm Collins.
Simone reminds me of you alot. I would watch some of their videos from about 10 months ago.
6:11 "from a common ancestor with apes" I think that phrasing is misleading. Humans *are* apes, even if we don't like thinking of ourselves as animals.
6:35 Both, kind of? Modern people with ancestry outside of sub-saharan Africa have some Neanderthal DNA, so there was some hybridization going on, but not to the extent that Neanderthals were subsumed into the Homo sapiens population or anything like that. AFAIK it's not entirely clear why Neanderthals died out and we didn't, but the current theory is that H. sapiens had an advantage due to living in larger groups.
7:12 friendly reminder that hunter-gatherers still exist and aren't any less human than the rest of us.
7:59 I don’t like the dog comparison. Dog breeds are not a good analogy for extinct human species, let alone the diversity within modern humans, because they are created by selective breeding rather than natural selection.
Cutie pie
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Or maybe you exist because you do, you matter because you exist. I don't necessarily need to know why a particular rock to know that it matters. (People aren't objects or rocks. They're people).
😂 you embody ignorance. Congratulations.
That's incredibly ignorant