Why I'm NOT Leaving YouTube (Part One) - autism & neurodiversity
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- Опубликовано: 17 авг 2024
- Making the switch from "hobbyist" to "pro" hasn't been as easy as I thought, but it didn't half give me a LOT to talk about. Being autistic turned out to be far more relevant to my future plans than I expected. Part of the "Autism and Change" theme.
Special thanks to Kylee for the sound advice 😉
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Was so happy to see an Autistamatic RUclips notification 😊 Brilliant as always and looking forward to the second one. Have a great weekend!
Looking foward to Part 2
Thanks, Quinn. Interesting video. I'm glad you aren't quitting RUclips. I always immediately click when I see you have a new video. Of all the autism creators, I like you best. I like your quirky self and your humor. I wish you good health and prosperity. I like the orderly manner of the information and I feel like I'm learning something others don't cover.
Much appreciated 😊
It’s so lovely to have you back! I’m one of the 2/3 who discovered your channel last year and *devoured* all of it, most of it twice. I’ve really missed your calming, positive influence and can’t wait to see Part 2 and beyond. I wish you every success in this (newish) endeavour, and consider my Patreon contribution money well spent. ❤
Thanks Melissa🤗
I took the uncertain do-it-my-way path in my life about two decades ago - not knowing whether I'd make a living or not. My wife was very supportive which was a necessity, and I couldn't have done it without her. Even tho I could have made a lot more money on the more traditional path I'm very happy where I am, working on my own schedule and in my own way. I hope you the best whatever you end up doing and I'll be here looking forward to anything you release.
Thank you. Mrs A has been a tower of strength to me too.
Hi Quinn, thank you.
Damn. With my memory, I will have to watch this again once Part 2 comes out.
Cliff hangers🙄
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I'll make sure to do a playlist once the story's finished👍
QUINN!
Nice to see you!
Diagnosed after 45 years of not knowing "what was wrong with me" here. It clearly wouldn't have made life "easy," if I'd known earlier, but it would surely have been different. Oh, and my dad was a psychologist 🤣
love your videos Quinn! Your clarity, self awareness, and personable approach is much appreciated in the YT marketplace of autistic creator videos. And yes, I'm one of those who refer to your back catalogue as a sort of reference library, as well as being excited when I see a new video (such as this) drop.
Thank you😊
I love you Quinn ❤
I'm homeless in Australia with my 10yo son currently (we're both dx autistic) Your content and life circumstance is the first, in many years of watching YT that inspires me to join a patreon. I will do that as soon as we're settled in a stable home again. Have also ordered a couple of your tee shirts too 😊
Ps. Have you considered creating short courses for sale?
Thank you for commenting & I hope you're in a better position soon. Offering courses has been suggested before but there are other avenues I need to explore first. There's a long road ahead...
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You mentioned that teachers have used your videos for classroom instruction. That could be a source of revenue, too; school districts have funds for things like that included in their budgets.
As years go by, I have become better with coping with some challenges in life while other things have become more difficult. This channel does make a difference for me, just listening to someone in my age talking about the same struggles I have helps me keep my sanity
I'm watching this after MatPat's final Game Theory video.
Coincidence or not, welcome back, Quinn!
Thank you and 😢
You don't need to change titles or thumbnails frequently, or to release on a regular schedule. I have all notifications turned on, and the excitement of seeing that little brain pop up is good for me, reinforcing that surprises do not always equal bad. You don't need the algorithm to send you to other people's feeds either, as evidenced by all the people who have found you --many through personal referrals such as those I have given or seconded -- even though you were not getting much posted.
I am half-hoping you will settle on "RUclips advocacy educator." Not only would it be a waste of your talents to try to focus on only one of those, but I suspect the most sustainable course would be to have something going on in each area at all times, so that you can be productive but flexible enough to make use of hyperfocus and isolate to recharge when necessary and produce tools and curricula which can bring in some income even when you ate able to get very little time free from self and family care to devote to work.
There's a lot more to this story over the next few releases. Part 2 will go up soon with parts 3 & 4 to follow in (I hope) 7-10 days. This has been quite the learning experience on many levels, so there's much to talk about over several chapters.
Lots of good info here, And I appreciate how deep you dive into research. Thank you.
And thank YOU😊
Yaaay! I love your voice. Literally and representatively. 😀
Thanks for your work! I find it so valuable
I don't mind just once you're here you're the best out of all them
Great to see more thoughtful content, and so pleased to hear that you're not leaving. I'm looking forward to part 2, and wish you all the best for going full time on You Tube. I guess an accurate way of describing your role would be (social media) influencer. Although it does have some cringey connotatons, particularly with the instagram types, in your case I mean it in the best posible way.
I came up with an answer to the question of what to call myself, but that's for a later chapter of the story. Stay tuned!
Quinn! Quinn's back! Not flown away strapped to a helicopter!
But seriously so happy to see you, I fall in the camp of rewatching for comfort and a resource and I adore your style. You've got the critical voice I needed to hear when I was discovering autism, it's been such a bases of not feeling crazy when I'm side eyeing topics like black and white thinking or PDA, that you should so eloquently pick at what some take at face value. Long may you think and speak to us! And live and prosper 🖖
Peace, and long life 🖖
Thank you for these insights and for sharing with us what you are going through.
So glad you're here
It's great seeing you back Quinn! Wishing you the best on your new endeavor! Love your videos!
Looking forward to your videos.
Great content quality as always; seeing both polarities in equal measure regardless of context is highly confusing, however, a resolve either direction will bear fruit 🍏
Watch out for Part Two. 😉😉 It'll become clearer.
New sub, came here based on Autistic AF live stream. I am a consumer of content who doesn't care at all about the production values editing as long as the sound is good, and this was good and easy to listen to while driving/cooking.
Last time I heard a person on RUclips use so many metaphors at a beginning of a video, talking about their Autistic life, I mentioned a tv show before, I used to watch called Angie Tribeca, when it used to be on Channel 4, the amount of metaphors used in that show was a lot, and the people on the show literally did what was said, like take a seat, that person would pick up a chair, it was heavy into comedy.
Well done Quinn! Building paradigms of consistency.
Thank you for your work!
Now how do I throw my money your way?
I think on Patreon you can choose to give what you like, there's a link in the description that I used 😊
Thank YOU for commenting😊 If you'd like to support me in growing the channel, the most straightforward way is through Patreon or PayPal (autistamatic@gmail.com), however I'm in the process of setting up other methods with the future in mind. It's still mind-blowing to me that ANYONE's willing to support me in this, but I'm trying to make it easier for people to do so.
Thank you Quinn I've given a donation. I'm so grateful for the work you always put in. Keep advertising PayPal as I think more people know what that is. The name patrion scares me because I've never used it before but I have used PayPal so as soon as I saw the PayPal address I gave.
How delightful to see a new video! I liked hearing you talk about change. It's really challenging. I've got my own changes coming and am dreading them so listening to your experience is kind of helpful/reassurring. (I found the white background sensorily hard to deal with..very harsh...had to hide the video and just listen instead.)
Great to see you NOT leave! I think you may rightly call yourself a RUclipsr without following all the rules that would generate the highest visibility. However, I mostly view you as an activist for the neurodiverse community.
Thanks for watching 😊 I've a piece discussing autistic activism in the works.
👏👏👏📣📣📣🥂 Welcome back.
I wish you also narated audio books. I love you voice, information style and content ❤️
Thanks Jo. When I get round to writing one of my own, I won't bother hiring anyone else to narrate it then😉
Thank you for your little snippets about how your mind works. I don't know for sure if I'm autistic, but I have suspicions. Many times in my life, I have felt sort of caught in a spider web of thoughts, looking for "it," the perfect solution to everything that is going on in my life, ha ha. It is that drive for the best information, the best solution that trips me up (when moving one area of my life forward at a time is a better solution than standing still).
You've got the voice for it too
Him Quinn:: I'm glad you haven't thrown in the RUclips towel, as you're my favorite autistic RUclipsr. You're closer to my age, as far as I can tell (almost 65) and don't talk at the frenetic pace of many younger autistic RUclipsrs, who take the generally manic pace of RUclips to nerve-wracking extremes, along with jumpy editing. (I understand that's a part of both autism and youth for many, and I assume there has to be a reason for most RUclipsrs to do it, the vast majority of whom are NT.. It just makes me jittery.) But I digress. I'll have to live with the hair, although my autism makes change difficult for me, but it's your head. 😉 If I were to make RUclips videos (I have no plans to, as I'm a writer and my retirement is allegedly meant to allow me to write) I'd use some of your methods: as much factual stuff as the audience can take, with some passion for emphasis, along with quirky quips that probably only 7 people would get. So, looking forward to more from my #1 autistic RUclipsr.
Thank you for commenting Victor, and for your patronage. Change like this can't be easy for anyone at any age, but I really didn't anticipate such a big career change in my 50s! Onwards and upwards though...
@@Autistamatic I find myself in a somewhat similar position -- still writing, but I'm retired from writing what I have to write on a schedule not my own, to writing what I want to write when I want to write it. I can learn scheduling, but what to write about is tougher than I thought it would be. I get the sense after all these years that I have masked myself from myself, so I have a lot of detective work ahead of me. Onwards and upwards, though ...
@@victorkulkosky1184 There's definitely parallels there. I'm still in the midst of this particular stop on my journey, but I'm documenting as much as I feel comfortable with. It's been a surprising time and revealed some unexpected realities that I think are worth sharing. Writing it down can be difficult, but I often find it remarkably cathartic too. Reading your own feelings back from the page can trigger emotional reactions quite different from saying the same words out loud.
Thankyou Quinn. x
Well played
Perhaps it's just me, but the new background hurts my eyes. Perhaps it's the sharp contrast of Quinn (with hair) against that background?
I'll explain it shortly, but it's not my first choice. I prefer black, but it's more practical to use white under my current limitations👍
@@Autistamatic if it's relatively easy, maybe turning down the "brightness" or making the "temperature" so it's "warmer" when editing would help soften the harshness of the white background some are sensitive to?
Other autistic content, makers believe they’ve left Because of The constant barrage of Attack by people leaving Awful comments I am a 55-year-old Autistic dyslexic person, and I’ve tried Facebook and through my profession that I’ve been doing over 35 years working with autistic children in school environment as an educational assistant through my lived experiences. Guidance mentoring other autistic children, as only a autistic person can do through their lived experience, but while I was on RUclips and I joined some autistic groups, parents trying to help and answer their questions I was attacked by people who hate autistic people. It got so bad I left Facebook groups that I was involved with it was only there for a few months, there are a lot of people that hate anything different than being a Neurotypical person I couldn’t stand it anymore. It was horrible the way I felt so I left I think that’s what’s happening with some content makers or they can’t keep up the act that they’ve been putting on in their lives, and on RUclips training mimic Neurotypical, the balance between the autistic community and And getting through to the Neurotypical Typical people or you say be more RUclips lol it is hard to watch a lot of these autistic content makers just love A lot of them just love$$$$$Over truly trying to help a.k.a. mentoring the autistic community through their lived experiences, mimicking Neurotypical more and having to deal with all those negative comments through peoples hatred of them. Think that leads to I’m out of here see ya. I love your channel. I’m so glad I found you recently the last few days awesome. Keep it up all your hard work you great at what you do. Thank you for your insight and truthfulness.
I see your excellent videos as being akin to what scientists, writers or journalists put up on Medium or Substack, so perhaps you could call yourself a “Multimedia Essayist?”
btw I’m in a similar position, being forced by change to attempt to turn my creative projects into a sustainable source of income. I agree it’s scary AF.
Yes there's been a few expletives flying around as I get to grips with it all 😂 Unfortunately, as an autist, it can be difficult finding advisors and professionals we can relate to and/or trust for advice and support at times like these, so it's "seat-o-the-pants" time yet again!
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A question if to stay in your own niche or to try to go where best conditions/resources are is old as life. Going mainstream can have advantages for short term. But it can lead to loose what made one good in the first place, and that can lead to extinction... Good Luck
I'll be telling the story of where we go from here over several videos, but I'm not planning on a change of direction... more a fine-tuning of the engine to get us where we're going more efficiently.
I’ve just read the book, building a second brain and I think the algorithm is like the outsourced version where they are making the connections for us. Quite concerning really.
Are there any resources on how to do well in employment as an autistic person? I see a lot of problems but no solutions.
To get around the repeating videos that start to repop up on my feed, I always like the video. Having a great memory also tells me that I have seen the video. I have found that these cute pet videos are the worst at reposting them. One of which was a couple of roommates that would each film the video with their phones, and each post the video from their phones point of view.
Anyway, I wish you luck in the growth of your channel. Have you reached out to Dan from the Aspie World, though he does a lot of list videos. As for someone with AuDHD, I find video times over 20 minutes harder for me to pay attention throughout. Unless it is my obsessive interest. I guess Autism is one of them, because I can tolerate up to 1 hour videos depending on which channel is running the video. News and such, heck if it is longer than 8 min, I will not watch it. Too much negativity and opinion pieces and talking heads. I want the news not some ‘expert opinion’
You could call yourself a life coach or mentor
You didn't address why you switched to a white background. What was the purpose? The way it's been done here is not very audience/viewer friendly. You've previously done a great job in terms of brand identity, and this specific change goes hard against that.
There are plenty of successful RUclips channels that primarily use black backgrounds, and in your case it works especially well.
It seems like you're making and planning to make changes that will destroy or otherwise dampen what has made your content "stand out" and be uniquely valuable. You can be successful on RUclips with the format that you'd already been using, in fact with the way you had been approaching things (aside from lacking consistency) you have a better chance than most... it just takes time.
Concerned and hoping the next video brings clarification and reflects a more accurate understanding of what actually needs to change. Wishing you well!
Thanks for commenting. It'll be answered on screen, but in short, it's about freeing up scarce time & resources. Using a physical white background saves me hours of editing time, and since my time & energy are stretched right now, it's a logical choice. There's several parts to this story and all will become clear over the next few videos. I've started with establishing the choices before me. What choices I've made and why is all coming up over the next couple of videos, but it's a long story and I can't make it all at once😉 If there's sufficient curiosity I might do a "desk reveal" type video at some point, but I'm really not sure how much interest there would be?
Useful video, I am such a terrible youtuber, I'm more of a watcher and commenter than a content creator like yourself.