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growing up neurodivergent i absolutely loved them and saw myself in them so much

Very good video, incredibly charming and just has me going "Yeah! Yeah! This guy gets it!" The whole time. My friend shared it with me and I'm very glad because I was having a bad day before I watched it

As an actually diagnosed adhd and although not fully diagnosed all phycologists and places where i got ADHD diagnosis they said i probably have autism, i genuinely loved those books because they helped me write and learn my passion for creativity

Great timing, my school has PTC right now.

This is an amazing video. Can’t wait to watch the rest of your backlog and everything you produce from here.

I paused the video at 14:43 because, though I'm always a little reticent to essaypost in the comments, I felt it was worth doing here. I was listening to this in the background while cleaning my room and getting ready for the day (as one does) and thinking about my own experiences throughout childhood, and god to the point where you were speaking about your own, which was the point where I was picking my work boots out from under some discarded pillows; and you listed out both diagnostic criteria alongside your life experiences and I had to just... stop. And think. I was leaning against the edge of my bed, boot in hand, when you said, "I decided to go back to look at my old journals and school notes from childhood. Within, I found stories upon stories about mermaids and dragons and... Pokemon. I found doodles of fairies and mini-comic strips to go along with these stories. And then I compared these journals to my notes taken in university and... yeah. Not much has changed." It brought a genuine tear to my eye, because... well, _yeah._ Isn't that the truth of it? Listen. Self-diagnosed or not, I think there's value to finding comfort and relation in this-- in these stories, in these experiences, in these lives lived and the strings between. (I'm pretty sure my medication kicked in mid-sentence here; and so I apologize for the shift in writing style. It, for lack of a better term, happens. I have diaries full of this, and now you have a comment with the same.) And I'll be clear, I'm _not_ self-diagnosed. I kind of actually fought against my diagnosis for the two weeks between appointments and clung to the opinion of my one friend who told me I _didn't_ have it because I served as his one reminder to upload our videos. (The cognitive dissonance, on my part, was very real.) When we look at our lives in retrospective, we see those very tender, very vulnerable, and very powerfully-real (and, therefore, empoweringly-connective and _wonderful_) aspects of ourselves and of others that we didn't necessarily put together before. Vis a vis notebooks: do mine not look the same? Did I-- the opposite of a "problem child," so much of a pleasure to have in class (despite chewing on my fingers and eating flowers off of bushes without a second thought) that my teachers roped me into tutoring my classmates and grading tests when they wouldn't let me read under my desk-- did I not slide a notebook under my worksheets to write about the stars? Norse and Greek myths? Tesseracts and demons and Frankenstein's monstrous son? Did I, too, not fill the margin over my name with jotted-out thoughts on someone extracting dreams in the basement of a townhouse for profit, or doodles of black holes and accretion disks? I know for a fact that my multiplication tests in elementary school looked the same way that my BC Calculus textbook's back page and morning quizzes did; and that each looked the same way as my notes; and I know that all of them looked the same as my notebooks for my first year of my forensics degree, until I switched to carrying a second notebook for the sake of scratching down my thoughts and doodles because my professors were too annoyed with my asides in my formal lab notebooks and turned-in chapter summaries. I, honestly, wasn't going to comment on this video until I got _to_ that part of it. I was going to make a Tumblr post on the following; but I think I'll say it here and polish it up to post over there, honestly. (Then I need to unpause the video and edit my novel like I said I would on my one day off from work this week. Haha.) I think there are a lot of shared experiences in neurodivergent childhoods-- not in every specific situation, but in general. Off the top of my head, I can think of my stepbrother and I, in the same generation; my mother and my best friend, both millennials; and my stepfather, who is seven years older than my mother and was diagnosed as a child, back in the eighties. There's a vast divide between Steve's diagnosis and mine. I mean, I was diagnosed as an adult and with a comorbid anxiety disorder, then medicated to treat that secondary condition, and I don't think he was ever offered _anything;_ and, while it bears saying that I am a woman and that contributes to the way I specifically was treated, and it bears saying that all four of us were raised abysmally poor, three of us were raised incredibly religious, and all four of us were raised by abusive parents, none of that changes how school systems, medical systems, friend groups, and _everything else around us_ treated and affected us. That central thought is necessary to put forth for what I was thinking and why I was thinking it. My mom and my best friend didn't really grow up with things like this, to my knowledge. Cody had Degrassi. He was a Degrassi boy. Spinner? That was his big ADHD representation (and, honestly, I think he forgot about it until I asked him "Spinner went off his Ritalin and mooned everyone? Why didn't you tell me?"). Likewise, Steve (my stepdad), was raised a JW and... frankly, I don't think he had much of anything. He didn't talk about it much when we were children; I just knew that he consumed an inordinate amount of Diet Mountain Dew, even for a Mormon man. My point being, the world wasn't as kind to neurodivergent people of their generations. I know that. I read a Facebook comment from Steve about how dark and isolating his childhood was while his parents were attempting to "fix" him. He's always been horrible and abusive to me, but that has stuck in my heart and slacked so much of... everything. I know it wasn't as kind to people of my generation, either. It was kinder, though. There's a difference between what I know about my stepfather and the awkward simultaneous isolation-and-definite-issue-addressing of Ben and I's adolescence. Steve and Dav, in Gen X; and Cody and my mother, both Millennials; I think they looked at the way they were raised, like they were meant to hate themselves and _fix_ something intrinsic to their brains, and decided that they shouldn't, and neither should their children. Not for things they couldn't control. That isn't to say that my parents were perfect about our ADHD or mental illnesses (oh, boy, far from it), but, rather, that society as a whole had a slight uptick from the generation before; and my youngest brothers' generation seems far more accepting than ours. That's a good thing, is it not? Because my youngest brother is allowed to go "yeah, I think... well, my dad has ADHD, and my brother and sister, who aren't biologically related, do; my mom does; and I have very bad rage issues. I think it's likely I also have this. I think so. Do I have permission to go calm down in the hall when I need to, please?" And my mom is less likely to get pissed at him than she was at me for teachers asking him the same thing; and his teachers are more likely to be kind to him than they were to our parents for losing assignments or needing help with clarifying instructions; and so I look at him reading Dog Man at age thirteen and I don't think, _"Aren't you a little old for that?"_ the same way that people looked at me reading Captain Underpants when I was nine and went, _"Aren't you a little smart for those? Weren't you just reading a medical dictionary?"_ I think, "Hell yeah. Dog Man. I fucking love Dog Man." I liked Captain Underpants. I'll admit it. Those books made me feel seen. They made me laugh. I read them long past the point I was supposed to. I was ten when Tippy Tinkletrousers came out, but I think the first one I read was Professor Poopypants. I think what's important is that, like Percy Jackson (which I read in the same portion of my life), it made me feel like... to put it a little awkwardly, like being creative, fun, and falling slightly short of your own heroic ideals while still _reaching them_ was more than okay. Being a kid, first and foremost-- even if you're not the kind of kid everyone says you should be-- is what's important. I didn't get to be a kid back then, especially not in the way that other kids did. But damn if those books didn't make me want to be one, especially in the way that George and Harold were, because George and Harold were _like me._ They played like me; they made jokes like me; so why wouldn't I adore these books, even if everyone thought they were "beneath me?" And now that I'm an adult, I see the importance of that even more now. I have to think the way I'm going to think. I have to let myself laugh at a little poop joke (as a treat). And I think, honestly, that I have to make sure that the children around me, and especially the neurodivergent children around me, get to know that it's okay to think and be and do-- as they are. There's nothing wrong with them. You can't fix what isn't broken. But, oh, you can flip-a-rama a goddamn robot fight, hell YEAH.

I remember finding Harold and George’s fear of being separated oddly relatable, as I had a similar thing happen a few times in school but for different reasons. Kids formed friend groups that I wasn’t a part of and I felt kinda lonely, and I kinda understood why they wouldn’t want to have eachother since they both understood eachother

Great video, should be way more viewed

Dav’s work got me through elementary I loved reading and getting inspired for my own comics I’d draw at the time.

Go outside

The humour in the books is actually quite sophisticated once you get past the bathroom humour. As a neurodivergent child with a sophisticated sense of humour raised on The Simpsons, these books were so formative. It was the first time I had seen that style of comedy in a book, it changed the way I thought about writing. They are brilliant.

Why did my friend send me this

Love 80s dark fantasy! Was born in late 88 and was watching all these movies in the 90s. Great time to be a kid!

I have adhd but I don’t really like the label “neurodivergent” Can we just call it what it is? A mental condition.

I found out gay people existed because of these books lmao

Dav Pilkey is the reason why I’m happy that I have ADHD

I really believe if this book never existed, I would not be happy today, thanks dav

Growing up being diagnosed with ADHD by my school (they hired a professional) and having to deal with under equipped teachers, and a parent who believed “I didn’t have ADHD I just needed to focus harder.” This one really hit close.

Next video should be about sonic

the captain underpants books are actually part of the reason i got diagnosed with adhd. i, as a nine year old child, related so hard to george and harold (ESPECIALLY harold) that when i read the part in the 12th book that said they had adhd i started doing loads of research and pushed my parents into getting me a diagnosis… it still took a few years for the diagnosis to happen (i WAS nine when this happened, and i don’t think any adult would trust a nine year old’s view on their mental health), but if probably would’ve taken wayyyy longer if i hadn’t read these books

What's funny is that captain underpants was my first exposure to gay people lmao

fun fact: in dogman, 80-hd is a play on for the thing adhd and i never realised that until the other day😭😭

I never thought that I would see captain under pants and Neurodivergence in the same sentence

14:40 that duck-a-corn goes hard, in 4th grade I drew a duck godzilla and stuck with him forever

To be honest, it was Dav Pilkey that got me into reading, and even writing too! While Steven King is my main inspiration for writing, Dav Pilkey got me into it, especially in writing silly nonsensical stories.

My younger brother got into these books before I did. I thought it was way too immature for me. Then I actually read the first book, and holy crap I was wrong. I read all the books, saw the movie, and watched all the episodes of the show. I haven't read the books in a long time, but looking back as someone with ADHD, I really appreciated how open he was about being neurodivergent and how it shaped his books.

OMG OMG OMG! I have watched this video on TH-cam with G SMOKE 🇺🇸🐐🚬0⃣3⃣😜🖕💛🖕💛 and Black Eric Cartman and it was awesome! I love Dav Plikey because he was diagnosed with ADHD and behavorival problems (just like me) and his Captain Underpants books because I membered reading one book at school whne I was younger! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I see the format from breaking bad in these awesome new adult swims?

What was really interesting is the gay couple didn’t bother me when I was a kid. I thought it was cool lol Idk why LGBTQ stuff is treated so poorly like I didn’t care as a kid so why should adults care

Hope you're having a good day

I got my grampa to like captain underpants with the movie 😎

The first captain underpants book I found was the 2nd one on the bookshelf in my first grade class. I was a reader from a young age but this series really engaged me like no other. From that point on, I began to write my own comics in my notebooks. Learning that I’ve had ADHD & Autism has made Captain Underpants even more important to me, so I thank you for this great video.

I always wondered why I loved the books as a kid, it all makes sense now (I am formally diagnosed with autism, adhd, and anxiety, and the autism diagnosis was since I was 5, I just never put 2 and 2 together about the books) Edit: another childrens book character i believe is neurodivergent is rowley from diary of a wimpy kid

I found the first book on my nans bookshelf, and i was hooked!

I grew up in the US, but what you said about "the channel" is on point. I don't think big corporations realize how important things like bumpers and hosts and everything having a certain "feel" to a TV channel is. That's the one thing on demand streaming can't replace.

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HOORAY FOR CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS!!!!!!!

Lore of Captain Underpants and Neurodivergence momentum 100

i was diagnosed with autism when i was around 3-4. i was in special ed classes, but i was also intergrated in general ed classes. while i didnt grow up with captain underpants, i did grow up with dog man (i was 7 at the time, now 14). as a kid, i would borrow dog man books from my schools library ALL the time. while it was just silly fun at the time, when i looked back, i felt like i saw some reference to neurodivergence in the books (i mean come on theres a robot literally named 80-HD, plus a chapter in one of the books called Behavioral Modification Therapy) when i was looking back sometimes i saw myself in dog man: he was hyper-active, he would get scolded when he didnt behave right, he would be ashamed of his "mistakes". but i wrote this off as me "coping" or me inserting myself, and it was just a weird coincidence. seeing this video gave me a sense of comfort, and that im not the only one who connects some of their life as a neurodivergent kid with pilkeys work. so thank you ❤

I thought this song was the fucking dumb ways to die song

NO.

God, shut up lol

i notice lots of donated captain underpants books with "DELETE" and "DESTROY" written all over the cover.

I haven't gotten a diagnosis but I'm pretty sure I'm on the spectrum somewhere. I've been reading captain underpants since I was in 3rd grade and now my kids read them.

When i was kid and having adhd honestly made me feel bad. Like i had a flaw that couldn't be helped.

i found out about gay people in a way i understood through captain underpants. now i am one. i am uou harold hutchins

I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD since the second grade, when they started giving me medication to stop my hyperactivity. I was definitely a loud kid, hyperactive to the n’th degree, and could never understand social cues. Hell, im still trying to get a grip on adult life and how I feel and operate and what works for me. I never gave much mind to the CU books, as I was more interested in the growing internet at the time, but reading them now and watching the movie… god, it gives me such catharsis to know how much these books are helping other ND children to gain independence, something I me tioned before that I still struggle with

What a title.

this isnt helpng the whole thing of youtubers making video essays about silly wacky things and treating it very seriously like its a true crime documentary

I knewit! From the day i read the last page about the writer being neurodivergent and the robot called "80-HD" (ADHD)