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Fantastic, I wish I’d found your channel long before now.

Chris I am amazed, I wish I had the confidence to speak to people like this. And I love the way you explain autism. This is amazing, even as an autistic myself I find it difficult to explain what autism is. I have a passion for changing workplaces for people who are neurodivergent, have health conditions and/or disabled, which is why I went back to education to study HR. But you are doing exactly what I have dreamt of doing for so long. I’m so happy to have watched this.

That’s a good thing to ask people to do (find out what autism is, and what autism isn’t) Too many people misunderstand, I was one of them until I was diagnosed myself.

With the food I can put myself in the kitchen watching them make the food

This has frightened me as I have only just discovered that autism has a much lower life expectancy. My 16 year old son has autism and realizing this reality makes me feel like crying. He is high functioning but at times he becomes so stressed out and anxious. It takes him longer to do general things and I see him struggling. As a mother all I want to do is take all his worries away. I love him so much he is such a kind hearted person. Is there anything I can do for him to ease his anxiety making each day easier for him? Many thanks for this video and I hope you live a long and very happy life. 🙏❤💓💗💖💝😘

Just a thought. There could be several older people with Autism/AS around who where never diagnosed. Maybe this would effect the statistic.

I kinda wish people could see how we see. Playing D&D for instance. It's magical, but it's also quite distracting but I don't think I'd change it

I'm doing a master's thesis on the, loosely speaking, problem of incommunicability. I think the problems you're having with people not being curious might be partly congenital to how human cognition's drive for evolution works. In your particular case, you representing a particularly curious and subsequently erudite person kind of sets you too far from the cognitive architectures of a lot of common people, rendering the innovations you propose on the one hand too frustrating to grasp for them, and thus emotionally unappealing (a problem with people not skilled at learning, because they are not prepared to handle the inevitable confusion that precedes understanding), and on the other hand too far away from their awareness of incentive, rendering them affectively meaningless and uninteresting. Of course, what i'm implying is that your ideas are the opposite of uninteresting; its just that the interestingness depends on the cognitive structures that respond to those inputs. I've personally found that using metaphors that light up other people's cognitive systems at their own terms (their terminology, experiences etc) tends to finally deliver the intuitions i want others to have. That being said it's not always simple, other people's inner world is often much more complex than one tends to expect

Comorbidities do not go along by default they are generated by parents, neighbours and most of all by experts and therapists, as well as by aba fans

Hey I don’t know if you will get this but do you know anything that can help me man I have 6 days to get help to get a job I can do from home and I don’t know how to find a job I have been out of job circulation for a long time and I am in need of help from jobs that will help me with my ADHD , ASD and I am diagnosed ADHD and I am suspected to have ASD, but it takes forever to get the diagnosis but I know I have ASD can you please 🙏 tell me something that may help I am in Co state.

When I moved out of my mom's house I was broke af lol just gotten my first job, so I only had the most essential stuff at my place (bed, cheap tabletop stove, microwave, fridge, a stool and a plastic table). I've slowly bought furniture and stuff I needed, but one thing I haven't found the need to get is a TV. I thought I'd miss TV so much but it's honestly more entertaining to just visualize my own stories cause it's literally whatever I want it to be and there's no commercials lol and with TH-cam I honestly rarely look at the videos, I just listen to them at x2 speed while I lay in bed

Loved the ending. I used to do that. Remember that ventilation does not help

Hey man How have you been?

I was diagnosed with autism at 34 and I knew there was something even in childhood even though my parents wouldn't acknowledge it.I spent a lot of my life being told I was Thick and weird got a lot of bullying in secondary school too. I developed mental health problems in my late teens and early twenties tried to take my life a few times with drug overdoses. I never wanted children and also have eating disorders.I only have my partner ,and a German shepherd my mum is 77 and my sister is schizophrenic and in her 50s my brother committed suicide in 2018 aged 48 and my dad died at 62 when I was in my early 20s back in 2008. I don't see my two friends very often and when my family are gone and my partner of he does before me I will be left alone so I pray that God takes me first. Loneliness is a killer.

I can make simple mathematical calculations. I can see the numbers in my mind. I can also transport myself to the past and see myself in my house when I was a child. I can see places that I have been before, houses, stores, etc

Why is suffocation a co-morbidity?

LMAO at the very end of the video!!! I GD'ed that camera for you too!!😆 Only way that could've been better, is if you'd identified the malfunctioning equipment as a POS - which it was being at that moment.🤣

So I'm not sure if this is what I have. So... when I close my eyes I can see highly detailed moving images, like a video, as if my eyes were open but they are closed. But whatever I think of I can see. All my friends & family think im nutz & don't believe me.

I have only recently (as an adult) became aware of my hyperphantasia shortly after realizing the extent of my autism and i believe i might be a fairly extreme example. I can intentionally "engage" visual components of my brain and physically feel pressure around specific regions (the right partial lobe being the main one). I can quickly start to feel a small headache from this and at first id relate the sensation almost like a sore spot in your mouth you cant stop pushing on. The first night I realized this i was able to "choose" to draw better and it was a pretty crazy feeling. So many of my life experiences suddenly make sense. Certainly a "gift and a curse" situation. My anxieties are built around crystal clear images of worst case scenarios, i have dreams where i fall in love that feel as real as yesterday only to wake up alone and heartbroken. Ive gotten what i believe to be genuine ptsd from minor situations. I certainly struggle at work in the ways you described but hyperphantasia also makes it easy to be a fast learner and super powers my problem solving. its really exciting to start approaching life using this as an intentional tool kit. Right now im learning math essentially from the ground up giving myself visual techniques to think thru problems. Soon im gonna dive into using a mind palace.

I can create high quality(film like) scenarios in my mind i thought i was just overexposed to the internet but it was just super realistic and i enhanced it using cannabis.

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Ooh! I'm 58! 💀

This makes me happy .. I’m tired of this life.. I don’t like it and I understand this video . I pray every night that I will not wake up. I don’t belong in this world

newly diagnosed 36 year old, looking for resources this helped a lot, thanks!

You are a beautiful person. Thank You for your “much needed” message. I know it has brought me to a more optimistic view of what my future could be❤

I am 79 years old and autistic. Age is just an arbitrary number.

As Matt Stone and Trey Parker majestically conveyed during S7E13 of South Park, "Who the hell wants to be 80 anyway?" An average lifespan of about 60 years old is a long ass time for anyone to live, especially those on the spectrum.

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Thanks for sharing! Hope you are doing great!

Oh I’m dead like, next year

It seems like Dr. Temple Grandin also has hyperphantasia!

~Im not sure the thing about trying to fix your wife's problem, instead of just listen & be supportive, is as much an aspie/autistic vs. NT thing, as it is a pretty typical male vs. female thing?~

I appreciate you sharing this with us. This topic means alot to me

Substance abuse you failed to mention. I personally abused alcohol and nicotine to cope with my undiagnosed symptoms for more than 20 years. I have no doubt that shaved a few years off my own life expectancy.

Very Nice

My dad died at 58. He was undiagnosed. But now that i know what i know i know i got it from him. I am 50. I have attempted to take my own life. I have gastrointestinal difficulties. I have a heart condition. I am fit and healthy. I am doing my best to combat the things that can pull me down. I have been in an emotionally abusive relationship now for many years. I am working on leaving this. Its not easy for me at all. I have nobody, no family to fall back on. So i need to be brave.

Thank you. I am a late diagnosed autistic adult and your video was very relatable and helpful.

Wow bro great job I love this 😃 I am very happy for you brother

Still here, brother life keeps me busy, but I find my way back here again. How have you been? I know this is a video from a month ago but still.

I'm scared cuz my cardioenzines levels were 2.5

Idk I'm autistic I've heard 39 years I'm scared of that

You have beautiful hair!

i wish i was as optimistic. i hope you live long an happy! ❤

I’ve been suicidal my whole life. I have pets so that I need to be here to take care of them and this prevents me from taking my own life. They keep me here because I love them.

Thanks alot for sharing brother, New friend here stay connected God bless you

Thanks for sharing 😊

I was not aware of that study, thank you for sharing. I may not have properly conveyed the point I was trying to make. I do appreciate that you stopped by my channel and watched.

Actually the reduced average longevity for Autistic people is about 16 years max. Its NOT 20-30 years less. Research it yourself. See '2023 Lancett study U.K.' which is latest research which shows clearly that the reduced life expectancy (which is not because of being Autistic) is again 16 maximum. In fact when you factor in older age groups, its more like 10-12 years less.

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I was diagnosed with aspergers about 6 years ago. Waiting for adhd assessment. Im 46 years old most days are waking up with dred just now. Im not working and not in a relationship . Its evidently difficult to get help in the uk