I'm an english teacher, and I always teach prepositions by getting kids to sit on, under and beside their table. Which is both pleasingly chaotic and makes the concept pretty obvious. Thank God I never thought of boxes and penguins!
That’s very helpful. Especially since it will also help kids remember the word “preposition” and it’s meaning if they recall choosing a “position” by their desk.
That would have been delightful. We learned by rote, with rhymes. I still remember the Shirley method rhymes. “Preposition, preposition, starting with an A... preposition preposition don’t go away, go to the middle and see what we say, EFI, LM(?)O... preposition preposition, almost through, start with a P and end with a W, past since through, throughout to toward, under underneeeath, until,” etc. It was... monotonous, and obviously only worked for a certain kind of learner. Although, as an editor, I admit I will sometimes scan through various rhymes to make sure I’m not overlooking any options, lol. In helping my brother with his Master’s papers, I had a whole lesson called Prepositions are Bitches. 🙃 They get a lot of people tripped up, even otherwise solid writers. Bless ‘em.
@MusicalElitist1 They failed to capitalise just one singular bloody word as far as I can tell. Get off your high horse for fuck's sake. Being a teacher doesn't mean you're infallible.
"You're being deliberately obtuse" This bit is killing me inside because on one hand this is so very funny and on the other it is too relatable to be comfortable for me
Oh, this is stirring up old memories. I used to always do poorly in primary school activities that required an understanding of common knowledge. For instance, most people would reply “orange” if asked the colour of a carrot. But I liked to look though vegetable seed catalogues for fun as a child, so I knew that carrots can also be purple, red, yellow, and white. So I would consistently give “wrong” answers because my brain struggles to weigh information according to social use. When asked by an adult and I would explain my reasoning, they would get exasperated and say not to show off and to just put the normal answer. But I couldn’t ever seem to figure out what the defaults were. My brain couldn’t say “hmm. We have seen many colours of carrots and have grown purple ones in the veggie patch. But on cartoons, in my classmates’ lunches, etc carrots are only ever drawn as orange. So I should use that colour as my default when communicating the idea of carrots”.
I think it says more about so called "normal" poeple than you. Carrots can be of all colours. It's not because we arbitrarily and socially selected one type with one color to represent other than others don't exist or do not have the right to be mentioned. Any parallel with humans is inttended 😉
Oh I’ve got a couple stories but here’s one: In first grade my teacher asked the class if anyone could describe Christopher Columbus and I had been reading a lot so I wanted to show off by saying “intelligent”. Only the pipeline b/w my brain and my mouth wouldn’t help me find the word and what came out was “ignorant” instead. All the kids laughed and I felt so dumb :/ In retrospect tho I was right.
🥕🙌 I understand & relate to this!!! People can be difficult. You do you! Kids used to put me down, made me feel not good enough/ different, which makes me want to speak up more & more as an adult, take back the power! You are awesome!😁👍
@@sigh824 Christopher Columbus was ignorant. While the scientific society back then already agreed that earth was round as he tried to prove, most calculation they did back then also suggested that it was much larger than Columbus expected. They have no expectation that there are a landmass between Europe and India he tried to reach and would suggest that most journey West would run out of rations before ever reaching India.
Well since a box is really just a container in which another item can be inside of then technically aren't we all boxes? And if we're all boxes then yes the box is made of you.
Lol this reminds me of the gingerbread man inside a gingerbread house meme. Is the man made of house? Or is the house made of man? He screams for he does not know.
I'm autistic too and this is 100% true. Teachers so often, when I asked questions, assumed I was joking or being obtuse when I legitimately wanted to understand something.
I had a groupmate doing a chemical plant design project. Everyone knows hes high functioning, but his questions..are a bit different. You know how jokes are when something you dont expect people say pops up? Yeah to me it was a bit like that. I know that hes genuine but I just cant stop myself from giving out a chuckle. I guess its what the less gifted have to struggle with. Anyways all the best! Youre probably going to achieve great things.
Omg yes! I remember learning probability and the teachers using a coin flip as an example. I knew there had to be a tiny, tiny possibility the coin could land on its edge and I wanted to know how to account for it or I wouldn't be getting the right answer. It drove them insane.
bearcraz18 God that kind of thing bothers me too. They never explain “its just a hypothetical to better illustrate the concept”. Just “dont think about it.” Well I’m GONNA!
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my dad when I was in the seventh grade. He had come to visit me and we were walking around the mall and talking about a short essay that I had written in class the previous week. He asks me “what did you write it on” and for whatever reason I answered, very sincerely, “paper”. Turns out he was asking me what the topic of the essay was, not how it was written
Idk if it's because English is not my first language and I'm not supposed to know all of the idioms and that's why I take many things literally but I also thought of the same answer as yours and that it was the most logical one
I am also a high functioning autistic person, and when she said “the relationship between you and the box” my first thought was, “Why am i married to a box?!”
My brain always assume spatial relation. I found the box question produces no issue, but I once got asked what relationship I had to a woman I dated.. my response was "well technically I'm currently about 2 1/2 m NW on her left."
the perks of an ADHD brain is that i can track *exactly* how she got to the question "can i eat the box." For any of yall wondering, im guessing (of course i can't say for sure) her child-Hanna brain connected "boxes that have names"-->cereal boxes-->cereal-->can eat cereal from box--> can i eat this hypothetical box.
@@Psychwriteify Given her age, she would've been in school in the 80s mostly and a bit of the 90s. Back then nobody ever talked about or knew shit about autism. It wasn't until 1980 until psychologists made a distinction between autism and schizophrenia and 1987 before they made a check list for behaviors. And this was in the field of psychology, it certainly hadn't been disseminated to run of the mill public school teachers, nor would their education in teaching have included it. Combine that with the fact nearly every class has one or two joker types who like to say shit like this for a laugh, knowing full well what things being said means but doing it anyway to annoy the teacher and amuse the class. I had plenty of these types in my school years, and none of them were autistic and did it purely for their own amusement. When you put all this together, that teacher has no reason to feel like an ass at being frustrated by this and couldn't have known this person had a mental disorder. Honestly, if this woman thought like this about everything all throughout her life, her PARENTS should have noticed something was off about her much earlier. She would've been tested for autism in the modern age, but in the 80s and 90s nobody knew about that shit. Nobody talked about that shit. You just assume someone is being an asshole when they act this way.
Lol 😂 the way she says “To give you a visual..........This woman” and points the laser pointer makes me laugh every time I watch this moment. I love the way she works paintings and her art history degree into the show to support her themes.
as an autistic woman I saw this and laughed harder than I ever have at any comedy routine. inspired me to check out the rest of Hannah's work. reading their memoir right now and loving it!!!
@@LlamasOnJUPITER if you eat the thing you become at least partially made of the thing, until it's fully digested. I would assume that was the concept, but who knows
Whenever I am teaching a concept that a student doesn’t understand, I try to explain it in a different way. And if a child says something absurd, I try to figure out their line of thinking. Or I ask them what made them think of such a thing. It’s often very funny, and in many ways “logical” from the child’s point of view.
It's the best way to make yourself smile.. ask a kid "why do you think that?".. I LOVE asking my autistic kids this! It helps me understand why THEY think the way they do.
When I was in school and they gave standard tests, I got extremely low scores even though I was getting A’s in everything. My mom and teacher sat down to look at my test and answers and could see how I’d gotten the answers, just from how I generally saw the world. It’s so important to do things like this.
YES!! I can totally follow her train of thought when it comes to the confusion about prepositions (And human interactions in general lol), but I also feel the pain of being a teacher and being able to explain something to someone, but unable to understand FOR them. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@yumisayama4110 oh jeez "not being able to understand for them" is such an excellent way to put it. HOW MANY TIMES TO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS IN CLEAR AND CONCISE LANGUAGE, BLUUUUURHBBHGGG
I too am a teacher. It wasn't until my cousin's kid was diagnosed that a lot of things in our family made sense. I once got into the school yearbook as 'The teacher who gave the best burns.' Thing is...I wasn't trying to...
High-functioning autism example: in primary school, there was a teacher that genuinely did not like me. I had very good grades but never worked and would always be daydreaming, looking out the window. One time she told me "perhaps you'd like a coffee and a mars bar?" and I thought she was genuinely offering me a coffee and a mars bar and I said yes. Needless to say this didn't go down very well.
@@ArgyleDinosaur Because I was looking out the window and doing nothing, I guess? She probably meant that I looked like I was on break so I might as well have a snack while I was at it. She was being very ironic but it took me a while to understand that.
I played only one game of D&D in my life, with few of my friends, all of us together barely understood the concept of the game, guy that had misfortune to take upon being DM and having me, guy that decided to play it as a genuine open world rpg, as a player was by no means mentally ready for a wave of questions that I had so I can make my decisions. Long story short I went into an enemy camp (guys that hunted my species) because apparently, those flying griffins or whatever are afraid of caves so I couldn't go with the rest of the team, I go into monk rage roll freaking 20 and kill the whole camp by myself including a guy that gave us a quest to begin with, he had plans for them lol. After some times he realized that he probably shouldn've designed it better so that it doesn't all depend on one trow.
I've always known that there was something wrong with telling a kid that they're being "deliberately obtuse," but it wasn't until I was reminded of that phrase just now that I realized what it was: Saying a kid is being deliberately obtuse is tantamount to saying, "I'm explaining this perfectly, and in a manner that everyone should be able to understand. Not only that, but I can read your mind, and I know that you do indeed understand me, and are just trying to be annoying." I guess parents and teachers are so used to any misunderstandings being the kids' fault, they don't consider trying a different explanation before getting defensive.
My husband is autistic. His greatest horror was being accused of being deliberately obtuse/difficult/awkward/sarcastic. He found this to be, he later described, the foundation for feeling a permanent outsider.
I remember when I was 10, about a year before I got my autism diagnosis, my class were gonna send letters to this kid's show called Hjärnkontoret (=The Brain Office, aka a program about science and stuff). Everyone got to send in their own question so I wanted to know what the lil black part of the pencil was. Now, to understand this, you need to know this: in Swedish, that good ol' pencil that usually have an eraser in the butt is called a blyertspenna and the bly-part of it means lead. So when we were all reading our questions out loud, everyone started to laugh. The teacher giggled, from what I remember. Some of the boys shouted "it's made out of lead" and I felt like the biggest idiot on the planet, shrinking even further into my lil shell. It definitely didn't help me get over my constant fear of giving a wrong answer, so this incredibly shy, quiet child became even more shy and quiet. Today I know that the lil black part of the pencil is made out of graphite and that it contains no lead. Idk why I wanted to tell this story but I did and thus I did. Have a lovely day.
God, I just wanted to reply that it's graphite until I read the last part of your comment. If only you'd known that back then. Obscure knowledge is the best when it actually becomes useful for once. I fondly remember how I once derailed a lesson by explaining how you can't actually hear the sound of a giraffe.
@@goji253 Haha I love it when people go off on a tangent on a super niche subject! I always learn something new and the passion that the person exhibits is a big inspiration for me. Now I'm curious why we can't hear a giraffe's sound so I'll go look up some giraffe facts haha, thank you for your comment and have a great day!
It’s stuff like this that convinces me that autism and ADHD are cousins. The way we get through school is so similar. And RIP to people who have both, you’re clueless and distracted and you don’t even know which one is causing it.
I don’t even have autism but I do have very much ADD, and also the social skills of a seven year old trying to figure out how the world works. Maybe not with this specific example but I do definitely relate to just *existing* on a whole nother wavelength. (A whole lot “What did I do wrong???”) I know there’s a lot of overlap between the two but I’m not sure of how they’re related scientifically speaking.
Nikko Spelled Like That Me too. Both with having ADD and not knowing the science behind it. (And a lot of fixating on the wrong part of the lesson or the semantics of things and then making others frustrated when you bring it up)
@@nikkospelledlikethat8140 Are u female? Many females (and some males) are first diagnosed with ADHD or misdiagnosed w bipolar or borderline personality disorder when they are actually autistic. Many "professionals" don't have sufficient knowledge of the different ways autism can present. The Autism Hangout TH-cam channel has many good videos.
Headcannon: Hannah's old teacher sees this. She feels ashamed at how she treated young Hannah back then. "It never occurred to me that she could be autistic. I had no idea. It's all so clear to me now." But then it gets to the part right before Hannah asks if she can eat the box, and the teacher's shame briefly subsides. She's like, "Oh well, at least I'll finally understand what THAT question was all about." And Hannah's like, "now I don't remember my thinking behind this question..." And the teacher's like, "Oh, fuck me!"
@@badmotherfucker6328 She is. Being autistic is a way that the brain can develop where sensations and social information are difficult to process (this is oversimplifying). People with autism can have experience it in a lot of different ways and it's not always "obvious" when someone is on the autistic spectrum.
@@badmotherfucker6328 Autistic women, usually not diagnosed until our thirties if at all, are queens of masking. We have to be. I recommend looking up Tony Attwood's videos on the subject, and Yo Samdy Sam.
@@badmotherfucker6328 That is what it means to be a high functioning autistic. You end up looking juuuuuust close enough to "normal" that it really throws people off when you have a hard time seeing the world the way they do. People expect atypical minds to look, well, either crazy or brilliant. But most things are not so extreme in real life. Its a bell curve. I honestly would not have described the experience as being the only sober person in a room full of drunks or vice versa, I would say it is more like being the only person (or one among a small few) in the room who can see/notice that something weird is happening. You go to point it out to other people and realize that they see it too, they just interpreted it in an entirely different manner, like you see the color purple and they see green.
I once had a verbal reasoning exam in which I had to read an extract from a story and answer questions about it. One of the questions was, "Describe the relationship between Molly and Gemma." I was confused about this but my answer was, "They appear to have a good relationship. They enjoy playing together."
Lmao. At first reading this I was like "That's a fine answer if they were in fact playing together in the story", until I realized they're related in some way and that's most likely what was asked. 😅😂
I had ONE amazing teacher who realized this about me, that I would answer questions a different way. So she would still mark it correct, I wasn't "wrong". But then after class she would explain to me what the question actually meant, And what the answer should have been 😂😂🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️ wonderful woman. I wrote an entire essay on the wrong subject one time! She said this should be a Fail but you still wrote a great essay, you tried 🤣😭🩷
I remember in a mental test I took when I was little a question being “why do police officers wear uniforms?” And I answered quite candidly “because their Kevlar vest is important to keeping them safe from injury.” Because it just made sense to answer that way.
When she said "A preposition is your relationship to the box" I thought "Holy shit I'm in love with a box? That's so sweet! Must be a really special box."
It’s like drax from guardians of the galaxy, when rocket says “His people are literal, jokes go right over his head” then drax said “Nothing goes over my head, I have to quick of reflexes” 😂
Just got mine today and watching old Hannah clips to celebrate. 48 years old and I finally know the answer to my mother's age old question: "What is WRONG with you???"
I got mine at 58, and it wasn't cheap! I felt relieved to know my own assessment of myself was correct, and then pissed when a close friend completely disagreed when I told her about it. I'm high-functioning in public settings, but omg how fucking rude to just handwave an actual diagnosis!!!
I'm on the spectrum, and while visualizing was never a problem for me, my compulsive honesty and irritation with anything that wasted time were. As it turns out, noticing things is contrary to the public school ethos.
Just wanted to note that "public school" has nothing to do with it. Private schools are worse in this regard, in general. Just can't stand to the side while people dunk on public education.
So related to this. My son has Asperger’s and to him homework was a waste of time. Why? Because according to him “homework is for those who didn’t pay attention in class”, it’s hard to argue with that. Inevitably my answer was always, “that’s not the point”.
@@angelfinley6244 it's a bit concerning that you would think that it's hard to argue with that. Plenty of students focus in class and still don't necessarily understand what they're taught.
"To give you an idea of what it feels like to be on the spectrum, basically it feels like being the only sober person in a room full of drunks." Speaking from experience, this is very true.
That is me... either that or I feel like the only smart person in a room of complete dumbasses... or vice versa depending on how you want to view it...
@@deadinside8781 people have a big enough ego they think autistic people dont know what they are talking about and usually dismiss them pretty disrespectfully too
"do you know any boxes that have names" "i started naming cereals" thats genius. the kind of thinking outside of the BOX that only someone on the spectrum can come up with. Love her
As an autistic person this perfectly describes what it's like for me, took my now girlfriend of four years two years for me to even realise she was into me.
My 10 year old ASD son won a ribbon at his sports carnival; I asked him what he won that ribbon for, he just looks at me as if it’s the most stupid question he’s ever heard and replies ‘winning’ lol.
I'm a "high functioning" autistic person and I quote the first part of this bit to everyone. "It's a terrible name for what I have because it gives the impression that I function highly. I do not."
From my understanding (as some who works with autistic people and has two autistic brothers), high functioning just means that you're able to verbalize your thought process and able to have a steady job. However, a lot of professionals have moved away from the term "high functioning."
@@samlynx2016 Technically (from a diagnostic criteria at least) it means you are an autistic person with no associated learning disability. This is usually determined with an IQ test or something similar. If you're average or higher, you're "high functioning". That said, it's honestly a very silly distinction and i think your definition is better. Most of us have at least one associated condition (like ADHD or dyslexia) that makes IQ tests even less reliable than usual.
My fiance misunderstands me alot because I have high functioning autism and he has ADHD. We both have alot of anxiety. So I will VERY often say stuff that he does not take that way I mean him to. So I try to explain my thought process and it sounds an awful lot like this. "But I'm not a triangle!" Wait....not everyone thinks like that as a kid? Like I know I'm autistic but I would've thought that was a normal response
If I had responded with, "I am not a triangle", it would have been in a smart-alec kind of way rather than a literal way. The literal vs. figurative language understanding is a common difference between ASD annd neurotypical, isn't it? Please correct me if I'm wrong on that.
Serenade2461 I have ADHD and I feel like some of what she says in the video is like just a tad relatable to how my brain works. In the sense that I relate things that are totally not related to a neurotypical person but they’re related to me. Like if I’m talking about dogs I’ll go from dogs to some interesting facts about dog breeds then my brain will make a connection from dogs to wolves and I’ll skip over the wolves bit when speaking but I’ll go from wolves to evolution in my brain so really it looks like I went from dogs to evolution. This was a lot and I don’t even think my brain understands it. I guess a better example is math. I can’t just do like 15+16= 31. I have to do 5+5=10 so 5+6=11 and since 10+10=20 you do 10+10=20 but 5+6=11 so you have to carry the extra 1 from 15+16 over to make it 31 and not 21. And do I know if any of this math is right? No. But yeah that’s how my brain works. Why did I explain all this in this comment thread?? I have no idea.
mermaidismyname I genuinely cannot think of any other way to do math lol. Like I’m bad at math in general so I always thought me doing that was just because I’m awful at it.
This is a mood. I ended up turning a lot of teachers against me through sheer cluelessness. But my daughter came out with one of my favorites. So the teacher in her 4th grade class read them a story about the 3 little pigs in which, in a twist ending, the third pig ATE THE WOLF. My daughter went up to the desk after and quietly asked her whether in doing so the third pig had therefore eaten his own brothers. Some teachers break more quietly I guess because the teacher just asked her to sit back down. I think most of us can agree that this was actually a very logical question given the usual pacing of the story and I wonder that the author missed that little hiccup.
I broke my teacher when, during a lesson on Christian-Orthodoxy and how there is no purgatory, she stated that people who do equal amounts of good deeds *and* bad deeds, go to neither Heaven or Hell. So, in the light of this information, I raised my little 9 y.o hand and asked "That means they remain on Earth?" She yelled at me that I was disrespecting the word of God and never allowed me to ever raise my hand to ask a question ever. That didn't mean I stopped though.😂
@@ioanaprovo6513 Yes, in fact, the whole "equal amounts of good and bad deeds thing" is one of the arguments that *forced* philosophers and prophets alike to create Purgatory in the Catholic Methodology. It's just the only thing that makes sense. And, what about the Atheists that never did any wrong? They did *far* more good than evil, so does that mean they go to Heaven? No! So, where do they go, then? *Christian answer* : Hell. *Catholic answer* : Purgatory. And, now you see why that concept existed in the first place.
I have ADHD and now thinking about I probably might also be on the spectrum because of this Lmaoo in the 2nd grade my teacher tried to explain greater than or less than symbols, and she was explaining them as if they were crocodiles eating each other, which now thinking about it, it’s really dumb. But I was confused because the symbols aren’t anything like that and I thought she was just being stupid... but since I was the one taking them literally, I did my homework that day, and I did all of them like this for example: 10
@@pronounhoarder_8632 I had trouble with this too, until, when I was doing these problems in school myself, my Dad helped me notice that the larger section of the sign will always be on the side of the larger number. For example: 33 Five is greater than three 18>9 Eighteen is greater than nine 9
All her "weird" trains of thought make perfect sense to me, but the breakfast cereal part was sheer *genius*. I would have wanted to be friends with her in school, but I would have been too shy and awkward to try.
I remember a conversation with my then 6-year-old son who is on the spectrum: Son: Mom, can I use the vacuum downstairs? Me: You need supervision to use it. Son (looking confused): But I don't have super vision; I only have normal vision!
Suddenly, the autistic mind is trying to figure out why using the vacuum cleaner downstairs is so much more complicated than using it upstairs to the point that you need special eyes to accomplish an otherwise mundane task!
When I was little my mom had me try some Chinese takeout and she goes “here, this is Chinese food” And I heard it as “This is Chine’s food” And I just looked up at her, perplexed and asked “does she want it back?”
High functioning is a blessing and a curse. Blessing that you can still take care of yourself and succeed, but a curse that socially no one can obviously tell you have something you cant control so they hold you to the same social expectations of a typical person without understanding why it's near impossible for you to meet them
You can pass for allistic juuuuuust well enough for everyone to assume you’re an asshole. And then no one tells you what you did wrong. So it will probably happen again.
Yeah, still struggling to grasp that in regards to my sister. Going on nights out, I've given her a "lets get out of here" password in a single word (tomato), in case there's danger or a guy/girl is gets too 'fresh'. I never expected her to use it everytime we go out, and after the 10th time, I was very annoyed and thought of her as a buzz kill. Had to refine the terms and conditions of the use 'tomato'. One time, I was having so much fun, but the noise and the crowd set her off and she said, "Tomato." I roll my eyes and insist we stay. She can't, really really can't, because of sensory overload. Exasperated, I let my mates know that I'd be back. I take her outside and order her an uber. I tell her I'm staying. She freaks out and demands I go with her. Well, i got my back up and said "I'm having fun and want to dance... you do this all the time..." all that shit. She sets her back up and refuses to be left alone and to leave me alone (despite having good friends with me). She stays and we both have a miserable time after that. Sensory overload isn't something she can help, and I should've gone home with her. Despite being an awesome sister and generally fun to be around, I avoid clubbing/pubbing with her
If you acknowledge the possibility that you may be autistic then you are definitely not autistic. Trust me, I work with autistic children and adults all the time.
@@user-nz4ux4cw2z I think you mean well, but as an autistic adult, I’m going to let you know you’re wrong there. People doubt things all the time, particularly when people contradict them (fwiw, many autistic people, particularly those DFAB, are “chameleons” who work at hiding their traits to blend in, which can lead to serious problems long term). Aside from playing bingo with symptoms, two separate experts diagnosed me (my parents were hoping the first one was wrong). It’s cool that you work with a lot of us, though! It’s giving you a lot of learning opportunities. Some of those you work with might have more to say on the subject.
We all came here for this reason. And we all think she is completely not funny. What happened to those long canes that dragged people off the stage. She needs to be dragged off the stage.
@@aaahhhchew8028 I am a black man do I believe in white priviledge? Yes, but not in the way the media is saying it. I now fully believe in gay priviledge now. She has no talent whatsoever. Dave Chappelle ruined her career.
@@89thunderfoot There was nothing to ruin. Shes terrible. Dave Chappelle saying her name is the biggest thing that will ever happen to her comedy career. The problem is the straight community is ready to fight back weapons in hand. He asked fundamental questions. She is the face of the sexual identification communities assault on free speech altogether.
@@BBee13 I have tried explaining to that man that I am autistic but TH-cam keeps deleting my comment. By simply correcting “so cool…” to “so aut….” I keep getting reported and deleted. I think he is reporting my comment as me bullying him lol. We got a top tier troll here.
I’m on the spectrum and I remember holding back tears and raising my hand during a presentation about the lifecycle of stars one time and just saying “It’s really sad when stars die.” I find this hilarious now but back then I remember being crushed finding out that stars do in fact, die.
Oh my g*d, YES! I am with you on that! I had a full on panic attack when I found out in school that the Sun would die and that all life on Earth would be dead too, before it finished collapsing. I had nightmares, till my dad spent an entire weekend trying to help me understand the concept of the lifetime of a Star, vs the lifetime of a person or a planet. Honestly, I thought the Sun was going to crush and burn me to death before I was going to get to grow up. 🤣🤣🤣
@@yverocks64 my dad really likes astronomy, so I was taught about that kind of stuff pretty early. But the weird part is, I remember 100% believing that it would die either within my lifetime or very soon after (I was like 4-5 I didn’t really understand how big of a number 5 billion is), but also being completely unconcerned over it. Like “oh yeah, the worlds gonna end or whatever”. But then again, I had a pretty weird attitude towards death as a whole when I was younger.
Same same same! It was just so devastating as a kid to know that the earth will be consumed by our own star at some point and all we have are estimates of when it’ll happen. You’re left questioning why no one is sharing in the shock you’re feeling after hearing such unpleasant news. But years later you learn to recognize the beauty of a star’s end through black holes and supernovae which remind us of the cycle of life. Still teachers need to be more aware of these differences in perception, it’s unfair to add existential space dread to the mix of problems kids face! Patience is key
My utterly traumatizing school experience, especially elementary school and later Latin, made into something I here cry about with laughter. Thanks, Hannah! 💝
As a kid I thought "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" meant that not finding something beautiful would makd my eyes ugly, which I didn't want, so I tried reeeaaally hard to find beauty in everything out of fear. That was pretty cute, most of my stories were less cute and also involve mean incompetent teachers.
I've never understood that phrase and I still don't. Does it mean that beauty is inside the person wearing the eyes? Do I have to cut them open to SEE the beauty? No, that would be cruel. Is it an old mage holding a pair of eyes in their hand and the eyes have beauty/magic inside them that are gonna make the mage pretty again???? I need to know!!
@@zimkaseem it means that nothing is objectively beautiful. Everyone sees things differently. You might think something is beautiful and that doesn't mean that it's beautiful it just means that you think that while someone else might think it's ugly.
There was a show I watched where the character thought that "beholder" meant "bee holder," and no one corrected him. My dumbass, not getting the joke, thought the same, since that character was never corrected. So I literally thought that beauty had something to do with getting stung by a shit ton of bees for a while. I also vividly remember answering the "What starts with an f and ends with a uck" question by straight up saying "FUCK!" I didn't know what that meant, either, so I was saying it joyfully until I asked a lunch lady what it meant.
This is just genuinely the most relatable comedy I've seen. I didn't get inklings of people suggesting I was on the spectrum until I was 18, and I didnt get diagnosed till I was 23 years old. The absolute struggle of having a completely different thought process from everyone else but having it be completely unrecognized by anybody while they think you're just messing with them or being intentionally obnixious is extremely painful, but this made it possible for me to laugh about it.
Hannah, you are amazing and one of my favorite comedians. I've been an English teacher for 11 years, and I love using idioms and figurative language when I speak. Teaching students on the autism spectrum makes me much more aware of that, and I try really hard to speak more literally during the class periods they have me. I love hearing about their trains of thought. Also, the worst word I've ever said in front of my students is "shit."
Almost a full day after seeing this, I only now realized her asking if she could eat the box can be construed as a funny sign in retrospect that she is a lesbian. I am kicking myself for not catching on sooner.
I have suuuuuuuch a hard time understanding sarcasm to this day. Unless they're doing that smirk thing where they're making it obvious....i never get it. I also don't know when people are joking unless they're giving me obvious facial cues. People often think I'm being a smartass.
Same though... I don't always understand sarcasm... And people interpret me as trying to be funny or weird, when in reality i just thought they meant what they said O.O'
Saaaaaaaaame. Sarcasm is really hard! Some jokes as well depending on how it’s told tone and verbiage wise. Not quite getting the read on micro expressions
A couple of months ago, I laughed so hard and for so long at this bit that it occurred to me that I might be a little more than an ADHDer. I mean, the teacher interaction pretty much told the story of my entire school life. After a LOT of research and self-reflection, I got a clinical autism assessment. And, yes, I am also autistic. Thank you, Hannah! 💙
I had a similar interaction with Jean's and Gene's. If I'm made of jeans how I was related to jeans? If I were related to jeans why am I wearing them? Did somebody die so I could have their jeans? Yes I know my parents gave me my jeans, but where did they get them from? The string of questions were stacking up fast. The teacher got just as livid. Parents were called. Teacher made a similar claim that I was intentionally being disruptive. I don't recall what grade I was in at the time, only that I was quite young. My mum not missing a beat said do you believe my son knows this concept so well that he can thwart your teaching for the benefit of what? Did you show him the different spelling? No? As she pointed to my pants "Well what other noun sounds the same as gene"? In that instant of understanding it was something completely different broke my brain for a while.
I didn’t get diagnosed until I was 15 and it changed my life in the best way. It’s tough when you’re different but not different enough to identify what distinguishes you without having some kind of name or explanation for it.
True! I am still not officially diagnosed at 35, but am clearly on the spectrum. I didn't realize until around 30, and being able to look back and unpack so much stress in my life and absolve myself of guilt for being a mysteriously broken person is a life changer.
Oh, this reminds me so much of when I worked as a teaching aide, and one of the teachers said to me in exasperation: "I told the second graders for our mural of our world they could draw whatever they liked, but it had to be from real life. And they drew flying elephants. Flying elephants! How did they think that was something from real life?" I stood for a moment, then simply said, "The Ringling Brothers are in town." She stopped and it looked like a light went on in her head, "You're right! The Circus! The signs are all over! That makes so much sense! Thank you!"
It's so ironic how you describe autism as being like being the sober person in a room full of drunk people, because I used to be the designated driver for my friends who were in a band. The funny part is that when I was literally the only sober person: everyone expected me to seem a little strange compared to them. Ironically it made me feel more accepted than I usually do. It's still a really great analogy though even if a bit ironic.
@@gauravvikalp Love Tig. Didn't know she is OCD. I'm autistic and Hannah is so affirming and real. I'm sure you must feel so similar. Proof that comedians being real about this kind of thing is really important.
I'm getting flashbacks to my school days. Mum sighed when she got my report card: "Aspa allows no question go unanswered..." Cut to x yrs later when I was teaching in a high school and speaking to a pupil who was high-functioning ASD. Suddenly I was looking at myself as a kid.
I am, and this video makes me kick myself for not realizing she was one of us when I watched Nanette. I keep finding out people I enjoyed listening to have autism or ADHD (I have both). I guess now I have to find out if Eddie Izzard has ADHD.
@@MoveWithWoo While they are made to be relatable, a lot of people are autistic and undiagnosed. "The Centers for Disease Control's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network reports that in 2014, approximately 1 in 59 children in the United States (1 in 37 boys, and 1 in 151 girls), has been identified with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD)." That's a lot of people, and just the ones that are diagnosed! @AcidRaZor If you're wondering if you might be autistic, try looking up sites that display and detail the symptoms and general information, and then I'd recommend finding a psychologist or a therapist if you can afford one and bring it up with them.
It’s okay to go and find out! But I do think she’s such a good writer (and knows herself well enough now) that she can translate her thought process into something hilarious. There is after all “beauty in the way she thinks” as she says :)
I am married to someone who has high functioning autism and some of the things he comes out with just makes me crack up laughing - the way his mind things sometimes is so funny,
This made me smile. I'm the same, high functioning autism and that really is a misnomer because no neurotypical person would listen to me and say high functioning. I am pretty which gets people close to me but then I gently insert my foot into my mouth and they are instantly repelled. I had my person who understood me perfectly for a while and we have a 4yo together but then he died two years ago and left us and it broke me. Edit, I really can't wrap my head around how so many people feel so negatively about this woman. Whether I was on the Spectrum or not I would find her variability to stand up for her beliefs and for herself and to tell her story and speak her truth such an inspiration. Maybe people are coming here thinking they are going to get Sarah Silverman but that is not the case.
From my own experience dealing with mental illness, I know having an objective awareness of one's symptoms, and being able to stand up in a crowded room and eloquently articulate that awareness in a way that makes people laugh, requires years of extremely hard work. Well done Hannah Gadsby!
I honestly love this aspect of my autistic friends. I love seeing their trains of thought and when they take metaphors/jokes to their logical conclusions. It's a different way of thinking from me and it's so interesting. I know yas get a lot of flack for it from society with all our unwritten malleable rules but it's not a bad thing at all. :)
Everyone who says female comedians can’t be funny is made of box. I mean, that’s their opinion and they’re entitled to it... but also, they’re made of box.
@Tracy Martel Of course I watched it... that's how I arrived at my opinion that she's not funny. If it tickled you then more power to ya. I just didn't find her humor to my liking. Again, there are many outrageously funny female comedians.... she's not one of em. Sorry not my cup of tea.
As someone who is high functioning autistic that is an accurate description. It’s like being on a separate wavelength and being that person who did t get the memo lol. Either my teacher liked me for being engaged or were annoyed that I asked to many questions. There’s a very non lateral way of thinking as well. Makes for very interesting yet confusing conversations occasionally.
I was nicknamed "Bill Nye" by two separate teachers in two separate schools due to the amount of questions I asked and how many parts of lessons I already knew. Kinda proud of that, really.
The thing that always through me for a loop was when people will say things that they don't _actually mean,_ but secretly mean this other thing that they _don't_ say but somehow expect _you_ to understand that they meant? And somehow _I'm_ the one with the disorder? Like the phrase _"listen to what I mean, not what I say"_ was the _bane of my existance_ growing up.
Im a high functioning autistc, and the wavelength metaphor is so good! I always just explain it as “I just don’t jive with people the way most people expect to be jived with”. and that tends to inform whomever Im speaking with well enough.
@@toomuchawesomeness5886 oh ok she said she's autistic, she must be because she said it. No one's ever lied so if they say something it has to be true.
@@pwnsnubs okay last response becuase this is immensely stupid. But in all honesty fuck you. Fuck people like you. Being different is difficult enough but people like you, people who constantly doubt our experiences, people who constantly gaslight us, you are part of the problem. We don't owe you our medical records, we don't owe you proof. We don't owe you shit.
Comments from a year ago: Hannah Gadsby's audience, find her humour funny through being relatable and are happy to have someone talking about their own experiences through a comedic lens Comments from up to three days ago: the audience of a much bigger comedian basically sent here to be mean, and no, he wasn't doing her a "favour" I mean come on guys, her stand up has never really been my thing either but don't jump on this stupid bullying bandwagon. This wasn't made for you and I hope her fans take over the comment section again sometime.
Being sober in a room full of drunks is a really good example. I also feel that, although you are in the same room, you are often more of a spectator than a participant.
As someone who has been sober for 3 years and on the spectrum, it’s definitely a weird time at parties!! I’m usually at a corner drinking a soda and wondering if it’s time to go home yet 😂
I'm autistic but diagnosed in adulthood. In 4th grade I was fidgeting during a lesson and my teacher called me out. "Maybe you have somewhere else you'd rather be?" "I absolutely do!" was my honest answer. She was not best pleased.
@@skio147 As both an autistic and a former teacher, her recollection is very familiar. This is how the very literal and systematic thought processes of autistic children and adults work. She's absolutely hyper focused but on the wrong parts of the lesson and cannot let it go. We learn to keep this bit quiet generally cause it gets us in trouble at home and in school.
@@WholeWheatWhale The way she describes things sounds like off hand she read about it somewhere. Being autistic doesn't mean you can sus it out one way or another tho. Or you wouldn't of disagreed cuzz I'm autistic we cant both be right with such super powers
@@skio147 Autism doesn't give me super detection skills, unfortunately. I was trying to point out that her story is familiar from both my own mind and from autistic kids I've worked with.
@@WholeWheatWhale i agree its familiar. But she worded it like she got it out of a text book not a personal experience. It could be because she wrote down a story thats fsbricated for the comedy show that falls flat, i duno.
"You're being deliberately obtuse" omfg, that phrase is practically triggering for me, lol--I remember my mother insulting me with that phrase as a teenager when she was mad at me and I thought I was asking reasonable questions necessary for someone who wasn't a mind reader 😅
kids like me who had ADHD but genuinely loved learning drove teachers insane, too. I got sent into the hall at LEAST weekly the entire time I was in 2nd-5th grade for talking. I can totally relate to the feeling of frustration wondering why it was always happening to me! there are a lot more similarities than people seem to know.
"high functioning autism", in the first few seconds she literally says it's a terrible name and y'all just keep on using it not to mention all the other autistics and self advocacy groups that have denounced the functioning label system
@@beth8775 Well, what are those labels trying to convey in the first place? The purpose of functioning labels is supposedly to make it easier for clinicians and treating professionals to understand the needs of an autistic person. (Also for nosey neurotypicals to try and fit an autistic person into their image what autism looks like.) Does it actually do that? Not really. Autism is a SPECTRUM neurodivergence and autistic people are just as varied as neurotypical people, you can't just shove them into one of two boxes. More often than not, functioning labels have been used to oppress and invalidate the experiences of autistic people. If you're "high functioning", you're not REALLY autistic and so you can't possibly speak for and advocate for(but apparently neurotypicals can ~sarcasm~) the "low functioning" autistics, whose agency and autonomy are stripped on a daily basis. So what's the alternative if we can't use those? What has come out of backlash against functioning labels is a grading of support needs, from level 1 to level 3(not entirely sure on this but that's the gist of it). Is that better? Maybe for clinicians and therapists. (Even then I don't think it's very helpful). Should a neurotypical be asking the mum of that "odd" kid in the corner whether they're a level 1, 2 or 3? No. You don't need to know that information. Butt out. If you want to know more, just search "autism functioning labels" and you'll find articles and videos from autistic people on why the labeling system is bad. Amythest Schaber and Yo Samdy Sam are just two great autistic youtubers.
@@vicroberts8202 It's certainly not going to be everyone's business, but some people are going to need information about what level of support the individual needs. As you said therapists and other medical service providers, and also teachers who would have them as a student or a child care provider. Having some sort of standardized language to communicate those needs is very practical. Personally, I have more experience with ADHD - also really a spectrum. The children in my life with it are quite different in what they struggle with most. One of them is actually waiting to be evaluated for ASD as well. I know when talking about it, the clinical langage is very helpful. Thanks for pointing me to helpful resources.
the more i see people use "high functioning autism" as a label, the more i am convinced that it's just a way of saying, "autistic but is working and making their own money". It's a deeply capitalist way of looking at people in terms of what they cost versus what they 'produce', which is a sickening way to see your fellow human beings, in my opinion. :( and in that conversation nobody talks about the toll it takes on "high functioning" autistic people to be able to live that way. i personally feel like i have had to compromise heavily on my own happiness and the goals and dreams i have for myself, in order to be "high functioning". as hannah says, i don't "function highly" at all, i struggle with depression and anxiety on a daily basis... trying to manage my symptoms so that i can have a fraction of a life that neurotypicals get to have, is frustrating, and kind of a full time job on its own except of course it doesn't pay the bills.
I love this. I wish there was a "clean" version I could share with my middle school students. Not only does it teach about what prepositions are, more importantly it would help teach them empathy for other people and start a conversation.
I was laughing throughout the entire video until she got to the point of explaining that while she was genuinely engaged in the lesson the teacher was dismissive of her questions; at that point I broke into tears. This video sums up my entire education growing up with undiagnosed ADHD: I always wanted to learn, but my inability to understand made my teachers treat me like I was stupid.
I mean, stupid is ofc offensive. But would you say there are actually stupid kids? Or is it just an offensive word to describe those who have an inability to understand?
You need to watch her show "Nanette" - it won an Emmy (along with a Peabody award and several others). I think Nanette is still on Netflix. It's BRILLIANT.
@@yohei72 Except this lady is nowhere near the level of i.e Jerry Seinfeld, and never will be given her target audience seem to be woke ideologues, so wtf are you talking about? And fair criticism (that involves the truth) doesnt make you an a-hole, so why are you being such an a-hole resorting to personal attacks as soon as you see something you dont like? Are you gonna act like 12 year old or maybe its time to grow up? Feel free to respond to all questions, though I doubt a condescending coward like you will.
I don't have autism, but I did ask a lot of questions in school. Just a natural curiosity, and it's kinda the same reaction. Bad teachers don't like kids who don't look at problems the way they do. It's what makes them bad teachers, and why so many people have issues getting through school. No one learns the same
@@caracalcontinuum3118 Hey, it's nothing to feel bad about. Most people do, some just do it more than others. I so overthink horribly when it comes to math lmao. One time a girl game me 5 dollars for two bookmarks, priced 2.50 each, and it took me ten minutes to figure it out.
I dont understand why people hate this. As someone with the same problem as her, I can tell you that she is absolutely spot on about the misconception that we are high functioning. Edit: Ah, the old Subjectivity vs Objectivity debate. The bane of all Art. The thing that all Artists dread the most. And people wonder why we can't have nice things. Edit 2: 69 Likes! LOL
Bro, I've gotten so cynical and Gothic as of lately, I thought I somehow destroyed all happiness in my life including the ability to appreciate and laugh about comedy. I thought it was me. I was wrong. This is objectively not funny. Ofcourse to some it will but imagine this woman being on Justin Bieber roast or something for example.
I'm an english teacher, and I always teach prepositions by getting kids to sit on, under and beside their table. Which is both pleasingly chaotic and makes the concept pretty obvious. Thank God I never thought of boxes and penguins!
That’s very helpful. Especially since it will also help kids remember the word “preposition” and it’s meaning if they recall choosing a “position” by their desk.
That would have been delightful. We learned by rote, with rhymes. I still remember the Shirley method rhymes. “Preposition, preposition, starting with an A... preposition preposition don’t go away, go to the middle and see what we say, EFI, LM(?)O... preposition preposition, almost through, start with a P and end with a W, past since through, throughout to toward, under underneeeath, until,” etc. It was... monotonous, and obviously only worked for a certain kind of learner.
Although, as an editor, I admit I will sometimes scan through various rhymes to make sure I’m not overlooking any options, lol. In helping my brother with his Master’s papers, I had a whole lesson called Prepositions are Bitches. 🙃 They get a lot of people tripped up, even otherwise solid writers. Bless ‘em.
That makes a lot more sense than the box!
@MusicalElitist1 They failed to capitalise just one singular bloody word as far as I can tell. Get off your high horse for fuck's sake. Being a teacher doesn't mean you're infallible.
Ooh I love that! I wish I had you as a teacher
"You're being deliberately obtuse"
This bit is killing me inside because on one hand this is so very funny and on the other it is too relatable to be comfortable for me
Right there with you, I know I tortured teachers with questions.
@@DarkHorizons13 No. The teachers were tortured _by_ your questions.
That's an important preposition.
I’ve started leading an awful lot of my questions with the words, “I’m sorry; I’m not being deliberately obtuse, but...”
@@bakerfritz4681 : Well, of course you're not, you're not a triangle.
Not only is it painfully relatable as someone on the Spectrum, but it's also giving me Shawshank Redemption flashbacks.
Oh, this is stirring up old memories. I used to always do poorly in primary school activities that required an understanding of common knowledge. For instance, most people would reply “orange” if asked the colour of a carrot. But I liked to look though vegetable seed catalogues for fun as a child, so I knew that carrots can also be purple, red, yellow, and white. So I would consistently give “wrong” answers because my brain struggles to weigh information according to social use. When asked by an adult and I would explain my reasoning, they would get exasperated and say not to show off and to just put the normal answer. But I couldn’t ever seem to figure out what the defaults were. My brain couldn’t say “hmm. We have seen many colours of carrots and have grown purple ones in the veggie patch. But on cartoons, in my classmates’ lunches, etc carrots are only ever drawn as orange. So I should use that colour as my default when communicating the idea of carrots”.
I think it says more about so called "normal" poeple than you. Carrots can be of all colours. It's not because we arbitrarily and socially selected one type with one color to represent other than others don't exist or do not have the right to be mentioned. Any parallel with humans is inttended 😉
Oh I’ve got a couple stories but here’s one: In first grade my teacher asked the class if anyone could describe Christopher Columbus and I had been reading a lot so I wanted to show off by saying “intelligent”. Only the pipeline b/w my brain and my mouth wouldn’t help me find the word and what came out was “ignorant” instead. All the kids laughed and I felt so dumb :/ In retrospect tho I was right.
🥕🙌 I understand & relate to this!!! People can be difficult. You do you! Kids used to put me down, made me feel not good enough/ different, which makes me want to speak up more & more as an adult, take back the power! You are awesome!😁👍
@@sigh824 Christopher Columbus was ignorant.
While the scientific society back then already agreed that earth was round as he tried to prove, most calculation they did back then also suggested that it was much larger than Columbus expected. They have no expectation that there are a landmass between Europe and India he tried to reach and would suggest that most journey West would run out of rations before ever reaching India.
People get jealous when you understand more than default lol
“It’s like being the only sober person in a room full of drunks” is an excellent description of many of our lives as autistic persons.
That’s something an asshole says
Am I made of box? Or is the box made of me? My teacher screams for she does not know.
Well since a box is really just a container in which another item can be inside of then technically aren't we all boxes? And if we're all boxes then yes the box is made of you.
This
Lol this reminds me of the gingerbread man inside a gingerbread house meme. Is the man made of house? Or is the house made of man? He screams for he does not know.
Jingles woah they should have made a joke about that
Oh my sweet goodness, best comment ever.
"Why are they kissing? I don't like the sound..."
Such a simple line, but for some reason it really hits me hard.
That's because you're basic
Yes.
@@wrathza Are you okay? Do you need to talk to someone?
I've occasionally been bothered by the sound WHILE kissing someone. Too much tongue, stop it!?!
@@kidrasan Most sounds dealing with the human body sound awful to my ears, honestly.
I'm autistic too and this is 100% true.
Teachers so often, when I asked questions, assumed I was joking or being obtuse when I legitimately wanted to understand something.
Same mate
I had a groupmate doing a chemical plant design project. Everyone knows hes high functioning, but his questions..are a bit different. You know how jokes are when something you dont expect people say pops up? Yeah to me it was a bit like that. I know that hes genuine but I just cant stop myself from giving out a chuckle. I guess its what the less gifted have to struggle with. Anyways all the best! Youre probably going to achieve great things.
Omg yes! I remember learning probability and the teachers using a coin flip as an example. I knew there had to be a tiny, tiny possibility the coin could land on its edge and I wanted to know how to account for it or I wouldn't be getting the right answer. It drove them insane.
Maybe I’m Autistic😎 my teachers did the same.
bearcraz18 God that kind of thing bothers me too. They never explain “its just a hypothetical to better illustrate the concept”. Just “dont think about it.” Well I’m GONNA!
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my dad when I was in the seventh grade. He had come to visit me and we were walking around the mall and talking about a short essay that I had written in class the previous week. He asks me “what did you write it on” and for whatever reason I answered, very sincerely, “paper”. Turns out he was asking me what the topic of the essay was, not how it was written
@ Jasmine Lawrence I think you have the wrong comment
Hello,❤
lmao
I HAD THAT EXACT SAME CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE LMAO
Idk if it's because English is not my first language and I'm not supposed to know all of the idioms and that's why I take many things literally but I also thought of the same answer as yours and that it was the most logical one
I am also a high functioning autistic person, and when she said “the relationship between you and the box” my first thought was, “Why am i married to a box?!”
Ur lucky ur married to a loving box. Im married to an unloving piece of shit box
My brain always assume spatial relation. I found the box question produces no issue, but I once got asked what relationship I had to a woman I dated.. my response was "well technically I'm currently about 2 1/2 m NW on her left."
@@azarinevil you make more sense than almost every other person I have ever come across.
Mine was "am I dating the box?"
The autism in me: "how are we related?"
The adhd in me: "what type of box? How big is it? What's the colour? Is it a live?".
“Why are they kissing? I don’t like the sound” is so delightfully relatably autistic and I love it
I’ve been operating under the thought that this was just me and I’m glad someone also understands how TERRIBLE that sound is.
Never heard anyone else point out this particular issue 😂
Whoever likes the sound of kissing is a fucking maniac and I’ll better be my autistic self than listen to that.
@@margaritam.9118 It's like two open-mouth chewers but somehow worse.
I hate the squeak.
the perks of an ADHD brain is that i can track *exactly* how she got to the question "can i eat the box." For any of yall wondering, im guessing (of course i can't say for sure) her child-Hanna brain connected "boxes that have names"-->cereal boxes-->cereal-->can eat cereal from box--> can i eat this hypothetical box.
As someone who also has ADHD that is so bad it is still medicated in uní, this is very logical yes. My brain would do this too.
Now that is an extremely deep and at the same time logical train of thought!
ooh i was still thinking about the subject being “prepositions” is i thought she was wondering if she could eat the box so it would be inside of her 😂
Wasn't it.. obvious?
I have add and I immediately thought that, glad some other people thought the same
I learned a trick to fit in in class: Just never speak.
My survival method
Unfortunately this wasn't in my survival kit back then
The way she says "No, they didn't, but I had a question" kills me everytime.
“I started naming breakfast cereals” is so high functioning true I’m secretly patting my inner autistic on the head and we both laughing
Wow you mean you watched this unfunny horseshit more than once?
Yeah man- I don’t know how people can watch this as anything other than irionic
@@Vurdox @danecookfannumb1 is in the house!
@@Vurdox may i suggest some water for your hypernatremia? you're looking awfully salty over nothing
Imagine being a child struggling to understand and your teacher responds with: no one is that “obtuse”.
We did that in watching this video...quit being an imaginist.
That was me and every other autistic person on the planet. At some point your going to need help and the adult in your life will back hand you
Imagine? I lived it
I sincerely hope that teacher saw this and felt like the world's biggest ass.
@@Psychwriteify Given her age, she would've been in school in the 80s mostly and a bit of the 90s. Back then nobody ever talked about or knew shit about autism. It wasn't until 1980 until psychologists made a distinction between autism and schizophrenia and 1987 before they made a check list for behaviors. And this was in the field of psychology, it certainly hadn't been disseminated to run of the mill public school teachers, nor would their education in teaching have included it.
Combine that with the fact nearly every class has one or two joker types who like to say shit like this for a laugh, knowing full well what things being said means but doing it anyway to annoy the teacher and amuse the class. I had plenty of these types in my school years, and none of them were autistic and did it purely for their own amusement.
When you put all this together, that teacher has no reason to feel like an ass at being frustrated by this and couldn't have known this person had a mental disorder. Honestly, if this woman thought like this about everything all throughout her life, her PARENTS should have noticed something was off about her much earlier. She would've been tested for autism in the modern age, but in the 80s and 90s nobody knew about that shit. Nobody talked about that shit. You just assume someone is being an asshole when they act this way.
Lol 😂 the way she says “To give you a visual..........This woman” and points the laser pointer makes me laugh every time I watch this moment. I love the way she works paintings and her art history degree into the show to support her themes.
i missed the laser pointer lmaooo thanks for pointing it out 😂
@@alexcalk2882 nice pun
I lost it when I saw the painting. 😂😂😂
I missed it too! And Art is MY passion! (I used to know but I'd forgotten that she has an Art degree! THANK YOU FOR POINTING THIS OUT!!!!)
I didn’t even see any laser pointer... I didn’t even know who she was talking about until she said “funeral” lol
as an autistic woman I saw this and laughed harder than I ever have at any comedy routine. inspired me to check out the rest of Hannah's work. reading their memoir right now and loving it!!!
“I waited until she felt safe” gETS ME
The right time is the wrong time and I'll probably never figure it out.
Liar. Literallly Nobody (not forced) laughed at this
@Mr. Reptilia you are lying. This is not funny. Its interesting sure like a ted talk. But its not funny
@Mr. Reptilia don't lie to me now
they never do, though; that's been your Autistic "REd Pill" PSA for the day :)
Boxes with names= cereal
Cereal= food
Food= eat
Box= food
Can I eat the box?
Yeah that’s how I assume the logic went! As a kid I had similar association confusions a lot
i was thinking the logic was gonna be more about cannibalism, since she was still caught up on bei g "related" to the box
@@LlamasOnJUPITER if you eat the thing you become at least partially made of the thing, until it's fully digested. I would assume that was the concept, but who knows
You can, it probably wouldn't taste very good though.
Ohhhh I see!!
Whenever I am teaching a concept that a student doesn’t understand, I try to explain it in a different way.
And if a child says something absurd, I try to figure out their line of thinking. Or I ask them what made them think of such a thing. It’s often very funny, and in many ways “logical” from the child’s point of view.
Thank you. Probably the best thing you can do for someone. Especially someone like me and many others here with Autism
Good teacher.
It's the best way to make yourself smile.. ask a kid "why do you think that?".. I LOVE asking my autistic kids this! It helps me understand why THEY think the way they do.
Well, its called common teaching (and parenting). Shouldn`t all teachers be like that? Nope, unfortunately they are not. So keep up the good work :)
When I was in school and they gave standard tests, I got extremely low scores even though I was getting A’s in everything. My mom and teacher sat down to look at my test and answers and could see how I’d gotten the answers, just from how I generally saw the world. It’s so important to do things like this.
As an autistic person and a teacher, I completely understand and have been on both sides of this conversation XD
YES!!
I can totally follow her train of thought when it comes to the confusion about prepositions (And human interactions in general lol), but I also feel the pain of being a teacher and being able to explain something to someone, but unable to understand FOR them.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@yumisayama4110 100% normal child behaviour.
@@yumisayama4110 oh jeez "not being able to understand for them" is such an excellent way to put it.
HOW MANY TIMES TO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS IN CLEAR AND CONCISE LANGUAGE, BLUUUUURHBBHGGG
I too am a teacher. It wasn't until my cousin's kid was diagnosed that a lot of things in our family made sense.
I once got into the school yearbook as 'The teacher who gave the best burns.'
Thing is...I wasn't trying to...
@@TheAspadistra Neurotypicals often interpret honest questions as sarcastic insults.
High-functioning autism example: in primary school, there was a teacher that genuinely did not like me. I had very good grades but never worked and would always be daydreaming, looking out the window. One time she told me "perhaps you'd like a coffee and a mars bar?" and I thought she was genuinely offering me a coffee and a mars bar and I said yes. Needless to say this didn't go down very well.
My neighbour when I was five, "I have a bone to pick with you." Me: "Is it chicken?"
Somehow, even though this was set up with me knowing she disliked you, I still thought the question was genuine.
@@SJisReading Right? This was very confusing to me when she got mad.
I don't understand why she would ask that.
@@ArgyleDinosaur Because I was looking out the window and doing nothing, I guess? She probably meant that I looked like I was on break so I might as well have a snack while I was at it. She was being very ironic but it took me a while to understand that.
My best friend's last name is literally Box
That's a Box with a name
😂😂😂
Jesus imagine if they were in this class.
It is Box as a name
Is she made of box?
Don't eat the box!
I mean, unless you have a nice agreement between the two of you. . .
This teacher experienced what it is like to be a Dungeon Master
wow that's actually so true
I played only one game of D&D in my life, with few of my friends, all of us together barely understood the concept of the game, guy that had misfortune to take upon being DM and having me, guy that decided to play it as a genuine open world rpg, as a player was by no means mentally ready for a wave of questions that I had so I can make my decisions. Long story short I went into an enemy camp (guys that hunted my species) because apparently, those flying griffins or whatever are afraid of caves so I couldn't go with the rest of the team, I go into monk rage roll freaking 20 and kill the whole camp by myself including a guy that gave us a quest to begin with, he had plans for them lol. After some times he realized that he probably shouldn've designed it better so that it doesn't all depend on one trow.
LMAO 🤣
Hahaha the noise i made when I read this was not cool 🤣 glad no one heard that 😅
You're a DM every day when you teach 😂
I've always known that there was something wrong with telling a kid that they're being "deliberately obtuse," but it wasn't until I was reminded of that phrase just now that I realized what it was:
Saying a kid is being deliberately obtuse is tantamount to saying, "I'm explaining this perfectly, and in a manner that everyone should be able to understand. Not only that, but I can read your mind, and I know that you do indeed understand me, and are just trying to be annoying."
I guess parents and teachers are so used to any misunderstandings being the kids' fault, they don't consider trying a different explanation before getting defensive.
the part where they assume they know what you think is the worst. grown-ups can lack empathy in that way
My husband is autistic. His greatest horror was being accused of being deliberately obtuse/difficult/awkward/sarcastic. He found this to be, he later described, the foundation for feeling a permanent outsider.
I remember when I was 10, about a year before I got my autism diagnosis, my class were gonna send letters to this kid's show called Hjärnkontoret (=The Brain Office, aka a program about science and stuff). Everyone got to send in their own question so I wanted to know what the lil black part of the pencil was.
Now, to understand this, you need to know this: in Swedish, that good ol' pencil that usually have an eraser in the butt is called a blyertspenna and the bly-part of it means lead. So when we were all reading our questions out loud, everyone started to laugh. The teacher giggled, from what I remember. Some of the boys shouted "it's made out of lead" and I felt like the biggest idiot on the planet, shrinking even further into my lil shell. It definitely didn't help me get over my constant fear of giving a wrong answer, so this incredibly shy, quiet child became even more shy and quiet.
Today I know that the lil black part of the pencil is made out of graphite and that it contains no lead. Idk why I wanted to tell this story but I did and thus I did. Have a lovely day.
You nailed it. Fuckin a.
God, I just wanted to reply that it's graphite until I read the last part of your comment.
If only you'd known that back then. Obscure knowledge is the best when it actually becomes useful for once.
I fondly remember how I once derailed a lesson by explaining how you can't actually hear the sound of a giraffe.
@@lafeeshmeister I apologize for not responding earlier, as I wasn't notified, but I wanted to thank you for your comment and wish you a great day!
@@goji253 Haha I love it when people go off on a tangent on a super niche subject! I always learn something new and the passion that the person exhibits is a big inspiration for me.
Now I'm curious why we can't hear a giraffe's sound so I'll go look up some giraffe facts haha, thank you for your comment and have a great day!
@@toxiphilia Thanks, you too xD
It’s stuff like this that convinces me that autism and ADHD are cousins. The way we get through school is so similar. And RIP to people who have both, you’re clueless and distracted and you don’t even know which one is causing it.
They are cousins.
Maya Zulf Right? I know the root is probably different, but the symptoms have so much overlap that I’m surprised I was never tested for autism.
I don’t even have autism but I do have very much ADD, and also the social skills of a seven year old trying to figure out how the world works. Maybe not with this specific example but I do definitely relate to just *existing* on a whole nother wavelength. (A whole lot “What did I do wrong???”)
I know there’s a lot of overlap between the two but I’m not sure of how they’re related scientifically speaking.
Nikko Spelled Like That
Me too. Both with having ADD and not knowing the science behind it. (And a lot of fixating on the wrong part of the lesson or the semantics of things and then making others frustrated when you bring it up)
@@nikkospelledlikethat8140 Are u female? Many females (and some males) are first diagnosed with ADHD or misdiagnosed w bipolar or borderline personality disorder when they are actually autistic. Many "professionals" don't have sufficient knowledge of the different ways autism can present. The Autism Hangout TH-cam channel has many good videos.
Headcannon: Hannah's old teacher sees this. She feels ashamed at how she treated young Hannah back then. "It never occurred to me that she could be autistic. I had no idea. It's all so clear to me now." But then it gets to the part right before Hannah asks if she can eat the box, and the teacher's shame briefly subsides. She's like, "Oh well, at least I'll finally understand what THAT question was all about." And Hannah's like, "now I don't remember my thinking behind this question..." And the teacher's like, "Oh, fuck me!"
Is she reallu autistic? Because she is more of a normal person than i am to be honest...
@@badmotherfucker6328 She is. Being autistic is a way that the brain can develop where sensations and social information are difficult to process (this is oversimplifying). People with autism can have experience it in a lot of different ways and it's not always "obvious" when someone is on the autistic spectrum.
@@badmotherfucker6328 Autistic women, usually not diagnosed until our thirties if at all, are queens of masking. We have to be. I recommend looking up Tony Attwood's videos on the subject, and Yo Samdy Sam.
@@badmotherfucker6328 That is what it means to be a high functioning autistic. You end up looking juuuuuust close enough to "normal" that it really throws people off when you have a hard time seeing the world the way they do.
People expect atypical minds to look, well, either crazy or brilliant. But most things are not so extreme in real life. Its a bell curve.
I honestly would not have described the experience as being the only sober person in a room full of drunks or vice versa, I would say it is more like being the only person (or one among a small few) in the room who can see/notice that something weird is happening.
You go to point it out to other people and realize that they see it too, they just interpreted it in an entirely different manner, like you see the color purple and they see green.
It probably had to do with the listing of cereal boxes before.
I once had a verbal reasoning exam in which I had to read an extract from a story and answer questions about it. One of the questions was, "Describe the relationship between Molly and Gemma." I was confused about this but my answer was, "They appear to have a good relationship. They enjoy playing together."
Lmao. At first reading this I was like "That's a fine answer if they were in fact playing together in the story", until I realized they're related in some way and that's most likely what was asked. 😅😂
I had ONE amazing teacher who realized this about me, that I would answer questions a different way. So she would still mark it correct, I wasn't "wrong". But then after class she would explain to me what the question actually meant, And what the answer should have been 😂😂🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️ wonderful woman. I wrote an entire essay on the wrong subject one time! She said this should be a Fail but you still wrote a great essay, you tried 🤣😭🩷
@@jadepatrice2276 What was the subject in question? 😄 Great teacher indeed! 🙂
I remember in a mental test I took when I was little a question being “why do police officers wear uniforms?” And I answered quite candidly “because their Kevlar vest is important to keeping them safe from injury.” Because it just made sense to answer that way.
When she said "A preposition is your relationship to the box" I thought "Holy shit I'm in love with a box? That's so sweet! Must be a really special box."
SAME
"What's your relationship to the box?" "Nothing yet, but maybe friends."
"So.. friends? Best friends? OOOOHHH like secret lovers?"
Yupp, I did a whole, 'oh, so we're dating now?' In reference to me and the box.
no you didnt
"I understand what [prepositions] are now; I'm all over it."
That should have gotten a laugh but the audience wasn't fast enough 😁
EXACTLY!!!!!!!
It's more likely they didn't laugh, because it's not funny. Dad joke caliber at best.
@@gordonb7765 You're a nasty person, eh.
I didn't get it till I saw your comment 😅 tx
Hmm I still don't get it now, but okay.
It’s like drax from guardians of the galaxy, when rocket says “His people are literal, jokes go right over his head” then drax said “Nothing goes over my head, I have to quick of reflexes” 😂
There is no better explanation of it.😂
"too"
I love Drax.
@@tiffanypersaud3518 I love Groot and rocket
Than they proceeded to completely abondoned that.
Diagnosed at 37. Ladies usually get late diagnoses. Enjoying this.
Just got mine today and watching old Hannah clips to celebrate. 48 years old and I finally know the answer to my mother's age old question: "What is WRONG with you???"
I got mine at 58, and it wasn't cheap! I felt relieved to know my own assessment of myself was correct, and then pissed when a close friend completely disagreed when I told her about it. I'm high-functioning in public settings, but omg how fucking rude to just handwave an actual diagnosis!!!
@@deemorris1976 It's such a relief to put a name on it!
@seekingfinding6204 Seriously! I'm a normal zebra, not a misshapen broken horse.
@@seekingfinding6204 uuuugh how rude. People who don't understand autism are annoying, but people who refuse to learn are the WORST
I'm on the spectrum, and while visualizing was never a problem for me, my compulsive honesty and irritation with anything that wasted time were. As it turns out, noticing things is contrary to the public school ethos.
Just wanted to note that "public school" has nothing to do with it. Private schools are worse in this regard, in general. Just can't stand to the side while people dunk on public education.
So related to this. My son has Asperger’s and to him homework was a waste of time. Why? Because according to him “homework is for those who didn’t pay attention in class”, it’s hard to argue with that. Inevitably my answer was always, “that’s not the point”.
My son's viewpoint and experiences at school are pretty darned similar. His brutal honesty and impatience get him into trouble.
@@angelfinley6244 it's a bit concerning that you would think that it's hard to argue with that. Plenty of students focus in class and still don't necessarily understand what they're taught.
JustaFruit I was using him specifically. He always had 100% classroom participation scores and aced every test. He just refused to do the homework.
"To give you an idea of what it feels like to be on the spectrum, basically it feels like being the only sober person in a room full of drunks."
Speaking from experience, this is very true.
Or the only drunk person in a room full of sober people, depending on the day.
That is me... either that or I feel like the only smart person in a room of complete dumbasses... or vice versa depending on how you want to view it...
Either/or for me, depending on the hour.
Wait, how do we seem like the drunks?
@@deadinside8781 people have a big enough ego they think autistic people dont know what they are talking about and usually dismiss them pretty disrespectfully too
"do you know any boxes that have names"
"i started naming cereals"
thats genius. the kind of thinking outside of the BOX that only someone on the spectrum can come up with. Love her
but it’s not logical. it’s the cereals’ names, not boxes’. the boxes’ names would be “a box of the blah-blah cereal”
@@slonmish but the name is literally on the box. The box has a name on it. Therefore, the box has a name.
@@annasaussieanimals4678 cereal box is the name
I'm trying so hard to figure out the other meaning that the first sentance would have.
@@slonmish I feel like we’re just working with very different ideas of what the definition of “name” is
from breakdancers to comedians, Australia has so much talent
"It implies im high functioning" nailed it.
As an autistic person this perfectly describes what it's like for me, took my now girlfriend of four years two years for me to even realise she was into me.
Litteraly me
My 10 year old ASD son won a ribbon at his sports carnival; I asked him what he won that ribbon for, he just looks at me as if it’s the most stupid question he’s ever heard and replies ‘winning’ lol.
I'm a "high functioning" autistic person and I quote the first part of this bit to everyone. "It's a terrible name for what I have because it gives the impression that I function highly. I do not."
only in the united states where i live its called aspergers
the problem is they treat two different conditions like they are the same
Yuuuuup I used to say I was “mildly autistic” but that made it sound like I’m a hot sauce. High functioning yup that’s me, doesn’t feel like it
From my understanding (as some who works with autistic people and has two autistic brothers), high functioning just means that you're able to verbalize your thought process and able to have a steady job. However, a lot of professionals have moved away from the term "high functioning."
@@samlynx2016 Technically (from a diagnostic criteria at least) it means you are an autistic person with no associated learning disability. This is usually determined with an IQ test or something similar. If you're average or higher, you're "high functioning". That said, it's honestly a very silly distinction and i think your definition is better. Most of us have at least one associated condition (like ADHD or dyslexia) that makes IQ tests even less reliable than usual.
My fiance misunderstands me alot because I have high functioning autism and he has ADHD. We both have alot of anxiety. So I will VERY often say stuff that he does not take that way I mean him to. So I try to explain my thought process and it sounds an awful lot like this.
"But I'm not a triangle!" Wait....not everyone thinks like that as a kid? Like I know I'm autistic but I would've thought that was a normal response
If I had responded with, "I am not a triangle", it would have been in a smart-alec kind of way rather than a literal way. The literal vs. figurative language understanding is a common difference between ASD annd neurotypical, isn't it? Please correct me if I'm wrong on that.
I have ADHD and my dad has asperger's and communication is a shit show, so I feel you.
Serenade2461 I have ADHD and I feel like some of what she says in the video is like just a tad relatable to how my brain works. In the sense that I relate things that are totally not related to a neurotypical person but they’re related to me. Like if I’m talking about dogs I’ll go from dogs to some interesting facts about dog breeds then my brain will make a connection from dogs to wolves and I’ll skip over the wolves bit when speaking but I’ll go from wolves to evolution in my brain so really it looks like I went from dogs to evolution. This was a lot and I don’t even think my brain understands it. I guess a better example is math. I can’t just do like 15+16= 31. I have to do 5+5=10 so 5+6=11 and since 10+10=20 you do 10+10=20 but 5+6=11 so you have to carry the extra 1 from 15+16 over to make it 31 and not 21. And do I know if any of this math is right? No. But yeah that’s how my brain works. Why did I explain all this in this comment thread?? I have no idea.
@@beepbeeplettuce5701 the math thing is a hundred percent an ADHD thing and for the longest time I didn't know that other people did not do this lol
mermaidismyname I genuinely cannot think of any other way to do math lol. Like I’m bad at math in general so I always thought me doing that was just because I’m awful at it.
Congrats, that is the most autistic story ever to autism. Just classic.
This is a mood. I ended up turning a lot of teachers against me through sheer cluelessness. But my daughter came out with one of my favorites.
So the teacher in her 4th grade class read them a story about the 3 little pigs in which, in a twist ending, the third pig ATE THE WOLF. My daughter went up to the desk after and quietly asked her whether in doing so the third pig had therefore eaten his own brothers. Some teachers break more quietly I guess because the teacher just asked her to sit back down.
I think most of us can agree that this was actually a very logical question given the usual pacing of the story and I wonder that the author missed that little hiccup.
I broke my teacher when, during a lesson on Christian-Orthodoxy and how there is no purgatory, she stated that people who do equal amounts of good deeds *and* bad deeds, go to neither Heaven or Hell.
So, in the light of this information, I raised my little 9 y.o hand and asked "That means they remain on Earth?"
She yelled at me that I was disrespecting the word of God and never allowed me to ever raise my hand to ask a question ever. That didn't mean I stopped though.😂
@@ioanaprovo6513 Yes, in fact, the whole "equal amounts of good and bad deeds thing" is one of the arguments that *forced* philosophers and prophets alike to create Purgatory in the Catholic Methodology. It's just the only thing that makes sense. And, what about the Atheists that never did any wrong? They did *far* more good than evil, so does that mean they go to Heaven? No! So, where do they go, then? *Christian answer* : Hell. *Catholic answer* : Purgatory. And, now you see why that concept existed in the first place.
I have ADHD and now thinking about I probably might also be on the spectrum because of this Lmaoo
in the 2nd grade my teacher tried to explain greater than or less than symbols, and she was explaining them as if they were crocodiles eating each other, which now thinking about it, it’s really dumb. But I was confused because the symbols aren’t anything like that and I thought she was just being stupid... but since I was the one taking them literally, I did my homework that day, and I did all of them like this for example: 10
@@pronounhoarder_8632 I had trouble with this too, until, when I was doing these problems in school myself, my Dad helped me notice that the larger section of the sign will always be on the side of the larger number.
For example:
33
Five is greater than three
18>9
Eighteen is greater than nine
9
@@pronounhoarder_8632 I'll offer a new explanation and try to break it down.
1 is less than everything, but zero. 1
All her "weird" trains of thought make perfect sense to me, but the breakfast cereal part was sheer *genius*. I would have wanted to be friends with her in school, but I would have been too shy and awkward to try.
@@Shakenmike117 wha-
It's not funny, simp.
@@peteywheatstraws4909 Boohoo, jackass.
@@Patrickery10 he said we need to normalise bullying.
bestie I have news for u
I remember a conversation with my then 6-year-old son who is on the spectrum:
Son: Mom, can I use the vacuum downstairs?
Me: You need supervision to use it.
Son (looking confused): But I don't have super vision; I only have normal vision!
that sounds like a mistake any 6 year old would make
Suddenly, the autistic mind is trying to figure out why using the vacuum cleaner downstairs is so much more complicated than using it upstairs to the point that you need special eyes to accomplish an otherwise mundane task!
@@julieabraham3566 same
So many signs say no children allowed without supervision, but they never specify if it has to be heat vision, or if X-ray vision will do.
When I was little my mom had me try some Chinese takeout and she goes “here, this is Chinese food”
And I heard it as “This is Chine’s food”
And I just looked up at her, perplexed and asked “does she want it back?”
“Boxes don’t have names.”
Tell that to Tiny Box Tim
Aye Mark reference
markiplier fan SPOTTED
A reference I didn't expect to read, but gladly did.
OH FUCK IVE BEEN STABBED BY A REFERENCE I UNDERSTAND BUT WAS NOT EXPECTING
Cardi B seems like the kind of person to name her box.
High functioning is a blessing and a curse. Blessing that you can still take care of yourself and succeed, but a curse that socially no one can obviously tell you have something you cant control so they hold you to the same social expectations of a typical person without understanding why it's near impossible for you to meet them
You can pass for allistic juuuuuust well enough for everyone to assume you’re an asshole. And then no one tells you what you did wrong. So it will probably happen again.
Yeah, still struggling to grasp that in regards to my sister. Going on nights out, I've given her a "lets get out of here" password in a single word (tomato), in case there's danger or a guy/girl is gets too 'fresh'. I never expected her to use it everytime we go out, and after the 10th time, I was very annoyed and thought of her as a buzz kill. Had to refine the terms and conditions of the use 'tomato'. One time, I was having so much fun, but the noise and the crowd set her off and she said, "Tomato." I roll my eyes and insist we stay. She can't, really really can't, because of sensory overload. Exasperated, I let my mates know that I'd be back. I take her outside and order her an uber. I tell her I'm staying. She freaks out and demands I go with her. Well, i got my back up and said "I'm having fun and want to dance... you do this all the time..." all that shit. She sets her back up and refuses to be left alone and to leave me alone (despite having good friends with me). She stays and we both have a miserable time after that. Sensory overload isn't something she can help, and I should've gone home with her.
Despite being an awesome sister and generally fun to be around, I avoid clubbing/pubbing with her
If you acknowledge the possibility that you may be autistic then you are definitely not autistic. Trust me, I work with autistic children and adults all the time.
@@user-nz4ux4cw2z They call it a spectrum for a reason. You're very off base. Ask me anything I'll answer
@@user-nz4ux4cw2z I think you mean well, but as an autistic adult, I’m going to let you know you’re wrong there. People doubt things all the time, particularly when people contradict them (fwiw, many autistic people, particularly those DFAB, are “chameleons” who work at hiding their traits to blend in, which can lead to serious problems long term). Aside from playing bingo with symptoms, two separate experts diagnosed me (my parents were hoping the first one was wrong).
It’s cool that you work with a lot of us, though! It’s giving you a lot of learning opportunities. Some of those you work with might have more to say on the subject.
As a young child (autistic) I kept answering prepositions with this simple answer "it's there" while pointing my finger.
Never heard of her until Dave mentioned how unfunny she is. Damn, he was right. This was painful to watch.
I came here for the exact same thing.
We all came here for this reason. And we all think she is completely not funny. What happened to those long canes that dragged people off the stage. She needs to be dragged off the stage.
@@aaahhhchew8028 I am a black man do I believe in white priviledge? Yes, but not in the way the media is saying it. I now fully believe in gay priviledge now. She has no talent whatsoever. Dave Chappelle ruined her career.
@@89thunderfoot There was nothing to ruin. Shes terrible. Dave Chappelle saying her name is the biggest thing that will ever happen to her comedy career. The problem is the straight community is ready to fight back weapons in hand. He asked fundamental questions. She is the face of the sexual identification communities assault on free speech altogether.
+1
I was accidentally driving a teacher crazy once and he said “HOW do you SLEEP at night!!??” I said completely calmly and sincerely, “on my side.”
Oh you’re so cool…
That is the best position for me as well
@@BBee13 I have tried explaining to that man that I am autistic but TH-cam keeps deleting my comment. By simply correcting “so cool…” to “so aut….” I keep getting reported and deleted. I think he is reporting my comment as me bullying him lol. We got a top tier troll here.
Im on the spectrum aswell, i would for sure have said on my side!
@@youtubename7819 I haven’t even seen your reply - TH-cam must just have a sociopath detector
I’m on the spectrum and I remember holding back tears and raising my hand during a presentation about the lifecycle of stars one time and just saying “It’s really sad when stars die.” I find this hilarious now but back then I remember being crushed finding out that stars do in fact, die.
Awwww :'(
Oh my God, I just teared up. The world needs more kids that empathize with stars. Much love to you ♥️
Oh my g*d, YES! I am with you on that! I had a full on panic attack when I found out in school that the Sun would die and that all life on Earth would be dead too, before it finished collapsing. I had nightmares, till my dad spent an entire weekend trying to help me understand the concept of the lifetime of a Star, vs the lifetime of a person or a planet. Honestly, I thought the Sun was going to crush and burn me to death before I was going to get to grow up. 🤣🤣🤣
@@yverocks64 my dad really likes astronomy, so I was taught about that kind of stuff pretty early. But the weird part is, I remember 100% believing that it would die either within my lifetime or very soon after (I was like 4-5 I didn’t really understand how big of a number 5 billion is), but also being completely unconcerned over it. Like “oh yeah, the worlds gonna end or whatever”. But then again, I had a pretty weird attitude towards death as a whole when I was younger.
Same same same! It was just so devastating as a kid to know that the earth will be consumed by our own star at some point and all we have are estimates of when it’ll happen. You’re left questioning why no one is sharing in the shock you’re feeling after hearing such unpleasant news. But years later you learn to recognize the beauty of a star’s end through black holes and supernovae which remind us of the cycle of life. Still teachers need to be more aware of these differences in perception, it’s unfair to add existential space dread to the mix of problems kids face! Patience is key
My utterly traumatizing school experience, especially elementary school and later Latin, made into something I here cry about with laughter. Thanks, Hannah! 💝
As a kid I thought "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" meant that not finding something beautiful would makd my eyes ugly, which I didn't want, so I tried reeeaaally hard to find beauty in everything out of fear. That was pretty cute, most of my stories were less cute and also involve mean incompetent teachers.
I've never understood that phrase and I still don't. Does it mean that beauty is inside the person wearing the eyes? Do I have to cut them open to SEE the beauty? No, that would be cruel. Is it an old mage holding a pair of eyes in their hand and the eyes have beauty/magic inside them that are gonna make the mage pretty again???? I need to know!!
@@zimkaseem it means that nothing is objectively beautiful. Everyone sees things differently. You might think something is beautiful and that doesn't mean that it's beautiful it just means that you think that while someone else might think it's ugly.
@@minksrule2196 ahhh, that makes sense
There was a show I watched where the character thought that "beholder" meant "bee holder," and no one corrected him. My dumbass, not getting the joke, thought the same, since that character was never corrected. So I literally thought that beauty had something to do with getting stung by a shit ton of bees for a while.
I also vividly remember answering the "What starts with an f and ends with a uck" question by straight up saying "FUCK!" I didn't know what that meant, either, so I was saying it joyfully until I asked a lunch lady what it meant.
@@foxcheetah6035 what it would it be if it's not fuck??
"Does the box have a name?"
Audience laughs
Me: Why are they laughing?
Cuz the box 😂 does it have a name 😂😭😭😐 idk 🤦🏿♂️
Seriously
Because this is kindergarten level of humor.
Just like most of this generation who doesn't want to grow up.
@Bob Bobbington Q) Why wouldn't the skeleton cross the road? A) He did not have the guts!
@@jaykotey6228 Which "generation" is that exactly?
As a spectrum wielder, I can confirm that is my thought process in almost any situation.
"Spectrum wielder"!!!! I love this, thank you, I've just put this on a sticky note on my monitor.
"only a spectrum wielder can defeat another spectrum wielder."
Spectrum wielder 🤣
This is just genuinely the most relatable comedy I've seen. I didn't get inklings of people suggesting I was on the spectrum until I was 18, and I didnt get diagnosed till I was 23 years old. The absolute struggle of having a completely different thought process from everyone else but having it be completely unrecognized by anybody while they think you're just messing with them or being intentionally obnixious is extremely painful, but this made it possible for me to laugh about it.
Hannah, you are amazing and one of my favorite comedians. I've been an English teacher for 11 years, and I love using idioms and figurative language when I speak. Teaching students on the autism spectrum makes me much more aware of that, and I try really hard to speak more literally during the class periods they have me. I love hearing about their trains of thought. Also, the worst word I've ever said in front of my students is "shit."
Almost a full day after seeing this, I only now realized her asking if she could eat the box can be construed as a funny sign in retrospect that she is a lesbian. I am kicking myself for not catching on sooner.
Hahaha
Oh…
that’s why i clicked on the video lol the thumbnail got me!
Wait what
Yeah wow, you really deserve punishment for that. It's basically a crime to "only now realizing thing."
I have suuuuuuuch a hard time understanding sarcasm to this day. Unless they're doing that smirk thing where they're making it obvious....i never get it. I also don't know when people are joking unless they're giving me obvious facial cues. People often think I'm being a smartass.
Same though...
I don't always understand sarcasm...
And people interpret me as trying to be funny or weird, when in reality i just thought they meant what they said O.O'
Sometimes I’ll know someone is joking but idk how to respond so I just keep going with the conversation as if their joke was a hypothetical
so, the problem is, you don’t detect sarcasm when it’s purely verbal? try literature, it will be a way to practice
I only know how to be sarcastic because my mom taught me. I can recognize it when she and my brothers are sarcastic. Just not other people.
Saaaaaaaaame. Sarcasm is really hard! Some jokes as well depending on how it’s told tone and verbiage wise. Not quite getting the read on micro expressions
A couple of months ago, I laughed so hard and for so long at this bit that it occurred to me that I might be a little more than an ADHDer. I mean, the teacher interaction pretty much told the story of my entire school life. After a LOT of research and self-reflection, I got a clinical autism assessment. And, yes, I am also autistic. Thank you, Hannah! 💙
Hi Lena, Hope you're doing well. May I ask, How old were you when you got diagnosed?
Liar
Man shut up 🤣🤣🤣 everyone is “autistic” nowadays
You're very special and everyone cares a lot
You should get out more
I had a similar interaction with Jean's and Gene's. If I'm made of jeans how I was related to jeans? If I were related to jeans why am I wearing them? Did somebody die so I could have their jeans? Yes I know my parents gave me my jeans, but where did they get them from? The string of questions were stacking up fast. The teacher got just as livid. Parents were called. Teacher made a similar claim that I was intentionally being disruptive. I don't recall what grade I was in at the time, only that I was quite young. My mum not missing a beat said do you believe my son knows this concept so well that he can thwart your teaching for the benefit of what? Did you show him the different spelling? No? As she pointed to my pants "Well what other noun sounds the same as gene"? In that instant of understanding it was something completely different broke my brain for a while.
I didn’t get diagnosed until I was 15 and it changed my life in the best way. It’s tough when you’re different but not different enough to identify what distinguishes you without having some kind of name or explanation for it.
Hope all is well with you
True! I am still not officially diagnosed at 35, but am clearly on the spectrum. I didn't realize until around 30, and being able to look back and unpack so much stress in my life and absolve myself of guilt for being a mysteriously broken person is a life changer.
i didn't realize i am one until 26
@@bennyton2560 Isn’t it a relief? Just having a name for something that makes you different in some way can be so valuable.
@@jmaguire2232 totally. relief and freedom. I now know I'm not struggling for no reasons
Oh, this reminds me so much of when I worked as a teaching aide, and one of the teachers said to me in exasperation: "I told the second graders for our mural of our world they could draw whatever they liked, but it had to be from real life. And they drew flying elephants. Flying elephants! How did they think that was something from real life?"
I stood for a moment, then simply said, "The Ringling Brothers are in town."
She stopped and it looked like a light went on in her head, "You're right! The Circus! The signs are all over! That makes so much sense! Thank you!"
It's so ironic how you describe autism as being like being the sober person in a room full of drunk people, because I used to be the designated driver for my friends who were in a band. The funny part is that when I was literally the only sober person: everyone expected me to seem a little strange compared to them. Ironically it made me feel more accepted than I usually do. It's still a really great analogy though even if a bit ironic.
My sides were splitting after I left Hannah Gadsby’s show, but that’s because I was stabbed by a mugger.
Not because he was stabing your sides, but because he was funny
😂
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
LMAO
🤣🤣🤣
I love that autistic peeps are finding this relatable. I had the same moment when someone defined their OCD on a podcast- I lost it then :'3
Could u mention which podcast?
@@chaitanyanagaraj2840 Tig Notaro was talking about it on this American Life or fresh air or something? I'm really not sure
@@gauravvikalp Love Tig. Didn't know she is OCD. I'm autistic and Hannah is so affirming and real. I'm sure you must feel so similar. Proof that comedians being real about this kind of thing is really important.
"Teacher's pet to teacher's nemesis in one lesson."
I know this
I'm getting flashbacks to my school days. Mum sighed when she got my report card: "Aspa allows no question go unanswered..."
Cut to x yrs later when I was teaching in a high school and speaking to a pupil who was high-functioning ASD. Suddenly I was looking at myself as a kid.
They gave the audience a tablet with Tom and Jerry episodes.
Lmao noooo 💀
It was the closer they were watching
They added the laughs in notice how it never cuts to any of the audience laughing hahahahahah
Hahaha got a laugh out of me.
Bru in weak lmfaooooooooooo🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦
While I’m not autistic, I have dyslexia and ADHD and I still find this very relatable
She is insanely funny...and made me start to wonder if I might be on the spectrum
I am, and this video makes me kick myself for not realizing she was one of us when I watched Nanette. I keep finding out people I enjoyed listening to have autism or ADHD (I have both). I guess now I have to find out if Eddie Izzard has ADHD.
No you're not, these are jokes made to be somewhat relateable. That's part of the skill
Me toooooo!
@@MoveWithWoo While they are made to be relatable, a lot of people are autistic and undiagnosed. "The Centers for Disease Control's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network reports that in 2014, approximately 1 in 59 children in the United States (1 in 37 boys, and 1 in 151 girls), has been identified with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD)." That's a lot of people, and just the ones that are diagnosed!
@AcidRaZor If you're wondering if you might be autistic, try looking up sites that display and detail the symptoms and general information, and then I'd recommend finding a psychologist or a therapist if you can afford one and bring it up with them.
It’s okay to go and find out! But I do think she’s such a good writer (and knows herself well enough now) that she can translate her thought process into something hilarious. There is after all “beauty in the way she thinks” as she says :)
I am married to someone who has high functioning autism and some of the things he comes out with just makes me crack up laughing - the way his mind things sometimes is so funny,
Well then put his jokes up here, because there's nothing funny about Gabby Hambone or whatever this chicks name is.
Maybe your spouse should have been a comedian because seems like he is funnier than Hannah Gadsby.
This made me smile. I'm the same, high functioning autism and that really is a misnomer because no neurotypical person would listen to me and say high functioning. I am pretty which gets people close to me but then I gently insert my foot into my mouth and they are instantly repelled. I had my person who understood me perfectly for a while and we have a 4yo together but then he died two years ago and left us and it broke me. Edit, I really can't wrap my head around how so many people feel so negatively about this woman. Whether I was on the Spectrum or not I would find her variability to stand up for her beliefs and for herself and to tell her story and speak her truth such an inspiration. Maybe people are coming here thinking they are going to get Sarah Silverman but that is not the case.
@@roadlesstraveled34
News Flash moron
SARAH SILVERMAN HAS NEVER BEEN FUNNY
THE ONLY PPL THAT THINK SHE IS FUNNY ARE MORONS
Yeah I make fun of autistic people all the time
From my own experience dealing with mental illness, I know having an objective awareness of one's symptoms, and being able to stand up in a crowded room and eloquently articulate that awareness in a way that makes people laugh, requires years of extremely hard work. Well done Hannah Gadsby!
I honestly love this aspect of my autistic friends. I love seeing their trains of thought and when they take metaphors/jokes to their logical conclusions. It's a different way of thinking from me and it's so interesting. I know yas get a lot of flack for it from society with all our unwritten malleable rules but it's not a bad thing at all. :)
I was worried self-deprication would come across as ableism, but honestly, I relate so much. She is so good.
Tbh it’s not even self-deprecation, it’s “I was so fucking confused and accidentally pissed of my teacher”
@@DeathnoteBB Yeah she has a way with expressing these experiences in a way others can understand easily, which is really a talent.
Daniel Simpson Yeah it really is. Sometimes I try to explain and sometimes I’m good at it and sometimes I don’t even know what I’m trying to say XD
"You're being deliberately obtuse'
I have heard that SO MANY TIMES.
It angers me now.
Everyone who says female comedians can’t be funny is made of box. I mean, that’s their opinion and they’re entitled to it... but also, they’re made of box.
you sound like a female comedian
You sound like you're made of box.
There are many outrageously funny female comedians..... Hannah Gadsby isn't one of them.
@Tracy Martel Of course I watched it... that's how I arrived at my opinion that she's not funny. If it tickled you then more power to ya. I just didn't find her humor to my liking. Again, there are many outrageously funny female comedians.... she's not one of em. Sorry not my cup of tea.
that's why Jack in the Box was established.
As someone who is high functioning autistic that is an accurate description. It’s like being on a separate wavelength and being that person who did t get the memo lol. Either my teacher liked me for being engaged or were annoyed that I asked to many questions.
There’s a very non lateral way of thinking as well. Makes for very interesting yet confusing conversations occasionally.
I was nicknamed "Bill Nye" by two separate teachers in two separate schools due to the amount of questions I asked and how many parts of lessons I already knew. Kinda proud of that, really.
The thing that always through me for a loop was when people will say things that they don't _actually mean,_ but secretly mean this other thing that they _don't_ say but somehow expect _you_ to understand that they meant? And somehow _I'm_ the one with the disorder? Like the phrase _"listen to what I mean, not what I say"_ was the _bane of my existance_ growing up.
@@TrackpadProductionsYes!
When she said “a preposition explains your relationship to the box” I immediately thought “are me and the box dating?”
Me too
Im a high functioning autistc, and the wavelength metaphor is so good! I always just explain it as “I just don’t jive with people the way most people expect to be jived with”. and that tends to inform whomever Im speaking with well enough.
I just say "I'm wired differently"
Bruh that's so well put I'm going to start using that
I guess relating to something makes something that is normally not funny at all enjoyable
How did I not know she was autistic 😂😂😂 this is so damn perfect, I relate so much!
Mostly becuase she' didn't know she was Autistic till quite recently.
Because she's not...
@@pwnsnubs i can't tell if you're a troll but she is it's literally what the show is about
@@toomuchawesomeness5886 oh ok she said she's autistic, she must be because she said it. No one's ever lied so if they say something it has to be true.
@@pwnsnubs okay last response becuase this is immensely stupid. But in all honesty fuck you. Fuck people like you. Being different is difficult enough but people like you, people who constantly doubt our experiences, people who constantly gaslight us, you are part of the problem. We don't owe you our medical records, we don't owe you proof.
We don't owe you shit.
Comments from a year ago: Hannah Gadsby's audience, find her humour funny through being relatable and are happy to have someone talking about their own experiences through a comedic lens
Comments from up to three days ago: the audience of a much bigger comedian basically sent here to be mean, and no, he wasn't doing her a "favour"
I mean come on guys, her stand up has never really been my thing either but don't jump on this stupid bullying bandwagon. This wasn't made for you and I hope her fans take over the comment section again sometime.
He didn't send his audience to harass her, it's just that this bitch kinda got his Netflix special cancelled
Exactly! Well said.
fake laugh tracks
If you can't tell a joke, get off stage.
@@bigangrymanytauthor If you don’t like a video, don’t watch it
Being sober in a room full of drunks is a really good example. I also feel that, although you are in the same room, you are often more of a spectator than a participant.
Would you want to participate in the drunk shenanigans?
You don't have to be on the spectrum to feel like that.
Yes, every human being feels this. Nothing special or autistic about it.
@@Barsay Generalizations reflect the limitations of a person's intellect and how simplistically they view the world.
As someone who has been sober for 3 years and on the spectrum, it’s definitely a weird time at parties!! I’m usually at a corner drinking a soda and wondering if it’s time to go home yet 😂
I had to check and Dave was right,for sure !
Preposition- you’re on a mission, to tell me tell me tell me, exactly my position!
The single most catchy song ever created
I'm autistic but diagnosed in adulthood. In 4th grade I was fidgeting during a lesson and my teacher called me out.
"Maybe you have somewhere else you'd rather be?"
"I absolutely do!" was my honest answer. She was not best pleased.
This story sounds 10 times more authentic than her story
@@skio147 As both an autistic and a former teacher, her recollection is very familiar. This is how the very literal and systematic thought processes of autistic children and adults work. She's absolutely hyper focused but on the wrong parts of the lesson and cannot let it go. We learn to keep this bit quiet generally cause it gets us in trouble at home and in school.
@@WholeWheatWhale The way she describes things sounds like off hand she read about it somewhere.
Being autistic doesn't mean you can sus it out one way or another tho. Or you wouldn't of disagreed cuzz I'm autistic we cant both be right with such super powers
@@skio147 Autism doesn't give me super detection skills, unfortunately. I was trying to point out that her story is familiar from both my own mind and from autistic kids I've worked with.
@@WholeWheatWhale i agree its familiar. But she worded it like she got it out of a text book not a personal experience. It could be because she wrote down a story thats fsbricated for the comedy show that falls flat, i duno.
This is so funny for me I was rolling around trying to laugh quietly at 1:30am
I am 1.35am lol only just discovered her
Same!!!!!
dafuq. im watching this as 1:40am
@@Stoney1979 wth? I'm 1.37am lol so random
"You're being deliberately obtuse" omfg, that phrase is practically triggering for me, lol--I remember my mother insulting me with that phrase as a teenager when she was mad at me and I thought I was asking reasonable questions necessary for someone who wasn't a mind reader 😅
kids like me who had ADHD but genuinely loved learning drove teachers insane, too. I got sent into the hall at LEAST weekly the entire time I was in 2nd-5th grade for talking. I can totally relate to the feeling of frustration wondering why it was always happening to me! there are a lot more similarities than people seem to know.
I now have ADHD after watching this garbage fire.
Don’t give a FUCK at all
@@sealife12 then dont comment, cause it seems like you do
@@yomammasboo713 You don’t gotta do them dirty like that 😂
Well maybe you were just a kid that needed to shut the fuck up
"high functioning autism", in the first few seconds she literally says it's a terrible name and y'all just keep on using it
not to mention all the other autistics and self advocacy groups that have denounced the functioning label system
What would be a better way to describe what those labels were attempting to convey?
@@beth8775 Well, what are those labels trying to convey in the first place? The purpose of functioning labels is supposedly to make it easier for clinicians and treating professionals to understand the needs of an autistic person. (Also for nosey neurotypicals to try and fit an autistic person into their image what autism looks like.) Does it actually do that? Not really. Autism is a SPECTRUM neurodivergence and autistic people are just as varied as neurotypical people, you can't just shove them into one of two boxes. More often than not, functioning labels have been used to oppress and invalidate the experiences of autistic people. If you're "high functioning", you're not REALLY autistic and so you can't possibly speak for and advocate for(but apparently neurotypicals can ~sarcasm~) the "low functioning" autistics, whose agency and autonomy are stripped on a daily basis.
So what's the alternative if we can't use those? What has come out of backlash against functioning labels is a grading of support needs, from level 1 to level 3(not entirely sure on this but that's the gist of it). Is that better? Maybe for clinicians and therapists. (Even then I don't think it's very helpful). Should a neurotypical be asking the mum of that "odd" kid in the corner whether they're a level 1, 2 or 3?
No. You don't need to know that information. Butt out.
If you want to know more, just search "autism functioning labels" and you'll find articles and videos from autistic people on why the labeling system is bad. Amythest Schaber and Yo Samdy Sam are just two great autistic youtubers.
@@vicroberts8202 It's certainly not going to be everyone's business, but some people are going to need information about what level of support the individual needs. As you said therapists and other medical service providers, and also teachers who would have them as a student or a child care provider. Having some sort of standardized language to communicate those needs is very practical.
Personally, I have more experience with ADHD - also really a spectrum. The children in my life with it are quite different in what they struggle with most. One of them is actually waiting to be evaluated for ASD as well. I know when talking about it, the clinical langage is very helpful.
Thanks for pointing me to helpful resources.
Ah ! Thank you
the more i see people use "high functioning autism" as a label, the more i am convinced that it's just a way of saying, "autistic but is working and making their own money". It's a deeply capitalist way of looking at people in terms of what they cost versus what they 'produce', which is a sickening way to see your fellow human beings, in my opinion. :( and in that conversation nobody talks about the toll it takes on "high functioning" autistic people to be able to live that way. i personally feel like i have had to compromise heavily on my own happiness and the goals and dreams i have for myself, in order to be "high functioning". as hannah says, i don't "function highly" at all, i struggle with depression and anxiety on a daily basis... trying to manage my symptoms so that i can have a fraction of a life that neurotypicals get to have, is frustrating, and kind of a full time job on its own except of course it doesn't pay the bills.
Dave look what you've done... You brought us to a Preposition class🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love this. I wish there was a "clean" version I could share with my middle school students. Not only does it teach about what prepositions are, more importantly it would help teach them empathy for other people and start a conversation.
What empathy? To not make fun of the unfunny?
Excellent TED talk. Found the laughs distracting, tho.
We here after Dave said she wasnt funny😜😁
I was laughing throughout the entire video until she got to the point of explaining that while she was genuinely engaged in the lesson the teacher was dismissive of her questions; at that point I broke into tears. This video sums up my entire education growing up with undiagnosed ADHD: I always wanted to learn, but my inability to understand made my teachers treat me like I was stupid.
Are all you simpletons this mentally fragile?
I mean, stupid is ofc offensive. But would you say there are actually stupid kids? Or is it just an offensive word to describe those who have an inability to understand?
@@8Smoker8 nah stupidity does exist,so ya some people are and some of those people are kids. I guess the word is cruel but it's a fact of life.
It's not the ADHD pall, it's probably your IQ.
@@rcbarrientos6109 Thank you.... This is my first experience in a woke "Comedian" comment section.
How have I not heard about this comedian? She’s great
The reason you haven't heard of her is because she isn't very good. That's how this industry works.
You need to watch her show "Nanette" - it won an Emmy (along with a Peabody award and several others). I think Nanette is still on Netflix. It's BRILLIANT.
watch Nanette first. It will tear your heart out, in an Illuminating way. It makes you appreciate this work so much more.
@@tovsteh How did Jerry Seinfeld and Dane Cook get so huge?
And why are you an asshole?
Take whichever question you feel like first.
@@yohei72 Except this lady is nowhere near the level of i.e Jerry Seinfeld, and never will be given her target audience seem to be woke ideologues, so wtf are you talking about?
And fair criticism (that involves the truth) doesnt make you an a-hole, so why are you being such an a-hole resorting to personal attacks as soon as you see something you dont like? Are you gonna act like 12 year old or maybe its time to grow up?
Feel free to respond to all questions, though I doubt a condescending coward like you will.
This is literally the BEST explanation of what being on the spectrum is like!
I don't have autism, but I did ask a lot of questions in school. Just a natural curiosity, and it's kinda the same reaction. Bad teachers don't like kids who don't look at problems the way they do. It's what makes them bad teachers, and why so many people have issues getting through school. No one learns the same
I overthink the question....
@@caracalcontinuum3118 Hey, it's nothing to feel bad about. Most people do, some just do it more than others. I so overthink horribly when it comes to math lmao. One time a girl game me 5 dollars for two bookmarks, priced 2.50 each, and it took me ten minutes to figure it out.
I have Autism and I feel that on an emotional, Psychological, and Philosophical level.
Any other aspies totally relate?
I dont understand why people hate this. As someone with the same problem as her, I can tell you that she is absolutely spot on about the misconception that we are high functioning.
Edit: Ah, the old Subjectivity vs Objectivity debate. The bane of all Art. The thing that all Artists dread the most. And people wonder why we can't have nice things.
Edit 2: 69 Likes! LOL
Probably cause it isn't funny
@@austinfischer1272 Comedy is subjective...... like a box.
Whilst comedy is subjective there is always a outlier to everything and this is the comedy outlier with objectively not being funny
Bro, I've gotten so cynical and Gothic as of lately, I thought I somehow destroyed all happiness in my life including the ability to appreciate and laugh about comedy. I thought it was me. I was wrong.
This is objectively not funny. Ofcourse to some it will but imagine this woman being on Justin Bieber roast or something for example.
@@rcbarrientos6109 IS JUSTIN BEIBER A BOX?!?!?!?