I figured out I was on the spectrum in April. Its been a really emotional and overwhelming few months. I appreciate your videos. It consistently amazes me when I hear a person say an idea or have the same experience as me when I've never met someone who thinks like me. The existing as a quantum being statement you made is how I have thought of myself since I learned about that particle wave experiment as a high schooler. I hope the 2048 you describe is the one that manifests. I hope we can all learn to self actualize and create something beautiful.
Such a beautiful message. ❤️ Thank you for your vision and sharing your experience. I confirmed ADHD five months ago, stumbling upon the realization of being AuDHD through my neurodivergent deep dive needing to understand why I was so burned out on the verge of completely losing my mind. I am in a better place with better understanding and clearer vision of my human experience holding gratitude toward you and others who share their autistic experience.
You are right, this (your videos as a group) is more than you figuring out you. It helps me to think through these experiences, and I'm certain your ability to articulate these phenomena helps many. Thank you.
I'm also late-diagnosed (self-diagnosed at this point and trying to find a resource to do a formal evaluation; so far, no luck!). Thanks for this video, and all the videos in your series. I'm working my way through them. So much of your experience resonates for me. I'm old enough to remember when the thinking about autism was, only boys have it, it's a mental illness, and autistic people need early intervention to teach them how to behave more "normally." So I've seen a lot of growth and development in the thinking about autism; and I see that more will come. The more I learn, the more I believe that the future of autism includes an environment in which "neurotypical" and "neurodivergent" are not regarded as totally separate states, but are regarded as falling on a single spectrum of neurological development. I hear that in the points in your postcard from 2048. I'm paraphrasing Tony Attwood here - the issue isn't how to "fix" the person with autism to accommodate the needs of the world, the issue is how to structure the world to accommodate the needs of the person with autism.
I agree with this, and I think the key breakthrough will be bringing to the surface how much more common - male, female, young, old, white, black, rich, poor - this is than the world has realised. It's not accommodations that need to be made for a small niche of society, it's accommodations that need to be made for a VERY sizeable invisible section of society.
I have a thousand ideas too, in just a fortnight of knowing what is happening to me, but some of the reasons I have come with not to do anything are 1 my story is filled with shame, not about how I see my chaotic life but how I know others will percieve it and that no one would ever let me near other humans again 2 A collective of AuDHD'ers would lose momentum on any project we come up with after a hot minute. 3. Worrying about being bullied all over again. 4. No one cares about my story, it is lame and boring. 5. I forgot the other reasons. But seriously, I would love to do something to help others not wait half a lifetime to feel like they aren't a crazy chaotic mess.
I can understand and relate to your ideas and struggles. Before people can understand and the world can change they need to get knowledge about neurosiversity - a more positive knowledge that not only shows the deficiencies or pathology of beeing neurodivergent. This is the point were most fresh diagnosed people struggle with themselves in the beginning, including me. Not only seeing myself in an other way, also start to treat myself in an other way, that fits me better. And this is very difficult because there are no routes open visible, as they are for neurotypicals. It's kind of sad to know I am neurodivergent and better understand how to mask, than being myself. I like your idea of a platform.
Thank you. Last weeks video was very good and addressed something that described pretty much my life and how damaging that behaviour was to my growth and development in retrospect. This weeks video was excellent. There is so much polarity damaging many areas of advocacy today and is so destructive to the end goal. Your approach just seems so grounded, reasonable , and long term, surely must have more potential for success than any sensational, attention grabbing behaviour which ultimately just annoys society in general and doesn’t achieve the goal. Yes that future view does seem utopian , it made me feel yes wouldn’t that be wonderful. I probably won’t be here but I wish that world my grandson. I recognise that starting of projects and burning out so much, it is an issue that needs recognising and supporting by an understanding society . I think the neurotypical world has so much to learn from from the neurodivergent society , particularly compassion and acceptance of the value of alternative thinking and perspectives . I am encouraged by the many different thinkers out there wanting to make a difference in todays society. You have so much to offer. implementing this amazing manifesto must involve safeguarding the health of the individuals who put themselves out there so my caveat would be that ( not that it is for me to say! ) you put your progress first. Wishing you much support and encouragement.
Thank you for your caring words - getting the balance right between the personal and the abstract and drilling down into genuine meaning and effective implementation for either is such a tightrope. "Sort yourself out then sort the world out" is something I wrote down on a journal ages ago and I still think it's a pretty good mission statement!
Oh man, I was diagnosed with EDS 10 years ago. The decades of medical gaslighting stories I could tell. I definitely found a way of eating that is a gamechanger physically and emotionally (because I had bowel disease that was killing me, I got rid of it in a year) but it is pooh poohed (pun intended) by nearly everyone I talk to about it.
Hi, first off thank you! Second, I think you posted some suggestions of other female voices to check out on another video but I can't see the post anymore. My comment alerts are being really weird lately and some are going missing - you don't by any chance remember the suggestions do you? Sorry to be a pain!
@@amineurodivergent um... let me think... Stephanie Bethany Mom on the Spectrum Purple Ella Woodshed Theory Yo Samdy Sam The Thought Spot Neurodivergent Rebel I'm Autistic, Now What? Suddenly Autistic Dana Andersen Tyla Grant Paige Layle Chloe Hayden (Some of these people are AFAB non binary) I've been collecting channels, particularly of late diagnosed individuals, as I try to figure out if I might be autistic whilst waiting for assessment. It's interesting to see which experiences resonate. I guess you could say it's become a bit of an obsession/ 'special interest'! 🤔 I've mostly only found white people, which is a shame because I would like to learn from a wider variety of people with different experiences. If you come across people from other backgrounds, please share. also... Autism from the Inside (Paul Micaleff has some good interviews with autistic women and some good content on masking) Peter Wharmby: another male perspective but it has been helpful finding British voices.
@@KittyInTheGarden Thank you so much for taking the time to capture all of those - some I knew, some are new to me. Hoping these will be helpful to others who might be reading too. You're absolutely right, and I don't know whether it's algorithms, but it's mainly, even exclusively, white content creators that I ever see suggested on here. Written rather than audio/visual, but Grace Liu writes an interesting blog. It would be great to see an even greater panoply of experiences available to open the window of possibility for so many more others out there: unwrittengrace.wordpress.com . Thanks again!
What do people think of this? Diagnosis’s only are necessary when your traits prevent you living a reasonable life. One is only considered disabled when they’re unsuited to their environment. E.g. ramps in public places make wheel chair users more abled. If we can create a world that caters for neurodivergence, diagnosis’s become unnecessary. The undiagnosed don’t need a diagnosis. I like you’re opinion and also believe a less divided world is without a doubt better. If we start splitting everything up where do we stop… we could split the women from men, then the disabled woman from disabled men, able men and women, then the ASD men from the other disabled men…. I hope you get the point… it’s not achievable but I believe working together as people who accept and adapt to others is, or at least more achievable than infinitely dividing people.
Maybe this is a bit wrong… I’m thinking that people can’t be educated about everything. We can’t educate people on ASD, trans, and every specific neurodivergent type. So instead we should adapt the world to be more suitable to NDs in general. Maybe we should make it even more general and make it suitable for people. IDK, there seems to be a balance between being too general and being too specific. The more general we are the less the minority’s get noticed. The more specific we get, the more likely the NTs think I can’t be fucked to learn and change for every person in the world. There’s no way the perfect balance can be calculated. But it will improve over time, like it’s already happening. (Like PTSD never used to be a thing, first the experts acknowledge it, and then the general population learn and accept it). We’re moving forward slowly and I’m sure we already live in a better world for NTs than 100 years ago. We just need to keep learning about the mind from both science and our experiences, and share it with the world. Lol this was long but made me think about a lot and feels good to get it out. If anyone actually reads this, I welcome others perspectives
@@dhankkhush1088 I agree it's a really tricky balance between educating and overwhelming the general public who are broadly 'fine' and it's probably a steady drumbeat that's required rather than some kind of big bang 'do-you-get-it-now?' approach. The PTSD example is apt, it's becoming more and more accepted as a thing because it just keeps getting discussed and referenced. It's going to require patience, I think, but I fundamentally agree that we'll get there. I think. I think 'diagnosis', 'identification', however people want to define neurodivergent self-realisation is as much helpful for self-knowledge and self-advocating as it is for changing the way people treat you. In many ways, it's a framework for understanding rather than a tool for change, I guess, and I think you're right about the correlation between the perception of disability and the reality of the surrounding environment. If the latter rises, the former falls until they level out to a degree of something like acceptability - maybe? We're not there yet, though, so to me the steady drumbeat sometimes has to get louder.
hey :) another well explained video. I like the way you explain your situation, its like a story format, so we can be part of your journey with you.
I figured out I was on the spectrum in April. Its been a really emotional and overwhelming few months. I appreciate your videos.
It consistently amazes me when I hear a person say an idea or have the same experience as me when I've never met someone who thinks like me. The existing as a quantum being statement you made is how I have thought of myself since I learned about that particle wave experiment as a high schooler.
I hope the 2048 you describe is the one that manifests. I hope we can all learn to self actualize and create something beautiful.
Such a beautiful message. ❤️ Thank you for your vision and sharing your experience. I confirmed ADHD five months ago, stumbling upon the realization of being AuDHD through my neurodivergent deep dive needing to understand why I was so burned out on the verge of completely losing my mind.
I am in a better place with better understanding and clearer vision of my human experience holding gratitude toward you and others who share their autistic experience.
You are right, this (your videos as a group) is more than you figuring out you. It helps me to think through these experiences, and I'm certain your ability to articulate these phenomena helps many. Thank you.
Admirable points, not crazy. Thank you for putting the postcard out there!
I'm also late-diagnosed (self-diagnosed at this point and trying to find a resource to do a formal evaluation; so far, no luck!). Thanks for this video, and all the videos in your series. I'm working my way through them. So much of your experience resonates for me.
I'm old enough to remember when the thinking about autism was, only boys have it, it's a mental illness, and autistic people need early intervention to teach them how to behave more "normally." So I've seen a lot of growth and development in the thinking about autism; and I see that more will come.
The more I learn, the more I believe that the future of autism includes an environment in which "neurotypical" and "neurodivergent" are not regarded as totally separate states, but are regarded as falling on a single spectrum of neurological development. I hear that in the points in your postcard from 2048.
I'm paraphrasing Tony Attwood here - the issue isn't how to "fix" the person with autism to accommodate the needs of the world, the issue is how to structure the world to accommodate the needs of the person with autism.
I agree with this, and I think the key breakthrough will be bringing to the surface how much more common - male, female, young, old, white, black, rich, poor - this is than the world has realised. It's not accommodations that need to be made for a small niche of society, it's accommodations that need to be made for a VERY sizeable invisible section of society.
I have a thousand ideas too, in just a fortnight of knowing what is happening to me, but some of the reasons I have come with not to do anything are 1 my story is filled with shame, not about how I see my chaotic life but how I know others will percieve it and that no one would ever let me near other humans again 2 A collective of AuDHD'ers would lose momentum on any project we come up with after a hot minute. 3. Worrying about being bullied all over again. 4. No one cares about my story, it is lame and boring. 5. I forgot the other reasons.
But seriously, I would love to do something to help others not wait half a lifetime to feel like they aren't a crazy chaotic mess.
I love your work...thanks
I can understand and relate to your ideas and struggles.
Before people can understand and the world can change they need to get knowledge about neurosiversity - a more positive knowledge that not only shows the deficiencies or pathology of beeing neurodivergent.
This is the point were most fresh diagnosed people struggle with themselves in the beginning, including me. Not only seeing myself in an other way, also start to treat myself in an other way, that fits me better. And this is very difficult because there are no routes open visible, as they are for neurotypicals. It's kind of sad to know I am neurodivergent and better understand how to mask, than being myself.
I like your idea of a platform.
I can relate to everything you say here - it's a real struggle to reposition mentally. The platform is something I really want to develop.
Thank you.
Last weeks video was very good and addressed something that described pretty much my life and how damaging that behaviour was to my growth and development in retrospect.
This weeks video was excellent. There is so much polarity damaging many areas of advocacy today and is so destructive to the end goal.
Your approach just seems so grounded, reasonable , and long term, surely must have more potential for success than any sensational, attention grabbing behaviour which ultimately just annoys society in general and doesn’t achieve the goal.
Yes that future view does seem utopian , it made me feel yes wouldn’t that be wonderful. I probably won’t be here but I wish that world my grandson.
I recognise that starting of projects and burning out so much, it is an issue that needs recognising and supporting by an understanding society .
I think the neurotypical world has so much to learn from from the neurodivergent society , particularly compassion and acceptance of the value of alternative thinking and perspectives .
I am encouraged by the many different thinkers out there wanting to make a difference in todays society.
You have so much to offer. implementing this amazing manifesto must involve safeguarding the health of the individuals who put themselves out there so my caveat would be that ( not that it is for me to say! ) you put your progress first.
Wishing you much support and encouragement.
Thank you for your caring words - getting the balance right between the personal and the abstract and drilling down into genuine meaning and effective implementation for either is such a tightrope. "Sort yourself out then sort the world out" is something I wrote down on a journal ages ago and I still think it's a pretty good mission statement!
So authentic and inspiring ❤
Oh man, I was diagnosed with EDS 10 years ago. The decades of medical gaslighting stories I could tell. I definitely found a way of eating that is a gamechanger physically and emotionally (because I had bowel disease that was killing me, I got rid of it in a year) but it is pooh poohed (pun intended) by nearly everyone I talk to about it.
Great stuff. We can manifest things if we focus on an idea. Its a strange world of frequencies.
Yeah, I'm getting quite into this recently. Hadn't really been on my radar before.
@@amineurodivergent I have used the Sapien Medicine videos to manifest good luck and abundance and they seem to work, but blink and you might miss it.
great points
Hi, first off thank you! Second, I think you posted some suggestions of other female voices to check out on another video but I can't see the post anymore. My comment alerts are being really weird lately and some are going missing - you don't by any chance remember the suggestions do you? Sorry to be a pain!
@@amineurodivergent um... let me think...
Stephanie Bethany
Mom on the Spectrum
Purple Ella
Woodshed Theory
Yo Samdy Sam
The Thought Spot
Neurodivergent Rebel
I'm Autistic, Now What?
Suddenly Autistic
Dana Andersen
Tyla Grant
Paige Layle
Chloe Hayden
(Some of these people are AFAB non binary)
I've been collecting channels, particularly of late diagnosed individuals, as I try to figure out if I might be autistic whilst waiting for assessment. It's interesting to see which experiences resonate. I guess you could say it's become a bit of an obsession/ 'special interest'! 🤔 I've mostly only found white people, which is a shame because I would like to learn from a wider variety of people with different experiences. If you come across people from other backgrounds, please share.
also...
Autism from the Inside (Paul Micaleff has some good interviews with autistic women and some good content on masking)
Peter Wharmby: another male perspective but it has been helpful finding British voices.
@@KittyInTheGarden Thank you so much for taking the time to capture all of those - some I knew, some are new to me. Hoping these will be helpful to others who might be reading too. You're absolutely right, and I don't know whether it's algorithms, but it's mainly, even exclusively, white content creators that I ever see suggested on here. Written rather than audio/visual, but Grace Liu writes an interesting blog. It would be great to see an even greater panoply of experiences available to open the window of possibility for so many more others out there: unwrittengrace.wordpress.com . Thanks again!
@@amineurodivergent Thanks, I'll take a look
What do people think of this?
Diagnosis’s only are necessary when your traits prevent you living a reasonable life. One is only considered disabled when they’re unsuited to their environment. E.g. ramps in public places make wheel chair users more abled.
If we can create a world that caters for neurodivergence, diagnosis’s become unnecessary. The undiagnosed don’t need a diagnosis.
I like you’re opinion and also believe a less divided world is without a doubt better.
If we start splitting everything up where do we stop… we could split the women from men, then the disabled woman from disabled men, able men and women, then the ASD men from the other disabled men…. I hope you get the point… it’s not achievable but I believe working together as people who accept and adapt to others is, or at least more achievable than infinitely dividing people.
Maybe this is a bit wrong… I’m thinking that people can’t be educated about everything. We can’t educate people on ASD, trans, and every specific neurodivergent type. So instead we should adapt the world to be more suitable to NDs in general. Maybe we should make it even more general and make it suitable for people. IDK, there seems to be a balance between being too general and being too specific. The more general we are the less the minority’s get noticed. The more specific we get, the more likely the NTs think I can’t be fucked to learn and change for every person in the world.
There’s no way the perfect balance can be calculated. But it will improve over time, like it’s already happening. (Like PTSD never used to be a thing, first the experts acknowledge it, and then the general population learn and accept it).
We’re moving forward slowly and I’m sure we already live in a better world for NTs than 100 years ago. We just need to keep learning about the mind from both science and our experiences, and share it with the world.
Lol this was long but made me think about a lot and feels good to get it out. If anyone actually reads this, I welcome others perspectives
@@dhankkhush1088 I agree it's a really tricky balance between educating and overwhelming the general public who are broadly 'fine' and it's probably a steady drumbeat that's required rather than some kind of big bang 'do-you-get-it-now?' approach. The PTSD example is apt, it's becoming more and more accepted as a thing because it just keeps getting discussed and referenced. It's going to require patience, I think, but I fundamentally agree that we'll get there. I think.
I think 'diagnosis', 'identification', however people want to define neurodivergent self-realisation is as much helpful for self-knowledge and self-advocating as it is for changing the way people treat you. In many ways, it's a framework for understanding rather than a tool for change, I guess, and I think you're right about the correlation between the perception of disability and the reality of the surrounding environment. If the latter rises, the former falls until they level out to a degree of something like acceptability - maybe?
We're not there yet, though, so to me the steady drumbeat sometimes has to get louder.
You and Pete wharmby could do this
Thank you for mentioning Pete Wharmby - I somehow hadn't come across him yet and I'm now going deep into his stuff. Cheers!
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