I think Hannah's point in the previous video about "would I tick the "do you have a disability" box on a form, would I need/be in my best interests to disclose that" is also a really good thought process, and has/is helping me see my various things/myself as valid 💐
I have ulcerative colitis and this specific topic has kind of bummed me out since I was diagnosed. It's kind of a common topic of conversation in nerd circles to talk about the way you'd survive different apocalypses, and me being the only chronically ill person, it just kinda got me down having to think about like "how do I do get my medication" and stuff like that, because eventually my medication would run out and I'd slowly die (even if it wouldn't be a quick death). After having watched your video though, I realise what a different conversation this can be when you're having it with other chronically ill / disabled people, and I wanna thank you both for that
@@annie-tu1oy I also have diabetes and have considered this! Sound advice, although you still would get some serious long term complication since A1C would be a good deal higher (Though in the apocalypse I don't really think that would be a primary concern). More worryingly though, insulin doesn't actually last super long and so after whatever you've stocked up on goes bad, you might be kind of in trouble. On the other hand people have apparently made insulin from pigs when they were stuck with no insulin being shipped in, so maybe go for that. One time I wasn't even thinking about the apocalypse, but our class was visiting Walden Pond so of course I thought how cool it would be to just live in the woods by myself for a while like Thoreau, but then I remembered that I'd actually just run out of insulin and die... the good news is that then I could think about my best friend who also has diabetes and so if we were there together we could both have the same issue and share resources. I suppose that wouldn't actually end much better, but at least it's less sad to think about?
Same for me! I have lymphocytic colitis and I would be useless without Imodium. Whenever my pills run out for a few days and I have a flare up I get so sick I can’t do anything but run to the bathroom and curl up in a ball. It’s always a bummer to consider in survivalist scenarios. But this was a funner talk.
If its a zombie apocalypse I cant really run away for that long with my hip dysplasia so I will probably just sit down and let myself get eaten fast. I currently still live mostly without pain meds but only because I build my life in a way my hip joints will stay ok for as long as possible.
I have chronic anxiety and one of my symptoms is catastrophising which means my mind automatically jumps to the worst possible thing that could happen in any situation - I think this could be helpful in an apocalypse
Haha YES. Cause with anxiety, basically you're already living in the apocalypse in the normal world, so you'd have lots of practice! I always think the worst thing will happen. I'm not even negative, I just worry that the worst case scenario, even if very, very unlikely, could happen. So in this case, it would happen. And I'm prepared. Oh how we are prepared.
Same here. Though I also have depression and without antidepressants, I'm not sure how well I would be able to thrive. Plus with anxiety, I might just get absolutely fucked and paralyzed by imagining everything terrible that will happen...
I was thinking about it too! Like I have bpd so I’d struggle to live with strangers, they’d probably kick me out, but I think I’d struggle more with my chronic depression and generalized anxiety, I wouldn’t survive a week without my meds, no need for the zombies, my mind would just destroy me. Do you think mentally disabled people would be safe from the world war z virus?
My paranoid ass is always like: what if we fall off a bridge, what if someone breaks in my house and etc...so I’ve researched all possibilities of dealing with an apocalypse...in theory.
Hello folks, I'm writing to you a year later as the disease apocalypse version is happening and yes. As covid19 started I was actually doing better because the world matched my inner chaos. I can sew and would trade clothes for supplies from other people. Now I'm broadening my knowledge to include felting and fabric making just in case.
I think I might do alright actually in an apocalypse like A Quiet Place because I'm autistic so I am really sensitive to noise and my autism also causes me to find it really hard to communicate verbally. So, apart from all the death and generally not great situation, I might be alright. Although, stimming might be an issue because I have very loose joints that will rattle if I move them too quick.
Relatable. I would completely mess up in other apocalypses though, because of overtension (I don't know the English word for it, but it's like when you have to deal with too many sounds and light etc). I would freak out
Unless it’s like Bird Box I would survive cuz only the mentally ill can see the demons...but I’d rather not find out about that because I’d be their prisoner
Not really disabled, but if I take my contacts off everything further than one foot form my face becomes pretty much just colored blurs. And when I watched Bird Box pretty much all my friends concluded that I had an advantage because I could a)just take off my contacts and live life normally (provided I didn't get closer than two-three feet to the creatures) or b)go blindfolded as well, but since I am already used to navigating the world without fully seeing it (especially at night because there is no freaking colors in the dark so everything dissappears) I would have an easier time just going off blindfolded
You may not identify as disabled (which is perfectly valid) but glasses and contacts are adaptive medical devices. They've just become normalized and accepted.
I love these types of videos! They do so much to normalize disability. I've been paralyzed since I was 14 and I use a wheelchair, so it's nice to see videos about other young women with disabilities. As far as apocalypses, I think I'd do well in the quiet one since I don't have footsteps.
type 1 diabetic here - lol i'm already forced to sometimes drive around from pharmacy to pharmacy looking for my insulin pens and needles and all that jazz, i won't survive the apocalypse for sure. but it would be nice to break in and get my stuff for free for once cause that shit's expensive y'all let me tell you
I can’t believe this video exists because I’m type 1 diabetic as well and I sometimes think that no matter what apocalypse happens I’m dead. Which may sound morbid but it is so fucking nice to hear others have thought about it too.
Luckily in the UK I have the NHS to pay for mine (unless something bad happens to the NHS...) but yeah we would all be dead in a matter of days in the apocalypse with T1D
I sometimes used to think about what I would do if I was one of the few survivors trying to find others and rebuild society in a post-apocalyptic world... but then I got type 1 diabetes and see it as a silver lining that I no longer have to worry about surviving in such a world!
Any apocalypse situation that requires running, I am dead. Exercise induced asthma means the distance I can run before collapsing is measured in meters. I am very lucky that modern life does not require running because it is mild enough I can usually ignore it. Asthma probably would count as unhealthy in the virus situation, so I think it would definitely help there.
I have selective mutism so I would THRIVE in a quiet place because I'm very used to not talking for hours on end, I'm learning sing language, and I'm hearing (so I could hear creaks and stuff)
Would you mind to describe what selective mutism is? I mean, from the name I assume you choose to not speak at all in most situations, it's not because you're unable to speak, but I'm not sure how it works. I can Google it of course but I'd be interested to hear it from yourself if you wouldn't mind sharing.
@@Raev222 The name is a bit misleading. In medical terms selective just means non-constant, just like "Selective Weakness" would mean occasional weakness. It doesn't indicate a choice. Many people with Selective Mutism may feel in conflict with their own body, as if they can't make their words come out even when they want them to.
@@Raev222 Glad I could help. :) Yes absolutely, frustrating and sometimes a bit scary knowing that I might not always be able to ask for help if I need it. However, I should be clear, I wouldn't say I have Selective Mutism. There's people who live it day-in and day-out, or who deal with it each week. I answered your question because I know the answer, but on average I'd say I only lose my ability to 'Do The Words Thing' a few times of year. And, for me as an Autistic person, I tend to find struggling with talking usually only happens when I'm also experiencing other problems, like Executive Function errors, or an anxiety attack, or sensory overload.
@@Raev222 A) thank you so much for asking and B) selective mutism is an anxiety disorder where when your're anxious it's hard to talk/you cant talk. In some situations I chose not to talk b/c i'm uncomfortable or don't know what to say but usually I'm not talking because I'm so anxious I physically can't, even if I want to and know what to say. It makes communication really hard when I'm uncomfortable/anxious (which is when communication is really important). And I only can't talk in anxious situations -- so some days I'm more anxious and won't talk for most of the day, but other days I'll be perfectly comfortable with talking. and it's a childhood diagnosed disorder so it was much worse when i was little but now it's getting better. (sorry that was SUUPER long)
I feel like in an apocalypse my anxiety would actually be better because whenever I've been in real stressful situations I've actually done pretty well (university, work, car accident, etc). My anxiety takes over more when there aren't other things to occupy my thoughts or when I'm isolated. It's like my brain needs something to worry about so if there were some external issues maybe the internal issues would recede a bit.
You're so right! Same here. I never realised this until now. I actually function really well when I have to. It's just when my life (or someone else's) doesn't depend on it, my brain can't cope!
I can’t get over how the disease apocalypse actually happened 😅 I’d love to see a follow up video to this one about how surviving the apocalypse actually went down. Also a video about surviving the apocalypse with a mental illness instead of a physical one
Any apocalypse where I would end up in a confined space with other people would be a problem since I have Crohn's. I would probably be killed off by the other humans for farting too much.
Assuming that I survive the initial apocalypse (which is probably going to involve an element of chance) I fully intend to survive in post apocalyptic times by being an indispensable oracle of knowledge (particularly about gardening, cooking, seed collecting, and foraging), and by trading handmade clothing for food and shelter. 10 years of chronic fatigue have made me an excellent knitter, and I can also spin, sew, make rope and carve spoons.
My partner and I have had the zombie with disabilities discussion. Nice to see we are not the only weirdos who have these kinds of thoughts! Our son used to be quite convinced a zombie apocalypse was definitely going to happen some day and he benevolently informed us that he would stay to protect us until we died, which he said he knew wouldn’t take long and then he would go and travel with his mates. Nice to know lol
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What an awesome collab! Whenever I imagine the apocalypse the thing that I think would get me the most isn't lack of medication, because while I would slowly go down hill without it i reckon i could stretch it out, but my food allergies. Because I'm coeliac (and I'm imagining an apocalypse where i have to scavenge for food) a lot of the food i eat is fresh food, and i think i would have to figure out a way to eat that wouldn't make me ill.
Pandemic- lupus gives me an overactive immune system. So if I stop taking immune suppression I might not get the virus. But my body would self destruct. PS. I am a mutant...
Me too. Ive a type of ellhers danlos. Thats a connective tissue disorder. Youve likely seen it in circus 'freaks' that can hang from their skin or put 100s of clothespins on thier face. A gene miscodes for the production of collagen causing the proteins that make it to be more 'stretchy' than in normal people. But.... mine is a subtype. I dont have stretchy skin, mine is in the joints. So youve seen abnormally flexible people who arent trained contortionists? Like fat people that can do back bends and the splits and put their legs behind their neck and have their arms pulled all the way to touching behind their back or joint locks dont work on them or their knees bend way back further than yours? Their fingers can lock at the first knuckle from the fingertips? Thumbs that can bend down and touch their forearm? Thats my mutant power. Its a bit less dire than yours, but comes with aortic insufficiency and high risk of aortic dissection and chronic joint dislocations or subluxations. Probably be in a wheel chair later.
I probably wouldn't survive, I can hardly walk, forget running from things in an apocalypse. The Quite Place makes no sense, what if you fart in your sleep?
Colitis is still in your body, but the illness will primarily be in the colon, but there are other things that would be affected by the illness even when the colon is removed.. For example - I have colitis - I have had kidney stones AND gallbladder stones... both are a known thing that happens in colitis patients.... And as soon as you have an autoimmune disease, you are in risk of getting more... I have 4 chronic autoimmune illnesses... on top of that I have 4 illness’ that is started because of my autoimmune diseases but are not autoimmune in itself... So - world war Z - Hannah you are safe ;)
Oh... now i want a video game whete all characters have different disabilities and it's like survival... for example if they don't get the meds they need they get in pain or start hallucinating and it just adds another difficulty to surviving... also the players learn about disabilities... maybe a beginner gets a more easy disability and you play in groups and experienced players get a disadvantage with a more difficult disability... also you make it random which one you get so people learn about different ones and not always play the same
Omg yes! Like, the easiest characters have simple disabilities like dyslexia, which doesn’t really disable you while killing a monster, or an amputated hand or something similar. And the most advanced character has a super complex body with about 15 different disabilities. Their wheelchair constantly breaks down. They obviously can’t clean their g-tube on the battlefield. Because of PANS they can’t really deal with too many people, because the slightest infection can make them hallusinate. I could go on forever!
Once the (awful) withdrawal from my mh medication wore off, I actually reckon I’d be okay in the apocalypse, because a) I’ve been obsessing about that sort of thing my whole life, and b) I’m so used to forcing myself to stay alive that I think I’d be good at it 😅
Well, I'm sitting here in 2021 and when Hannah mentioned global warming and disease scenario that could possibly happen in near future I was like, lol, she's a prophet :D
this is such an amazing video, i have never watched a disability video like this! Its a pretty interesting thing to think about how you would manage all these kinds of apocalypse with a disabilities/chronic or terminal illness.
I've had homebound friends get trapped in floods and natural disasters....one friend passed away because her paid caregivers weren't exactly working during that time. It happens to a lot of disabled ppl who can't leave their homes, hospitals, or care centers in an emergency. It's always good to have backup meds, an emergency generator, and stock up on water & food by your bedside/wheelchair just in case of an emergency!
But my answer is 'the apocalypse* would kill me but in like 5-7 years' that's still a weird middle ground! *the apocalypse being some thing that prevents access to medication/hospitals. I think my condition was triggered by a mutated gene so I might survive a mutant uprising... (also curly hair is a mutation, technically).
Interesting video! I think about this sort of stuff all the time. I don't like temporary stuff because I always think "but what if the apocalypse (or some drastic changers to supplies or price of supplies) happens tomorrow?". Pain killers for endometriosis are no good, gotta get a hysterectomy. Shaving is no good, gotta get laser hair removal. Binding is no good, gotta get top surgery. Etc. But then I realize that this is all moot because I have diabetes and I will die within 48h of not having insulin so.......
My OCD could definitely be a double edged sword. On the one hand it's made me very good at analysing situations and picking them apart, on the other hand OH DEAR LORD THE ANXIETY 😱
Damn Hannah, this got dark and I loved it! Most people are too scared to even acknowledge things like global warming let alone how it would affect the disabled. Keep doing videos like this!
10:34 Actually you wouldn't thrive because melting ice and warming seas cause the Gulf Stream (which is currently warming Europe) to change its course... In the long run Europe will be colder rather than warmer but in the meantime the occasional heatwave might make up for it ;)
You're both so cool! I admire how you are dealing with your disability and even make other people laugh. Thank you very much, your videos do help me a lot.
Two of my favorite people discussing something I think about all the time! Sometimes its for fun. Sometimes its anxiety of knowing how doomed me and other disabled peoples would be. Thank you both for the video :)
As someone with ADHD (and the anxiety & depression that usually comes with it) I would physically be able to survive MOST of these situations (definitely not A Quiet Place, I think my impulsivity would be a problem there). The organization/executive function workarounds I’ve learned over the years would probably be an advantage, tbh.
Hi I came from Jessica’s channel I really enjoyed both videos! Me and my best friend often joke we would be screwed in an apocalypse situation though could use my walking stick as a weapon against zombies xx
How come with zombies the premise is usually apocalypse, but with vampires the premise is usually that they go generally unnoticed by society? Vampires are just as capable, probably more so, of causing an apocalypse. All zombies really have is that they can kill people and turn them into more of themselves, vampires can do that and so much more! Super strength, super speed, super smell, and super hearing are all common vampire super powers. They could easily take over the world if they wanted to, but although there are several programmes where they've threatened to, I can't think of any where they actually do. We need more vampire apocalypses! They are seriously powerful creatures and I want to watch something that shows what they're truly capable of.
I really like this take on disabledness! I might use this as a talking point next time someone gets weird/uncomfortable when I mention mine and they don't know what to say. As a migraineur, I just would not do well in pretty much any apocalypse. On a related track though, in a everyone isn't taking care of their bodies apocalypse, I'll be better than most. I'll still be migraining most of my life, but at least I will have taken care of my health well enough to HAVE a long life. My migraines are linked to my diet + exercise + sleep schedule + stress, so basically my body is punishing me immediately whereas everyone else has to wait to be punished by their bodies with diabetes and heart attacks and strokes and losing their liver and anxiety attacks and depressive episodes years or decades later. So I guess because of my body's specific reason to migraine, I'm doing okay in our world's current apocalypse? Buuuut I also am an extreme ADD'er, so very disabled by the world on that one. I feel like a disabled person because of my migraines, but a person disabled by the world because of my ADD. So as long as the apocalypse was one that required some sort of ADD-friendly task, I'll do great. If it involves anything too harsh in the environment (like smog, or diseases) my migraines will get me killed pretty fast.
I have EDS, and I just recently got diagnosed so these conversations used to be fun but now it's just another thing for me to grapple with while still coming to terms with the idea that the word disabled applies to me.
this is such a good way to define a disability oh my god!!! i have crohn's disease and haven't had a ton of symptoms lately so i've felt guilty even calling it a disability but if literally any apocalypse hit there's like no way i could get my infusion medication!!! this video was so fun and i actually really needed it
I’m hard of hearing and wear hearing aids. my hearing loss is light enough that i’d be okay in an apocalypse, seeing as the power is likely to go out and i need to charge my hearing aids so i’d be without. that being said, it’s caused by a dominant gene mutation so I get to be on the winning side of the mutant uprising (thank you for that lovely way of putting it, that makes me feel proud of it)
i talk about this with my friends all the time. we always come up with some kind of group dynamic that helps each other and uses our skills and talents to survive
I would definitely thrive in a quiet place. ☺️ I have ME and sleep for really really long periods! Normally I eventually get woken up by some noise and depending on how early this might be can have really nasty pain for the day. So the idea of complete silence sounds like total bliss!!
🤯Jessica Kellgren-Fozard your disability sounds really complicated ❤️ I love your hair and you have an interesting way of thinking about zombies 🧟♀️ 😌 I love how the little black elephants 🐘 on Hannah match with the watch it looks artsy AF 😍 I’m still terminally ill but I’m taking medication. Personally I hope there won’t be an apocalypse.
I don't think my h eds and gastrointestinal issues would offer any help, but the ability to dissociate on command and my hundreds of autistic special interests (such as medicine, botany, tv shows to keep us entertained) could definitely come in handy
Yeah, I'm autistic too and I often think of special interests and infodumping as "sometimes the walking encyclopaedia thing is annoying, but on the other hand sometimes an encyclopaedia is exactly what you need!" Plus I come with an audio search function, I can automatically jump to the most relevant part of the article depending on context (although I will give you the whole article if you let me keep talking), and I can pitch my explanation to your reading/vocabulary/level of previous knowledge, and draw you annotated diagrams in real time depending on your learning style. I'm heavier than an encyclopaedia and you'd need to feed me, but I can walk and sew and do lookout duty, so I think on balance having an autistic person with relevant special interests as part of your group would be better than carrying a library with you, especially when travelling on foot.
@@SomeoneBeginingWithI Yes very true, in high school 'the walking encyclopedia' was my nickname and it definitely helped my friends pass exams so I'm sure the ability would be 1000 times more helpful during the apocalypse. Plus I always like to think that if we ever got past the apocalypse phase and managed to start rebuilding humanity people like us would be in high demand because of our knowledge, as I'm sure due to the death and destruction and loss of the internet a lot of people would have no idea how to manage everything without us.
I think those of us with dietary requirements would have it bad in any scenario. Like if the food is running out and I am searching for supplies finding gluten free ones would be an additional obstacle.
I’m actually working on making a book about a group of disabled people in the apocalypse because I want more rep for me and my friends and disabled people in general in different genres and I think it would be interested to explore this, and this actually helps me, thank you!!!!
This is something that is actually being discussed here in Portland, Oregon, USA as we’re due for our own apocalypse with the Cascadia Subduction Zone Quake, sometime within the next 50 years (So, geologically speaking, any second now). It is expected be over 9.0 for several minutes. This is far worse than the Fukushima Quake with nowhere near the infrastructure in place. For example buildings aren’t up to the latest building codes and those codes aren’t up to handling that size of quake, instead being aimed something that is 7.0 and lasts only seconds. As a disabled person on a lot of medication I often worry what will happen to me in that situation. We’re not expected to have water restored for months and there’s no clear idea of how we’ll get medical supplies to those that need them in a timely manner.
I haven't actually watched the video yet. OMG I LOVE THIS. I have thought about if I would survive in the apocalypse with my disabilities SO MUCH. And everyone thought i was just being grim, but i'm not the only one!!! YAYAYAYAY
I'm watching this for the first time today, and your hypothetical scenarios are freaking me out! Also, hEDS, MCAS, MCTD, Sjogren's, Hashi's, yada yada. You do the best Rita Hayworth Gilda I've ever seen, and I've worked on it for 30 years! You are the best medicine that I'm taking right now.
I would be dead in all of these, I have a form of narcolepsy that I have to take a controlled substance for, which chemists only ever have if you ask them to order in, so within a few months I would be out of meds and sleeping 18-20 hours a day, so I'd be dead from that and if that didn't kill me I also have a connective tissue disorder, so for the few hours a day I'm awake, I would be in constant pain, I can't lift anything heavier then a phone, I can't run without twisting or dislocating something, and thanks to the narcolepsy I can't drive for more then an hour, so again, I'd be dead. I just hope I die in my sleep.
@@abbieq11 I would either be a mutant or I wouldn't be a threat to mutants because I would just be sleeping the whole time. This is only if we are talking X-men type mutants of course.
As a person who is both physically disabled and mentally ill, I actually think about this a lot! I'm dependent on my meds for pain relief, but also for making my brain function like a brain. What to do when society collapses is a regular brain-spiral for me.
I would love for you to talk about this with regards to mental disability/ illness and with regards to Austim Love you Hannah, hope you are enjoying your holiday xx
This was so much fun to watch! My disability is depression and anxiety so I'd probably just lie down and cry until I died if any scenario happened that made life any harder!
I have ADHD, so my brain was designed for the apocalypse. Also since I have Fibromyalgia, I have so much experience coping with pain and problem solving situations. Basically I would win any apocalypse!
Any apocalypse that requires leaving my home permanently or being cut off from medical supplies for more than a few weeks I would not survive as I have so many medicine! I don't have a disability, just a happy bundle of mental and physical illnesses that require using meds daily. Great way to think about it! Fun!
Well. I've got moderate OCD, which is more manageable than severe OCD, so I think I'd probably do okay in most scenarios..? In a scenario where the problem is disease related, I have a distinct advantage/disadvantage in that I think about contamination CONSTANTLY. If I was able to make cleaning supplies - which I do know how to do, though admittedly the ones I can make aren't very strong, just better than nothing I'd do pretty well. If it was a group setting I could probably be put in charge of decontaminating stuff when anyone could have been potentially exposed. On the flip side, my stress level would be through the roof, and there's a good chance I'd start questioning whether I did good enough with the cleaning, and possibly develop some paranoia that the people around me weren't doing a good enough job cleaning themselves and/or following my instructions to clean stuff. And if for whatever reason I couldn't make cleaning supplies AND was unable to hoard them I would probably become suicidal from not being able to clean anything once my supplies ran out. Other people in that situation would probably all catch the disease and die too if they couldn't clean things and were still exposed to it, I would just probably die before even getting sick. In other apocalypses my focus on cleaning things could potentially slow me down, and cause me to be a bit more likely to starve to death as I would be pickier about what to eat than most of the other survivors. I'd have an advantage on being a bit less likely to catch some random disease and die due to cleaning basically everything, as deciding not to clean a wound because you didn't think it was a big deal could definitely kill you in an apocalypse and I would not do that. Even if I couldn't clean it at the time it happened, I would still clean it the first chance I got because my brain would be stuck on a "it's-not-clean-it's-not-clean" loop. I also have a decent amount of medical knowledge, about disease, nutrition, animals, ect because I am a pre-vet major, so that'd be useful in just about any apocalypse scenario. I mean, if your group can't get an actual doctor, someone with at least SOME medical knowledge would be a huge asset. And I know some food safety stuff since I took a class on the fundamentals of food science, which would help improve the group's food safety. As for medications...I don't have anything where I would potentially die from not taking it. I don't take medicine for my OCD, but I do take medications for both chronic migraine, and irritable bowl syndrome, as well as a nasal spray because my nasal passages try to swell sometimes when I get a migraine, and even with my preventative med I still get those multiple times a week. With my meds, most migraines I get are super mild and I can more or less continue whatever I was doing, though I might be a bit slower at it. Without my meds, it'd be multiple migraines a day, some of which mess with my ability to focus and think enough that I'd definitely be a huge liability to any group. (Assuming I can't avoid triggers, if I can there probably wouldn't be multiple migraines a day, but certainly a lot over the course of a week.) I also hallucinate smells sometimes without my meds, so I could easily dismiss a smell that would normally let me know there's a fire nearby, or something dead and rotting as something my brain concocted from confused electrical signaling. Which could get me killed. Oh, and in theory my irritable bowl syndrome could potentially cause me to get dehydrated and die from that, or in theory get so constipated my intestines rupture, though neither of those is very likely, even without medication. If I was careful what I ate, and had somewhere safe to hide during a bad migraine, and other people to confirm whether or not a smell is real, I could probably make it.
This is interesting to watch in late 2020. If you'd asked me last year if my mental health issues would be a problem in an apocalypse, I would say, "No, I'd be fine." Now, 6 months into a pandemic, I can say I think any apocalypse would probably break me since the pandemic has come close many times.
My parents and I have actually had this conversation a lot. We all openly admit that we would be some of the first to go in most types of apocalypses. The only advantage is we are finding with COVID19 that we are great at staying indoors (them moreso) because that was what they did anyway.
A question that comes to mind is how often do you get "But you don't look disabled!" I have Dyspraxia, a neurodiversity that causes problems with the organization of thought and movement; translation: I fall over a lot, my handwriting is abysmal and I'm permanently perplexed by people and their actions, plus I frequently have to think "How would a normal person react here?" I get told off a lot for not looking disabled, especially on buses (I can't drive so have to use the bus and if I have to stand I'll fall over when the bus moves). I think I'd do better than average in most apocalypses, anything where I could avoid the need for running or climbing. Dyspraxia correlates to very high creativity and intelligence (IQ wise I test around 166) so I can really problem solve but really low EQ so if I had to kill to survive I could. I think the biggest problem would be my hay fever, I'd need to stock up on antihistamines.
for me it would probably depend most on whether or not i'm going to have to make long journeys on foot, and how much i'd have to carry. if i can hunker down in a basement or a bunker or something, i'll probably be fine. i might be pretty miserable without my meds, but i might be able to live. if i have to keep moving though, i'm going to have a problem. my scoliosis can cause me a lot of pain if I've been walking or carrying too much. i'd probably have to stop more often, meaning that if we were being chased by anything i'd probably be more likely to get captured. I also wouldn't be able to carry too many supplies for very long without being in pain, so i'd have to choose between slowing myself down even more, or increasing my risk of dying due to starvation/dehydration/exposure by carrying less supplies.
Oh... now i want a video game whete all characters have different disabilities and it's like survival... for example if they don't get the meds they need they get in pain or start hallucinating and it just adds another difficulty to surviving... also the players learn about disabilities... maybe a beginner gets a more easy disability and you play in groups and experienced players get a disadvantage with a more difficult disability... also you make it random which one you get so people learn about different ones and not always play the same
Because I have to eat a low-FODMAP diet in order to not be really sick and in massive amounts of pain, the food scarcity that will probably occur due to climate change is something that does weigh on my mind from time to time. Like, it's really hard to stockpile canned goods when so many of them (think of soups, etc) contain ingredients that will make me really ill.
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I think we can all agree you have the best way for defining disability ever! 😂Thank you for such a fun time and for having me on your channel xxx
awesome video! I'm so happy you did a collaboration!!!
I hope you're all alive and well today 😊
You seem very nice, but I could not disagree with you more on Ready Player One. That's one of my favorite movies of last year.
I think Hannah's point in the previous video about "would I tick the "do you have a disability" box on a form, would I need/be in my best interests to disclose that" is also a really good thought process, and has/is helping me see my various things/myself as valid 💐
Jessica glad to see you! You are such a hottie!
But you see, it's not if Jessica would survive. If it's how fabulous she would look while doing it 😎
So true
Breaking into every sally beauty to steal lottabody, rolling her hair and doing her lipstick in the cracked window of an abandoned car
I have ulcerative colitis and this specific topic has kind of bummed me out since I was diagnosed. It's kind of a common topic of conversation in nerd circles to talk about the way you'd survive different apocalypses, and me being the only chronically ill person, it just kinda got me down having to think about like "how do I do get my medication" and stuff like that, because eventually my medication would run out and I'd slowly die (even if it wouldn't be a quick death). After having watched your video though, I realise what a different conversation this can be when you're having it with other chronically ill / disabled people, and I wanna thank you both for that
@@annie-tu1oy I also have diabetes and have considered this! Sound advice, although you still would get some serious long term complication since A1C would be a good deal higher (Though in the apocalypse I don't really think that would be a primary concern). More worryingly though, insulin doesn't actually last super long and so after whatever you've stocked up on goes bad, you might be kind of in trouble. On the other hand people have apparently made insulin from pigs when they were stuck with no insulin being shipped in, so maybe go for that.
One time I wasn't even thinking about the apocalypse, but our class was visiting Walden Pond so of course I thought how cool it would be to just live in the woods by myself for a while like Thoreau, but then I remembered that I'd actually just run out of insulin and die... the good news is that then I could think about my best friend who also has diabetes and so if we were there together we could both have the same issue and share resources. I suppose that wouldn't actually end much better, but at least it's less sad to think about?
Same for me! I have lymphocytic colitis and I would be useless without Imodium. Whenever my pills run out for a few days and I have a flare up I get so sick I can’t do anything but run to the bathroom and curl up in a ball. It’s always a bummer to consider in survivalist scenarios. But this was a funner talk.
PTSD - the apocalypse is my time to shine, reality finally matches the threat level my brain thinks necessary.
I wish you luck!
EXACTLY im hypervigilant as hell and it would pay to be so in an apocalyptic worst case scenario
my chronic pain riddled self in the apocalypse: alive but not happy about it
If its a zombie apocalypse I cant really run away for that long with my hip dysplasia so I will probably just sit down and let myself get eaten fast.
I currently still live mostly without pain meds but only because I build my life in a way my hip joints will stay ok for as long as possible.
Hamster Art I have chronic pain too
My CRPS self would raid a pharmacy for all sorts of tramadol
Every group needs a negative nancy full of snarky comments
Us with chronic pain would probably be quite berserk, I think. "Oh, this? Felt worse pains and went to work."
As someone with tourette's syndrome (and a wide range of vocal tics), I would met an early daeth in "a quiet place" scenario.
Ella Straffwood same 😂
I get motor/vocal tics when I am nervous so I get you there! We'd need a soundproof room!
Me too 😂
Me too! I have both vocal and physical tics so I would be so dead
I don't have tourettes but I do tic so same 😵
I have chronic anxiety and one of my symptoms is catastrophising which means my mind automatically jumps to the worst possible thing that could happen in any situation - I think this could be helpful in an apocalypse
Haha YES. Cause with anxiety, basically you're already living in the apocalypse in the normal world, so you'd have lots of practice!
I always think the worst thing will happen. I'm not even negative, I just worry that the worst case scenario, even if very, very unlikely, could happen. So in this case, it would happen. And I'm prepared. Oh how we are prepared.
Same here. Though I also have depression and without antidepressants, I'm not sure how well I would be able to thrive. Plus with anxiety, I might just get absolutely fucked and paralyzed by imagining everything terrible that will happen...
I was thinking about it too! Like I have bpd so I’d struggle to live with strangers, they’d probably kick me out, but I think I’d struggle more with my chronic depression and generalized anxiety, I wouldn’t survive a week without my meds, no need for the zombies, my mind would just destroy me.
Do you think mentally disabled people would be safe from the world war z virus?
My paranoid ass is always like: what if we fall off a bridge, what if someone breaks in my house and etc...so I’ve researched all possibilities of dealing with an apocalypse...in theory.
Hello folks, I'm writing to you a year later as the disease apocalypse version is happening and yes.
As covid19 started I was actually doing better because the world matched my inner chaos.
I can sew and would trade clothes for supplies from other people.
Now I'm broadening my knowledge to include felting and fabric making just in case.
watching this in 2021 is surreal...
I think I might do alright actually in an apocalypse like A Quiet Place because I'm autistic so I am really sensitive to noise and my autism also causes me to find it really hard to communicate verbally. So, apart from all the death and generally not great situation, I might be alright. Although, stimming might be an issue because I have very loose joints that will rattle if I move them too quick.
You could find another source for stimming, or wear some sort of sound reducing gloves or something!
Relatable. I would completely mess up in other apocalypses though, because of overtension (I don't know the English word for it, but it's like when you have to deal with too many sounds and light etc). I would freak out
@@singingintherain4750 the concept you are looking for is 'sensory overload'
Unless it’s like Bird Box I would survive cuz only the mentally ill can see the demons...but I’d rather not find out about that because I’d be their prisoner
Prince Crow same here
Not really disabled, but if I take my contacts off everything further than one foot form my face becomes pretty much just colored blurs. And when I watched Bird Box pretty much all my friends concluded that I had an advantage because I could a)just take off my contacts and live life normally (provided I didn't get closer than two-three feet to the creatures) or b)go blindfolded as well, but since I am already used to navigating the world without fully seeing it (especially at night because there is no freaking colors in the dark so everything dissappears) I would have an easier time just going off blindfolded
Yay a survivor!!
Me too! I'm hilariously nearsighted.
My focus range is 4 inches from my face. :-)
Yep same! If I didn’t live in modern times with fancy glasses and contacts I would be considered blind.
You may not identify as disabled (which is perfectly valid) but glasses and contacts are adaptive medical devices. They've just become normalized and accepted.
I don’t have a disability. But the scenario of The Handmaid’s Tale genuinely scares me because, even at 40, I just know I’m hella fertile.
I love these types of videos! They do so much to normalize disability. I've been paralyzed since I was 14 and I use a wheelchair, so it's nice to see videos about other young women with disabilities. As far as apocalypses, I think I'd do well in the quiet one since I don't have footsteps.
Are wheelchairs completely quiet though?
@@christina8738 Not if they're supplied by the NHS. They squeak if not regularly lubricated.
I’m a full time wheelchair user as well but I constantly crash into door frames so I’d still be screwed! 😂
Lmao everyone would want to hitch a ride all the time.
Or they probably already do tbh.
well, on the apocalypse that we are CURRENTLY in, i hope both of them are safe
People with disabilities have the upper hand in the apocalypse 99% of us would just think it was a normal Thursday
I love that Jessica always spells out all her disabilities and when people ask me I'm like, "Oh, some autoimmune bullshit."
You'd probably die in the second scenario because mona wouldn't shut up 😂 great video as always 👌
omg true
@@hannahwitton Yep, i burp and fart all the time, so i would be in the same boat as you.
type 1 diabetic here - lol i'm already forced to sometimes drive around from pharmacy to pharmacy looking for my insulin pens and needles and all that jazz, i won't survive the apocalypse for sure. but it would be nice to break in and get my stuff for free for once cause that shit's expensive y'all let me tell you
Word up.
I can’t believe this video exists because I’m type 1 diabetic as well and I sometimes think that no matter what apocalypse happens I’m dead. Which may sound morbid but it is so fucking nice to hear others have thought about it too.
@@fionakern2641 I forgot about this video and was legitimately thinking about the apocalypse yesterday and having those exact thoughts.
Luckily in the UK I have the NHS to pay for mine (unless something bad happens to the NHS...) but yeah we would all be dead in a matter of days in the apocalypse with T1D
I sometimes used to think about what I would do if I was one of the few survivors trying to find others and rebuild society in a post-apocalyptic world... but then I got type 1 diabetes and see it as a silver lining that I no longer have to worry about surviving in such a world!
Any apocalypse situation that requires running, I am dead. Exercise induced asthma means the distance I can run before collapsing is measured in meters. I am very lucky that modern life does not require running because it is mild enough I can usually ignore it.
Asthma probably would count as unhealthy in the virus situation, so I think it would definitely help there.
I have selective mutism so I would THRIVE in a quiet place because I'm very used to not talking for hours on end, I'm learning sing language, and I'm hearing (so I could hear creaks and stuff)
Would you mind to describe what selective mutism is? I mean, from the name I assume you choose to not speak at all in most situations, it's not because you're unable to speak, but I'm not sure how it works. I can Google it of course but I'd be interested to hear it from yourself if you wouldn't mind sharing.
@@Raev222 The name is a bit misleading. In medical terms selective just means non-constant, just like "Selective Weakness" would mean occasional weakness. It doesn't indicate a choice. Many people with Selective Mutism may feel in conflict with their own body, as if they can't make their words come out even when they want them to.
@@purpleghost106 That makes much more sense. Does it frustrate you when you can't speak?
@@Raev222 Glad I could help. :)
Yes absolutely, frustrating and sometimes a bit scary knowing that I might not always be able to ask for help if I need it.
However, I should be clear, I wouldn't say I have Selective Mutism.
There's people who live it day-in and day-out, or who deal with it each week. I answered your question because I know the answer, but on average I'd say I only lose my ability to 'Do The Words Thing' a few times of year.
And, for me as an Autistic person, I tend to find struggling with talking usually only happens when I'm also experiencing other problems, like Executive Function errors, or an anxiety attack, or sensory overload.
(I could explain if you need/want)
@@Raev222 A) thank you so much for asking and B) selective mutism is an anxiety disorder where when your're anxious it's hard to talk/you cant talk. In some situations I chose not to talk b/c i'm uncomfortable or don't know what to say but usually I'm not talking because I'm so anxious I physically can't, even if I want to and know what to say. It makes communication really hard when I'm uncomfortable/anxious (which is when communication is really important).
And I only can't talk in anxious situations -- so some days I'm more anxious and won't talk for most of the day, but other days I'll be perfectly comfortable with talking. and it's a childhood diagnosed disorder so it was much worse when i was little but now it's getting better.
(sorry that was SUUPER long)
I feel like in an apocalypse my anxiety would actually be better because whenever I've been in real stressful situations I've actually done pretty well (university, work, car accident, etc). My anxiety takes over more when there aren't other things to occupy my thoughts or when I'm isolated. It's like my brain needs something to worry about so if there were some external issues maybe the internal issues would recede a bit.
You're so right! Same here. I never realised this until now. I actually function really well when I have to. It's just when my life (or someone else's) doesn't depend on it, my brain can't cope!
Same! And also, guys, I’ve prepared for this!
I can’t get over how the disease apocalypse actually happened 😅
I’d love to see a follow up video to this one about how surviving the apocalypse actually went down.
Also a video about surviving the apocalypse with a mental illness instead of a physical one
Such unique content I didn't know I needed :')
Is anyone else watching this video from the literal pandemic of 2020? 🦠🦠🦠
Not in 2020 but in the pandie.
When I watched it I was like: "Yeah and then 2020 hit and was like - hey there fellow kids!" XD
TWO OF MY FAVOURITE PEOPLE IN THE SAME VIDEO. LOVE YOU BOTH AND WHAT YOU STAND FOR.
Watching this during a global pandemic. Seems oddly fitting.
Any apocalypse where I would end up in a confined space with other people would be a problem since I have Crohn's. I would probably be killed off by the other humans for farting too much.
Crohnie sqad! High five!
Woop!
Assuming that I survive the initial apocalypse (which is probably going to involve an element of chance) I fully intend to survive in post apocalyptic times by being an indispensable oracle of knowledge (particularly about gardening, cooking, seed collecting, and foraging), and by trading handmade clothing for food and shelter. 10 years of chronic fatigue have made me an excellent knitter, and I can also spin, sew, make rope and carve spoons.
it’s fun to watch this in the middle of pandemic
My partner and I have had the zombie with disabilities discussion. Nice to see we are not the only weirdos who have these kinds of thoughts!
Our son used to be quite convinced a zombie apocalypse was definitely going to happen some day and he benevolently informed us that he would stay to protect us until we died, which he said he knew wouldn’t take long and then he would go and travel with his mates. Nice to know lol
Jessica would survive any apocalypse because she would always have Claudia by her side. 😉😄
Fact.
Legit. Claudia is tough as hell.
TRUE
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
JESSICA KELLGREN-FOZARD REPLIED TO ME!!
I love you Jessica!! Ah! You’re awesome! And amazing! Ah!
Huge fan! Hope your days amazing!!
My mother tried to abort me and i lived. Went through a horrible blizzard while homeless and lived. Bring on any apocalypse and i will surrive it.
What an awesome collab! Whenever I imagine the apocalypse the thing that I think would get me the most isn't lack of medication, because while I would slowly go down hill without it i reckon i could stretch it out, but my food allergies. Because I'm coeliac (and I'm imagining an apocalypse where i have to scavenge for food) a lot of the food i eat is fresh food, and i think i would have to figure out a way to eat that wouldn't make me ill.
Pandemic- lupus gives me an overactive immune system. So if I stop taking immune suppression I might not get the virus. But my body would self destruct. PS. I am a mutant...
Me too. Ive a type of ellhers danlos. Thats a connective tissue disorder. Youve likely seen it in circus 'freaks' that can hang from their skin or put 100s of clothespins on thier face. A gene miscodes for the production of collagen causing the proteins that make it to be more 'stretchy' than in normal people. But.... mine is a subtype. I dont have stretchy skin, mine is in the joints. So youve seen abnormally flexible people who arent trained contortionists? Like fat people that can do back bends and the splits and put their legs behind their neck and have their arms pulled all the way to touching behind their back or joint locks dont work on them or their knees bend way back further than yours? Their fingers can lock at the first knuckle from the fingertips? Thumbs that can bend down and touch their forearm? Thats my mutant power. Its a bit less dire than yours, but comes with aortic insufficiency and high risk of aortic dissection and chronic joint dislocations or subluxations. Probably be in a wheel chair later.
Maybe you could take less immune suppression and not self destruct since your body would have to fight off the pandemic.
How are you doing? Rewatching this video and read this comment, I hope you're safe!
I probably wouldn't survive, I can hardly walk, forget running from things in an apocalypse.
The Quite Place makes no sense, what if you fart in your sleep?
I like how practical you think.
Also, snoring? Do the people that have sleep apnea just go first?
No more eating beans for us.
Well I you could be more of the silent killer type farts that ward the monsters away
Colitis is still in your body, but the illness will primarily be in the colon, but there are other things that would be affected by the illness even when the colon is removed..
For example - I have colitis - I have had kidney stones AND gallbladder stones... both are a known thing that happens in colitis patients....
And as soon as you have an autoimmune disease, you are in risk of getting more... I have 4 chronic autoimmune illnesses... on top of that I have 4 illness’ that is started because of my autoimmune diseases but are not autoimmune in itself...
So - world war Z - Hannah you are safe ;)
Jessica reminds me a lot of Rosamund Pike and Hannah reminds me of Emma Watson. Love you both!
Ooh thank you! That's very lovely of you
Just came from Jessica’s video and thoroughly enjoyed it, can’t wait to watch this one ❤️
Oh... now i want a video game whete all characters have different disabilities and it's like survival... for example if they don't get the meds they need they get in pain or start hallucinating and it just adds another difficulty to surviving... also the players learn about disabilities... maybe a beginner gets a more easy disability and you play in groups and experienced players get a disadvantage with a more difficult disability... also you make it random which one you get so people learn about different ones and not always play the same
Omg yes! Like, the easiest characters have simple disabilities like dyslexia, which doesn’t really disable you while killing a monster, or an amputated hand or something similar. And the most advanced character has a super complex body with about 15 different disabilities. Their wheelchair constantly breaks down. They obviously can’t clean their g-tube on the battlefield. Because of PANS they can’t really deal with too many people, because the slightest infection can make them hallusinate. I could go on forever!
Jessica - don't you live in Brighton? So if the seas rise enough with global warming you might have to move further inland.
it would have to rise a LOT. Also not all brighton is right by the sea front
@@felicityaeh oh yeah. Isn't it quite on a hill? Been almost 15 years since I was last there
Jessica casually said "bastards"! :O How delightful!
Once the (awful) withdrawal from my mh medication wore off, I actually reckon I’d be okay in the apocalypse, because a) I’ve been obsessing about that sort of thing my whole life, and b) I’m so used to forcing myself to stay alive that I think I’d be good at it 😅
Well, I'm sitting here in 2021 and when Hannah mentioned global warming and disease scenario that could possibly happen in near future I was like, lol, she's a prophet :D
this is such an amazing video, i have never watched a disability video like this! Its a pretty interesting thing to think about how you would manage all these kinds of apocalypse with a disabilities/chronic or terminal illness.
An apocalypse might be quite good for me because no civilization means no having to write which would get rid of one of my biggest issues!
I've had homebound friends get trapped in floods and natural disasters....one friend passed away because her paid caregivers weren't exactly working during that time.
It happens to a lot of disabled ppl who can't leave their homes, hospitals, or care centers in an emergency. It's always good to have backup meds, an emergency generator, and stock up on water & food by your bedside/wheelchair just in case of an emergency!
But my answer is 'the apocalypse* would kill me but in like 5-7 years' that's still a weird middle ground!
*the apocalypse being some thing that prevents access to medication/hospitals. I think my condition was triggered by a mutated gene so I might survive a mutant uprising... (also curly hair is a mutation, technically).
Everyone is a mutant when compared with someone else with the exception of clones
And little did they know what awaited us all. The Rona toilet paper apocalypse.
Interesting video! I think about this sort of stuff all the time. I don't like temporary stuff because I always think "but what if the apocalypse (or some drastic changers to supplies or price of supplies) happens tomorrow?". Pain killers for endometriosis are no good, gotta get a hysterectomy. Shaving is no good, gotta get laser hair removal. Binding is no good, gotta get top surgery. Etc. But then I realize that this is all moot because I have diabetes and I will die within 48h of not having insulin so.......
My OCD could definitely be a double edged sword. On the one hand it's made me very good at analysing situations and picking them apart, on the other hand OH DEAR LORD THE ANXIETY 😱
Damn Hannah, this got dark and I loved it! Most people are too scared to even acknowledge things like global warming let alone how it would affect the disabled. Keep doing videos like this!
watching this post corona virus is .... yea
Jessica looks straight out of the Fallout game franchise, and she looks fabulous!
This hits different in 2020... 🎶it’s the end of the world as we know it🎶
10:34 Actually you wouldn't thrive because melting ice and warming seas cause the Gulf Stream (which is currently warming Europe) to change its course... In the long run Europe will be colder rather than warmer but in the meantime the occasional heatwave might make up for it ;)
You're both so cool! I admire how you are dealing with your disability and even make other people laugh. Thank you very much, your videos do help me a lot.
Two of my favorite people discussing something I think about all the time! Sometimes its for fun. Sometimes its anxiety of knowing how doomed me and other disabled peoples would be. Thank you both for the video :)
As someone with ADHD (and the anxiety & depression that usually comes with it) I would physically be able to survive MOST of these situations (definitely not A Quiet Place, I think my impulsivity would be a problem there). The organization/executive function workarounds I’ve learned over the years would probably be an advantage, tbh.
Even without a single disability I doubt I'd survive any apocalypse but this was an amazing collaboration. You two should do more videos together.
I love this video, some light hearted funny content about disabilities is always great!
Hi I came from Jessica’s channel I really enjoyed both videos! Me and my best friend often joke we would be screwed in an apocalypse situation though could use my walking stick as a weapon against zombies xx
YES! I like the fighter spirit.
How come with zombies the premise is usually apocalypse, but with vampires the premise is usually that they go generally unnoticed by society? Vampires are just as capable, probably more so, of causing an apocalypse. All zombies really have is that they can kill people and turn them into more of themselves, vampires can do that and so much more! Super strength, super speed, super smell, and super hearing are all common vampire super powers. They could easily take over the world if they wanted to, but although there are several programmes where they've threatened to, I can't think of any where they actually do. We need more vampire apocalypses! They are seriously powerful creatures and I want to watch something that shows what they're truly capable of.
I'm able bodied and I wouldn't survive any of these
I really like this take on disabledness! I might use this as a talking point next time someone gets weird/uncomfortable when I mention mine and they don't know what to say. As a migraineur, I just would not do well in pretty much any apocalypse. On a related track though, in a everyone isn't taking care of their bodies apocalypse, I'll be better than most. I'll still be migraining most of my life, but at least I will have taken care of my health well enough to HAVE a long life. My migraines are linked to my diet + exercise + sleep schedule + stress, so basically my body is punishing me immediately whereas everyone else has to wait to be punished by their bodies with diabetes and heart attacks and strokes and losing their liver and anxiety attacks and depressive episodes years or decades later. So I guess because of my body's specific reason to migraine, I'm doing okay in our world's current apocalypse?
Buuuut I also am an extreme ADD'er, so very disabled by the world on that one. I feel like a disabled person because of my migraines, but a person disabled by the world because of my ADD. So as long as the apocalypse was one that required some sort of ADD-friendly task, I'll do great. If it involves anything too harsh in the environment (like smog, or diseases) my migraines will get me killed pretty fast.
I have EDS, and I just recently got diagnosed so these conversations used to be fun but now it's just another thing for me to grapple with while still coming to terms with the idea that the word disabled applies to me.
this is such a good way to define a disability oh my god!!! i have crohn's disease and haven't had a ton of symptoms lately so i've felt guilty even calling it a disability but if literally any apocalypse hit there's like no way i could get my infusion medication!!! this video was so fun and i actually really needed it
I’m hard of hearing and wear hearing aids. my hearing loss is light enough that i’d be okay in an apocalypse, seeing as the power is likely to go out and i need to charge my hearing aids so i’d be without. that being said, it’s caused by a dominant gene mutation so I get to be on the winning side of the mutant uprising (thank you for that lovely way of putting it, that makes me feel proud of it)
i talk about this with my friends all the time. we always come up with some kind of group dynamic that helps each other and uses our skills and talents to survive
Stuck in a time-loop where there is absolutely no way to get out of it.
OMG I’ve been waiting for this Collab ALL DAY
I would definitely thrive in a quiet place. ☺️ I have ME and sleep for really really long periods! Normally I eventually get woken up by some noise and depending on how early this might be can have really nasty pain for the day. So the idea of complete silence sounds like total bliss!!
What if you snore?
🤯Jessica Kellgren-Fozard your disability sounds really complicated ❤️ I love your hair and you have an interesting way of thinking about zombies 🧟♀️ 😌 I love how the little black elephants 🐘 on Hannah match with the watch it looks artsy AF 😍 I’m still terminally ill but I’m taking medication. Personally I hope there won’t be an apocalypse.
I can't believe someone actually made this video! My sister and I had this conversation. I'm not the only weird one who thinks of stuff like this.
I don't think my h eds and gastrointestinal issues would offer any help, but the ability to dissociate on command and my hundreds of autistic special interests (such as medicine, botany, tv shows to keep us entertained) could definitely come in handy
This so me, except my h eds is really bad in my hands, so I would have to be the brain and someone else be the hands.
Yeah, I'm autistic too and I often think of special interests and infodumping as "sometimes the walking encyclopaedia thing is annoying, but on the other hand sometimes an encyclopaedia is exactly what you need!"
Plus I come with an audio search function, I can automatically jump to the most relevant part of the article depending on context (although I will give you the whole article if you let me keep talking), and I can pitch my explanation to your reading/vocabulary/level of previous knowledge, and draw you annotated diagrams in real time depending on your learning style. I'm heavier than an encyclopaedia and you'd need to feed me, but I can walk and sew and do lookout duty, so I think on balance having an autistic person with relevant special interests as part of your group would be better than carrying a library with you, especially when travelling on foot.
@@SomeoneBeginingWithI Yes very true, in high school 'the walking encyclopedia' was my nickname and it definitely helped my friends pass exams so I'm sure the ability would be 1000 times more helpful during the apocalypse. Plus I always like to think that if we ever got past the apocalypse phase and managed to start rebuilding humanity people like us would be in high demand because of our knowledge, as I'm sure due to the death and destruction and loss of the internet a lot of people would have no idea how to manage everything without us.
I've been really looking forward to seeing this collab happen, and it was great!! :D
This video: *made in March of 2019 talking about apocalypses*
March 1 year later: I have a suprise for you!!!
I think those of us with dietary requirements would have it bad in any scenario. Like if the food is running out and I am searching for supplies finding gluten free ones would be an additional obstacle.
You two must do more collabs, youre so funny and simply iconic😂❤️
I’m actually working on making a book about a group of disabled people in the apocalypse because I want more rep for me and my friends and disabled people in general in different genres and I think it would be interested to explore this, and this actually helps me, thank you!!!!
This is something that is actually being discussed here in Portland, Oregon, USA as we’re due for our own apocalypse with the Cascadia Subduction Zone Quake, sometime within the next 50 years (So, geologically speaking, any second now). It is expected be over 9.0 for several minutes. This is far worse than the Fukushima Quake with nowhere near the infrastructure in place. For example buildings aren’t up to the latest building codes and those codes aren’t up to handling that size of quake, instead being aimed something that is 7.0 and lasts only seconds.
As a disabled person on a lot of medication I often worry what will happen to me in that situation. We’re not expected to have water restored for months and there’s no clear idea of how we’ll get medical supplies to those that need them in a timely manner.
I haven't actually watched the video yet. OMG I LOVE THIS. I have thought about if I would survive in the apocalypse with my disabilities SO MUCH. And everyone thought i was just being grim, but i'm not the only one!!! YAYAYAYAY
I'm watching this for the first time today, and your hypothetical scenarios are freaking me out! Also, hEDS, MCAS, MCTD, Sjogren's, Hashi's, yada yada. You do the best Rita Hayworth Gilda I've ever seen, and I've worked on it for 30 years! You are the best medicine that I'm taking right now.
Just watched Jessicas video. And wow. This topic is relevant right now...
I would be dead in all of these, I have a form of narcolepsy that I have to take a controlled substance for, which chemists only ever have if you ask them to order in, so within a few months I would be out of meds and sleeping 18-20 hours a day, so I'd be dead from that and if that didn't kill me I also have a connective tissue disorder, so for the few hours a day I'm awake, I would be in constant pain, I can't lift anything heavier then a phone, I can't run without twisting or dislocating something, and thanks to the narcolepsy I can't drive for more then an hour, so again, I'd be dead. I just hope I die in my sleep.
maidenrohina what about mutants?
@@abbieq11 I would either be a mutant or I wouldn't be a threat to mutants because I would just be sleeping the whole time. This is only if we are talking X-men type mutants of course.
You’d win the quiet one if you didn’t make too much noise while awake!
As a person who is both physically disabled and mentally ill, I actually think about this a lot! I'm dependent on my meds for pain relief, but also for making my brain function like a brain. What to do when society collapses is a regular brain-spiral for me.
I would love for you to talk about this with regards to mental disability/ illness and with regards to Austim Love you Hannah, hope you are enjoying your holiday xx
*My favourite British people :*
Hannah, Emma Watson, Jessica, Rose and Rosie ❤
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This was so much fun to watch! My disability is depression and anxiety so I'd probably just lie down and cry until I died if any scenario happened that made life any harder!
I have ADHD, so my brain was designed for the apocalypse. Also since I have Fibromyalgia, I have so much experience coping with pain and problem solving situations. Basically I would win any apocalypse!
Any apocalypse that requires leaving my home permanently or being cut off from medical supplies for more than a few weeks I would not survive as I have so many medicine! I don't have a disability, just a happy bundle of mental and physical illnesses that require using meds daily. Great way to think about it! Fun!
This whole thing was amazingly well thought out. .. it...🤯
Well. I've got moderate OCD, which is more manageable than severe OCD, so I think I'd probably do okay in most scenarios..? In a scenario where the problem is disease related, I have a distinct advantage/disadvantage in that I think about contamination CONSTANTLY. If I was able to make cleaning supplies - which I do know how to do, though admittedly the ones I can make aren't very strong, just better than nothing I'd do pretty well. If it was a group setting I could probably be put in charge of decontaminating stuff when anyone could have been potentially exposed. On the flip side, my stress level would be through the roof, and there's a good chance I'd start questioning whether I did good enough with the cleaning, and possibly develop some paranoia that the people around me weren't doing a good enough job cleaning themselves and/or following my instructions to clean stuff. And if for whatever reason I couldn't make cleaning supplies AND was unable to hoard them I would probably become suicidal from not being able to clean anything once my supplies ran out. Other people in that situation would probably all catch the disease and die too if they couldn't clean things and were still exposed to it, I would just probably die before even getting sick.
In other apocalypses my focus on cleaning things could potentially slow me down, and cause me to be a bit more likely to starve to death as I would be pickier about what to eat than most of the other survivors. I'd have an advantage on being a bit less likely to catch some random disease and die due to cleaning basically everything, as deciding not to clean a wound because you didn't think it was a big deal could definitely kill you in an apocalypse and I would not do that. Even if I couldn't clean it at the time it happened, I would still clean it the first chance I got because my brain would be stuck on a "it's-not-clean-it's-not-clean" loop. I also have a decent amount of medical knowledge, about disease, nutrition, animals, ect because I am a pre-vet major, so that'd be useful in just about any apocalypse scenario. I mean, if your group can't get an actual doctor, someone with at least SOME medical knowledge would be a huge asset. And I know some food safety stuff since I took a class on the fundamentals of food science, which would help improve the group's food safety.
As for medications...I don't have anything where I would potentially die from not taking it. I don't take medicine for my OCD, but I do take medications for both chronic migraine, and irritable bowl syndrome, as well as a nasal spray because my nasal passages try to swell sometimes when I get a migraine, and even with my preventative med I still get those multiple times a week. With my meds, most migraines I get are super mild and I can more or less continue whatever I was doing, though I might be a bit slower at it. Without my meds, it'd be multiple migraines a day, some of which mess with my ability to focus and think enough that I'd definitely be a huge liability to any group. (Assuming I can't avoid triggers, if I can there probably wouldn't be multiple migraines a day, but certainly a lot over the course of a week.) I also hallucinate smells sometimes without my meds, so I could easily dismiss a smell that would normally let me know there's a fire nearby, or something dead and rotting as something my brain concocted from confused electrical signaling. Which could get me killed. Oh, and in theory my irritable bowl syndrome could potentially cause me to get dehydrated and die from that, or in theory get so constipated my intestines rupture, though neither of those is very likely, even without medication. If I was careful what I ate, and had somewhere safe to hide during a bad migraine, and other people to confirm whether or not a smell is real, I could probably make it.
This is interesting to watch in late 2020. If you'd asked me last year if my mental health issues would be a problem in an apocalypse, I would say, "No, I'd be fine." Now, 6 months into a pandemic, I can say I think any apocalypse would probably break me since the pandemic has come close many times.
No one but a few especially talented people would survive alone. You ladies will need someone(s) to help you and you help them.
My parents and I have actually had this conversation a lot. We all openly admit that we would be some of the first to go in most types of apocalypses. The only advantage is we are finding with COVID19 that we are great at staying indoors (them moreso) because that was what they did anyway.
Anyone here during the pandemic
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Such a REAL THING...THIS issue; of what happens in apocalypse?
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A question that comes to mind is how often do you get "But you don't look disabled!" I have Dyspraxia, a neurodiversity that causes problems with the organization of thought and movement; translation: I fall over a lot, my handwriting is abysmal and I'm permanently perplexed by people and their actions, plus I frequently have to think "How would a normal person react here?" I get told off a lot for not looking disabled, especially on buses (I can't drive so have to use the bus and if I have to stand I'll fall over when the bus moves).
I think I'd do better than average in most apocalypses, anything where I could avoid the need for running or climbing. Dyspraxia correlates to very high creativity and intelligence (IQ wise I test around 166) so I can really problem solve but really low EQ so if I had to kill to survive I could.
I think the biggest problem would be my hay fever, I'd need to stock up on antihistamines.
I can understand that frustration and difficulty.
for me it would probably depend most on whether or not i'm going to have to make long journeys on foot, and how much i'd have to carry. if i can hunker down in a basement or a bunker or something, i'll probably be fine. i might be pretty miserable without my meds, but i might be able to live. if i have to keep moving though, i'm going to have a problem. my scoliosis can cause me a lot of pain if I've been walking or carrying too much. i'd probably have to stop more often, meaning that if we were being chased by anything i'd probably be more likely to get captured. I also wouldn't be able to carry too many supplies for very long without being in pain, so i'd have to choose between slowing myself down even more, or increasing my risk of dying due to starvation/dehydration/exposure by carrying less supplies.
Oh... now i want a video game whete all characters have different disabilities and it's like survival... for example if they don't get the meds they need they get in pain or start hallucinating and it just adds another difficulty to surviving... also the players learn about disabilities... maybe a beginner gets a more easy disability and you play in groups and experienced players get a disadvantage with a more difficult disability... also you make it random which one you get so people learn about different ones and not always play the same
I've seen a few of her hair tutorials, but had no idea she did this kind of stuff too! Awesome!
Because I have to eat a low-FODMAP diet in order to not be really sick and in massive amounts of pain, the food scarcity that will probably occur due to climate change is something that does weigh on my mind from time to time. Like, it's really hard to stockpile canned goods when so many of them (think of soups, etc) contain ingredients that will make me really ill.