THE duo

i somehow misread this as “iconic ADD and OCD couple” but your version works too i guess 😒

And then me the autistic love child of the two watching them bc I have all three of those diagnoses

Still looking for any examples of Dan's OCD. He doesn't seem to have any symptoms that he can even describe and I think he's just exaggerating a simple anxiety disorder. I wouldn't ever say that about anyone but Dan is essentially a proven pathological liar who specifically lies about his life to get pity and attention. He lied about being homeless, he hid the fact his grandma funded basically his entire career, etc. At first I felt for Dan and his diagnosis until other people tried opening up about their OCD to him and then the "symptoms" he described had absolutely nothing to do with OCD. No compulsive rituals to cope with anxiety, no examples of how it affects him. No, just a dumb story about throwing his meds into a lake because he "didn't need them anymore" which is absolutely NOT how OCD works. At all. He's not a sweet ND boy, he's a serial manipulator and habitual liar.

​@@RenSakocrazy, man doesn't share literally every detail about his struggle and you think you know his whole life LMAO As someone with OCD, I think you're fighting the wrong battle and sticking your nose in the wrong horse's ass. Armchair psychologist vibes

@@plaguedoctorraccoon ...That explains so much- I'm diagnosed with autism and have been told multiple times by professionals that I show signs for ADHD and OCD (yet not enough to get the diagnosises). So yes I say this is absolutely true, they'd fuse together into an autistic person.

Oh my god lightbulb moment. This is why my autistic ass is drawn to ADD and OCD folks just as much as “own brand” neurodivergence. Totally forgot OCD as part of the ND realm

help I read autism as austin

these all also has some overlap with BPD, it's all just one big neurospicy family :D

@@realtehensorry I can’t come in I have austin Listen today sucked let me have this

*gasp* Lamar… (from the NSP song about a date where he can’t focus)

Dans about as neurotypical as a person can get. The only mental quirk he has is he refuses to pay attention to anything or listen to other people so he's exactly the same person he was 12 years ago, which was a 30 year old with the mind of a 15 year old.

SMEEEEFFFFF!!!! So real for this

Wild smeef spotted! 💖 Fr I put them on when my brain needs to chill tf out, blessed grumps

smeef!!! same their random nonsense somehow calms down my brain noise

I believe ADHD (and maybe OCD too?) also count as neurodivergent. Because it still means that you aren’t neurotypical or “brain normal”

​@annceres1204 oh absolutely, I was just commenting on the little captions during the video. Both of the boys are neurodivergent I think Arin more obviously so, but Dan has his moments haha

@@rareoddish gotcha 👍🏻

Oh do they actually? I didn't know that :0

honestly not surprised that Dan has OCD knowing abt how he fucked around with drugs in his earlier years because goddamn can that be a tempting way to try to manage that sorta shit. i dunno what he does now to manage it but it seems to work pretty well so i hope it continues that way! i hope to find some better way to be treated for my problems myself

And music! :)

I mean, that's certainly how he's branded himself. He basically filled out a DND character sheet and decided that was his new identity. I have special interests as someone with autism and I don't literally talk about how I have them every chance I get. Dan doesn't ever talk about dinosaurs, or Rush, he just talks about how much he likes them and spews very surface level trivia about them when pressed. Remember in Ocarina of Time when he clearly stayed up late memorizing all of Rush's albums and basically begged Arin to ask him to recite them after awkwardly bringing it up? He was bragging, that's all. He wants to seem super into prog and at some time decided liking a specific dinosaur was quirky, so he built a persona around it. He went to school for marketing and it shows. He's absolutely obsessed with marketing and branding himself.

@@ripleydrawsandthingsNah, he's more of a "pretends to be a musician" person. His only musical talent or skill is singing, and he can't even do that. Brian writes all of NSP's music- with TWRP now- and all he's ever done musically otherwise is sing. Skyhill? Someone else wrote the music. His new project? He literally just sings and it took so much post processing to make him sound decent whatsoever you can barely make out what he's saying. He's not a musician, he just knows musicians and how to use them to build a career through minimal effort of his own. Dude knows literally jack shit about music and whenever he tries to discuss it he's completely wrong about literally everything or is just shitting on pop music because he thinks being a contrarian makes him a better musician. He still talks shit on people who close one ear when they sing because he doesn't know that they do it so they can better hear their own voice. Maybe if he tried doing that himself instead of being an ignorant loser he would be able to sing better, but he's too busy being a pretentious fraud so that his underage female fans will want to sleep with him. He was my favorite grump for several years until I realized he was lying about basically everything. It's even worse because the things he lied about were the reasons I respected him.

@@RenSako I will admit, I don’t think that Dan has autism, though I do relate to him as an autistic person. However, I will say that, while Dan certainly has a persona that he plays, he seems genuinely interested in the things he talks about. He didn’t choose to like the stegosaurus because it was quirky, but because he liked it as a kid. He even tells a story about his teacher getting angry at him because he wouldn’t stop drawing and talking about them. In other words, does Dan have a business? Yes. But do I think that everything about him is manufactured? Not even close.

Fantastigreat is my new favorite word Sincerely, a fellow ADHD dingus

@@beanbbox a pleasure, fellow dingus :D

"Either AudHD memes need to stop being so relatable or I need a diagnosis" - me for years (I don't have insurance)

Tbf a lot of this is also common for NT people, ND people just experience it more frequently and severely. That said I’m sure many people here are ND even if they don’t know it yet

I actually posted another one not long ago, if you want, as well as a Bluey one (about to upload it now).

same!!!

i do that a lot.... impulsively looking straight At uncovered lightbulbs :'))

I’m definitely going to do more Power Hour stuff! The clips are a lot easier to find, since the episodes are much shorter. If I ever do a regular GG compilation, I might look through already existing compilations first clips. 😊

You should they're awesome, Game Grumps is their gaming channel but The Grumps is where all these clips came from.

I actually played the ukulele! So, when it was sitting on my shaking leg, I wouldn’t be able to play. 😆 Same happened when I briefly played the violin.

He was either high or thinking…and honestly, I couldn’t tell you.

ah yes, a fellow Wikipedia enjoyer

@@noyd4172 you joke but I legit use Wikipedia as my primary search engine lmao

That is one of my favorite images, because that was 100% me as a kid. I used to line up and sort my LPS, play with them for, like, fifteen minutes, and then put them away.

And I usually bring it up with no context, which means they are super confused about what I’m talking about.

Coming right up! I’m currently trying to find some suggested clips. :)

It’s a fairly recent one, about tinned fish 🐟

@@ThatOneIsAwesome Oh thanks!

Mayhaps. :) Although, I will tell you that it’s not the symptoms, but the frequency and severity that matters. A lot of people hate loud noises or have trouble focusing without being ND…but is it to the point you need to wear headphones or can you never get anything done?

You never "cure" OCD or similar types of disorders, you just learn to control them with time, therapy, and medication if necessary

​@@cosmicalist I assume that's what they meant by "under control", that makes it sound more like "maintained" than "cured" imo

Youngest, actually! Although I do have a younger cousin and often hung out with younger kids growing up.

Ah, that’s true! I’m very sorry…in the future, I’ll say that I personally relate to some of his actions, but that Dan himself doesn’t have autism! The picture was just so similar to him stacking the paint that I thought it would be funny.

@@ripleydrawsandthings no problem! i hope i didn't upset you, i forgot my tone tag (it was supposed to be "/nm")!

@@dimensionalMysteryOh no, not at all! It’s a good constructive criticism! /gen

I’m very sorry, I never meant to show Dan in this light, nor show autism as just a list of behaviors to be checked off. I have already been told that it could be harmful to speculate Dan as autistic. In the future, I will be sure to preface by saying that, while Dan is not autistic, some of the things he does are relatable to me. Also, he does have OCD, and quite a few traits happens to intersect between OCD and autism. This video is also meant for relatability, humor, and neurodivergent joy. It isn’t exactly academic, just things I’ve noticed the boys do that are relatable to me and my friends, who are all across the neurodivergent spectrum. I am only using what I see in myself and others - I would never just slap a label on someone because they had a few traits I saw on a TikTok one time. I know you’ve probably seen a lot of that, which is why you left this comment. Rest assured that this video was well-researched through life experience. :) If you would like a more academic video, one that shows all sides of autism and ADHD, I have a Bluey video that goes in depth with examples of the reasons why I think they are both neurodivergent. If you want a more complete view of autism and ADHD, that may be the video for you! If you ever feel uncomfortable again, or need clarification, please let me know! This is all just for fun - I don’t want to make anyone feel bad.

I’m sorry you feel that way. It sucks when you feel like a huge part of yourself isn’t accommodated or noticed by the people around you. However, I will say that I will probably make more GG content in the future, and if you dislike half of the subject matter, then my videos may not be for you. It’s okay to dislike celebrities or their work - in fact, it’s healthy! With parasocial relationships running rampant, it’s good that you know and can express when you don’t like a celebrity. But just because you see part of their life on a screen doesn’t mean you know what their OCD looks like, or how they struggle now. Your story may not look like their’s, and that’s okay. But KZfaqrs are people too, with lives away from their videos. This means there’s a lot of things you don’t see, and it’s impossible to judge a person based on only their content.

my guy I think it's time to stop interacting with grumps content if you hate Dan this much (I've seen the essays you left on other comments) as someone else whose OCD has been reduced to mostly harmless background noise following treatment, I'd say there's a chance Dan's just isn't as severe as it can get, like mine, which honestly I'm damn grateful about. sure he could just be lying, how tf are we to know? but even if he is lying, that doesn't mean you have to bring yourself down by interacting with his content and that made about him. if this is an Obsession, I get it, but at a point you become responsible for your reactions to your symptoms, especially if it leads to you to interacting with things that upset you. stay away from grumps content, maybe take a break from KZfaq altogether if need be, cus right now this doesn't seem like a healthy response to a video someone made of something that makes them happy.

@@espeoradar Thanks, dude. :) /gen

How so?