The difference between being Autistic and a stroke is that the Autistic child was lining up toys, spinning wheels, not able to make friends, etc. as a young child way before a stroke happens. I have yet to see any videos of stroke victims doing those things - lining up tpys by age 3. Pls. show them to me !

I can relate to that. SomethimesI can't even identify the world they say, I only hear noise.

As someone who is a high functioning autistic, a biological cure would be nice, it's really embarrassing to exhibit autistic behaviors such as stimming I'm public and not even realizing it until someone says something

@@drererdrerer2044 1. high and low functioning are offensive terms that shouldn’t be used, 2. u need to work through ur internal ableism then.

@@hattie3085 it's what it's called if you feel offended by that tough luck

@@drererdrerer2044 i don’t ‘feel offended’ by it😂😂 it’s literally a term that is used to disregard our struggles and isn’t recognised medically

@@hattie3085 it dosent disregard anything, it is what it is, may not be medically recognized but that's what I and most people call it. In sorry you had to go out of your way to bother me in the comments about it but I'm not changing how I say it.

to be fair only about 90% of autistics has sensory differences. Many are sensory avoiding (hate loud noises, bright lights etc) but many are also sensory seeking (love noise, bright and colorful lights are cool) you can be a combination of both too. All are equally autistic

Yes u r right there BRAINS are not damage this is just theory without proof

@@ashokpandey-ny7bu Theory without proof is called a hypothesis. But this isn't that, it's more like a wrong conclusion, or wrong naming due to wrong perspective.

The stigma is strong Padawan!

i think a better word would've been "underdeveloped" or "atypical"

@@cyrrender Nope! More like "overdeveloped" leading to sensory issues.

this is such backwards thinking and literally harmful, because it reduces the struggles of a lot of autistic people and there are seriously people who will *never* know the opportunity to live a normal life, or have a good job, or get somewhere in their education **because** of the way their autism and the way it affects them or what about all the people who are probably amazingly tallented but will never be able to express their talents because of their autism? autism is a disorder or a disability however u want to look at it and for the hundreds of thousands of autistic people who struggle or even in cases suffer because of thier autism i wish there was a cure i dont see the reasoning behind not wanting one. (i know it practically impossible to have a cure but still to say you hope we never find one.. seriously?)

@@phantompizza actually autism HELPS skills. Most of the time it’s just a different way of thinking, viewing the world, and socializing. The only autistic people who may feel they need to be cured are either ones with low self esteem or who’s flaws and problems outweigh the positive. With autism, however, this is not the norm. It is a social and sensory disorder. There are mechanisms to fix sensory problems. For examples, I chose to buy my house in a cooler environment because I have a sensory to heat, I cut off tags from clothing, and wear my socks inside out so I don’t feel the seams. They’re adjustments. Should someone tell me I should find a cure to change these things about me or is it okay for me to just make these adjustments? They do no harm to anyone, so why not just adjust? Sure, I can be slow at getting some things done and it’s annoying, but that’s because of my OCD, and not my autism. I also gave some social issues, getting into meaningless, unintentional, and misunderstood fights online that could probably be avoided, and sometimes it’s hard to understand people or have them understand me, but like everyone who has problems on this planet, we all have a price to pay for the good that comes to us in life. You know what good my autism has brought me? I get to see details other people miss. I get to see the world in a twisted perspective and get people to discuss and really think for themselves. When I form a friendship, I am loyal and my friends know I’ll never leave their lives unless that’s what they want. I’m guarded because thanks to my disability, I haven’t been treated the best and manipulation was easy, but thanks to the experience, I know how to spot red flags and can get myself out of dangerous situations. Even my talents and hobbies are improved in my skills and I can do works of art that so many have said they can’t fathom doing. I’m passionate about my interests, hobbies, or causes to fight for. Yes, autism has issues, but if we weren’t autistic, we wouldn’t eliminate our problems, we would just have DIFFERENT problems because no human is perfect. The only autistics who want a cure find their problems so unbearable that they ignore the good things or have such low self esteems that they are not happy with who they are. Most people who want a cure are not autistic at all. Do you know why? Because we live in a society that says, “Love yourself as you are,” but then turn around and say, “But you’re different and differences are bad, so we have to fix you.” If you don’t believe society is this way, well the proof is in the pudding. The fact that a cure is desired for a personality trait that often defines a human being should be enough to show you what I mean. If you don’t think you should have a cure to change who you are as a person, then you shouldn’t wish that on others. I long for the day of acceptance rather than cures. Focus attention on actual important matters. Don’t fix what so many of us autistics don’t think is broken about us just because it doesn’t fit society’s “norms.” As you can probably tell from this, I’m also autistic. So no, the one with backwards thinking is a society that contradicts themselves. Should we love ourselves as we are or change and cure ourselves to fit your bubble? I stand by my beliefs. I hope we never find a cure. Because a cure means people cared more about having everyone be “normal” rather than having us be ourselves. I hope we find coping mechanisms and teach autistic kids these coping mechanisms at young ages so that no self harm is done and kids can grow up with higher self esteems.

@@elisakrivas Your comment really helped me understand what my son is feeling (he's 2.5) and I took some notes that might help him ❤️

@@joanna0988 happy to help :)

i also felt the same way while viewing this video, especially that last line about... "intervening at specific stages"! it really sounds like it implies some form of hidden eugenics... like prenatal genetic modification D:

@@cyrrender Or maybe they meant…therapy???

How the hell is that what you got from this video? Several parts of our brain DO NOT WORK PROPERLY, and that can cause a ton of suffering in everyday life. Every comment on this video whining about the same thing is some of the most selfish, deluded garbage I can imagine.

You’ve gotta be KIDDING ME. This is the most deluded thing I’ve ever heard in this kind of narrative. Autism ABSOLUTELY has deficits in many areas of the brain, that’s why it is a NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER. It’s not just a cute little quirky difference in behavior, and I am so goddamn sick and tired of hearing this kind of manipulative, overly positive lie. People SUFFER with these problems, and I can only imagine how they feel seeing people like you spreading this stuff all over the place.

Perhaps a little of both. Easing traits does not exclude education, design and compassion.

read harrison bergeron

Because the world is complex and it is NOT easy to "educate" people who don't care or don't want to be educated about the problems of others because they are struggling with their own sufferings. How many autistics would be willing to learn how to deal with a living with PTSD or BPD or schizophrenia or etc, etc.?

What??

@@ravenID429 People with autism are often exceptional at adjusting their behavior around perceived rewards within specialized interests. Most of our amazing technology exists because people with autistic traits are very sensitive to gradients of success and failure within STEM. If this dysfunctional striatum hypothesis were true, autistic people would be completely disabled rather than struggling in some areas and massively succeeding in others. Since this hypothesis is arguing that the autistic brain's ability to filter stimuli based on reward is fundamentally broken, if it were true, you would not see the kind of hyper competence in concrete domains that is so apparent in the real world. They just don't respond well to social rewards because they are too busy mapping out the physical world. (As evidenced by autistic people PASSING theory of mind tests when the reward was made concrete.) Autism is a difference of perceptual resolution, not a disorder of the striatum. And they certainly are not "failing to filter out" sensory information that other people can ignore, they are quite literally perceiving things at a level of detail that other people cannot because normative brains are less complicated. Autistic brains have more grey matter, more dendrites; etc... I'm not autistic BTW. I'm schizoaffective. Failing to filter out sensory information is what we do, not autistic people. Since we are very disconnected from our bodies and the environment, spending much of our time surfing language, fantasy and mentalizing, we often miss obvious causal connections in the material world and so we become transfixed upon and confused by sensory experiences which other people have culturally shared explanations for, such that they can be ignored. Rather than being overwhelmed by sensory experience, we are overwhelmed by possibilities of what sensory experiences might mean. Like many different horror movies presenting themselves to you as possible realities. For any autistic people watching this video; I am sorry you were represented this way, it's not a flattering or fair depiction of your struggles.

I get that.

How did you interpret intervening to EASE autism’s traits as getting rid of autism?

Try reframing it as challenging instead of torturous. Many situations in life are challenging. We can develop strategies to overcome challenges, torture on the other hand is just to be avoided.

Stop your useless comments on unknown areas. Do you/your family have kids with autism? Do you know anything about the autistic affected human behaviour and problems he/she face every moment? It only knows who cares about them. Don't brush as it is normal. It is critical situation to the child growth as normal. Here few doctors, therapy centers, psychologists making big business as it is normal and will be alright with continuous therapies giving false hope and looting. Here required intensive research on autism as it is affecting 1:50 every new born. World health organisation or any country should lead this research towards the end of this critical autism asap. It is not recognised by any government seriously to eradicate this autism with advanced research.

Unfortunately it never will, judging others is just human nature :/

My brain works different in ways that keep me from living the way I want to and I'm entitled to support for that. Like we get it, you're an aspie who fits the "autism is a superpower" optics, not everyone is. Speak for yourself only.

BECAUSE AUTISM’S TRAITS CAUSE US SUFFERING?!?

And an autistic person would be back in 25 minutes with one of each type of bread in the store