i'm reading so many of y'alls stories about living with chronic illness as a kid, and wow, my heart goes out to you all. it's so dang hard, and so so scary. i hope your quality of life has improved since then, i hope everything from taking medicine to taking time outside has found to be helpful. chronic illness is rough, and holy crap are y'all amazing for continuing on despite it all.

"ICU sadly doesn't stand for Illy Cinematic Universe" I mean, you just made a great idea

How much references do you want: almost every single anime and Mariah Elizabeth

ah i remember the hospital art room, kept me sane during my asthma attacks

I was the best student in my school since I was little. But I was overly stressed about exams and practice exams. I never wanted to succeed. I wouldn't study. It all started in seventh grade. It was the night before the math exam. My hand got itchy and it started to spread. Both my parents work in the hospital. They thought it was normal. They gave me medicine(Zyrtec) and I started to use it. They said we don't need to take you to the hospital, you will fall behind in school. They said we'll take you on the semester break. A few months passed and It was semester. I got so sick in that semester. I hadn't drunk my pills and my whole body was covered in rashes. I did a little research about that rashes. I found out It was Urticaria. After that days they took me to the hospital. Doctor confirmed it was Urticaria. He said He said, "Have you had these for two or three days?" You had to see his face when i Said "two months". Unfortunately, there is no cure for urticaria. (Sorry for the typos)

The background characters are everything

*breathes in happiness*🧍🏾‍♀️

I feel you. I got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and I went back to school feeling weak, because I couldn't do P.E to make sure I didn't faint, 3 teachers 'helping' me with the things I knew about and I'm so glad I left that sh!tty school

Dude I literally love ur channel, you’re so comforting when it comes to things like disorders such as adhd, asthma, and autism. Keep up the good work ❤

Honestly, never thought I’d see, “perks of having asthma” 😂

For some reason I read "Tab for a cause" as "Stab for a cause" *when you're a serial killer but still want to work for charity*

As someone with asthma, and anxiety as well as many allergies to the great outdoors (Grass, I got bad reactions to sun including hives major sunburns blistering and passing out, pine needles, pollen, and ants) and also acid reflux, this video and all the comments remind me im not the only one not being able to breather

As someone who had undiagnosed athsma for 13 YEARS and constantly coughing like i wad smokeing for 50+ years, it is hard to live life and not fun, but when well managed, it was actuality fun to finally be able to breathe properly and do things other kids could! ❤❤ I love hearing stories from others who have the condition

Background artists : How Many background anime references do you want? Illy: *YES*

Illy: names the title “perks of having asthma” Also illy: *”there are no perks of having asthma”*

You are so relatable. I just found your videos 3 days ago and I am drawn to watch them all. They are super realistic, kind, humorous, and insightful.

GOD. I’m watching this video for the second time and It’s finally setting in that I relate to this SO MUCH. I have a super rare “disease” called EOE. It’s so rare that most doctors I know haven’t even heard of it and I have to constantly explain it to people. I also have asthma and am always sick. I spent the past 2 years of school mostly at home because of this and have has multiple people ask “are you going to be here next year” and stuff like that. Its horrible to be the “sick kid” and I hate getting bullied for it. I’m so sorry you have to go through that.

Me noticing Phil: YES YES YES YES me noticing he's with Isabella: NO NO NO NO!

illymation + asthma = wheezymations???

Most of my friends are very outgoing and are super hyper and sporty, and sometimes I can’t keep along with them because I can’t run or even speed walk without getting out of breath so hearing your story really made me feel better.

Even though I'd grown up with a different illness as a kid, I can still relate to a fair amount of what happened to you when you were a kid. Thank you for sharing what happened with you!

These promised neverland references are getting bigger and bigger. You sure you don't just want to make a tribute animation? Let it all out in one go?

Person: how many references do you want? illymation: yes

I loved that you put a spacer on the inhaler 😂 unlocked a core memory for a fellow asthmatic.

My friends:i WiSh I hAd AsThMa. Me:WHAT IS WRONG WITH U!?!?

Perks of asthma: The school nurse office, I could pull up a quick wheeze by constricting my own breathing and then walk in there and get out of class for 15 minutes lol.

KZfaq: How many anime references do you want in your video? Illy: *Yes*.

I grew up with asthma (and eczema) too. In my case, it was manageable with Ventolin and Flovent (shoutout to the 90s), but my mom's was a lot more serious. Luckily I've mostly grown out of my asthma, and my mom's has gotten much better since she moved out to the country and tried acupuncture (of all things). For me, my food allergies and scoliosis were much more difficult to navigate.

Can we just appreciate how Illy always EXPLAINS things to us in a way kids/teens can understand! As someone who struggles with certain subjects in school JUST because of my worst enemy terminology, I would pay ANY amount of money for Illy to be my teacher for science. Illy is the best!

I like “The Promised Neverland” reference :>

The little illy fish is so cute omggggg

I grew out of my childhood asthma (I had weak lungs from being a very small preemie), but my brother didn't. He couldn't take a lot of the other stuff because he was allergic to most of it, so he did a lot of Xopenex in a nebulizer. And lemme tell you, I loved that thing. It was very comforting to me since I had to do it so long that I continued to do it for a long time after I didn't need to anymore; my mom would always ask if I wanted to come sit with my brother and have a nebulizer treatment. I still do miss them, honestly.

You been through so much I wish you luck with everything and that you feel good

Me that has asthma and only needs the inhaler: “ Wait it’s deadly- “

Phil: “MOM! WHAT’S WRONG WITH THAT BABY?!”

As a fellow illness induced asthma gurlie- one of my favorite memories was when my mom and siblings where on vacation, so it was just me and my dad. I had the biggest asthma attack like ever, could barely breathe, so god 'ol pops took me to the ER. 3 hours of the food channel and a hour long nebulizer later, I got to go home and eat taco bell with my dad. Awsome memory- ened great- taco bell fixes everything-

The texturized shading in this is really cool

me with asthma for most of my life: YES FINALLY

me having asthma: yeah,point being. it sucks. also the AMOUNT of anime characters. respects for the sk8 characters

I was born as an extreme preme, and I had loads of problems as a baby. when I was 6 momths old, I flatlined for 5 minutes. Shoutout to all the docs that helped saved my life as a baby.

I think it really cool to see another persons point of view on asthma, when I have really bad but instead of not doing sports my teachers and friends would help me calm down and relax! And I am a very athletic person! I love your videos illy they are so amazing 🤩

Illy: ICU does not stand for Illy Cinimaic Universe" Screen: Some Superheros Illy: "ICU is Intensive Care Unit" Screen: Some Superheros

The more I see Promised Neverland references, the more I think “why did they butcher season 2 like that?”

Also not Phil saying what’s wrong with that baby 😂

I can relate to this so much. I don't have asthma but I have POTS, a chronic illness that can effect the heart and the automatic nervous system. It made it incredibly hard for me to do small things like running a short distance during the earlier times. Glad to.know im not alone : )

I love how ash and eiji are just chillin in the back.

No one: Phil: WHATS WRONG WITH THAT BABY?

while i don't have any diagnosed lung problems, i do take an inhaler because my lungs have started to not work properly compared to others. i couldn't breathe properly and my lungs felt like they were tightening every time i did anything. i couldn't breathe properly often. i've been feeling really weak and upset about the whole thing, and i remembered this video. thank you. although my experiences obviously aren't the same as mine, it helped me feel a little better.

3:33 as a person who has trauma from hospitals, this seems so nice. I'm still not going into a hospital willingly

"mom, whats wrong with that baby?" oh Phil...

one thing i learned about illy in this vid: *SHE HAS AN OBSESSION WITH ANIME*

I relate to this, I have seasonal asthma (pretty much allergies are extremely severe during fall+spring) , I remember i missed like 2 weeks of school and was coughing almost 24/7 during falll

god i cant EXPRESS how much i relate to being the sick kid growing up, i was pretty popular (as popular as a pre-school kid could be) until i was about 5 1/2. My WHOLE life flipped when i had some "bumps" / lymph nodes on my neck one night. My dad was checking on me before he went to bed as usual and noticed i had some bumps on my neck, and not even a second goes by when he grabs me, puts me in the car, wakes my mom and rushes to the ER, i had passed out by then seeing i was 5 and it was like 12 am LOL. Anyways, we get there and im still passed out, tired asf but i get numbed and they take my temp and it was 106 F. for anyone not american like me, that is 41.1 C. VERY dangerous and deadly tempature, they rush me into a surgery room, put an IV in my arm, numb me and before i know it, i wake up with a port (thing to pump fluids and help me stay alive for anyone who doesnt know) in me. And then i was diognosed with *LUEKEMIA CANCER* as any 5 year old child would do, i cried for my mom. And of course shes crying to but i live *(cough cough)* and past then, i was known as the sick kid, i gained weight due to meds, was only given attention because i was considered "the sick kid who could have died" and taken in and out the hospital for over a year, fast forward to when i was about 9, im considered cancer free! *(yip yip)* i ring a bell, yada' yada'; so on. I'm FINALLY free i think till i start going back to social vents (keep in mind i was homeschooled). I went to something called "cc" i dont honestly know what it was, it was a school but like 100x smaller with only friends and family where you would go overy week, no idea. Anyways when i started going there i had no friends, everyone thought i was contagious, etc. Until my cousin finally came up and asked to be friends with her friends so i say yes and then her friend, lets call her.. *Eliza*. Now Eliza wasnt very nice to me, she would get jealous because of how much me and my cousin bonded (even though we were cousins) she was also a year younger then us both (8) and a sassy, little, JERK. And..... im sorry im just so bored of typing rn so 20 likes for part 2 🙏🙏😟😟

The promised neverland references are gold also like every anime reference ever

WAIT… DID I SEE PHIL AND ISABELLA?? edit- SO MANY ANIME REFERENCES, WE STAN

The illy cinematic universe/intensive care unit drawings were really cool btw

I remember when I found out about my asthma. I found out in 8th grade while having bronchitis. Turned out I should've been diagnosed with asthma way sooner, like grade school sooner. I ended up having to have a breathing treatment the very next month cause my lungs just closed on me. I also found out that I had a weak immune system, which helped my mom understand why I was always getting sick the most out of me and my sisters. Asthma is definitely not fun and having a small immune system with it does make life a little harder, but I do have people I'm able to talk to about it.

“Do you want to go to camp?” “F*CK YEA!” I’m dying 💀

Okay Illy how many anime references do you want? Illy: yes.

perks of having asthma- getting to skip the beep test, having the cold metal of the inhaler when you do cross country carnival

I can confirm tabs for cause is amazing I downloaded it a few years ago when I was looking for backgrounds and it works wonderfully it also has amazing backgrounds

I’m really noticing that Promised Neverland reference with Phil and Isabella xD Edit: Another reference I just saw! Emma, Norman, and Ray are all in the shelf at the part with her after school program!

Lets just all take a moment to realize how hard it is to make such a fluent animation like this one. Great video!

Excellent presentation, growing up I was never a fan of perfume or cologne. In my late 30's working in a remote camp after I had gone to sleep my roommate returned from out on the town with a lot of cologne on him. I woke early in the morning and took around 45 minutes to stumble outside half dressed, to hospital, blew about 150 (very red zone), treated until I got to about 450 (for me still yellow zone) and released (the nurses were what? no way!)... Well at healthy I bounce the needle off the end 😜. I became much more sensative to perfumes and colognes and other smelly products, luckily scent free workplace became a thing. Did end up in ER several times down around 300, bit of a pain convincing some doctors that it was a serious asthma attack and not emphazema.

I now have asthma again after suffering two asthma attacks with no asthma medication at the time that was brought on by cold weather, after having it very mildly during my late teen years for a while. Just a friendly reminder to those who have (very) mild asthma with no medication to get checked. As a kid I was always so jealous of everyone without asthma - the fact that they could recover so quickly after finishing a PE/gym class shocked me every time and still does to this day.

“What’s wrong with that kid?” -Phil 2021 (no hate tho)

“Perks of having Asthma” Me with asthma: None.

When you mentioned rides around the hospital in a little red wagon, I got flashbacks to when my brother snapped his femur. He got wagon rides, binged “Thomas the Train,” blew bubbles in the elevator, ect.

I have my own crazy story in the icu when I was 7yo I was playing on the playground when a scorpion stung me (idk what type but one that can kill you) so my teacher at the time ms.cane had seen that I was crying while walking to her she rushes over then sees that my arm was bleeding and was swollen she has called my mom and 20 minutes later I’m in the hospital being rushed to put in an iv to flush the poison out and I very clearly remember hearing the doctor tell my mom “all we can do is put an iv in and hope she lives long enough for the toxins to be flushed out.” I remember being hooked up to an heart monitor and 2 bags of fluids and 3-5 days later I was good enough to go home 👍 but if my teacher hadn’t noticed me in time I would’ve been dead now. So I will always be grateful that she saved me 😭❤️

Bro can I be in the ICU? ILY CINEMATIC UNIVERSE?

I like how the blackboard has the "Noya is here" in the bottom right corner

Illys videos are super fun but also relatable because Ilyssa get that a lot of kids, teens and even adults have been through stuff like this (maybe not asthma hut you get it)

I have dealt with contact dermatitis and atopic dermatitis ( types of eczema) my entire life. It's hard to articulate that contact dermatitis is my form of allergic reaction because people think it's contagious. It's not, my body just responds to touching items like latex and household chemicals about the same as someone whose body reacts by forming hives. I get welts, hives, and of course the peeling skin (scaly skin for others). It keeps me from being able to do certain chores like the dishes as well because my skin can bery easily crack and dry out more often, and if I ignore it for too long it only gets worse. This video reminds me that I'm not the only one who struggles with even everday things, even if it's different for everyone. 😊

Phil: mom what’s wrong with that baby? Everybody liked that reference

Illy: They're teaching how to breathe!? Plot twist: They were training you to become demon slayers

As someone who was diagnosed with Markfan Syndrome at birth, I understand how it feels. I can't keep up with people, and I have to take medications day and night. I don't get to experience the thrill of being in a sport, going to gym or even riding rollercoasters in case it affects my health. Couldnt run for long times, so I couldnt keep up with others. I have to go to a doctor's 2 hours away every 6 months to get an ultrasound and sometimes get new medications. Not to mention I had to get surgery a few years ago since I also was diagnosed with scoliosis.

I love the little Pickle easter egg in the backround at 2:19. Moriah Elizibeth is one of my favorite youtubers.

I love how she hid haikyuu stuff like everywhere

Downside: that one teacher thinks your vaping whenever you use a inhaler

My friend has eczema, we were in class when she broke out or smth. She had to call her dad right next to me, I asked her what it was and she explained it. I never asked again. Fun fact: me and her both have scoliosis, except mine is worse, I have to get surgery 6 DAYS after my birthday. I have to relearn how to walk, and I cannot carry anything over 5 pounds for 6 months,doctors don’t know how I developed it. I also used to have eye problems, whenever someone would walk or run by me, it would be blurry, but the front view was fine, luckily surgery helped, I also have acid reflex problems, it started a week ago, my throat hurts so much, I also have anxiety, ADHD, and stuff like that, I also have increased urgency, my bladder thinks I need to pee all the time, it sends a message up to my brain and that’s what tells me I need to use the bathroom, being the one person who is very anxious, I tend to listen and go to the bathroom, I’ve been diagnosed with lots of things, but I don’t usually think about them, lots of genetics fault too. It sucks being different sometimes.

“Mom what’s wrong with that baby” Isabella: let’s just keep shopping so I can get more food instead of letting the demons eat you

"No one is invincible" * Mark grayson vanishes out of existence *

I swear this girl has everything that starts with a

Not reki and langa waiting for their vacation 😂

I still like the anime references in the background

can we just stop to appreciate how ily animates every word that is in the script into her characters mouth movements?

I’m prone to asthma living in a polluted country but i don’t bring an inhaler everywhere. In my school, on sports day… i felt like i was dying and the air was so thin.

I only use a nebulizer and an inhaler. I have asthma. I have had it since i was born, although i never had eczema i was diagnosed around 1-2 years old. You only get diagnosed after 2 ER visits during a hard time breathing. Recently, this year, during December, probably not my worst asthma attack but probably my 2nd worst. After i got tucked in. BTW FOR PEOPLE WHO DONT HAVE TO USE A NEBULIZER OR NOT DONT ASTHMA WELL A NEBULIZER IS A MACHINE YOU USE WITH LIQUID MEDICINE THAN YOU PUT SOMETHING ON YOUR MOUTH AND BREATH IN AND OUT UNTIL THE LIQUID MEDICINE IS GONE. Anyways i dont remember what date it was it was mid-December i had just gotten tucked in by my mom i was tucked in around 8-9pm then at 10pm i had a hard time breathing i texted my mom, "hey mom, can you bring me neb medicine its hard breathing" she came in got my neb ready and started it after it i fell asleep for 30 MINUTES so i woke up around 11:30pm having very little trouble to breath then at 12am i had a worse breakout and couldnt breath i texted my mom telling her luckily she was awake. btw it was a frickin school night so after she got it going she said, "now __ when this is done. Sleep okay?" And my mom is a nurse so she knows and helps a lot with my asthma. Now being someone who is a night owl, i obvious didnt get sleep so 2 hours later. Also i forgot to mention your only suppose to do a neb every 4 hours but when its an emergency you can do it unless its an hour after. Anyways at 2am it was worse i couldnt bretah, etc my mom was still awake and helped then i decided to ask the most stupid question, "am i going to school" my mom replied with probably not but she got it done, etc. I forgot to mention at 12am we took one of those pillows with the hand resting thing and put it infront of all my pillows because i couldnt breath so i had to sit up when sleeping and that sat for about a week i didnt stay up on the top of the yk pillow i laid down but during medicine NOT NEB MEDICINE so i had to sleep sitting up. Them i was able to sleep for 1 HOUR! I woke up at 3am then at 4am i started having breathing issues again then at 5am same level as of the other times that night i texted my mom she was asleep so i just sat there being dumb but the thing is even if the bathroom was close it was near teh stairs LIKE 2 INCHES AWAY FROM TEH STAIRS and im afraid of the dark and my parents know this. At 6am i finally went and got the medicine because i was done being dumb and ready to be smart. That day i got to skip school but had to do stereroids for 3 days. MY INHALER WASNT DOING ANYTHING THE MEDICINE WASNT EFFECTIVE NAYMORE ON DEC 27TH I GOT A PERSCRIPTION FOR AN ADVAIR INHALER WHICH MEANS I HAVE TO BRUSH MY TEETH OR RINSE MY MOUTH AFTER OR ELSE I COULD GET A TOOTH INFECTION.

I'm gonna admit asthma makes having a cold or being just the slightest bit sick like, 10x worse on every level

Phil saying “what’s wrong with that baby” is everything I need in life

as a sick kid with asthma that is also extremly introverted and likes PCs, I never had most of these issues, cause I never wanted to go outdoors lol, nor to do anything except play videogames

As someone with asthma, I once inhaled the little ball thingies inside a bean bag when I was 2 years old and almost died.

i’ve never had asthma but i can definitely relate to being a sick kid, i had cancer when i was really young and remember having to go to the doctors A LOT, and having taking a pill every day.

illy : ''ICU sadly doesn't stand for Illy cinematic universe'' marvel : thanks for the idea

When my brother had his first asthma attack, he was about five, and when our mum noticed, he, sadly, completely serously, "am I going to die?" He was fine in the end (and he threw up on my book and I'm still salty lol) but I cannot imagine that happening, especially when you haven't entirely mastered commumication.😢

I just got an ad that said "Being young is the life jack to becoming rich. *Trust me."*

finally, not an annoying, repetitive, useless sponsor. one that doesn't cost ANYTHING and actually benefits others.

I wish I had the camp experience you had. I was in Boy Scouts of America which brought up a host of problems. All the guys in my troop sucked, the heat was unbearable, the uniform was like sandpaper, the head scout master was a crook, scout rules ignore all legal rights, I was traumatized by my casadastraphobia especially from seeing the vast amount of stars & there was dysphoria. If I had a cabin to sleep in camp would have been a breeze.

i dont even know what it is about illy. her content is just so much different than other creators and i love how it talks about real life stuff that deserves to be talked about and taught about to others while incorporating humor and a sense of personality. i love this channel and i think ive watched all her videos at least seven times each in the past few months. illy deserves everything and more!!!!

Life hack: "forget" to take your inhaler before PE class and have an asthma attack, you may laugh but I haven't done the pacer test since like 2nd grade