I'm both left-handed and autistic, but I don't have language processing difficulties... I think? Anyways, I've come to collect my freak pass.

Made me genuinely lol. Use humor sparingly for bigger effect, right? Some in the comments suggested Bo Burnham’s Left Brain / Right Brain song as a follow up to this. Actually, a really great idea. A funny illustration of the ideas in this video. ✌️

@@Th3Curs3dChild : Why did you write your entire comment in Spanish? 🤷‍♂️ Just kidding. I’m on, “the spectrum,” myself, and I sometimes wonder if my, “specialist,” wife married me, just so she could experiment on my brain in her spare time? She’s always having me do experiments for her and filling in psychology test forms. Still, our, “tests for sex,” economy keeps us both happy. 😉 I have Asperger’s apparently. You? . . .

@@ashroskell Same. Also, I didn't know paranoia is common in Autism.... ok I did know but I was worried it was only me

I thought he was cutting himself off from say “retards” and I was not super happy about that. Thanks for clearing that up with me

When he said, “so this means, technically, you’re a freak,” I laughed out loud. Use of humor, sparingly, has such a bigger impact sometimes. 😉

search right brain left brain song! amazing!!

More like, "we get it! Your university let's you have access to research institutions!" (Thankfully these papers are open) The papers he cited mostly seem to be on a niche of autism research focused on brain lateralization (worth pointing out that autism is one of the most hotly debated fields in neuroscience so I wish he provided secondary opinions here), and some stuff that demonstrates biological advantage from having lobed brains. Does that really support the presentation he provides? Also frustrating is the lack of discussion about how split brain patients are actually treated and rehabilitated instead of doing the decades old split brain patient exploitation that's practically a cliche at this point. In fact, it might demonstrate the brains are capable of so much more than whats implied in this video. The rehabilitation of these patients actually shows a lot more about how the lobes interact than simply isolated experimental proofs because it takes into consideration environmental factors. I swear students forget that medicine has a practical purpose and they're talking about real patients!

man dude the more i look into this the more i just have myself shaking my head... the way he talks correctly about research regarding autistic enervation but then talks about how this somehow proves "having two brains is useful" even though there's nothing that suggests in the video or his research that autistic people have less lateralization? what even is his point in some parts of this video... I know my responses yesterday were just me firing my cannons but looking into this i am just. why does this kind of content get popular on youtube. working with a friend to pull this one apart, its a trainwreck.

Word he's the best

Humor, used sparingly has such a powerful impact. I genuinely laughed out loud when he said, “so this means that technically, you’re a freak.” 😁

Yeah, I’ve been watching Benny’s tail more closely ever since. Have you? I’m also curious about my cats now, too.

Things we’re vaguely aware of, yet never articulated to ourselves, float to the forefront of our thinking and become, “knowledge,” as a result of watching these clever videos. Quite a service to humanity, when you think about it like that, don’t you think?

Interesting, I’m blind in my left eye and also autistic, I have trouble with social cues, it makes sense that since I see with my right eye, my left brain is more active, also since I can’t see out of my left side, I pay more attention to sounds coming from the left. I sometimes feel heat on my left when people are close by. Since you’re blind out of your right eye, do you feel heat in your right side when people come close to you in that direction? I’m curious

Playing a musical instrument shapes an area of the brain to take on the literal physical shape of a treble clef, apparently. They first discovered this, when they recovered Albert Einstein’s stolen, now sliced, brain. Post mortem, of course. A true and utterly bizarre story that not a lot of people know. Thought you might be curious, given your interest? He played the fiddle, BTW. I know, crazy, right?

@@ashroskell What

@@ashroskell Que

A few things, although I only glanced through the video - it gives the implication that brains usually route to specific places. While patterns are observed, brains are over all generalized machines. This is obvious when looking at how born blind people use the occipital lobe - brains can be retrained to navigate in New unpredictable ways (a lot of studies performed on ferrets demonstrate this, and its how people rehabilitate split brained patients). The organization of the brain in two hemispheres in pop science may be socially biased. Rather most significant structure actually appears in the center of the brain. And of course the corpus collossum is part of this central structure. Difference in hemispheres happens because the organization of signals in the center privileges one side for optimization which as the video correctly points out is advantageous. realistically your brain is far, far more than two. Bilateral symmetry, which is found in most of our bodily structure, is the reason why we have two lobes by the way. - a lot of autism research can be pretty suspect and I question the video creator's ability to understand the paper or the authenticity of the sources... Left-right brain stuff sounds more like some researchers pressured to find correlations than an actual scientific breakthrough esp since neurology is far more sophisticated. I think autistic people deserve better than this. So yeah i think your answer is that its another pop science video taking advantage of undergraduates who dont know better by repeating misinformation and oversimplification of serious illnesses that seriously impact people's lives.

Did you know, there’s a nerve centre in your brain that takes on the shape of a treble clef the more you play instruments? Literally. And the way they first discovered this is mind blowing! Look it up. Not a lot of people know this, but Albert Einstein’s brain was stolen, (post mortem of course) and there’s a whole tale around that, which ultimately lead to this bizarre, but nonetheless fascinating discovery. Useless information. But great for the dinner table conversation.

P.S. Einstein played the fiddle, if you were wondering.

@@ashroskell Source?

"wark"lol

@@iaimboti Just look it up, it's on his wikipedia page. You can't expect people to add a bibliography to their KZfaq comments every time they want to share a fact.

Im all over the place, im mostly right handed but can also write with my left. On the Phone/ talking to someone i mostly pull the Headset completly down, exept if i dont do that i pull up the earpiece that is on the side that the Person is at and if the Person is infront of me its random

same

I disagree with the claim that the “dominance of one side was debunked”. I’m totally left brained, to the point of being completely factual and logical. I’m very smart logically and mathematically, but my social skills and spatial skills aren’t as great

@@charlesg7926 Maybe I misspoke: there isn't more neurological activity in your left brain, the right side is just as active. The myth that was debunked was that, specifically, the "dominant" side was more active than the other, rather than being better at its respective job. Didn't mean to imply that being smart with academia guaranteed that you'd be good with social skills.

7:07 For right-handled people, it may not look like the left side is dominant but it feels like to be the preferred side.

Ummm? . . . 🤔 . . . Not telling you anything about, “you,” but, good that you enjoyed it? . . . I guess? 🤷‍♂️

As they are electrical impulses, it is a physical certainty that they will have frequencies, “Hz,” (probably varying) and that these must be known, as they have been detected. QED. Therefore, it follows that they could be manipulated. The question really is; have they ever found such experiments to be efficacious? Has technology caught up yet? And to what end could you use it? I would imagine that any such discoveries would have global implications (both, “globally,” regarding the brain, not just that area, and, “globally,” planet wide) and be a well guarded secret? After all, we’re talking, “mind control,” techniques by implication. But, we could also be adding fuel to nut jobs who complain about phone towers and 5G, which would be unhelpful to human kind too?

Fascinating . . .

Despite your grammatical shortcomings, you seem to be articulating your experiences too well for an obvious autism diagnosis? However, if you want to know more about what’s going on in your brain, you could take online tests for universities and hospitals? You’re helping them, by adding to their data sets, and they’re helping you, by giving you the information you’re looking for. Just keep in mind, if it’s a label to describe your condition/s that you seek, that’s the easy part. If it’s understanding, and potential, “cures,” you’re looking for, that’s way more complex. Not impossible; just requires honesty, commitment and embracing the idea of overlapping complexities.

I'm also autistic and have ADHD and anxiety as well. It was really interesting to me.

@@ashroskell What do you mean by "articulating too well for an obvious autism diagnosis"? I'm diagnosed with Aspergers Autism and I have no problems articulating myself in any way. Could maybe explain further?

@@thunderfox4977 I've also raised an eyebrow when he mentioned "articulating too well". It's written text, there is nothing to articulate!

@@ashroskell What do you mean by "articulating your experiences too well for an obvious autism diagnosis?"?

which way do you hold a knife and fork?

@@SamualN knife in the left, fork in the right

@@The1andOnlyWog the way it should be :)

Same it’s nice to finally have an explanation

I'm deaf in my right ear. This explains why I'm so bad at listening to spoken instructions.

There are tests you can take online to find out? And you would be helping institutions and universities by adding to their data sets. Just be sure you’re doing them for a respectable institution and not some bogus advertising agency. ✌️

Hearing problem, probably

@@dariuszb3860 Are you sure you're not also part of the autistic community?

how can you tell?

I also naturally hold phones to my left ear, although when I used to wear headphones at work I would take out the right one to listen to people.

Same here with the cross eye hand dominance.

AI would work as a hive mind like insects. Each individual entity would communicate with each other as one larger entity creating an intelligence, if each one had a different purpose to be able to functionally work together similar to a brain.

@@Turgz It would be like a nation of people, except no arguments, no inner strife, no power struggles, and so efficient no one else could keep up. Think Nazi Germany during WWII, but better in every respect, making them terrible for us. If flawed humans could take over Europe, AI could take over the Earth.

That's... kinda how it works already. Obviously the same system that does one thing can't do other things; you need different, communicating systems if you want it to do multiple related things.