You don't need to 'get tested' you will know yourself best. Hook up with the #ActuallyAutistic community on twitter & that will help you. Good luck!

You have literally just put my feelings into words i never could!

I’m 27 & I’m only learning about this.

I feel you so hard. I'm 23 and I feel completely the same. I've always been called weird, as long as I remember myself. I love to spend time by myself just thinking and reflecting on my actions. I've been feeling very unmotivated lately. It's hard to just bring myself to do anything except sleeping or eating.

@@CC-bx7bh 42 , and divorced, it's all starting to make sense now, poor x wife🤣

I related so much to what you shared. I also binned all my school reports. X

Now I understand. I think differently. my mother called me dyslexic.

Jacinta,great clip ye put together,I really enjoyed that,thank you

When you said that you started to dissociate because it was all too stimulating for you, I started crying because I too started to dissociate when I was at school. I was getting bullied daily and I always cried after school. The only way how I could cope, was having naps whenever I came home from school. I think I might be neurodivergent too.

I'm like you. Very different. Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing this it is amazing. I had tears when you did cos I know how mean neurotypicals generally are and how they lack understanding and don't care that they do..

They don’t get paid enough

The thing is, those of us standing up for those students and better teacher education on the spectrum is that the scientific community itself is still finding its feet and changing definitions every few years. I think the reason why I empathized and became literate about it is because I went through it. Still do. Getting Admin and parents involved is a whole different thing though. It can put your career on the line. So you have to find ways to "shine the light" on it, without Ss being harmed so that parents get on board. Truth is, what you do in your classroom is a pebble compared to the mountains parents can do. I have seen parents destroy the work (Ss) of months with 2 sentences. In other words, don't be so harsh on teachers. It is very hard for us too.

Exactly, very well said ☮️

I don't trust Drs too much, they know what they've been taught, very little independent thinking, unless you get a good one. Good luck.

Thankyou for the email via C.T

Thanks for sharing your experience! For boys in schools it's especially hard for them to sit still and listen compared to girls so this already puts that at a learning disadvantage. All my life is school I was always behind and a slow learner and it got pretty bad in high school where I just didn't care anymore and had no energy and getting 4 hours of sleep a night. I would also look around the class and feel like everyone was doing just well and I wasn't. I would take way longer than the other kids with tests and always need more time to finish all my assignments. I would get really bad testing anxiety sometimes I just gave up and didn't finish test or guessed all the answers. The issue is that so many kids like us fall through the cracks of the public school systems because they cannot pay attention to us or just think we are stupid. My mom was too busy to pay attention or ask questions and she still doesn't believe me when I know I have ADHD.

I think having a society that is meant to only work for neurotypical people fails for people like us who can't seem to be like the others. It's be different If we lived in the days where we had villages or tribes where it was more simple and everyone had their place and meaning and didn't have to do everything themselves.

What do you mean a complete failure?

Stop believing this bs, neurodivergence is heavily under studied in psychology and has no real telltale signs of it unlike autism or asbergers. It’s new and made up so people can have an excuse to have fuck all manners.

I'm at 4:36 and needing to speed it up.. ots painful to listen this slow

I believe that this is so.

Neuroatypical is still very different than being neurodiversity. Neurodiversity is being born with a different brain wiring type than the general population, and it’s life long. Neuroatypical on the other hand is NOT lifelong and nobody is born with anxiety disorders, depression, PTSD, bipolar, ocd etc, they’re caused by terrible events, or environmental causes. ADHD, autism, tourettes, and dyslexia, are different biological brain functions from the “norm”. “Everyone is a little autistic”, nope, biologically speaking, that is false. Google aspergers brain scan vs “normal” brain scan pictures, and you can see that is even aspergers which is the mildest type of autism, is still drastically different brain wiring than the “normal” brain wiring. You might as well say that “Everyone is a little gay/bi” by that saying. No, there is still a drastic difference between foot tapping, being shy, and awkward, and talking at the minimum age of a child which is age 16 months. Autistics don’t say their first word until they’re 3 years old or at age 12 years old even. Some autistics will never be able to talk at all. They can still have a regular IQ, and communicate by computer, or sign language. Some nonverbal autistics are nonverbal and also have an EXTREME intellectual disability which means that that autistic won’t be able to know how to go to the bathroom get past wearing diapers, and will have to be cared for 24/7. Those problems are from the extreme intellectual disability itself not from being autistic itself. Extreme intellectual disabilities also exist in non-autistics too you know. Autism has notable visible traits. 1. Stimming 2. Lack of eye contact 3. Can’t speak at 16 months, when “normal” children start speaking, didn’t start speaking till they were age 3/4 yrs at a minimum, or will even be nonverbal forever (they’re a minority). Most autistics start speaking at the end of their first 3 years of existence, or as late as age 12 yrs. 4. Hate large crowds. 5. Hate loud sounds. 6. Have limited interests. 7. Higher likelihood to not identify as straight. If you’re not all those, then you’re not autistic. If you’re not SEXUALLY attracted to the same sex, then you’re NOT gay/bisexual. Aesthetic attraction towards the same sex doesn’t mean you’re gay/bisexual. Like autistics, gays/bisexuals don’t have a look to them. However, they still have a few notable traits that are distinct from straights. 1. Some gay men/bisexual men have that obvious feminine like voice, 2. Some Lesbian/bisexual women have buzz cut hair styles, dress in a masculine like clothing fashion. That’s all the notable traits that I know of, though some gay men/bisexual men don’t have a feminine voice, and some lesbian women/bisexual women don’t have buzz cut hair styles, and don’t dress in a masculine clothing fashion all the time.

@@beazrichz973 'if you're not all of those then you're not autistic' I see your point but that isn't correct. Not everyone who is autistic has difficulty with eye contact, I know several autistic people who love concerts and don't mind crowds. The saying 'if you've met one person with autism then you've met one person with autism' is very true. Neurodiverse people are all different and unique just as neurotypical people are all different and unique.

You don't understand the idea. Recommend that you learn about it rather than making incorrect & nasty comments about people who have faced considerable disadvantage because of ignorance & discrimination.

@@Talentedtadpole thank you for proving my point

“Tyrannical and fascist”? What the hell dude? Is it wrong to advocate for ourselves to be accepted like black and lgbt people?

@@Talentedtadpole implying that the people you're refering to, are still widely not accepted in the west, again, proves my point.

@@leroyalberts2870 Are you replying to me? No, that doesn’t prove your point. Self advocacy is not fascism, the discrimination that we face (especially me as a BLACK AND DISABLED WOMAN) is fascism of the privileged neurotypical white upperclass. Neurotypical and rich white people are the true fascist oppressors, especially that idiot Trump.