My autistic body language

[Auntikrist]

For me, people with autism have all kinds of languages -- that are mimetic in nature and I perceive them as doing their best to interpret their experience of the world to themselves and to me as well. I have ADHD and many friends who range on the autism spectrum. They have taught me so many fantastic things, I cannot imagine my life without all of them!

[JakDean]

I first viewed this vid some time ago, but still love it ! It just works somehow, and the music track is great too. All the best to you GingerAutie.

[mushroomonthemoon]

haaaaaaaaaaaaahhahaaha you're so awesome. it felt like someone was doing an impression of me. i'm synesthetic too. highfive!

[DJLunasf]

just show a real vid. not an edited one. most people don't have the attention span.

[OriginalBratChild]

Alot of your mimmic mine, the only real difference is that when I'm happy my hands get flappy! :) I noticed someone said something about dark glazy eyes and not looking. Just because we're not looking doesn't mean we're not listening, what we have in our hands is more important than you at the moment and I don't have to look at someone to listen to them. Glazed actually means thinking deeply for me.

[julesistme]

i dont get it i just wanted to show people that even autistic people have a body language evrone has a body language you CANT have NO body lanuage T.T

but the most common body languages or autistic people if dark glazy eyes most of the time or all the time , uhm when the get something in their hand they are playing with while youre talking to him/her (like scissirs nailclipper papers pens )

and they often dont look around them or in someones eyes

[roz805]

Bravo! This is just brilliant! Very well done!  Peace and blessings.

[BodyOfMyGuitar]

Thank you SO much. This is great! (I am also on the spectrum).

[Gloric]

This is a really great video :)

[Pianda]

I do not think that "autistic-body-language" is the BEST refering category to explain wath you want to say.

I think the relevant and explaining variable is the unsocial(ized) character of the biological based behavior.

Non-autistic people also show (biological based) special habits or behavior. But (as big the differences between non-autists may be) they tend to emit socially routined behavior, while the autist emits /shows purely biological, direct, not socially filtered behavior.

[GingerAutie]

That's your interpretation but definitly NOT what I wanted to say.

[Pianda]

I wanted to say THAT!

This is the nature of Autistic functioning (and being).

A nonautistic child that is overloaded, will cry....just similar to an Aspi.

But after years of socialization two developments happen:

1) (in average case) the children can cope better and better with the stimuli (as Aspis to a similar or less degree)

2) a non-autistic-child has got a broad social education +personal development under adapting to the social common behaviors+symbol- as communication systems

[bigscorpio5]

Very good vid.

This reminds me on myself when I was very much younger (I have HFA). Nowadays I am able adapting my behaviours more "neurotypical".

[daniel5641]

dude that was a good vid!

=)

[kramexal]

I'm witting an essay on Asperger's syndrome and you helped me understand some emotions!

ME thanks you man!!

[GingerAutie]

You are wellcome! :)

[kramexal]

If you don't mind man, could I ask which type of autism you have?

[GingerAutie]

high functioning autism

[joelryton]

I have an autistic friend and except for the last emotion you showed, most are dead on for him too. He can sign but doesn't speak. You really nailed him. This was incredible to watch. Thank you.

[GingerAutie]

Thanks very much. It wasn't that easy for me to make this video, because nowadays I'm forced to act "normal". But I still find it astonishing, that a lot of autistic people have the same body language. I believe that everyone has, but that neurotypical people maybe learn from very early on to act in a certain way maybe.

[GingerAutie]

To the last emotion: I have a very sencitive hearing, I tzhink it has to something with it, because I signalice at the same time "don't want to hear you", because I'm "hitting" my ear. Maybe that's the explenation to it. People who have a sensitive vision maybe cover their eyes or do something different. Every movement is a signal, that's by neurotypical people but also by autistics like this. You want to tell your environment something with it, and most of the time this happens unconciously.

[Pianda]

many people have sensitive hearing.

If they get confronted with (too loud) music, they will also show direct, unfiltered "biological" based behavior (uuuuuhh, tooo loud....) BUT: also within this special situation they will (after a while) reorientate and look for their friends, signalizing: "buhhh, it's too loud, I have to go and wait for you outside...." They - even when overloaded - behave in reference to others, seek eye-contact for communicating. Aspi only refers to his biol. drives

[GingerAutie]

Sorry, but I think that your view about autistics is incorrect.

[Pianda]

Your two answers are without ANY argument, therefore empty!

Empty reactions are worthless, because: without content!

[jwarrior343]

what song is that?

[GingerAutie]

I changed the song recently. Now it is the song: "Diseased" from the album: "One Cold Night" from Seether.

[SaxxItUp]

Thank you so much for this

[SzChristie]

I always heard that Autistic people don't have any emotions. I knew two Autistic boys from my mum's ex-job, and they had emotions and body language. Nowadays, I know more and more people with Asperger's, and I try to be their friend. I'm also interested in Kanner's Syndrome. By the way, brilliant video!

[gamers1700]

[con't from below]

than I realized I went a bit far and apologize, he brought his hand to his mouth and uncurled his fingers while bringing his hand away as if to say you're forgiven. His worker was fascinated! lol

He is extremely smart as well, as experience = knowledge. It's too bad we can't really talk proper, as I would be interested in his opinions. He has also been able to stop me from mental slips....come to think of it, it's been months since I've been there.....I owe him a visit badly!

[gamers1700]

I know someone who's Autistic. I myself have Asperger's, so I can relate in more ways than others. I have numerous times carried out full-scale conversations with him, the one time he confronted me in a cynical joke about how I looked towards him in the past before my diagnosis while in denial...I couldn't let it go, so I said "I was in denial dude, you should know more about that than anyone else"...[con't]

[MyAutismRecovery]

Thank you for the video!

[StrawberryTerry]

my three year old son is autistic. Thank you for posting. It's nice to hear from people with the same issues that my son has. He doesn't speak so i try to figure out what's going on all the time. I think I have a better idea of how to interpret some of them now. Thank you!

[strukturreform]

This is gorgeous! You look wonderful.

[01stanbk]

cool vidio, very imformative, i know understand some of the gesters i do a lot better espechally the ' don't what to see that' and ' thinking about solution' i do that all the times i wasn't really awere befor u'r vid, so thanks. love the effects btw :)

[gensyoku]

great video!! thank you for doing this. I felt like you were telling me the secret.

[girlstorm09]

i just love this video and the the song is awesome as well! :)

[jokisnev]

Hi!

I wouldn't make such a video because I hardly can smile by my own will. :)

The video is quite interesting!

[52bananer]

It's strange to think that we live in the same world. Perhaps one day our roads will pass. Brilliant video, only wish i had that kind of self insight myself.

[raindrop10155]

wow thank you for uploading this video! It was very informative!

[AgentCROCODILE]

Autistic people do have a body language. It is just that some neurotypical "autism expert" or three decided that they would cheat, and so they decided that they "need" to get rid of it because it is "abnormal" and so to them "autistic people have a body language".

[jaydy11]

oops I just responded with the wrong video sorry lol

[miasansom]

I like this video and want to do one of my own now if I don't become distracted or forget. Ah asperger's... I am different in so many wonderful ways...

[Aspiegrrrl]

Das ist total süss!

Deine Körpersprache konnte ich sofort lesen, die ist meiner glaub ich ziemlich ähnlich, bin auch eher extrovertiert und mach lustige Gesichter.(Seh ich immer auf Fotos..)

[GingerAutie]

Ja, die Körpersprache von Autisten ist schon oft ähnlich, obwohl auch da gewisse Unterschiede zu finden sind.

[Skymaker69]

Thanks for this video- I love it! I am very comfortable with everyone of these expressions and I use them as much as the people with autism I meet- I almost go near the screen in the wanted to know you one as I am so used to this! Also wanted to say that I spent several hours with a cover like this over my head and a packed jam airplane and I was very aware that I was alone doing this. I felt much better under that cover, heck, it was packed.

[GingerAutie]

Thanks a lot for your comment.

I made this video, because it is always told that autistic people don't have a body language, but I don't agree, because I think that autistic people have a body language but that it differs from the neurotypical body language.

[Skymaker69]

I'd like to link your video from our web site if this is OK with you? I'll's send a message on this this.

[GingerAutie]

Yes, this is totally okay with me! :)

[maximotion]

Your expressions are interesting to me. I can relate even though I am not autistic. I am however highly sensitive and have mental health problems - including borderline personality disorder which means I have a lot of emotions that are hard to express in words. The sense of frustration you show is very recognizable to me.

[GingerAutie]

I noticed that I'm not "talking" with my eyes at all. I talk a lot with my mouth and with my hands, but not with my hands and for me there is no difference in the bodylanguage between disgust and fear. I don't even really now what disgust is.

Some people told my that they can conect to it and I think that is very astonishing. I didn't figured out by yet why this is so.

[AutisticWhoLives4God]

Very good. Mine are a little different, but usually the same idea. I have a few additional ones, too.

[GingerAutie]

Thanks for your comment.

Those are just some examples, I didn't showed all emotions.

[StarMagick]

thank you for posting this

[GingerAutie]

Thanks!

I'm glad you like it! :)

[Nadeschdaa]

Du bist echt ein interessantes Wesen, das man einfach gerne haben muss mit Deiner ganzen Art und Weise. Ich bin schon total Gingersuechtig ;)

[GingerAutie]

*g* Danke, ebenfalls! :)

[nyprincess10001]

very nice!

[GingerAutie]

Tanks!

[adelfred]

Thank you very much for posting this....

[GingerAutie]

Thanks! :)

[leoleponge]

Love this video and version of the song! I recognize a lot of your body language!

5* fave and shared

[GingerAutie]

Thanks a lot! :)

It is interesting that actually a lot of autistic people seem to have a similar body language. I hear that a lot.

[drmaier]

Ah, good. Thank you. my son makes the same face when he's listening, only it took me way too long to figure that out.

I wish I had a way of explaining to others how youy can tell by his body language what is on his mind, but I guess you have to be around him a lot to figure that out - or just a person who can read body language well.

[GingerAutie]

Intersting, that some of his faces are the same.

Thanks for your comment!

[momto2miracles]

Great Video. I do think it is important that people are made aware that sometimes the actions we make ,although different from those they recognise as communication, Have a meaning and allow us to express ourselves when we are at a point where words simply just don't come as freely.

[GingerAutie]

Yes, that's why it'S so important, that autistic people can express themself the way they are and that people learn, that ALL actions have a meaning, eventhough we don't understand it allways.

[limeslimey]

Very good!

[GingerAutie]

Thank you!

[wiscsuzski]

Well done. It is informative (even if it is only about one specific autistic person) I LOVE the colors/effects!

[GingerAutie]

Thanks!

The colors shall show a bit my synesthesia. I forgot that to mention in the video.

[kovskaja]

This is cool! I love it!

[GingerAutie]

Thanks a lot!