I have asperges, and I have aleady made my own documentery, illustrated two books, made several TV apperances and had an invatation to meet the Countess of Wessex at st James' Palace.
Hi I have Asperger's syndrome. I like to read, go for walks, ride my bike, go to a Seventh day Adventist Church. I also like sports, but mostly I like to spend time by myself. I do not like to be in big crowds, too much noise. I like to watch sports, baseball, football, hockey, basketball and NASCAR. Have a blessed day. Thanks Caspie.
I have asperger's syndrome (forgive me if spelled wrong) which is considered part of the autism spectrum. I did not know about it till I was an adult and my friend who taught special ed convinced me to look into it. Most people think that if you have autism you have a low iq but that is not always the case. In fact, I have a high IQ but have a hard time holding a conversation and making friends!
I'm a teen with autism, I've had so many signs my whole life but every1 thought I was just weird, diagnosed when i was 12. Sometimes proud of it cause I have gr8 musical ability:P
without hearing their voices and observing their body language and more information or brain scans it would be hard to tell if there autistic or just possessing a few aspie traits coincidentally
wonderful music...i love it...i was working in india with autistic kids and they are sooo great and creative and intelligent....autism is not at all an illness....stupid racism...everyone is different.....everyone has own DNA, finger "maps", whatever...there is no RACE..WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS....keep head up....you are too good! ALL the best, Barbara
what I like most about Ian is this... a lot of people even Doctors say "that a person with autism lacks empathy". YET this young man took the time to write me back about my little auto~boy (2) SOOOO that is empathy in my book. I know non autistic people who don't care enough to write back. Your a great guy you go far in life and follow your dreams...
UFO nerd, downing Einstein, have you read what you wrote, I am a history nut, yes I have studied Einstien and you do not know your stuff, just keep chasing those UFOs, maybe someday you will see there not so much different than we are, since God created all of us. Do your home work UFO nerd.
I am a mother of 2 aspies, they are amazing, I would not change a thing about them. Brie, my daughter loves art and music, Parker my son, loves legos, math science, and cant forget the video games, he is a master video player that adults wont play becasue he will beat them. He is only 8, Brie is 7, I love them the way they are. Great job my dear on you video, maybe one day you can video yourself playing your fav music, to inspire others like you.
I found out I had Aspergers @ age 35. My son has Autism without speech @ age 4. They say I have a great sense of humor. I think so too - see what I mean? But I had to learn it. It came to me as a way of fitting in because I had no other mechanism. Social situations still bother me but I play it off pretty well. The things they say about Autistic people having no sense of humor or empathy is crap. We may not be able to read people well, but empathy is being able to put yourself in their shoes.
basing things such as what you listed of eye contact, social interaction, sensitivity to pain and loud noises, few interests or hobbies, poor sense of sympathy is much to wide a spectrum to consititute a diagnosis as someone having autism. Even while some notes and some actions by famous people being reviewed by various disciplines, it is based far too much on only those few facts we have from those now dead famous people. To catagorize them into autism solely on history has no basis.
ok.. we have a SERIOUS problem here.. I am very concerned (as should everyone else) that we are attempting to diagnose people who are not alive and that did not get to be tested (in the various ways I suppose for autism) as having this disorder. That in itself is a very bad way for us now to review and determine the personalities and mental abilities of people that can not actually be tested. Hypothesizing is one thing but to make the statement without scientific testing is very bad indeed.
@mxferro ...I agree, and ironically, lots of people are unscientific like that, just label, and make assumptions without any scientific research and testing, fuck that shit.
My son is autistic, I'm very supportive of autism and education. However, you can't go back and diagnose people with this disorder. I also have a degree in history and would disagree with many of the people you listed as being autistic, especially Thomas Jefferson.
@ksukitty1979 The problem is not with identifying people who can no longer be diagnosed. The grey area is too vast because the "spectrum" is FAR too wide. Autism is a blanket diagnosis for such a huge range of symptoms that even those who are touched by it will disagree. I know about and have the symptoms, and so does my son. We are so different we can't be compared on the "spectrum", yet we both fall into the same category.
My lil son was just diagnosed he's 23 months old and I'm just so scared for him but he's so lovable .... I can't tell you How much I enjoyed your video Wish Aramis luck please. Hold old were you when you started talking? He won't say mama but he holds my face :)
When I was littel I never laught. And to have eye contact with someone is difficult for me.
For about 1 jear ago I discoverd that I have a verry big musicul talent and I am verry good at math. (and I have a disorder with math) I love you'r story and keep following the music!!!!
I appreciate your effort in creating awareness but I don't appreciate the use of the work "disease" to describe autism. Autism is not something you can catch like the flu or aids.
This is the best video i have ever watched. My little brother has autism, and everyone who has autism are so unique, and mostly more intelligent then us, i love them...these people changed the world to come to what it is today
@hiyaa73 We're taking over the world according to some statistics, so people had better stop listening to Heffner and his cronies the about EEEVVILLS of autism.
so the next time you intend to pick on an autistic person, think twice before you do so! cause he/she could very well be more successful then you useless bullies!!
@UFOnerd1 how about these: he didnot speak untill he was 4, he hated waring socks, he was considerd a slow learner in school (his teachers thought he was retarded) he prefered solitary pursuits, he was often considerd eccentric, he repeated sentence obsesivley untill he was 7, he was a picky eater....these are all verry comon amongst people who are high functioning
@UFOnerd1 That sounds more like ignorance to me. Not all autistics are the same. I'm an autistic who has a sense of humor and laughs at your statement.
@UFOnerd1 read the second most liked comment on this video einstie could verry well have been a womanizer and still had autism if you'v read up on you'd know that social skills do not come naturaly for autistics and thus have to be learned, so yes it is possible for him to have been autistic and a womanizer
@UFOnerd1 oh and another thing that shows you don't know what you are talking about, what if an autistic person's special intrest is socialization in and of it's self? they would actualy be more social ept then you, they would know all the social rules amongst various cultures
@UFOnerd1 Actually Einstein was definitely autistic. Oxford research thinks so. He couldnt remember his phone number, his syviann fissure was overgrown. Demolishing his understanding of language and replaced with spatial reasoning.
@UFOnerd1; I have Asperger's syndrome. I can be a "womanizer", I have a great sense of humor, I just can't read social clues. I like to be repetitive, and I have a very narrow set of interests. Einstein probably just developed a social disorder brought on by is burgeoning intelligence, but he behaves like us. So we like to "claim" him.
@UFOnerd1 O absolutely! While some of us are celibate, some go the other way just like Neurotypicals vary. Some of us are sourpusses but the creator of the Muppitsalong certainly was not! We can assume Stephen Spielberg and Bill Murray have adequate senses of humor. I am in a great deal of pain due to serious gut issues but I am known for my telling of jokes and riddles. Humor actually helps me cope with the pain! Our behavior and attitudes and abilities differ just as much as Neurotypicals.
@UFOnerd1 I have asperger and I think I have good sense of humour.
I constantly make friends laugh and I think its because I have a somewhat deranged and off kilter sense of humour. But I think I have good taste. Im not a big fan of jokes(im a bigger fan of wit) and only use puns in an ironic self mocking context.
And really all the aspies I know. Even those who really look the part. Have a sense of humour. Or are downright fun-loving. Still odd to most folks though I guess
@UFOnerd1 Perhaps you should learn how to spell "humor" before you criticize someone else's video. You obviously know NOTHING about individuals with autism. Many of my students had wonderful senses of humor.
im an autistic male (i prefer saying male and female) and i find this video interesting because i didnt know most of these people and those i knew i didnt know was autistic and i must admit pianos has always been interesting to me but i never really tried using one instead i have been sitting at a computer since i was 2 years old and now i can type really fast actually XD
Most of the people I admire seem to have Asperger's. I am beginning to see it in everybody. Like I just saw a movie about Bobby Fischer. - Bobby Fischer againnst the world. I would add him to my famous peoples list.
I always knew I was different, but I didn't see that it was autism until recently, I came across a YouTube video that said the signs of autism, when I watched it I discovered that I had like 8/10 of the symptoms. I'm hoping to ask my doctor for a diagnosis soon.
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My friend has Autism, SHE'S HARD WORK! She attention seeks continuously, lies for attention, And is now threatening to leave me as a friend and Because i dyed my hair red she keeps saying i stole her ideas because she draws cats with red hair ! URGH, Please someone help me! Inbox me if you have any clue how to handle this! i can't understand her.
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My grandson is 2-1/2 and is on the spectrum. Ironic that this is his favorite tune and wants me to play ONLY this tune (Sonata K.545). I guess some people take offense to autism being called a disease. How about a "condition"? Just a suggestion.
I got diagnosed at age 20 after a lifetme of being emotionally burned by ppl. Now I'm a pain resistant powerlifter cause phisical pain goes away and emotional pain stays forever. I'm pretty rough around he edges because natural selection made me that way. Message me if you wanna know more or send me hate mail if you happen to be normal skum ;)
im an LSA at a special needs school in england....i was given a 1 to 1 with autistic spectrum dissorder, he doesnt communicate verbally but for a few words....can you imagine my joy when his mum asked him who i was and he said my name so clearly? his talent is computers....he cant talk read write or use crayons, but he remembers what order to press the letters to get his cartoons and programes and games onto te screen.....he moves to his secondry school in 5 weeks, im not looking forward to it!
Well if you call it a disease..then i feel unlucky not having it....truly. People featured in your video are the rare diamonds on this earth.....hope you are one among them :)
Disease suggest a need for a cure or a problem that needs to be fixed. Autism neither has a cure and isn't a fixable "problem". Symptoms can be managed, but never cured. I can see the connotation when referring to children and adults with Classic Autism, as it causes so many hardships but Asperger's, as your video implies, is not in need of a cure. If you read your comments you'll see many other people who feel the same, we're different not Sick.
Good video i liked the information and the people mentioned in it and how it was put across to people But i cannot understand why your calling it a DISEASE. Do you not realize how hurtful that is to people and how people may go and bully someone after watching this video. Look i know your just 16 and have your own way of thinking but that IS NOT the right way of looking at it
my name is will i have Apperger;s syndrome i was dianosed in 1995 when i showed signs of Asperger's when i was very young i was always hyper and found it hard to concentrate on things and had unexplainable obsessions. However i DO NOT like people referring to Autistic conditions as a Disease because,at the end of the day Autism is somthing that makes people think a bit differently and have different ways of doing things. everyone is different and struggles with something yet we get labled
aspergers is probally in my biased opinion the worst disorder to have because your functionally disabled and people expect you to act normal its exhausting to act all the time!!!!
@PhilMyBod41 i'll see your aspergers and raise you a dandy walker. try fighting with the school district for services who has given up on your son. thank God for competent special ed lawyers who care :))
what proof do you have that all these famous people were autistic? and why does it matter anyway? you are what you are, just be happy you're not brain damaged and can function in this world :))
@Rawego its educated peoples opinions take for example howard hughes he had a multitude of weird behaviours you put 23 and 2 together and you get 4 ....
i don't know much about autism but from an outside view it looks like instead of having your mind focused on a million unimportant things like social "norms" your mind seems to be laser line focused on something actually important and beautiful like music, arts, math, ect... just cause your not considered normal doesn't mean shit. normal is a box someone with no talent created to make themselves feel less unimportant.
i have been diagnosed autism and aspergers about a year ago. i am 30 years old now, and my girlfriend has been helping out with everything she says and my family confirms i have had autism all my life, just never diagnosed. my main obsessiveness is centralized in the fields of art, family, and religion. i know alot and can also help others learning about their own family and religion. since i was a child i have been bullied for my learning disabilitys and only knowing what i know.
I'm 12 I have aspergers I've been bullied for my social awkwardness and my lack of emotions I'm very obssed with my alto saxophone and astronomy my music teacher says I play as well as 18 year olds he has
I'm also a teenager with autism... life hasn't been easy (I've always been very socially awkward and have been teased and bullied about it)...
However, it's not always true that people with autism are less sympathetic... my friends with autism (and there are MANY...) are the most sympathetic and sweet people I know... and (although I wouldn't normally say this out loud) I have a bit of a tendency to be that way, too... **blush**
its kind of like that movie 50 first dates where you totaly start over every day from the start if that makes sense.its like my whole life has been one big lonnnnng embarrasment i could keep going but i wont to me i think instead of high intelligence i would have rather been ignorant!!!
im 42 my kids are 18 15 9 i spend most of my time with my kids and their friends i am able to relate to them more.but for people my age i loathe them cant stand to be around them for gods sake ive started fist fights in church because of aspergers its a hellish malady with strengths in certain areas we like.
the doctor diagnosed me with aspergers npd rage disorder and my kids therapist came up to me 3 yra ago and asked if had it then got tested now im in the process of getting disability which is almost impossible to get ive always knew i had something now i have a name for it!
bulling i was tormented from the age of 5 until about 16 i was forced to become a fighter by thugs, built my body from 100 lbs to roughly 250,ive taken so crap from people especially those who say their christians what a load of crap..i pretty much stay indoors now for fear of hurting the assholes who made my youth hell so you see aspergers is very real and not a pleasent experience growing up with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i do the exact same things day in day out i cant evan tolerate going to church.sunlight kills me looking people in the eyes is akin to having acid thrown at me i look up weird stuff example i have to know certain famous peoples heighths and weight i think we as people are like skipping records highly intelligent ones and last but not least the anxiety 24 7 even in my sleep its a nightmare disorder on some respects !!!
Aspergers is bullshit and so is this video. First you have no proof that any of the people you mentioned had Aspergers. Second, Aspergers syndrome itself is a bullshit syndrome. A way of telling people why that are social retards. Many of the Aspergers traits like social awkwardness, having few hobbies and so on apply to hundreds of millions of people. They aren't all retards.
I'm sick of hearing about Aspergers. It takes away from those who truly suffer from autism.
@PhilMyBod41 Call me ignorant all you want. Aspergers is total bullshit. There is legitimate autism and then this aspergers nonsense. I actually know someone who claims to suffer from aspergers. The only trait he has is social awkwardness yet he claims he has aspergers. This is the case for most who claim they have aspergers. This syndrome is often misdiagnosed by poor doctors and even in many cases self diagnosed by the individual. Like I said aspergers is total BULLSHIT.
@tiffcooper well as in every malady for some reason you have people who say they have autism im assuming for attention.but as in my case i know i have it im 42 now always knew something was off about me but i know i have it! you just cant assume because your friend is fakeing it that everybody is it is a VERY REAL DISORDER i wish it were only social awkwardness i wish...
..am also have HFA with that peculiar childhood of imagination to lie on the grass observing the changing eternities of clouds. Later, at first geo-/topography and then in the teens understood finally mathematic by geometrical patterns in all corners of life. Thus, philosophical theology and the pianomusic solve the adolescent of being left alone. Now philology is currently that make my orientation of a gentleman in the sense of The Private Letters of Henry Ryecroft in relation to walking..
I too was born with some autism. My mom told me I didn't speak till I was three and a half years old. I didn't even know how to talk fully well as I tried. Words to me were meaningless. Imagery and feelings were really my first language. Words were a second language to me and they still are. Also, I didn't know how to do socially well although I did my best. At age 9, I became interested in artwork. Since I became an artist, I slowly adapted. Someday, I've got to bring my artwork out there.
I got diagnosed with aspergers when I was about 9 and I don't like people calling it a disease because its not. I'm in the national squad for sailing and I want to get some gold medals at the Olympics some day, I don't let my aspergers hold me back I just need to work harder at some things than other people do, and my squad understand that and accept me. I love squad weekends because I'm accepted and can get away from all the bullying at school and can have a great time doing what I love.
Thank you for making this video and making a point that having Autism can let you accomplish anything. I have Autism myself I was diagnosed when I was three. I always hated being treated differently because of it, but its something to live with. Just be glad that your still alive. But please, don't call it a disease that's a horrible thing to say, a disease is when you have a major illness. Autism's a long-term disability that you have to live with there is no cure.
@Chrisi8585 How is this a waste of talent!? I know many very talented Christian or otherwise religious people. They in no way waste their talent because the believe in God! sirhonestharry is obviously using his talents, not wasting them!
@sirhonestharry I love this. I have been looking for something to show high school students about Autism and here I found something by a high school age student! Thanks
This was a lovely video. Thanks for posting it! My brother is a couple years apart from me and we're both in high school. He has a different experience in school than I do. Getting diagnosed young and seeing a therapist when he was in middle school was his saving grace, because he's since come out of his shell so much! He still loves spending time alone playing guitar, but he tries very hard to succeed. I love that boy! To all of you struggling with Asperger's, try not to let it hold you back :)
@MsLnash Yeah I know, Lol, And of course the disorder wasn't even discovered until the 40's but I used the words of scientists, "Asperger" was the guy who discovered the disorder and he realized that some children act a certain way and they have a lot in common with others, they match the diagnosis of people in the past like Mozart's. and historians worked with scientists to find written statements of traits, Idk for sure if they are, I just go with what the pros tell me haha God Bless you!
my son, Abdullah is 11 now, grade 5, with Asperger syndrome, studying the physics and chemistry of grade 9 at home, get bullied everyday at school and I thought him how to react to their bullies and still working on it. when he was at the nursery his teacher told me you'll see this boy the president of your country, last hear, G4, his teacher told me the same comment ! I can't wait to see him succeed and overcome his fears. He doesn't know that he is an ASP, thinks he is just different..!
i have aspergers yet i don't remember ever getting diagnosed for it, most people don't believe me wen i say i hav it, most people think of it as a gift, but i don't, i think of it as a way of life, i may hate it but i know i have to live with iit everyday of my life. im 14 so i guess i'll learn to live with it, but i wish people at skool would learn to leave me alone. they know they're hurting me on the inside but yet continue to hurt me,
My son has been diagnosed and now we are turning our attention to the females. I began painting with oils around age 8 but i was a born artist. I am also a photographer and use every digital medium known to man, i study all styles. I took fine art in college and at the age of 34 have enjoyed a 26 year art career. Looking forward to my diagnosis. Politics, reading, geometry, and physics interest me.
My son has been diagnosed and now we are turning our attention to the females. I began painting with oils around age 8 but i was a born artist. I am also a photographer and use every digital medium known to man, i study all styles. I took fine art in college and at the age of 34 have enjoyed a 26 year art carear. Looking forward to my diagnosis. Politics, reading, geometry, and physics interest me.
A DISEASE?!?!? look dude, i got the asperger syndrome and thats not funny at all, and you dont have to make it worse by calling it 'A DISEASE', all right? 'disease' just sounds so mean!
@SuperPoopaTroopa I'm on the spectrum too, so I'm not being mean, cus being mean to myself is redundant. (Pointless) and a disease is a word that I think best fits autism, Although some people may debate it, they just like to sugar coat the truth of things, but Disease has a negative connotation and that's the problem, same with STD's some say "STI's" now, I'm Autistic too, our brains our different, they're different from everyone else, just like CMC or staph infct, diseases, but it's all good,
@sirhonestharry the way you are referring it to a so called DISEASE is absurd in my mind. i have high functioning autism akin to that term aspergers people commonly call it. but when you call it a disease it makes you like like a socialist. i am not trying to be mean but you make it sound like its not ok to be different from everyone else. kinda like in the pink floyd album the wall. theres a song that says "all in all your just another brick in the wall" also the book 1984 talks about sameness
autistics have a lack of sympathy? what about empathy? does anyone have any further knowledge on this? I've never been formally diagnosed but i've been told by different people who work with autistics that i'm probably mildly on the autism scale somewhere. however, i feel one of my biggest strengths has been to see through others eyes.
@PhilMyBod41 NO, it's merely a disability if there are no good bits in the classification and autism has good and bad bits, such as attention to detail at the expense of poor social interaction, high intelligence balanced by having difficult with a non-black and white world, being gifted at something but unable to speak vocally. That sort of thing.
@TheSchemer1 Autism is classified as a disability - otherwise I wouldn't be able to get the help I need. Without that, I'd fail in school. =( And not all disabilities have to be completely bad, sheesh.
@Steeple333 Well the classification is wrong, otherwise we would have still by now been living in the dark ages, cluless, fanatically religious and stupid. Autistics helped people out of that.
@Steeple333 And another thing its not like "neurotypia" is all good, because nts have weaknesses such as difficulties with seperating emotion from rationality and logic, also alot of them cant focus intensely on a subject of their own choice, whilst auties can do that. If theyre are downsides of autism that make it a disability, surely we should be able to class normality as a disability but that would be wrong. So, if ntsyndrome cant be a disability, neither can autism. Know what I mean?
@TheSchemer1 I'm not saying autism is bad, just that it's a disability. It is a disability because people like me can't succeed in this system, not through our own failings but because the current system makes things extremely difficult to succeed.
Also? Being neurotypical is nowhere fucking close to the difficulties that arise from being autistic in this society. Fuck you and your ableism.
@Steeple333 A) Please dont swear at me, when I havent sworn at you B) The downsides of Neurotypia are as worse as the downsides of Autism, they are more likely to get involved in drug addiction due to feeling the need to bond with they're peer groups that might be doing drugs, they frequently assume they're own opinion everything is the "correct" one and that any person who disagrees with them is wrong. Autism isnt the problem in society, the intolerance of being different is.
@TheSchemer1 Sorry, I swear when I get pissed and/or frustrated =/ Because all I'm hearing is "privilege is soooo haaaard"
Don't fucking (oops) tell me what my own damn (oops) experience is: you don't know, and you're not qualified to say which is better. You can wish you were autistic when autism is seen as the "correct" and "default" mindset; when many think typicality needs to be "fixed"; when typical people are treated as novelties; when people think those typicals are "faking". =/
@Steeple333 I am not qualified to tell you that I'm Autistic, but I was told by three Psychologists that I was. Autism and Down's syndrome is measured on how fast the neurons are moving in the brain. If they travel too fast, you're autistic, if they travel too slow, you have Down's Syndrome. I'm not saying we are super powered individuals, we just get a bad rep, and we do have the capability to be successful.
@sirhonestharry I never said we couldn't be successful at all, just that a large number of people with it have an easier (less frustrating and stressful) time with help. Or accommodations make things possible. A simple example is more time for tests.
Also... that brain thing sounds like a hoax. =/a Down's Syndrome is a result of a gene mutation. When I got my diagnosis recently, it was the same - looking at behavior and doing a lot of thought exercises over a period of time.
@TheSchemer1 I would love to see some sources regarding these ludicrous statements. Drug addiction WTF? How many neurotypical drug addicts do you know of.
Also, "please don't swear at me"? WTF?
Note that I have autism; it is not juts a "difference" and as such, I think it's rather offensive of you to suggest that it is a trivial thing.
I disagree with most of the names mentioned here (particularly Mozart and Einstein: I think Mozart had Tourettes, and Einstein had LOTS of issues). But I would certainly agree with Jefferson, Curie and Van Gogh (Van Gogh was quite indiscriminating about the company he kept, he also had bi-polar too and that seems to usually go hand in hand, usually because an AS is usually sandwiched between great obsevations and ideas, and the dismal realities of social alienation within a foreign hegamony).
God bless you ...!!! I have two sons and both are Autistic ... Ian is 10 and he's decome an excellent drummer ... Kevin is 8 and little by little he's getting better with horseback ridding ... Just remember "Being different makes you geet used to other people's idiocy ... but it surely is much better than being an actual idiot ..."
@wenzel1969 hey, thanks, I haven't checked the comments on here in awhile but I am warmly thankful for your comment on my Autism video, I wish your children are blessed everyday of their lives, I was a bit disfunctional as a kid, but things started looking up during adolecance. Autism is an interesting thing, But people are bautiful and friendship is the purest honey, thanks
actually i am autistic too and that means one day i will be famous too
SuperMatin99 2 weeks ago
@SuperMatin99 Good luck
annabellapicksapples 1 week ago
I have asperges, and I have aleady made my own documentery, illustrated two books, made several TV apperances and had an invatation to meet the Countess of Wessex at st James' Palace.
indigocoil 2 weeks ago
My 17-year-old son has AS and will give Bill Gates a run for his money some day :D
IBelieveInTheDream 2 weeks ago
Yes, is Asperger syndrome.
mycreators61 3 weeks ago
Hi I have Asperger's syndrome. I like to read, go for walks, ride my bike, go to a Seventh day Adventist Church. I also like sports, but mostly I like to spend time by myself. I do not like to be in big crowds, too much noise. I like to watch sports, baseball, football, hockey, basketball and NASCAR. Have a blessed day. Thanks Caspie.
maexsyt11 3 weeks ago
I have asperger's syndrome (forgive me if spelled wrong) which is considered part of the autism spectrum. I did not know about it till I was an adult and my friend who taught special ed convinced me to look into it. Most people think that if you have autism you have a low iq but that is not always the case. In fact, I have a high IQ but have a hard time holding a conversation and making friends!
littlesongbird1 1 month ago
I'm proud to say that i have autism <3
moonstark 1 month ago
I don't think it's autism that you have. It probably is Asperger syndrome.
makarcello 1 month ago
I'm a teen with autism, I've had so many signs my whole life but every1 thought I was just weird, diagnosed when i was 12. Sometimes proud of it cause I have gr8 musical ability:P
Izzy2693 1 month ago
watch how you need to do this a gen soon when i get older because i have autism and i'm very talented so say i and others
christina92941 1 month ago
einstine was on the asd he was non verble till 4 an had many other symptoims of autism watching his likfe storey so clear
auti34 1 month ago
without hearing their voices and observing their body language and more information or brain scans it would be hard to tell if there autistic or just possessing a few aspie traits coincidentally
HerrDescartes 2 months ago
wonderful music...i love it...i was working in india with autistic kids and they are sooo great and creative and intelligent....autism is not at all an illness....stupid racism...everyone is different.....everyone has own DNA, finger "maps", whatever...there is no RACE..WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS....keep head up....you are too good! ALL the best, Barbara
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what I like most about Ian is this... a lot of people even Doctors say "that a person with autism lacks empathy". YET this young man took the time to write me back about my little auto~boy (2) SOOOO that is empathy in my book. I know non autistic people who don't care enough to write back. Your a great guy you go far in life and follow your dreams...
carinagillon 2 months ago
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carinagillon 2 months ago
UFO nerd, downing Einstein, have you read what you wrote, I am a history nut, yes I have studied Einstien and you do not know your stuff, just keep chasing those UFOs, maybe someday you will see there not so much different than we are, since God created all of us. Do your home work UFO nerd.
jtprobst1 2 months ago
I am a mother of 2 aspies, they are amazing, I would not change a thing about them. Brie, my daughter loves art and music, Parker my son, loves legos, math science, and cant forget the video games, he is a master video player that adults wont play becasue he will beat them. He is only 8, Brie is 7, I love them the way they are. Great job my dear on you video, maybe one day you can video yourself playing your fav music, to inspire others like you.
jtprobst1 2 months ago
I LEARNED THIS SONATA TOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Bresalio 2 months ago
I found out I had Aspergers @ age 35. My son has Autism without speech @ age 4. They say I have a great sense of humor. I think so too - see what I mean? But I had to learn it. It came to me as a way of fitting in because I had no other mechanism. Social situations still bother me but I play it off pretty well. The things they say about Autistic people having no sense of humor or empathy is crap. We may not be able to read people well, but empathy is being able to put yourself in their shoes.
gamonman 2 months ago
basing things such as what you listed of eye contact, social interaction, sensitivity to pain and loud noises, few interests or hobbies, poor sense of sympathy is much to wide a spectrum to consititute a diagnosis as someone having autism. Even while some notes and some actions by famous people being reviewed by various disciplines, it is based far too much on only those few facts we have from those now dead famous people. To catagorize them into autism solely on history has no basis.
mxferro 2 months ago
ok.. we have a SERIOUS problem here.. I am very concerned (as should everyone else) that we are attempting to diagnose people who are not alive and that did not get to be tested (in the various ways I suppose for autism) as having this disorder. That in itself is a very bad way for us now to review and determine the personalities and mental abilities of people that can not actually be tested. Hypothesizing is one thing but to make the statement without scientific testing is very bad indeed.
mxferro 2 months ago
@mxferro ...I agree, and ironically, lots of people are unscientific like that, just label, and make assumptions without any scientific research and testing, fuck that shit.
meteosurreal 1 month ago
My son is autistic, I'm very supportive of autism and education. However, you can't go back and diagnose people with this disorder. I also have a degree in history and would disagree with many of the people you listed as being autistic, especially Thomas Jefferson.
ksukitty1979 2 months ago
@ksukitty1979 The problem is not with identifying people who can no longer be diagnosed. The grey area is too vast because the "spectrum" is FAR too wide. Autism is a blanket diagnosis for such a huge range of symptoms that even those who are touched by it will disagree. I know about and have the symptoms, and so does my son. We are so different we can't be compared on the "spectrum", yet we both fall into the same category.
gamonman 2 months ago
Great job buddy, you are an inspiration for my 2 autistic children
cmurray11111 3 months ago
@Carinagillon scared of him? like seriously?
KoddyX 3 months ago
My lil son was just diagnosed he's 23 months old and I'm just so scared for him but he's so lovable .... I can't tell you How much I enjoyed your video Wish Aramis luck please. Hold old were you when you started talking? He won't say mama but he holds my face :)
carinagillon 3 months ago
I have autism.
When I was littel I never laught. And to have eye contact with someone is difficult for me.
For about 1 jear ago I discoverd that I have a verry big musicul talent and I am verry good at math. (and I have a disorder with math) I love you'r story and keep following the music!!!!
(sorry for my englisch I come from Holland).
EMLYSIMS 3 months ago
i have autism
MrLooky09 3 months ago
I appreciate your effort in creating awareness but I don't appreciate the use of the work "disease" to describe autism. Autism is not something you can catch like the flu or aids.
apsdh340 3 months ago
Amadeus suffered from bipolar disorder
Gelderwick 3 months ago
This is the best video i have ever watched. My little brother has autism, and everyone who has autism are so unique, and mostly more intelligent then us, i love them...these people changed the world to come to what it is today
hiyaa73 3 months ago
@hiyaa73 We're taking over the world according to some statistics, so people had better stop listening to Heffner and his cronies the about EEEVVILLS of autism.
jamesdragonforce 3 months ago
Van Gogh was just plain looney, forget the autism.
oracle2world 4 months ago
Can't agree more fully
ODESSAWISCONSIN 4 months ago
so the next time you intend to pick on an autistic person, think twice before you do so! cause he/she could very well be more successful then you useless bullies!!
violinist881 4 months ago
Autism is not a disease, imo it shouldn't even be considered a disorder.
Many great minds were/would be diagnosted with autism.
selearemus 4 months ago
i have autism and i am writing a paper on it i love the suject
MrCrazyscience 4 months ago
the painter Michelangelo is believed to have been autistic as well.
R1CHARD909 4 months ago
I have it and a little bit of Add (attention defecit disorder)
trulychloe 4 months ago
This people are suspected to be autists. Instead of a movie with certain autist people, we see this joke...
UnleashedFire 5 months ago
Einstein was not autistic. he was dyslexic a womanizer and noted for his great sense of humer. now does that sound like autism to you?
UFOnerd1 5 months ago 7
@UFOnerd1 how about these: he didnot speak untill he was 4, he hated waring socks, he was considerd a slow learner in school (his teachers thought he was retarded) he prefered solitary pursuits, he was often considerd eccentric, he repeated sentence obsesivley untill he was 7, he was a picky eater....these are all verry comon amongst people who are high functioning
jeffrielly 5 months ago 2
@jeffrielly ...also people who are high functioning can be socialy apt but it does not come natualy for them they have to learn there social skills
jeffrielly 5 months ago 6
@jeffrielly this was directed at ufonerd btw as a contiuation of something that i had said since youtube only alows so many charecters per response
jeffrielly 3 months ago
@jeffrielly true story!
I have a high functional autism and people see me as very outgoing, I have just learned to play the game well,
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msredmy 2 months ago
@UFOnerd1 -- I know of adult aspies that would fit into those three categories...so YES this does sound like autism...
Your response is very naive, and please refer to jeffs response
thelandofjej 4 months ago
@UFOnerd1 That sounds more like ignorance to me. Not all autistics are the same. I'm an autistic who has a sense of humor and laughs at your statement.
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@UFOnerd1 He suffered from bipolar disorder type 2
Gelderwick 3 months ago
@UFOnerd1 read the second most liked comment on this video einstie could verry well have been a womanizer and still had autism if you'v read up on you'd know that social skills do not come naturaly for autistics and thus have to be learned, so yes it is possible for him to have been autistic and a womanizer
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jeffrielly 2 months ago
@UFOnerd1 oh and another thing that shows you don't know what you are talking about, what if an autistic person's special intrest is socialization in and of it's self? they would actualy be more social ept then you, they would know all the social rules amongst various cultures
jeffrielly 2 months ago
@UFOnerd1 Actually Einstein was definitely autistic. Oxford research thinks so. He couldnt remember his phone number, his syviann fissure was overgrown. Demolishing his understanding of language and replaced with spatial reasoning.
janamill 2 months ago
@UFOnerd1 well my brother has a great sense of humor and is autistic..
KINDxGEVAL 2 months ago
@UFOnerd1; I have Asperger's syndrome. I can be a "womanizer", I have a great sense of humor, I just can't read social clues. I like to be repetitive, and I have a very narrow set of interests. Einstein probably just developed a social disorder brought on by is burgeoning intelligence, but he behaves like us. So we like to "claim" him.
rampaginwalrus 2 months ago
@UFOnerd1 I'm dyslexic (oke not a womananizer) and people say I have a good sence of humour and I have asperger ;) <3
Romyandstuff 1 month ago
@UFOnerd1 O absolutely! While some of us are celibate, some go the other way just like Neurotypicals vary. Some of us are sourpusses but the creator of the Muppitsalong certainly was not! We can assume Stephen Spielberg and Bill Murray have adequate senses of humor. I am in a great deal of pain due to serious gut issues but I am known for my telling of jokes and riddles. Humor actually helps me cope with the pain! Our behavior and attitudes and abilities differ just as much as Neurotypicals.
omegasseekerr 1 month ago
@UFOnerd1 dont be a jerk, dude
songbirdleelee79 1 week ago
@UFOnerd1 because people with autism can't have a sense of humor? or be womanizers?
He also never wore socks. an lacked understanding of social norms as well.
alownlion 6 days ago
@UFOnerd1 I have asperger and I think I have good sense of humour.
I constantly make friends laugh and I think its because I have a somewhat deranged and off kilter sense of humour. But I think I have good taste. Im not a big fan of jokes(im a bigger fan of wit) and only use puns in an ironic self mocking context.
And really all the aspies I know. Even those who really look the part. Have a sense of humour. Or are downright fun-loving. Still odd to most folks though I guess
PennyDreadful1 6 days ago
@UFOnerd1 Perhaps you should learn how to spell "humor" before you criticize someone else's video. You obviously know NOTHING about individuals with autism. Many of my students had wonderful senses of humor.
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zioband 5 months ago
im an autistic male (i prefer saying male and female) and i find this video interesting because i didnt know most of these people and those i knew i didnt know was autistic and i must admit pianos has always been interesting to me but i never really tried using one instead i have been sitting at a computer since i was 2 years old and now i can type really fast actually XD
kallemick 6 months ago
Most of the people I admire seem to have Asperger's. I am beginning to see it in everybody. Like I just saw a movie about Bobby Fischer. - Bobby Fischer againnst the world. I would add him to my famous peoples list.
xshanghu 6 months ago
I always knew I was different, but I didn't see that it was autism until recently, I came across a YouTube video that said the signs of autism, when I watched it I discovered that I had like 8/10 of the symptoms. I'm hoping to ask my doctor for a diagnosis soon.
ihatenumbers987 6 months ago
marie currie!? wwwwwooooowwww!!!!!! and she was a downright genius!!!!!
jeffrielly 6 months ago
@jeffrielly ....thats the point - most autisitic people if nurtured in the correct way with the effective correct therapies, ARE GENIUSES
thelandofjej 6 months ago
@thelandofjej I know, i have aspergers myself, I was just saying oh wow because she was one that surpised me.
jeffrielly 6 months ago
I have little bit of autism, it is high functioning kind.
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Pacificoceanjohn 7 months ago
@Pacificoceanjohn this does not apply to the video
vidoelver 6 months ago
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Pacificoceanjohn 7 months ago
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Pacificoceanjohn 7 months ago
My friend has Autism, SHE'S HARD WORK! She attention seeks continuously, lies for attention, And is now threatening to leave me as a friend and Because i dyed my hair red she keeps saying i stole her ideas because she draws cats with red hair ! URGH, Please someone help me! Inbox me if you have any clue how to handle this! i can't understand her.
ElisaAshleyFan 7 months ago
wonderful videos.
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Pacificoceanjohn 7 months ago
My grandson is 2-1/2 and is on the spectrum. Ironic that this is his favorite tune and wants me to play ONLY this tune (Sonata K.545). I guess some people take offense to autism being called a disease. How about a "condition"? Just a suggestion.
kamoopsipooh 7 months ago
I got diagnosed at age 20 after a lifetme of being emotionally burned by ppl. Now I'm a pain resistant powerlifter cause phisical pain goes away and emotional pain stays forever. I'm pretty rough around he edges because natural selection made me that way. Message me if you wanna know more or send me hate mail if you happen to be normal skum ;)
Turvein 8 months ago
im an LSA at a special needs school in england....i was given a 1 to 1 with autistic spectrum dissorder, he doesnt communicate verbally but for a few words....can you imagine my joy when his mum asked him who i was and he said my name so clearly? his talent is computers....he cant talk read write or use crayons, but he remembers what order to press the letters to get his cartoons and programes and games onto te screen.....he moves to his secondry school in 5 weeks, im not looking forward to it!
gibbo3l 8 months ago
thanks, nice video
tonskido 8 months ago
Well if you call it a disease..then i feel unlucky not having it....truly. People featured in your video are the rare diamonds on this earth.....hope you are one among them :)
mbikram 8 months ago
Wonderful - thank you for posting this! I agree that it's not a disease - it's a state of being.
patsarts 8 months ago
Wonderful - thank you for posting this!
patsarts 8 months ago
Disease suggest a need for a cure or a problem that needs to be fixed. Autism neither has a cure and isn't a fixable "problem". Symptoms can be managed, but never cured. I can see the connotation when referring to children and adults with Classic Autism, as it causes so many hardships but Asperger's, as your video implies, is not in need of a cure. If you read your comments you'll see many other people who feel the same, we're different not Sick.
janegirl138 9 months ago
Good video i liked the information and the people mentioned in it and how it was put across to people But i cannot understand why your calling it a DISEASE. Do you not realize how hurtful that is to people and how people may go and bully someone after watching this video. Look i know your just 16 and have your own way of thinking but that IS NOT the right way of looking at it
william52905 9 months ago
my name is will i have Apperger;s syndrome i was dianosed in 1995 when i showed signs of Asperger's when i was very young i was always hyper and found it hard to concentrate on things and had unexplainable obsessions. However i DO NOT like people referring to Autistic conditions as a Disease because,at the end of the day Autism is somthing that makes people think a bit differently and have different ways of doing things. everyone is different and struggles with something yet we get labled
william52905 9 months ago
aspergers is probally in my biased opinion the worst disorder to have because your functionally disabled and people expect you to act normal its exhausting to act all the time!!!!
PhilMyBod41 9 months ago
@PhilMyBod41 i'll see your aspergers and raise you a dandy walker. try fighting with the school district for services who has given up on your son. thank God for competent special ed lawyers who care :))
Rawego 9 months ago
sorry 2 and 2 lol
PhilMyBod41 9 months ago
what proof do you have that all these famous people were autistic? and why does it matter anyway? you are what you are, just be happy you're not brain damaged and can function in this world :))
Rawego 9 months ago
@Rawego its educated peoples opinions take for example howard hughes he had a multitude of weird behaviours you put 23 and 2 together and you get 4 ....
PhilMyBod41 9 months ago
@PhilMyBod41 i put 23 and 2 together and get 25 every time. sure feels good to be among famous people, doesn't it? :))
Rawego 9 months ago
@Rawego your good about being a smartass shows your intelligence or lack of!!!!
PhilMyBod41 9 months ago
Autism is NOT a disease!!! it's a very unique thing to people and we should make it more aware to people
bobfari 9 months ago
oh wow madem curie that's a shocker, if it wasn't for her we would not know what we do about radiation
jeffrielly 10 months ago
i don't know much about autism but from an outside view it looks like instead of having your mind focused on a million unimportant things like social "norms" your mind seems to be laser line focused on something actually important and beautiful like music, arts, math, ect... just cause your not considered normal doesn't mean shit. normal is a box someone with no talent created to make themselves feel less unimportant.
gshank80 10 months ago
Yeah... so Einstein and Mozart were'nt autistic...
Get your facts straight before you make such and idiotic video.
Youtube is full of video's of people with a ''disease'', who must show it isnt bad and famous people have it.
Grow up and stop caring what other people say about you.
Damn, dont be so sad. And btw im not offending the maker of this vid. I respect him, but my comment is in general. Nevertheless,great vis
silox250 10 months ago
i have been diagnosed autism and aspergers about a year ago. i am 30 years old now, and my girlfriend has been helping out with everything she says and my family confirms i have had autism all my life, just never diagnosed. my main obsessiveness is centralized in the fields of art, family, and religion. i know alot and can also help others learning about their own family and religion. since i was a child i have been bullied for my learning disabilitys and only knowing what i know.
MrLingam80 10 months ago
beauthifull is all i can say even tho i cant spell right haha .. this is just amazing.. its art....
deltabravox 10 months ago
Wow! This makes me proud to be an Aspie. You did a great job on this production.
Layerboyz 10 months ago
I'm 12 I have aspergers I've been bullied for my social awkwardness and my lack of emotions I'm very obssed with my alto saxophone and astronomy my music teacher says I play as well as 18 year olds he has
KaitoLenMiku 10 months ago
I'm also a teenager with autism... life hasn't been easy (I've always been very socially awkward and have been teased and bullied about it)...
However, it's not always true that people with autism are less sympathetic... my friends with autism (and there are MANY...) are the most sympathetic and sweet people I know... and (although I wouldn't normally say this out loud) I have a bit of a tendency to be that way, too... **blush**
Halcyonpirates 10 months ago
its kind of like that movie 50 first dates where you totaly start over every day from the start if that makes sense.its like my whole life has been one big lonnnnng embarrasment i could keep going but i wont to me i think instead of high intelligence i would have rather been ignorant!!!
PhilMyBod41 11 months ago
its just like they say we are aliens in a very odd world that doesent want our kind and will not tolerate our strange ways.
PhilMyBod41 11 months ago
im 42 my kids are 18 15 9 i spend most of my time with my kids and their friends i am able to relate to them more.but for people my age i loathe them cant stand to be around them for gods sake ive started fist fights in church because of aspergers its a hellish malady with strengths in certain areas we like.
PhilMyBod41 11 months ago
the doctor diagnosed me with aspergers npd rage disorder and my kids therapist came up to me 3 yra ago and asked if had it then got tested now im in the process of getting disability which is almost impossible to get ive always knew i had something now i have a name for it!
PhilMyBod41 11 months ago
bulling i was tormented from the age of 5 until about 16 i was forced to become a fighter by thugs, built my body from 100 lbs to roughly 250,ive taken so crap from people especially those who say their christians what a load of crap..i pretty much stay indoors now for fear of hurting the assholes who made my youth hell so you see aspergers is very real and not a pleasent experience growing up with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PhilMyBod41 11 months ago
i do the exact same things day in day out i cant evan tolerate going to church.sunlight kills me looking people in the eyes is akin to having acid thrown at me i look up weird stuff example i have to know certain famous peoples heighths and weight i think we as people are like skipping records highly intelligent ones and last but not least the anxiety 24 7 even in my sleep its a nightmare disorder on some respects !!!
PhilMyBod41 11 months ago
Aspergers is bullshit and so is this video. First you have no proof that any of the people you mentioned had Aspergers. Second, Aspergers syndrome itself is a bullshit syndrome. A way of telling people why that are social retards. Many of the Aspergers traits like social awkwardness, having few hobbies and so on apply to hundreds of millions of people. They aren't all retards.
I'm sick of hearing about Aspergers. It takes away from those who truly suffer from autism.
tiffcooper 11 months ago
@tiffcooper what can we attribute your ignorance too?????
PhilMyBod41 11 months ago
@PhilMyBod41 Call me ignorant all you want. Aspergers is total bullshit. There is legitimate autism and then this aspergers nonsense. I actually know someone who claims to suffer from aspergers. The only trait he has is social awkwardness yet he claims he has aspergers. This is the case for most who claim they have aspergers. This syndrome is often misdiagnosed by poor doctors and even in many cases self diagnosed by the individual. Like I said aspergers is total BULLSHIT.
tiffcooper 11 months ago
@tiffcooper well as in every malady for some reason you have people who say they have autism im assuming for attention.but as in my case i know i have it im 42 now always knew something was off about me but i know i have it! you just cant assume because your friend is fakeing it that everybody is it is a VERY REAL DISORDER i wish it were only social awkwardness i wish...
PhilMyBod41 11 months ago
@PhilMyBod41 Were you diagnosed by a doctor or are you one of the individuals that self diagnoses?
tiffcooper 11 months ago
uninteresting, do you really not proofread your work or know how to spell "few" ?
cannabischarlie 11 months ago
..am also have HFA with that peculiar childhood of imagination to lie on the grass observing the changing eternities of clouds. Later, at first geo-/topography and then in the teens understood finally mathematic by geometrical patterns in all corners of life. Thus, philosophical theology and the pianomusic solve the adolescent of being left alone. Now philology is currently that make my orientation of a gentleman in the sense of The Private Letters of Henry Ryecroft in relation to walking..
TREUMER0304703199 11 months ago
nice vid!!!!!!!!!
TheSillygirl256 11 months ago
This was an awesome video! Thank you for doing it!
clairneige 1 year ago
I too was born with some autism. My mom told me I didn't speak till I was three and a half years old. I didn't even know how to talk fully well as I tried. Words to me were meaningless. Imagery and feelings were really my first language. Words were a second language to me and they still are. Also, I didn't know how to do socially well although I did my best. At age 9, I became interested in artwork. Since I became an artist, I slowly adapted. Someday, I've got to bring my artwork out there.
Marguerite21 1 year ago
0:57 Thats where the thing begins..
Debbie321lopez 1 year ago
Those people had autism? Bullshit. Well, maybe the creator of Pokemon is seeing as it's really stupid but the rest of them are definitely not.
EdwR1 1 year ago
I got diagnosed with aspergers when I was about 9 and I don't like people calling it a disease because its not. I'm in the national squad for sailing and I want to get some gold medals at the Olympics some day, I don't let my aspergers hold me back I just need to work harder at some things than other people do, and my squad understand that and accept me. I love squad weekends because I'm accepted and can get away from all the bullying at school and can have a great time doing what I love.
Lottiesailing 1 year ago
Thank you for making this video and making a point that having Autism can let you accomplish anything. I have Autism myself I was diagnosed when I was three. I always hated being treated differently because of it, but its something to live with. Just be glad that your still alive. But please, don't call it a disease that's a horrible thing to say, a disease is when you have a major illness. Autism's a long-term disability that you have to live with there is no cure.
lilmissunusual13 1 year ago
Please don't call Autism a disease
musicmoviesalltheway 1 year ago
Wow!!! 10,000 views! Didn't think that many of God's children would be directed to this video, thanks a lot to every viewer Thanksa bundle God bless
sirhonestharry 1 year ago 6
@sirhonestharry Wait, wait, you are religious what a waste of talent XD :(
Chrisi8585 9 months ago
@Chrisi8585 How is this a waste of talent!? I know many very talented Christian or otherwise religious people. They in no way waste their talent because the believe in God! sirhonestharry is obviously using his talents, not wasting them!
deborahtucker94 9 months ago
@sirhonestharry Awesome! thank you for sharing.
salsalegend 6 months ago
@sirhonestharry I love this. I have been looking for something to show high school students about Autism and here I found something by a high school age student! Thanks
ARVolunteer 5 months ago
This was a lovely video. Thanks for posting it! My brother is a couple years apart from me and we're both in high school. He has a different experience in school than I do. Getting diagnosed young and seeing a therapist when he was in middle school was his saving grace, because he's since come out of his shell so much! He still loves spending time alone playing guitar, but he tries very hard to succeed. I love that boy! To all of you struggling with Asperger's, try not to let it hold you back :)
Kmans12 1 year ago
Good for you for succeeding at music. However, I doubt you can infer that people 100's of years dead can be autistic
MsLnash 1 year ago
@MsLnash Yeah I know, Lol, And of course the disorder wasn't even discovered until the 40's but I used the words of scientists, "Asperger" was the guy who discovered the disorder and he realized that some children act a certain way and they have a lot in common with others, they match the diagnosis of people in the past like Mozart's. and historians worked with scientists to find written statements of traits, Idk for sure if they are, I just go with what the pros tell me haha God Bless you!
sirhonestharry 1 year ago
my son, Abdullah is 11 now, grade 5, with Asperger syndrome, studying the physics and chemistry of grade 9 at home, get bullied everyday at school and I thought him how to react to their bullies and still working on it. when he was at the nursery his teacher told me you'll see this boy the president of your country, last hear, G4, his teacher told me the same comment ! I can't wait to see him succeed and overcome his fears. He doesn't know that he is an ASP, thinks he is just different..!
rashaaman 1 year ago 2
i have aspergers yet i don't remember ever getting diagnosed for it, most people don't believe me wen i say i hav it, most people think of it as a gift, but i don't, i think of it as a way of life, i may hate it but i know i have to live with iit everyday of my life. im 14 so i guess i'll learn to live with it, but i wish people at skool would learn to leave me alone. they know they're hurting me on the inside but yet continue to hurt me,
echothechipette1 1 year ago
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My son has been diagnosed and now we are turning our attention to the females. I began painting with oils around age 8 but i was a born artist. I am also a photographer and use every digital medium known to man, i study all styles. I took fine art in college and at the age of 34 have enjoyed a 26 year art career. Looking forward to my diagnosis. Politics, reading, geometry, and physics interest me.
aprilcanadian 1 year ago
My son has been diagnosed and now we are turning our attention to the females. I began painting with oils around age 8 but i was a born artist. I am also a photographer and use every digital medium known to man, i study all styles. I took fine art in college and at the age of 34 have enjoyed a 26 year art carear. Looking forward to my diagnosis. Politics, reading, geometry, and physics interest me.
aprilcanadian 1 year ago
ya know, im a british autistic too, so i like this vid bruv. right-on.
nightfox215 1 year ago
A DISEASE?!?!? look dude, i got the asperger syndrome and thats not funny at all, and you dont have to make it worse by calling it 'A DISEASE', all right? 'disease' just sounds so mean!
SuperPoopaTroopa 1 year ago 5
@SuperPoopaTroopa I'm on the spectrum too, so I'm not being mean, cus being mean to myself is redundant. (Pointless) and a disease is a word that I think best fits autism, Although some people may debate it, they just like to sugar coat the truth of things, but Disease has a negative connotation and that's the problem, same with STD's some say "STI's" now, I'm Autistic too, our brains our different, they're different from everyone else, just like CMC or staph infct, diseases, but it's all good,
sirhonestharry 1 year ago 5
@sirhonestharry the way you are referring it to a so called DISEASE is absurd in my mind. i have high functioning autism akin to that term aspergers people commonly call it. but when you call it a disease it makes you like like a socialist. i am not trying to be mean but you make it sound like its not ok to be different from everyone else. kinda like in the pink floyd album the wall. theres a song that says "all in all your just another brick in the wall" also the book 1984 talks about sameness
geekconnection 6 months ago
@geekconnection Socialism and conformity doesnt always go hand in hand.
PennyDreadful1 6 days ago
My daughter is 4 1/2 years old & has Autism. This is an amazing video-thanks for posting it!
trishaj1987 1 year ago
autistics have a lack of sympathy? what about empathy? does anyone have any further knowledge on this? I've never been formally diagnosed but i've been told by different people who work with autistics that i'm probably mildly on the autism scale somewhere. however, i feel one of my biggest strengths has been to see through others eyes.
michaelofGB45 1 year ago
not everybody who has autism is gifted people need to get it through their heads autism is a DISSABILITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PhilMyBod41 1 year ago
@PhilMyBod41 NO, it's merely a disability if there are no good bits in the classification and autism has good and bad bits, such as attention to detail at the expense of poor social interaction, high intelligence balanced by having difficult with a non-black and white world, being gifted at something but unable to speak vocally. That sort of thing.
TheSchemer1 1 year ago
@TheSchemer1 Autism is classified as a disability - otherwise I wouldn't be able to get the help I need. Without that, I'd fail in school. =( And not all disabilities have to be completely bad, sheesh.
Steeple333 1 year ago
@Steeple333 Well the classification is wrong, otherwise we would have still by now been living in the dark ages, cluless, fanatically religious and stupid. Autistics helped people out of that.
TheSchemer1 1 year ago
@Steeple333 And another thing its not like "neurotypia" is all good, because nts have weaknesses such as difficulties with seperating emotion from rationality and logic, also alot of them cant focus intensely on a subject of their own choice, whilst auties can do that. If theyre are downsides of autism that make it a disability, surely we should be able to class normality as a disability but that would be wrong. So, if ntsyndrome cant be a disability, neither can autism. Know what I mean?
TheSchemer1 1 year ago
@TheSchemer1 I'm not saying autism is bad, just that it's a disability. It is a disability because people like me can't succeed in this system, not through our own failings but because the current system makes things extremely difficult to succeed.
Also? Being neurotypical is nowhere fucking close to the difficulties that arise from being autistic in this society. Fuck you and your ableism.
Steeple333 1 year ago
@Steeple333 A) Please dont swear at me, when I havent sworn at you B) The downsides of Neurotypia are as worse as the downsides of Autism, they are more likely to get involved in drug addiction due to feeling the need to bond with they're peer groups that might be doing drugs, they frequently assume they're own opinion everything is the "correct" one and that any person who disagrees with them is wrong. Autism isnt the problem in society, the intolerance of being different is.
TheSchemer1 1 year ago
@TheSchemer1 Sorry, I swear when I get pissed and/or frustrated =/ Because all I'm hearing is "privilege is soooo haaaard"
Don't fucking (oops) tell me what my own damn (oops) experience is: you don't know, and you're not qualified to say which is better. You can wish you were autistic when autism is seen as the "correct" and "default" mindset; when many think typicality needs to be "fixed"; when typical people are treated as novelties; when people think those typicals are "faking". =/
Steeple333 1 year ago
@Steeple333 I am not qualified to tell you that I'm Autistic, but I was told by three Psychologists that I was. Autism and Down's syndrome is measured on how fast the neurons are moving in the brain. If they travel too fast, you're autistic, if they travel too slow, you have Down's Syndrome. I'm not saying we are super powered individuals, we just get a bad rep, and we do have the capability to be successful.
sirhonestharry 1 year ago 2
@sirhonestharry I never said we couldn't be successful at all, just that a large number of people with it have an easier (less frustrating and stressful) time with help. Or accommodations make things possible. A simple example is more time for tests.
Also... that brain thing sounds like a hoax. =/a Down's Syndrome is a result of a gene mutation. When I got my diagnosis recently, it was the same - looking at behavior and doing a lot of thought exercises over a period of time.
Steeple333 1 year ago
@TheSchemer1 I would love to see some sources regarding these ludicrous statements. Drug addiction WTF? How many neurotypical drug addicts do you know of.
Also, "please don't swear at me"? WTF?
Note that I have autism; it is not juts a "difference" and as such, I think it's rather offensive of you to suggest that it is a trivial thing.
AgentCROCODILE 1 year ago
@Steeple333 The fuck are you going on about? Aww, can't succeed 'cause you're too stupid? Oh boo hoo.
EdwR1 1 year ago
Cool. For future reference, if you make another m peg, one of my heroes Lewis Carroll was autistic as well.
foxwilliammulderx 1 year ago
great video thanks for sharing!!!
robm1966 1 year ago
great video thanks for sharing!!!
robm1966 1 year ago
I disagree with most of the names mentioned here (particularly Mozart and Einstein: I think Mozart had Tourettes, and Einstein had LOTS of issues). But I would certainly agree with Jefferson, Curie and Van Gogh (Van Gogh was quite indiscriminating about the company he kept, he also had bi-polar too and that seems to usually go hand in hand, usually because an AS is usually sandwiched between great obsevations and ideas, and the dismal realities of social alienation within a foreign hegamony).
CDB8510 1 year ago
@CDB8510 That's not how bipolarism (is that a word?) works.
Steeple333 1 year ago
mozart is not autistic
that's just an intellenge person, not autism
plz stop this nonsense and look it up on wikipedia
bunnyz324 1 year ago
God bless you ...!!! I have two sons and both are Autistic ... Ian is 10 and he's decome an excellent drummer ... Kevin is 8 and little by little he's getting better with horseback ridding ... Just remember "Being different makes you geet used to other people's idiocy ... but it surely is much better than being an actual idiot ..."
wenzel1969 1 year ago 2
@wenzel1969 hey, thanks, I haven't checked the comments on here in awhile but I am warmly thankful for your comment on my Autism video, I wish your children are blessed everyday of their lives, I was a bit disfunctional as a kid, but things started looking up during adolecance. Autism is an interesting thing, But people are bautiful and friendship is the purest honey, thanks
sirhonestharry 1 year ago