Autistic woman types one-fingered without looking.

This video shows me typing one-fingered without looking at the keyboard. While this does not seem like an extraordinary skill to me, when many people see an autistic person typing one-fingered without looking at the keyboard, they claim that person cannot really be typing. They cite their own inability to do so as proof that this is impossible, despite the fact that they are generally not practiced at this kind of typing. As an autistic person who communicates mainly through typing and sometimes types one-fingered without looking at the keyboard, I set out to prove them wrong. This video is the result. (It's also on my website, if you've seen it before that's where.)

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• keyboarding
• typing
• autistic
• autie
• autism
• aug-comm
• communication
• disability
• stereotype

[themainentity]

OMG look at me i am typing this with 1 finger without looking.....I am the next einstein.

Nah ist called practice....damn the free for all internet such a waste of my time this was

[silentmiaow]

Yeah it is called practice.

The point was, someone had said that it was impossible for anyone, in any way, to do this. So I did it to prove that assertion wrong.

[halidefox]

No disrespect intended, but I really don't find this all that hard to believe. Apart from the fact that the lady got the first word wrong, it really wouldn't be that hard to memorize the keys of a keyboard once you have a reference point (eg. keyboard is in your lap, and you're looking dead at the ceiling). Prolly hard to do, but not impossible.

[silentmiaow]

I don't know why it's considered impossible either. I know lots of people who can do it.

[angielovestheclique]

I think it is really brave of you, just like it's brave of anyone, to just put yourself out there on Youtube, especially when there are jerks like Seaparamol out there. I have mostly just worked with children with autism and their struggles are different than your own... I look forward to learning more about you and your way of life from your videos.

[silentmiaow]

Autistic children are different than me because, among other things, they're children, and I'm not anymore.

[lendrumj]

You should be ashamed of yourself. She is an amazing person. Someone who is trapped in a shell but is fully functional underneath her shell of a body. Open your eyes, but you'll probably continue take your "normal" life for granted.

[ghostofxmaspast]

I bet you're a burden to your family....& the dole too.

[nisv]

she typed "this is easy" :)

[glogman]

Weird. It looks like all of the comments criticizing you were removed so only the ones criticizing the now nonexistent criticizers remain. If you don't look carefully it looks like they are criticizing you, hah. Might want to delete those as well.

[randomguy301]

I dated this one autistic girl, just to let you know she wasn't like the video...She was fit.

[DotPaulish]

The way I type, my right hand is "blind" to the left side of the keyboard and my left "blind" to the right. One handed typing I would find difficult because the hand would want to stay in its familiar domain.

[byvacantskies]

agreed

[momof2boyswithautism]

Again, I must ask- are you and the rest of your ingnorant buddies in your class- the future of our country- if so - we are all screwed. I'll be moving away- when you are old enough to have ANY power in this world.