 All right, let's go for this. This might be an interesting one. Or Autism Spectrum Disorder is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder that may include impairments and social interaction, developmental language and communication skills. Oh my God, this guy is like using all of the red flags and stuff like the videos, but I'm sure it'll be nice because there is actually going to be spending a day with autistic people. So that could be interesting. Registry says yes it did. I think the point you made about emotions is super helpful. Help me understand what's going on. Yeah, it can feel very much like sometimes it just doesn't exist, but you just feel like generally down. Just like thinking about the same thing, but not really like connecting the two. I find that a lot. Form of childhood schizophrenia and the result of cold parenting, the definition of autism has majorly. The cold parenting is like the refrigerator of a hypothesis. I think Dr. Professor Temple Graham did actually like to spell that myth. But just just be aware that the things that I watch are not necessarily this is saying this is the best way to represent autism. I mean, they have jokes or pieces in the background. Which is not always the best. But it used to be, I think there was like a few scientists. I was reading a book about it called New Ray Tribes, and they were talking about like. What? Yeah, they were saying that like some German scientists, I think, thought that it was like schizophrenia related autism. And it is actually, to be honest, misdiagnosed quite a bit. I think some of the behaviors might be quite similar in terms of unaware psychology people. All over the last six decades, as people have begun to understand autism more. My name is Anthony Padilla. And today I'm going to be sitting down with people on the autism spectrum to learn the truth behind this often overlooked and misunderstood disorder. Should autism be accepted as a standard difference rather than a disorder? Or should society be doing everything in its power to discover a cure for this neurodivergence? I've got a hot take. Why don't we just like leave it up to the actual like actually autistic people to decide this rather than asking this question? Such a vast amount of the population. Do those on the spectrum feel blessed to have the ability to view the world in a truly unique and heightened way that neurotypical or elistic people could never imagine? Or is being on the spectrum on immense hindrance they wish they could get rid of in order to perceive the world like everyone else? I suppose this is for like a mainstream audience. Are you like proud of their disorder? Or do they hide in the shadows of society, overwhelmed with immense guilt and shame surrounding the hand they were dealt? Hi, Anjala. Hey, Richard. Hi, Jasmine. Hi. Thank you so much for coming out and teaching me about the wondrous Yes, it's a little bad for me. So what do you consider yourself? Autistic, someone with autism on the spectrum? I consider myself autistic, an autistic person. Most of the time for those that are a bit more familiar. I repping that identity first language to be on the spectrum. I like to say that I have autism because it's more of just the whole it's not me and it's just something that I have. I don't want it to be me when I. That's that's an interesting one, because that that's like a hot kind of topic. Like on the one side, I think, you know, it's always a really weird line to walk when I'm doing like my social media posts and things like that. Because on the one hand, I do have my own view of autism and I would, you know, I love person first, identity first language. But then then again, like really the whole movement of autistic people speaking out for themselves. It is like it should be about that person, what that person actually wants in terms of referring to themselves, you know, like, I think that would be really interesting. Zachary Ansel says, I want to make a movie about autistic adults, but it's a dark comedy because we can be funny AF most of the time anyway. Yeah, we also have like our own like weird ways of humor. Like one of my ways of delivering humor is taking things literally when you shouldn't. Like and some people who know me and they know that I'm autistic, they're like, did you really understand that? Is that just this kind of something that you just said that off the cuff and you don't actually understand what's going on? And I'm like, no, no, I was just trying to be funny. And they just don't get it. Whereas if you do that with autistic people, they're like, ah, I see what you're doing now. So I was going to do this video. There was a lot of people that were saying that I should refer to autistic people as people with autism and not autistic people. Are you- It's a lot of healthcare and social providers. I think both of those are fine with me. I really don't have a preference. It's pretty casual with it. Yeah. That's some of the view that I think is pretty, pretty cool, pretty good, you know, just whatever kind of suits you during the conversation. I understand that. Personally, I feel like it just keeps my identity. What does having autism entail? And it's more of just a social disorder. I don't get a lot of social cues. There'll be times where I'm, for example, with narratives. But I wouldn't be like not listening. I like to multitask. I like to do these things like that. So it's almost like your brain's running too fast and it wants to see other things? Yes, yes. I know socially, when you're talking to someone, you have to look at them directly, but I- Yeah, I see that. Is that correct? That doesn't come naturally. Yeah, it's not easy. I think being autistic means you have- I don't know what I'm saying. Yeah, I'm definitely gonna have to get the premium at some point. Two in a row. That is really juicy, mostly, yeah. We have more hurdles to go. Bigger hurdles, more hurdles. Everything's a bit more difficult. So everything is just a track with a bunch of hurdles in the way and you're constantly trying to jump over them. Exactly. Being autistic is a different way of thinking. Our brains work differently than the average human being. The way we process things- I'm probably gonna mute it when it's come on to server that I'm too young. Other people wouldn't typically be interested in math or chemistry or art and we get super focused on those before we learn- I think to be honest, from speaking to a lot of autistic people, it tends less to be about the stem fields that people have interest in. It tends to be a lot about, well, it can be things like biology. You see, we like the sharp girls and stuff online. But it can also be like, a lot of the time, fantasy and art and like creative things. That's just like what I've seen. About the wondrous world of autism, I just wanted to introduce you to the newest addition to our set. This was meticulously hand-painted by Rihanna Robles. She did an incredible job looking sexy. If I do say so myself, let's give a huge, huge round of applause to Rihanna Robles for this amazing job. This one's for you. Now back to learning about the wondrous world of autism. Do you consider autism to be a hindrance in your day-to-day life? I used to think it was, but now I think it's an advantage because I coped with my autism by social isolation and that gave me the opportunity to get better at the things that I like to do. For example, painting and riding a bike because I can do those things by myself and they treat me like I'm not as good as them or not as smart as they are, but I feel like I'm a normal person sometimes. I think I used to, but when adapting, I now thought of it as a positive thing because I wouldn't be who I am. It used to be a hindrance when I was a little kid. Now it's more just another thing, just another exception. Yeah, I think that's probably what I like. I think it's just having a different brain. It's not necessarily good or bad. I think depending on whether you've adapted your life to something that makes sense for you or not, I think that's probably the most important thing. Then you can kind of see some of the positives of it. You've just got to be able to pull up some of your deficits through the way that you live, the way that you work, things like that. But overall for me, I'd probably sit somewhere in the middle of positive to neutral, positive to negative, rather. Probably tilt it a little bit more towards the positive side of things just because of the acceptance of the awareness stuff that I do. I'm going to open the window now because it's absolutely roasting in here because of my PC. Let's dive back in. So there's a spectrum with autism. What that spectrum is. I only know that I'm high functioning autism. How does having autism affect your day-to-day life? Well, I'm seemingly normal on the outside but on the inside I'm different than the average person. I get bullied from it. Where the autism creates that? What specifically do people bully you for? Usually it's the way that I talk or look around when I was a kid. The high functioning autism thing. I wish they wouldn't have brought up. I understand that this is for a mainstream audience. For them understanding what autism is. I don't know if I view it in exactly that way. I either see people as autistic or not. If they have a lot of support needs they struggle with a lot of things in daily life. They usually have a diagnosis like a learning disability as well. I don't know if you can really separate them out of different types of autism. It just doesn't make sense to me. Maybe if we knew a little bit more about the actual biology and how it comes about and what an autistic brain exactly looks like and why it looks like that then maybe we can make that assumption but not for me at the moment. I got bullied for everything. The way that dress and there's this one math teacher who used to get so mad at me and do my homework but I was just a kid. I didn't realize how important homework was. And so you'd have the other students make sure that I wouldn't be able to play with them during recess until they'd trip me with the jump rope and... The student that the teacher asked to watch... Kids can be savage at school. A teacher told a kid to make sure you were miserable during recess. The world was against me just for existing. I would feel like that too. Absolutely. That's tough. I think about it every single day. Just blatant ableism. I thought there was nothing wrong with me. When I switched schools and they still bullied me at the other school I was like, there's something wrong with me now. I was almost... They just see us as a target, I think. They didn't test me for ADD and it kept coming out negative. All I remember as a kid was pulling me out of classes to test me on stuff. I'm like, why are they doing this to me? I just went into the office and he asked social questions. Do I walk into a room and feel like everybody's staring at me? He just watched my behavior a little bit when I was talking. After an hour she turned to my mom and said, well mom, she has autism. She started bawling her eyes out. Was she happy or sad? She treated me wrong all these years. My dad too, my dad was crying. How did they treat you? Zachary says something I've noticed with a lot of autistic people I'm friends with is they're either ridiculously good looking or not. Am I the only one who sees this? I haven't seen that. I think it tends to vary just as much as most people in my opinion. Maybe it's like because obviously looks do play a factor in social standings, particularly with school and stuff. If you're attractive you probably have a bit more of a chance of making it in the social world at that age. Or even just life in general, that whole halo effect and stuff. I imagine that more attractive people might generally have a better experience with life which may make them a bit more sociable and outgoing maybe possibly. I thought they were pretty nice with me. I personally wasn't cognitive about it until I was much much later into my life, probably around 14-15 when I was able to actually understand that I'm autistic more than I have autism. I think it was probably around the age of 8 or 9 that I was like hey, I'm a bit different to these other children kitties working about and playing and all that. That's when I noticed it. It was only until my early 20s that I started to really research it as more than just social and sensory things. Telling family, I didn't speak until I was 4. I went to doctors and all that kind of stuff and they told them that I was diagnosed with autism. What was that like when you found out? I didn't really understand it. I just didn't know what it meant. I didn't know what that means because it's not like I know what it means to be normal. No, it's not taught. I wish it was taught. I didn't see anything wrong with me at all. When I was growing up, I had an aide. I thought it was just everyone had an aide. You didn't notice that other people did not have aides? Yeah, I did. Oh, I didn't. That's not what I meant. I'm going to go ahead and cancel myself right now. Can you explain sensory sensitivities with autism are? For me, it's mostly sounds. It's like who says that again, I have a weird taste in looks. I think Daniel Craig, Jung Jackson, and even Elon Mosker kind of are. Whereas they say Tom Cruise does nothing for me. Yeah, I think if I was attracted to men, it probably might go to someone like Jason Momoa. Just because of how alternatively and badass he looks. I think that's more of like an appreciation on my side. Rachel Sears says teachers used to tell me I had trouble with eye contact and socializing, but nothing was ever done. I learned to be normal and make eye contact. Yeah, that whole masking thing is like they kind of gaslight you into doing things that are not good for you and that go against who you are, but at the same time tell you to be yourself and do all that stuff. It's very conflicting information I would say, especially in my experience. You can find that conflicting information everywhere though. Loud noises, but someone talking on the phone in the room next to me, or the dark one at the street, or maybe my neighbors hammering a table or something. So it's like a mental sensory stuff it's more just like a mental fixating on certain. Yeah, I heard about someone saying about auditory claustrophobia. That's something that I heard. I think it was undercover orty on Instagram I posted some reels about it. You know, it's kind of like the cumulation of background noise in like busy public spaces. That really drives my anxiety through the roof. Yeah, exactly that too. It sounds a lot like and I'm not saying it's exact same thing, but it sounds a lot like when I'm having a panic attack I get those seriously. You get those too? Yeah. And you focus on one thing and you feel like it's just overwhelming. Yeah. I get that. 24 hours a day. I didn't want to. I think like Zach says I'm surprised more autistic people don't go into show business because Maski is basically acting. I think they probably do. I think once one sort of it's like a mainstream thing and we get rid of all like the annoying stigma behind it then maybe that might might be the case that we do that. I do actually I have a podcast with a guy called Reggie on the 4040 podcast that you can check out if you like and he's an actor. Weird thing is he never gets given autism roles. Like they won't give him autism role because of how he looks. He's a very handsome chap and he likes his musicals and things like that but he always gets like casters like this jockish character because of the way he looks. It's really interesting just how much like specificity they have on what roles they want them to fill looking for some light, nerdy, white kind of perhaps stereotypically unattractive person to play an autistic person. It's kind of screwed up but I think that's the way they go with like tight casting and stuff. Zach says sometimes I wonder how much of what being called hearing loss is more of audio processing issue in the brain including autistic people. Well it is well like I do know that in childhood is definitely like a misdiagnosis that occurs quite commonly. I think it's something to do with like recognising that someone's speaking and looking at them. But yeah, I'd say that too. Especially in like busy places it's really hard to concentrate on what someone's saying. You feel like you're having a panic attack 24 hours a day? Well sometimes it's worse than that when you're actually faint and that's way too frequent. You'll faint from the anxiety that you feel? Yeah. Do you go through life proud of your autism or do you kind of keep it more of a secret? I mean I guess for me personally because I'm higher functioning actually most people won't even recognise me that I'm on the spectrum. I remember when I first was coming out on Facebook a lot of the comments I would get but I'm so great to hear your story and it's inspiring to see those hurdles. It takes a lot of courage because it's an invisible disorder. It's really hard to tell unless you actually get to know the person. At first I was ashamed about it. I tried to keep it hidden. I even tried to commit to myself that I wasn't autistic but now I'm a self advocate for it and I'm trying to help other people that have it. Do you ever feel like people underestimate what your patron is? Yeah. They underestimate intelligence and capability and the ability to play sports and draw. That's the thing like it's not necessarily connected to our abilities, the social stuff and people naturally assume that if you are competent at something that you're going to have good social skills and you're going to have that charisma and stuff and there's a lot of people who make it in the working world just because they have that charisma that's just natural like socialized and we just kind of get left in the dust a little bit. It's the same issue that comes across with interviews and stuff for work. It's quite sad because there's a lot of people with a lot of amazing skills that are just waiting to be used and harnessed and improving businesses and so many areas but we just don't get tapped into. We see it as like a charity effort. I feel like I'm a good athlete in some ways. So people will say like wow you can drive you're autistic I didn't know you could drive. Why do you have your license? You have autism. I'm not blind. How do you think people without autism should interact with people who are on the spectrum? Treat us normally. I keep using normal. Treat us like... Like you would anyone else? Treat us like how you would treat anyone else. Be aware that the fact that we do have a mental disability No, we don't have a mental disability. It is narrative about mental. It's not a mental disability. Zachary says I reached out to that filmmaker dude from your documentary I killed to make movies but I just don't know how. How to start, who to reach out, who where to go. You can find a lot of information about doing that stuff on YouTube. I would say. It's not an easy thing. It kind of feels like when you watch something on YouTube that it's kind of, they just did some shoots they put it together and they just flicked between the cameras but there's a lot to do with it. There's so much that goes into making videos and making films and stuff. You should check out my documentary that I did. It's part of my thing. I left what he's saying until he said the word mental disability. Yeah, well some people have learning disabilities and autism. But, like it's definitely not. Some of the most talented and intelligent people I talk to have been autistic so I wouldn't say that it's like a mental disability. We do have autism but don't be changing the way you speak, the way you act honestly speaking you're more more personal. I get what he's saying but I get what he's saying. You want to treat them like anyone else you meet. You would interact with them the same way and treat them with respect and all that kind of thing. I think to a certain extent understanding how we communicate and the ways that stuff can come across that doesn't actually mean certain things like not making eye contact might be perceived as being quite insecure or unconfident. Shifty, not interested in what you're saying. Just being aware of little things like that I think are really important because if they were just to go up to you with like no knowledge of autism like a zip like nothing and they start having a conversation with you like they would with most people they'd make a lot of judgements very quickly and I think being able to be aware of those misconceptions and judgements that people have is quite important for like integrating autistic people. But I do get the sentiment of what he's saying. It's like he says being brunt most of the time not driving or living in an area where movies don't get made doesn't help. True, true. I don't drive. I have a driving license, I don't drive. So it's excellent for me. Yeah, I mean you can start. I mean I had a very I had an iPad I did use Final Cut Pro but yeah I suppose you could probably do it on iMovie. There'll be a lot of stuff out there that you can use as like a setting stone. You know, you might just want to try it out as just like a off the cuff kind of thing. See if you like doing the see if you like the process you actually like editing it and things like that because that's very important if you're wanting to do it as like a career. It comes to talking to me when it comes to it and that's good because even though you're addressing the fact that I have autism you're not like changing anything you're not changing the way you act I've seen other videos with you in it and you're the same person the way you talk to other people versus me Do you find that some people will just automatically change the way they talk? Yeah, the baby voices. The baby voices the infantilization I think I know what he's saying. Of course. I didn't find that at least the only difference that I see is there's less eye contact but that doesn't bother me especially because I understand what it is that you know I think the world is a little bit different. What are your thoughts regarding the idea that some people have that autism is caused by vaccination? Yeah I don't like using my word but I've been taught by my mother not to say the word hate That's the one thing Well yeah, it's just like absolutely rubbish. It's ridiculous. It's like with that first we know when I was talking earlier about like autism and vaccinations with that whole... I think it's something that I saw about on social media about like Joe Rogan saying something about like 5G I don't know if anyone's got the video for that or the link to that but I'd probably want to watch that This balls is rubbish Andrew Wakefield Let's pause that The widespread fear that vaccines increase risk of autism that originated in the 1997 study that's weird, that's my birthday published by Andrew Wakefield a British surgeon the article was published in the Lancet prestigious medical journey suggesting that measlemonts and rubella and marv vaccine was increasing autism in British children The paper has since been completely discredited due to serious procedural errors disclosed financial conflicts of interest and ethical violations Wakefield lost his medical license and the paper was redacted and it still stays along after all this time craziness still talked about and on top of that first of all even if it did cause autism why is having... Your stream is starting to hitch Is it still like not doing that good Cynthia Wagner wants to know what you think society could be doing to better serve people with autism It's okay if you can't understand it I'm not expecting you to understand 100% of everything that goes down with autism Let's reduce the I'm gonna reduce the quality by a little bit I have it, other people have it too so just be mindful that it exists for a day to everyone doesn't understand autism and maybe doesn't want to take the time to understand autistic people Autism is not an excuse to misbehave it's not a learning disability it's not social anxiety it's just simply a different way of thinking and a different way of experiencing the world I actually have a parting gift like that Best interviewer's shirt for you you can get that at FadildoShop.com Wait, is he being serious? Just like Anthony Padilla Like, seriously, please Yeah, please Thanks, man Alright, you got 5 seconds to shout out or promote anything you want directly in the camera, go You can find me on Facebook or Instagram at NielaFields, I'm very boring It's just my regular name I'm in a non-profit documentary and you can check out the website at autismghostacollege.org My name is Wilbot Richie on everywhere Wilbot Richie, one word on YouTube and Instagram Thank you so much, Jasmine I feel like I understand the wondrous world of autism just a little bit more, thank you After spending the day with these autistic people I've come to realize just how much we could learn from the way they perceive it You know, that's right, Wilbot She want to be doing more to spread awareness and education on disorders like autism so we can understand and appreciate those who are different from the perceived norm You know, I know that it doesn't really understand a lot about the terminology and autism stuff but I appreciate that he's done something like that I think it was as tasteful as I would expect, especially considering it was like three years ago