 So, I just got yelled at for asking. So, I'm applying to go somewhere and I just wanted to know are there accommodations for people to struggle with time blindness and being, you know... And then the person I was with interrupted and acted like I was asking something else and then when we were done, they actually started yelling at me and saying that accommodations for time blindness doesn't exist. And if you struggled being on time, you'll never be able to get a job. Oh my god, that is just so unreasonable! And where is the accommodation for time laziness when you just... Again, this is a very common thread that I find with a lot of these types of reaction streamers, they make personality assumptions about people's personality based on their neurodivergency, like the difference that they have. Okay, I can imagine workplaces probably aren't too keen on individuals who struggle to keep track of time and not get into work, okay? But the reality is, in the case of both autism and ADHD, that both autistic and ADHD people have some level of executive dysfunction quite often. Meaning time, keeping track of time, sort of regular sort of executive function related things are actually a part of what the government, what part of the medical system considers to be a disability. And accommodations are given to people with disabilities in order to enable them to work. Good day and welcome to the Thomas and Lee YouTube channel. Today we are going to be looking into a video from a blaze called Tiktok Faker. How do I get autism? In quotation marks. Have a look at this, see if there's any truth to what they are talking about, or see if they're just completely mischaracterizing the autistic community. Hello spag, and I bet people don't pay attention. I know I speak to people. Shut the hell up. How do you force over-stimulation? Everyone thinks I'm not autistic because I don't get over-stimulated, and I was wondering if there was a way to force it. Thank you. Is this a joke? Like I've seen some stuff around people saying like, was it like trans-abled wanting to transition into someone who is disabled or something. But is trans-autism a thing? It seems to be pretty bizarre. Like. What exactly is that? Trans autistic is valid. Sounds a bit strange to me. I don't particularly understand this idea of trans-autism. We might have to look it up actually. Let's get the old phone out. Have a look at what exactly trans-autism is. It's called BSA, which stands for being a stupid asshole. There is a site called trans-autism. Welcome. This is an informational card which aims to provide a better understanding of trans-autism. A trans-autistic individual, it refers to someone who wants to be or acquire a form of autism. It cannot also be described as someone who feels they should acquire autism. Trans-autistic people are not necessarily autistic. They can be autistic individuals who want another form of autism. It's not how it works. What? You can't make yourself autistic. You were born autistic. I imagine that this post, it kind of looks like some form of a meme account. Like someone that's making a joke or making fun. You have a lot of this stuff kind of on Reddit and Twitter because a lot of controversial posts tend to be pushed more into popularity. I don't actually know if this person is actually wanting to become autistic when they're not autistic or not. I do want to clarify that I'm not saying that people who aren't diagnosed autistic shouldn't get a diagnosis and find out if there are autistic, but you can't make yourself autistic. You either are or you aren't. Thanks. Trans-autistic is valid. Valid, I tell you guys. No, it's not. The got awful hashtags at the end. Wow, man, I wonder why these people get faith-claimed. Yeah, guys, is there any way to force that kind of a thing? There's some people on the internet right now and they don't believe me. I don't know them personally and I really shouldn't really actually care about their opinion. But I do. I really do and they don't believe me. And now I need to force it. Do you guys know any tips and tricks on how to over-stimulate? Yeah, you can do lots of different things. Go into a busy place, play some really grating music, put a stare into a white fluorescent light, think about all the tasks that you need to do tomorrow and tell yourself that you can't and make loads of plans but then decide to change and move them about constantly. Consume large amounts of caffeine. Possibly. They think you're born autistic. No, I think that if someone is taking the trans-autism thing very seriously, the wording on that website that we came across said they want to acquire autism. Doesn't make any sense. I think they're just making fun of inclusivity in the disability activism queer feminist space would be my guess. Yeah, that's my guess as well as I think that's a good guess. And then this person is obviously like taking it seriously. Girls, welcome back to the Ablaze channel. Tell me in the comments down below what has been your favourite game that you have played this summer? Helps the algorithm and honestly it's probably going to be the funnest thing that you guys get to do this video. Isn't that going to be fun? It's winter. If you don't want to do that, tell me in the comments down below how disappointed you are with the new Red Dead Redemption port. I'm kind of pissed and I need someone to vent to I'm furious. With that being said, not as furious as I am going to be after I read this. Tips to pass an autism assessment as a highly masking person. What is with all these people wanting these disorders so badly? I know we've been covering these now for like the past two years. I think he's mixing up the method of like the idea behind this because like this person saying something like tips to pass an autism assessment as a highly masked person. The reason why someone might ask that is because they are autistic but they have learnt over many years of their life how to hide all the various parts of autism that perhaps assessors might look for and perhaps how to reverse that. I think generally like the sentiment of trying to like pass the autism assessment is probably like the wrong idea. Generally what you want to do if you have the accessibility for such a diagnosis is to go to someone who is competent at doing that and has in the past, has experienced with highly masked autistic people. Not necessarily trying to like fall the system into thinking that you're autistic. Maybe like if someone asked me that I'd probably say like go in and just try not to mask as much as you can and just like be yourself and do all this kind of autism processing stuff before you go for a diagnosis. Try and be yourself a bit more learn the ways that you have masked and try to somewhat reverse those. I'd say that that's probably the best way of going about it. I think once you try to like falsify aspect is it really falsifying though because if you're already falsifying yourself through masking you kind of it's like the opposite. I don't know. I don't know how I would word that as a highly masking person. What is with all these people wanting these disorders so badly? I know we've been covering these now for like the past two years and they really shouldn't become as a surprise. But people are now just straightforwardly just asking for advice on how to fake it until you make it. It's not like a flex. I don't understand that having autism or having something wrong with you like a disorder isn't something to be necessarily ashamed of but you definitely isn't something that you're proud about. The issues I have say being dyslexic or having head twitches and stuff. I don't want to sit there and like wear that as a badge of honor. It's just something that I don't really care about until it either just frustrates me and then I kind of get a little bit annoyed and that's really as far as that goes. I'm not going to stop. I don't think that they understand like how impactful realizing that you're autistic can be for your life. Like there's so many people who are late diagnosed or would be late diagnosed highly masking individuals who have you know for their entire lives. Kind of look down on themselves for struggling in different areas because they're trying to meet the expectations that society and other neurotypical individuals are putting on them. Suffering from all the types of things like autistic burnout which is disguised as depression. Struggling to feel connected with friends and family. Struggling to feel connected with anyone and feeling overstimulated from even the tiniest amount of social interaction. I think the reason for why people want to get confirmation that they're autistic is because a lot of people want that. It's not necessarily needed. It's not needed in like the communities online from what I've seen. It's definitely not needed here to like to self-identify autistic. But some people do want that because you know it's important and sometimes there's a lot of support that you can get or at least it opens the doors to possible support that you can get in lots of different areas. Like it's the same with like a lot of these reaction streamers. Like they will say something along the lines of like autism is like this trendy hip fashionable thing that everybody wants to be and it's just so far from the truth. In general society outside of the autistic communities like it's not really seen as like an accepted good thing. It's in fact in a lot of cases it can be seen as a negative thing. It's not necessarily saying that it can be wholly negative for individuals if you are autistic yourself. I'm just saying it's kind of this general negative thing that the mainstream kind of society thinks of autism as not necessarily kind of like a neutral difference. I can't remember where I was going with that. But they assume that and so they think that it's I think I've seeming that that's going to be like a positively reacted thing to most people in the world is a very silly idea. I think people sometimes just want validation. I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with feeling validated. Like I'd say that there is a pretty hefty amount of like validation within our chats within like the channel within the community. Like people do want validation for their experiences that they're having and not just like you know considering themselves lazy or dysfunctional or like broken. What would you categorize categorized mainstream society as I'd say I'd say that any any kind of communities outside of the autistic communities of people on on various social media places only really to be used in the context of like talking about like people who are outside of this group you know that's how I use it. And that validation is quite important because we do need that and it does take a lot of weight off our shoulders especially in like social contexts especially when it comes to like work. We do actually have a reason to why things can be hard for us and actually like we do need support in those ways. Flexing that onto other people because it's not a flex. It's not like I really worked no one's like seeing this dyslexia. I worked really hard for years guys and now I'm just reading. It wasn't easier first but once you get really reading. It's just a big flex. It's not as anything is more more embarrassing than anything else. And then treating these like first two ones. What do you mean tips to pass an autism assessment. Why kind of wish I found the post originally. Because I can imagine you go one or two ways. Sometimes people post this type of stuff and then other people actually help them in the comments and don't see anything wrong with this. Even though it just gives a bad rep to other people because now they're going to learn this and give these tips in their tiktok acting like they know what it's like to have that when they have no idea and just spread misinformation and the circle just continues. All these people going like oh now you think you're a mermaid. You thought you were a hawk a few months ago. They're going to go bonkers when they find out about now. She's a lizard. Oh my God. Congratulations. That is actually so amazing. Guys. They're now altering as a lizard. That's insane. And when I watch stuff like this it really baffles me on why people say that. I thought this is going to be a video solely about autism. They seem to have in sort of inserted some things related to DID as well. I'm not. I don't really feel like I have well I definitely don't have experience but I don't really feel like I have a massive amount of knowledge when it comes to DID. But I've had some people in the chat sort of last time that we came across something like this. If you do have anything to rebuke this please chime up. The All Seeing Guy says I can't find anyone to officially diagnose me as on the spectrum. People I know including psychologists think I am. But the psychologist isn't qualified to diagnose me. Psychologists can give diagnosis in the US. Yeah but they do need to go through some like training. I don't think the training is actually like that long though. So maybe ask them if they could do that. Or at least they could give you some level of like a referral or a letter kind of explaining it to take to a diagnosis session. Do you got a session? Something of that nature. Maybe that could be a good way of doing it. They're faking. Like they said that they're a lizard. Like just believe them and the whole crowd goes wild bro. Oh wow that is actually amazing. She is now a lizard. These are the people that are the problem. I'm just saying I'm popular opinion. You're telling me you thought you were a hawk a few days ago. Now you're a mermaid and now she's a what lizard. I wonder why this gets a bad rep because of you guys. You get angry at me for being offensive. They're the most offensive ones in this group. Do you have disrespectful that is to say stuff like this for the people that actually go through this and then have the audacity. Not the recording software but actual audacity. I like I like how individuals like this who just like have no sort of feed into like these communities are not a part of them. Feel like they can talk for us like dude. I am autistic. I was diagnosed when I was 10. I am definitely autistic and it is not like the first thing that they were talking about with the masking stuff. Like it's not it's not inherently offensive for someone to ask something like that. You know audacity to come at me and be like that a blaze guy man. He is offensive. We need to take down his channel right now. I cannot believe that Papa ablaze would say this. Obviously they don't call me that because only the cool ones call me that but they're the most offensive ones in the first place. Absolutely delusional. I wondered what fainting feels like. I'm so glad I've never passed out before. Let me guess now she's going to be passing out all the time because she watched her. How do I pass out tutorial? There it is. Me now. Five times a day. You know what they say. Maybe the context of this video might be that they actually do have a condition which causes them to faint. And maybe it's kind of drawing. I don't know. The thing is I would really love if this guy would give some context to the people that they're talking about. Give us some idea of what their story is like. Are they a page that's talking about narcolepsy or something of that nature. I don't know if you would consider narcolepsy or some kind of fainting related disorder. Maybe they are. I don't know. So they keep the doctor away. So again a five a day guys. That's great. Now I will say this. More impressive than the fact that she was wondering what fainting feels like and now all of a sudden she faints five times a day. I mean that's a little bit odd. But what's even odder than that is that she just can she manages to capture every single one of them. That is amazing. I'm so happy for her. Like I mean you got a post if it happens right. Otherwise it doesn't exist. For real. What are the actual odds of someone suddenly having the ability to faint. I feel like yes. Absolutely. That's high. But that can't happen. But the fact that they've now managed to record every single one of them do consistently have your phone open and you're just like now it's going to be a moment. Also not even to acknowledge it just how fake they look. I feel like you're well within your right. You guys if you're watching. I think a lot of people who make videos like this like even even if they do these things. I mean probably the fainting one. I don't really know the context of it. People who do these types of reactions like autistic people. I stim. You know. But if I was going to make a video about stimming I would stim even if I didn't need to just to show like what the stimming is like. If that makes sense. So it's somewhat acting but it is still reality in a sense. That's sometimes the way that people make videos like this. You're watching this right now and you're thinking they looked a little fake. Yes. They did. I hate that this is such a popular thing. I will say one thing though. It seems like the subreddit has been dying massively as of late. And I really can't say that's a bad thing. I'm not sat here being upset by that. But there was one clip I saw about a week ago. You guys sent me. I've been meaning to react to this because it is actually just fucking upset. Like we look at some loonies for sure on this channel. Absolutely. There's no denying that. I would say 90% of the people that we look at are a little bit crazy. Probably 100% but hey. This person is generally upset because jobs don't accommodate what she likes to call time lossness or something which is absolutely upset. Basically she's just bad at time management and jobs should absolutely accommodate to her. She's not the problem. They are actually amazed that she's managed to twist that in such a way to have found it to not be helpful. I got to give credit where credit is true. That's kind of impressive. But guys this is right down my alley. So let's just watch it. So I just got yelled at for asking. So I'm applying to go somewhere and I just wanted to know are there accommodations for people to struggle with time blindness and being you know. And then the person I was with interrupted and acted like I was asking something else and then when we were done they actually started yelling at me and saying that accommodations for time blindness doesn't exist. And if you struggled being on time you'll never be able to get a job. Oh my god that is just so unreasonable. And where is the accommodation for time laziness when you just. Again this is a very common thread that I find with a lot of these types of reaction streamers they make personality like assumptions about people's personality based on their neurodivergency like the difference that they have. OK I can imagine workplaces probably probably aren't too keen on individuals who struggle to keep track of time and not get into work OK. But the reality is in the case of both autism and ADHD that both autistic and ADHD people have some level of executive dysfunction quite often. Meaning time keeping track of time sort of regular sort of executive function related things are actually a part of what the government what part of the medical system considers to be a disability. And accommodations are given to people with disabilities in order to enable them to work. So this time losslessness it is a part of executive dysfunction and executive dysfunction is quite a common part of autism and ADHD. So that is probably the reason why they are so upset because it's not actually something that they can control. If perhaps they had accommodations which you know if there was perhaps they need to get on work and there was someone within the organization who could be like OK well I'm kind of coming through your parts on the way to work I'll pick you up on the way or something of that nature. That would be a great accommodation that would really really help a lot of people who struggle with with executive dysfunction yet sometimes they might struggle to be ready on time for that car. But it is some level of an accommodation that the organizations can make. It doesn't mean don't like pay them even though they're not showing up to work and they only show up to work for like two hours when they should be there for like eight hours or something like that. I don't think that's that's what they're talking about. I think it's more like half an hour or 15 minutes or like 10 minutes. Sometimes people with executive function can really really struggle with that timeliness is such a horrible struggle. Time blindness. It's it's it's a part of being autistic at ADHD quite often. You know like it's not a personality trait. They're not lazy like in terms of the medical system the medical model this person this is an aspect of someone's disability and accommodations are there to help disabled people get into work. But we also can get caught up doing work and forget to leave like I sometimes do. Exactly. Exactly. It's the same thing. It works both ways. It's not because they don't want to go to work is because transitioning from anything to anything else tends to be quite difficult and setting boundaries for time and predicting the amount of time that things might take. It can be hard. It can be difficult. When people and myself didn't know I was autistic accommodations were made for me. That's really good to hear us. I'm glad I'm glad that that's that's happened for you. But again I can understand to someone on the outside but perhaps doing a little bit research just typing in on Google timeless timelessness seeing executive functioning you know connecting that to all the other types of you know it can even be something related to like depression and such is that an excuse for someone not show up to work probably not but is there anything that your organization can do to help them with that or at least give them a bit more of a leniency when it comes to very minor amounts of time or perhaps say to them as an accommodation okay so you know I sometimes will perhaps not show up on time all the time because of my disability obviously it's going to be dependent on the type of work that someone's doing but they could also say okay so if I if I turn up early or if I turn up late rather I will go to sleep go to sleep if I turn up late I would go to sleep if I turn up late then I will go home for the for the set amount of time that I missed you know accommodations it's obviously going to be dependent on the organization but you know I found nobody who accommodates time blindness or remembering appointments yeah it's crazy like you have things which are like related to medical settings related to like depression if you're getting help if you have like a disability appointment and if you if you're late by like five minutes because you're autistic and you struggle with executive functioning and time blindness they're like nope you got to be on time I'm like I'm here to try and get support help this is everything everyone has like the days of planned out and I understand like planning and schedules and like the people involved probably needed needs some like heads up on like what's going to happen and you know they only have a limited time during the day but man some people can just be very very sort of iron fist about stuff like this and it can really reduce our ability to like as you said make appointments hold down a job if it's something like related to teaching where you've got to be like there to look after the kids I can understand that you know but it really depends on the organization you know adjustments are reasonable you just don't show up at all let me guess there's probably not any accommodation for that either what kind of a well do we living that makes me angry guys you know me you make me angry yeah that does that makes me mad I can't believe it you're telling me that they're not going to accommodate for you not going to work on time now that is I've heard it all that is absolutely appalling what is with this new generation bro like me included but people like this just bring down the whole generation as a whole Gen Z just dropped like minus 10 points after she uploaded this what is wrong with you and she's upset she's actually upset at them that is absolutely like my yes the fact that you think you perhaps have a conversation with them about it but shouting at them because of asking for accommodations around their disability it's just it's just not okay like have a conversation about it perhaps like and and sort of talk about the job that they're going for and maybe it might not not align for them a little bit but damn you can go to work later not arrive on time and you're mad at them because they're not going to accommodate that like getting a job and working isn't some kind of like fun summer camp that you pay for did you imagine the people that would absolutely abuse that for five minutes five minutes to the end of your shift sorry I guess I lost track of time doing what exactly as well watching Netflix I was watching tiktoks and I just didn't keep an eye on the time I'm sorry but I should get paid for that absolutely upset bro you know provided you're trying your absolute and then I like your stupid generation wants to destroy the workplace and yeah I think that a culture where workers are just cut off because they struggle being on time when there's other solutions that we can look to I think that just anybody who thinks it's okay to just treat people like that yeah that culture needs to be a little bit confused on the end there are you arguing the fact that you are agreeing with them saying yes that is actually ridiculous and you kind of state the solution to your problem at the end which basically want to scratch my head even more so time management you need better time management yeah that was you need better time management well thanks for stating the obvious sorry but I have a disability that affects my time management just just stop being autistic to stop having executive dysfunction makes complete sense he seems bitter and insecure gosh this guy appears to be the definition of compassion less it is viewing things from a very neuro normative lens you know is not it doesn't understand it that's the thing that annoys me the most like if he understood it and then he could argue against the reasons that would be better but he just doesn't understand it at all and he's making these wild characterizations of someone who is literally being shouted at for being disabled I can understand why they're crying I was dumb and then the whole culture needs to be dismantled if they can't arrive on time yes I said at the beginning you're really dragging your whole generation down there and giving it a very bad rep and stigma behind already Genzi and millennials to be known as being lazy and I kind of agree we kind of are definitely obviously a lot of is to do well we had in the in the video where we're reviewing that streamer reaction person pan show and they were characterizing autistic people into the label of woke this guy is characterizing in the the label of Genzi you know not just disabled people autistic people is just a pick yourself by the bootstraps simpleton yeah there's no there's no like nuance to it at all it's just completely emotional kind of like hate filled when I hate filled I think that's that's a bit too hyperbolic of me to say but just like a just general ignorance and a platform which encourages him to make more of them I would say with it just being so much easier nowadays and the way you kind of grown up we didn't really have those struggles at the beginning like our parents did anyway but now to want even further accommodation for those who are extra lazy is hilarious I know it's like everyone else laziness not her not you're gonna you're gonna suggest one second that she is the problem like what I would you want like a free job and wish you don't even have to work well yes actually that would that would be ideal yes yeah that's not happening boy boy was that funny hey guys hope you had a fantastic day boy oh boy was that funny can I can I say anything say anything else on that my god why is this guy doing the level of ignorance that these reaction people have is just absurd I do like even do a quick Google search something like that I'm not even asking them to get like a do like a full course on understanding autism and ADHD and things of that nature but do a quick Google search understand what adjustments are and why they're there like jeez