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28 Dec 2018, 11:06 am

I've got some free time and would like to spend it learning more about ASD from YouTube videos. Ted talks seem pretty superficial from what I've seen, a lot of it being sensational, but Tony Attwood has a decent number of videos on YouTube from conferences and talks and these are really useful, I find. Even if you might say they're geared towards NTs who have to deal with us, since I'm not always aware what is wrong with me, I really appreciate learning how NTs see us.

Could you recommend some informative gold mines on YouTube to dig into?



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28 Dec 2018, 11:27 am

When I was first learning about autism I found this channel helpful;
https://www.youtube.com/user/neurowonderful/videos
This guy uploads far more often and is very helpful;
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVGeVH ... 36MmR86gzw


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28 Dec 2018, 11:34 am

Awesome i will check it out. I also like annamoomin on YouTube and theaspieworld. I've found those channels very helpful.


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28 Dec 2018, 12:14 pm

I've never found any videos about high functioning autism that I liked much, but there's the parenting autism side of Youtube for moderate and severe forms. Many of the autism family vloggers post informational videos that are pretty thorough and focus on one specific aspect or symptom of autism at a time. I prefer these over the more "professionally-generated" videos, because the latter tend to focus on the stereotypical traits rather than the more common individualized experience of autism. Zooming out from something so broad as the autism spectrum, things become pretty generalized. The same goes for the videos made by high functioning autistics. It always feels like it's just touching the surface of autism and expounding on the same broadly categorized symptoms. Regarding specific channels, I've watched some of Kevin Chapman's videos and enjoyed them.


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28 Dec 2018, 1:07 pm

I don't like The Aspie World. It's just a personality thing. He bugs me.

Ask An Autistic on youtube I found interesting when I first started researching. She's calming to me and easy for me to listen to. She is very anti Autism Speaks and has an opinion that autistic children shouldn't be taught to emulate NT behaviors if they're counter to their natural behaviors. I found her opinions interesting.



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28 Dec 2018, 1:35 pm

Magna wrote:
I don't like The Aspie World. It's just a personality thing. He bugs me.

Ask An Autistic on youtube I found interesting when I first started researching. She's calming to me and easy for me to listen to. She is very anti Autism Speaks and has an opinion that autistic children shouldn't be taught to emulate NT behaviors if they're counter to their natural behaviors. I found her opinions interesting.


She's one of the people I linked


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28 Dec 2018, 1:38 pm

^^ Cool.



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28 Dec 2018, 2:56 pm

The AnMish channal

This video of hers was of enormous help when I was first diagnosed


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28 Dec 2018, 5:56 pm

It seems that a lot of the autism videos I see from so-called high functioning people are of the "I have no filter and I don't care (sanitized version) what you think. I'm a jerk." (again, the sanitized version). I hate those videos. There are a lot of nice people struggling with some difficult situation or another, and these aggressive people make it hard for the nice ones.



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28 Dec 2018, 5:57 pm

There are very many decent videos by people with high-functioning autism.

There's a member here who puts up videos. By the name of Dylanperr. He's only 14-15 years old.