9 Signs You are Probably NOT Autistic...

To find a sense of peace and improve your sleep, get started with Aura today for free. The first 500 people to use my link will also get 25% off + FREE trial to the Aura membership: www.aurahealth.io/imautisticnowwhat02 Hope you’ve all had a lovely week! Since filming this, I’ve lost my voice, which is sooo annoying – I have so many scripts and ideas I’m excited about that are almost ready to go!!! I need someone to make an AI voice for me 😂 Not really, because that’s scary! If you think you're autistic and don't know what to do next, this might help!: https://youtu.be/sQ102wzqaXY If you think you might be masking the fact that you're autistic, you might find this video helpful: https://youtu.be/36-K-HW3syc Thank you so much – I never imagined having such a warm, caring community behind me. The reaction to my little stimming clips in the last video was so kind. I didn’t even stress about posting it that much in the end 😂💛💛💛 And apologies that some of the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria language is not always the most flattering. ‘Restricted and repetitive behaviours’ always makes me cringe a bit. But that’s just what it is right now. I wonder how it will continue to evolve? Also, I say 'autism is genetic' at the start of the video. What I meant by this is 'being autistic does run in my family'. There's a lot we don't know about why people are autistic, but we definitely know there are genetic fac

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I'm so autistic I didn't realize I was bullied in high school until years later

I remember in primary school when the teacher asked us to stand up and pick a partner. Id always stay seated and waited for someone to come to me. It was sad looking back.

The voice thing really gets me because people use it as an excuse to invalidate your experiences like, "you don't sound poor" or "you don't sound like you're from there" as if i'm going to stop and say "oh yeah you're right I'm totally wrong about who I am and where I come from"

"Oh you crochet?" Yeah, I just really love repeating the same movement 40,000 times. It's very soothing...

“Being bullied is not a trait.” When I was young it certainly felt like one. 😂😂😂😂

I watched this video two weeks ago expecting to learn something about autistic people, but instead I got 9 punches to the gut that made me realize I am obviously autistic. I'm 40 years old and never even considered I might be neurodivergent. It's incredibly validating to suddenly have moments from my life and all my "awkward" behavior make sense, but also kind of a mindf*** to have everything about my self make sense. I find myself having childhood flashbacks at least once a day (plus some oof cringe memories as an adult). I struggled with posting a comment, but I wanted to say thank you for making content that communicates so clearly. I can't speak for anyone else, but you have changed my life.

I can't tell whether I'm autistic, I have ADHD or social anxiety, but I'm too socially anxious to go get therapy and a diagnosis, so I'll just keep spending every night forming imaginary conversations about my deepest emotions and inner thoughts and then end up on YouTube trying to stop myself from overthinking and then end up so distracted that I wake up sleep deprived after 3 hours once again.

Its absurd to me that people think autistics can't have ANY friends, like other neurodivergent people don't exist at moderate saturation. I just look for people who share my weird little vibe and i always consistently had 1 friend at any one time growing up, the OTHER weird kid in the room. I've tried and failed to have neurotypical friends so many times but it usually ends with my bluntness or black-sheepness making them upset with me. I'd rather just stick to my fellow weirdos.

I used to consider myself a chill and easy-going person because I thought those things meant you were accepting, non-judgemental, not easily annoyed or angered, or easy to get along with and I was like "yeah I relate to that" until I found out that being "chill" means you're all those things on the inside as well 😅

Not sure if anyone else can relate to this but if anyone does I’d love to know! So in regards to the bullying topic, I have very few memories of myself from the ages of 4-9 (I’m 23), in those few memories I remember being a well liked girl with lots of friends. I brought up these memories to my family one day just reminiscing about childhood until they told me that I was the complete opposite… I was constantly getting bullied at school and would be pushed, have rocks and dirt thrown at me, my hair pulled, etc when I was a kid by my classmates or anyone that I wanted to be friends with. Shocked me to the core because when they told me about it those new memories came flooding in. It was really upsetting to say the least especially how my brain just blocked it out!! So I was actually a loner my entire childhood and fabricated these so called memories of me having friends 😭 I was a loner as well in my teen years so idk why I was truly shocked….

i just spent the entire length of the video writing a comment about how i think i might be autistic and then the video ended so now i’ve lost all of it and also i’m starting to understand what people mean by saying i overexplain things in too much detail (which i still find kinda weird like i’m just making it easier for you to understand because sometimes i get told to explain more so if i always explain the entire thing i won’t need to further my point?) anyways great video thank you :))

I was recently finally able to get an autism assessment and the doctor said something along the lines of "you're autistic but you cope too well to be diagnosed with a 'real disorder'" which was... weird. I'm still trying to figure out if that was validating or invalidating, but it definitely feels like being trapped in a no-man's land where I just don't get to belong anywhere.

Pretty sure I had an autistic rat once. Poor fellow had no idea how to behave with others, and had many quirks that were very different from any other rat I've ever seen. One minute he would be snuggly sleeping with the others... and the next he would be biting them out of nowhere, probably because he suddenly wanted to be alone. He didn't understand that biting was a HUGE no-no in rat society, and after a while the other rats would just avoid the poor bugger entirely. He did not socialize with me the way pet rats typically do with their owner either, and was very peculiar about certain things in his environment that other rats don't typically have issues with.

im not diagnosed but every single clinically approved test i take online says it's extremely likely I am autistic. I love learning new things. Even if I didn't have a specific thing I was interested in at times, I would watch entire college lectures about different topics and run to my mom to tell her all the fun facts I thought were fascinating. I had a period where all I watched was ants canada for over a year

I found someone talking about their autism in 2020 which made me think that I was as well. I relate to this video so deeply. Since I am undiagnosed, I often find that I gaslight myself into thinking that I am making it up. But the more I come across other Autistic peoples experiences I realize that I am more than likely Autistic too. My childhood makes so much sense to me now. The little things that annoyed my mom so much were autistic traits I was showing. I have been masking around people for so long since then. Thank you so much for this.

On the manual thing... As a kid I did well academically but struggled socially and also with physical coordination. I remember, clear as day, standing in the school playground and watching children chat with each other effortlessly and thinking "it's okay, I'm ahead in maths, so I suppose I'm just behind here. Someone will teach me this one day too." When I got diagnosed at 23 all I could think about was tiny me, not sad, not angry, not feeling confused, absolutely certain that someone would soon notice that they had forgotten to teach me the manual and the fact that no one did.

I saw the timestamps and I genuinely thought that someone's "aura" could mean they're not autistic like "yeah no you don't have the autism ghost aura following you, I don't think you're autistic"

1. Introverted (textbook). ✔ 2. Very few friends. ✔ 3. Somewhat monotone, not very expressive. ✔ 4. Most of the time, I enjoy being alone and I do not enjoy socializing. ✔ 5. Speak oddly. ✔ 6. I stim a lot, in several ways (especially in social situations). ✔ 7. Yes, noises (even subtle ones), can really throw me off (sometimes to the point of rage). ✔ 8. I'm an artist and when I create art, I absolutely need to be alone and focus. And when people interrupt that, it tends to ruin my whole day. ✔ 9. I'm somewhat laid back but only in certain situations. However, I doubt this one is true of me. ❌ This seriously makes me wonder (now) if I'm on the spectrum.