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The Autism Constellation
🕑 Added 2024-03-14 17:48:23 +0000 UTCI have grown from an autistic child who needed weekly lessons from a childhood psychiatrist in order to learn how to make eye contact, into an autistic adult who is flying high in an aeroplane made out of comprehensive coping mechanisms.
The way I have made sense of my life, is to find repeated patterns and groupings of traits, the same as we do for the night sky. There does appear to be a unifying autistic core trait, however, which surprised me:
Detail-oriented thinking.
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This video was SO DIFFICULT TO WRITE! Such a varied and nuanced condition, which we still know so little about. However, I don't need to know the underlying cause to build and test strategies, scientifically and obsessively.
Hope it's informative folks, I'd love to hear what you think!
Tris :-)
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EDIT 2024-03-15
aka "Video1COPYCOPYCOPY(1)FINAL.mp4" !
Apologies all, there were a LOT of visual errors in the first version, please accept my apologies and this re-edit. It's almost the same script, so you don't need to watch again unless you like shiny new graphics.
While making these changes I discovered, and then got very over-excited with, the Advanced Slides background customisation - it accepts a transparency value!
<!-- slide bg="[[autism-infinity.png]]" data-background-opacity="0.1" -->
I then did what anyone would do, and put in a subtle background image at 10% transparency to indicate which of the 3 chapters in the video each slide is. Good? Bad? Distracting? Helpful?
Thank you so much, Tris
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No Boilerplate
Of course! I'm overwhelmed by the response to this, and that I can now do this full-time, and not chase adverts (which would mean no Autism video!). Thank you so much for your support :-)
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I'm so pleased it's useful. The two books I linked at the end of the video are both INCREDIBLE, if you've not read them, I'd highly recommend them :-)
Leon Settels
You a G for making 1$ the minimum so that many people can fund something big for you with something small
Jason
I have a young daughter with autism, I appreciated this, it gave me a better idea of how her perspective differs.
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So glad it resonates with you - I get so annoyed with myself if I make the same mistake twice, I use this technique all the time!
Anastasia Middleton
As another Software Developer slowly figuring out in adulthood that she fits a lot of the autistic elements, the incident report is a tool I so didn't think about bringing home from work to use in this instance. I'm absolutely going to be taking that advice, thanks~
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Oh I bet it has. I mentioned it in passing as a trait folks would be familiar with - do you think it's important to switch up my language here?
Winter O. Discontent
Excellent video btw, didn’t mean to nitpick. Now I’d love to see you do one on Apophenia, for counterpoint.
Winter O. Discontent
8:34 you say Superpower when you meant Disability (sorry: hypersensitivity to contradictory data is another symptom 🙂)
Bryan Lott
Fantastic video. Only bit of (minor, nitpicky) feedback is that I *believe* the concept of "learning styles" has been debunked. Happy to be proven wrong though!
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Apologies all, there were a LOT of visual errors in the first version, please accept my apologies and this re-edit. It's almost the same script, so you don't need to watch again unless you like shiny new graphics. While making these changes I discovered, and then got very over-excited with, the Advanced Slides background customisation - it accepts a transparency value! I then did what anyone would do, and put in a subtle background image at 10% transparency to indicate which of the 3 chapters in the video each slide is. Good? Bad? Distracting? Helpful? Thank you so much!
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Thank you so much, it's my pleasure! I highly recommend reading Unmasking Autism to understand more, especially with family affected. :-)
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Thank you!
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Thank you for letting me know! apologies, there's a few formatting errors, I'm correcting now, will swap the video in about an hour.
Csala Bálint
Great video, question tho, is the weird numbering around 13:18 intentional? I assume it's some kind of joke that I missed.
Tim Urian
Well done!
J
Thank you for this video, Tris. My daughter and her mom are both autistic and this sheds light on how they experience the world. I think autism definitely can be a superpower instead of being seen as a problem, so long as individuals know themselves and how their minds work.
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# What I Mean when I Say I'm Autistic by Annie Kotowicz Available at: http://autisticbook.com # Unmasking Autism Dr. Devon Price Available at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/688819/unmasking-autism-by-devon-price-phd/
