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 saw one description of the autistic desire for order that I understood immediately: We love routines, but hate schedules. A schedule is an imposition on what I want to do, whereas my routine is my comfort zone.

I'm not diagnosed as autistic, but the YouTube algorithm keeps showing me " you might be autistic if you do this" videos where they basically describe me.

"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. 😂😂😂😂

“Oh I don’t think I stim-“ I said as I spun in circles

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.

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 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.

I've always been told I was autistic, I never believed it even when I got diagnosed, I guess I was in denial about it because I knew people with autism are bullied and I didn't want to be bullied more then I already was, but now that I'm learning and understanding it more, it's so refreshing to know that I'm not just some weird, fucked-up-in-the-head kid, I'm just a bit neuro-spicy ✨

When I told one of my French teachers that I was autistic, she said “ Oh, you don’t look autistic, I didn’t know.” I was confused, how was I meant to look 😂She also stated that I didn’t “act” like other autistic people she knew, she said that they acted “strange” or “differently”, which I did, but I was good at masking my autism. Great channel, you have really helped me to understand myself more as a person. Thank you!

i was diagnosed with autism at 14 but i think now that i was actually misdiagnosed and they mistook my OCD for autism. after getting treatment for my OCD (and depression) i don’t have a single autistic trait left, i don’t recognize myself at all in the criteria, and watching this video made me seek a new evaluation!

That comment at around 4:20 about making friends cross-culturally has been my secret trick for quite a while now! I'm from Scandinavia but have relocated to Greece, partly due to precisely this; whenever I'm socially awkward or come across a bit emotionally mute, it's always just attributed to a difference in culture or "Those Scandinavians are a bit cold, it's normal". It's a fantastic buffer to have, even if it feels a bit like a cheat.

Great video! Back in school I wasn't bullied, but didn't really feel like part of the group either. At a reunion for my public school, one of my former classmates told me that I would have been such an easy target for bullying due to how much I stood out (due to my stimming and lack of social skills), but my classmates actually made sure that noone from the other classes harassed me, or they would harass them right back. So I kinda had guardian angels I didn't know about. ❤

It's a bit frustrating because I relate so much to the majority of things you've said but I've been shut down multiple times by mental health professionals; they'd tell me I don't fit the criteria without even giving me a chance to talk in depth about my experiences. I think this is partly due to how I present myself or more specifically how I've managed to learn to present myself. I've been diagnosed with ADHD but it still feels like there's a huge part of me that remains 'unexplained'. It's something that I spend a lot of time thinking about and it's starting to get to me.

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 😅

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.

"When you drive somewhere you may find it difficult to get out of the car." OH. Oh. Didn't know that was a thing.