9 Positive Autistic Traits (that you may not already know!) | Patrons Choice

Hi, Paul, this is a great video I've been sharing for the past several years since your trio of videos asking if you could be undiagnosed autistic & not know it kept following me around my recommended videos & wouldn't stop, I finally took the AQ and scored--to my genuine amazement, already being long-diagnosed with ADHD, then more recently with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome & trying not to be a hypochondriac--38/50 ... as a female, so adjust that accordingly since you say women tend to score lower than men on the AQ.

I appreciate your efforts to ensure that your videos are captioned (I have a number of Deaf friends, so I really appreciate your making your videos accessible to as many people as possible!) just wanted to let you know, as I was rewatching & sharing it with yet another person, that there's a quite significant caption error at ~7:32 in which Google's Aussie-impaired autocaptions think you said "camera" instead of "Canberra." (I probably wouldn't have understood you either if my husband weren't a proud bogan from Outback Down Under & didn't have a very broad accent, combined with my special interest in language, linguistics, accents, etc., & telling him not to change anything for me but force me to understand him, which worked out great until we actually got married & he moved to the U.S. only to find that nobody else could understand him without me there to interpret ... yet constantly saying, "I love your accent!" ... then asking where he was from, which was even worse when he was trying to get a JOB; we met online, so, in their defense, it's not like the locals are so ignorant that nobody here has ever seen "Crocodile Dundee" & isn't constantly saying to him, "That's not a NOIF"🤦‍♀--and knows how to pronounce "Aussie" or how to spell it--but this isn't exactly the kind of town that attracts a lot of your compatriates--much less ANY!)

Hope you can fix that as your having been at the Australian capital rather than some kind of photography thingie does make a huge difference!

Thank you!!!

god damn... you hit every single point for me.

Yes! My system of improving the world, which will be extremely unpopular, is that the western economy (USA, Europe, etc) would be much better run on Islamic economic principles. No usury, less exploitation etc etc.

Thank you Paul. I am neurodiverse but not autistic, but I do share most of these traits.

I really appreciate your explanations because you make the information very understandable

All of these

This is still one of my favorite ground breaking explanations of ADHD traits. When the longcoming explanation for my sense of alien don't let them notice me anxiety. I've watched it hundreds of times alone and showing others as a discussion starter. Thank so much Paul for your clear detailed explanations! Keep up the good work!!!🎉👩‍🌾👋🏡🇨🇦

I can't think INSIDE the box, so I have to reinvent things like washing the dishes.

A great video 🤗👍

I love it

autism sucks

This world is for normal people, Aspie is a minority, so we need to adjust, and it's ok, we have loved ones to support us. Aspie are lonely creatures with brilliant ideas that can solve the biggest problems, so I guess we need a support system to not keep us lonely and bring productivity to the table...

This was a brilliant video. Thank you for all the work you put into it.

I'm not understanding "Flexible". That doesn't seem like a trait of autistic people. There is rigidity and even having a hard time breaking a rule because of an exception. Also, loyalty seems to be something that only comes as a result of wanting and needing for things to stay unchanged. So it may look good to employers, but can be at the expense of the autists long run happiness. I can see the rest of the traits though. I'm wondering if four years later - if your list might be different. Longer, shorter, some traits combined?

Where's the help, I've lostvmy job, all my money, kids, house and gone to jail. I'm a post graduate internal auditor. I'm 50. I'm not crazy there's no f ing help. Where's the strategy? Where is it? What the F are they doing? I don't want to be here. This is hell.

03:48, 'Being persistent' isnt 'being unable to move on until you're confident in your ability'. I find I ask a lot of questions because I'm afraid of saying/doing something wrong. It's more a lack of confidence in my own judgement than "being persistent"
05:05 I'd argue that being honest isnt "too hard", it's just not worth it for people. Im sure there are lots of autistics that lie.
09:03 How are you supposed to treat them differently?
10:37 Empathic is misspelled, friend.
13:00 why though? If there's a problem, why not solve it? I might be autistic

I am a “savant” but IDK any companies looking for someone like me. I say what I think b/c whilecI used to be good at masking it is too exhausting in mid-life along with peri-menopause.

What companies want high iq people?

On being nonjudgmental: I've often had people, even people I just met, confiding in me. They'll tell me something and then express surprise, "I've never told that to anyone." I think they sense that I won't judge.

I find many people don’t like me, but my friends love me; once people get to know an autist, they see their good qualities shine through, especially loyalty.

This is great stuff. Thank you.

I'm amazed that this video is already a few years old and only popped up for me now. I am a person who is not officially diagnosed as autistic, but I have realized that I am on the spectrum. I am diagnosed as a person with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and that probably masks a lot of my autistic traits. It was wonderful watching this video and discovering how many of the things I do are experience are actually positive. After a lifetime of feeling like I didn't belong or was "damaged goods" it was wonderful to see this video and hear that a lot of the things I got yelled at for are actually positive things. This video definitely helped me in my ongoing task of getting rid of those inner messages that say things like "he isn't performing up to his potential" or "dumb stupid kid" or "are you listening to me? OMG you are so stupid." If anyone reads this comment and knows a person who is on the autism spectrum, or knows a parent or partner of a person on the autism spectrum please recommend this video to them. 👍❤️

Whew! Man, this felt good and it totally describes my own feelings and social/mental attitudes. I landed on the wrong planet but luckily, there were quite a lot of us landing. Thank you for this great description of aliens. 👽

Anyone have any thoughts on jealousy ?
I never felt jealousy really . I still don’t understand people being jealous and vindictiveness??
I believe I am autistic but I was told no because I am to emotional. I cry a lot ( tearful)
I get overwhelmed with emotions really easily -happy or unpleasant /sad and sometimes it’s just a build up that gets layered and one more thing just dis regulates me and tears flow without warning .
Things that don’t bother anyone that I know .
like a dead animal on the side of the road( doesn’t matter what kind) this can overwhelm my system and I feel sooo much .
Anyone ?
Thanks ahead

Why is the internet so obsessed with autism

All of the above !!!!!!

Hi Peter I am sure this has been covered in the comments and I don't know if you would read comments 4 years old, but... one of your points has a spelling mistake. It's the wrong word, simply because the h was in the wrong place, EMPHATIC. You have emphatic when you are saying and meaning EMPATHIC. I couldn't not point it out. Merry Christmas 2025 from the other side of the country. 🤶🎄

I find it funny that being honest is considered by neurotypicals to be rude or blunt. No, being rude would be to deliberately mislead or lie in the sake of keeping up false appearances.

I agree with you with all these traits.

in the past,I thought what my younger brother told me(I am maybe an autistic/AuDHD) was an insult.
He observed me for many years and get into contact with his friend(taking clinical psychology course at her Uni)

After learning more about this,
now I know why I am like this😂😂
but I have to pretend that I am normal(by pretending to do things normal people did by watching how they behave-most of the time I don't think there's necessity to do it).
My mom will chide me when I did things differently from others.
And only can be myself when I am alone(either in the toilet/in my private room).

thank you for shedding light on this,
I don't think I want to get diagnose.

I'm sorry to point this out, but I think you meant empathic. That said... you have become number one in my three favorite YouTube autistics. I'm in the process of self-diagnosing, because I have no way to be tested. You have helped me to find my way. Thank you. 😊

You're right, all these things are positive. But speaking as someone who's been recently diagnosed with AUDHD, the problem stems from neurotypicals who don't appreciate these things, and managers that try to fire you for being this way by labelling it with things like, 'problem with authority' or 'rude'. They don't understand traits of autism so will often discriminate against you. At least that has been my experience of it. Especially in the workplace.

Tgank you its bice ti hear we have some positive features!

This video is me spot on..how bizzare..I am in my mid 50s and now I know why my relationships were bad..
I'm happiest by myself

I’ve got hard problems see monkey do