Autism: Understanding the ‘spectrum’ | DW Documentary

The irony of the dubbed voice being triggering for my adhd and autism. I just need to listen to the original language with English subtitles. 😅

My girlfriend Claudia Campbell has an
Autistic brother who likes to
Feel Claudia long black silky hair.
Hold Claudia Campbells hands.
Touch Claudia Campbells cheeks.
Cuddle Claudia Campbell.

I have autism

As for 'not understanding consequences', I don't think that's accurate.. We may think the consequence was unfair and the anxiety that results from the threat of someone having such control over your quality of life may make us want to fight them or flee from them or their demand.. So, yea, we don't want to accept that not meeting someone's demand results in being punished by them.. That's not lack of understanding.. That's a struggle for survival.

The documentary says: "you don't teach something to a child with autism 5 times, you do it 500 times, because they don't really feel it, they learn it by heart"

I can see how external observation may lead you to conclude that and there is some truth to the idea that we like learning from lots of data.. Helps build complex models of the world with reduced uncertainty. However, for mundane 'daily living' tasks and demands, I think an autistic child not "learning" to meet a demand or perform a task or skill relates to their not having internalized the goal for want of a rationale that is convincing to them. I say this from my experiences with my own autistic son and my own experience as an autistic person. So, if you would like an autistic child to learn to do something, I'd suggest working on seeing if the goal has value to them.. If you present a worthy rationale, they might adopt the goal someday.. Make it theirs.. And then they'll take on the responsibility of making the task or skill part of their routine or repertoire. Any thoughts?

Found out recently I have autism and ADHD, I'm 22.

You are not going to have difficulty understanding me. Why? I always say what I think, zero Filter

Wich stands for autism And adhd

I have audhd

My life and still struggling 😪

Incredibly frustrating to have both the original language and the English translation on the same video… 😤

Watch Dr. Jack Kruse. Get your child in the sunshine.

Remember, you can ask for help. The community is your larger family

Would you please make a documentry about ADHD and adhd spectrum too?????

TO THE PARENTS of nonverbal, non-independent children issues watching this. If you feel frustrated and even angry at the recent generalization of the “autism” diagnosis…. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. ❤❤❤

There are many of us and our voices will be heard soon.

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As a person being diagnosed at 38 i can just say that this is spot on, after being diagnosed with high fuction autism, add and bipolar life has changed. Having help with things along with doing what can are a must. Also learning what works and what does not work are hard and you do need a guide to find that out.

When you life turns from a small libing hell to a atleast semi functioning one.

There are always things to work with and there are always situations things you are not prepared for and that takes alot of energy to handle.

Me as many other people have a mask to hide behind and thats good and also very bad, depression that often comes with the diagnose are hard to get help with due to the mask. I have a few people that can read me and see through the mask and that has saved me many times from being a part of the high suicide rate people with autism has.

Its hard at times but its also a very good life when you get to do what you are good at.

Autism are both a curse AND a super power and its hard to see past the curse as its so much easier to do that.

But more and more companies hire any people with autism as they have a super power and once you find it you can become a productive person.

DW, love most of your docs, but this one is way off. Bowing out.

I used to fight a lot in school. Once, a teacher yanked me up by my hair. So when she left the room, I put a tack in her chair. HUGE disappointment!! She was too fat to feel it 😫😫😫

I read people SUPER well. It scares them. The girl with the shaved head that had autism therapy....research micro expressions. Because some people are good at covering up whats inside.

Just FYI, Einstein was high functioning autistic. So if you were lied to or called names, keep him in mind. He also saw the end result of Hitters plans, and bailed Europe in time. Evil people are afraid of anything different. Because autistics cannot be predicted. This guy in the white coat does not speak for all autistics.

Imagine judging your child for having social skills and keeping them away from other kids because they are talking to others? Seems unnatural and weird. How much weirder would it be to judge someone for having specific interests and sticking with themselves (and literally not harming anyone in the process) and then setting up roadblocks and barriers that prevent them from taking their special interests to the next level, thereby preventing them from having a fulfilling life? Imagine being a villain in the history books, just like the segregationists. It really is that level of ignorance.

Its defs a spectrum. As a woman with autism who went through quite a bit of trauma that made it so I HAD to pick up on social cues, my social side isn't too bad. Environmental overstimulation's are what I find most difficult.

Driving a car that doesn’t freakin beep is a great place to start

I'm a teenager with ASD and I don't fit in at my school, I play the guitar but nobody respects me when I'm trying to practice, some days I think that I have a blacken heart and mind

Unfortunately this video is very difficult to watch , audio sensory overload. Again , unless youre autistic, you just wont get how annoying the dubbed voices are. So nobody considered that autistic/ adhd folks night want to watch it. Its ironic.

Vaccines....amish dont have it??

this wz helpful

You haven't mentioned the involvement of vaccines given at early age. As Dr said, The nerve cells still undergoing maturation after birth, so the vaccines may demage them causing Autism as there is an increase in Autism in recent years.

I envy those kids that get diagnosed early, get support and grow up in a good environment. being diagnosed as an adult and having to survive in a dangerous environment in a toxic society while trying to function and somehow find energy to keep living is literal hell

What I want to know is what causes German people.

How annoying with the voice-over. Why not just use subtitles?

I hate having autism and adhd

It took me until last year to get the actual diagnosis. Decades later.

I adapted and replaced the missing skills with logic and analytical skills. And learned to control the disadvantages to exist in society. Stopped caring about other people's opinions of me.

It almost allowed me to avoid the negatives (bullying, depression etc). I became good at subterfuge and deception.

Being highly introverted helped to avoid the social need depression.


I find "normal" people to be odd, especially in their emotional/social behaviour. It just does not make sense to me why do they keep doing stuff.

Why all people with autism get better on a carnivore diet or using pine turpentine?
I think there's a parasitic component to this, likely something that feeds off of sugars, like a fungal infection.

Gibt es diesen Film auch unsynchronisiert? Synchronsprechen ist höchstverwirrend für viele autistische Menschen. Ich kann mehrere Sprachen gut verstehen, aber nur eine aufeinmal!

I was diagnosed seven years ago with autism as an adult and suspected ADHD, my thoughts are constantly overwhelmed and overthinking, hyper vigilant, always needing sensory stimulation, I am classed as high functioning, heighten emotions which women can have with autism.

I was diagnosed seven years ago with autism as an adult and suspected ADHD, my thoughts are constantly overwhelmed and overthinking, hyper vigilant, always needing sensory stimulation, I am classed as high functioning, heighten emotions which women can have with autism.

I still am being abused as an adult at age 34

In my experience as a guy with Asperger's, people intuitively expect and enforce the rule that others must act in a way that’s understandable to them. In childhood, I didn’t mask myself for others because my family accepted my need to talk about my interests. But after entering school, I began to realize that people didn’t want to accept my way of communicating. At the same time, I felt like everyone else was stupid for not being able to tune into how i communicate, and I felt stupid for not seeing the invisible reason why I didn’t fit in. Its getting easier to forgive both myself and others as i understand myself more.

I watched this up until I heard the words "people with ASD, Autism Spectrum Disorder". (Around the 1-minute mark)

This video, the content of it, and the creators are NOT neurodiversity-affirming due to the use of the above terminology - which is Allistic/neurotypical-created and of which de-humanises Autistic people. This is one reason why Autistic people - including myself - struggle so much. We've had to live with this rhetoric for decades and, sadly, continue to have to do so. It's the main reason for the psychological, mental, and emotional health problems that we experience. To any Allistics (non-Autistics) reading this, ask yourself this question...

What do I think I would feel and experience if Autistic people were the majority neurotype on this planet, most, if not everything in society were created and set up for their needs, and the medical terminology that's applied to autism and Autistic people were applied to me? (I.E ASD, Allism Spectrum Disorder)

What do you think that would do to you? (Being told EVERY DAY by the society around you that you're broken, disordered, and less-than because you're not a part of the Autistic majority) Don't you think it would cause you problems with socialising, functioning, sleeping, eating, schooling or working etc?

That's what your so-called wonderful Allistic society has done to us - stemming from a medical profession that doesn't cater for and acknowledge our needs.

Then you wonder why some Autistic people turn up at your Allistic majority and made-for schools, colleges, and universities with guns and/knives. (Where the pain and suffering of most of us Autistics began and continued into)

Yeah, the Allistic-majority society is so wonderful and better isn't it? NOT!