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Date of upload: Apr 24, 2024 ^^
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I absolutely loved watching this, thank you so much.
As a late diagnosed autistic person (aged 52 when diagnosed) I've always known that I can read people. Not through body language or what they say, but by how I feel. I can read the energy of a room and the person in it as soon as I walk through the door without even looking at them. Yet people seem to underestimate me (and probably others too) for my ability to see straight through their facades. They tell lies over and over again to cover up something. Then, sometimes, the truth comes out and I was right all along.
I have had two deeply profound and separate ten minute conversations with people (strangers) who connected with the real me, throughout my whole life. Not the me that everyone else sees, but the real me underneath it all, just like the girl you talk about. One of those people actually nodded at me when I asked in my head if what I was feeling (the connection) was real.Ā It's been a lonely life. Twenty minutes of genuine connection for over fifty years. I long for that connection again.
I'm off to study koshas because I need to be me. Thank you.
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A lot of this resounded with me. I think part of the trouble is those who seem intentionally ignorant or somehow choose not to be empathetic and so cant *possibly* understand how we are feeling and insist the way they feel, unconnected and unattuned to their environment, is the only correct way. Theres a normalization of the disconnect in such a way that insists the rest of us must be broken to experience the world the way we do and that we have to change to be seen or safe.
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Really cool, first time viewer! Great timing.
This blows ToM out of the water! The NT researchers suggesting we lack cognitive empathy, when we spend probably 95% of our lives reading the minds of NTs, while they only spend 5% learning how to communicate with NDs. I love how they think they can just climb over in our brains and speak for us. š
Although for comparison, I do admit a surgeon need not experience a ruptured organ firsthand to have the skills to repair one. But yeah they canāt relate to our conundrum. We can relate to them, and thatās the deeply lonely trough of the empathy divide- notice I didnāt say double. Love the saying, āpeople can only meet us as deeply as theyāve met themselves.ā Else theyāre just gaslighting ya or serving up well-intentioned platitudes about shit they have not experienced! š
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I remember back in junior school the teacher asked us to do an exercise where we had to describe who we are. The other children said things like: a girl, a boy , a son, a daughter, a boy scout, a brownie. I was the only child who said I was a spirit. It seemed so obvious to me that all the other things were just roles and not who we are in essence.
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When you said ācome homeā it instantly brought me to tears. As a little girl I would sleepwalk around my own home and scream and cry and repeatedly say aloud (or so I was repeatedly told) āI want to go homeā, and beg to be taken thereā¦ I still would like to go home. (P.s. š¤Æ<- my face when you mentioned āwhen two or more are gathered in my nameā¦ā)
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I came across your channel today. Wow, you may be the first person who understands me. Just turned 54 and have been super depressed and sad. Have felt like an alien my whole life. I have never been diagnosed but am neurodivergent, highly sensitive, and suffer from Complex PTSD.
I had a spiritual awakening on Groundhog Day of all days back in 2011 while in 10 days of silence at Vipassana. Light beings visited me and I started having supernatural experiences on a regular basis. Portals would open in my room, animals walked up to me in the park, and started seeing light ships, and was facilitating some interesting sessions on people. I was sober too.
In 2016 I had flashbacks to the day I was born while my dad was in the middle of a medical emergency. At that point 46 years of repressed pain and memories surfaced. Much of it from childhood. Sent me into psychosis, disassociation, was shaking all the time, and went 7.5 years until recently with insomnia. I still clench my teeth and shake sometimes, but am not freezing up as much.
I am interested in connecting with you and/or someone in Toronto, Canada.
Thank you for sharing this video. I have feeling suicidal a lot. This gives me some hope.
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This makes me want to cry and jump out of my seat at the same time. This is the first explination of what I experience with the outside world and internal world that just hits the nail on the head. I've never heard this before and I've been through over 15 years of therapy of various kinds and different diagnoncenses...all of which hit parts but not the whole. This feels revolutionary! And gives me so much hope..thank You!
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I'm an employer with NT employees who are side-lined by unknowns (and it's the first time I've seen this and am trying hard to help them be productive, but am struggling with how to help them). This was helpful. I am also empathetic and relate to this. Thank you. This was super helpful for context of how/what is happening for folks.
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Wow, I can't tell you how much I'm loving your videos. I just discovered you a couple days ago, and subscribed immediately. I'm finishing school to be a counsellor right now, and am leaning heavily into the CPTSD realm (big surprise, as that's my personal history, as well as being an HSP and on the specturm) and wanting to focus on somatic and ecotherapeutic interventions in my practice. Your perspective is wonderful, and you articulate all of this so well. Also, I immediately went to download that spinal nerve function sheet. Very cool stuff. I look forward to watching more of your videos!
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Yep that actually makes a lot of sense something I kinda knew already about myself yet how to stay in my own lane an keep others in theirs Iāve not learned but definitely said so many times to myself how nice it would be to figure out how to do that! So interested in checking out your other videos ! ā¤
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... this comment presumes the last 9 years of our on-again-off-again conversations:
this is a remarkably word-coherent presentation of many of the ideas you were feeling the initial stages of/ first trying to find a way to communicate in (new/ reclaimed) words back in 2019ish
I think even word-grumpy people (like m) could track this ;), and you called out the specific ways you were defining often-otherwise-understood words well <3. (I believe I followed it entirely, but of course I have history.)
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@LynnDeVeaux
2 weeks ago
Wow. Thank you Youtube Algorithm. This video showed up in my feed. I am having chills and goosebumps. This spoke to me and giving me the language to understand part of my human experience and what neurodiversity can look like
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