Wah he's got a chip on his shoulder hasn't he?
so autism and taking things literal in this video we're going to be discussing
some of the funnier things that I've kind of taken literal in the past and
some things that people could take literally on the opsin spectrum
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videos from me so in this video I'm gonna be showing you just some of the
funny things how someone could take something super literal and what it's
like for me as an autistic person to actually take things literally and how
that thinking thought process happens when you say something that has taken
literally okay the beginning of every single video
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Daniel under Scott and he said how old were you
when you found out you had autism when I was diagnosed with ASD in autism
spectrum condition I was 26 years old but I had like
numerous diagnoses like comorbid ons before that like you know dyslexia and
ADHD and all those kind of stuff way before that when I was a kid okay so the
next question here is from visual stems for you and they asked do you have shit
downs if so how do you handle parenting it's difficult I do have shutdowns and
how do I handle it being honest and having the support from somebody so like
my partner Naomi she supports me so if I'm having a shutdown she knows that
there's something going on and so she'll take care of the baby for me so like
there's loads of things that you can do my my honest opinion is to just be
honest and tell somebody as soon as possible and have a support system set
up with somebody who you care about and can trust okay so the last question is
from Andrew by Rock and they said how do you make friends I have terrible social
anxiety and is really hard to socialize okay so let's see questions I really
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talking about here ok basically it's like this autistic people have a
neurodevelopmental condition that allows their brain to work a little bit
differently that from that of a neurotypical person and it comes with
some perks like being awesome way big up to the awesome Super Hero Squad oh by
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not only being awesome it also has some downfalls and something that can
sometimes be quite comical or fun nice taking things literally for instance
before in a video I've spoken about how when I was doing a course with somebody
who I knew she said okay put the choose eating banana on a cup of coffee she put
the banana peel in the mocha she's off you put it on the kitchen to put it in
the bin so I just put the whole thing in the bin you know cup and everything but
she was actually saying you know just the banana peel not the whole cup
because you know the stupid thing to do why would you put a cup in a bin down
come on so because of that I have a list of
sayings here that I've gone through that I've taken quite literally literally
over the over the past and so what I'm going to do is I'm going to perform them
for you so you guys can see what it's like so somebody who is on the spectrum
and how they receive that type of information okay so let's get on with it
so basically that's how it's gonna work I am going to say this saying and then I
will then show a clip of me showing you what I think about when I hear somebody
saying that saying let's go hey I'm just gonna go and squeeze some orange juice
alright juice get ready to be squeezed it's raining cats and dogs outside are
actual cats and dogs falling from the sky but
oh man this is so good you're gonna die when you taste this Oman I don't want to
die I don't want I don't want it I don't want to die all right well I guess it's
time to hit the road Bob Road bad Road
shoot him why God chip on his shoulders knee yeah so did
okay I know Britt my chips are different than the UK been actually crisp sir
crisp and UK the chips and merica but let's face it might be something you
guys watch a mr. American anyway we all know what we're saying here good luck
all there break a leg why would you want me to do
that we totally got the wrong end of the stick doesn't burn chopsticks right okay
which end this end of behind no no way overall this end hold it okay well no
which ends the good end of a bad end of the right end of the stick hey so what
can I pick your brain please no you cannot I want my brain to be intact and
on you picking up my brain that's just weird and gross and awesome you don't
have a medical degree whoa his eyes are bigger than his belly
whoa that guy's eyes must be like this big that's weird right big eyes and a
tiny stomach weird so guys taking things literally can't be
humorous in some situations when I think about on my own yeah that's quite funny
but actually I've gotten trouble with this a few times especially when you
know I'm out in public and I'm out kind of like doing shopping or things like
that or around other people who are trying to be funny or maybe like a
hostile situation then it become difficult so I always have somebody with
me when I go anywhere like if I'm visiting a different country
you aren't going anywhere that isn't like my hometown where I would prefer to
know everybody so I can have an interpreter with me to be the
intermediate step between me and the real world that's trying to communicate
something that I don't understand so a hot tip for anybody dealing with this
kind of thing or literal thinking is to have a like a travel buddy or a somebody
that goes out with you when you are going somewhere it could be a mom yep
your dad or your partner or your guardian anybody your best friend anyone
as long as they understand you and they can communicate to the other people that
you are potentially maybe taking something literally and that you're not
trying to be like that feel in all seriousness some people could
take a bent to literal thinking type of commentary and now you know if you're
taking things literally some people may get super offended by it
they may think that you're being you know aggressive or you're being you know
trouble intimidating to them so you always want to just check that the
literal thinking is a real thing and I think it stems from the fact that you
know autistic people are trying to always see the truth and things like I
find it difficult to understand sarcasm and jokes where somebody said something
and I don't really always get the joke you know so jokes are super difficult
and they're like taking things literally so in terms of those things those were
figures of speech and like just how people say things now in terms of jokes
people say jokes sarcastically and sarcasm is like acting that something is
wrong right when it is another but trying to joke that it's the other way
which is super confusing because when when you're trying to decipher the world
and see through legitimate factual information and then just bogus kind of
rhetoric then how do you judge or sarcasm is so my friends I just they
just love it that my friends joke about stuff all the time and they tell me like
like this one time we would record in a recording studio and my band members
told me that the tom drum on a on a you know tom time drums on junk it was
called tom eul's and Tom Loschiavo Tommy war and I believe that for ages and
they're so like they were they were just so convincing they just do all the time
because I know that I'm gonna take it quite literally and I've done it quite a
few times where I remember once we were driving to a festival to play a show and
they said to me that the the guy who the guy who we were gonna see the promoter
his name was actually Fozzie and we knew a music promoter from where we live
called Rosie now Rosie from where we lived his wife is called Angharad so
when we were driving to the venue this festival the guys in my band were like
hey down there you know we're gonna go see Fozzie yeah not again he goes his
girlfriend is called a Jiang Harrod and I was like no way that's just crazy and
like I was like Jiang how I don't even know this information yet and they spend
me long for ages it wasn't till like the drive back in the van that they like
dude we're just stringing you along because we want to make it fun this kind
of stuff like happens to me all the time my friends are just like you know douche
bags are doing it all and they always play tricks on me but they know how far
to take it they would never do put my life in danger or you know my
profession in danger or anything like that they only do it just like have some
fun really they're not doing it sinisterly so yeah big shout-out to my
friends for being total d-bag but guys like I was saying make sure you have
somebody who you can trust you can go out with you and make sure you can
decipher your way through the world because it is a scary place and taking
things literally is definitely one of the downfalls
although comical it's also a downfall you know among all of those things and
something that happens is when people ask me questions I answer directly the
question they've asked for instance like people say to me like Oh Dan what's the
date today and I'm like today it's the 4th of February 2019 and then they're
like Dan I didn't need the actual year or the month that you want to know what
the date as in like the number it's not obvious so those things really just like
blow my mind I'm like trying to be as on it and as little as possible and being
like you know is honest and then yeah people just don't want the full you know
nine yards of the conversation which I find really really weird have you got
any experiences with stuff like this have you experienced literal thinking
how do you cope with virtual thinking it's quite funny I suppose but it can
get into like sticky situations if you are trying to overcome something and
really understand that people are just joking or they're not being serious so
it can have a kind of adverse effect of not being just like humorous out
sometimes so I'd like to know leave me a comment in the comment section below if
you've experienced this type of not issue but if you've experienced this
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