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Also for clarification: Autism as well as any other neurodiversities represented in these videos are on a spectrum! Everyone is different! Do not use these videos as a means of diagnosing yourself or even questioning your diagnosis! Everyone will have different experiences and struggles! You are perfect the way you are and do not define yourself because a lot of autistic individuals don't like a food but you do, or you like wearing socks compared to those who don't! Be yourself and accept that we are all different!

Thank you to the person who talked about being able to read social cues in regard to others, but not when it is about ourselves. I’m a hospice nurse. Deal with all kinds of emotional issues,  especially my patients’ families. I can enter a home, and within minutes know exactly what type of emotional support each person there needs from me, and can readily provide it. Yet, totally lost when I’m the subject in an interaction. This finally makes sense.

I need more neurotypical conversation translations 😭

I’ve been diagnosed with autism and ADHD. Watching these type of videos make me feel understood.

the “I’m obsessed with that show” lead me to watch entire series over weekends in high school so I could talk about it and engage with said person, only for them to say that they’d only watched the first 3 episodes before starting a new conversation about something else they were “obsessed with”, rinse and repeat 😭

I really need more of these neurotypical conversation translations. I didn’t know the translation of any of the phrases said in the video that neurotypicals say. When I heard those phrases said to me in real life, I always misinterpreted it wrong.

Wait, eye contact isn't EYE looking? Like looking at the eyes?

The eye contact part is NOT TRUE.

Eye contact does mean looking into the other person’s eyes. There are different levels of intensity that people can employ and there can be different levels of meaning to it.

At normal social distance you can generally simulate it well enough socially with a superficial acquaintance by watching the nose or lips and just glancing occasionally at the eyes.

But this “oh it’s just generally looking at the person’s face” thing is a lie. When you’re generally looking at the center horizontal line of a person’s face you are looking at their eyes. Neurotypical people are able to gauge how much to ride this line to convey the emotions or social signals they want to in part because they get a feedback loop from what the other person’s eyes are doing. Which they can tell because they are making eye contact by looking at the other person’s eyes.

The proper way to eat ice cream is with a fork straight out of the carton. There should be no debate about this.

4:24 what on earth my life is a lie

1:31 is super relatable and just as confusing everytime; even now as i'm watching the video idk what the 'obvious' social cue is supposed to be

The entire translation tiktok on what neurotypicals mean is exactly why I say I don't like to make new friends anymore. I have met some great ND people, but ever since I got out of HS everyone I ever try to be friends with has ghosted me entirely.

1:50 i would actually take the spoon and gouge their eyes out like babygirl you won't care about your silverware when you don't have eyes ❤️❤️❤️❤️

4:21
WAIT, IT'S NOT?!!
I've been looking at people's mouths for YEARS trying to avoid eye contact.  ToT

1:46 Why do people get mad when we don't understand a social cue? LIKE BRO YOU'RE GETTING MAD AT ME FOR NOT KNOWING THAT YOU WANTED SOMETHING BEACUSE YOU GAVE ME HINTS INSTEAD OF TELLING MEEEEEEEE

Mitchells vs the Machines has the most UNDERATED autistic characters aka THE WHOLE MITCHELL FAMILY

Personally, I find that the more popular something is, the less likely I am to get into it.

"they dont want you to infodump" aww

4:21 I actually learned from many years of choir that if you don't want to look at people looking at you look where rhey are but their eyes are not (like a back wall or the floor if you're higher than the audience)

Idk why, but i got a real kick out of being taken out of the fridge at 0:44. I felt like i had become a carton of milk or smthn