The “Bachelor” star describes getting diagnosed with autism as an adult, joining a growing number of adults living with autism who are speaking candidly about their experiences.
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Raquel Leviss
The Doctor commenting looks like something is off about her, too. Avoiding everything adds to more issues dealing with external stressors when they can't be fully avoided. What happened to teaching people coping strategies by mild exposure/ integration not avoidance of fears? This looks like the methodology being taught has the potential to be more damaging to these individuals in their futures than practical. Yes, understanding and emotional awareness is important but this looks like something isn't quite right with what they are advocating.
Sorry…I have a feeling Demi has been misdiagnosed. As a special education teacher, who engages with both children and adults on the spectrum, I am highly skeptical. The top professionals in the medical community that specialize in neurodiversity have spoken out about the fact that most medical practitioners have limited education related to these diagnoses and a poor understanding of the overlapping symptoms of ADHD, ASD, OCD, PTSD, and/or social anxiety. None of the symptoms Demi mentions are necessarily indicative of Autism. Masking, impulsivity, anxiety, sensory issues, and social communication challenges are just as common in individuals with ADHD. In fact, given Demi's personality, one might suspect this is just another attention seeking performance. And since society stigmatizes ADHD more than ASD, and most people believe medication is a panacea for ADHD (which it is not), she may find the ASD diagnosis preferable. If Demi is "masking," perhaps she is fooling herself as well. Does anyone else doubt that Demi's Autism diagnosis is accurate?
I find her incredibly annoying
Thanks for this. This really confirms what a psychologist told me that I might beyond the artistic spectrum. I figured out about 10-years ago I was a highly sensitive person but it never tied it back to autism
55 and after working in Washington State agencies that were toxic I was finally diagnosed as ADHD and my psychologist thinks I am probably autistic but I have been unable to get the diagnosis. How totally different my life would have been had I been diagnosed as a child. How much less I would have suffered as a human being instead of all the bullying bullying that I encountered because I was different. Hopefully Washington State will apply and hold everybody responsible for all those diversity equity and inclusion laws they keep making and ignoring
Why though? Why are more and more people getting it and what can we do to prevent it?
I can just look in her eyes And say it's more than autism
I'm 99% sure I'm on the spectrum, and my social-emotional life has been rough to say the least /:
Wow
I don't see how these things mentioned where enough to get a diagnosis but if Demi can be an advocate for people with Autism then more power to her. Usually it takes a lot more to get diagnosed than one evaluation.
The USA is a dictatorship and autocracy , sailed
It's called eating ret#rd sandwiches.
11:22 that closing remark is incredible. realizing what we do is a product of our socialization makes it easier to forgive others and ourselves. as likely we just needed a little more context
Autism doesn't exist in Africa.
Late diagnosed adults always were autistic, they just did’t know about it. I was diagnosed at 20
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Think she is faking it big time. I hate that these attention seeking whores are using autism as an excuse. Its making the mark of the real Autism issue.
Sony Pictures Classics should make a documentary about autism in Middle School
We are controlled by laws of nature.
There is a general force of nature, and two opposite forces—bestowal and reception—extend from it.
We exist between these forces, and both of these qualities affect us.
Then, the question arises: How do we develop under the influence of these forces? Where do we act? Where are we free? How do we accumulate and correlate these two forces within ourselves? How can we build ourselves out of them?
These are the questions that the wisdom of Kabbalah engages in: how we receive these two forces in an optimal balance, and with their help, shape ourselves so as to resemble the very laws of nature, to arise and reach equivalence of form with the force of bestowal in nature. These very laws gave us the opportunity to control the pace of our progress in accepting them upon ourselves.
That is the point of our freewill.
How could we act if we do not have freewill? Who would we be? Would we just be like robots, always under control?
Until now, we have always been under control. What does it mean?
Nature as if injects a drop of egoism–the desire to enjoy at others’ expense–into us, and then it does so a little more, and a little more again, and we then get the impetus to move toward all kinds of egoistic goals. The more our egoism inflates, the more we become willing to move to increasingly gain at the expense of others. Nature constantly squeezes the syringe into us until it eventually infuses us with the full amount of egoism.
Our era is characterized by the syringe of egoism having become completely injected into us, with no more egoism left to inject. That is why we have nowhere left to run.
Where do we head from here? What do we do?
Moreover, egoism has become global and integral. In the beginning, we felt good because we reached egoistic global connections in the world and thought that everything would be fine. However, when such connections started depending on everyone, we turned out to be nature’s opposite.
At this juncture, we find ourselves with a major dilemma, and we need to work out what we do about it. Where our fully-inflated egoism coupled with our tightening global connections brings us to increasing problems around the world, today we require a new form of connection-enriching education that would have the ability to guide us on how to change our egoistic connections to altruistic ones. That is the key to a shift to a harmonious and peaceful world.
Don't you love my orange jumpsuit? I am a traitor and sexual predator but people let you do that when you're a star. MAGA!
I had autism growing up and was never diagnosed. Instead, I was ridiculed, punished, ignored, and rejected for years by family and peers. It really took its toll and I am still fighting to overcome those years.