My son developed severe autism and I fear that it might be my fault. When he was 1.5 years old he had an accident and fell on his head when I was looking away for a few seconds. After that his behavior changed and he started acting autistic more and more in the coming months. Now he is almost 5 years old and the autism totally took over my son. I feel guilty, I feel that I ruined his life because I didn't pay attention in the wrong moment. I hate myself for that and everyday I'm asking myself how would things be if this accident would not have happened...
If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism. Having mild autism your told "you don't look autistic". No, well what the f*ck would you know!
Labels that define our identity are a crutch for the vast majority of those who use them. Identifying our self as belonging to a nation, or a church, or a mental illness - acts an excuse to set our standard and potential as less than Infinite. When our habit is to hoard self-pity, self-medication, or self-sufficiency, these labels are as a scapegoat; an apparent ‘get-out-of-sin-free’ card.
So autistics are entitled and ungrateful and moody and lack perspective? I’m not sure this video, however good the production values does a fair service to those with autism.
Carly, thank you for making this video. It really helps us understand your thoughts and feelings. Can you have it captioned? I would like to share it with my colleagues, but my agency says I can't when it is only auto-captioned. Thank you.
its too focused on speciffic things ...i would take in a lot more different things... especially other people and not just the faces of the people im with
I have Class 3 ASD was born non verbal have hypersensory perception in all 8 of my senses start hearing at a negative 18 Db and have 1 mile hearing range develop seizures blindness and paralysis from loud noise and HATE portrayals of Autism as some horrible disease. I am proud to be Autistic. I do not need your pity. I need accommodations. Accommodations like you not yelling and making loud noise next to me not using bright buzzing lights and not flying helicopters over my home. Keep smoke from your grill fire pit and cigarettes to yourselves too.
I'm balling happiness 😭 I'm so happy for you and I am so happy you give a little voice to those who don't. I will follow and learn from you. Please reach out to chat if you want to. My son is on the spectrum he is 4 and I know how smart he is we just haven't been able to figure out communication for him yet as he struggles with speaking. We are currently using a device with the program LAMP on it to help and its so wonderful. I look forward to the days he's telling us jokes. He physically jokes with us (lots of sarcasm in his facial expressions at times)❤
My son is nonverbal too. He is almost 5 years now. He can say "Ja (yes)" and "Mama" but he doesn't do it when you ask him to say it. I feel like he has no understanding of language besides about 5 words. May I ask you what helped you becoming verbal and how old you were, when you started talking?
Ooo, apparently she's same age as me. 28 years old. I also have ASD high function. But I don't remember if I act that way when I was young. Maybe my autism is lighter? And also we've been to psychiatrist, hiking, riding a horse, special school and stuff when I was young. So when anyone meet me I'm probably seen as shy, calm and introvert lady 😊 ~From Bandung, Indonesia
Why,oh why do I find out about Carly after so many years?My son is non verbal autistic and her content would have been /is of great help .I wish I could understand his every sensorial issue and how to respond to it.Carly,where are you these days?❤❤❤
Ten years ago!! Haven't heard much from Carly in a few years, I hope she is doing well. It would be interesting to see a follow-up to this video about how this environment affects her now as a young adult.
Scarily accurate and explains how people misunderstanding wants and desires when us on the spectrum are adamant at what we want can cause us a lot of stress within, very well made video!
