Adult with Autism | Introduction | 01 

I’ve already watched a handful of your videos (and much enjoyed them!) so I’ve come back to the start to make my way through properly and just wanted to say, I really find these videos immensely relatable, it’s a real sense of relief! If I’d found these videos sooner, I’m not sure I’d have bothered making my own 😂

I’m happy I found this. Perfect to binge listen to. Totaly relatable to me

Just want to say thanks for doing this. You provide a unique voice for people who have autism who isn't research or academic focused. You're practical and down to earth. I wish I could be as genuine as you.

Thank you for making me feel included. For making me giggle because these are the EXACT things that go through my head and have for years not that I would tell anyone that. Now I’m working through getting a diagnosis for my daughter also so she doesn’t have to be broken. So we can adjust things for her so she doesn’t have to feel the way I have for my entire life not knowing why. So thank you from the bottom of my heart!!!

I died at the...probably not in focus, probably left the lens cap on... that's me at all times, so relatable. I have made attempts and it's so bad 🤣 Maybe Ill put them up as autism comedy someday. More perspectives are so good to hear!! I have a couple of people in mind already I know recently diagnosed that think would relate better to this than most else of what's online.

Hi Paul! Thanks for making these videos. I'm 58 and have just discovered that I am most probably autistic. I don't think I can deal with pursuing a diagnosis. I am gearing myself up to talk to my GP about this though, because my anxiety levels are affecting my health. I've had 3 CT scans within the last year and a half. The results keep saying nothing is wrong. So maybe I do need a diagnosis. And I so don't want to go have to talk to someone that keeps asking me 'how does that make you feel?' Just the idea of that diagnosis process fills me with anxiety. Guess I'm just going to try and talk to my GP and see if her response makes me feel better or worse. Here I go again, swirling and twirling...

You seem like such a genuine soul! Definitely looking forward to watching your other videos!

Just come across your videos today, its like your inside my head verbalising what i want to say. Will deffo continue to follow and watch your content! Love your realness 😊

i saw one video and i've come to your beginning. I don't have a diagnosis yet but everything looks to be and open shut case, just waiting on the appointments. I just want to thank you for making these videos, finally someone i can relate to. My neck hurts so much trying to keep looking up in life (butchered song lyrics).

i’m seeing this first one after seeing many later ones. you’ve improved your vids so much, but you started out so well to begin with. i’ve sent this to my son whose 33 now. thanks so much for these videos. it’s not easy to put yourself out there. 🌷🌱

Great one Paul ... will watch all of urs ISA

I love your sense of humour.

Waffling!! Love it!! Completely relatable, I always feel like my thoughts are like a tree...I start at the trunk and them before I know it I'm off in th branches and tangents.

Thank you

Hello "brother" I'm also old and autistic, and I have done some dumb shit in my life for not knowing myself better. And I also have been planning to launch a RU-vid very soon. I only have a diagnose of ADHD and spent a load of money on it for nothing, they couldn't see through my masks and get to the underlying autism. It was a later deep dive into RU-vid that made me figure it out all by myself. I will only come back to the psy people if I need the paper saying that I'm autistic or to get some drugs*. * Ritalin is a very good drug if used in moderation, but I will never again take the same kind of antidepressants I did.

awesome Paul great video, likewise i had a late "discovery" last year at 48 some things have made more sense since, but as you noted life theses days really is getting harder to get my head around. cheers from a fellow reclusive bloke. thanks for the heads up Carol

Hi Paul! I didn’t start by watching this video first, but now I’m gonna watch them all. Almost every sentence you uttered I could quote here and say “Jesus Mary Josef and the donkey - YES!” The second I leave home for example; I’ve been trying to explain that to people when they say, step out of your comfort zone. Like, you have no idea I do that every single day of my life by just having to walk outside and there’s…PEOPLE there😳😆 And your reaction to the dr: “wow, you have no idea what type of school I went to”. Yeah, welcome to the growing up in the 70’s and 80’s and what the school I went to was like😂 For better and for worse I guess, compared to how I perceive schools are today. The only thing you said where I’m completely the opposite is that I wanna know EVERYTHING about a subject, every subject that I come in contact with or someone’s talking to me about. I NEED to understand and not just superficially but I wanna start from the beginning or origin of it so I can grasp what it’s about. Yeah that’s why I need at least two or three lifetimes, one lifetime can’t possibly be enough to learn even a small percentage of what I wanna know. Also I forget everything I’ve learned after a while, so there’s that…my memory is terrible. Sorry I’m blabbering now aren’t I. And now I’m considering deleting everything I wrote lol. Anyway, just very happy you got on YT. You’re so funny and that’s awesome! Cheers /Chris

So happy I found this channel. I’m now 53 and been on an NHS waiting list for an assessment after my son was diagnosed. Every day that I don’t hear from the NHS adds more pressure to confirmation of what I already know. Crazy but until I receive confirmation, I feel like a fraud. One last thing…I’m in South Manchester and you sound like you may be from this part of the country as well….am I right? Not after your address 😂 just sound local to me. Great channel.

Honored to be your second sub!!!! I’m a 41 y/o man working toward my ASD diagnosis. Love your positivity and outlook to the channel so far! I’m a musician as well. What’s your favorite guitar? Mine is a 1997 black lacquer Gibson Chet Atkins acoustic/electric like Dave Matthews played in his early career! Cheers mate!

Been feeling pretty crappy and kinda like a weirdo. This actually helped. Thank you.

Hey 👋 I’m also from the UK 🇬🇧 like you. You came up in my recommended. I’m so pleased to find you, I am also Autistic. I think your an amazing person Paul. I am very happy your sharing your story online. I totally relate to you I have subscribed to your channel much love and respect ✊

I have just been diagnosed at the age of 60, it explains all of the stuff that's gone on in my life up to now. I think it will take me a while to get my head around it all ...

You tell a story & let it unfold....going back to your newer videos, you so have the hang of it now feeling more comfy...this is good news for me. I want a cup w/Paul's face....Paul for Presidente or in your case P.M. lol

Your whole part about species-ism had me in stitches 😭😂😂😂 I too don't look at a chicken and think it'll taste of a coward 🤣🤣

"Who thinks of that?" That me! Hahaha... "be yourself" make up your mind... you have no idea how often I think of this. Its so much better being alone. 🥰

Great video, I do have OOOOONE thing to saw about a few seconds of it. A a black American seeking a diagnosis I have to pause the video at the BLM remark, because you may not have all of the information aside from the optics. The BLM movement is a decentralized idea, and any organization that calls itself BLM would be a lot like me getting on youtube and saying that I represent the autistic community. At it's core, BLM is a movement that is seeking greater accountability in policing, as people of color in America are MUCH more likely to be killed by the police, and a even more likely to be subject to everything from harassment to an ass kicking. I'll share one of the stories from my own life: I was maybe 21 and had been reading in a book store for the last two hours. I didn't have the money to pick it up at the time, so when the store started to close, I got up, put the book back (in PRESTINE condition I might add, no book gore by MY hands, no SIR!), and walked to the front of the store, and out the front door. There were two cops waiting, one male, the other female, and the lady cop asks if I had just gone from the back of the store to the front. I answer in the affirmative and she then proceeds to tell me that her partner had seen me slashing tires in the parking garage. I inform them I'd been in the store for the past 2 hours. They say they need to pat me down for a knife, and considering I didn't have one on me, I was like sure ok whatever. Only halfway through a very uncomfortable, unneeded invasion of my privacy and body, I realize I should have told them about the cameras. They didn't find anything, and so they had to let me go on my way. Now, if I HAD been carrying a knife of ANY kind, that interaction would have gone MUCH worse, and considering that I can legally (if not practically) carry around an AR-15, I'm well within my rights to have a knife. They MAY have gone to look at the footage, but I can almost guarantee that I would have been slapped in cuffs first, and given an ass whooping for "resisting arrest", which often includes attempting to follow conflicting and impossible orders. And that is with me having very light skin from both being "biracial" and living like a vampire, as well as, what I've been told by a million idiots is "a straight white boy voice". I have about as much chance of getting a stray police ass whooping as Steve Erkel, but that shield is THIIIIIIN. Now does that give people the right to destroy indiscriminately? Hell no, but the people who were doing the MOST wild behavior didn't give a crap about George Floyd or anyone else, they just wanted to break shit. If I show up with 100 friends with signs and 100 more show up just to break stuff, is my protest peaceful? Or has the bloodlust of the NT hoard negated my own voice raised in peace? Either, way, I'm gonna keep watching your vids, because I think you just lack the information about it and you were making an observation from an outside in perspective. Cheers mate.

You are amazing and hilarious 😂

Imposter syndrome video please.... or directions if u have done one already... I'm new to you and autism I am Keri from Australia diagnosed 58. I also had no idea.

New sub here #170. I just need to catch up.

I'm sorry im suddenly bombing you with comments. But holy COW I can really relate to everything your saying! (Do you think cows will get a big head if we use that term?😋) But yeah. I just found out I'm autistic like a year ago and I'm 37! I feel like this would have been good to know! Anyways sorry and thank you! 12:17 no kidding just frickin leave! Ugh...

U didn't get the point of anti-speciesism, did u? U ask for empathy for yourself but u don't have it for others.