Late Diagnosed Autistic Adult BINGO | 25 Common Autistic Experiences

This video explores 25 commonly shared autistic experiences displayed on a BINGO card as a fun way of connecting to others in the community. This bingo card is not intended for use as a diagnostic tool.

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[Stunbunny]

“Wanting to be alone but feeling lonely, ” is the best summary of my 53 years I’ve ever come across. Also, 19. Bingo.

[CatwomanMeowz]

The one that hits me the hardest is the inability to focus around injustice- and the fact that you immediately acknowledge “This isn’t like the way everyone is upset by injustice “. YES! It makes me absolutely bonkers, and then to try to explain it to NTs, I just get “Well life’s not fair”.

[GhostIntoTheFog]

If I could give a word of advice to any of my fellow autistics who worry about identifying as autistic, it would be not to worry. While there are a lot of hateful martyr parents out there who will tell you you don’t deserve the label “autistic” unless you have a co-occurring intellectual disability or very intensive support needs, they’re full of it and have no understanding of what the autistic spectrum even is. If you fall anywhere on that spectrum, whether you’re formally diagnosed or self-diagnosed, you’re entitled to use the label “autistic, ” period.

[messnet]

"I can't hear you, the lights are too bright" hit home hard for me. There's so many times where I just freeze doing whatever I'm doing because there's too much going on around me and all I can manage to blurt out is "There's too much going on... I can't think"

[annagizziatlas]

Instead of difficulty getting into bed, it’s difficulty getting into the shower for me.

[susanhunter]

I have so much empathy that, I can feel bad about a spoon being alone in the drawer. I'm undiagnosed, but I got 17 on the bingo card. I'm 61 years old and got diagnosed with adhd at 59. It's tough right now being empathic. I have to take mental health breaks because I follow a lot of news and activists. I cannot understand the hate these days. I just subscribed, thank you for talking about, what can be, overwhelming empathy.

[cheesebread]

I got all of them! Hesitating to use the word “autistic” really got me. Not only do I do that, but I’m worried that if fully unmask people might think I’m pretending to be autistic 😞

[aricurtis]

I literally gasped when you said "wishing other people asked good questions, too!" I feel like physical discomfort when people ask bad (imo) questions! It's agonizing lol!

[jacobchristensen]

23 for me. Routines aren't sacred for me, I'm actually terrible at keeping them, BUT I get really frustrated at surprise changes to my day. That sounds like I have a routine but the thing is my days aren't the same, but when I have an idea of how my day is going to go and then something changes that at the last minute I don't have a good time. I explained this to my wife and now she is great at making lunch plans with me a couple days in advance instead of calling me and asking if I want to get lunch in a couple hours. The other one I don't have is the caffeine/alcohol/meds one. Caffeine might have a reduced effect on me though.

[ID-]

I was always more of a "I can't think, you're too loud" kind of person
16/25

[tomascalvo]

This is so helpful. I had never heard anyone articulate the feeling of wishing that neurotypical people knew how to ask good questions 😂

[malcolmdarke]

Speaking from personal experience, "research mode" is surprisingly useful for preparing good-quality presentations/articles. The desire to *exhaustively* understand a topic tends to lead down rabbit holes and consume time, but you can then pull out all kinds of cross-links and parallels that can potentially help others understand the topic too.

Recently late-diagnosed at 30.

[davidhepworthmusic]

I scored 22. I got diagnosed autistic at age 29. I suspected for a few years before that. I was hesitant to refer to myself as autistic for fear of being wrong and misrepresenting myself at the expense of "truly" autistic people. Glad I know better now. Research mode brought me to this video lol. Thanks for sharing

[London]

Thank you so much for this. In my 55th year things are finally starting to make sense. I thought everyone needed to sit alone in a dark, quiet, cold room for at least one hour during a party.

[excystium]

My sister works with autistic kids and she has been telling me I must be autistic because I share so many personality traits with them. I'm 39 years old and have never been diagnosed but I check all of those. Thank you for this. It's nice to think I may come by my quirks honestly.

[DakshaiRanger]

It's more "How many did i *not* check off?"

I will listen to a song over and over again, but due to being AuDHD, that song on repeat changes to another one after a few days.

Even at 39, I look for new music to listen to more than anyone else I know.

[MargauxNeedler]

People wanna get mad at the socially inept, but they don't wanna pause & ask them what they're thinking or feeling in the bad moments then help them go through each thought & question that keeps getting in the way of functioning peacefully & efficiently.

[ariellecabrera]

The: "firm deep pressure (as far as touch)", really stuck out, same with the "I can't hear you, the lights are too bright", is the story of my life.

[kaidevaleria]

I’m autistic and I work in architecture. If you’d like to know about what’s behind walls and how houses are built I’d love to talk about it for way too long lol

[zerometh]

24 wow. I was diagnosed last year, and it has been a mind-blowing experience. Knowing i am not broken, just different