Inside My Autistic Mind: Active Listening

A comedy sketch about the struggles of active listening for Autistics

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[ShftyClutch]

My super power is that I can look at you right in the face and not hear a single word you said

[Lambshank]

“It’s not that I haven’t been listening. It’s that I don’t care.”

And I wonder why I was unpopular in high school

[Amerikinz]

This is honestly SO RELATABLE!!! And that ending tho 😂 Please do more of these because they’re so funny and awesome:)

[wristdisabledwriter]

I love the ending. I think I’ll share this with my siblings

[jessicarussell]

So relatable!! 😂 especially the wondering/ needing to know the etymology of words!

[earlleonard]

At high school I'd watch people talking to each other at a distance and see if I could notice any patterns of how much they'd look away, down, etc and I made used all the date I collected to devise a very complex rhythm/facial expression dance routine. I ended up becoming a music and drama teacher, so I think it worked.

[amourcasse]

I've just found this video and I am super excited to use it in a presentation to our peer advisors to present a new, more universal approach to "active listening" I hope it makes them laugh and think.

[NuriaLuna]

This is soooo fun :D
And you are a great comic, it reminded me Charlie Chaplin.
I noticed when doing anthropological interviews that the interviewees sometimes didn't know if I was listening to them or not. So I learnt to just repeat Aha.... Aha.... Aha... Aha...
And now I do it with everyone so that they speak longer before I have to say something. When I am repeating Aha... Aha... they know I am listening and I can even be looking to the floor (although I usually look to the mouth).

[liliavayuna]

this sketch is pure genius, love the ending and... wow is this relatable!

[muppetjedisparklefeet]

haha! omg, the eyebrows! so me 😂 How cool to be in the credits too, unexpected fun surprise!

[chillbaby]

This video just allowed me to confirm my own self diagnosis 😂🤣😅👏👏

[loopduplicate]

holy crap! How did I not see this in my notifications and only saw it today? Pretty damn funny, Nathan! I for one do that same thing... a lot of times I come back in the middle of the conversation and have to figure out what's going on by listening to context for a bit. That works sometimes and other times it doesn't. It's always a bit awkward as I try to find a good way to explain to whoever it was that's talking that I was thinking about something else.

[roughwoof]

*In serious comedy, there's always at least one person offended who dislikes your stuff. The secret, is to make fun of that one person.* NEEERD!

[brittany_CCLS]

Lol I love watching your videos, I'm glad I ran across your page. This video is incredibly accurate especially with my boyfriend who is high functioning autistic, and myself as well with my mental health issues and personal fears of public speaking. I tend to look at just past the person in front of me speaking or their mouth. My boyfriend doesn't make eye contact period with anyone who is communicating directly to him.

[DrMd-jrxt]

The disclaimer reminds me a lot of Nathaniel Bandy’s triggered videos. ;) I love the concept, and the content! Keep up the great work!

[Brunicon]

i would usually click off a vid if i heard swearing, its nothing personal, but this probably the funniest and relatable skit ever and thats why i watched the whole video ( oh btw im autistic as well and after discovering your channel i find out we resemble each other so much that we are practically the same person just in different bodies )

[andycoopr]

Spot on for me 70% of the time. Nice to see someone else’s head working the same as mine!

[sandy]

One trick I use while listening to people: I pick only a few words out and try to remember them while having my inner monologues, which are often times more interesting than what the other person has to say. That way I know roughly what the person is trying to say.
What I also learned: usually I know exactly what the other person wants to say. SOme conversations are so predictable that I don't even have to listen to them but know nonetheless what they are talking about.
Who else feels like you have much better conversations with yourself than with some other people?

[M-CH_]

Solution: talk during walks, when you're not face to face, but are facing the same direction.

[nikolateslaize]

Thanks to Jess for the idea. It was so funny. "Coversater-conversationer I wonder what the etymology of that word is" that's so me :D from beginning to end of conversation I think things like that.