Jessica K Doyle - The Autistic Neurotype

This video was included as part of joint training from The Adult Autism Practice and Thriving Autistic in relation to Neurodiversity Affirmative Adult Autism Assessments. Jessica is an Assistant Psychologist at The Adult Autism Practice and a Director at Thriving Autistic.

[audreywandel]

Heard green needle
I could differentiate between the words and sound I am certainly neurodivergent ❤ thank you this has helped me to understand myself better❤

[Al-gsoc]

I heard green needle and read brainstorm when it appeared. Then spent the rest of the video trying to puzzle out what that was supposed to mean, rather than pay attention.

[RhiannonRaven]

There is a lot of wisdom here, that is explained extremely well. Thank you.

[WPVanHeerden]

Great video, background music a wee bit loud and distracting for my brain.

[CitizenSlide]

This is well thought through and I agree with ‘most’ of the points made, but.. polytropism/monotropism is a rough generalisation - I’m a autistic polymath (score 46/50 in the AQ test), I am above average in a very wide range of subjects and would be considered good at all of them, so I specialise/ hyperfocus on whatever is in scope but will happily specialise on many different things, although never at the same time. It’s complicated, so it would be misleading for a non-autistic person to assume that all autistic people are monotropes.

Likewise the double-empathy theory. The fundamental problem with this theory is it assumes that there is ‘an’ autistic neurotype, when there isn’t. I’ve been married for 36 years to a neurotypical person, although she’s far from typical, nevertheless we get on and communicate well because we’ve always made an effort to learn about each other. Autism is a very heterogeneous condition, we’re all different, so I’m no more likely to get on with a autistic person than a neurotypical person, since I see the world from ‘my’ sensory awareness and past experiences, which are unique to me. The double-empathy problem presents a flawed assumption that all autistic people experience the world in the same ways and speak the same language, but in my 40 years of employing and working with people, that’s never been a valid assumption.

[catherinejames]

Heard green needle and thought it sounded creepy, repeating it over and over in my head. Brainstorm didn’t mean a thing, just a written word, nothing going on. Went on thinking about how the sound was made for green needle and why. Took me a little while to stop repeating it. 😂

[jodeesimpson]

It really is hard to make sense of what you hear when you can’t filter out the background noise. My colleague was talking about “red bags” (ie hospital passports for people with Learning disabilities) and all I could hear was “bread bad”. Thought it was a metaphor I hadn’t hear before. You have the monotropism to a tee though. Can you split your video into some shorts that cover each thing separately? It’s hard for people to get to the (in my opinion) best bits of this video

[marilan]

I couldn’t concentrate because of the music and the writing on the screen. I think I missed most of the information.