All right, so I want to talk about a mentality out there that sort of annoys me. I don’t want to point any fingers, but some of my subscribers have this mentality. In fact, a lot of them, and some of them have it jocularly, but it is out there. In fact, it’s all over society, so I think it’s worth talking about.
A couple of weeks ago, as you probably know, I made a forum for Luke Smith on XYZ. Of course, there are various topics, most of them technology, but I did make some sub-forums for, like, I think there is one that was something like “real life topics” or something like that. The thing about that sub-forum is right now it’s a bunch of moping, and it’s a bunch of, “Oh, well, you’ve got to put it in perspective.” You’ve got to say the obvious. My subscriber base is not representative of the population as a whole.
So first off, there’s something like 98% male. That’s not very representative. Of course, most of them are into computers; that’s a smaller subset. Most of them are into Linux and free software or VAM or law tech or, you know, something weird. So I think the people who watch my videos are going to be the kind of people who, that’s today, the kind of people who deprecated or really call themselves autistic, or the people who years ago you would have called nerds or something like that. But now that term has been totally degraded. Those are the kind of people who watch my videos.
So I have, of course, a lot of these people have a very self-conscious image of themselves where, “I am a nerd,” or whatever you want to call it, “I’m a weird person, I’m autistic,” and that’s something that sort of thing, whereas like an identity, you know, because nowadays we live in a day where you have to be labeled with all of your mental traits as if they’re like discrete diseases or something like that. Like, it can be a personality trait, you know what I mean?
A lot of these people went to the forum and basically were, you know, I again, no offense to you if you did this, but you know, a lot of people get in this mindset where, “I’m a particular person and I have these flaws that I can overcome,” or sometimes they take things that aren’t flaws and assume that they’re flaws because they’re different from other people.
Now, first off, I think there are two main points to this. One is, first off, you’re not weird. And second off, a lot of the things you think are weird are not really weird. In fact, a lot of the things that you do that differentiate you from other people make you more normal than other people.
Okay, so on the first point, you’re not weird. And to put it in perspective, first, most of the people watching my channel are a little younger than I am. I’m 28. I got a lot of people watching this channel who are in high school or who are, you know, in college or something like that in their early 20s or something. Let me just tell you, if you will, first off, from my perspective, I looked back at my high school days, and yeah, I have memories of high school—some good, some bad, mostly good. I mean, I think it wasn’t particularly the good high school, but I mean, the thing about your high school days is that once they’re over, they’re over. Same thing with your middle school days and your elementary school days. You know, time passes, and all of the little social things that you think are very important don’t really matter.
What matters for me in high school was the fact, you know, for my personal development, is that’s when I sort of started getting into computers. I guess that’s also when I started learning Latin. That’s when I started doing different things. Those kind of things lasted. Like, these fleeting social encounters, if you looked awkward at some event or if you looked really cool at some event, those things don’t matter.
So first off, if you’re the kind of person who’s a late bloomer or if you’re someone who didn’t socialize as quickly as other people, like maybe, or if you’re still in high school and you still say slightly inappropriate stuff and you know, “God, I must be autistic. There must be something wrong with me.” Now, that’s a natural thing to happen. You know, I’m sure maybe you could get diagnosed with autism if that means anything, but that’s a totally normal thing for people to go through. I mean, totally “normal” people, Chads, you know, they have the same thing. They go to a party, and sometimes a lot of people say things that are just inappropriate, and they totally mess up. That isn’t funny, and you know, it’s just awkward or something like that. That’s a normal thing to happen.
When you do that, if you do something like that, you can’t beat yourself over the head with it. It doesn’t—it’s a silly mentality. So the mentality, you know, other things like, you know, if you’re 22 and you’ve never had sex, I’m sorry, you’re not weird. Like, there’s nothing weird about that. I don’t know when the average age that someone has sex is, but it honestly doesn’t matter, dude. Like, that’s something that so many people get obsessed with. So many people talk about their body counts like it matters, and just as you get older, it’s just like all water under the bridge.
I mean, the things you should be thinking about, the things that are permanent skills you will have for life, are when you do run into a relationship, whether that’s romantic or otherwise, that actually matters. Be sure to keep, you know, keep watering that relationship. All the other ones, they don’t really matter that much.
So that’s the first point. First off, you’re not weird. Secondly, you know, there are a lot of things you do that are different from other people, but that doesn’t mean you’re the weird one. And that is a lot of people, you know, who hear in the comments section or on the forum will beat themselves up over the fact that, “Oh, I don’t like Game of Thrones and TV and, you know, Normie stuff. I don’t like going out to clubs. I don’t like drinking. Like, that’s not very fun. I don’t like small talk.” A lot of that is just totally normal.
Like, the thing—there are very few people, I think, in the world who really like going out to bars. They do it for different reasons. Sometimes they want to get dates; sometimes they want to do, you know, different stuff. But no one really likes doing that, I think, at the core. Well, okay, there are some people. I know some people who like doing it, but if you’re the kind of person who sees that and you’re like, “What the hell is going on?” that’s a totally normal reaction to have.
The same thing is true, look, you know, when it comes to TV. I can’t watch TV without getting disgusted about, you know, different things. But if you’re the kind of person who can’t watch TV, like, that’s totally normal. It’s not like in all times and places it’s a normal thing for people to sit in front of the TV and watch it for hours and hours. That’s like a disease that occurred in the previous generation in our country, and that’s never happened before. Hopefully, it never happens again. It was a terror. TV was a mistake.
Okay, so if you don’t like things like this, or even things like dating, right? So dating is sort of the same thing as binge-watching TV, right? The institution of dating as it exists right now is really awkward and uncomfortable, right? Meeting someone you don’t really know, going out for dinner a couple of times, you know, just the whole rigmarole is not like an organic institution the way the courtship used to be when we had civic institutions. You had community clubs; you went to church, stuff like that. You know, we use dating because basically we’re all bowling alone. We’re all living in this isolated society.
But my point is there are a lot of things about society that are sort of off, and if you feel weird because you don’t like those things, it’s not you who’s wrong, you know what I mean? So don’t beat yourself up about it. Anyway, so that’s about it. Again, just don’t get in the mindset of, “I’m a weird person. I can’t, you know, I am diagnosable with, you know, some mental trait or something that makes me different. I can’t improve myself. I have to put myself in this box, and I have to be a prisoner in there.” Just don’t get yourself in that mindset.
Yeah, people are different. Maybe it’s harder for you to engage socially than other people, and that’s not bad. I mean, the thing you have to remember about society is we’re not all supposed to be middle-of-the-bell-curve people. Sometimes, you know, society is a big genetic mesh, and people have different traits, and people do different things, and there’s nothing wrong with your—the thing that you’re supposed to do is something a little different.
So my advice again for younger viewers: improve yourself. Don’t worry about the social details if they’re not going to last. If you think they will care about them, otherwise just ignore them. Actually, probably most things you think are important socially, they’re probably still not important. But anyway, so that’s pretty much it. It’s sort of a random video, but I’ll see you guys next time.
uploaded 2018, February 19th, [youtube], [bitchute], [odysee], [videos.lukesmith.xyz]
@alex_hiller - 2018-07-20 19:06:47
Come for the Linux, stay for the feels.+1 tys.
@hashkeeper - 2020-07-20 19:06:48
Haha! Sew real+7
@alex_hiller - 2021-07-20 19:06:48
Alon Itzhak A public service by Luke Smith, hahaha+8
@techtiger2558 - 2021-07-20 19:06:48
true dat+4
@quocthinhluu4098 - 2021-07-20 19:06:48
Same+3
@rishushrivastav4591 - 2021-07-20 19:06:48
i feel you bruh+3
@primorock8141 - 2022-07-20 19:06:48
Couldn't have said it better myself+2
@jennbob5521 - 2023-07-20 19:06:48
bsd+2
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-20 19:06:48
DID SOMEBODY SAY 'LOOONIX'?!!?!!?? I'M GOOONNAA COOOOOOM+1
@GeorgijTovarsen - 2019-07-20 19:06:47
"I'm sorry but you're not weird" How will I ever recover+1,1 tys.
@justins7796 - 2021-07-20 19:06:48
😂😂😂+14
@porky1118 - 2021-07-20 19:06:48
Everyone on the internet says, they're weird. Probably because they want to feel special. Sometimes I think, I'm the only normal person :P (I just want to feel more special)+65
@scalalearning7850 - 2022-07-20 19:06:48
Get into Scat+14
@8i3-g2v - 2023-07-20 19:06:48
@scalalearning7850 what's weird about that+3
@Telados - 2023-07-20 19:06:48
@scalalearning7850 Maybe he isn't German?+2
@InkfinityOkamix3 - 2023-07-20 19:06:48
@scalalearning7850 ngl I read your username as “scatlearning”+4
@tekrit3249 - 2024-07-20 19:06:48
skibidi bum dop bumdadabop+2
@ogabrielcasanova - 2020-07-20 19:06:47
Luke had a better boomer dad conversation with me than my dad himself+781
@demr04 - 2022-07-20 19:06:48
Boomers are highly overrated. It's like they had lived for most that 60 years and in that time, they never thought of their everyday life.+66
@ewetoo - 2024-07-20 19:06:48
@xdirtyrandyx he certainly seems to be in heavy denial and attempting to convert everyone else+4
@KyriosHeptagrammaton - 2024-07-20 19:06:48
@demr04 Things not working out? Just do what I did. Be raised in the most prosperous and peaceful time in human history. Alright, good talk son.+4
@danieldyck2664 - 2019-07-20 19:06:47
"Maybe I'm just a bizarre little person who walks back and forth." -- Terry A. Davis.+879
@kepinpin5277 - 2020-07-20 19:06:49
Based TCHAD+70
@MrDarren690 - 2020-07-20 19:06:49
I miss him so much.+74
- 2021-07-20 19:06:49
A 1 dimensional being?+13
@eotengeryne - 2021-07-20 19:06:49
"I'm going to give the VM 24 cores, because I have a fucking Xeon supercomputer" - Terry Davis+49
@shizno1872 - 2021-07-20 19:06:49
I miss him bros.+13
@Prof.P.P.P.Eräreikä - 2025-05-20 19:06:49
I don't miss him+2
@jordekang2844 - 2018-07-20 19:06:47
>98% male >tfw 2% female >females watch his videos Gtfo chad+1,9 tys.
@swsw6250 - 2018-07-20 19:06:49
"females"+337
@hongtanke - 2018-07-20 19:06:49
2% of his population watch his videos from their mom's phone.+519
@marcussmithwick6326 - 2018-07-20 19:06:49
It's been fun boys+28
@i_dont_want_a_handle - 2019-07-20 19:06:49
femoids*+82
@delaneysins8494 - 2019-07-20 19:06:49
I'm the only female here... rip.+88
@LISBONKULT - 2019-07-20 19:06:49
@SuzLa1 You are taking it too seriously+80
@StonkeyKong - 2019-07-20 19:06:49
SusieLa1 a chad is just a guy that gets a lot of girls. You’re overthinking it.+64
@JK-pi6ji - 2020-07-20 19:06:50
this is pure gold+1
@uzKantHarrison - 2020-07-20 19:06:50
@delaneysins8494 nope!+10
@f23anone82 - 2020-07-20 19:06:50
@delaneysins8494 Can we have some proofs? If you know what I mean xD+18
@lillasagna5487 - 2020-07-20 19:06:50
@f23anone82 SIMP+8
@PianistSeb - 2020-07-20 19:06:50
If you didn't know, there are females who are into computers, there are females who study computer science and it surprise me that they are only 2%.+9
@asmallphd9648 - 2021-07-20 19:06:50
The average room of error for any data that is properly collected is 2%.+27
@ayveee3811 - 2021-07-20 19:06:50
Those are female (male)+9
@yoshiguy35 - 2021-07-20 19:06:50
@Jude Rhett We don't+3
@NightTimeDay - 2022-07-20 19:06:50
@delaneysins8494 joining the club. Us autistic women gotta stick together lol+10
@videorelaxant2780 - 2022-07-20 19:06:50
>tfw no Luke Smith gf+6
@thewillowspeak - 2022-07-20 19:06:50
I'm a stay at home mom. I didn't finish college because a career didn't seem worth it to me, but I like learning and enjoy listening to this kind of content while I do housework.+21
@protoketer4554 - 2022-07-20 19:06:50
@PianistSeb how the hell is that a surprise+1
@Phasma6969 - 2022-07-20 19:06:50
@delaneysins8494 just another chad, don't take it personally :^)+1
@Phasma6969 - 2022-07-20 19:06:50
@thewillowspeak We love to hear it, live and let live+1
@II-ii2um - 2023-07-20 19:06:50
@thewillowspeak chad woman listening to linux content whilst doing housework. This is a new category in itself.+15
@wtfimcrying - 2023-07-20 19:06:50
@swsw6250 yes+2
@theskyizblue2day431 - 2023-07-20 19:06:50
@thewillowspeak god bless you and your marriage.+3
@thewillowspeak - 2023-07-20 19:06:50
@theskyizblue2day431 Thank you. Just celebrated our 7th year. Trying to convince him on the homesteading lifestyle, and I started homeschooling so good progress!+7
@oniondesu9633 - 2024-10-20 19:06:50
@thewillowspeak ywnbaw+1
@AhmedKhaled-sj1zx - 2018-07-20 19:06:47
Ammm, I think in forum there are 98% male and 2% male with female account+837
@toofle - 2020-07-20 19:06:50
yeah i'm a girl (boy)+48
@JohnBrown-of4pw - 2022-07-20 19:06:50
Isn’t that a rule of the Internet+4
@iam-retarded-but - 2022-07-20 19:06:50
Entry #17 no only men and men exist on the internet+5
@codegeek98 - 2022-07-20 19:06:50
G(uy) I(n) R(eal) L(ife)+20
@tanura5830 - 2023-07-20 19:06:50
@iam-retarded-but why only men?+1
@iam-retarded-but - 2023-07-20 19:06:50
@tanura5830 women aren't real+6
@KyriosHeptagrammaton - 2023-07-20 19:06:50
@toofle I can't remember if I'm a girl or a boy+1
@fireguiqueen - 2025-06-22 19:06:50
Duolicious be like+1
@Dark_Detective - 2024-07-20 19:06:47
Autism is not just a social disorder. In order to be diagnosed with autism you must demonstrate repeated and restricted patterns of behaviours, interests, or activities.+27
@algar6616 - 2024-11-20 20:06:51
Yawn It’s a personality that differs, don’t go looking for diagnosis+1
@lesbianwalrus - 2019-07-20 19:06:47
"TV was a mistake." Quote of the year. The more I think about it, the more it seems right.+266
@SnapThority - 2023-07-20 19:06:51
@I Low Quality Rip Everything More than 60 years ago Newton Minow gave his “television as vast wasteland” address.+5
@turtleanton6539 - 2024-07-20 19:06:51
Yes😊😊😊+1
@MickeyD2012 - 2019-07-20 19:06:47
Dude, I flap my hands thinking about rendering graphics.+269
@superunknown2728 - 2020-07-20 19:06:51
Made me chuckle+12
@EvilThePyro - 2020-07-20 19:06:51
I sometimes flap my hands while I wait for my Operating System to load lol.+40
@boyliiife1682 - 2023-07-20 19:06:51
sorry bro, u might in fact be weird+11
@punchster289 - 2024-12-20 20:06:51
ME TOO+2
@newpaperyes - 2024-12-20 20:06:51
Very normal. Learning to be still is a skill.+1
@porteal8986 - 2018-07-20 19:06:47
I was diagnosed as high-functioning autistic last year and that diagnosis along with my weak social skills have caused me to constantly second-guess myself and try to change for people. I needed this bit of encouragement to pull me back into reality+485
@totally_not_a_bot - 2021-07-20 19:06:52
It's been a couple years. How ya doing?+32
@overloader7900 - 2021-07-20 19:06:52
I prefer talking with computers, they actually tell what's wrong when something's wrong, and they rarely do mistakes themselves+62
@chillingwithchills2769 - 2021-07-20 19:06:52
Just vouch for me fam if you know me or whatever and you want to save my identity. I'm that geezer innit+5
@Steerable6827 - 2021-07-20 19:06:52
@LevKozlodoev wdym a joke? high functioning doesn't necessarily mean its a mild case, it just means they have developed great coping skills and are more resilient. you Can have a mild case of autism but be the opposite of high functioning, and you can have extreme autism and be considered high functioning.+36
@porteal8986 - 2021-07-20 19:06:52
@alexvig2369 probably true, the criteria for diagnoses have widened pretty far+10
@TheNinj47 - 2022-07-20 19:06:52
@Steerable6827 thanks for that explanation I have wondered what it actually means to be a "high functioning" anything before but never bothered to look it up+5
@user-pj3ic6qw2p - 2022-07-20 19:06:52
@carly582 People with Aspergers lack self awareness to a degree and do not understand most social cues. I was diagnosed as a child and always offended people by either being to honest or saying what i think without realising it could hurt people. I felt guilty about it for a while but generally stopped caring about it since i can't control something i don't understand.+6
@carly582 - 2022-07-20 19:06:52
@user-pj3ic6qw2p that's called being rude. Everyone is born rude, manners are taught. Read up and study social skills.+9
@user-pj3ic6qw2p - 2022-07-20 19:06:52
@carly582 Well it's also rude of you to not understand that your friend is not able to notice when he is being rude.+4
@carly582 - 2022-07-20 19:06:52
@user-pj3ic6qw2p he is though, he does it on purpose. He uses his autism diagnosis to get away with it. My brother is extremely polite to people.+14
@manners7483 - 2022-07-20 19:06:52
@user-pj3ic6qw2p I did the same thing but found it easy to learn how to avoid hurting people once I knew that i was different and couldn't trust my judgment on what others found appropriate to say. There are only a few things to learn so you should be able to manage and its not a bad idea to be kind to people. I still get called based often for speaking the truth but its worth it to learn how to not hurt peoples feeling when it is unnecessary or unkind to. Sometimes I just have to say things and I do but often the options are to make someone feel better or make someone feel worse and in that case its best to just be nice or hold your tongue.+2
@carly582 - 2022-07-20 19:06:52
@manners7483 I'm not expecting anyone to do anything. If someone's rude to me I'm rude to them. If someone's nice to me I'm nice to them.+2
@diedforurwins - 2022-07-20 19:06:52
I just came out of 30 years of second guessing like this. I actually came to a revelation not long ago that I’m me and literally fuck everyone who doesn’t like it cause I know I’m a good person. I’m compassionate, loving and generous and I no longer think that makes me weak.+12
@foljs5858 - 2023-07-20 19:06:52
@Steerable6827 yes, but it still means a milder case that someone who needs to be fed and dressed up by others, or sits all day in a bed screeming.+2
@Alwaysttango - 2025-01-20 20:06:52
Exactly the opposite experience, got diagnosed the same at 30 and it made my whole life made sense. I've been trying to please people for the longest time, always failing and loosing relationships, feeling born defective. Now I have a name for it and I don't care anymore, like me as I am or leave I don't have to please anyone over myself. I'm the happiest and best adjusted I've ever been, doing better on all life aspects (except physical health because of a knee surgery). Life is good as a diagnosed autistic adult, or just a plain adult once you respect yourself for who you are.+2
@Forbidden303 - 2018-07-20 19:06:47
YOURE NOT MY REAL DAD!!!!+173
@senzudude - 2024-10-20 19:06:52
😂😂+1
@motarted1735 - 2022-07-20 19:06:47
The biggest problem is doctors over diagnosing "autism" at a very young age and parents reinforcing a child's behaviors because "that's just the way he/she is and we can't do anything about it"+387
@Tecnoninjatangreen - 2023-07-20 19:06:53
I Was 35 When I was Diagnosed thought I also Have Dyslexia and ADD. I had a hard time making friends I got Teased a lot and some of kids did not like me but i never gave up and I mad Friends. I got Married to the love of my life when I was 23. In my 30s I was having lots of melt downs. Having a hart time Handling Stress and changes at work so i went to see a psyocalgist she dignosed me with autism and put me on SSI. My Melt downs at work were gitting so bab I was becoming unemployable+24
@wtfimcrying - 2023-07-20 19:06:53
srs+2
@redgt827 - 2023-07-20 19:06:53
in my case i was diagnosed at an early age and put in therapy all my life to try and correct bad behavior i wasn't really allowed to be a kid, everything was constantly scrutinized and punished, it was like having 3 bosses that come around every time you screw up your tps report. you get punished at school, then sent to the sped room, then they would call your parents, then they take you to a family therapist where the only advice you got was "stop doing that"+28
@Telados - 2023-07-20 19:06:53
@redgt827 Even worse when your siblings get dragged to those therapists as well because they can't be left alone so they have part of their childhood wasted for no reason+9
@hongmeiling6065 - 2024-07-20 19:06:53
The mentality that "we can't do anything about it" among parents is itself the cause of almost every fucking problem we have.+13
@whodowehavebuteachother - 2023-07-20 19:06:47
Luke is 28 pushing 50+51
@senzudude - 2024-10-20 19:06:53
😂+1
@Assault_Butter_Knife - 2019-07-20 19:06:47
Mate, I know this is an ancient video, and without going into any details I just wanted to unironically say thanks. You have no idea what this video meant to me+118
@keycapslapper7080 - 2019-07-20 19:06:53
Came here to say pretty much this. I should watch this video every morning+11
@altrombone1775 - 2022-07-20 19:06:53
same+1
@luigiday0 - 2024-07-20 19:06:53
same+1
@vpxc - 2018-07-20 19:06:47
'It gets better.' -- Luke Smith, 2018+364
@vpxc - 2018-07-20 19:06:53
I kid, but your message is true and useful to remember. I'd like to append to the title something like '(and even if you are, you've got to figure out some way to live!)'.+3
@integralyogin - 2018-07-20 19:06:53
"it gets better" -also louis ck+1
@AoTheMighty - 2021-07-20 19:06:53
It sure did+7
@thingsiplay - 2021-07-20 19:06:53
From the future 2020 here. His words fit perfectly here.+2
@megadog_ - 2021-07-20 19:06:53
Narrator: "It didn't"+21
@redvelvet5374 - 2022-07-20 19:06:53
Yeah about that.+1
@cjwhite2631 - 2022-07-20 19:06:53
It gets much much worse - book of Revelations+4
@benbernanke7701 - 2022-07-20 19:06:53
2022 here, all good actually.+1
@turolretar - 2023-07-20 19:06:54
You know what, it actually got better, in a sense there’s now room for change+2
@yon2k154 - 2023-07-20 19:06:54
@megadog_ Morgan Freeman: "But, it did not get better."+2
@mcray79 - 2024-09-20 19:06:54
@yon2k154 It did not get better+1
@nicholasisaiah53john316 - 2024-11-20 20:06:54
@cjwhite2631 Then it gets much better.+1
@kaywee - 2024-12-20 20:06:54
it did not get better+1
@dorusie5 - 2019-07-20 19:06:47
"We're all bowling alone" What a nice way of phrasing that+57
@vivekpanchagnula815 - 2020-07-20 19:06:54
I'm pretty sure he was referencing the book, "Bowling Alone".+19
@tarasywszedzie - 2018-07-20 19:06:47
I'm pretty normal. I just like Linux. I use Linux. And I like your videos, because they're interesting and I like the way you share your opinions and knowledge.+261
@fossegrim287 - 2019-07-20 19:06:54
(hes talking to /g/)+18
@themysteriousnavi6850 - 2019-07-20 19:06:54
I use windows because I’m a gamer! But Linux seems pretty cool!+5
@godnyx117 - 2023-07-20 19:06:54
@themysteriousnavi6850 *gaymer+1
@itsYakuza - 2018-07-20 19:06:47
>2% female(male)+160
@rexevan6714 - 2018-07-20 19:06:55
YakuzYah #staʟe_memes fe(male)+3
@salvatoreshiggerino6810 - 2018-07-20 19:06:55
Speaking of which, anyone here remember Me and Charlie from /g/ a few years ago?+2
@llIllIlI - 2019-07-20 19:06:55
G.I.R.L. = Guy In Real Life+31
@desktorp - 2019-07-20 19:06:55
meme-male+1
@blakefreeman1077 - 2022-07-20 19:06:47
Well-said. People are quick to label themselves with some kind of syndrome these days, and often wear it like a badge of honor, (or an albatross around their neck). Skim through the comments on any mental health-related youtube channel. You'll see quite a few people searching for a way to obtain an official diagnosis, ("finally got my diagnosis!! Yay!!"). Not trying to disparage anyone who genuinely has a serious mental condition, but there seems to be a pretty high number of people who are seeking to put themselves in some kind of box. My tendency is to believe that there are a lot of unhappy, unfulfilled, socially frustrated people in the world today. Maybe I am off-base with this, but it seems that the number of people desperately searching for personal or social validity through some kind of group identity is increasing daily. I can't help but feel that some people may be looking for an excuse to stop trying. Maybe it's a lack of perspective. It can be difficult sometimes to truly accept and cope with the negative things about yourself that you cannot change. Either way, this video rings true to me: Not every personality trait is some kind of diagnosable disease.+41
@shroomer3867 - 2024-07-20 19:06:55
I think people do that so maybe they feel like it could explain their problems. Sometimes it’s true, but only for a minority of people.+6
@lue016 - 2018-07-20 19:06:47
Debianic screeching+138
@MrGman590 - 2018-07-20 19:06:56
Parabola gahohnoo/lonaxic screeching+4
@gabrieldavid7328 - 2019-07-20 19:06:56
Ubuntic screeching+7
@mario_9431 - 2019-07-20 19:06:56
Void gnu/linux screeeeching+6
@LedoCool1 - 2019-07-20 19:06:56
Though it seems that debian went the wrong way recently. Devuan may save us.+1
@LowIiet - 2020-07-20 19:06:56
@LedoCool1 What did debian do?+2
@LedoCool1 - 2020-07-20 19:06:56
@LowIiet systemd, which violates core concept of linux systems. I'm shocked how it didn't bring it's own (incompatible with everything else) graphical environment.+4
@LedoCool1 - 2020-07-20 19:06:56
@LowIiet one more thing. It would've been fine if systemd was easily replaced with some other init system so that everyone can choose their own thing. But it looks like systemd is so distant from everything else that distros that choose it are forced to drop or hold off compatibility to other init systems which forces others to play by one book. That's windows-way and I believe many in the community can't accept it because of this reason primarily.+4
@senzudude - 2024-10-20 19:06:56
Kilimaki muukin 😂😂+1
@idcb6718 - 2022-07-20 19:06:56
Your one of the few healthy people living on this world, congrats+47
@nowayjosedaniel - 2024-08-20 19:06:57
NETFLIX SPECIAL Behind the Scenes: This one happy youtuber's dark and demented lifestyle.+1
@ИванИванов-т7ь3х - 2018-07-20 19:06:56
long beard, long wise speeches+44
@William1942-t2w - 2019-07-20 19:06:56
A really great take on life, Luke. Keep it up, and when you're 77, like I am now, you'll be more valuable to our society than any plunderable object. Thank you.+78
@bestledisthe - 2021-07-20 19:06:57
😮+3
@mlcs - 2022-07-20 19:06:57
How are you doing?+1
@goldbitcoin - 2023-07-20 19:06:57
He ded+2
@senzudude - 2024-10-20 19:06:57
Yoo how's things bro 👀 👀+1
@senzudude - 2024-10-20 19:06:57
@mlcs 👀+1
@user-pj3ic6qw2p - 2022-07-20 19:06:56
I was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome as a child and had a pretty rough childhood which caused me to develop Bipolar Disorder and through some horrible experiences i had also PTSD and Social anxiety. The first thing i did when i was an adult was to fight to get my Asperger Diagnosis legally removed. I thought if i just didn't believe there was anything wrong it would work out, it didn't. At the age of 22, i was diagnosed yet again by 2 different doctors (One Specialist and my Psychiatrist). I used to always feel bad for myself and hate who i was, wondering why i couldn't just be like everyone else. But after thoroughly getting interested in Philosophy(mainly Stoicism and Nietzsche) i generally stopped caring about that. I am pretty sure that i am exactly how nature intended me to be and i accepted that fact, therefore i just want to be myself and do the things that i value and consider important even if that makes me weird or even a "Loser" as people tend to say. What i am disgusted with though is that there are so many people on the internet that pretend to have disabilities or mental illnesses that most people now started making fun of people and not taking these things seriously anymore. Which means people like me with actual issues and diganoses are put in the same box as those attention seakers, making it basically impossible to talk to people about those things, therefore i have been quite lonely and isolated, which at this point became normal to me so that i started to be pretty independent. A trait that i didn't want but now value a lot. Because just like you said, time invested in yourself and skills is something that will always stay with you, while friends can always turn their back to you and leave.+58
@weyland-yutani-drone - 2018-07-20 19:06:56
Huh. I'm not really your demographic but this is some very sane advice. You have a knack for rationally and calmly breaking down ideas, good delivery too. Hope younger viewers take this advice on board, because as someone who went through stuff like that...it's totally normal. You'll be fine as long as you make some effort to be at least a bit self aware (which is a totally different thing than how we use the term 'self-conscious') and work on improving yourself in the areas that you can work on. Much of the other stuff will fall into place as you become a more well rounded person. Quality video and good on your for making it.+99
@NotOrdinaryInGames - 2020-07-20 19:06:56
There used to be a time when it was understood that the smartest of us are shy and awkward, it was accepted as fact. Those who screamed AAAAAAAAAAA at the sight of new people or crowds, and ran away really fast, were diagnosed with autism. In today's society, having a weakness or a sickness is a badge of honor. Don't think I need to explain why.+136
@leftfield6590 - 2023-07-20 19:06:57
I feel like part of the problem is many people do not want to view themselves as being just smart (or creative), since this feels arrogant, but want an explanation for why they are different, and latch onto things like autism. There are a lot of overlaps between autism and giftedness just like there is a thin line between genius and madness.+12
@NotOrdinaryInGames - 2023-07-20 19:06:57
@leftfield6590 There are some wise men (who reside in hidden mountain temples) who even go as far as saying genius and madness is one and the same.+2
@KyriosHeptagrammaton - 2024-07-20 19:06:57
@leftfield6590 I've been slowly learning it is arrogant to deny your gifts. Doesn't mean you need to brag, doesn't mean to think you know everything and not be humble, but false humility is not a virtue. Like people used to say to me "Wow you're really good at math." and I'd say "I'm not that good. So in so did better on that one question." which was me completely denying their compliment, and, if they took me seriously, was me implying "I'm not good, you suck"+4
@martakoakowska9872 - 2024-07-20 19:06:57
To me, having asd and adhd aren't any badges of honour. They are labels that help me somehow get along with others without breaking down into tears every few hours. If I accept and embrace my "weirdness", I can allow myself to do behaviours that people consider socially unacceptable EVEN THOUGH THEY DO NO HARM to anyone (like, not looking into strangers' eyes, rocking back and forth or pacing at a bus stop, covering my ears when a loud siren goes by, being uncoordinated with my facial and bodily expressions). I take responsibility for hurting others on purpose, but I rarely do it these days cause I have been working on myself. But those behaviours didn't even likely stem from autism, they were just me being a spoilt teenager. Me "hurting" someone's feelings by acting how I wanna is not my problem, it's theirs. Like when they feel offended by me saying fuck you to the social norms and just stimming like crazy in a public place. In these situations, the reason for someone feeling "hurt" is not me intentionally doing something to simply hurt them. It's their own feeling of pressure to conform to social rules, all while seeing that someone else just doesn't care and acts like themselves no matter what, that gets that first person to feel "offended". You see the difference? Pretending to know how to act is a huge draining force that I don't need in my life. I'd understand you would like me to change if my problem was antisocial behaviour: hurting people and animals, stealing, breaking in. But all I do wrong now is stim. Or talk about taboo topics in public places cause I don't care that much. What's hurting you in the latter case is again, not me. It's your own perception of what is right or wrong that the society has taught you.+4
@kendawg_mcawesome - 2018-07-20 19:06:56
man, I remember being a teenager, barely. shit was wack. school is like this weird alternate reality you can't see out of until suddenly it gets pulled away, or you pull it away. I left early to pursue study in a saner environment, thank fuck+32
@shroomer3867 - 2024-07-20 19:06:57
Working on my own personal Linux system literally kept me alive during school.+4
@scaJoshuaBrown - 2024-12-20 20:06:56
"I can't watch TV without getting disgusted" ~ Luke Chadmium Smith+5
@space_audits - 2019-07-20 19:06:56
98% Male 2% female. It's almost as if women aren't interested in tech as men are. Better redesign the entire field to make it 50% men and 50% female, or let's be honest, 30% male 70% female.+11
@wynnhorton1208 - 2024-07-20 19:06:56
I can see the reason for either the exaggeration or the misunderstanding: People these days are pushed into a corner, forced to declare this or that even though they don't believe in it or agree with it. It takes a _huge_ amount of effort to both lie and to lie convincingly and this is made all the harder if you are in the middle of a project or task. At many jobs, I have upset come people because I'll only speak to one or two people and will be very animated with them, really enjoying their company. But, with others, I'll be quiet and stand-offish. I got in trouble at one job for not wanting to eat lunch off the clock with other coworkers when the company was buying us all lunch. My feelings are: i'd rather not eat at all than to be forced to spend my unpaid time with those coworkers (who I didn't hate, but being forced to pretend to enjoy them was exhausting). I was told by management that I wasn't friendly enough. I am seeing ridiculous things in job ads that say I need to have extroverted, social qualities in fields that are mostly manual labor (not at all customer service or sales). I left customer service and sales to escape the political correctness and the office politics, because those are harder to deal with than the job itself.+6
@ellaj17 - 2023-07-20 19:06:56
It's really refreshing and wonderful to see someone who's directly addressing the youth and their feelings and what they're going through in the current state of the world. Keep it up! Things are so very confusing for kids now. And I let for clarity like this is definitely needed!+6
@baIec - 2022-07-20 19:06:56
21 YO me : I'm such a failiure for not having had sex at my age 25 YO me : I've never had sex and could not care any less+54
@totaldisaster0076 - 2022-07-20 19:06:58
Based+13
@kashmoney2220 - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
Duckman24 nah, he doesn't care, but he cares about not caring.+21
@ABB14-11 - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
it's not truly necessary. I'd rather a person stay a virgin than have lots of pointless problematic sex.+9
@Marimontela - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
Duckman24 i usually think they same as you but in this case i think he said it just to encourage ppl to not feel ashamed+2
@michaelhawkinson4180 - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
@kashmoney2220 taps into his ego as a coping mechanism+2
@godnyx117 - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
Based ultra chad mindset+7
@Marimontela - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
@godnyx117 ikr+3
@godnyx117 - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
@Marimontela Yeah. Stop caring about sex and wasting my time been sad and thinking about "chasing" women was one of the best choices I did. If I feel very horny, I can help myself. I should better see women as human beings and not as my pleasure objects.+3
@Marimontela - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
@godnyx117 yes totally the best choice, also the ironic thing is that when u start caring about urself and arent looking for women the women and options come to you (saying this as a woman, hopefully it adds validity lul)+2
@godnyx117 - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
@Marimontela It does make sense. Been a more quality person makes you more attractive. That's why I hate the "victim" mentality. Nobody is a victim. We all want the absolute best we can get from ourselves.+2
@PanosPitsi - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
I was 15 🥶+1
@ashleigh3021 - 2023-07-20 19:06:56
I’m literally autistic though. Thanks Luke+6
@franw5802 - 2022-07-20 19:06:56
Good video. Diagnosis is supposed to help you finding personalized strategy to improve yourself, not make you feel like a failure.+13
@s1nistr433 - 2022-07-20 19:06:56
Most people who are diagnosed with "autism" aren't actually autistic, they usually just have social anxiety (a problem which anyone can overcome). To show you how insane this whole disorder movement is, when I was about 14 I got diagnosed with a "defiance disorder". Seriously. If I'm not compliant, I'm a damaged human being who needs to be medicated. If this isn't dystopian then idk what is. My advice to anyone out there reading this. If you're diagnosed with a disorder, do everything you can to overcome it. Try socializing with other people, fix your health/diet, practice what you are bad at. There is no excuse for doing nothing.+172
@s1nistr433 - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
@cooleyYT You absolutely can though, honestly it's pretty ignorant and stupid to pretend that the majority of social anxiety cannot be fixed with accountability and personal responsibility.+9
@cooleyYT - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
@s1nistr433 yea because getting help bad..just getting over it and dealing with it good. Fantastic logic. Amazing that you dont know what its like, clearly. OR your logic is just flawed. either way you're wrong+17
@PeteS_1994 - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
Social anxiety is usually a symptom of another issue one has. And autism is not wrong, it doesn't have to be overcame. It's just different brain wiring so it should be more about learning how to adapt to the world and making people more aware of autism so that they adapt top it.+24
@mickcole2763 - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
Autism sdiagnosis is just social anxiety? Wrong+8
@s1nistr433 - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
@mickcole2763 No, I said that it is often misdiagnosed as social anxiety+5
@RAVETOR - 2023-07-20 19:06:58
You're right!+1
@cooleyYT - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
@RAVETOR thank you+1
@Nuhbuddys - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
There's a great book by Thomas Szas called The Myth of Mental Illness. Great book.+2
@Nuhbuddys - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
@cooleyYT You know the title. Read it and find out.+1
@cooleyYT - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
@Nuhbuddys dont need to if its still bullshit. i found out how bullshit it is just from reading the title. but nice try+6
@Nuhbuddys - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
@cooleyYT Don't read. Nuff said. Good day.+1
@cooleyYT - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
@Nuhbuddys I know you can't. Nuff said+1
@Nuhbuddys - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
@cooleyYT I know you are, but what am I?+1
@Instarius - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
I was diagnosed but my problem wasn't just anxiety, I always had problems with coordination, even as a small child, and nothing Has changed since then, I'm still unable to learn to ride a bike, I have problems with folding my clothes, I'm still extremely sensitive to sounds etc. I never had any friends, even in kindergarden I was sitting alone and drawing and never playing with other children, I would react with hysteria when a teacher tried to pull me to sit with others. I have obsessive interests and I tend to stay in my own world a lot too+6
@cooleyYT - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
@doomer idly why my doctor hasn't suggeste- oh that's right because it's hippie bs+2
@UnixOath - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
@cooleyYT ?+1
@cooleyYT - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
@UnixOath ??+2
@UnixOath - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
@cooleyYT ???+1
@leftfield6590 - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
@PeteS_1994 The problem is autism has such massive stigma around it now, for many people it is the new "retarded" but for bad social skills, and people use it as an insult. If you want a movement where people with that kind of brainwiring are more accepted, I think you would need a new label for it. Also, it has become so all encompassing that basically every weirdo I know could fit under the label to some extent. There are many different ways your brain can be wired differently from others+4
@virz4432 - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
@Instarius Everyone can develop at a different pace.+1
@DevaCat - 2024-07-20 19:06:59
So you decide who is autistic or not and you also decide that if they can’t “improve” in the way you want, then they are just lazy?? It’s actually very very very difficult to be diagnosed with autism especially as a woman, so don’t say that many people are misdiagnosed with autism, most of time autistic people are misdiagnosed with something else, especially women.+8
@taylor3465 - 2024-07-20 19:06:59
well no actually that's not right+2
@mateuspokemon01 - 2022-07-20 19:06:56
>You're not "Autistic." You're normal. Luke, I'm literally autistic, I don't get what you're talking about+27
@wachsmalstift - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
haha I thought the same+5
@Daniele63 - 2023-07-20 19:06:59
Autists are normal, it's the other guys who are weird+11
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-20 19:06:59
same !!!!+1
@bugs389 - 2020-07-20 19:06:56
Far more encouraging, motivational, and real than other content. Thanks man, I needed this.+11
@GameTek-yg6ew - 2024-07-20 19:06:56
in my country we test autsim with how many emblems you have in sonic adventure 2 battle edition, its obligatory to bring your gamecube memory card to the test, i had all 180 emblems and green hill zone unlocked so i m on welfare for autism now+9
@MrShady365 - 2024-09-20 19:06:59
😂+1
@magnusanderson6681 - 2021-07-20 19:06:56
Early boomer comforts late bloomers by traumatizing high school chads saying that they're no better than the virgin college student+43
@foljs5858 - 2023-07-20 19:06:56
1% of the population is autistic. But also, a much larger share of people attracted and prone to geek-ery and nerd-ery are autistic than in the general population (this is true for IT, but also for Physics, Math majors etc). Those have been well studied and documented in relevant papers. So, yeah, it's very possible that a large percentage (10% or more) of your specialized geek-oriented audience IS autistic. Unless you have studied what autism is, and how it manifests and behavior like "masking", you might have the idea that autistic means "Rain Man" or "The Accountant" style behavior, which is hardly the case for the "highly functional" side of the spectrum. So unless you see that, you're quick to call the other "fake" or "normal just thinking they are autistic". The social things you say "don't matter" after high school still matter a lot in adult life, and represent realsetbacks for autistic people - even the highly functional (non-Rainman style) autistic people who you couldn't tell at first glance. They mean big problems in socializing, being the office scape boat, failing at office politics, taken advantage off, and we haven't even touched the sensory and other issues. In some IT companies it's better than the general corporate world, as a lot of colleagues will be autistic too, so the climate is more geared towards accomondatingt that mindset, even if it's not done explicitly and consciously. In others, all bets are off. In general, telling people "you're not autistic, you're normal" when you don't know their individual cases, and when by its very nature of your content a larger share (than the general population) of your audience will be actually autistic, is BS and detrimental. It's like going to McDonalds with a lot of the tables full of 300+ pound guys eating and telling them "You're not obese, you're normal".+8
@alleygh0st - 2023-07-20 19:07:00
Something that badly needed be said. If anything I find it's the so-called normal people that seem to live in their bubble.+6
@dontpokethebear3893 - 2018-07-20 19:07:00
WHOLESOME H O L E S O M E+21
@nuffin2hide855 - 2018-07-20 19:07:00
I think most people just call themselves just jokingly call themselves autistic. Using linux and spending hours customizing your environment isn't normal, but who cares? I don't want to be normal. I think people should just care less about what other people except family and close friends think of you. When I used to make some weird jokes and nobody laughed I felt super bad for the whole day, but other people dont really care that much. They might find it weird in the moment but just forget about it afterwards. People really don't care that much about you. It was so bad that when I answered a teacher's question wrong in class I felt bad about it for a long time and thought about what the teacher might think of me because of that. I know this sounds super weird but that's just how insecure I used to be. [Special snowflake intensifies]+109
@sixdroid - 2019-07-20 19:07:00
I use linux and I don't care customizations. arch BTW+7
@teknos_ - 2022-07-20 19:07:00
@manners7483 holy shit i might be same as u+1
@turolretar - 2023-07-20 19:07:00
@manners7483 doesn’t everyone have these thoughts and feelings? Come on, it’s not all smooth sailing+5
@Tecnoninjatangreen - 2023-07-20 19:07:00
@manners7483 I've Had These Issues and feeling some times still do But i just go for it and make mistakes and learn from them and i've mad friends some go and some to advantage of me then i weeded the bad ones out. After Failing at dating i finally met the love of my life. I am not A virgin I am Married have 2 kids. Me And My wife get along well she gives it to me straight never beats around the bush and i have worked on my communication skills for her+2
@rexevan6714 - 2018-07-20 19:07:00
If you're 22 and never had sex, you are normal Thank god I'm not 22 yet.+77
@rexevan6714 - 2019-07-20 19:07:00
I'm 22 Now. Shit.+71
@moxf - 2020-07-20 19:07:00
bruh moment+5
@FaithEdits - 2021-07-20 19:07:00
:(+2
@kaiser02.y - 2021-07-20 19:07:00
Nice, man.+2
@goldbitcoin - 2023-07-20 19:07:00
You're 25 now dude. What's happening?+12
@user-mu9tq3ml1f - 2023-07-20 19:07:00
@goldbitcoin well probably nothing too interesting+12
@st3ve874 - 2023-07-20 19:07:00
I'm 33 and virgin. I love it. I'm saving myself for when I get to heaven to be in my heaven mansion with alien girls and black girls. I will create alien babies so my mom can be grandmother too. I have no time for human girls...they just get in my way tbh. Although I do have a large benis that gets real lonely sometimes. 😅😊😅😅😢😅😊😅+8
@godnyx117 - 2023-07-20 19:07:00
I'm gonna turn 22 in 3 days... SHIT!+1
@godnyx117 - 2023-07-20 19:07:00
@st3ve874 Bro, I can't understand how some guys care about human girls...+4
@st3ve874 - 2023-07-20 19:07:00
@godnyx117 Exactly+3
@matyasmarkkovacs8336 - 2023-07-20 19:07:01
I'm 24 and still never had sex. I didn't really care about it a couple of years ago, but now it worries me...+4
@st3ve874 - 2023-07-20 19:07:01
@matyasmarkkovacs8336 im 33 virgin youre good bro, i never cared neither. you cant miss what you never had+2
@gustavojoaquin_arch - 2023-07-20 19:07:01
I'm 21 btw xd+1
@rexevan6714 - 2024-07-20 19:07:01
Alright people, I'm 27 now and Have not have sex. Shit.+1
@bjornlindgren1774 - 2024-07-20 19:07:00
if the only symptom of autism you have is "social anxiety" you would be diagnosed with social anxiety disorder or whatever it's called (which is normal) not autism.+6
@riley1962 - 2018-07-20 19:07:00
You should make more videos of this caliber. Orginally subscribed for your Linux content, but I (and others I'm sure) enjoy hearing your thoughts. Have a good one.+11
@EgoShredder - 2019-07-20 19:07:00
I hate the word "weird" or "normal" when used to describe a person. I prefer to use "different" and that it is totally fine to be this way. I was frog marched by a care home manager last year into her office, where she said I was weird to my face. I think it comes down to my lack of societal conformity and more abstract ways of thinking. I also think it is ok to do anything you want, so long as it does not hurt anyone. However "normal" people like the manager, are just full of fear and prejudice when it comes to people like me, and they fail to see the creative mind and unconditional love I have for everything.+10
@martakoakowska9872 - 2024-07-20 19:07:01
Great one, this one.+2
@RaftProduction - 2019-07-20 19:07:00
>"no one likes going to bars" What+34
@poika22 - 2024-07-20 19:07:00
I was looking for this video so I searched for "you are not autistic", and every other result is "50 SIGNS THAT YOU MAY BE AUTISTIC AND NOT KNOW IT!?". Stuff like "feeling tired often", "don't like people telling you what to do", "not caring what other people think", "liking animals", "noticing patterns" and my favorite "either having a good or bad memory". This shit has millions of views, all veiled in this disguise of "understanding" and "helping" you recognize your ILLNESS. Makes me sick, especially when I just know the kids who watch this crap are also encouraged by school and other institutions to get diagnosed.+9
@stevem815 - 2022-07-20 19:07:00
Dating is a completely horrific concept. Most countries outside the US it's not a thing and even in the US it's really recent phenomena.+3
@Fran-kc2gu - 2022-07-20 19:07:00
2% female? you're telling me there's a chance?+7
@span1923 - 2019-07-20 19:07:00
thank you Luke for this. I self suspected that I had Asperger's because of some thing recently happened to me, and I have always had interests that are very different from people my age, and because of that, I never had much common language with my schoolmates/friends. I went to a counselor last week and we talked for an hour, the councelor refered to hisi DSM book and said he did not think I was austistic, and added that lots of intelligent people do feel isolated somewhat from the society, and even feel that they've got no time for stupidity, which to people around them, they are just being rude. So I guess if you enjoy different things and your friends can't understand you, maybe it is just because you are smarter, more sensible than them, but it does not necessarily mean that you are weird.+7
@PatrickDucat - 2019-07-20 19:07:00
This guy is really smart in many ways. I hope his subscribers are listening to all his videos (tech and life).+9
@NikoxD93 - 2018-07-20 19:07:00
Good points, and like you said, even if it was wrong, thinking this is a bad mindset. IRL friends are very important though, isolating yourself socially isn't natural or healthy. I'm guilty of it to though.+51
@wolfgangnowak6219 - 2019-07-20 19:07:00
True words clearly spoken. Well, ok, "normal" is a statistical unit, it does not necessarily implement "good" or other moralic units. Love your videos and your humor, keep on rockin'!+10
@rasputinmachine7488 - 2018-07-20 19:07:00
/r9k/ needs this+56
@tommy2791 - 2023-07-20 19:07:00
>Cypher tells you why NEO is a shill.+3
@davienihill8311 - 2024-07-20 19:07:00
I have to add, I am weird. But, I have 5 children. My eldest son is clearly different. Highly anxious and overwhelmed, thoughts are completely different than my other kids. He is clearly very insightful beyond his years and very interesting. I also have 5 siblings. None are like that. I have over 30 first cousins, only one of them is kind of similar. He is clearly different, thinks different, has a difficult time interacting and conversing, is sensitive and anxious.He is also highly insightful. I will make it short...I think possibly wifi frequency sensitivity or some type of brain malformation like a stroke is causing it. There is something that is going on and on different levels with people . But for the most part I agree with your comments and people are throwing themselves in this category in an attempt to understand why they are a little different and less social. Its tough.+3
@Tarik360 - 2022-07-20 19:07:00
Watched this somewhere during 2019. I'm 27 and and It's actually sinking in more easily now.+4
@newstuffnsf5265 - 2022-07-20 19:07:00
Plot twist he's talking to the camera man+3
@chiggyjiggy7019 - 2022-07-20 19:07:01
4 Years later still relevant.+3
@pip5528 - 2019-07-20 19:07:01
I am a genuine nerd and take pride in the term. I also have a legitimate diagnosis of autism dating back to 9/11/01, resulting in 2 very shocking events happening on the same day: terrorist attacks and my diagnosis of (then low functioning, now high functioning) autism. I really hate that people use autism as an insult. It's stupid because even though it is a neurological developmental disorder and therefore a disability, it is also a trade-off, giving those with the condition unique skills that most neurotypical people may not necessarily have. Because we are socially inept by nature, we tend to be very good with computers and other technical or logical things. I for one, even to this day, struggle to read specific social cues at times and even experience PLI, but I am an absolute computer and technology nut and am picky about the way I have things set up or do certain things. TL;DR: Autism is essentially complete ADHD with symptoms of OCD and social awkwardness or difficulty reading social cues. That's it.+49
@pip5528 - 2022-07-20 19:07:02
@manners7483 I feel you. I go on tangents a lot. I like to type long paragraphs and could write a whole essay if I simply felt like it. I don't really like the idea of curing it and if such a thing existed I would refuse because I didn't come all this way just to throw it all away and become a completely different person. Yeah, I pretty much know how neurotypicals think but I also know how I think. Our brains aren't really missing parts so much as they are wired differently and prioritize different things.+3
@pikajew3578 - 2022-07-20 19:07:02
The trade-offs associated with autism are absolutely not worth it, being different inevitably leads to isolation which begets depression. Why is mental illness / depression so much higher with autistic people if that wasn't the case?+9
@pikajew3578 - 2022-07-20 19:07:02
"Oooh but i'm good at computers!!!" means nothing if you are constantly isolated from your peers and gain life-long depression as a result of trauma or whatever the hell it's called. Why do people love to say they are "proud" of their condition when they know that this is what it entails, is it perhaps a case of survivor bias or just a delusional coping mechanism?+5
@user-pt7zn5so6n - 2022-07-20 19:07:02
@pikajew3578 also, isolation can kill you or it can lead to you doing great things. sometimes both. not to mention, with the internet, it's totally feasible to find and meet up with other autistic people. they communicate and get along with each other as well as neurotypicals do with other neurotypicals. just gotta find their crew.+3
@samusaran7317 - 2022-07-20 19:07:02
Good post. Try to ease up on spreading lies though+2
@bruh-db8by - 2022-07-20 19:07:02
@pikajew3578 its all perspective, some people like isolation, like myself. you're being ignorant and generalizing quite a lot+4
@cooleyYT - 2023-07-20 19:07:02
@samusaran7317 its not misinformation. You're coping, because you dont understand his point. Read a book dude+1
@samusaran7317 - 2023-07-20 19:07:02
@cooleyYT You dont know why I said that, you're just assuming and projecting.+1
@cooleyYT - 2023-07-20 19:07:02
@samusaran7317 im not assuming and projecting. Just spitting pure facts+1
@cooleyYT - 2023-07-20 19:07:02
@samusaran7317 yea you are wrong. Thanks for saying it for me+1
@cooleyYT - 2023-07-20 19:07:02
@samusaran7317 but hey you only hurt yourself+1
@KyriosHeptagrammaton - 2024-07-20 19:07:02
That sounds like a severe over-reaction to diagnosis. What did those towers ever do to you?+2
@sanepillow59 - 2024-07-20 19:07:02
You're neither a nerd nor an autist. Everybody has hobbies/interests+1
@pip5528 - 2024-07-20 19:07:02
@sanepillow59 Having hobbies and interests doesn't invalidate my disability.+3
@pip5528 - 2024-07-20 19:07:02
@samusaran7317 I'm not spreading lies. This is just my perspective.+3
@Tecnoninjatangreen - 2023-07-20 19:07:01
Im 44 And A big Fan .I grew up using Ms Dos and had a Hard time adjusting to windows/Mac Desktop. Im A big fan of you video's and your dot files. Im a Huge Vim User. I've Been Diagnosed with autism but I'm not a Virgin I have been Married for 20 years and have 2 kids. I make Friends very easy. I've Work hard to improve my social skins and i don't consider my self masking my autism, I am just not using it as a crutch. Sure I make Mistakes but I learn from them and grow+6
@jkstrings4477 - 2023-07-20 19:07:01
What a great message. I’m 22 in college getting my computer science degree, I spend my weekends coding and tinkering while a lot of my friends are partying. If you feel like your missing out, do your self a favor and go to a bar with your friends just once. You’ll immediately be reminded of the reasons you hate doing that stuff😂 great vid man, you earned a sub👍 #iusearchbtw+6
@zmbm-yt - 2018-07-20 19:07:01
Thank you Luke! Great video!+6
@alextremodelnorte1905 - 2020-07-20 19:07:01
This is what I constantly try to explain to people, but most people nowadays are brainwashed beyond repair....+17
@keiichiiownsu12 - 2019-07-20 19:07:02
Honestly, this video was nothing like what I expected to be. You think this is only good for "neurotypicals"? There are many cognizant individuals within the actual autism community who could definitely benefit from a message like this. "Worry less, improve yourself, do better, don't put yourself in a box". For us, or for me at least, autism has been an integral part of my identity. I can pass well as normal nowadays, and to me, that was due to a large amount of painstaking work. It's that sort of thing I want to inspire in others in the autistic community who are able. I.e. don't use their traits as a crux. Move forward, do your best to improve, don't beat yourself, keep going. I've been inspired before to do autism research myself. You sir encourage me to do so more. God bless you and everyone else here!+29
@AugustusBohn0 - 2022-07-20 19:07:02
I think a lot of young men never develop an understanding that mistakes are the default and most men aren't actually a 1 dimensional stereotype that puts people in the hospital playing foobaw and impregnates half the young women in their high school or whatever. You don't have to sort yourself into the "I'm a weird little social outcast because I'm an introvert who likes computers" category over that. it's more common now than ever, so probably a lot of you are just atomized "normies."+4
@harshallele8309 - 2018-07-20 19:07:02
Wow. This video came exactly when I need it.+6
@alloallo6446 - 2018-07-20 19:07:02
I happen to actually have the disorder to a relatively high degree (high functioning though). It's a bit of a struggle to deal with to say the least, and people claiming they have it despite not having consulted any professionals in mental health really doesn't help. Most people don't understand it properly in terms of what it actually does, so people claiming they have it when they don't just adds to the confusion. I think that the reason people do this is because it's quite a trivialised disorder, with characters like Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock who make it seem like a sort of superpower. It gives people a reason to feel better about themselves despite their social failings. People need to understand that you don't need a DSM-5 listed problem to make you special or unique. Special in particular is something that most people have to earn, including autistics.+17
@allidoiscry4119 - 2019-07-20 19:07:03
I'm autistic and low functioning af+2
@wynnhorton1208 - 2024-07-20 19:07:03
Having autism or a few other issues gives you a tiny bit of legal protections or, at least, more considerations if you work at really large companies. At really small companies, it is better not to tell them usually+1
@korvo3427 - 2021-07-20 19:07:02
"It's everyone else who's wrong" but unironically.+2
@TheMacedonianGeneral - 2022-07-20 19:07:02
Very rare HD 4k Luke.+2
@eekeipoh - 2018-07-20 19:07:02
I can totally relate to the things you say.+6
@algar6616 - 2024-11-20 20:07:02
Couldn’t agree more, people are mixing up personality traits with some diagnosable disorder. Why can’t you just be different and just look for happiness in different ways consequently Also, it’s such an eye roll that all non autistic people are just classified as “normal”, we’re all going thru it. People who aren’t diagnosed probably just learned more easily how to grin and bear their difficulties, maybe it was easier for them, but they’re just like you+3
@0xCAFEF00D - 2020-07-20 19:07:02
3:30 Interesting. I find myself regretting not having been more adventurous and spending most of my time in books. It's a pretty unique situation in life where you have very low risks to yourself socially and very low expectations as well. And while you clearly learn better when you're young rather than old it's not obvious that my learning was all that much better than it is now. And frankly I didn't have very good direction in learning what I wanted to learn so there was also a lot of wasted time. Being even more retrospective the worst direction I've had is when I was given toys to learn programming. They're awful on all levels. I kinda want to make something that actually could teach kids electronics and/or programming really well. Because thinking back to second to 6th grade those years were just a tremendous waste in many ways. I probably should have just picked up skateboarding or mountain-biking. Anything else, given what I had.+6
@waelkarram - 2018-07-20 19:07:02
Have been diagnosed with ADD and I'm suspected to be on the spectrum, always been different and kind of hard to "mesh" with others. Couldn't agree more, you just gotta go out and find your comfort zone everywhere!+5
@desktorp - 2019-07-20 19:07:03
bro it's spelled spectrwm+5
@zaimwaqar2788 - 2019-07-20 19:07:03
On Ritalin, Adderall, Concerta, or something else?+1
@wynnhorton1208 - 2024-07-20 19:07:03
A far larger percentage of the American population is extraverted and/or social. People who are not are looked down upon, frowned upon. But, sometimes it is worse if a person is open and fun with one or two people but not with others. This seems to upset people more than your just being quiet with every one.+1
@taranmellacheruvu2504 - 2024-08-20 19:07:02
I think that something not emphasized enough is that diagnosis is a tool for getting specific treatments and understanding show to deal with certain issues. That should be emphasized, not the label itself. I think that in our increasingly polarized society, we focus too much on the idea of a label and not what the label is actually supposed to be used for.+3
@captainclarky5352 - 2025-02-20 20:07:02
I found this channel a couple days ago through your Latin video. What you say here is so wise and reassuring I'm really glad I did+1
@LeafsKiller63 - 2022-07-20 19:07:02
3:25 Before social media this was true. Now not so much.+2
@markkennedy9767 - 2023-07-20 19:07:02
The whole "everyone vaguely different has autism" thing fits perfectly with every other way modern life is today. The male brain (more systematizing than empathising, so yeah basically male brain at the risk of being shouted at for simplifying things) is something to be suspicious of, according to modern society. And needs a label if it engages in too much wrong think.+3
@micahsnyder7299 - 2022-07-20 19:07:03
Uncle Luke is the best Uncle+3
@intrinsic524 - 2020-07-20 19:07:03
TV was a mistake+2
@longhoacaophuc8293 - 2022-07-20 19:07:03
This guy is one age younger than me, and owns a youtube channel about linux with over 100K subscribers, while I'm still struggling with my bashrc.+5
@redeyes392 - 2022-07-20 19:07:04
Stop comparing yourself to others+1
@pikajew3578 - 2022-07-20 19:07:04
@redeyes392 How are you supposed to improve if you don't use other people as a basis? You need to know your inadequacies in order to beat them.+1
@redeyes392 - 2022-07-20 19:07:04
@pikajew3578 by comparing yourself to your past self+1
@dayanabach - 2025-06-20 19:07:03
As an autistic person, thank you for this. Luke, you made me feel like I am a human and not this “label” as someone who is “autistic”. Thank you.+2
@pwolz91 - 2020-07-20 19:07:03
Thanks for the video, it really made me question some things and feel better about myself+3
@joshuajohnson3296 - 2021-07-20 19:07:03
I don't know what YT knows about me, but they know me pretty well for recommending this+3
@xdeathcon - 2023-07-20 19:07:03
I'm very likely autistic, but it doesn't matter because I'm more of the Asperger's variety, and it makes me much better at certain things and worse at others. The only importance it holds is that it explains why I'm not the same as everyone else, but I'm not particularly bothered being different. In fact, I guess you could say it's normal to be different because tons of people have different mental varieties, as it was said in the video.+3
@wacesferpit - 2018-07-20 19:07:03
sweet sweet smooth 60fps+5
@xzyxz1 - 2020-07-20 19:07:03
wish i saw this video 10 years ago+3
@WomboBraker - 2023-07-20 19:07:03
Thanks man, feels good+2
@DOLGOVUSER - 2022-07-20 19:07:03
Water under the bridge, guys. Remember. Thanks, Luke. Sometimes we just need to hear this, inspite of we know all this or we do not.+3
@pikajew3578 - 2022-07-20 19:07:04
Not if it literally defines you for the rest of your life, no.+1
@VelidAgovic - 2021-07-20 19:07:03
"The Myth of Mental Illness" by Thomas Szasz is interesting read on similar topic! Best regards+6
@Optimus6128 - 2022-07-20 19:07:03
I agree. I fell into the trap to wonder whether I am autistic or some other thing. It was a desperation to explain why I was struggling with things and didn't fit with society or couldn't connect with most normies. While I believe there are differences in the brain that makes it harder for some, this whole identification is a beg for explaining why one struggles so much with life. There are of course people with severe autism, but most who are not, might have tried to explain their issues and how they don't fit, and one of the explanation that came was a mental difference. So are other things. Some of us are lacking the other traps (gender, race, sexuality) to try to make sense when things don't go well in life. I call these the three vectors of identity==victimhood. The fourth vector is mental differences. But it's the same when people find for example MBTi and they internalize it, like "They don't like me because of INFP, we are special!". It's the same trap. I sometimes think, if I was a woman I would have fallen into the trap of becoming a feminist, if I was non white I would have fallen into the trap of race grifting, or if my sexuality wasn't straight I'd fallen into that trap of identity==victim. I almost fell on the 4th vector. I do wonder, if that's another reason why some men are more successful (although many others fail because of the pressure). What do I mean? There are no vectors of oppression, so if you fail, if you didn't get the job, if you got victimized, you can't explain it with the first three vectors, so it's more probable you will strive to get good at something to make for the fact that as a man you are just a nobody unless you have proven yourself. But if you are a woman and they tell you, you are good no matter what, then you might stick to it and even have some kind of complex of men being achievers (which is still a small portion of men, because most suffer from the pressure). It's harsh, but there is something liberating to let things go, do your best, and not fall into the trap of explaining your situtation with an identity.+14
@martakoakowska9872 - 2024-07-20 19:07:04
What's more, I am obsessed with mbti and similar systems, but I don't use them as excuses for my acting like an asshole to people sometimes. That's what immature people (including an immature me a few years ago) do. I own my mistakes and try my best to avoid them. But if it wasn't for my asd label, I wouldn't allow myself to "act autistic" and harmlessly stim for example. I would just try to suck it all up and get my shit together and act "normal", which would, ironically, lead to incomparably bigger and more frequent breakdowns and meltdowns than nowadays when I feel not only not discouraged, but even encouraged to hum silently on the bus or to flap my hands when I feel excited. That shit is everything.+1
@dangernoodle2868 - 2018-07-20 19:07:03
Half of human interaction is stuff that everyone knows is bullshit but nobody has the guts to call out how stupid everyone is being for fear that they won't be able to stand up to the group-think. I think once you recognise that and realise that people are just as terrified/disillusioned with it all then you feel a little less alone.+4
@coffintears5821 - 2022-07-20 19:07:05
Never join groups the worst thing you can do is be the odd one out who upsets the status quo and everyone ostracizes you for it. A free thinker In a group is like a strawberry in a basket of blueberrys. It cannot work.+3
@lucywucyyy - 2021-07-20 19:07:03
im proud of my tism its shameful to be a normie+7
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-20 19:07:05
but dont say it like that .. that form is often used pejorstively+1
@SidTheGeek - 2018-07-20 19:07:03
Thanks for sharing brother+1
@vaprin2019 - 2018-07-20 19:07:03
Sounds like most of those comments are just people trying to make themselves look quirky. Also, having social skills is actually very important. Being able to make connections with people in a similar career path is extremely useful in getting a job. I don't think anyone should brush something like that under the rug, even if you have some disability that makes it hard to talk to people.+17
@Kinuhbud - 2023-07-20 19:07:03
people do not understand sensory overload...+3
@Eddengarthian - 2023-07-20 19:07:03
This video reminds me of the time when I got sent to a psychologist during high school for my behaviour, but instead of being diagnosed with the suspected Aspergers I got diagnosed as a highly gifted person.+2
@soulofhogwarts - 2020-07-20 19:07:03
We are not weird, we are smart, elite, geeks, those muggles dont know we are wizards.+3
@DakotaDickerson - 2022-07-20 19:07:05
“You’re a wizard, Harry.” 🧙♂️+1
@SurrogateActivities - 2018-07-20 19:07:06
ITS A MINDSET+3
@henkerr - 2024-07-20 19:07:06
6:40 well now happens with shi- i mean smartphones. Phones are a mistake.+2
@soulelemanator97 - 2018-07-20 19:07:06
Wow, this I feel is what my friend really needs to hear+2
@MrBrianBogus - 2020-07-20 19:07:06
thanks you too+3
@pikajew3578 - 2022-07-20 19:07:06
You are at your happiest when you are accepted by other people, that is why it is so important to conform to their expectations of what you should be. Being truly alone for any amount of time is a death sentence, you can't handle it because you are an inherently social creature.+4
@pikajew3578 - 2023-07-20 19:07:06
@Billy McCatty Powell Acceptance at all is a blessing, it means you are doing something right and should be proud of yourself.+1
@pikajew3578 - 2023-07-20 19:07:06
@Billy McCatty Powell I genuinely don't think so, there is only one person I knew who I could say was actually similar to me but I haven't talked to her in years.+1
@danielallan8061 - 2024-10-20 19:07:06
I'm actually a high functioning autistic (what they used to call Asperger's) and it is a lot different internally than just being nerdy or geeky. Try not being born with a social intuition and an abnormal emotional intuition. That's the best way to describe it I think.+3
@bobjoe5555 - 2024-10-20 19:07:06
what is abnormal emotional intuition?+1
@skynetisreal - 2024-07-20 19:07:06
You will be a great dad. Or maybe you already are. I don't know.+2
@billbirkett7166 - 2024-07-20 19:07:06
The difference between someone who is actually weird and someone who wants to tell you how weird they are is that the person who is actually weird can't turn it off. The person who wants to be thought of as weird or unique, actually HAS to do things that make them appear eccentric. But really, they don't exist in that neurodivergent, eccentric space. The person who is truly neurodivergent just wishes it would turn off for 5 minutes, and is usually terrified of making social errors.+2
@toby2581 - 2025-05-20 19:07:06
No, I think I may genuinely, clinically have the 'tism.+2
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-20 19:07:06
pls dont say it like that .... pls just said the full word.... this abreviation is very ableist and insulting....+1
@toby2581 - 2025-05-20 19:07:06
@xgui4-studio Imagine being so fragile you cry over YouTube comments.+2
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-20 19:07:06
@toby2581 but that abreviation word is often use by neurotypical to mock us or to said harmful stuff to us+1
@toby2581 - 2025-05-20 19:07:06
@xgui4-studio I don't care.+2
@PapierDeutscher - 2023-07-20 19:07:06
Very refreshing to her your encouraging words, not easy these days to live like a normal person with "normal hobbies" or working in the IT field. It automatically brands someone as a "undesireable" person.+1
@SchokoAprikose - 2018-07-20 19:07:06
In germany we just say we are hackers. Autistic would be to much insulting in 99% of situations in Germany. Update(2023) : calling nerds/hackers "autist" is now also quite common in Germany as well. Only people under 25 do this regularly but yeah+16
@heirloomgg - 2018-07-20 19:07:07
If you call yourself a hacker you're either one of those pioneers from the 70/80/90's or you're just a soyboy lacking self-awareness+5
@SchokoAprikose - 2018-07-20 19:07:07
I understand your opinion that the real"hackers" were before 2000 and that the word"hacker" has a different meaning outside of Germany. But nevertheless I would rather call myself a hacker than an autistic or nerd, just because we can't say "nerd" in germany because the Germans don't know the word "geek", (so in Germany: geek = nerd) and we can't say "autist" at all. I just wanted to mention how we in Germany deal with it. I know I could never compare myself to the real hackers before the 2000s . Sidenote: My Dad was part of the 80 - 90 Hacker movement. Edit: Sry if I insult you. It is just how we handle it here in germany.+13
@passive_annihilation - 2018-07-20 19:07:07
I'm in the US and am pretty confused at how lightly "autistic" is thrown around by people on the internet. It's incredibly juvenile and disrespectful. On the other hand I think it's a shame that "hacker" has the stigma that it does since it's a useful term when defined as "someone who solves problems by manipulating systems in ways they were not intended for" and is not limited to computers or digital tech.+10
@danielakhterov - 2018-07-20 19:07:06
I drink water, I'm so autistic! Give me attention!+4
@bippaasama - 2019-07-20 19:07:06
Thanks, I needed that.+2
@Гусь-ж2ъ - 2025-05-20 19:07:06
You're not "R*cist." You're normal...+4
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-20 19:07:07
Racism is normal and healthy.+4
@jamesevans2507 - 2025-03-20 20:07:06
None of this applies to me I am actually weird & autistic+3
@Little-John1114 - 2025-05-20 19:07:06
I'm not a nerd. But I am autistic.+1
@MrPolluxxxx - 2018-07-20 19:07:06
Wow, I wish someone told me this a long time ago.+3
@expectnull - 2018-07-20 19:07:06
expected a rant. got a good vid. well done+2
@expectnull - 2018-07-20 19:07:07
i think youd be quite capable with kids.+1
@AnthonyBetts2005 - 2022-07-20 19:07:06
Thank you for letting me know bro💯+1
@Prof.P.P.P.Eräreikä - 2025-05-20 19:07:06
Am I tho?+3
@Minertaco - 2021-07-20 19:07:08
Wholesome boomer reassures zoomers that it's okay to be yourself+6
@oglothenerd - 2023-07-20 19:07:08
I have Autism, and I use Arch Linux. I match the stareotype. XD+3
@reezuleanu1676 - 2023-07-20 19:07:08
I went from a video explaining the basics of Terminals to this+1
@linuxwizzerd5908 - 2022-07-20 19:07:08
that Robert Putnam plug tho+1
@ultradude5410 - 2021-07-20 19:07:08
I don’t think I fully agree. The way I see things, “normal” is defined by the majority, by general consensus. Sometimes “normal” and “good” line up, and sometimes they don’t.+2
@MusicalDistractions - 2018-07-20 19:07:08
I appreciate the fact that you don't have any particular formula you follow for your videos. Nice to see you post whatever and it's generally high quality.+1
@L1Q - 2020-07-20 19:07:08
Thank you+1
@iso6460 - 2018-07-20 19:07:08
Right on, Luke! Keeping it real 24/7.+1
@Marin0520 - 2019-07-20 19:07:08
Why didn't you upload this when I was in high school? Very nice video, you're a nice guy.+2
@mathicalee - 2019-07-20 19:07:08
I am an introvert. And I always thought I was not normal, also a little bit weird. But as I read that we are living in an extroverted society and it's a type of personality that also has many benefits, I accepted it and even like me being an introvert. And I think computer gurus say mostly they are weird, but they earn a lot of money and therefore it isn't meant to be something bad anymore. I also know someone who thinks those weird side of a programmer being a status symbol.+11
@PaladinJenkis - 2018-07-20 19:07:08
Briliant video, thank you very much!+1
@datbo1 - 2023-07-20 19:07:08
the only diagnosis I have is chronic lazyness+2
@Cybermage10 - 2018-07-20 19:07:08
Fucking so true. Thanks Luke, you probably helped a lot of people today.+2
@MandenTV - 2021-07-20 19:07:08
2% (male) female+3
@Headcrabman9999 - 2020-07-20 19:07:08
I take offense to this; autism is my greatest source of power and I don't want to be leveraged in the same group as normies.+14
@Ashwekar - 2022-07-20 19:07:08
Wtf. This video looks like it is much higher quality than the new ones+1
@apoorv9492 - 2020-07-20 19:07:08
its all about the social pressure, the city life has.+1
@cashmerefire7335 - 2024-07-20 19:07:08
Spot on with the TV watching id watch it all day instead of interacting with other people+1
@vladsushibloke - 2021-07-20 19:07:08
Thanks. I feel better now!+1
@kungfumcgee7992 - 2022-07-20 19:07:08
Much needed thank you+1
@fugi_the_fugi - 2025-06-20 19:07:08
Being autistic is not being "autistic", its being normal in a diferent way+1
@Charsh392 - 2019-07-20 19:07:08
God damn these comments are only reaffirming to what seems to be the base users. Moping is a bad habit. The sooner you overcome this, the sooner you can focus on literal life itself. "When memes become bad for your health" comes to my mind on the topic. Sure it's funny to say but don't literally live your life that way.. Embrace life.+3
@arkadianriver - 2019-07-20 19:07:08
"bowling alone" ha.. love it. Great vid, very responsible of you. Are you sure you don't want to be a professor? Or a high school counselor?+3
@marcinsola4179 - 2020-07-20 19:07:08
I hate tv, I hate social situations, I rarely go out to pubs and/or drink alcohol. I'm interested in coding and tech in general. I never considered myself to be weird. I'm ok with my interests and introverted nature. In fact, I'm happy with who I am. It's kinda surprising to find out that someone may consider themselves autistic just because their way of being :D BTW Great channel ;) You have a new subscriber ;)+3
@anon-l3c - 2020-07-20 19:07:08
wholesome content+4
@conlangknow8787 - 2021-07-20 19:07:08
great! i’m normal+2
@schweinekillerlp2245 - 2018-07-20 19:07:08
Thank you Luke!+1
@mouwersor - 2023-07-20 19:07:08
We should've never strayed from Jungian psychology. This 'labelling' business is getting out of hand.+20
@KyriosHeptagrammaton - 2024-07-20 19:07:09
Except Jung had those archetypes.+5
@cashmerefire7335 - 2024-07-20 19:07:09
@KyriosHeptagrammaton the archetypes werent for labelling individuals theyre for interpretation of the symbols in our surroundings and subconscious+2
@alurma - 2021-07-20 19:07:08
ty+1
@passive_annihilation - 2018-07-20 19:07:08
Good stuff. This is why it's important to find like minded or people with similar interests if for no other reason than to be reminded that you're not "alone". Also society needs people with diversity in interests and personality. If it wasn't beneficial for human progress and survival, we'd all be much more similar. So it's important to find out your strengths and how you can use them for self-growth, instead of turning into an asshole like some folks do and going full moron. The whole phenomenon of people calling themselves autistic is an aspect of this, imo. Having inclinations that make you less likely to get social practice is not the same as being physically unable to understand social and/or emotional cues; the former is just your personality, the latter is a developmental disorder.+14
@StableJJ - 2018-07-20 19:07:08
wholesome!+4
@jerksto - 2018-07-20 19:07:08
good message dude.+1
@alkeryn1700 - 2023-07-20 19:07:08
Actually diagnosed with autism and some people are more autistic than i am lol.+2
@porky1118 - 2021-07-20 19:07:08
You are right, I'm not weird. But everyone else is getting weird.+1
@zXHAcKeRzXz - 2020-07-20 19:07:08
But I like to be special...+3
@CleridwenFR - 2020-07-20 19:07:09
Well that's the point of his video. We're not "special" just because we don't go to parties, want to date, watch TV, listen to popular music, or other stuff that we consider "normal" people to do. Because there's a huge amount of people in that situation, and that's not being special, that's just normal+2
@zXHAcKeRzXz - 2020-07-20 19:07:09
@CleridwenFR But I NEED to feel special :'(+1
@CleridwenFR - 2020-07-20 19:07:09
@zXHAcKeRzXz don't we all? :p+1
@zXHAcKeRzXz - 2020-07-20 19:07:09
@CleridwenFR I won't be all :'(+1
@CleridwenFR - 2020-07-20 19:07:09
@zXHAcKeRzXz it's not because we all want one thing that it means we are the same. We are all special and different in our own ways :)+1
@zXHAcKeRzXz - 2021-07-20 19:07:09
@thetruthishere2788 tears :'(+1
@KatarDan - 2018-07-20 19:07:08
I guess I can continue my destructive behavior \_(^_^)_/+7
@HikloLime - 2018-07-20 19:07:08
Thanks, Luke! This made me feel better! :)+1
@chaoscrystal6280 - 2022-07-20 19:07:08
" Boomer Talks to his Children. "+2
@hudsond15 - 2023-07-20 19:07:08
As a now 28 year old married man, my “body count” is one of my biggest regrets+2
@Harbonium - 2020-07-20 19:07:08
Most of us are introvert persons witch is nod a bad thing.+2
@KyriosHeptagrammaton - 2024-07-20 19:07:10
"You're not crazy, everyone else is!" Seriously though, it is true and in important message+1
@theriveroffaith852 - 2024-10-20 19:07:10
Awesome video! Read the Bible people. It will help you learn and do what's meaningful and good.+3
@Canaris - 2018-07-20 19:07:10
1. I absolutely agree. Nice video. 2. Good god, this channel is an even bigger sausage party than expected. ;-)+5
@hashkeeper - 2020-07-20 19:07:10
Dude... Youre saying so many things calmly and fully explaining them to the point where it seems really difficult to get all the details right. Thanks for explaining, on the same page, needed to hear someone flush these thing out to their fullest extents+3
@SarmadTechLab - 2023-07-20 19:07:10
I have level 2 autism.+2
@horuka_0 - 2022-07-20 19:07:10
And the say men don't support each other+2
@porky1118 - 2021-07-20 19:07:10
7:02 I thought, dating basically just means, meeting a person, you have sexual interest in, and getting to know each other. I think, most people, who don't like it, are people doing boring stuff like going to a restaurant or to the cinema instead of doing something fun.+2
@hammerain93 - 2022-07-20 19:07:10
“What if not having autism is the diagnosis?” - Varg+1
@indabababababa - 2018-07-20 19:07:10
Good advice.+1
@gorgecunth1581 - 2021-07-20 19:07:10
I kind disagree. Normal is over used and potentially harmful, by "dedramatizing" bad behaviour for excample. Normal per definition is the norm, e.g. most people. What is normal, depends on the context of your perspective, which usually has a clue to your problem or also advantage.+2
@maxuix2 - 2018-07-20 19:07:10
thanks for the advice luke+1
@clandex7042 - 2024-07-20 19:07:10
Pablo escobar?? is that you?+1
@JonBrase - 2024-07-20 19:07:10
It's not just being weird, it's being weird (or "normal" if you grew up with undiagnosed autistic parents that set your baseline for normalcy, which is fairly common given the high heritability of autism) in a particular combination of specific ways, getting slapped, by everyone from peers to medical professionals, with a ton of ad-hoc labels that explain one thing or a few things, and then finding that there's a diagnosable condition that explains most or all of it, and that people you'll mesh with socially can often be identified from across a room from clues they may not be conscious of.+7
@eta0carinae - 2018-07-20 19:07:10
"when you do run into a relationship, whether that's romantic or rather that actually matters" great quote Luke+2
@theplaymakerno1 - 2021-07-20 19:07:10
If there was a definition in the dictionary for a Linux Rockstar, your picture would be underneath it.+1
@justinandrew8400 - 2023-07-20 19:07:10
Speaking from a standpoint of someone who was relentlessly called weird everywhere I went, from school to tuition, throughout my primary and highschool years, I've spent a lot of time grasping with the concept that "maybe I am weird", or "Maybe I am not". It gotten to the point where eventually I thought, I might be weird in your eyes, but you guys who call me weird are definitely weird in my eyes. As I continue that line of thinking, I eventually realize that, in terms of societal context, I am "weird" for unable to fit in with the herd. But, should I care? For all the guys whom are getting called "weird" or "autistic" or any name calling at any point of time, there was a line in imitation game, where joan clarke told alan turing, "It was due to your weird-ness that ended world war II", so embrace your weirdness.+2
@dewijones92 - 2019-07-20 19:07:10
you are a good guy+2
@necksugar - 2023-07-20 19:07:10
I'm 41 and as I watch our teens grow up, I notice how much autism and add, ocd, abc etc. are glamorized and marketed as being just ways to organize themselves, then set themselves apart by their labels when they want attention for the normal quirks we all deal with. What even IS "awkward" in such a world of overlay simulation where words they share mean different things to their internal dictionaries than even just one generation before. They make themselves even more removed from the elders of their parents. It's fractured fractal and by systematic design to separate the youth from more mature wisdom. Teens can discuss the same issue with my grandparents and they make NO sense to one another without myself and my parents to translate.+7
@raynebenson9040 - 2020-07-20 19:07:10
Who likes game of thrones and tv? Whatching TV for more then noise seems pretty stupid, and like a massive waist of time.+2
@USGovIsDistributingCSAM - 2023-07-20 19:07:10
Ask yourself the 5, 5 , 5 test, will this matter in 5 days, will this matter in 5 months, will this matter in 5 years, and if it's a yes to all 3, it should matter, if it's not, it shouldn't.+2
@FranzVonGaart - 2021-07-20 19:07:10
Just found this channel. Skinhead bloomer is an interesting paradox optically, but very very good.+1
@oleksiikhramov3706 - 2020-07-20 19:07:10
Watched it second time. Because it worked then and it works now.+2
@carinaluxford241 - 2024-07-20 19:07:10
There are many traits we have which don't belong to a condition or a mental health issue. However, if you recognise yourself when listening to people talk about a specific condition (professionals or people with lived experience), and you would like to gain clarity, then go and see a mental health professional for guidance. A lot of people, including myself, have found a great deal of comfort from finally understanding our reactions to the world, getting help to manage our life better and a community which understands and supports us. Sometimes there actually is something different about us and an explanation for this can be a very positive experience.+7
@arkhayin - 2019-07-20 19:07:10
i thought that he was older than 28 ._.+2
@enqane - 2020-07-20 19:07:10
Think about it logically+1
@kungfumcgee7992 - 2022-07-20 19:07:10
1:33 thank you+1
@Prof.P.P.P.Eräreikä - 2025-05-20 19:07:11
Ok+2
@neoc1121 - 2019-07-20 19:07:10
Even better: You'll get to the point where you don't care about other people's opinions anymore. Everyone gets there eventually and wonders why s/he cared so much when s/he was younger. Maybe take a shortcut?+2
@superhase3206 - 2023-07-20 19:07:10
w estern e ducated i ndustrialized r ich d emocratized+2
@Xavi-Face - 2025-06-20 19:07:11
g ay a nd y yankie+1
@vaisakh_km - 2022-07-20 19:07:10
98% of introvert.....+2
@thorn9382 - 2023-07-20 19:07:10
I feel like once most people get out of highschool they eventually just stop caring how they look, you can tell this easily if you go to highschool because the standards for how you appear to others increase 10 fold.+1
@okashiromi5541 - 2024-07-20 19:07:10
Hi, an actual autistic person here and just let say, if you're using "autism" as an excuse to explain away your flaws, you'll end up alone and it'll be your fault. The main thing that triggered me in this vid is those ppl making excuses. Treating autism as an incurable disease. So Here's how it really is. A. Being "off mainstream" isn't autistic (basically the video) if anyone wants to hear my exp ask in comments. B. Autistic ppl can 100% work at getting better at social interactions. It takes work, and you'll probably never fully get that intuitive social compass other have. But I got to the point of being comfortable being the only person on a stage. So that argument "oh I'm autistic" is bull. C. I love been neurodivergent. And so are a lot of ppl like me. I love the irregular thought patterns, I love the off perspectives I love being able to take ppls view on reality and make them question if cartoon characters are real. So, yeah, you might be weird. First of, welcome to the human experience, we're all a little crazy, coffee's over by the window. secondly, if there's an aspect of your personality you don't like. You're the only reason it isn't getting changed. So yeah. Sorry if I come off aggressive. As you can imagine I don't appreciate "autistic" being used as derogatory term, some of the best ppl ik are autistic. And I'm sick and tired of ppl using it as an excuse to saty in their comfortable box+8
@okashiromi5541 - 2024-07-20 19:07:11
@upendownlinker lol how does something sounds "from a community" I'll tell you exactly where I experienced that. I experienced that during 9yr of therapy elementary to highschool. I experienced that figuring out how to analyse and approach social situations so I won't say something so tactless I'll actively insult someone. So yeah, Those are mine. The reason they might sound like something you hear from the autistic/neurodivergent community is bc~ idk? I'm part of it? Ever considered that? Or, are you talking about me enjoying parts of it? Why? Bc if you're autistic you're automatically "sick" and have no good facets from being wired differently? Get over yourself lol+9
@NanerBag - 2024-07-20 19:07:10
I wonder why it is so hard for us younger people to stick to what we know to be right in spite of the common narrative. I have come to much the same conclusion before, but it eventually wanes in favour of the common narrative unless i have the confidence of someone older than me.+1
@lucycoleclough1182 - 2023-07-20 19:07:10
I do think the language it provides can be useful for understanding to yourself if you can relate. I dont think it is anything to ever put yourself down with. It is very confusing for your natural impulses to be deemed by many to be deviant but screw then so much. beeg luv+1
@jacopo1258 - 2021-07-20 19:07:10
thanks for this video+1
@wallylasd - 2019-07-20 19:07:10
said Luke in the waiting room+1
@jan_harald - 2019-07-20 19:07:10
lol the forum is in SETUP page right now no database modules found so can't even try to continue+2
@st3ve874 - 2023-07-20 19:07:10
I always thought I was a nephilim..Now, I know, I'm a normal. 😅+2
@laughinghawk8522 - 2023-07-20 19:07:12
🙄+2
@SharpieWaterOfficial - 2022-07-20 19:07:10
Okay but I'm diagnosed with autism+2
@bigMax1337 - 2024-07-20 19:07:10
loonix mentioned+1
@giridharpavan1592 - 2024-11-20 20:07:10
what do you mean? people wear that badge proudly+1
@JohnTKennedy3 - 2018-07-20 19:07:12
Dude, I think I would know if I was normal...+1
@EhKurd - 2020-07-20 19:07:12
"hopefully tv never happens again" oh boy, something way worse happened: tiktok+2
@a-bloke-named-chris9805 - 2018-07-20 19:07:12
Great video+1
@Zaurthur - 2018-07-20 19:07:12
CDC seems to think the average age to lose your virginity is 17. In America.+1
@technicolourmyles - 2024-07-20 19:07:12
In this comment section: people who think having an opinion based on a passing observation of society as a whole gives them more authority to define neurological disorders than educated and experienced researchers.+4
@mad1337nes - 2024-07-20 19:07:13
Oy vey, trust the science and the approved authority figures.+9
@Laura_Norder-Vanity_Unfair - 2024-07-20 19:07:13
@mad1337nes "Oy vey, trust (...) approved authority figures." That's recommended by 14 of 10 dentists.+3
@pugo7925 - 2021-07-20 19:07:12
this one of a few channels I don't feel comfortable to give a like+1
@josephang9927 - 2023-07-20 19:07:12
Wait... that means I have to take responsability for my crippled social life? 😔+1
@gottacademy5563 - 2022-07-20 19:07:12
Amongst the most popular YouTube channels I watch, you are the one with the worst lighting (unless you are outside) who manages to somewhat keep my attention 🤗+1
@arxdat - 2018-07-20 19:07:12
Hey man, some great stuff! These kiddos need some positive mentor-ship in their lives :)+1
@__gadonk__ - 2023-07-20 19:07:12
I wouldn't call it social anxiety but i dislike being around people. My way to cope with it was to be "funny" or loud so naturally people thought i was hyperactive and had ADHD or something.+1
@apathyrocks6056 - 2022-07-20 19:07:12
Well, those who suffer from overwhelming sensory issues should be put in that basket. In the olden days - 90s, early 2000s they had a term called schizoid personality (and still do but it is not a trend any longer). That kind of personality disorder kind of says it: go out or you are a failure.+1
@0zone247 - 2020-07-20 19:07:12
When he said 22 and never had sex. I am 22 and never touched a female in my life+2
@Seiseary - 2020-07-20 19:07:13
OK bad joke+1
@Seiseary - 2020-07-20 19:07:13
Check out Julian himself and rsd Tyler+1
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-20 19:07:13
same :(+1
@alvarvonhofsten5679 - 2023-07-20 19:07:12
to put it in zoomer terms: real af+1
@m4rt_ - 2024-07-20 19:07:12
no, I'm pretty sure I'm autistic. Though I haven't been diagnosed yet, but I check essentially all the boxes required for being diagnosed.+1
@bicunisa - 2018-07-20 19:07:12
Thanks for the comments Luke, but I don't call myself autistic in a self-deprecating manner. I'm a proud autistic guy (which I recently found about after watching Netfilx's Atypical haha). I like being weird.+2
@SeniorMuffinFace - 2020-07-20 19:07:12
no im autistic+2
@Bloody-Butterfly - 2021-07-20 19:07:12
I am diagnosed autistic+2
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-20 19:07:13
same+2
@metasequoia3097 - 2023-07-20 19:07:12
>let me tell you how you feel+5
@jose-pe - 2022-07-20 19:07:12
I knew macOS users are not autistic, they are normal.+2
@matj12 - 2018-07-20 19:07:12
Edit to do in the title: 0WWwwxp:w The period inside quotation marks looks horrible.+4
@LukeSmithxyz - 2018-07-20 19:07:13
Yeah it looks horrible to me too. Unfortunately it's "correct" American style.+7
@Egzvorg - 2018-07-20 19:07:13
0f.xp , gotta up you vim game bro+3
@alrightsquinky7798 - 2019-07-20 19:07:14
Luke Smith for class pres!+1
@grimm_ - 2020-07-20 19:07:14
A long time ago, a friend of mine was talking with Sir Terry Pratchett (who writes the discworld books). He was very industrious, and spent 8 hours per day working, monday through friday. On fridays, he would spend the day answering fan mail, and he would file the fan mail afterwards. He found a very large number of the "detail-oriented" folks (the ones who would point out internal inconsistencies between word choices between books) were named "kevin", so he had a file labelled "kevins" which was those letters. When we heard this story, my wife and I took to referring to people who had deep knowledge in an area as a kevin. As in, "Man, Luke Smith is a real ricing kevin". I always liked that it differentiated the trait from the individual (since terms like nerd, rather than referring to a particular area, seem to refer to the overall person).Also, sorry for the wall of text.+5
@bbseal6174 - 2020-07-20 19:07:14
upboated+2
@bbseal6174 - 2020-07-20 19:07:14
sadly he passed a few years ago.+2
@alphiek309 - 2018-07-20 19:07:14
nice video, keep it up+2
@zoranhacker - 2020-07-20 19:07:14
Honestly this is incredibly offensive, my preferred term is orthogonal+3
@CleridwenFR - 2020-07-20 19:07:14
what+1
@Eltipoquevisteayer - 2023-07-20 19:07:14
What do you mean the fleeting socializing in HS doesn't last+3
@enermaxstephens1051 - 2021-07-20 19:07:14
Naw man. They went on dates in the early 1800's. They had chaperones. Dating is a good thing for many reasons. Yeah I'm going around commenting on all your old videos. Also a good thing.+3
@gorgecunth1581 - 2021-07-20 19:07:15
>Civic institutions+2
@puckpovier1559 - 2021-07-20 19:07:14
stoned critique. i like it.+1
@OcteractSG - 2024-07-20 19:07:14
What if some things are not bell curves but instead two humps? You have the “normal” social people on one hump and the awkward “nerds” on the other hump. Natural proficiency in one often means natural deficiency in the other.+1
@kras_mazov - 2023-07-20 19:07:14
You can't really know what's in another person's head.+1
@alleygh0st - 2023-07-20 19:07:15
working on it+1
@thewillowspeak - 2022-07-20 19:07:14
I think it feels even more alienating for girls who don't quite "fit in", because it's really difficult to find other females that share some sort of niche interest or hobby even online. The closest things I get to relate to is these kinds of topics, but obviously it lacks a female perspective. Like I just wish thee was enough momentum to get something like a motherhood board going were wammin debate about everything from child rearing to housework etc.+4
@W23-t6o - 2022-07-20 19:07:14
So I agree with you about the sex part, honestly I really don't care about doing that, but what about being 29 and never even having a date before or someone interested in you?+2
@DwAboutItManFr - 2023-07-20 19:07:14
No i am not.+1
@chuck_norris - 2020-07-20 19:07:14
Yes but then why is it, that everyone around me is so much more perfect+1
@pikajew3578 - 2022-07-20 19:07:14
I stopped trying to fight my autism, i realise i'm not going to be very successful in life anyway so there isn't a point to it. I hope other people can learn to not be like me, someone who can't conform to basic proper expectations for somebody my own age. In other words, a failure.+1
@fauberkaupfmann982 - 2023-07-20 19:07:15
You are only a "failure" if you care about other people (or society, culture, etc.) think about you. Be more self assured man.+1
@MaximilianonMars - 2024-07-20 19:07:14
You have the 'tism, Luke. Don't hide from it. You know it in your soul.+4
@baba_kebaba - 2020-07-20 19:07:14
im acoustic+1
@Xgckl - 2018-07-20 19:07:14
I went to therapy for a decent chunk of my childhood and some therapists assumed I was autistic but I never got diagnosed either way. And while I'm somewhat curious about the condition because of that and I look whether or not certain descriptions of and by autistics fit me, it's true that you shouldn't define yourself based on something like this. Luke says you're normal but you could also say everyone is weird in certain aspects, if you still wanna be weird.+1
@okdoomer620 - 2020-07-20 19:07:14
I know that in young years you think something must be wrong if you're not "normal" or whatever, and that is certainly not true. But really, the norm is just what everybody does, so what is exciting about that? I'd rather encourage you to overcome normality, because being normal will not help you. Sure, it reduces friction, but only if you want to move in some direction, you don't even want to go.+1
@fadinglightsarefading - 2023-07-20 19:07:14
Why is his accent so different in this+2
@マッフィン - 2021-07-20 19:07:14
social skills are skills.+2
@odicforcesounds - 2020-07-20 19:07:16
Why people get "Autistic" ? Probably because most try to show them selfs best them others.. "I am the best bla bla" ( then I feel that expression in my self, then Please do not offend my Solipsism. ) Because we are readers, when we read, even to learn, you need to auto compare your self to the other self ( while the point should be subjects not selfs ) hahahaha Love you Comments!+2
@odicforcesounds - 2020-07-20 19:07:16
You only need to Dance!+1
@marklovecrumb3842 - 2019-07-20 19:07:16
these always somebody to whip you, so don't whip yourself...+1
@nathanbrutal4183 - 2018-07-20 19:07:16
I'm not weird... Just don't open the black book. Didn't realize how niche your channel is... Interesting. Many people have this mindset but always will, that makes them normal and it's not too bad in and of itself in my personal opinion, but I was definitely fascinated by the video.+2
@Cyber_Lanka - 2019-07-20 19:07:16
I thought the same until I got beaten up in the University for being "not social". Maybe it's different in Asia. Our people have very restricted view about others.+1
@demr04 - 2022-07-20 19:07:16
Luke, you are very weird, so I am and every person who resonates with your speech. Being normal is literrally the worst thing that can happends to someone. Normal people are alienade from themself. They never cuestion, never thinking on their behaviour, never do something remotely novel. They even consume the same things: same movies, same music, same books, same drinks, same clothes, etc. Living and dying being totally replazable, where the people who knew them, never thought of them as someone never met before. With them, only change the skin and the voice, but their minds are the same.+6
@pikajew3578 - 2022-07-20 19:07:16
Learn to spell.+3
@williambennett4360 - 2020-07-20 19:07:16
Ralph Waldo Emerson approves this message.+2
@porky1118 - 2021-07-20 19:07:16
I might also be autistic. At least according to some online test, my social behaviors and my general lifestyle. But I also hate, when people use their personal problems as an excuse. You can still do everything, even if you are psychically not "normal". If I know, someone has a problem, I also have problems taking it too serious. If I have a mental problem, when I think, I could never do this or that, I just think about it, and then I might just do it anyway, even if I'm scared. That's how you overcome those kind of problems. Not by saying, you are ill. Even if you have real mental problems, I don't think, using it as an excuse to not do something, you'd like to do, helps anyone. That's why people, who have some kind of mental problems, often don't like me that much. I might be too direct and not tactful enough in some cases (like an autist :P).+1
@vex6559 - 2022-07-20 19:07:16
Extroverts write the tests, and consider themselves THE norm. The rest of us introverts have been classed as autists. It's fine... We DO tend to be weird, but good weird. I've fixed tons of problems weirdly. You have no idea what a dowel rod with a half cut cup hook can do for you when you're doing car work. It's ridiculous, but we are brilliant people.+1
@mementomori9189 - 2020-07-20 19:07:16
The period should be after the quote in the title instead of before it. Good video tho.+1
@shilohschwartz8671 - 2021-07-20 19:07:16
You are (not) weird.+1
@z0uLess - 2024-07-20 19:07:16
This perspective is a political one. The way to overcome the culture wars is to see beyond these political ways of viewing the world. What this would look like, I am not completely sure ... but I see it as a training in attention, kinda like that duck-rabbit illusion. I can see Luke Smith as both weird and not weird at the same time (Wittgenstein "seeing that" versus "seeing as").+1
@splabbity - 2024-07-20 19:07:16
I dare say there are crucial differences between autistic people who have lucrative, fulfilling, rewarding computer/tech careers vs autistic people who have different special interests. It's easy to point down and lecture from your higher position because your special interests were rewarding and validating for you.+1
@fuwa9616 - 2024-10-20 19:07:17
No, there is no difference, you just want to make excuses.+1
@splabbity - 2024-10-20 19:07:17
@fuwa9616 It is in fact true a person who is devoted to computers or economics is more likely to make a good living than a person who is devoted to art or education with the same level of enthusiasm. It is also true that people who are of a higher level in society (because money) tend to lose touch with people they consider to be inferior, and will say shit like "You're just making excuses." when they are lucky and privileged because of circumstances, and yes, their well-compensated efforts.+2
@max_ishere - 2022-07-20 19:07:16
Watching the preroll add and getting ready to cancel luke+1
@max_ishere - 2022-07-20 19:07:17
Ok not canceling Luke, he did discredit autism and real struggles but he said the right thing overall.+1
@idan4989 - 2023-07-20 19:07:17
oh no+1
@MrHatoi - 2019-07-20 19:07:16
What if I'm actually autistic though?+2
@bruh-co8nf - 2020-07-20 19:07:17
naa+2
@dmitrysamoylenko6775 - 2020-07-20 19:07:16
How to like this 1000 times?+1
@BosEriko - 2019-07-20 19:07:16
This is sad. The forum does not work now. :(+1
@saavestro2154 - 2023-07-20 19:07:16
Youtube keeps recommending me this video in 2023. Guess I am still autistic.+1
@nicolasnicolas5238 - 2018-07-20 19:07:16
I love you dude+1
@sebastianfrasher2597 - 2020-07-20 19:07:16
But I really am autistic+2
@roland3578 - 2019-07-20 19:07:16
You're the Linux Niklas Kvarforth+1
@mauc3102 - 2018-07-20 19:07:18
A video about language learning or something like that would be nice. You studied linguistics right? You must know some nice resources.+1
@petertomov5728 - 2020-07-20 19:07:18
Why do people have a problem with Smalltalk? I mean... Not a mainstream language, but you can choose something else if you really don't like it... And yes, that's a dork-joke. Sue me.+1
@hamzadata - 2021-07-20 19:07:18
Luke looks like normies on 60fps+2
@crumpets27 - 2021-07-20 19:07:18
impossible!+1
@szxirt2141 - 2021-07-20 19:07:18
We are all autistic, so we are not special+1
@ishashka - 2022-07-20 19:07:18
I'm diagnosed with autism, but I don't really think about it. I just live my life and sometimes my mind does a weird thing and then I go "huh, that's cool, maybe it's the 'tism", but other than that I don't care if I'm autistic or not or even if autism is a real thing. The only potentially autistic trait that has a sorta big impact on my life is that 90% of foods is absolutely disgusting to me (imagine eating puke covered shit - that's how I react to the thought of tomatoes and lots of other stuff). But there's still a lot of things I can eat so it's only awkward when someone invites me out to dinner :P+1
@SolusPrimus - 2019-07-20 19:07:18
im 26 KEEP YOU WORK FUCKIN UP. Nice Content !+1
@canyonstinky7817 - 2019-07-20 19:07:18
"most of muh viewers are a little younger than me..." -luke me: I am in middle school+4
@b4ssripper - 2019-07-20 19:07:18
Luke looks like bald JB+1
@danwilson5630 - 2022-07-20 19:07:18
Did you say law-tech?+1
@mateuszciupa8141 - 2020-07-20 19:07:18
cool beard+1
@jonoh4883 - 2022-07-20 19:07:18
WELL...... its 2022 atm.... and its F*cking Worse now...... Welcome to the Foochaaaaaaah+1
@drumitar - 2020-07-20 19:07:18
im a low functioning autistic+1
@jacobkauffman1993 - 2019-07-20 19:07:18
I am 12.+2
@clickclick2531 - 2019-07-20 19:07:18
I'm 12 + 7+1
@CoWinkKeyDinkInc - 2019-07-20 19:07:18
nobody cares+1
@zaimwaqar2788 - 2019-07-20 19:07:18
13. Checkmate.+1
@shater1164 - 2018-07-20 19:07:18
I'm normal, are you!? ;)+1
@thattimestampguy - 2023-07-20 19:07:18
2:47 High School, College “Once they’re over. They’re over.” 3:54 Late Bloomer 4:43 It’s ok dude. 5:34 I don’t like tv, drinking, small talk, that’s normal. 7:00 Dating+3
@thinudex100 - 2018-07-20 19:07:18
Very well put. It's just too easy to get obsessed and cynical about the world, isn't it?+1
@desktorp - 2019-07-20 19:07:18
I already watched this video and it's a year old..!! why does YouTube keep recommending it to meeee?! reeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE+1
@BioAstroiner - 2021-07-20 19:07:18
tnx now back to greg+1
@coleworldcole9438 - 2024-07-20 19:07:18
2023 I’m weird must be something 😂😂 .. really tho some folks have this bad it exists+1
@elclippo4182 - 2019-07-20 19:07:18
Normal people scare me 😱+1
@gz6616 - 2018-07-20 19:07:18
But you are ruining the meme...+3
@spessspess4616 - 2018-07-20 19:07:18
I am autistic+1
@HikikomoriDev - 2022-07-20 19:07:18
At the end of the day .... wouldn't being "Autistic" be beneficial in the long run... You get special treatment and not have to deal with the population and get your own smaller class size... get pensioned by the unlimited social security payments/disability for life... write code all day because now you can and have no time limits and do what ever you want... Wouldn't that be a luxurious life at the end?+3
@doraemon402 - 2024-07-20 19:07:18
You make it sound as if autism wasn't a real thing that ruins lives. My little brother literally cannot get a job because, although he isn't dumb, he's "weird" and whenever he is interviewed, they probably sniff the autism with some responses of his, that he thinks are prefectly normal and logical but aren't seen that way by the interviewers.+2
@Hero_Of_Old - 2024-07-20 19:07:19
There is actual autism, but a lot of people aren't+3
@bobjoe5555 - 2024-08-20 19:07:19
Examples of some of those responses? Its genuinely very difficult to get hired currently for most ppl Food for thought: "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society"+1
@fuwa9616 - 2024-10-20 19:07:19
Its not unless its the severe variants. But you do sound like you put yourself into believing you can never improve and are lashing out because your worldview collapses.+2
@rolingpingu - 2023-07-20 19:07:18
YOU WERE ONLY 28 BACK THEN???+1
@joaopedrodeamorimpaula8965 - 2018-07-20 19:07:18
I just say autistic sometimes ironically, I never saw myself as weird or anything like that. That being said, I am definitely on the minority (in my college) on the way I see software and technology in general so I don't really have anyone to share knowledge on those aspects around me, since everybody just wants to talk about muh gaymun and proprietary/anti-user shit, so I resort to /g/ and 4chan (and now your forum).+1
@promoworld3794 - 2023-07-20 19:07:18
❤️+1
@hrnekbezucha - 2018-07-20 19:07:18
EVERYTHING YOU'VE BEEN TOLD IS A LIE. Seriously, tho that you don't have much in common with the people around you only means you need to find people who you do have more in common with. And if you're introvert (yes you are, that's why you're here) you don't hear other people talk about what terminal emulator is best because people you meet in general public usually don't understand it wtf is the problem. Don't try to get people who don't get you to get you, they won't. Get people who get you and you win. Trying to change people is just a waste of time.+2
@DeLewrh - 2018-07-20 19:07:18
i'm actually just autistic, don't tell me otherwise you meanie good message tho luke+5
@TacoSt8 - 2020-07-20 19:07:18
lol first time i get roasted for being a subscriber, it was.nice tho+2
@clickclick2531 - 2019-07-20 19:07:18
tfw /g/ is ded cuz 4channel also Chanu is broken+1
@DDBAA24 - 2019-07-20 19:07:18
This video... I wish I could have watched it a while ago , I really want to stay on this channel but I feel like its become a cult Luke. Good luck with your new property.+1
@roland3578 - 2020-07-20 19:07:18
I'm actually diagnosed NPD/ASPD. gg+1
@guacamoleneptuno9574 - 2018-07-20 19:07:18
I just don't think it is important enough to make a video about it. It's a joke.+1
@unluckyjose - 2021-07-20 19:07:18
Funny how “nerd” has been degraded, a lot to do with how brands used the word in marketing but brands cant use the word “autistic” which preserves the current meaning u speak of in the vid+1
@jiriurbanek211 - 2022-07-20 19:07:18
Many of the things Luke mentioned are "normal" I was officially diagnosed with. I am autistic, ADHD and aroace and I love not caring about "normal" stuff. I have used linux since 13 and my preferred lifestyle would be to be single my whole life with a best friend to do silly things with, lol. Btw, why is being virgin a bad thing?+6
@_-___________ - 2022-07-20 19:07:18
Ok, it's not an excuse, but I'm actually retarded. I still improve myself, but I must admit that I'm incredibly stupid.+1
@RS-hg3rp - 2018-07-20 19:07:18
I watch your videos, because I like to use tools like i3, terminal based tools etc. I would agree to say that I am a nerd, but I was never thinking about myself that I am weird or other people are more normal. There are so much idiots and crazy people out there, that I would say I am more normal than 80% out there. To be in a majority doesn't mean that you have mental healthy. Go in a mental hospital, a normal person will be in a minority. If someone is affected by idiots telling him that he or she is a nerd or kind of weird, that person has problems with it self. Just ignore the mental ill people like you would ignore an alcoholic person out insulting you living at street and pie in his pants. Its not worth.+1
@lauraknightart - 2023-07-20 19:07:18
Is getting to the point where people will not try to improve and overcome things, just go to the doctor and get diagnosed with something because they’re 30 and still need their mom to do phone calls for them 🤦🏻♀️+4
@idan4989 - 2023-07-20 19:07:19
brave new world+2
@jxdud3386 - 2023-07-20 19:07:19
man the linux community is ridiculous+1
@easycoding5289 - 2022-07-20 19:07:19
22 never had sex, weirdly accurate lmao i live in a muslim eastern country tho, where pre marital sex is taboo so yea good to know im not weird lmao+1
@mobenamtois - 2022-07-20 19:07:19
I would go to bars but i cant afford it. I dont watch TV/ Netflix / sports. Just documentary's, conspiracy and whatever you consider rhis vid.+1
@TheFefiiiii - 2018-07-20 19:07:19
luke how old are you?+1
@hayleylewis1458 - 2024-11-20 20:07:19
why do you keep using pepecoin maybe you could make a video about pepecoin vs pepe scam+1
@existentialmoron6334 - 2021-07-20 19:07:19
I just use it cause i think it's funny+1
@assombranceanderson6175 - 2020-07-20 19:07:19
Not liking go to bar ? O.o Depends on the bar man, but I think a lot of people like bars (or I'm just a dead alcoolic)+1
@CleridwenFR - 2020-07-20 19:07:20
A lot of people do, and a lot of people don't. We're just too many people on earth that saying "only 10% of people go to bar = no one goes to bar" is utterly wrong. (I just made up this number as an example, I don't actually know)+2
@adammontgomery7980 - 2018-07-20 19:07:19
You should do more random videos. Just realized that I'm not subscribed...whoops. Lemme fix that+2
@GeorgWilde - 2020-07-20 19:07:19
Thought of postmodernism gave us that identity politics where once you identify your victim status you just self-referentially relive your past victimization over and over again. People should know that this is learned behaviour which stems from ideas they unknowingly accept and then judge whole life experience by those ideas. If everything is irony all the time (evading being serious), thats string marker.+4
@ebunny1652 - 2022-07-20 19:07:19
Yeah I agree. I'm 25 and was diagnosed with autism about 5 years ago. Always been a bit skeptical about that diagnosis, but regardless, at the end of the day it's just a label to me and I don't see it as something that should determine my entire personality or life. Sure, some things might be more difficult for me than for others and in some regards I feel like I'm less developed, but that doesn't mean that I can't change and develop and improve my skills. In fact I think I've made a lot of progress in different areas, even before the diagnosis, but especially the past few years and months. Even if we have certain genetics and biases, I think we as humans can be very adaptable and flexible. It's just a matter of your mindset and putting in the time and effort. It can definitely take a long time, it has for me and it'll probably take much longer before I'm at a place I'm properly content with (though I can already be quite content where I am rn), but I'll get there. And sure some people might be more "normal" in the sense that they're neurotypical or whatever, but I think everyone has their own issue and I don't think being normal is necessarily something good or something you should strive towards. That's just the pressure you feel from the expectations of society. End of the day we're all just a bunch of meatbags wandering around in some made weird ass system we've constructed. If we broaden our horizons a bit there's potentially so much more to life.+2
@BlackpilledBuddha6476 - 2022-07-20 19:07:20
Paragraphs, please!+1
@ebunny1652 - 2022-07-20 19:07:20
@BlackpilledBuddha6476 sorry, I have autism! XD no I usually use paragraphs but was too lazy in this case I guess anyway I fixed it+1
@pikajew3578 - 2022-07-20 19:07:20
This is the saddest story i have ever read, imagine being okay with being an outlier of society. You clearly want to be normal but know you can't and gave up sometime in high school or college, instead of just admitting you have less worth than others you just rationalise it all as "self-acceptance" in order to cope with your lonely & pathetic existence.+2
@tanura5830 - 2023-07-20 19:07:20
@pikajew3578 I am not only okay but also proud of being outlier in society, society is dumb not me.+2
@TheAlison1456 - 2020-07-20 19:07:19
in sum, f society+2
@zeebadz10 - 2018-07-20 19:07:19
I agree in principle, though you should not take this reasoning to the extreme either Being weird is fine, having an introverted personality is fine too. Using that as an excuse to never get out of your comfort zone isn' t though, I think. >looks at comments wew lads that' s a lot of weaponised autism in one comment section.+5
@neurobioboy - 2018-07-20 19:07:19
I hate TV. Someone decide for you when and what you watch and use it "to sell free brain time" (dixit the former boss of the most watch TV channel un France TF1)+1
@discordiangod - 2020-07-20 19:07:19
But I am autistic.... I got diagnosed at 12.....+2
@littletimmythefifth29 - 2023-07-20 19:07:19
Here at 128,686 views.+2
- 2018-07-20 19:07:19
I am weirdo, and I fucking love it. :D You know what is huge advantage of us geeks? We can adapt really well... Other people either fit or do not fit... :D Take topic of sex as example, since it was spoken about... I was too shy to even talk to girls... I was afraid of being mocked for it and I really wanted to have sex, so, i learned psychology, practiced interaction with people, started approaching girls... At the end, I slept with more women than most "normal" people in their whole life, and I am 21. I actually developed bots for social networking and created social brand. I meet people and they have heard about me... The point is. if you want to be better then other people at something, you can... You have the power. Just do not do it because of them... Improve yourself in way you want to be better...+1
@lifeisactuallyveryboring.7771 - 2019-07-20 19:07:19
I think the point he's trying to make is that society is too quick to jump on people for trying to adjust themselves into modern society rather than help them along to ride the wave.+4
@EdwardAveyard - 2021-07-20 19:07:19
It sounds as if many of the people that you're talking about are self-diagnosing as autism. I am not a fan of this. I have worked with some autistic people who struggle to talk to anyone besides a select few trusted friends or family-members, and even then often speak in an idiosyncratic way. Having seen how debilitating autism can be, self-diagnosing with autism doesn't seem any more appropriate than self-diagnosing with cancer. If someone said that they had cancer when they had not been diagnosed, you'd say to them either to get a proper diagnosis or not to say that you have a serious condition so lightly. It should be the same for autism: either get a diagnosis or don't say that you're autistic.+1
@Jorge-xf9gs - 2022-07-20 19:07:20
See 1:14.+1
@Al-.-ex - 2023-07-20 19:07:20
Yeah the thing is being autistic isn't weird or whatever, it's pretty common, as many as 1/20 people are autistic so yeah those experiences are common but because autism is common.+3
@michaelhawkinson4180 - 2023-07-20 19:07:21
its 1/100 dude+2
@Al-.-ex - 2023-07-20 19:07:21
@michaelhawkinson4180 yeah if you only look at 10+ year old studies xd. Research is ongoing bro, I get it’s hard to keep up to date but come on man, I think I’m gonna stick with up to date research lol.+2
@cfaibah - 2024-07-20 19:07:21
@Al-.-ex or maybe diagnoses have gotten more lax+2
@Al-.-ex - 2024-07-20 19:07:21
@cfaibah “lax” as in accepting that women can also be autistic and other advances in science, sure.+2
@Dafoodmaster - 2022-07-20 19:07:20
nah i'm fully diagnosed true aspergers fam lol+2
@mateuszurbanowicz754 - 2020-07-20 19:07:21
ok boomer+2
@Telados - 2023-07-20 19:07:21
Maybe I'm not autistic, but calling me normal is a pretty big insult+3
@dirk1998 - 2024-07-20 19:07:21
I stubbed my toe 3 times in one day, that's how I knew I was autistic.+1
@Aerex12 - 2018-07-20 19:07:21
Cool I am 28 too :p+1
@njsynthesis - 2020-07-20 19:07:21
I’ve never felt so attacked yet so vindicated at the same time before. Funnily enough, the very thought addressed was on my mind for the past few days, but I’ve never shared it with anyone. Sometimes I feel like YouTube can read minds.+2
@xealit - 2022-07-20 19:07:21
5:20 "if you run into a relationship, whether that's romantic or other that actually matters" - ouch! romantic relationships do matter! just chaotic s3x - yeah, that's random. But "romantic" does not mean just s3x with random chicks.+1
@grummelameise - 2024-07-20 19:07:21
that is an impressive display of discussing a complex topic without having a clue. yeah, my only problem was being awkward, i should just lighten up and relax. thanks, i whish you've told me sooner.+4
@bobjoe5555 - 2024-08-20 19:07:22
he's intentionally generalizing to avoid going overly into detail+1
@centristoffense3864 - 2019-07-20 19:07:21
You're not a "doctor." You're that guy from the matrix that betrayed the Nebbercanezzar.+3
@taymazpourhosseini7031 - 2022-07-20 19:07:21
Unless someones actually been diagnosed (like me) they are not realy autistic. Autism is not something you just walk around telling everyone. Another thing is if your mildly autistic your mostly normal either way, and no mather how autistic you are it most certainly NO EXCUSE to selfimprove.+4
@Jorge-xf9gs - 2022-07-20 19:07:22
I don't think he really talks about autism, but rather harmless personality traits and interests that are considered "weird". See 1:14.+1
@taymazpourhosseini7031 - 2022-07-20 19:07:22
@Jorge-xf9gs i know.+2
@xoenx7731 - 2018-07-20 19:07:21
Just b urself+1
@joedirte6476 - 2022-07-20 19:07:21
Henlo Luke i am auTism :)+1
@iii-ei5cv - 2018-07-20 19:07:21
Disagreeableness is positively correlated with masculinity. Males are driven to differentiate themselves in order to attract mates. Being "weird" or "not normal" is EXACTLY what you should aspire to be. Just don't put yourself down because you're a Linux fanboy instead of a Dallas Cowboys fanboy+1
@Dm-ni7ti - 2020-07-20 19:07:21
I like free software+3
@bbseal6174 - 2020-07-20 19:07:22
me too :)+3
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-20 19:07:22
same :)+1
@joshuajohnson3296 - 2021-07-20 19:07:21
Game of Thrones is for normies lollllll+1
@chiraqveteran2989 - 2022-07-20 19:07:21
"Normal" is a statistical term referring to the center of the bell curve or something that aligns with expectations from the normal distribution curve... Saying "Not having had sex by age 22 makes you normal" is objectively incorrect, as it isn't normal. Rather what could be said is that it simply doesn't matter and sex shouldn't be a preoccupation of yours in light of permanent skills and accumulations one might attain.+1
@amipsee01 - 2023-07-20 19:07:21
It's other people who think I'm weird. Not me+2
@nighttide9485 - 2018-07-20 19:07:21
I had chances to get diagnosed with something but I decided I don't want a label I can fall back on. Everyone is different and I think we are just diagnosing character traits. The way you grow up affects who you become and that can always be changed just by surrounding yourself with new experience's Tbh I don't consider myself to be normal. I do feel like an outcast. Its true that society is in a very unnatural state. Idk what's going to happen+2
@itachi2011100 - 2020-07-20 19:07:21
I'm a weird person, I randomly make chicken and dinosaur sounds. Also, I'm way past highschool. Also, I love myself for it.+3
@turtleanton6539 - 2024-07-20 19:07:21
😊😊😊😊🎉+1
@tomwojcik - 2018-07-20 19:07:21
REEEEEEEEEEE+1
@2tailedD3rps - 2018-07-20 19:07:23
Nope, with all due respect, I'm inclined to disagree with this viewpoint. Imo there's no such thing as "normal". Is "normal" supposed to be enjoying the superbowl? Basketball fan? Comic book hero fan? Can play sports? Likes to take walks to stay active? We're ALL weird because we're all HUMAN, that's what makes us unique as humans. What there are however are standards, things that don't cross the border of breaking laws and general rudeness. As someone diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, I've had to learn this my whole life, many embarrassing moments in my life I just had to move on and look forward. I've come to terms with my disabilities and focus on the skillsets I do have and what I can improve, but that's just my opinion.+3
@LukeSmithxyz - 2018-07-20 19:07:23
Did you watch the video? That's literally what I said. Bascally point by point.+12
@2tailedD3rps - 2018-07-20 19:07:23
I did, and I understand that we don't need to fit in with those things to feel normal, but that's what I don't understand, how does it make us more "normal" when we do things that we think are weird? "Normal" is such a fickle thing in society, when we try and fit in (like I tried to as a kid), we often start destroying ourselves more than when we just didn't try to fit in by not being weird. You hop around the idea of "normal" as if we are supposed to be that way despite a mental disability that's not curable. No offense but it's just not the mindset that I have.+2
@passive_annihilation - 2018-07-20 19:07:23
You're saying the same thing in different words. It comes out to the same thing. If no one is normal, then it is fundamentally not extraordinary to find variety among individuals. He's speaking to the over usage of "autistic" that is so often used to by people to describe themselves in a defeatist way as socially inept when that is just an aspect of their personality and/or skill set and not something they have been actually diagnosed with. The topic is not people with actual autism. That's pretty obviously a different issue.+4
@2tailedD3rps - 2018-07-20 19:07:23
passive_annihilation well that in itself just confuses me further lol, if that's the case then yea, I guess it's just a LITTLE bit different if you're not diagnosed+2
@passive_annihilation - 2018-07-20 19:07:23
It's kind of just a shitty meme that's gone a bit mainstream where folks use "autistic" to describe a whole bunch of behavior that is not actually defined as autism the developmental disorder. The stereotype being someone who never goes out or communicates with people much irl and spends all their time ricing Linux or writing code is autistic. When in reality literally anyone who doesn't make themselves have healthy interactions and relationships with other people is going to have a hard time feeling comfortable and welcome in most social situations. It's not limited to tech, just an unhealthy stereotype that a lot of people identify with. I'm from the Southern US and social anxiety is through the roof with people here because we're so isolated and marginalized; it almost always has nothing to do with any mental disorder and everything to do with lifestyle and cultural norms. Which is why, in the case that you aren't literally on the autism spectrum, it's important to realize that your skills in dealing with different social situations and finding self-acceptance are dependent on lifestyle and not just some aspect of yourself that you can't change or improve on. When people describe themselves as autistic (when they actually aren't), they're shrugging off any responsibility for self-improvement.+5
@janismeierovics2388 - 2019-07-20 19:07:23
Norm does not mean that its opposite is autistic or even bad. However, there IS such thing as normal, baseline - person who doesn't kill everyone he meets, person who also doesn't rape their bodies afterwards, etc etc. Extreme examples? Yes, but it shows that there IS a norm of behaviour. That its quite nebulous is due to it being an unconcious product of our society, but since society itself is our creation according to our nature, it very much has a true baseline, we just can't really nail it down. Subset of society may have different "norm" from the baseline, nerds behave one way, jocks another way. Thats not to say that you are second class citizen if you have slight deviations from the norm, but that doesn't make the norm not real.+1
@lesbianwalrus - 2019-07-20 19:07:23
I'm a reclusive 31-year-old kissless, hugless, dateless, handholdless, flirtless virgin with no friends or any positive future prospect (my ADHD ensures this). I also have never drank alcohol, smoked tobacco or marijuana, or experimented with any type of drug. I'm also incapable of eating vegetables. I aint normal, m8.+1
@pikajew3578 - 2022-07-20 19:07:23
I'm the same as you except a decade younger and i have a good appetite for most vegetables. Also have drunken alcohol on a few occasions, usually by myself cause i have nobody else i'd rather drink with in my life.+1
@yorozuya6115 - 2020-07-20 19:07:23
I don't consider myself autistic but I have to say that you should be aware that is only your opinion, and I am pretty sure (not at all) that you are not a psychologist or psychiatris to speak about mental disorder... I'm not also , but I read about that, and ASD have a wide range. Also you don't know if that person was doing therapy, like if you see a person walking in a normal way, and he says "hey I only have one leg" and you say "I don't believe you, you can walk perfectly" and then this person shows you his ortopedic leg, and tells you about years doing rehab. But does not the point, is be aware about the limit of our knowledge and be respectful. I understand what do you say, and I'm agree, a doctor should make the diagnosis, but to say that you don't have to say "You are not Autistic, you are normal" . And sorry if I made a mistake, english is not my mother tonge x)+1
@Surfer8652 - 2024-07-20 19:07:23
Sometimes it's ok to just be a nerd. I've always considered myself a nerd, and even when I had interests and hobbies that were considered more mainstream or "cool" I would get way too obsessed with learning everything about them and came off awkward anyway. What I do enjoy about the autistic community is they have terminology and ways of discussing a lot of the things that I and a lot of other people on that far end of the bell curve deal with (special interests/hyperfixations, monotropism, inertia, etc.) and how to better cope with these things. I think it can be a useful label for finding info and like-minded people, but the goal should be on self understanding and self improvement, and not about making excuses for not trying.+1
@LedoCool1 - 2019-07-20 19:07:23
Lel. I say slightly inappropriate stuff all the time intentionally. Why? Firstly, I fight against social taboos. Second, people don't expect is and are mentally vulnerable when caught off guard like that. Which allows me building connections easily. Third, it's very pleasing seeing people in that state.+1
@minhtao9774 - 2019-07-20 19:07:23
<3 <3 <3+1
@jessicaholting2362 - 2019-07-20 19:07:23
When I watch videos of people who say they are autistic it’s hard to tell if they truly are or not. So many seem so normal. I believe I seem normal too but I actually have been diagnosed with autism in early childhood and spent the first 6 grades of my life in special ed. Due to my history I am still trying to figure out if I am autistic or was just a weird kid. I’m in my 40s.+1
@malleuscalgary - 2023-07-20 19:07:23
This guy’s gonna have a literal cult in 8 years, remember this comment ‼️+2
@GAMER123GAMING - 2024-07-20 19:07:24
wait actually+1
@pikajew3578 - 2022-07-20 19:07:23
If nobody loves you or wants you, it is your own fault for being that way that made them reject you in the first place.+1
@pikajew3578 - 2022-07-20 19:07:24
Society tried to teach me that because it loves me, i was too inadequate to get it and thus failed to become a normal human. Now i shall reap the consequences.+1
@user-pt7zn5so6n - 2022-07-20 19:07:24
maybe you just need to be around different people. there's a balance. if you're hurting other people, yeah, it's on you to change. if people just don't accept you because you don't conform to social norms, find other people. I don't think everybody WILL find love, but I do think everybody CAN find love. it's just harder for some.+2
@pikajew3578 - 2023-07-20 19:07:24
@user-pt7zn5so6n How can I tell if I'm hurting people unless they tell me directly?+1
@porky1118 - 2021-07-20 19:07:23
4:44 When I was 22 I didn't even seriously think about having sex. Wasn't really interested in women at that time. Probably because I'm most attracted to girls, which are some years younger than me, which would have been a larger problem back then :P But also because of other interests and some psychical issues. Nowadays I would like to have sex maybe, but more important, a person who shows real interest in some things I like, like geometric algebra, story structure, and similar. And I guess females are better in that. When I tell girls about such things, they often show more interest than guys. I guess, that's something natural. If a man is interested in something, has some own goals, women tend to be more interested in him, no matter what it is exactly. Especially, when it is more important than she. But it also might have been coincidences, that girls show so much interest.+1
@heartlessalice5801 - 2019-07-20 19:07:23
So there is nothing wrong about me wanting to be the cutest trap in existance 😀+1
@ookidokii - 2020-07-20 19:07:23
Someone just heard Born this way by lady gaga+1
@logsupermulti3921 - 2018-07-20 19:07:23
/ourguy/+1
@digitsdigitsdigits808 - 2018-07-20 19:07:23
I actually am autistic tho+1
@elogrodelasamericas2258 - 2018-07-20 19:07:23
I'm a chad+1
@Dowlphin - 2021-07-20 19:07:23
Geez, clickbait title and only briefly mentioning that topic by switching cause and effect. Never occured to you that maybe nerd culture does not lead to an assumption to be autistic because of belonging to that subculture but that nerd subculture is fed and shaped by an overrepresentation of autism?+1
@Jorge-xf9gs - 2022-07-20 19:07:24
pfp checks out+3
@Dowlphin - 2022-07-20 19:07:24
@Jorge-xf9gs Projecting much. 😏+1
@davidoconnor3930 - 2024-11-20 20:07:23
Lies+1