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Am I Autistic Enough? (IMPOSTER SYNDROME) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So a, my autistic enough, let's talk about imposter syndrome.
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  What's going on? Welcome Back, different,
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  free, just for you from me. Okay, guys, so I came across an
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  article about imposter syndrome. Right?
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  And I have left that link in the description down below, as you
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  can check that out, but more importantly resonated with me
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  and I have this conversation where friend Connor from Khan
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  award. He's a YouTuber as well.
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  And we have this conversation off camera about like some of
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  the times when you know, your your artistic person in a world
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  where you're on a spectrum with other autistic people, right?
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  And there are people who have high support needs and every we
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  have a lot of support needs. Now I myself, I'd say I have low
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  support needs than, you know, my friends kid who has nonverbal
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  autism? So it's kind of like, okay.
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  Well, they have higher support needs to me.
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  Well, how does this all work? You know, what is the, what is
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  the roundabout way that we're thinking about this?
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  It's easy to forget that you know autism is a spectrum when
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  you're just living day to day, you know, with what you're
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  doing. But when you're in the other
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  autistic people, then you realize that they support need
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  agree to you know, and so sometimes you kind of have this
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  feeling that you don't feel like a guilt like, oh, you know, I'm
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  going around and I have this label, this diagnosis of autism
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  and in terms of my diagnosis, you know compare that to
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  somebody else. How does it differ, you know,
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  like how does my diagnosis different from theirs and why
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  are we allowed the same? I'm diagnosis, you know, if
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  we're were obviously in different, you just support
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  needs. Now.
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  It comes from the fact that, you know, some people on the autism
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  spectrum have verbal vocabulary. They able to hold down, jobs
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  have marriages and children, the things like that, and they just
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  go around their day and their life, doing things that, you
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  know, cause them issues. They have work around some more,
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  they have support in those areas.
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  But, you know, they are issues in the areas of issues will be
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  greatly different to somebody who may not be able to talk.
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  They'll be nonverbal autistic person.
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  They may have other intellectual.
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  Loyalties as well as autism. And so, there are varying
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  degree, which is obviously, why autism is called a spectrum.
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  Now, impostor syndrome happens. When people find out that, you
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  know, they say things like, you know, it's a weird, I'm starting
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  a new job and I say, oh sorry. I'm on the Spectrum and they
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  say, oh, you don't look artistic or do you know what?
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  I never tell that you are autistic.
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  Those kind of comments. Not only quite hurtful because
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  it kind of devalues you and you think I will my diagnosis.
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  This is not valuable. But it also then starts to you
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  self-doubting, this imposter syndrome where you double think
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  like oh my goodness. So, you know do I have these
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  needs and and you know what's going on?
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  And obviously you do you wouldn't have a diagnosis
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  otherwise, but that imposter syndrome that that issue that's
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  there that is presenting itself is because of external stimuli
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  that's already playing on your mind because we live in an age,
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  where autism is a spectrum and it's a big, beautiful Spectrum.
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  We all should respect that. Now ways of avoiding.
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  This is that, you know, if Jim Mason, you're not on the
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  Spectrum, then just have respect and appreciation.
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  That autism is a spectrum and that they'll be people who may
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  need 24-hour care. And there's some people who may
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  need just weekly care or weekly psychological intervention or
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  counseling or whatever because it's how they are.
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  You know, that was a very common phrase that people always used
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  to say. They said that if you've ever
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  met one autistic person, then you've only ever met one
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  autistic person and this couldn't be more true, you know,
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  autistic people are so individual and there's so So
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  unique in how we are that, you can never really judge anything
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  on your friends. Kid who happens to be in the
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  autism spectrum or all your friend Larry, who's on the
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  autism spectrum. We know that nobody's the same.
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  And so, this imposter syndrome is a bit of a battle in your
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  head. It's something that comes on
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  more and more. As autistic people.
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  We need to know that our support needs are, you know, our
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  individual to us not just as, as a, you know, an autistic group
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  of people other than, you know, people who are Oppa is as an
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  individual on the autism spectrum because we all have
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  individual needs and those individual needs need to be met
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  and understood and accepted. You know, that's that's what it
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  is. Now guys.
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