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PEWDIEPIE Autism? (Do YOU Think he is Autistic?) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Do you think Peter Pie has autism?
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  Let's discuss it. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  astral world. I'm Dan.
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  I have Asperger's Syndrome ADHD OCD and dyslexia.
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  Hey guys, I'll just be discussing some of the things
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  that I found quite interesting about Felix or PewDiePie as we
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  all know, I'm on the internet and why I think that he may be
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  on the autism spectrum. And yeah, let's get into that
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  discussion. So PewDiePie and Felix is a huge
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  crater hit the biggest crater on the platform for who doesn't
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  know. He has like something like 80
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  Five million subscribers on YouTube.
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  So if you don't know who PewDiePie is, please leave a
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  comment down below and tell me when Earth the rock is that
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  you're living under because he is like the biggest YouTube on
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  the planet. So I was watching PewDiePie.
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  I watch a few of his videos. I think it's really really funny
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  and he has some outrageously funny videos.
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  He was made famous originally by the fact that he made gaming
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  videos. He was a gamer and he made his
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  own game called like the legend of the brofist and all kinds of
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  stuff but he streamed games on YouTube became bigger started
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  vlogging did all kinds of Other cool stuff and now he does kind
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  of like like abstract News videos on YouTube gossip and
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  stuff like that really funny guy.
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  Anyway, his name is Felix and he lives here in the UK in
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  Brighton, but he's from Sweden now something that is really
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  interesting is me and my girlfriend Naomi who is a
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  specialist. She basically has a first-degree
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  honors in childhood studies and development specifically in
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  autism, which is you know, why we get on so basically we are
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  watching Felix's videos and she said, well was he on the
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  Spectrum I said, I don't know and I enjoy his content, but I
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  didn't know if he was on the Spectrum or not, but Then this
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  is what makes me think that he is on the Spectrum.
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  So straight off the bat PewDiePie is a gamer obsessed
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  with games and even releases own games.
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  Like I said legend of the brofist there's I think there's
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  another app. He released another game and the
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  funny thing about it is that people with Autism are super
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  into games that are obsessed with gaming because of the way
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  that our brains are wired, you know, like my favorite game ever
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  is like Pokemon Red for the Gameboy and I was like super old
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  but like Pokemon his life he'll so PewDiePie loves gaming
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  secondly. The guy literally is a recluse.
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  He liked him and his girlfriend living in and have some Brighton
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  and that he's very roughly. She never see him outside never
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  goes to parties doesn't go like you to conventions doesn't go to
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  any conventions. You never see him at like huge
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  big events, which leads me to believe that he does have
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  anxiety and like social anxiety and this is very very common
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  with people on the autism spectrum.
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  Now PewDiePie also displays some autistic traits within two
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  things his his voice is very odd.
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  That's what Yeah, watch till the end of the video for a surprise.
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  So people with often inspection conditions.
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  Sometimes have unusual ways of talking to try and be like
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  trying to fit in or try to find out what is the appropriate way
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  to talk, you know, and and they can learn from things like
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  learning from movies. A lot of people the autism
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  spectrum conditions have slight American accent even though they
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  know only America I myself included in this a lot of people
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  think I am American, but actually I'm from the UK and
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  British and Irish. / UK accent but there's probably an American
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  teen July because of my Asperger's Syndrome now
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  PewDiePie also has this unusual voice he puts on almost and it's
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  an unusual one, but Naomi my partner identified this and said
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  that a lot of the kids that she deals with a lot of people she
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  knows actually with officers and special conditions have this
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  kind of like a new low voice pattern that presents itself in
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  a certain way now PewDiePie also has a very monotone voice so
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  Very monotone. It's not very his voice isn't
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  very exciting and he seems like he's trying his best to talk as
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  normal as possible on camera when he's talking on camera.
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  Now. Another thing is that I did a
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  quick Google and I'm not the only person who thought that
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  PewDiePie may have an Autism Spectrum condition in actual
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  fact a bunch of people said that PewDiePie has an Autism Spectrum
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  condition and they even go as far as asking him questions and
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  somebody tweeted him asking if he had an Autism special
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  edition, but he didn't ever apply, but I did find That
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  somebody did ask him that on Twitter.
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  Now the cool thing is I think it's cool if he does have autism
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  and I think it would be it'd be awesome for Community if they
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  knew he did have autism but you know, some people don't want to
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  identify with that now PewDiePie not only have the monotonal
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  thing and the the squeaky voice and stuff like that.
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  He also seems like a very anxious person.
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  He seems very kind of he doesn't know how to appropriately talk
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  to people in videos. He has got in trouble before for
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  saying the wrong things in a video.
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  Think on his channel. He used some words were very
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  controversial and I think it was deemed as racist as well and see
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  there's some other stuff and he's not really thinking before
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  he does or stuff kind of like I did in the video or something
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  about Jake Paul did the same thing doesn't think before he
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  does those things. You just does it doesn't realize
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  the consequence not having like boundary a barrier a self filter
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  because I myself having autism have this issue with filters.
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  Like I'll meet somebody and say that the most bizarre things
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  them and everyone's like Dan you can't say that to a person and
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  like what on Earth are you doing?
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  Like, how can you even say that? That you know, the people people
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  always think that I'm kind of like I say the wrong things and
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  I get awkward stuff and I can't you know that there's boundaries
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  and stuff that you have to learn to say now.
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  I feel like PewDiePie relates to that in a lot of the controversy
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  that surrounded him and his career now.
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  Look I'm not a psychologist. I'm just a person with autism
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  and I I see that it reflects itself.
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  In other people and I always find like for like like I love
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  watching autistic creators. I love things like Minecraft,
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  you know, it's created by somebody or My love Pokemon
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  created by somebody with autism. I love like Power Rangers a
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  bunch of people on the autism spectrum like Power Rangers, you
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  know, I have a degree in chemistry and I the revolver on
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  those things that are drawn to people with Autism because of
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  our brains working in a similar way.
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  We're going to think somewhat similar.
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  Now, this leads me to believe that PewDiePie May potentially
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  be on the Spectrum. I'm not going to diagnose them
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  on the Internet because I'm not like super weird.
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  Oh that's going to do that. But I'm also going to put that
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  question to you thinking. Hey, you know, you know bunch of
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  guys who watch this channel if you're not already new to this
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  channel if you Your you know longtime subscriber, you'll know
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  yourself like how autistic people are what the
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  characteristics of autism how it presents itself in people what
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  kind of people have autism and and you know, you see those
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  Hallmarks and to me PewDiePie is like a classic example of this,
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  you know, he he's very elusive just videos on his own doesn't
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  really do collaboration videos. Like I said, you seems like a
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  super anxious person seems like he doesn't know much Social
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  conventions. There's no one to stop does know
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  that barrier. What's right or wrong to say in
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  a social convention. What's going to get you in
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  trouble? Not this is why you get in
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  trouble similar to the polls in that respect.
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  But at the end of the day, it's not down to me to diagnose
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  somebody it's down to them to kind of like, you know, the go
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  look for a diagnosis of be happy with fact.
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  I don't have a diagnosis or even though they're not on the
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  Spectrum. I just thought I wanted to bring
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  up this discussion. So I kind of discussion with you
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  guys and I do love to know your thoughts because like it
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  fascinates me it like it fascinates me to see if people
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  in the media have on autism special edition and nobody knows
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  about it. I nobody's talking about it.
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  So let me know what you guys thought if You guys think that
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  PewDiePie has an Autism special edition or if you've noticed
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  this yourself because you might be like, hey Dan, I noticed that
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  PewDiePie. You know, how is autism like two
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  or three years ago. Hey down this article talks
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  about it where PewDiePie discusses autism and so I just
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  like to know that we you know, there's the guy who created
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  Minecraft as well. He you know, he said to have
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  autism when I seen a video where he was on a panel somewhere in
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  Minecraft convention and some kid were up there and said, hey,
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  you know, do you have autism and they kind of shut the power down
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  is this and I'm not gonna answer that question, obviously.
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  Home and had nerve and some people don't want to address
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  that publicly. Some people don't want to
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  address it, you know it in front of their audience base and
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  that's absolutely fine. If you want to do that and I
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  just feel like maybe PewDiePie does feel that he relates to the
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  autism Community but doesn't run it like publicly disclose it
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  because of the way that people may judge him, you know, because
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  there is a lot of judgment in people with Autism when you tell
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  somebody have a lot of special edition, this is the reason this
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  channel exists to try and get rid of all that horrible stigma.