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AspieCafé

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Myrtonos

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So, now another, this time little known aspie vlogger called Maika. I have known about her since her channel began, but she is little known. I've decided to bring her up after realising that she too is very well spoken compared to many others.
I'll only embed one of her videos now, as it gets things started:


She has an Aspergian Café series, with each video in it actually being indexed, all about her personal experiences from an Aspergian perspective. Actually, in Aspergian Café 2, she does in fact mention having no urgent symptoms as a child, later defining them as "symptoms that prevent survival in society and thus prompt intense research" and giving a servere learning disability as an example.

At the time of writing, she still only has 92 subscribers, including me. When she gets 100 subscribers, either the 100th subscriber or myself, depending on whether the former posts here, may embed any new video she makes for than occasion.
 
Make that 93 subscribers. I like her and, she is very well spoken. She will be a great advocate and supporter as well as an educator for us, to the world if she gets the support she needs to do it.
 
To me, all she is saying is that her experience is definitely not going to like someone who is not high functioning but, they will still have some things in common. it's her way of saying each person's experience is different and, she doesn't expect any one of us to relate to everything she experienced. To me she is showing understanding of the fact that we are each unique individuals with unique experiences.
 
"my experience is going to be different from someone not on the high functioning spectrum"

My experience is different, therefore I am not high functioning? She only said it'd be different from people not high functioning, not that it will be different from everyone. If that makes sense. I don't know, I'm not as well spoken as she is.
 
unsurewhattoname Yes, that is exactly what she said, you are correct but, I am interpreting it as the sort of generalization and lack of specificity that NTs so often use and, based on her other videos, giving me a better overall picture of her, I believe she meant that she recognizes how unique each of our experiences is, it's just that the biggest differences will be between her own and those that are not high functioning and, high functioning Aspies will find more they relate to in her experience than others will, in general.

I know generalizing like that, and reading between the lines when someone does it is not a common skill to most Aspies, regardless of level of functioning. It isn't natural to me either but, because of my experiences and my life, I have learned to do it and, I'm giving her the benefit of that and, assuming she is a good person who means well.
 
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