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Videoing an actual meltdown.....

Dirtdigger

Dirtdigger

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Has anyone been able to video an actual meltdown (not a reenactment)? I have some really severe meltdowns and one was this morning when I was fixing my breakfast and things started going bad for me. But, I never know when they are going to happen or how severe and they for the most part only last a few minutes until I can get my bearings. So getting a video of me during one of these meltdowns will never happen unless it is 24 hour monitoring or if I happen to be videoing something or someone causing me to go into sensory overload.


So, I do have at least one video I just happened to be videoing that brat across the street relentlessly bouncing his basketball in front of my house everyday last summer encouraged by his mother which is worse than the kid when I went into a meltdown. I finally got this to stop after talking to our mayor a few times pointing out to him and the police that I'm Autistic with SPD. But, a lawyer is my next step if this little trouble maker who bully other kids, sass his mother and steals basketball, starts up again. I don't care if he bounce his basketball in back of his house but I don't trust this little brat either which constantly cause me to go to the door as long as I hear a faint basketball sound. Besides, it is against the law to bounce or throw any kind of ball in the street which includes the sidewalk which I also had to point out.
 
tree said:
Dirtdigger

There's the Danielle Jacobs video.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-killed-by-police-had-viral-autism-awareness-video/
It's also posted on Autism Speaks, but is unavailable for viewing there, labeled
"Private."
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Yes, I have seen this video before. I have to admit this is a real meltdown, not staged like so many I've seen on You tube. But, I'm really talking about those who have meltdowns that has been able to get videos of themselves some how without being staged. I was already videoing when I had a meltdown which I didn't know will happen. I started shaking violently while holding the camera and talking to the police on the phone though my face was never shown. But you can tell that I went into meltdown mode because I could not hold my camera still and my voice was showing great stress as well. So the camera doesn't necessarily have to be on you but holding it during a meltdown. I was really messed up bad and a short time after that since this evil little brat kept it up last summer, I ended up in my family doctor's office where I was given an anti anxiety drug and where an appointment was made by her to see a neuropsychologist who give me my Autism diagnosis.


If that brat starts his noise in front of my house again, that video will be given to my lawyer along with the results of my Autism diagnosis, especially about the sensory issues with certain kinds of noises. I tried to have a decent conversation with his mother who is worse than the brat and she got all up in my face telling me she didn't care about my Autism and didn't care about my sensory issues. And that is the attitude so many non Autistic people have. How are we ever going to get accepted with attitudes like that.
 
I have never seen a video of an adult having a meltdown. I have seen them of kids having meltdowns though. I have never tried to have someone film me because i never know when they are about to happen.
 
Yes, there is the "dog comforts owner during a meltdown video," and I believe that the subject of the video was actually a transgender man named Kayden Clarke (who originally went by the name Danielle Jacobs).

I did experience a meltdown/panic attack of sorts about a year and a half ago, which I partially filmed to show to my psychiatrist, whom I was scheduled to have an appt with soon. I didn't really film myself, but turned my phone to face some of the stuffed animals I have on my bed, but you could hear my hyperventilating and sobbing clearly and recognize that I was having a crisis. When I did show it to my psychiatrist, it didn't seem to make much of a difference to her and she seemed kind of annoyed by it. Oh well.
 
Coupe said:
Yes, there is the "dog comforts owner during a meltdown video," and I believe that the subject of the video was actually a transgender man named Kayden Clarke (who originally went by the name Danielle Jacobs).
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I hadn't heard the whole story regarding this. As if being murdered while reaching out for help wasn't enough, to then have your identity erased by the media just adds insult to injury. I really shouldn't have, but I followed up and did some research and I am shaking now. It just pisses me off to see somebody's suffering used as inspiration porn by the uneducated masses while simultaniously having their memory disrespected.
 
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