Reacting to Wholesome Actually Autistic TikToks!
Added 2024-09-05 14:00:08 +0000 UTCFilmed on the last hot day we had 😭
This was lovely! Thank you for voting for cosy TikToks on the latest poll 💛
Next we'll be reading and reviewing Paige Layle's book 🥰
The TikToks:
Cheryl: https://www.tiktok.com/@_thislineismine/video/7357773793424657696
Puzzle Piece Brain: https://www.tiktok.com/@pogsyy
Blankets: https://www.tiktok.com/@rian.thoughts/video/7384466417258745120?q=autistic%20summer&t=1723417337853
Waking up with Autism/ADHD: https://www.tiktok.com/@thetattooautist/video/7215246240697781510?q=autism%20halloween&t=1693436171427
Kaelynn Pizza: https://www.tiktok.com/@kaelynn_vp/video/7391229608676363562
Chloe Hayden: https://www.tiktok.com/@chloeshayden/video/7221766921715305730
Comments
I relate so much with what you said about being in a room where everyone just knows what is the right thing to do and how to be helpful and i'm just standing there!
Constantina
2025-09-07 12:04:04 +0000 UTCI am the same as you, Meg. When I am cold, I'm COLD. 🥶 And I hate it! Spring is my favourite season. I like Summer but it bums me out a little because it's actually the start of everything getting darker. I also really like the ease of warm seasons when it comes to clothes and stuff. I don't like all the layers I have to wear in Winter. That Chloe Hayden video is super relatable. Not so much the forgetting but how she was feeling at her in-laws and just saying 'I'm fine.' Sometimes I think I could be on fire, I'd still try and say 'I'm fine'. But I'm trying to be better with it.
Becky
2025-05-16 14:08:44 +0000 UTCIn our house, we have always cut pizza with kitchen scissors.
Leslie
2024-11-09 02:04:21 +0000 UTCMobile. Sadly none of the videos have it and I try to turn it on. I may just have to deal with it.
Angel Best
2024-11-04 15:40:38 +0000 UTCAre you on phone or desktop? I can see closed captions a couple of icons across from volume, on my end 😊
I'm Autistic, Now What
2024-11-04 10:27:44 +0000 UTCOh my God, I had a roommate do the same thing with the pizza 🤣🤣
Heather Ensign
2024-11-04 05:14:54 +0000 UTCSadly no. None of the videos have had them on here.
Angel Best
2024-10-30 23:38:10 +0000 UTCOh noo - are they back for you now?
I'm Autistic, Now What
2024-10-30 22:16:14 +0000 UTCThe captions aren't working sadly
Angel Best
2024-10-06 02:25:44 +0000 UTCMe too! Summers are awful, horrible, depressing - and everyone loooves it. Shut up, sun! Stop having parties 'til 03 in the morning! And the weird looks I get when everyone else wears a heavy jacket, and I'm in t-shirt (and pants).
Hugin
2024-10-01 15:33:17 +0000 UTCI used to hate cooking because I just liked the most plain ingredients anyway (and because of the sensory stuff and difficulty chopping, but I hadn't really put that together) but started to enjoy it since I've been able to do it by myself, without feeling judged for taking too long to chop or do things weird or adjusting the ingredients to include just what I like. It's so much better without the pressure to do it 'right'
Larissa
2024-09-28 11:58:12 +0000 UTC😭 Glad you woke up! Our oven now is sooo loud, we'd never sleep through it 😅
I'm Autistic, Now What
2024-09-15 21:28:43 +0000 UTC🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌
Cheryl Roberts
2024-09-14 20:26:14 +0000 UTCOh man, I accidently left the oven on and fell asleep one night. There wasn't even anything inside it. Thankfully I woke up from the smell and turned it off 😅
Jonathon
2024-09-14 13:46:36 +0000 UTCI loathe heat 😆 I have my feet out of the duvet in the winter 😆
Fran H (Siigii)
2024-09-14 07:34:35 +0000 UTCI've always had what a friend and I call "fail flail" (we share this random flinging of objects and dropping everything in sight!). They are dyspraxic and ADHD and I'm Autistic (and quite likely ADHD too) but def wondering about dyspraxia now watching this. I have a neurological disability as well (a type of vasculitis) so I thought it might be related to that but now I'm not so sure! Interesting... and not always possible to work out the why 😉
Fran H (Siigii)
2024-09-14 07:33:19 +0000 UTCMost definitely!!
Fran H (Siigii)
2024-09-14 07:09:11 +0000 UTCThanks I had, I'm linked to other patreon discords. But I discovered the problem which was there is a separate list of which patreons you are subscribed to that have discord and you have to make sure each is ticked individually, which I discovered yours wasnt! Mystery solved 😉 thanks
Fran H (Siigii)
2024-09-14 07:08:06 +0000 UTCHave you linked your Discord to Patreon? 😊
I'm Autistic, Now What
2024-09-12 21:05:13 +0000 UTCYes. I joined here for discord fun. I am on several other creators' discords. They sent me an invite to get in. No one seems able to invite me. Story of my life. 1
Tim Tree Frog
2024-09-12 00:39:35 +0000 UTCI dislike heat in all forms but one: when I am wearing thick, heavy clothes. I guess that is more like warmth. I have a heavy robe that I wear whenever it is cold enough. I squeal with joy whenever the conditions are right. I dislike summer. Bare arms! Ugh! No jacket! My favourite sensation is a cool (read: cold) breeze on my face, particularly when the rest of my body is covered by soft, cozy clothing.
Christopher Earl
2024-09-11 21:15:23 +0000 UTCMy favourite pizza in my city is made at a Greek restaurant. My wife claims that Greek restaurants are a sure thing for pizza.
Christopher Earl
2024-09-11 21:10:59 +0000 UTCI am a hard core morning person. I spring out of bed when I realize it is time to get up. My best work is in the morning. By mid afternoon, the executive function is dried up. Note: this is only true if I don’t have a job I hate.
Christopher Earl
2024-09-11 21:08:46 +0000 UTCCanadian restaurants cut the pizza for you. All of them (probably).
Christopher Earl
2024-09-11 21:06:39 +0000 UTCChloe’s TikTok is very relatable. When I was a younger guy with roommates, I felt awkward in my home when a group of friends would visit. I tried just to be invisible. I would be standing in a doorway, watching the event from afar. Invisible. Or so I thought. One day, someone said, “Oh, you’re the guy who always stands in the doorway with a mug in your hand. I’ve never seen you do anything else.” I am excellent at masking when working or even performing, but I can’t do it at a party, so I steer clear of them.
Christopher Earl
2024-09-11 21:04:23 +0000 UTCI'm still so surprised to hear about experiences that are like mine! It's been a year since my diagnosis but I'm still expecting no one to be like me ^^' Chloe Hayden's tiktok resonates so much with my experience! That I can be such a social butterfly in some contexts and then suddenly I get into a context where that's not the case for a mysterious reason and I just freeze and lose my words and typically say no to everything exactly like her, and have that feeling of estrangement like a vertigo 👀 even sometimes with the very same people. It's not only about spoons, I feel like it's also about the accessibility of skills in my brain or something.
Orion van Helden
2024-09-10 17:42:29 +0000 UTCThanks, I did, but I'm going to try a different browser later on
Fran H (Siigii)
2024-09-10 07:08:29 +0000 UTCThank you so much for being here 💛 I'm sorry about your burn out, but glad the video could help a little 🥰
I'm Autistic, Now What
2024-09-09 18:16:47 +0000 UTCHave you tried via Desktop? I think it's a bit easier that way! 😊💛
I'm Autistic, Now What
2024-09-09 18:15:58 +0000 UTCThanks Meg! (I just joined, newly dx 2 months ago at age 48 and 10yr old autistic daughter too) been following you a while on YT. Love the wholesome vids, great pick up on hard days, esp going through burnout atm x thanks for all your hard work x
Fran H (Siigii)
2024-09-08 23:29:15 +0000 UTCSorry to ask here, I can't get into the discord. I've joined other discords for other patreon memberships and tried to access this the same way but it doesn't show up. Just wondered if anyone else had had this issue? Thanks
Fran H (Siigii)
2024-09-08 23:26:47 +0000 UTCOh man so relatable- especially Chloe’s video. Hope you’re having a good day!
Kayla
2024-09-08 01:50:30 +0000 UTCI'm so sorry - hope you're having a better day 💛 Glad I can help a little - it was lovely to watch something positive!
I'm Autistic, Now What
2024-09-07 21:30:10 +0000 UTCAww, I'm so glad! Thank you for being here 💛
I'm Autistic, Now What
2024-09-07 21:29:29 +0000 UTCI really needed this today, because I went to a funeral and grieving isn't made any easier by awkward social situations. When in large group, I always end up trying to follow every conversation around me in hopes that I can come up with something to say to anyone, but end up feeling confused and overwhelmed. Today I didn't feel like trying to talk to anyone, so I just sat there in silence for most of the time. But people were not talking to me, so I shouldn't have to feel bad for not talking to them either. A tip: I once went to a restaurant, where they brought scissors for cutting pizza. A lot easier than a knife or even a pizza cutter.
EG
2024-09-07 18:42:49 +0000 UTCWe need dissectologist! (someone who enjoy resolving jigsaw puzzle)
Jean Clinet
2024-09-07 16:08:40 +0000 UTCThanks for sharing! I love learning about cultural differences. Even in a nice restaurant here they typically would slice the pizza before bringing it to the table. Maybe not if it’s an “authentic” Italian restaurant in the US, but I don’t know. 😊
Heidi MacNaughton
2024-09-06 12:55:46 +0000 UTC🤣
Katzenbekloppt
2024-09-06 12:54:45 +0000 UTCI have never ever seen a restaurant cutting someones Pizza! But we go to real italian restaurants that serve real italian Pizza. This is very different to that fat Fast Food Pizza You can get delivered! And we always get a whole Pizza for one person, You don´t share slices or order just slices like on the go as a snack at the train station. You sit down, on a table with a table cloth and eat them wit fork and knife cutted in little pieces like normal food, don´t eat with Your hands. Oh, I live and grew up in Germany with an argentinian dad whos grand-grandparents immigrated there from Italy, soo... Pizza is not that Fast Food Pizza, it´s a very serious thing! But I like both, it´s just a very different thing.
Katzenbekloppt
2024-09-06 12:50:56 +0000 UTCAww, that´s what I need right now, Thank You, Meg😊!
Katzenbekloppt
2024-09-06 12:14:25 +0000 UTCThank you for this lovely video! I'm having very lonely days, with poorly executive functioning and no hope for it ever getting better, so this lightened me up for a little while.. 💜✨️
Helle
2024-09-06 11:11:38 +0000 UTCIs it common for restaurants not to cut your pizza in the U.K.? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in the U.S.!
Heidi MacNaughton
2024-09-05 23:08:59 +0000 UTCLol I slept through an earthquake as a child as I was a really deep sleeper 🤣. Ah those were the days.
Glen Rose
2024-09-05 22:56:31 +0000 UTCLove how the bokeh matches your lemons 🍋
Glen Rose
2024-09-05 22:53:49 +0000 UTCI just wanted to add that I have read Chloe's book twice It did resonate with me . I found the part of her life when she started going to school difficult but I got through it. She did a wonderful job. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND HER BOOK 📚
Cheryl Roberts
2024-09-05 21:33:57 +0000 UTCI believe I have dyspraxia I remember in grade school I would have my teachers use my handwriting assignments of what is not acceptable examples. I still can't wright. My first grade teacher tried unsuccessfully to get me to write with my right hand instead of my left. That caused meltdowns My parents had me put back into kindergarten and my next first grade teach was so lovely she always looked out for me
Cheryl Roberts
2024-09-05 21:24:52 +0000 UTCThink I’m the opposite of the ‘blankie’ person- every summer I get a little more addicted to my fan, and end up still using it well into the autumn when it’s really too cold to have it on!
Elyssia Cook
2024-09-05 21:09:54 +0000 UTCJust wanted to say, re sinus pressure/ pain - I used to get horrendous sinus headaches that would last for days, and I now use Sterimar Breathe Easy every day* (it’s literally just sterilised seawater that you squirt up your nose!) and it really helps keep the sinus pressure/ pain away. * I’m aware this sounds like an advert! I honestly don’t have shares in Sterimar, & other brands are available!
Elyssia Cook
2024-09-05 21:00:23 +0000 UTCOmg the refusing stuff you actually want is so relateable lol. I'm quite lucky in that the people I'm close to seem to know I do it, because they'll always ask a second time to make sure, for some reason I can then say yes. I don't know why 😂
Lauren Joanna
2024-09-05 20:51:43 +0000 UTC😂 Yess - Lewis often tries to get too creative with baking and then doesn't understand why it goes horribly wrong!
I'm Autistic, Now What
2024-09-05 19:05:26 +0000 UTCYess - before I was vegan I had to cook chicken a few times at school 😩 Not a good sensory experience!
I'm Autistic, Now What
2024-09-05 19:04:14 +0000 UTC😂 Poor Lewis!
I'm Autistic, Now What
2024-09-05 19:02:44 +0000 UTCAnd thank you sooo much for joining!!
I'm Autistic, Now What
2024-09-05 19:02:32 +0000 UTCThat's amazing!! Mine just arrived today! 🥳 So excited!
I'm Autistic, Now What
2024-09-05 19:02:13 +0000 UTCMy husband and I always say baking is a science and cooking is an art lol sometimes I want to follow directions and sometimes I want to freestyle so I choose which one based on mood
Alexis Nicholson-Brown
2024-09-05 18:07:48 +0000 UTCI love that you talked about the ick factor. I can NOT cook chicken and then eat it because the sliminess disgusts me. I have to drop it in whatever pan and stir it around without ever touching it with my hands and no one has EVER understood what I meant.
Dawn McDonald
2024-09-05 17:58:48 +0000 UTCI can relate to sweating in the summer because I have to have blankie with me! It's part of why I love this time of year so much
Dizzy
2024-09-05 17:03:42 +0000 UTCSo weird coincidence, I had just ordered her book and it will be here tomorrow 😮 I just joined the Patreon so I didn’t even realize you were reviewing it. Great minds think alike? 😄
Katherine McGinnis
2024-09-05 16:30:18 +0000 UTCI worked in Intensive Care Units. Any standard shift was 8-12 hours of being very close to a lot of strangers. That was never a problem for me. Angry, crying, bleeding, screaming, confused or getting too quiet? No problem. But the break room... Wtf do I say? So, I was always the odd one out. Very good with patients and relatives, bc of my honesty. Very unpopular among staff, bc of my honesty. I'm so very, very, very happy to get medical retirement.
Hugin
2024-09-05 14:54:42 +0000 UTCI think I have Lego pieces in my brain.
shapeofsoup
2024-09-05 14:38:40 +0000 UTCNooo not the wok ban 😂
shapeofsoup
2024-09-05 14:36:08 +0000 UTCChloe's recount of Easter is exactly me at Christmas with my husband's extended family. Also, they all speak German and I'm not great at it.
Arualblues Zero
2024-09-05 14:33:57 +0000 UTCWhen life gives you lemon earrings... :D
Steve
2024-09-05 14:05:39 +0000 UTC
