The Autism Constellation (Patreon)

I have grown from an autistic child who needed weekly lessons from a childhood psychiatrist in order to learn how to make eye contact, into an autistic adult who is flying high in an aeroplane made out of comprehensive coping mechanisms.

The way I have made sense of my life, is to find repeated patterns and groupings of traits, the same as we do for the night sky. There does appear to be a unifying autistic core trait, however, which surprised me: 

Detail-oriented thinking.

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This video was SO DIFFICULT TO WRITE! Such a varied and nuanced condition, which we still know so little about. However, I don't need to know the underlying cause to build and test strategies, scientifically and obsessively.

Hope it's informative folks, I'd love to hear what you think!

Tris :-)

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EDIT 2024-03-15 

aka "Video1COPYCOPYCOPY(1)FINAL.mp4" !

Apologies all, there were a LOT of visual errors in the first version, please accept my apologies and this re-edit. It's almost the same script, so you don't need to watch again unless you like shiny new graphics.

While making these changes I discovered, and then got very over-excited with, the Advanced Slides background customisation - it accepts a transparency value!

<!-- slide bg="[[autism-infinity.png]]" data-background-opacity="0.1" -->

I then did what anyone would do, and put in a subtle background image at 10% transparency to indicate which of the 3 chapters in the video each slide is. Good? Bad? Distracting? Helpful?

Thank you so much, Tris