Hannah Gadsby

But inside of me, it's just like, well, it's just coming out how it's coming out, isn't it? Like, you need to deal with your feelings on this. But there are a lot of non-binary folk, trans folk, genderqueer folk on the spectrum because I think there's something about the gender binary that does not make sense. Yes. If it's illogical, it is what is important, not what is interesting.

But inside of me, it's just like, well, it's just coming out how it's coming out, isn't it? Like, you need to deal with your feelings on this. But there are a lot of non-binary folk, trans folk, genderqueer folk on the spectrum because I think there's something about the gender binary that does not make sense. Yes. If it's illogical, it is what is important, not what is interesting.

the idea of what autism is is being based and studied on, you know, young men, white men, if we want to get specific. Like the biases that exist in science everywhere, in all parts of science, medicine, research, you know, exist in this. So, you know, there are women of colour on the spectrum And a lot of them are running around not knowing it because it will be different again.

the idea of what autism is is being based and studied on, you know, young men, white men, if we want to get specific. Like the biases that exist in science everywhere, in all parts of science, medicine, research, you know, exist in this. So, you know, there are women of colour on the spectrum And a lot of them are running around not knowing it because it will be different again.

the idea of what autism is is being based and studied on, you know, young men, white men, if we want to get specific. Like the biases that exist in science everywhere, in all parts of science, medicine, research, you know, exist in this. So, you know, there are women of colour on the spectrum And a lot of them are running around not knowing it because it will be different again.

Because women are expected to behave in a certain way. And as a culture, we've been trained to pathologize women who don't behave in the correct way in the way that it is a character flaw. It is, you're going to hell. You're not doing it right. You know, it is that shaming and So if a young boy doesn't interact with his peers and he wants to identify every single dinosaur there is, fine.

Because women are expected to behave in a certain way. And as a culture, we've been trained to pathologize women who don't behave in the correct way in the way that it is a character flaw. It is, you're going to hell. You're not doing it right. You know, it is that shaming and So if a young boy doesn't interact with his peers and he wants to identify every single dinosaur there is, fine.

Because women are expected to behave in a certain way. And as a culture, we've been trained to pathologize women who don't behave in the correct way in the way that it is a character flaw. It is, you're going to hell. You're not doing it right. You know, it is that shaming and So if a young boy doesn't interact with his peers and he wants to identify every single dinosaur there is, fine.

That seems normal in a way. If a girl was to do that, often their peers will identify it as wrong before parents will observe it and they begin masking. So the masking thing in girls because you're watching your peers and you're like, they're doing these things, I should do these things.

That seems normal in a way. If a girl was to do that, often their peers will identify it as wrong before parents will observe it and they begin masking. So the masking thing in girls because you're watching your peers and you're like, they're doing these things, I should do these things.

That seems normal in a way. If a girl was to do that, often their peers will identify it as wrong before parents will observe it and they begin masking. So the masking thing in girls because you're watching your peers and you're like, they're doing these things, I should do these things.

And so I think a lot of the time, not so much now, like it's opening up now, but I think women of my generation, that's what is happening. Like you're masking. And you'll find people in their 40s having breakdowns all the time, women on the spectrum, undiagnosed women.

And so I think a lot of the time, not so much now, like it's opening up now, but I think women of my generation, that's what is happening. Like you're masking. And you'll find people in their 40s having breakdowns all the time, women on the spectrum, undiagnosed women.

And so I think a lot of the time, not so much now, like it's opening up now, but I think women of my generation, that's what is happening. Like you're masking. And you'll find people in their 40s having breakdowns all the time, women on the spectrum, undiagnosed women.

Yeah. I always was sort of, like to frame it as like, I always thought that I was struggling because I was depressed and anxious, but then I realized I am depressed and anxious because I am struggling. And so I never identified that I was struggling. You know, that, that, like, I didn't understand that I wasn't looking people in the eye and, you know, cause I would just watch their mouths move.

Yeah. I always was sort of, like to frame it as like, I always thought that I was struggling because I was depressed and anxious, but then I realized I am depressed and anxious because I am struggling. And so I never identified that I was struggling. You know, that, that, like, I didn't understand that I wasn't looking people in the eye and, you know, cause I would just watch their mouths move.

Yeah. I always was sort of, like to frame it as like, I always thought that I was struggling because I was depressed and anxious, but then I realized I am depressed and anxious because I am struggling. And so I never identified that I was struggling. You know, that, that, like, I didn't understand that I wasn't looking people in the eye and, you know, cause I would just watch their mouths move.

Like I wasn't, didn't understand. that I couldn't hear properly. I can hear properly. My hearing's, as my mum would call it, 20-20. That's tight, mum. But I do, I watch people's mouths and that helps me put together what they're saying. And so it's a lot of compensatory techniques that I use to get through that. But also it's about how trauma presents in neurodivergent people is not the same.

Like I wasn't, didn't understand. that I couldn't hear properly. I can hear properly. My hearing's, as my mum would call it, 20-20. That's tight, mum. But I do, I watch people's mouths and that helps me put together what they're saying. And so it's a lot of compensatory techniques that I use to get through that. But also it's about how trauma presents in neurodivergent people is not the same.

Like I wasn't, didn't understand. that I couldn't hear properly. I can hear properly. My hearing's, as my mum would call it, 20-20. That's tight, mum. But I do, I watch people's mouths and that helps me put together what they're saying. And so it's a lot of compensatory techniques that I use to get through that. But also it's about how trauma presents in neurodivergent people is not the same.