Published on 12, July, 2020
I don’t think that man is autistic, I think he’s a fraud. This is why. Turn down the volume on his YouTube video and watch his body language, there’s a patter to it.
(1)Moving his hands, sweeping his palm over his face when he says ‘focus’ then pointing his finger straight away when he says ‘point’, then on to the next gesture deftly and seamlessly. That is so non-autistic.
(2) Tilting his head, showing off his shiny white teeth, pushing his head forward and opening his eyes wide to express surprise then squinting back to express irony, then onto the next gesture, etc, you get the point and I haven’t even mentioned (3) his nuanced tone of voice and choice of words. I don’t recognize anything at all autistic about this.
Mr Kelly is far more expressive, persuasive and superficially charming than most neurotypical people let alone anyone autistic but it’s (4) the unblinking way he stares at the screen which gives him away.
Unblinking staring like that is often symptomatic of narcissistic personality disorder and all that implies for his other behaviours, the glib charm, the persuasiveness, the skilful self-promotion which makes Mr Kelly someone you should want to avoid not befriend.
I totally get it that some people out there love him to bits but if that were someone I knew I would try to dissuade them from him. I’m perfectly happy to reply to this.
Youtubers/vloggers are a massive pile of garbage, and Tiktok is even worse. I wonder why normies watch those idiotic videos and take them seriously.
Autistic YouTubers can be a vital source of information - without YouTube, I probably wouldn't have realised that I'm autistic or sought an official diagnosis. They can also provide a human face to autism when so many people believe in stereotypes such as Rain Man. Autistic YouTubers (Hunter Hansen, Adult with Autism, Yo Samdy Sam, Foster on the Spectrum - to name just a few) have been a huge source of comfort to me and many others.
I learned about ASD via books. You know, those strange things used by old people like me to learn things.
That's the truth. I worked in a British school, and almost every student had the same attention span of a goldfish. The teachers had to speak one sentence at a time otherwise students could not keep focus. I am sure that anybody under 35 could not read a paper book if it was required to save his life.
How remarkably patronising. Oh well.