Hi, my name is Stephanie and today I wanted to talk to you about why autism
does not define me. On this channel, I talk a lot about high-functioning autism
and I talk about a lot of the different aspects to do with autism to bring
understanding and awareness, and I also like to focus on the positive parts of
autism. However, autism by no means defines me. I
was talking to someone after I had first received my diagnosis and they had
mentioned how a mutual friend of ours on Facebook had the word "disability" right
underneath their name. So, it's a profile picture, their name, and the word
"disability." They probably put it in as their job or whatnot for Facebook, but it
seemed like the very third thing that they wanted someone to know about them
was that they were on disability or that they were disabled. And they asked me,
would you put autistic or autism there for you and I said no. Why? Because autism
does not define me. It is very much a part of me. It's part of what makes me
unique. It affects my personality. It affects what I do and how I react to
things, but yet it still is not what defines me.
Then what does? My job? My personality type? My education? While these things are
part of me, I'm not only an INFJ or only on the spectrum. I'm not just defined by
a list of strengths and weaknesses. I think it's especially important for us
to keep this in mind. While an autism diagnosis definitely helped me in
opening doors for help and understanding and making sense of things, I will not be
solely defined by what some people consider a disability. While others may
find that they are defined by other things,
I am defined by Christ. I am uniquely created by God's hand. I am this way and
the many things that make me who I am because of Him, and the things that I
think I can't do, He's going to let me know that I can
find success and be able to overcome those things through Him. And at the end
of the day, I just want to be a vessel that He's able to use to reach others.
Now, for those of you who don't believe in God, while I personally believe that
He's the one who should be defining you, I want you to remember that a diagnosis -
autism, whatever - one thing does not define who you are. A lot of people end
up limited and they say, well, because of autism, or because of whatever it is, I
can't do such-and-such, or I can only do this. And we kind of put ourselves in
this little box. I want you to remember that you are not defined by a diagnosis or
by a job role or any of those sorts of things.
while autism or whatever it is for you is definitely a part of you and might even
be important to you, it is not all that defines you. Thank you so much for
watching this video today. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, go ahead and give
it a thumbs up. I'm sorry if the lighting and everything is weird, I'm not feeling
that great today and didn't put on makeup and then I tried my soft box lights and
it just made things look worse. So, I just decided I would try to do a video today
for you guys and share this with you. I thought it was kind of important. So, let
me know your thoughts in the comments below and if you haven't already
subscribed, you might want to check out some of my other videos, I'm a little higher
energy and better lighting, but if you want to subscribe, I upload every Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday. And I hope you're having a wonderful day, week, or
whatnot. Thank you so much and I hope you'll see me in my next video. Bye!

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