For the love of god…. Educate yourself on ASD. Learn about the double empathy problem. You’re being incredibly hateful and judgemental whilst making it clear you don’t get it. At all.Ok, but it actually makes you self-aware and high functioning - that is the key part here. You are self-aware about your limitation and you WORKED on them.
He clearly has some kind of spectrum, and yes it is not an illness but we should not use this as a card to get out of jail in Monopoly for him.
I have a friend with Asperger syndrome. He is great engineer. With a great flat, car, career, high-income, but when I mentioned on my Facebook how I badly wanted to get vaccinated and how I am scared of covid, he has laughed. He couldn't sympathize with the fact that I've just lost my best friend due to covid and I had a pretty scary conversation with my friend, on my phone, few hours he passed away. No social skills. No empathy.
I wasn't talking about morals. I was talking about the fact that your/his disability may have huge impact on the others. Let's face it.
If I was blind I wouldn't be able to drive a car - that is clear, right? So if you are autistic/asperger/in the spectrum you need to face your limitations, and society needs to stop "embracing" you in your spectrum. Your behaviour may have negative impact on the other people. Especially if you are going to create LTR.
I am not saying that people in the spectrum are immediately bad people - i am saying we should not move this treat into the zone where we are going to justify his persona "oh but he is in the spectrum so it is ok...". No it isn't.
As said above, nowadays it is ok to "embrace" mental / social problems instead of actually facing them and fighting with them. I have had a PTSD, as a teenager I was bullied and it was so hard I actually was considering suicide. I have moved on past that experience but I went to specialist seeking for help. I worked on myself and after clearing my mind I started to look for LTR. I wasn't saying "oh gosh my childhood was so harsh I am having nightmers please accept my limitations, if you are not going so you are so in the 90s, narrow-minded bla bla bla".
I was aware about my problems and I was helped.
He needs to understand that his "spectrum" "personality" may harm other people, is not "cool" and lack of empathy cannot be justified.
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For the love of god…. Educate yourself on ASD. Learn about the double empathy problem. You’re being incredibly hateful and judgemental whilst making it clear you don’t get it. At all.
ASD and PTSD cannot be compared. People are born with ASD. Their brain structure is different from people who do not have ASD.
PTSD is an acquired condition - you aren’t born with it.
Two completely different scenarios.
Glad you got help but clearly therapy didn’t help *your* lack of empathy.
I am sorry, but this is ridiculous. Saying “the truth” about Ali, is lack of empathy? The guy made email for his wife, says 10% to be dedicated to dating, left medicine in the middle of pandemic and you say I am not having empathy towards him
clearly xD
This is what was said earlier - current generations have huge problem that society doesn’t have to embrace their mental limitations.
If you are blind you need to adjust yourself to be able to function in the society. If you are in the spectrum you need to understand that you may HURT people and clearly is not understanding that at all.
but hey, it’s ok to to be ASD, to have no compassion, no empathy, to say “the hardest truth” because you were born this way and you can’t change it right?
And when someone calls this out he/she is hateful xD
But Ali can like redpill stuff and it’s ok xD
so I may not “embrace” his spectrum
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You do realise that autism =/ having no empathy, or being a redpill guy.
I'm not saying Ali should get a free pass if he's autistic. I'm saying he's a crappy guy regardless, and autism does not have anything to do with it. It might make things a bit more difficult in terms of social interaction etc but that's it. That's literally it. I don't think we need a label for him outside of being a crappy, privileged, self-obsessed person. And that wouldn't change even if he turned out to actually be ASD. It's like saying he's a bad person because he wears glasses. Doesn't make sense.
We don't even know that Ali has ASD so using his perceived faults to go on a rant about people with ASD makes you look stupid and lacking in empathy. You can say what you like about him and call what he does cringey but it doesn't give you a free pass to make generalisations about everyone else.
In interests of diversity, at some level I feel Ali deserves to be judged and cringed at as the rest of the YT stars, wherever he is on the sexual (this board's previous speculation) and neurodivergence spectrum.
I know there is a narrative around him being on a spectrum that is getting mentioned more and more, but from his content (his videos with his brother and colleagues, his general level of social interaction, his success as a teacher and YT-persona), I personally am not at all convinced if this is spectrum-y, and am not sure it's altogether relevant for visible deficits in his content: these are mostly from a distinct lack of attention to detail and critical thinking that were not present before his channel really took off when he made videos on medicine, medical entry exam preps, and did ipad/iphone comparisons. He barely spends anytime scripting now and this is so painfully obvious; he has very narrow interests, pursues these with blinders on, failing to make connections and he sees politics, sociology, culture wars affecting realms outside tech/gaming/productivity as too remote to engage in. And with his success, business-making and him going down the rabbit hole of self-help reading marathons, these deficits have become more entrenched.
If you see his pre 2019 content, you'd see he is as neurotypical as your average joe. Animated, dynamic, invested, hungry.
Also, seeing the battle-lines being drawn on neurodivergence, it'll help us all to be reminded that the dust hasn't quite settled on neurodiversity movement and its presumptions: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_21.pdf
I know there is a narrative around him being on a spectrum that is getting mentioned more and more, but from his content (his videos with his brother and colleagues, his general level of social interaction, his success as a teacher and YT-persona), I personally am not at all convinced if this is spectrum-y, and am not sure it's altogether relevant for visible deficits in his content: these are mostly from a distinct lack of attention to detail and critical thinking that were not present before his channel really took off when he made videos on medicine, medical entry exam preps, and did ipad/iphone comparisons. He barely spends anytime scripting now and this is so painfully obvious; he has very narrow interests, pursues these with blinders on, failing to make connections and he sees politics, sociology, culture wars affecting realms outside tech/gaming/productivity as too remote to engage in. And with his success, business-making and him going down the rabbit hole of self-help reading marathons, these deficits have become more entrenched.
If you see his pre 2019 content, you'd see he is as neurotypical as your average joe. Animated, dynamic, invested, hungry.
Also, seeing the battle-lines being drawn on neurodivergence, it'll help us all to be reminded that the dust hasn't quite settled on neurodiversity movement and its presumptions: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_21.pdf
Whether or not Ali is neurodivergent or not is irrelevant (I think he is but he's very high functioning) but he is an annoying person with bad morals and bad videos.
He will likely be into NFTs soon.
He will likely be into NFTs soon.
Last thing the world needs is more Ali Abdaals. Holy tit, the thought scares me. He's already creating clones with his course anyway and the internet is being swarmed with channels from people that needed to be taught by Ali how to set up a YouTube account, after which they pop out another 4 hour workweek review or atomic habits life lessons, followed by twitter threads about how much they've "learned" from the course. That pyramid scheme money smells so delicious I bet.
It's funny how 3 years ago Ali and Dr Alex from Love Island would have been thought of completely different a few years ago - the one who everyone thought was selling out to become a "celebrity doctor" worked hard throughout the pandemic and the one who seemed to be the academic geek has sold out and become an hole.
ngl I when i was reading all the autism debate on here I think someone may have gotten confused between ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) and ASPD (Anti-Social Personality Disorder), with the latter being much more well known for lack of empathy and 'sociopathic' tendencies, even if these popular ideas about it the disorder are still very stereotypical and not how the disorder manifests in the majority.
If not then some truly awful and widlly incorrect views on autism are being aired here..
If not then some truly awful and widlly incorrect views on autism are being aired here..
Weirdly defensive video from KharmaMedic.
I can't help but think he knows he's toxically productive and this video is just trying to deflect it.
Like all of the points he is making are valid but it comes across and very preachy and defensive and patronising.
You tube is a business to these people. Theres nothing original in any of their videos. Kharma medic has simply jumped on board the latests trend to keep up views - loads of toxic productivity videos popping up the last few months. Before that - everyone was having their lives changed by notion (for a large paycheck Id bet). They all have the spiel about wanting to help others - but if their channels were de-monitized theyd be gone in a flash. If you search UK med on youtube you just get dozens of med student channels all spouting the same crap in the hope they make it big. Have a few in my class who are apparently too shy to turn cameras on for zoom lectures despite having youtube channels. Its just bizarre and so fake.
Says it all if after years of building his "second brain" on productivity apps like Notion and using his iPad for digital note taking he starts selling stationary merch. Queue a video about the latest book he's read on why taking notes on real stationary is better.
Thought the same thing. For years, he talked about digital note-taking and to-do apps. The only time he said writing on paper sounds good was once when he got some LT notebook and put it in his monthly favorites. And now, he is launching his own ANALOG notebooks and planners???
I wonder how much these influencers use their own stuff. I don't think they do much! These planner type merch have also become a norm. Like, they have been around for years. You ain't cracking some productivity code by launching yours lol!
The only planner (can I even call that?) that I didn't have a problem with, was Ryder Carroll's. Because he designed an individualistic system.
Others just make minor changes and parrot it as their own.
"I don't like the idea of to-do lists so I write a might to do list" - what's the difference, Ali? You MIGHT do it so it relieves you of pressure? Come on, at the end of the day, it's all same. If you do those tasks you are kind of on top of it! IDK how the word "might" make any difference!
The people who buy this sort of stuff are room temp IQ fans with no critical thinking. Infinite options out there already, the only reason to buy from Abdaal is that you want to personally give him (even more) money. How have we lived so far without Ali Abdaal's stationery line? Just fine. His fanbase is one of many that just go to show the world's full of dummies and it's so easy to sell to them - from the dream that they can all be youtubers to a notebook that is lower quality than some others already out there...
The thumbnail looks like a parody how did he put this out non-ironically
I wish he would stop selling this stupid idea to people. It makes me question his intelligence. If you are making FIFTY videos before growing an audience then I would argue you're doing everything wrong. I've seen creators blow up with like one well made video so this "rule" to do produce an absurd amount of videos is so stupid. Just because it worked for you doesn't mean it's a rule that everyone should follow.
I'd personally argue that if you have to do something 50 times to get good at it, you shouldn't be doing it. That number is just so high.
These “pearls of wisdom” are insidious when you consider how he’s selling courses about making videos.
His tweet implies that your YouTube channel isn’t doing well because you’re not pumping out enough (quality) content. Of course, to make quality content, enroll in Ali’s classes.