BiteSizeVegan.org | How Autism Connects Me With Animals @BiteSizeVegan | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 8 minutes ago.
I've long wanted to share about how my Autism has helped me connect with non-human animals. I hope that sharing how I see the world differently may help others begin to think differently about animals. I fear that I cannot possibly do this topic justice, but I wanted to try—best I can. I share about my experiences growing up Autistic. How my difficulties with communication strengthened my empathy for and understanding of non-human animals' sentience. How I knew how it felt to never be truly understood. How it broke my heart thinking of what non-human animals were experiencing at the hands of humans; that no matter how desperately and clearly they communicated their terror and pain, they were ignored and discounted.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:14 A note on Temple Grandin
01:51 Connecting with animals through my communication struggles
03:51 Remembering what we knew as children
04:31 Extreme empathy: feeling everything all at once all the time
06:01 Living without a filter
07:25 Judging non-human animals through a human lens
09:43 Being their advocate, not their voice
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