0:00 [Music] And welcome back everybody to a very neurode divergent episode of the careful boys because there is a neurode divergent or autistic community in Tik Tok. The autism community, I guess. But the bottom fake it the bottom. Do they like self diagnose some? They pretend autism so they could have that character and get the views, but they autistic. I know. I'm around a lot. And do any of them have Tik Toks? Oh, dude. Autistic people don't know that they're autistic. They think the other the world is crazy, right? That's true. They're like, I don't understand. I can't even imagine my my nephew having a freaking social media account based on his like
0:50 he doesn't know either. Yep. Make no sense. In this tism community, there is a viral trend that's going on in Tik Tok right now. And uh it's called spoon talk and they rate spoons. I'm not joking. Uh and why'd you bring it up then if it's if Why'd you bring up? cuz I want to explain to you what's going on and then you guys can dunk on it the way you norally. Yeah. My bad. My bad. Okay. So, what they do is they literally like take their spoon in their actual kitchen, right? And then they they say in the caption or on on text it says, "I present my spoon for judgment or I present my spoon to the council." And that's literally all it is. And then everybody in the comments like starts to like rate the spoon. This isn't autism, bro. How would it's for it's for the
1:41 neurode divergent community apparently. You think that's real? The commenters are the neurode divergent. That's like saying like hey the blue dress yellow dress thing was for the autistic people. Shut the ████ what are these always like people that are at the first stage of the spectrum that they can still be social media people. It's like stuff like this. Hold on. I have to select two objects that are the same shape. See it's already for the neuro diver. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got this. You did. The term neurode divergent describes people whose brain differences affect how their brain works. What happened to people being dumb? Yeah. It's not a thing anymore. Why you always got like a You always get to have a different term. It's like, dearism community, here, let me maximo this. All right. Dear Chism community, I present my spoon for your
2:32 [Music] consideration. It's on the case. I want to see somebody bend that ████ dude. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, like really it show it, right? Good shine factor. Look, this has 1.3 million likes, by the way, and 47,000 comments. And these how many of those people are trolling, though, and just ████ around, too. And 36,000 likes on this comment. Two pointy Korean spoon supremacy all the way. That's 40 431 replies to that. 79.5,000 comments. This is an acceptable offering. The council is pleased. We must now see the fork. 253,000 likes. That's a solid spoon. 24,000 likes. 10
3:23 out of 10. No notes. Thank you. You passed. I didn't I never thought autistic people were capable of bits within bits. I I think that's the comments is just like a gas station bathroom. People are just riding whatever the ████ they want everywhere. It's like Steam, dude. When you're on Steam and there's some new game out and everyone's like liking the dumbest ████ 325,000 likes. I like that you keep it separated from the other cutlery. Dude, this is weird. This is like an inside joke. This is like a like a Reddit thread move to Tik Tok. Are we too old for this? Is that what that mean sounds like? Cuz or maybe it's really for the neurody diver community. ████ I don't believe that though. No, I don't. I don't believe that ████ I don't believe it. What does that even mean for the neurodyiver community? I present to you my masala spoon. That's a better spoon. I kind of like
4:14 this one though. Yeah, this is a good one. 308,000 likes on this one. I do like how small it is. What's the number one rated comment? I'll tell you if it's from Tism or not. The likes doesn't make anything legit. There's ████ idiots dancing on TikTok all day. I have more likes. 91,000 likes on this comment. I don't know how to explain this other than it looks very polite. That's notism. Yeah, it it just seems like you could do this with just regular people cuz I'm I doubt the people commenting are autistic. I'm just saying though it's just a viral thing on Tik Tok. No, I I hear you. It's just like Yeah, cuz a Tik Tok. You don't have to be a Look at this spoon. Autistic to tom community. I present my spoon for your consideration. That just seems like they're into stamp collector. It's just like those guys that rate sticks they find. Have you seen that? Yeah. Like the perfect stick. You know, men love finding a stick when they go hiking. Like a stab. Yeah. Yeah. What I don't
5:05 get is All right. Any collecting community, like whether it's ████ gemstones or whatever. I expect a bunch of autistic ████ to be involved, right? But why do they have to make this like an autistic thing or neurody diversion thing? Autism community. I don't know. I think Tik Tok is the tism community. Yeah. Oh, the full thing. The full community. Well, yeah. I think I think like nowadays it's just like I think people are so voluntarily diagnosing themselves in some way to fit in that it like it's not a medical term. What is I thought that was like a thing from TikTok. C term. It's like saying it's a nicer way of saying that you're not not neurotypical or whatever. Yeah. You're trying to be like nice. Oh, sorry. But then I'm reading the ████ They're like, "Dude, but how do you even what's even normal? Because if you don't have a baseline for normal, then how can you call these
5:55 people like abnormal? Because no two brains develop the same. Like twins can have two different development in the brain. It's not exactly the same. So you think all neurode divergent and or autistic people cannot self diagnose? I think if I made up a really cool new term, a million people would say that's me. All right. Because this doesn't make any sense that everyone under this umbrella is going to love spoons, right? So you got autism, you got ADHD, you got D. George syndrome, you got Down syndrome, George, you got ████ Discount. You want to remove the George from your from your Horge D. George. Yeah. To remove the George. You were named George. You want to remove it? Yeah. Oh my god. There's one called Discalia. What do you think that's
6:45 about? Discalcula. They don't like I don't know. No computer. Yeah. Difficulty with math. So that's just cuz you have a hard time. I had ████ discalculia in ████ elementary school. I don't That's the thing that's funny about it. It's like how did the the only mentally healthiest people become the dumb ones? Dyslexia. Disparia. Neurode divergent too. Dyslexia. Yeah. Oh ████ I will say this. My wife is has autism but she's not like a full-blown. She like, you know that Shane Gills bit where he's like, I'm not ████ but like I got hit with it real quick. Yeah. Like it's like that with Nikki, like she's like diet, you know, autistic or whatever. And I was able to notice she doesn't look like she got hit by it. No, no, no, it doesn't look like it. But but but like she's had it like ever since we
7:36 got together. I was like, I think you're autistic. And like that helped actually complete a lot of her personal brain puzzle. Like cuz once she found out about that, she ended up going to a person and got diagnosed later. But like that was helpful for her to understand how her brain works and like how her brain has to order different things and why she has to do different patterns in different ways that I was always like you're I think you're autistic. So does there exist a person that's just none of these things for sure ████ make it up. That's the disability make it up. You know people are like oh I'm this or I'm that. Is there a person that's just like oh I don't have anything. Like does that even exist? That's me. You have you have no I don't think so. You're just mentally I'm just a normal guy. Is that weird now in today's world to be like I'm normal? Well, I think that like I don't think it's weird. I just think it's I wonder what they're imagining everyone else is. Or do they worry about
8:26 everybody else? They're just like look at my spoon. Not them. I just mean like the neurotypicals, right? Yeah. People that are into like who who do they imagine they are in society? Cuz it's like everybody's got something, right? Well, like okay, for example, like like uh people who are depressed, right? That's like a thing. That's like a real thing. Yeah. Like I don't think I have that. Like I think I'm just a baseline normal brain. Not like special brain, genius brain. I'm just a normal brain. Depressed is actually an interesting one because like a lot of people are like like in this time I was depressed, but then like you run into people who had to like take anti-depressants like and you're like you're legit. They were like, I'm not, you know, that's that's hard because, you know, I'm not saying that people who say they were depressed and didn't have to do that weren't
9:17 depressed, but like they were so crippled with it that they had to like go get help and like that's the real ████ Stop eating, couldn't work, lost all your friends, like like different stuff, you know, versus some people go in like episodes or short shorter episodes of being like, I was depressed during this time. Um, a little bit of stolen valor. A little bit kind of, you know what I mean? Kind of. Little bit. Do you guys ever see or feel that or is it just Steve? Well, I see it all the time cuz I'm a judgy person. Like depression is one of those things. No, no, no. I see people laring as different trying to rep represent themselves. I just like I guess like maybe cuz I'm so ████ old. I just assume anybody wearing it like a badge is lying. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I feel too. That's me, too. Because I'm like because most things that that you feel that are really that debilitating, your your reflex is to be ashamed of it.
10:07 Yeah. real debilitating ████ You don't go like, "Oh, this out there. Oh, this is a small dick thing." You know, like I got tiny dicks, so I can't really keep my ████ keep my ████ clean. Little baby sized dick. So, I'm always like, that badge here cuz like real if you really got ████ it's most people the natural things are ashamed of it. So, you hide it and you even act extra to be normal. And I don't think you should be ashamed. I just think most people only let their closest friends know. Yes. But they're not like the fact you're telling everybody all the time is like that's how you cope. And when when you're the most bored, you're in other people's comment sections be like, "You're not really one of us. You're like fake and you're like a bunch of fake things with that." Yeah. It's Come on, dude. Right. I think that's probably more like a narcissist than it is depression. Yeah. Like if you're leading with it. Yeah. Like they're using it as a way to manipulate people. But it's like people who are like all they can talk about is
10:58 how gay they are or whatever. It's like, "Dude, we got it, brother. I swear to God." It's attention seeking. It's not actually about that, right? Cuz cuz if you were if you if you were just about it, you could just be it. Yeah. But you don't have to lead with it at all. I mean, I I feel like most people that I knew who were depressed or went through a long period of it, they didn't even know it. It's like, you're not aware. You're not like wearing it like a badge. People are telling you, "Bro, are you okay?" They're like, "What are you talking about?" They're like in denial. They can't admit it because they're not even aware of it. And then later they're like, "Guys, I think I was depressed." Right. Yeah. Right. And I think that I' I'm more familiar with that than someone that's like, "Oh, hey, I'm depressed." I think that and I think you can be depressed and also accidentally be badging it because you might be at a stage in your life where you're seeking identity at the same time that you feel
11:48 something too. Oh yeah. You know, like where you you just don't know who you are in the world and you think like I fit in with these people. I should voice that that's me. But that's a tricky thing too because you know you go through that's why I think there's there's got to be more than a coincidence that a lot of these like neurode divergence is so closely tied with adolescence or like fitting in. Yeah. It's never like a successful adult that wakes up and goes I'm a ████ that identifies with anything. I feel they're weird you know like oh you know I'm just a jiu-jitsu guy. I'm like if you're this one part of your life is your 100%. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like you you guys been on TV as dancers. You don't go, "Hey, I'm the dancer." Like, you know, no one like the dancer. It's crazy. Like I think anyone that identifies 100% as that one thing in your life, that's so weird regardless of what it is. Yeah. Which is why I think
12:38 there's a lot of reinforcement that like when I wanted to be known as a dancer really badly to the point where I would say that all the time. All the time. Exactly. Yeah. And I think if that happened to cross over with like me not having like I guess like confidence on who I was, I would probably have a lot of different answers about who I am. And if I didn't have a skill and I kind of I'm kind of a boring person. Yeah. Kind of a boring person. Kind of didn't wanted to be cool. But let me lead with something that society finds interesting. Exactly. And if someone dangled that in front of my face and was like, "You can be trans or some ████ like I'd probably be trans." You know, it would probably be a vulnerable point. You know what I mean? RIP tomboys, dude. Not that that's what that's not what everyone is, but I think that's true. I think you got to like find like make sure that you aren't tricking yourself. Yeah. I'm a boba barista. What does that mean? Like a coffee barista, but boba
13:28 boba barista bathroom cleaner. Yeah. Well, a lot of it really just probably comes down to the idea of seeking identity, right? So even to have like a tism community and be like I'm part of that community that must maybe just be satisfying or nice to think that you belong somewhere. Yeah. If especially if you if even if you are something but you don't know if you have your own community for it. Yeah. Then you flock to a space where it's like this is my community. Okay, I guess I got to play with spoons or something, you know? Not saying that's at all a bad thing. I think it's just the seeking identity portion that like everybody's trying to always I think it's like I I kind of equate it to like you have like a tism community that relishes in this and but they're of sound of mind enough to be making ad rev. It's like compare that to a kid that's just like and that's his life. You know what I mean? And like
14:18 that's ████ autistic, bro. Like that's not you in the same way that a depressed person who starts a depressed community about all depressed people and this guy's about to hang himself. You know what I mean? Like, no, you guys are not able to be the same guy. I'm offering depression mentorship. Subscribe for 50 bucks a month. It's like, dude, this guy's a ████ depression empire building, right? It just feels like odd to to like wear that badge, but then it's like your percentage of what it really is is so small because you're talking about the people on the like the lower end of the spectrum that's kind of like ah you're really exploiting yourself like and your group but then like I I think what's the worst is when people are pretending cuz a couple years ago all these like uh fake autist influencers were getting
15:08 caught. There's a lot. Yeah. dude and I'm like I think those people are ████ scumbags dude pretending that they have certain things and then like some of it is like oh yeah Tourette's was a big one there was a lot of Tourette's influencers a lot there were a lot of people are faking during co that's so ████ up that was all like a big thing yeah I think when something becomes popular no matter what it is do it yeah dude it's it's like when I was in third grade and like you Like it was kind of cool if a kid had glasses cuz they're a little different. And I was and I I was lying to my mom like I can't see that good. Holy ████ You know what I mean? Like cuz I wanted glasses so bad. And then they kept on taking me to eye doctors and like he doesn't need glasses. He doesn't need glasses. And then I would watch TV like this close trying to ████ up my eyes. We all did that ████ That just means those adults never outgrew
15:59 that face. That's what it is. They never outgrew They never outgrew this. Yeah. I was born with one arm. You know what I mean? Like it's it's just like so cool. It's that kid ████ that like you don't you don't have a quirk cuz I have weird ████ I think everyone has weird ████ right? But I never bond with someone like oh I have asthma. You have asthma bros. Asthma bros. You want to share inhaler? Yeah. It's like what the ████ You're usually connecting over like the type of people being an asthmetic. But I feel like if Bart went to like you know a Tesla place where they have that robot, he could bond with the robot. You can't finally someone that understands me. Dude, he could stick with the robot for like probably too long. I'm surprised you don't have Chad GBT, dude. You can start talking to someone on your level. Have you done that yet? I I actually want to watch bar with AI. That'd be so interesting. Bar with AI. Can we do 20 minutes of that? Yeah, I ████ love Chad GBT, dude. It's
16:50 ████ the It was the It's the best. Like Like the the AI is like I see you are using the language that we can use to make things quicker. Let's jump to that language. And Bart's like even talking this ████ thing. I've been bested. doesn't even speak English anymore. It's more efficient, guys. It's more efficient. I think it is honestly pretty healthy to be speculative of anything that claims to be something based on having a social media presence. It's already like, God forbid we have a little bit of cynicism sometimes. I know. Yeah. It's like, dude, if if you're cashing out over this, then it deserves to be looked at closer. Yeah. You want to know what's really really funny, actually, about like uh where I actually found this article or topic in order for us to talk about this? I went to chat GPT and the prompt was I need to put together certain news articles to talk about for JK News and then linked
17:40 JK news YouTube. The format requires that we find all the most current news as of today that is controversial and worth diving into a loosely formatted multi-party discussion that can elicit emotional responses along with cultural tension while allowing the host to discuss this at a level that can connect with as many viewers as possible. Please help me discover 10 topics with sources to dive you GPT for this I should bring to the team tomorrow. Oh, why do I even need you? You're too deep. You're too deep for JK News, dude. And it says, "Got it. To help curate the best topics for JK News. Could you clarify a couple things? One, are you looking for US focused news, global news, or a mix of both? Two, do you want to include stories from pop culture, tech, politics, social issues, or focused on certain categories? Three, should the topics lean more serious, eg legislation or legislation, geopolitical conflicts, or also include more absurd viral stories?" Once I have a better sense of this, I can compile the most current and engaging. Oh my god, dude. So you
18:30 answered each one of those one. Anthony replied all caps. You're gay. What happens when they say that? Yeah. What they say? What do they say? They say you're gay right now. Yeah. Just like you're gay. Well, yeah. And then and then they generated 10 viral and controversial US news stories as of April 2025. And they go into all these random stuff. That's where you got spoon talk. I see. Yeah. No, like spoon talk. And it's like autistic Tik Tockers rate spoons in wholesome trend. In one of the more heartwarming yet odd viral trends, neurody divergent creators, especially in the autistic community, have formed Spoon Talk, a corner of Tik Tok devoted to reviewing and rating. Oh, so it's heartwarming. And to us, it's just we're just hating on it. Damn. We look like ████ We're there. We're dunking on their ████ brains. What's heartwarming about it? I said was going to happen. You're right. Yeah. What's heartwarming about it? I think we have autism. That's why you do. You're artist, too.
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