#105 - Curing Autism with Stand Up Comedy | AJ Wilkerson

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Danny Jones

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.4 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 118 minutes

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AJ Wilkerson is a stand-up comedian from Gainesville, FL. Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, his comedy reflects both his boisterous personality as well as the uniquely absurd way his brain works. https://www.instagram.com/ajwilkersoncomedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks for coming on, AJ Wilkerson.
0:10.0	Thanks, I appreciate you doing this.
0:11.1	What's up?
0:11.4	Absolutely, guys. Thanks for having me.
0:12.8	This is dope.
0:13.4	Absolutely.
0:13.8	Fuck.
0:14.5	Hell, yeah, man.
0:15.6	Your van is super dope.
0:17.3	I love it.
0:18.0	My van is a shitbox on wheels.
0:23.0	But I love it. It's my shitbox.
0:28.7	Hell yeah. Everybody needs their own shitbox, man. So what's your store for people who aren't familiar with you? What's your story and what's your background? Yeah, so I'm a, I'm a stand-up
0:34.1	comedian and I'm autistic. So I started stand-up like two years ago after I got diagnosed and got my medical marijuana
0:43.3	prescription.
0:44.9	So I was really like that, like the anxiety was really the thing that kept me from doing it.
0:49.0	Like I just thought before I found out I was autistic, I just thought it was like just
0:52.8	really bad anxiety and I thought I had some other mental health shit going on. But I just thought like I love stand-up, out I was autistic, I just thought it was like just really bad anxiety, and I thought I had some other mental health shit going on.
0:56.3	But I just thought, like, I love stand-up, but I was just like,
0:58.6	that's not something I'll ever physically be capable of doing.
1:01.6	And then I got diagnosed, and then I got my medical marijuana card,
1:05.1	and weed gives you that little bit of fuck around and find out.
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