Chromu's Fear of Microwaves Helped Get Her Autism Diagnosis

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00]If only they hadn't taken my tools away from me.

[00:00:03]>> [laughter] >> I lost all access to my tools.

[00:00:05]>> [ __ ] then you couldn't then you couldn't do anything.

[00:00:07]>> create nuclear power.

[00:00:10]How do you do that?

[00:00:12]>> Oh, well, first you need materials the government will kill you if you obtain.

[00:00:16]>> [laughter] >> Okay.

[00:00:19]>> Yeah, and then >> Like you can't get them at all?

[00:00:22]>> Not really, no.

[00:00:24]>> Well, cuz you can build a nuclear bomb out of it.

[00:00:27]>> Yeah, it can be used to make horrible weapons.

[00:00:30]>> What if we like get a bunch of microwaves and we take the thingies out of them?

[00:00:36]>> What thing? Wait, what thing are you talking >> makes the radiation in the >> There's nothing nuclear in a microwave.

[00:00:42]>> They call it a nuke though.

[00:00:43]>> There's nothing nuclear in a microwave.

[00:00:47]>> So, why do people say they're nuking something when they put it in the microwave?

[00:00:50]>> cooler than than I'm microwaving it.

[00:00:53]>> So, you're telling me I'm scared of my microwave for no reason?

[00:00:56]>> [laughter] >> Were you afraid that it had like latent nuclear capabilities?

[00:01:02]>> Yeah, when I went to my psychiatrist and got an autism diagnosis, I told her that I was scared of my microwave because I'm always afraid that somehow it will turn on and the door will be open and it's going to get me. Like I'm going to die from the like the radiation.

[00:01:19]>> Have you seen me running like at where I took like the radiators out of three microwaves random opening IN MY BASEMENT?

[00:01:27]>> NO! THAT'S so scary. That's like my fear, dude.

[00:01:33]>> It can light up a light bulb from like a foot away.

[00:01:36]>> That's so scary!

[00:01:41]So, [laughter] so if you were in your basement when that happened, it would have got you, right?

[00:01:45]>> I was in the basement when it happened.

[00:01:47]>> get you?

[00:01:48]>> No, it What do you mean it got me?

[00:01:49]>> So, so it only lights up like a little bit.

[00:01:52]>> Did you get gotten? It's very directional.

[00:01:55]>> to you?

[00:01:56]>> The microwaves microwaves are not like >> not scared of it?

[00:02:00]>> I mean, I wasn't standing in front of it.

[00:02:02]>> So, you weren't scared of like the possibility of it like flipping around and getting you?

[00:02:08]>> No, not really.

[00:02:11]>> [laughter] >> Oh my god.

[00:02:12]>> You You want shielding like to help mostly to help keep the microwaves in because it makes your microwave less efficient if they bounce all over. And it also disrupts other electronics. Like it made the camera glitch out every time I ran it.

[00:02:26]>> Yeah, how do people do those videos where they put like a camera inside their microwave?

[00:02:31]>> They're using a the camera itself isn't in the microwave. The camera is out and just looking in.

[00:02:37]Cuz >> Oh.

[00:02:39]>> because the waves are really directional. You can't uh Like it's not going to it's it's not going to it's not going to hit the camera much.

[00:02:50]>> Mhm.

[00:02:51]>> Though, I did do a stream where I might I did I It was like destroying chat or something was what it was.

[00:02:58]But But the premise was I destroyed a bunch of cameras while they were live. I had to destroy a bunch of cameras.

[00:03:04]>> I microwaved a $9 AliExpress camera.

[00:03:09]>> Mhm.

[00:03:09]>> And it it like slowly like like get more distorted and then eventually just went completely off.

[00:03:16]>> microwave [ __ ] like that, doesn't it like spark and like explode and catch on fire?

[00:03:20]>> like smoking and sparking and everything.

[00:03:22]>> That's so terrifying.

[00:03:23]>> But then it cooled down and it started working again.

[00:03:27]>> WAIT, THAT'S SO BADASS. WHAT? What a good camera.

[00:03:31]>> $9 camera was was crazy. I don't know how it did that.

[00:03:35]>> It's like that video story of Undertale where the person is singing and then their their house catches on fire, but their camera is okay.

[00:03:42]>> okay, yeah.

[00:03:44]Yeah. Story of Undertale.

[00:03:47]That's awesome.

[00:03:48]>> I know what you want from me.

[00:03:51]Simple simple na na.