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Unexpected Signs Of Autism In Women · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So here's some unexpected size of autism in women and girls.
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  Stay tuned all coming up guys. Welcome back to the ASP world.
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  My name is Dan and I have autism and ADHD.
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  Now guys, it's really interesting.
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  I've done a lot of videos talking about women and girls
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  and autism right? And there's a big, there's a big
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  hole kind of like shift happening right now where for
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  years we only had data, we only had real long term data that was
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  using boys or males as a test subject for testing for autism.
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  Right. And so all the data and the
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  researchers backed up from 1942 to 1980s on males and then they
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  realized, hey, women have autism too.
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  And so now they're kind of backtracking and trying to
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  figure out all this data to get all this research in, which is
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  really interesting, takes a lot of money to take all the time.
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  I get it. But that doesn't stop the fact
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  that we have an abundance of females who are left off the
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  autism spectrum kind of diagnostic criteria because of
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  various different things. I mean, this could be done from
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  just ignorance from doctors to actually lack of data and
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  research within the the protocol for diagnosing the nomenclature
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  for autism in females. So here's a little overview.
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  I'm going to leave some links down below as well to
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  analystical if you want to read that too, all about kind of
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  unexpected signs of autism in women.
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  Because I think that there are some telltale signs of autism in
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  women that people will just brush brush off as other issues,
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  right. Because a lot of women will
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  actually get diagnosed as bipolar or ADHD or extreme
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  anxiety. So that when actually it's
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  autism. But we don't really come across
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  it that often because a lot of the time women on the Austin
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  Spectrum will actually display or exhibit signs that are not
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  commonly associated with autism specifically.
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  So some of the size for autism women can include difficulty
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  with social interactions but not limited to social interactions.
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  What I mean by this is that they may have issues with social
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  interactions, but because you can be masking or or or hiding
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  kind of behind a a mask, so to speak, in a social situation, a
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  woman or a female can can move past the awkwardness of the
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  situation to kind of like just struggle through that social
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  interaction even though they're struggling.
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  But then the struggle will come out when they're home, when
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  they're trying to chill, it will just kind of come out and
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  they'll have an emotional outburst at home after
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  pretending to sulfate all day because they have issues with
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  this. The others are sensory
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  sensitivities where you know some women can't wear certain
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  perfumes or they can't wear certain types of clothing
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  because of the sensitivity to that and because this becomes
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  commodity with autism that you have sensory processing disorder
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  and processing with senses as you know clothing or or or
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  smells or even food. This can actually prevent women
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  from doing things like buying the perfume, like going out to
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  dinner, like buying certain clothes.
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  And those things a lot of people will be like, oh, they're just
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  fussy old. They don't like that.
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  But in actual fact, this is down to an autism special condition
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  and a trait of autism. Another one is issues with
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  executive function. Now this could be like anything
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  from like organizing your clothes to organizing your life,
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  organizing your finances, being able to organize your kitchen,
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  cook food. All of these things are
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  executive function skills, and a lot of the time autism
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  represents itself in women with executive dysfunction skills.
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  This could be anything for even just picking up the phone and
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  ordering a pizza to going out in a grocery shop and actually
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  making sure to pick everything off that list because it can be
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  quite challenging for females on the other spectrum to have
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  issues with autism and executive function.
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  So these are some of the things that you can kind of take away
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  from this. But one of the other main
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  telltale signs is, you know, issues with things like routine
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  and and change in routine like struggling with changes or
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  unexpected changes is something that impacts autistic people
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  quite quite a lot and and especially women.
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  If you have unexpected change within a day or routine or a
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  route or a something that is supposed to be happening for
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  that person on the autism spectrum, then there is a
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  possibility you're going to come across a meltdown and other big
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  major issues. Now these happen with boys as
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  well, but I think that it's more prominent to see these in
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  females and a lot of people brush it off because there is
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  always some bizarre war on women which I can't stand.
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  And I'm also an ally. So like, yeah, I'm big up to,
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  big up to women and women's rights.
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  It's super important we do that. So that be a said guys, if this
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  something out of it and leave me a comment down below.
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  OK guys, see you in the next video.
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  Peace.