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How YOU Spot AUTISM (5 Simple Autism Traits To Look For!) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So how do you spot autism? Here are five simple Autism
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  traits that I'm going to share with you that you should
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  definitely look out for all that coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the aspy world.
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  My name is Dan, I have Autism, ADHDOCD, and Dyslexia and I make
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  Awesome guys, right? So what's up different Thinkers?
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  Welcome back after the ASP world, but we think differently
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  daily. Which is kind of like a cool
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  tagline. I thought, that's not cool.
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  I just blow my own trumpet. I just like using it because
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  it's true. We think differently daily and
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  hopefully in this video I'll get you to kind of think a little
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  bit differently about how you see stuff, which is pretty dope.
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  So I have the. Many videos.
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  I'm trying to, like, identify autism in people.
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  How do you characterize autism in people?
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  How do you see it in people? Because it's it's an interesting
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  thing to talk about. You know, you could just be
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  somebody who works for someone and think they may be autistic.
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  So how do you spot that? And this is exactly what this
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  video is about. So I've listed out five of the
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  main ones that I think would be helpful for you to try and
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  identify autism. If you suspect somebody maybe on
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  the spectrum just for your own Peace of Mind or if you're
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  trying to help somebody and you want to investigate it, then
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  yeah, you could definitely help and and and learn this stuff.
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  And yeah, right, let's get into it.
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  OK, So the first one is lack of eye contact.
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  Now, lack of eye contact is such a common autism trait.
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  It's due to the fact that an autistic person finds it super
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  difficult to make eye contact and maintain eye contact with
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  people. It's because it feels awkward.
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  It's a social connection. There's something it's difficult
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  to do. I can't really explain it in any
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  other way. I did do a video all about
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  autism and eye contact and I'll try and link it in the
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  description down below so you can check that out.
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  But in terms of eye contact, it's very difficult to do.
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  And people on the autism spectrum will just kind of not
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  look at you. They'll just like, look past you
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  or look at your forehead. Don't look at the floor.
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  OK. So #2 is unusual speech
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  patterns. Now, people with an autism
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  spectrum disorder usually will display patterns of speech when
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  speaking sentences, but they'll be unusual.
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  You know, they may talk as if you already know what they're
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  talking about. They may just come right out and
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  say, like, oh, yeah, yeah, He did that last Tuesday.
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  And you're like, one if you're talking about even.
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  We're not even talking about anybody.
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  I'm wearing ice cream right now. And that is because the person
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  on the spectrum is relaying a conversation in the head that
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  May they have, they may have had months ago, weeks ago or even a
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  year ago and they're relaying that conversation and they
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  finally got to the part where. They want.
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  To put their input and this is their input and it happens all
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  the time. I randomly laugh out loud, just
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  like. All the time, my girlfriend.
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  'S like, what are you doing? And I'm like, oh, I just.
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  Remembered this joke that I was told like two months ago.
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  And so, yeah, unusual speech pattern is definitely something
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  to look out for when dealing with people in the autism
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  spectrum. So you'll notice this very
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  quickly. OK, so #3 is zoning out.
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  Well, actually it's not really zoning out, it's actually zoning
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  in. But it seems like from the
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  outside that the person who in question maybe on the autism
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  spectrum is zoning out of the world around them, right?
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  And this is due to the fact that the person on the autism
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  spectrum is hyper focusing and really focusing and
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  concentrating on something like zoning into something of their
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  specific kind of interest they may be.
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  You know, finding. This little hinge on the back of
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  this. You know iPad, the Airpod.
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  Pros is really interesting and they're just hyper focusing on
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  it and when they do that, they become so focused on it that
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  everything else becomes just blacked out.
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  You could be calling in for hours and it should be like
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  looking at this thing. It doesn't mean that there's
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  zoning out of the world that actually zoning into something.
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  So this is very common because often you might hear that people
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  say, oh, artistic people live in a world of their own.
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  And what they actually mean is that artistic people.
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  Are zoning. Into this thing, this, this, you
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  know, the zoning out of what they what they can see is the
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  typical world around them. Reality I guess.
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  OK, so #4 is not understanding jokes.
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  This is a very big one. My friends kick my butt about
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  this all the time. They make up like things to like
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  sarcastic jokes and all this kind of rubbish just to get get
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  one over on me just because they're horrible.
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  But anyway, not understanding jokes is.
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  Very common. Autistic people take things
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  literally. So when you say jokes, that joke
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  is perceived as literal information when you are
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  relaying that to an autistic person.
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  So if you know somebody you think maybe autistic and they're
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  not getting your jokes all the time, well, This is why people
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  take things literally. They're not able to
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  differentiate between the joke and what's real unless they
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  really know you really, really, really well.
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  But even then it could become. Quite Struggle.
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  OK, so #5 is the obsessive interest.
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  Now this is probably one of the most obvious ones.
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  Obsessive interests is something that autistic people do.
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  Just everyone I know on the autism spectrum has an obsessive
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  interest. They're obsessed with certain
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  things, like some guy knows obsessed with Marilyn Monroe.
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  I'm really into like, conspiracy theories and I love fight.
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  Club and I live like. Social, digital media, marketing
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  and all that kind of stuff. And when someone is obsessed
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  with that, they will talk about it 24/7.
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  They will talk about it non-stop.
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  If you ask them about it, it's the only thing they will talk
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  about. It's the only thing they will do
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  to relax is study their specific topic.
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  They will collect everything on it.
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  They will read everything or visit the places about that
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  thing. It's like it engulfs their
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  entire being. That sort of sign have an
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  obsessive interest or a special obsessive interest on the autism
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