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How to Identify AUTISM Easily! (5 SIMPLE PHYSICAL SIGNS) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So how do you identify autism without actually knowing the
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  person or speaking to them? In this video I'm covering 5
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  simple physical signs of autism. Oh yes, all that's 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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  Okay on with the video Okay Guys, what's going on?
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  Welcome back to the aspy world, the place where we think
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  differently daily. What's up, different thinkers?
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  Awesome to have you here thinking differently all the
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  Okay. So how to Identify autism with
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  physical science? This is super interesting
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  because there are no physical kind of traits of autism in
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  terms of like a physical deformity, whereas some
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  disabilities that are physical deformities.
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  Now this is super interesting because there are physical
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  traits that you can see in autism and I want to go through
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  those right now. So autism classed as a hidden
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  disability, you know, autism is a an invisible disability
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  because there is nothing that kind of, you know, if you
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  looking at a wheelchair user who is in a wheelchair, then it's
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  obvious that they're a wheelchair user because they're
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  sitting in the wheelchair. You can physically see that.
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  So it's not hidden. But with autism being something
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  that is neurological and neurodevelopmental, then it has
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  this hidden invisible disability tagline, which is kind of
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  annoying in some respects because people don't really, you
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  know, understand you straight off the bat because they they
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  can't see it. They don't really believe it a
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  Okay. So use these.
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  Basically I've created this list for you to use these physical
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  cool attributes to notice autism in a person so you know how to
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  help them. This is all this is designed
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  for. I'm not talking about outing
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  somebody or or picking up on something and and kind of like
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  saying to them hey you're autistic.
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  It's not about that. It's it's knowing that if you
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  can see someone is is is like this, then you can help them in
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  in an adequate way. Because if you know that
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  somebody is on the autism spectrum and they need some
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  extra help, then you can help them.
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  And that's a great thing and it's a great thing to help
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  people. So here are the five most
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  interesting signs that you can pick up physical signs of
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  autism. OK, so number one is rocking.
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  Now people on the autism spectrum will sometimes rock
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  from side to side or backwards and forwards.
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  This process is called stimming, which is short for self
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  stimulatory behaviour And stimming, or to stim, is a
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  soothing behaviour that people on the autism spectrum find
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  comfortable. And they do it to become
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  comfortable. They they rock backs and
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  forwards and then they they they might just, you know, rock side
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  to side. And this is to help them kind
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  of, I don't know, calm in situations or if they're excited
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  in situations or even if they're just relaxing in situations.
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  This is what it's for. This is why it happens.
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  But it's something that you can notice because rocking in
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  certain situations or rocking, you know, full grown adult
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  rocking is something that you don't normally see.
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  Some kids do rock, but it's normally autistic kids who do
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  rock backwards and forwards or side to side.
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  So definitely interesting to keep that in mind and notice
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  that it is a stim okay. So #2 again, there's another
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  stim, and this is one's hand flapping.
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  Now you may see people flapping their hands on their own
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  spectrum. Again, this is a self
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  stimulatory behavior or a STEM type behavior which is designed
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  to kind of keep the person calm while in a stressful situation
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  or excited situation because being excited and stressed kind
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  of stimulate the same type of response in your brain.
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  So autistic people have that same response.
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  Hand flapping is more common in younger people on the autism
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  spectrum, but it doesn't really go away.
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  Sometimes autistic people when they're all the love, you know,
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  just still love flapping their hands and flapping their hands
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  is happy hands and happy hands are good hands.
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  And friend of mine Micah from the positive artistic and the
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  artistic artistic Positive Autism is his channel and I'll
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  try and leave a link for him below.
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  He has a thing, he calls him jazz hands and he does it all
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  the time and he's like, you know, he he's stimming with his
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  hands and he calls him jazz hands and he's a cool guy.
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  So definitely check out his YouTube channel, man.
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  He blogs and stuff and he's really nice guy.
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  Him and his dad are just absolute Bros, so definitely
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  check him out. And the musicians, which is
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  super dope. OK, so #3 is eye contact.
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  Now, I talk about this one a lot.
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  Now, autistic people don't find it easy to make eye contact, and
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  I actually find it difficult to maintain eye contact for long
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  periods of time. And so if you were talking to
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  somebody and they're on the autism spectrum, they'll more
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  likely not be able to maintain eye contact with you or make any
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  eye contact with you because it's just not in their kind of
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  way that they they can deal with that stress of social
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  communication. Because as we know, autism is a
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  social communication condition and it doesn't hold up well for
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  making eye contact. Now this is not not to say it's
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  exclusively that autistic people don't make eye contact.
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  Some autistic people can make eye contact and they do make
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  that effort and they have trained themselves to make eye
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  contact, which is fine and it's great, but so this one is just,
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  I would say most people, I say about 80% of autistic people
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  have difficulties with eye contact.
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  OK, so #4 is anxiety. An autistic person will come
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  with a bulk load of anxiety, not just generalized anxiety, but
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  this will be stuff like social anxiety that Co occurs with the
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  condition of autism because socializing is so difficult for
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  people on the autism spectrum a lot of the time.
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  So having social anxiety or generalized anxiety disorder,
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  which would be prominent in like kind of panic attacks and all
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  kinds of, you know, heated situations and potential
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  meltdowns in social situations and other situations of
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  heightened anxiety is a good way to notice that.
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  Oh, I think that person may be on the officers on the spectrum
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  because they're acting like this.
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  And so I can help them, you know, in the right way.
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  So that is a really interesting one to kind of notice and guess
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  all of these together would show you someone who's obviously like
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  100% on the spectrum, you know what I mean?
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  So yeah, just just just something to look out for.
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  OK, so the 5th and final what I'm talking about right now is
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  zoning out. Now autistic individuals will
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  have extreme hyper focus which basically means that they are
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  they would be really focused on an interest.
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  Like they're really interested in this cable.
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  They're just like really zone in and look at this cable and just
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  think about it. And you could be in the room
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  with the person on the autism spectrum.
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  And as they're looking at this and they're really obsessing
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  over it, you could be talking to them and asking them questions
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  and it'd be completely oblivious, as if they're
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  completely deaf and you're not even in the room and they're
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  just looking at this thing. And that is kind of like what
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  you see as zoning out but actually zoning into something,
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  which is really funny because, like, it's called a zone out,
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  but it's actually zoning in. And I always tickles me when I
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  hear that. And this is so common people on
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  the autism spectrum, Even so common is that people who are on
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  the autism spectrum sometimes are tested to see if they are
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  deaf because they don't respond to their name, at least when
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  they're zoning out and zoning into things.
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  So that's really, really interesting.
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  Now, if you have anything to add to this, please pop it in a
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  comment down below. I read every single comment.
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  Peace.