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- [x] AUTISM IN GIRLS - 5 Most Common Signs (YOU NEED To Think About) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In this video, I'm talking about the five most common signs of
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  autism in girls. So that by the end of this video
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  you'll understand exactly how to spot.
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  Ottoman girls coming up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  ask me world. My name is done.
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  I have autism ADHD OCD and dyslexia and I make weekly
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  more videos just like this. Hey guys, welcome back in this
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  video, I am breaking down five, most common.
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  When signs of autism in girls so you can have a better
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  understanding of it and probably talk about stuff that you never
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  come across before. So that if you watch all the way
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  to the end, you'll digest all that information, and that's
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  super dope, guys, if you want to hit me up on Instagram, Twitter
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  questions, you can either pop it in the comment down below
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  because I read and respond to every single one.
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  Or you can hit me up on Instagram with a DM, that's also
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  super dope. Okay, so autism and girls.
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  So I know a lot of females like my friends who are on the Autism
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  spectrum, and we have done a bunch of videos together, which
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  I will leave in a cat above here or in the description down
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  below. And on the end screen with a
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  playlist of all the videos, I've done with girls who are on the
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  Spectrum, but I wanted to break down five of the top, like most
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  common signs. So if you're like thinking, hey
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  is my daughter, my mom, my grandmother, my friend, or
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  whoever on the autism spectrum because they're female.
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  This video is going to answer that question for you, okay?
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  So this is all about identifying autism characteristics, in
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  females, or in girls. And so I'm breaking down, like
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  five of the most Like common ones that I think are really
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  good. That people Point don't really
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  speak about them, which is pretty weird, but we're going to
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  cover all that right now. And also guys, if you think this
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  video is going to be beneficial to anybody else, please tag them
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  in the comments of this video or share this video on Facebook and
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  Twitter because that would be super awesome because we can
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  this whole sharing community of Love filled by people who want
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  to educate other people and help other people are awesome.
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  Right guys let's get into it okay?
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  So the first one here is masking now I'm asking is where someone
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  act like a different Person takes on a Persona becomes a
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  different kind of, I don't know personality, whether in social
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  situations and the reason that the girls on the autism spectrum
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  do this is because girls want to be more social and outgoing and
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  like how that interaction with their peers but also appear
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  typical in that environment. They don't want to kind of like
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  you know they don't want to show their true selves in all
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  situations because I feel like they may be judged or they may
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  be victimized or whatever which is an interesting concept.
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  It because, you know, people on the office inspection generally
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  just be themselves, but females in the autism spectrum have this
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  degree of masking and to a certain extent, everybody on the
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  autism spectrum will do masking from time to time because it's a
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  way of coping, like, a workaround system.
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  But masking is very, very interesting.
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  And actually is probably what the number one cause of why that
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  females on the autism spectrum and not diagnosed as quickly as
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  males because the masking when they're even having their kind
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  of assessment done because, you know, that's not what the so
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  used to. But I would say that.
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  Masking is, is the Forefront of the struggle in that environment
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  when they get home to their comfort environment?
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  Then there are going to be faced with more challenges and more
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  struggles because they've been asking all day and pretend to be
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  somebody else. So keep that in mind masking is
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  one of the number one issues that girl's face when Andy on
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  the autism spectrum. So yeah, check it out.
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  Okay. So number two is selective
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  mutism. Now, selective mutism is exactly
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  what it says on the tin. It's selected.
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  We being a mute in certain situations and usually this will
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  come in the form of like say you and your, you know, your
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  daughter or your best friend, who's a girl wants to like order
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  a pizza. And you guys mean chatting away
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  about all kinds of stuff, you know, and you have a really good
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  relationship, but when you order the pizza, she never wants to be
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  the person on the phone, ordering the pizza, right, and
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  freaked out. She has to do it and she would
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  actually prefer not to even order the pizza at all, if it
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  meant, she had to get on the phone, so you'd rather go
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  without Pizza that actually got the phone speak.
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  Somebody else with To, this can also happen where if your
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  friends quite a chassis person in your Social Circle and then
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  you introduce him to other friends and then a not so
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  chatty. They become quite the quiet and
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  like, Meek then again, it's like selective mutism.
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  And this is a Telltale sign of autism and girls.
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  It's quite a, it's quite a common one to occur in often
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  girls. And if you like it's sucking
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  mutism is more common in females on the Spectrum than is males on
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  the Spectrum. And this is why I've included it
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  in this video because I think it's vitally important that we
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  understand how selective mutism works.
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  And it's Most importantly more common in females on the
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  Spectrum. Now, the number three is a
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  really interesting one and it's a slightly more more interesting
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  and females it's obsessive collection.
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  Now, people on the autism spectrum, have obsessive
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  interest to like the same things, you know, and they'll
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  research the same things and they love like, maybe a specific
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  topic of Interest or a genre of something and I'll research it
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  to death and I'll know everything about it.
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  Every like small and you detail. But the addition when you are
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  dealing with females on the Spectrum, as they will be an
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  Safeco act like an intense collector of those things.
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  So they all collect all those books in the Twilight Saga.
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  I'll collect all those books from like, I don't know, Star
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  Wars or whatever, or it comic book up, they'll just get really
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  obsessed with it. Can be a collection of Care
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  Bears or beanie babies, but that's the interesting thing
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  about it. Now all those moms and dads out
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  there who are watching this video, who have a basement and
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  a, you know, cause it's full of stuff that the kids collected
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  you got to hit that like button. Give this video a like, you
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  know, exactly what I'm talking about, and it becomes on the
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  Spectrum watching this. I'm just like, damn, I told you
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  earlier, I'm sitting here. Chuckling you got to give that
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  video a thumbs up because it helps me out and help me not you
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  guys are having good fun while watching these.
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  So that's super, super interesting.
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  Okay, number four, let's get into it.
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  Number four is no cuddles. Now, another characteristic of
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  girls on the autism spectrum is the inability to want to be
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  picked up when they were younger.
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  Like a lot of kids wanna be picked up and cuddled and stuff
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  like that, but girls on the autism spectrum.
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  Typically, when they're really young, when I like toddlers to
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  kind of like, you know, just before teens, they don't really
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  want to be picked up or cuddle, you know, they don't have that
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  kind of affectional can Connection.
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  And because of this, they may not really want hugs later on in
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  life. Like hugging me be something
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  that we're not really into and this comes from a few different
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  reasons. A lot of the time it down to a
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  sensory processing disorder, SPD that comes comorbid with autism,
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  which means that the sensation of actually being hugged at the
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  white, hug is kind of like an unnerving one.
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  So if you are someone who understands this, then you may
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  enjoy actually like full pressure hugs like a quite
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  squeezed to hug, you know, compression hug because it
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  stimulates them. I called proprioception and the
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  muscles. Now, this is a another indicator
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  of somebody on the autism spectrum, special, if they're
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  female and they are not a hugger, never been a couple of
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  the other kit, or they were a kid, you know, this is super
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  interesting and if you're like sitting there taking all these
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  off right now and then this is why because you're now
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  understanding and learning a bit more about our personal.
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  You know, who is now from your knowledge on the Spectrum.
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  But also, you know, if you are thinking somebody's on Spectrum,
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  you should definitely check out a an official diagnosis and of
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  or an official assessment because that's the protocol to
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  take. Okay?
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  So, Number five is difficulty in following instructions.
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  Now, we all have instructions in life, in school, in work, at
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  home. Even when you try to cook
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  something, they may be instructions for cooking.
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  But people on the autism spectrum, especially females
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  will have difficulty following these instructions, all the way
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  through. And this is an executive
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  function issue, and a really big deal because, you know, you may
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  be really bright student a really, really good student in
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  class. But then when you come home and
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  you're trying to like, you know, make ramen noodles, you may not
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  be able to understand the packet, and this is all to do
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  the way. A the brain communicates
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  communication and translate that into your brain as a way of
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  thinking, okay, I need to appropriately.
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  Do this in a certain order, it's kind of a bit mismatch in the
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  autism brain, but it could be a, you know, it's a larger issue
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  that there's so much you can do therapeutically wise to help
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  with things like this or those apps available to help with
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  this. But, you know, not everything
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  from the, the, the subject here. The difficulty in following
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  instructions is a huge ASD, symptom, especially for autism
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  and girls, because they are more that they're going to be around
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  more organizational type of thing.
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  I don't know why, but girls seem to be way more organized than
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  males just in general. So, when you're around more
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  organization, then you also run more instructions and it's
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  harder to follow. So, if you're recognizing all of
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  these things in highlighting, you know, these things are
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  highlighted to that the person, you know, maybe then the autism
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  spectrum, maybe it would be a good thing to maybe get them
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  checked out and maybe go to an assessment or something.
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  If you want access to Help Therapy support all that kind of
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  stuff. It definitely accessible when
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  you have an official diagnosis. So guys, those were my five top
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  and most common signs of autism in girl.
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  As if you have any to add, please put them in a comment, it
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  down below. I'd love to do that.
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  And also, if you think this video can help somebody, please
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  enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next video, guys.
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