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Autism Facial Expressions The Fascinating Truth (You Want To Know) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Some autism and facial expressions.
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  Here's the fascinating truth all about that.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the ASPY world.
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  My name is Dan. I have autism, ADHD, OCD, and
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  dyslexia, and I make weekly videos on this kind of content.
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  Guys, what's going on? Welcome back to the ASPY world,
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  guys. Place where we think differently
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  daily. What's going on?
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  Different thinkers. Yeah.
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  autism Life Hacks PDF book which you can get from
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  autismhacks.net. And yeah, that'd be super, super
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  dope. So how are you guys doing?
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  Pop me a comment down below. Let me know how you're doing.
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  I'm doing well. Thanks.
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  Hope you guys are doing good too.
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  So autism and facial expressions.
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  I want to do this video because I find it really interesting
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  that you know the the inside and the insight about autism and
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  facial expressions and understanding facial emotions.
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  Because we all have facial expressions, we all have facial
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  emotions. But it's super interesting when
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  it comes down to autism. Now as an as an autism impact
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  the communication part of the brain.
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  It's no surprise that autistic people have a major issue with
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  trying to understand and identify facial expressions from
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  a person. And this means, like if somebody
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  is sad or angry or or upset or inquisitive, the facial
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  expression that they pull will not be communicated in that way
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  to the person who's on the autism spectrum.
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  So the autistic person won't look at their, you know, the
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  the, the person having a conversation with and look at
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  their facial expressions and say, hmm, I know this person
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  inquiring about something. I know that they're upset or
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  sad. It's very difficult to do that.
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  Now. There are a few reasons for why
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  this may be an issue. First off, it's common for
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  autistic people to not really make eye contact, right?
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  We all know. I mean, I've done a bunch of
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  videos on different traits of autism, and one of the most
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  prominent ones is making eye contact is difficult for people
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  on the autism spectrum. So they're never really looking
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  in the eyes of a person. And maintaining eye contact is
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  super difficult as well. So for a person to have lack of
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  eye contact, then they're not looking at someone's face.
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  So how would they even know what face expression you're pulling
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  if they're not looking you in the face?
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  Right, Which is really interesting.
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  There is another reason though, that the communication part that
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  impacts the the autistic person can interfere with the way that
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  you track and and observe emotions in people's faces.
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  So how, how you identify somebody's, you know, feeling a
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  certain way, right. An emotion that comes out from a
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  person's physical appearance is that you track their emotions
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  through their facial observations.
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  So you look at their face and you say, well, you know, they
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  look like they're crying or they're laughing or they're
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  they're happy or they're sad or whatever.
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  And that is how you can convey that the emotion that they have
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  in your mind, it's kind of like a knowing how the other person's
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  feeling and kind of like trying to judge their kind of next
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  move. Because if they're crying,
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  they're going to want to, you know, wipe their tears away and
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  might want to go to the toilet, wash their face or whatever.
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  So it's really difficult to judge what's what.
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  Now Autistic people have a huge issue with this, and I myself
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  actually have a huge issue with this.
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  And it's funny because I don't know if someone's angry, sad or
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  upset or whatever, unless they're like crying, like
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  really, really upset and crying or unless they're really happy
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  and they're laughing. And I know those two because
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  there's more than just looking at their faces for this now.
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  The other ones in between is difficult.
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  I feel like everybody's grumpy all the time.
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  And that's all I can see is just people being grumpy.
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  I can't really take the towel sounds happy or not, which is
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  really difficult to kind of like figure out and, you know,
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  passively understand. But there's another part that
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  comes with autism and facial expressions, right, That
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  autistic people can't identify face expressions in people or
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  emotions through facial expressions.
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  But then also, autistic people have a bad time actually
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  conveying their own emotions through facial expressions to
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  other people. Now, my girlfriend always says
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  to me, like, why are you angry? What's going on?
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  I'm like, oh, I'm not angry. She's like, oh, you've got such
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  an angry face on. And I'm like, oh, no, I'm just,
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  you know, just hanging out. You know, I'm just being me.
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  And so she, she can't understand why my facial expression doesn't
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  match up to how I'm feeling, which is really interesting.
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  She said it yesterday as well. Well, she said that, like when
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  I'm happy, I don't show happiness to emotions in my
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  face. I probably just say that I'm
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  happy. This is really interesting and
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  not bad. She wasn't, like having, you
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  know, around me or anything like that, Nothing like that.
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  She was just observing and telling me so I could understand
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  and learn and well, make this video, you know?
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  And so it's really interesting. You know, when you're dealing
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  with people on the autism spectrum, you have to be mindful
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  of the fact that they may not understand the typical forms of
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  communication that you take for granted and the other way
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  around, that their form of communication may be totally
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  different from yours and they may not understand what you're
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  doing either. So you know, when you're looking
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  at a person and trying to figure out the happy or sad from
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  looking at a facial expression, that ain't ever going to happen
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  and you're never going to be able to figure that out because
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  it's just not something that happens.
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  You're not. It's it's not, it's not a
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  formula that's going to work. You have to either ask them or
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  know them to know if they're happy or sad because of the
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  situation you're in. Basically, Now if you haven't
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  interacted to this discussion, the conversation, I'd love to
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  have it with you and I read every comment so pop a comment
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  down below. But if you think this video is
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  really helpful and could educate somebody, please share it on
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  video thumbs up if you enjoyed it and I'll see you next time
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  guys. Peace.