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Signs of Aspergers: 7 Common Symptoms (YOU NEED to know) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In this podcast, I am talking about signs of asperger's and
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  specifically seven. Most common ones that I feel are
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  most kind of present in me that I could share with you guys
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  because I feel like a lot of people could listen to this and
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  then identify with these kind of traits or symptoms or whatever.
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  You want to call them that these signs of Asperger syndrome to me
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  the most common ones and Prominent ones in my life.
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  So I hope you enjoyed this podcast, and if there's any
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  video references again this as taken from a video.
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  Hope you enjoy this guys. I will see you next week,
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  please. Number one is steaming and
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  stimming is short for self-stimulatory Behavior.
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  Now a lot of people who have Asperger's Syndrome will stem
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  and this is like a repetitive self-soothing Behavior.
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  It could be all kinds of things from like rocking back and
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  forwards and the chair a lot of younger people will like flap
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  the hands or like or Rock just one hand some people just use
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  their fingers and like stem looking at the fingers and if
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  looking back and forwards very very quickly.
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  People use items like fidget Spinners to use as stimming and
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  they become really popular like fidget Qs fidget Spinners and
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  notes type of things. And the idea is that when you
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  stim you a soothing that a repetitive motion or the idea of
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  repetitiveness and routine within your lifestyle that you
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  find calming and soothing so, you know rocking backwards and
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  forwards is soothing to people with an Autism Spectrum
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  condition like Asperger syndrome and also things like, you know,
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  rubbing their hands together or even their fingers together.
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  Either these are also very common stims that you may find
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  with people with Asperger's Syndrome.
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  Okay. So number two is having a strict
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  routine. So people with Asperger's
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  Syndrome have a very rigid and strict routine and they love
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  that routine. It could be the same routine.
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  They've had for the past 10 years and that routine.
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  Is there kind of comfort blanket and something that they find
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  relatable and that they know so it could be that you get up the
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  same way every single day put on the same clothes every single
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  day you come downstairs the exact same I'm you have your
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  conflicts at the exact same time you sit in the exact same chair
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  and you watch the exact same show and that's kind of like
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  your morning routine and then you'll have a routine for all
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  kinds of things. It won't just be like getting up
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  in the morning. It could be routine of how you
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  operate your phone how you digest entertainment?
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  It could be a routine of how you are and work.
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  It's like what time you go for your lunch when you're in work,
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  it could be that how you you know, what songs you listen to
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  on your way to work. It could be what you think about
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  a new way to work all these routines and rituals are very
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  important and they're very strict and rigid also, So people
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  with Asperger's Syndrome if they have any deviation from that
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  routine, it could get messy and it could cause a meltdown or a
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  panic attack or something. So having this strict routine
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  that doesn't deviate is very important and is a huge sign of
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  Asperger's syndrome and somebody so if you know the person or if
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  you yourself are used to very strict rigid routines and you
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  love that and you get very distressed if you deviate from
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  that routine, this is a huge huge common trait of someone
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  with Asperger's Syndrome. Okay, so number three is
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  repetitive. Eating and what I mean by this
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  is that people with Asperger's Syndrome tend to have really
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  small selection of foods that they really really enjoy and
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  they'll just eat those Foods constantly.
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  So rather than having like a big varied option or a menu of
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  things that they do actually like they will just have like
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  one set meal that they just love to have all the time like they
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  could eat it all day and they probably do have it every single
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  day and I'll try the best to just have that mule every single
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  day. This is a huge sign of Asperger
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  syndrome. I've been repetitive eating.
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  And a small selection of food that they really really enjoy
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  and it's also could include picky eating so number four is
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  echolalia. Now, this is a fascinating one.
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  Echolalia is the repetitive notion of repeating somebody
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  else's words or sentences. So when you hear something you
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  repeat it, so with Asperger syndrome people who have
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  Asperger's Syndrome will typically kind of mimic
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  television shows or movies or people they know when they say
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  something will say over and over again.
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  So for me when I hear a sentence from somebody or here's sentence
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  One on TV. I will just repeat that sentence
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  a lot of the time mainly in my head then I'll repeat it out
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  loud and sometimes under my breath and one of the other
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  fascinating things about echolalia is that people with
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  Asperger's Syndrome especially will say a sentence and then
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  repeat that sentence to themselves under their breath.
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  So you'll see their mouths moving when they've said like
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  the sentence you'll see on repeat that sentence but just
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  moving them off and actually seeing the sentence.
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  This is very very common and is a huge treat.
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  Like I personally have experienced this and it was
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  until somebody pointed. It out to me that I actually was
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  like whole, you know, I actually do this and it's an actual thing
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  when I researched into it. I realized that it's actually
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  Leah and all the other things that come with it like repeating
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  things on TV. And this is also true for people
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  with Asperger's Syndrome who may have American accents because
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  they learn a lot of their vocabulary and their dialogue
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  from American TV shows and American movies.
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  So people with Asperger's Syndrome may sound slightly
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  American a lot of people actually think that I sound
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  quite American. I have a Welsh English Scent but
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  I also have a swig is injured when I grew up watching American
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  TV. So this is a thing that I might
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  actually have an American tinge to my accent.
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  I did a three-part miniseries on how to get an Autism diagnosis
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  and I'll leave it in a card above here.
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  So you can check those videos out afterwards if you're
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  thinking about going for a diagnosis of autism.
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  I thought it might help you out. Okay, so a number five is issues
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  with socializing now that are Unwritten rules and Like
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  compliances with social interaction.
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  So people typically will have this almost like an intuition
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  for like what is like social etiquette and how to be in a
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  social situation. Like whose turn is it to talk
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  next? How long do I talk for?
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  Is this rude? Have I gone too far with this is
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  this appropriate to say, you know, all those things are like
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  Unwritten. Nobody tells you about these
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  things. You kind of pick them up and
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  learn them through social interaction, but with Asperger's
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  Syndrome, those are missed. So the person with us biggest
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  animals have different. Faculty socializing and have
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  difficulty understanding that area of you know, do do they
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  talk here do they talk their I have an issue with I say the
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  wrong things to people on Earth and they get triggered by it and
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  I think that oh my goodness. I didn't know it was going to
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  upset them. Another thing is that I'll just
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  talk for hours about something. I'm really really interested in
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  and people get really annoyed because you know, it's their
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  turn to talk, but I haven't let them have their turn to talk.
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  Another issue I have is talking over people who are already
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  talking. It's really difficult to know
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  when a person is stop talking. To then take your turn to talk
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  and I find this super super difficult and it probably one of
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  the most difficult part of social communication for me is
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  knowing when I can talk next or when I should stop talking.
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  So as a trait of a sign of Asperger syndrome, this is very
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  prominent and I feel like most people if not all people on the
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  autism spectrum who have a condition of Asperger syndrome
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  will experience bad or poor communication skills.
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  I'm a huge fan of supporting it. When people so, if you think
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  that this video can help someone please share it okay back to the
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  video. Okay.
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  So number six is sensory sensitivity.
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  So what this means is that people with Asperger's Syndrome
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  will be susceptible to sensory processing disorder meaning that
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  they can be hyper or hypo sensitive to sensory stimuli
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  meaning touch sound smell taste noise.
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  It could be absolutely anything now for me.
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  I get super triggered by all kinds of things and it Runs
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  alongside something called proprioception.
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  I'll leave a video at the end slate which is talked a bit more
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  about sensory processing disorder of some tips.
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  If you relate to any of the stuff I'm talking about and
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  basically it's like too much sunlight or too much light or
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  fluorescent lighting can really affect how I see it because
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  fluorescent lighting flickers for me.
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  And so I have to wear sunglasses want to go to like stores that
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  have fluorescent lights and this is very uncomfortable also
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  certain noises. I'm really sensitive to you and
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  it could even be certain words. I'm really Dostoevsky on super
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  hyper hyper heightened by certain noises and certain
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  things especially smells like garlic onions vinegar things
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  like that those specific food freaked me out so much that the
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  smell is so intense. I can't even be in the same
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  store. So there's a local supermarket
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  that we go to and at one side they have a deli counter in the
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  deli counter is like an open style Banner has like garlic and
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  hummus and all this kind of stuff.
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  And so I have to let go to the other side of the store to get
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  my shopping done to walk at the exact opposite side of the store
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  and it's the largest first one in Europe of this this actual
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  chain of Supermarket called Morrison's.
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  So in order for me to deal with I have to avoid that side
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  completely. This is such a common sign of
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  Asperger syndrome and if you can relate to this or you know,
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  somebody who relates to this this is a huge huge Telltale
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  sign that they may be on the autism spectrum and it could be
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  Asperger syndrome. So for me, I have hacks and ways
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  around that but that is just one of them.
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  It could also be like sensitive to clothing, you know, you don't
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  like the tags in your clothing. That could be certain type of
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  clothing makes you feel a bit odd or awkward and you can't
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  wear those or certain smells could get you upset or certain
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  sounds can get you upset. So those things are all signs of
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  asperger's syndrome that you should be aware of so number
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  seven is not getting jokes and it's not just not getting jokes.
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  It's not understanding when somebody is joking and taking
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  things very very little so people with Asperger's Syndrome
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  will take things very very literally.
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  So, you know, if you set on Audrina cats and dogs outside a
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  person with us, Berger syndrome may actually believe that you're
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  trying to say that cats and dogs are falling from the sky a lot
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  again. A lot of this stuff is learn
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  socially and people kind of pick up this stuff like through
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  intuition are just social acceptance, but people
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  Asperger's Syndrome won't learn those things that traditional
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  way so you'll learn have to explain to them.
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  So it's actually this is not actually raining cats and dogs
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  physically. It's just a term used because I
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  have huge issues with learn in terms and I did a video a few
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  weeks ago where I spoke about. Somebody said something to me
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  about throwing the baby. The bathwater and I had no idea
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  what this is talking about and I was kind of horrified because I
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  didn't understand what they meant about it and it was just
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  all crazy and because of the Hat I have a huge difficult time
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  trying to figure out social kind of accepted sayings and slang
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  for things like that. If you do relate to this, I know
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  someone who relates this taking things literally like don't know
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  when you're joking can't understand sarcasm because
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  sarcasms a huge one because sarcasm is trying to say
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  something that isn't in the way that you are which is Really
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  difficult. I mean how on Earth do you
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  explain that and I find that sarcasm with strangers is so
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  difficult. I don't even understand it.
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  I can't understand when people are just saying jokes when like
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  I almost got into a fight once went to a supermarket because
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  there's the cashier was trying to be funny and I thought he was
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  going to be an idiot and then so I got really annoyed about it
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  and I was about to blow up with my girlfriend was like no no,
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  no, he's just being funny is trying to have a joke, but I
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  didn't understand the joke so it can get you into all kinds of
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  trouble if you don't understand those things, but it's
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  definitely something that I would say that I see.
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  Super relate to from having Asperger's Syndrome.
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  This is one of the things that really sticks out when you
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  notice it when people are constantly trying to rectify
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  issues that occurred just like that situation right there.