Latest / Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD / 10 Lesser Known Physical Signs of Autism In Girls

Transcript

10 Lesser Known Physical Signs of Autism In Girls · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

• 0:00
  Hey guys, here are 10 of lesser known physical signs of autism
• 0:03
  in girls. I'm going to get straight into
• 0:05
  it right now guys welcome back to the ASP world.
• 0:07
  My name is Dan and I have autism.
• 0:08
  So if you want to learn more on this journey with me, picture to
• 0:11
  hit the subscribe button down below.
• 0:12
  You don't want to miss a video. Click that notification bell and
• 0:15
  you're notified when I upload videos.
• 0:16
  OK guys, so I have a autism life Hacks PDF book you can download
• 0:19
  for free from autismhacks.net right now.
• 0:22
  OK, so 10 lesson on physical signs of autism in girls.
• 0:25
  So 1st I'm going to talk about sensory processing issues.
• 0:27
  Now girls will experience essentially processing issues by
• 0:30
  being sensitive to touch sound like, you know, seeking out
• 0:34
  sensory environments, like they may really like plushies or, or,
• 0:37
  or or like squish mallows or something like that.
• 0:39
  But then they'd also have an aversion to things like Velcro
• 0:42
  or slime, which is really interesting because you have
• 0:44
  century seeking attitudes. In the century avoiding
• 0:46
  attitudes as well, there were two years delay in motor skill
• 0:49
  development. Now this could be fine.
• 0:51
  Most skills like picking up like pens or putting keys indoors to,
• 0:55
  you know, macro walls where you try to pick up a glass and not
• 0:57
  drop it. It's a physical sign of autism
• 0:59
  that will present themselves in females #3 is difficulty with
• 1:01
  social communication. Girls who are on the autism
• 1:03
  faction will have a difficulty in social communication, which
• 1:06
  will be more apparent when they're trying to write a
• 1:08
  letter, instant message or but do you like an academic kind of
• 1:12
  conversational piece? This will be struggling but for
• 1:15
  them because they will not really understand the social
• 1:17
  implications of a conversation in social communication.
• 1:19
  And before it's repetitive behaviour, this is kind of like
• 1:22
  doing the same thing over and again.
• 1:23
  It could be stimming, rocking backwards and forwards, hand
• 1:26
  flapping, you know, tapping their fingers together,
• 1:28
  twiddling their fingers together, twiddling their hair a
• 1:31
  lot, eating their hair. This is all self estimatory
• 1:33
  behaviour or stimming, which is a repetitive behaviour, but it's
• 1:37
  a physical kind of manifestation that you could recognize and
• 1:39
  notice #5 is difficulty with transitions, as is transitioning
• 1:42
  from being at school to being at home or vice versa or being at
• 1:45
  home. So being at the grocery store,
• 1:47
  all these things become very difficult.
• 1:48
  And what you'll find a lot of the time is the girl will really
• 1:51
  avoid doing the thing that has to change.
• 1:53
  So we'll just stay at home. We'll pretend to be sick so they
• 1:55
  stay at home. This will happen a lot,
• 1:57
  especially in social situations. This will become more apparent.
• 1:59
  Number six is eating disorders. Actually, some girls who also
• 2:02
  will be picky eaters or have difficulty with food textures.
• 2:05
  Not to mention social pressure and peer pressure from school
• 2:07
  where it's more prominent in girls to have more anxiety
• 2:10
  around food since there's a social conventional with things
• 2:13
  like that for young girls, which is horrible, but it happens when
• 2:17
  autism girls are are very well susceptible to that because of
• 2:19
  the neurological condition and the naivety of of social
• 2:22
  communication. So I'm just having sleeping
• 2:24
  issues as problems including like difficulty falling asleep,
• 2:27
  staying asleep, regulating sleep patterns, actually hitting Bram.
• 2:30
  It's going to be difficult because the mind of an autistic
• 2:32
  female is going 1000 miles an hour and they are trying to
• 2:35
  regulate themselves constantly and could very well come out in
• 2:39
  sleep issues #8 is anxiety and depression because autism and
• 2:42
  neurological condition It does cover mental health issues on
• 2:44
  anxiety and depression. Unfortunately are some of the
• 2:47
  ugly ones that do rear their head.
• 2:48
  For autistic individuals who are female, so #9 is an unusual
• 2:52
  walk. So some females in the autism
• 2:54
  spectrum may have an unusual walking style.
• 2:56
  Now this could be down to a motor delay or a sensory
• 2:59
  processing issue where they could be experiencing the
• 3:02
  feeling of walking on the floor quite uncomfortable and quite
• 3:04
  difficult. So #10 is hypertonia.
• 3:06
  Now hypertonia is a low muscle density or a low muscle tone
• 3:10
  which is like a physical sign of autism in girls, which means for
• 3:12
  the micro development for holding pens and other kind of
• 3:14
  small objects will be difficult because they'll have low muscle
• 3:16
  tone in their actual arms and they could be actually diagnosed
• 3:19
  with something called hypermobility also.
• 3:21
  Now guys if this video is interesting and educational
• 3:23
  please share it on social media, give it a like and leave me a
• 3:26
  comment. I'd love to read all your
• 3:27
  comments. Peace.