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What Does AUTISM Mean? · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  I don't know what autism means. Right in this video, I'm gonna
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  be breaking that down and explain to you exactly what the
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  system is. Where autism means all that
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  coming up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  Okay guys. So I wanted to have this video,
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  this chance to just talk about autism and what it means because
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  If you have any questions. So autism, what does it mean?
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  Break down the more terminals in the origins of it here.
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  Because I wanted to, I want to just go over it because I feel
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  like it's an interesting concept to hear the word but they're not
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  know really what it's about. So for autism, that the word, if
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  you look at the word autism, write the word autism comes from
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  a Greek word Autos. Meaning the South, so autism
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  basically means alone, right? Because autism is almost seen
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  upon as being like alone in your own head.
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  Ache your the way you see the world is independent to how
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  everybody else sees the world. And I know, typically everybody
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  sees the world differently, but in terms of someone who is on
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  the autism spectrum, they interact with the world
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  differently, to how a neurotypical person would.
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  So there's two types of brain that we can currently conjure
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  up. There is a neurotypical brain
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  which is the average everyday Joe who just goes around and
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  does life as life. And then there's people who are
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  neurodiverse, who are people on the autism spectrum, or ADHD and
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  their neurological patha. What men did it differently on
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  creation than everybody else's. Now that causes Autism in the
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  brain because it's kind of like a neurodevelopmental condition
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  that actually happens. And that's kind of what autism
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  is now. It's really interesting autism
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  actually started the studies of Austin's been conducted since
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  the 1940s. Now back then, there was two
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  blokes who did it was called, Hans Asperger near the guy was
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  called Leo Kanner and they both simultaneously at the exact same
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  time started, studying the exact same thing which is basically
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  what we now know as autism, initially it was called Hans
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  Asperger. He has Asperger's Syndrome,
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  which is what I actually had a diagnosis of when it was the
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  terminology was Asperger syndrome.
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  Now up-to-date the DSM, which is like the American Psychological,
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  kind of way of criteria. For diagnosing people, with
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  mental health, conditions, and neurological conditions called
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  the DSM. In 2013 took the term Asperger's
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  away and replaced it with just ASD which is autism spectrum
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  disorder because it covers like more big umbrella and I'll
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  explain a little bit about that in a minute.
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  Why they did that up until it was you know hands us budget had
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  Asperger's Syndrome And then we'll kind of had Ken has a can
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  of syndrome and then he changed it from kind of syndrome to
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  early, infantile autism and then they drop the early infantile
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  because it was obviously not just an infant was in grown
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  adult, they just call it autism and then hands Asperger's you
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  know, the these fuse them together to make the autism
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  spectrum disorder. Now, the reason they did this is
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  because when they will looking at the types of people, they
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  were studying at the time you had people who had really low
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  support needs where they were able to function to Quickly, how
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  did really good vocabulary? They were quite intellectually
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  capable to go out and do very interesting complex skills but
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  then they lacked social skills, they lacked an emotional skills
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  and then that's what they will able to having Asperger's
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  Syndrome. But the people, your kind of,
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  was looking out for early infantile autism or just autism.
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  Well, people who have really high support needs, they were
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  not able to talk, the endnote will completely nonverbal.
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  They had no functions of certain motor skills.
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  They were unable to communicate on an intellectual level.
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  And there was no, there was no way of communicating
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  appropriately with the people at that time because they didn't
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  understand how this all worked or where, you know where we're
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  going to come in, where they would be able to say, okay I can
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  use like a nap now to talk to the person because you got to
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  think it's back in the 1940s, you didn't have iPhones, didn't
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  have iPads how on Earth you supposed to connect with
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  somebody who couldn't talk back then.
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  And that's basically how it stood up until from a 1940s,
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  right? Up until the 80s and the 90s
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  hands, Asperger's Asperger syndrome was a way of diagnosing
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  people with a high functioning autism.
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  Which again, And as a team, we don't really use anymore and
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  then you have the, a low functioning autism, which is a
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  people who had high support needs.
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  So, the interesting thing was then is that when the DSM, the
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  the fifth edition of that came out in 2013, they looked at the
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  whole thing and they said, well, we can't have function labels
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  like, Halo function because what this implies, is that this
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  person needs more support than this person.
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  But then, if you say that then is it, that the people who need
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  support where they have considerably low function,
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  should have all the support that people have high function,
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  should have no support, but that was only fair because the people
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  who had high Asperger's Syndrome diagnosis still needed support.
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  So this whole like area was a big gray and they said well how
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  do we do this? So he said, well if you're
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  fusing together and just call it, the autism spectrum disorder
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  for a diagnosis. Then it becomes very simple.
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  You have people who have Asperger syndrome but then
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  they'll just called autism spectrum disorder and people who
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  have you know, classic autism. But then they just have autism
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  spectrum disorder so you're able to offer them help and support
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  equally but then they can take and use what they need fairly
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  which I feel is a really good idea.
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  When the DSM changed it, which is interesting, but I still feel
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  like the term Asperger syndrome is used and is still diagnosed
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  with Asperger's syndrome in certain places in the world.
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  It's not completely taken away. And I'm going to do a video all
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  about that as well because I feel like people think that off
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  does MM. The Asperger syndrome in autism
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  diagnosis doesn't exist anymore, but I think that's really,
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  really interesting. Now the the Tim autism is still
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  used, it's still the strongest term used.
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  There is some speculation over using autism spectrum disorder
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  or Autism Spectrum condition, because a lot of people see that
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  It's a difficult thing to kind of put on some of these a label
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  when it could be causes a condition.
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  Like I said it's a new development or condition.
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  You don't, you don't grow into it and you don't grow out of it.
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  If you have it as a child, you'll have it as a novel.
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  It's something that is the way your brain has been set, which
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  is really interesting, because a lot of people think that people
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  can grow out of autism, bottom is definitely not curable, and
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  it's not a disease so you can't catch it from somebody.
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  And it's definitely not curable, because a lot of people say
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  that, you know, you can cure it with like bleaching and horrible
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  things like that. It's just no, no.
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  You shouldn't have it in jest bleach.
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  And so there are some really barbaric things that I said
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  about autism and special. A lot of people think that it's
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  like, made up and it doesn't exist which is completely
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  irrelevant. Of course, it exists, you know,
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  and we saw it played out in one of the most famous films called
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  ring man. And ring man played by Dustin
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  Hoffman and Tom Cruise as his brother in that and Dustin
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  plays, an autistic Savant who actually has Savant syndrome,
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  which is more of a different kind of like intellectual
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  disability. Autism.
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  But it runs alongside is kind of still on the Spectrum, just
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  about kind of like how a ADD and ADHD a kind of on the low end of
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  the spectrum. And so that sins would be right
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  at the high end of the spectrum. Kind of like just before
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  dropping off and out of that Spectrum.
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  I'm Savannah was very interesting, but it also is,
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  it's a world away from what you classes Asperger syndrome.
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  Now, they portray that very well.
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  I was really good at was the first time people kind of got to
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  grips with the tail Autumn because they mentioned it within
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  the film. But one thing the film feels
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  represent is a fair. Their view of autism but since
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  then he would have have a good chance at making things better,
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  and they've had shows like a typical and like the Power
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  Rangers. When there was a guy on the
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  Spectrum, the Blue Ranger in the new reviews on the Spectrum and
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  it's nice to see more and more shows coming out and having more
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  relatable autism characters because people then have a
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  lovely way of relating to those and understanding those
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  characters. So that being said I hope that
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  this understood to you. What autism means and how autism
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  came about and all the kind of background and the history on
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  autism as well. And if you This video is helpful
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