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Unexpected Signs Of Autism In Women · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So here's some unexpected signs of autism in women and girls.
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  Stay tuned. All coming up guys, welcome back
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  to the Aspy world. My name is Dan and I have autism
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  and ADHD. I make weekly videos all about
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  that I upload on there for every single day, which is crazy.
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  Now guys, it's really interesting.
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  I've done a lot of videos talking about women and girls
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  and autism, right? And there's a big whole kind of
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  shift happening right now where for years we only had data, we
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  only had real long term data that was using boys or males as
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  a test subject for testing for autism, right?
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  And so all the data in the research was backed up from 1942
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  to 1980s on males. And then we realized, hey, women
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  have autism too. And so now they're kind of
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  backtracking and trying to figure out all this data to get
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  all this research in, which is really interesting.
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  Takes a lot of money to hold time, I get it.
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  But that doesn't stop the fact that we have an abundance of
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  females who left off the autonomous spectrum kind of
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  diagnostic criteria because of various different things.
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  I mean, this could be done from just ignorance from doctors to
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  actually lack of data and research within the the protocol
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  for diagnosing and the nomenclature for autism in
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  females. So here's a little overview.
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  I'm going to leave some links down below as well to ask you to
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  read that too, all about kind of unexpected signs of autism and
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  women. Because I think that there are
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  some telltale signs of autism and women that people will just
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  brush off as other issues because a lot of women will
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  actually get diagnosed as bipolar or ADHD or the true
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  anxiety disorder when actually it's autism.
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  But we don't really come across it that often because a lot of
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  the time women on the autism inspection will actually display
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  or exhibit signs that are not commonly associated with autism
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  specifically. So some of the signs for autism
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  women kind of include difficulty with social interactions, but
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  not limited to social interactions.
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  One way by this is that they may have issues with social
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  interactions, but because you can be masking or, or, or hiding
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  kind of behind a, a mask, so to speak in a social situation, a
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  woman or a female can can move past the awkwardness of the
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  situation to kind of like just struggle through that social
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  interaction even though they're struggling.
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  But then the struggle will come out when they're home, when
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  they're trying to chill, it will just kind of come out and
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  they'll have an emotional outburst at home after
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  pretending to socialize all day because they have issues with
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  this. The others are sensory
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  sensitivities where, you know, some women can't wear certain
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  perfumes or they can't wear certain types of clothing is of
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  the sensitivity to that. And because this becomes come up
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  to do with autism that you have sensory processing disorder and
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  processing with senses as you know, clothing or, or, or smells
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  or even food. This can actually prevent women
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  from doing things like buying the perfume, like going out to
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  dinner, like buying certain clothes and those things.
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  A lot of people would be like oh they're just fussy or they don't
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  like that. But in actual fact, this is down
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  to an autonomous fashion condition and a trait of autism.
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  Another one is issues with executive function.
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  Now this could be like anything from like organising your
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  clothes to organising your life, organising your finances, being
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  able to organise your kitchen, cook food.
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  All of these things are executive function skills and a
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  lot of the time autism presents self in women with executive
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  dysfunction skills. This could be anything from even
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  just picking up the phone and ordering a pizza to going out in
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  a grocery shop and actually making sure to pick everything
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  off that list because it can be quite challenging for females on
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  the spectrum to have issues with autism and executive functions.
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  So these are some of the things that you can kind of take away
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  from this. But one of the other main
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  telltale signs is, you know, issues with things like routine
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  and, and change in routine, like struggling with changes or
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  unexpected changes is something that impacts autistic people
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  quite, quite a lot. And, and especially women.
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  If you have unexpected change within a day or routine or a
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  route or a something that is supposed to be happening for
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  that person on the autism spectrum, then there is a
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  possibility you're going to come across a meltdown and other big
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  major issues. Now these happen with boys as
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  well, but I think that it's more prominent to see these in
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  females. And a lot of people brush it off
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  because there is always some bizarre war on women, which I
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  can't stand. And I'm also an ally.
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  So like, yeah, I'm big up to big up to women and women's rights.
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  It's it's super important we do that.
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  So that being said guys, if this video was good, please share it
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  if you think somebody can get something out of it and leave me
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  video. Peace.