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9 Autism In Adulthood TOP Signs (NEED TO KNOW) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the ASPY world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism Ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  Hey this is 9 biggest signs of autism in adults and I'm going
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  to go through each one of those right now.
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  Guys welcome back to the world. My name is Dan, I have autism in
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  ADHD and I make greekly videos all about this stuff.
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  So if you want to learn more and come on this journey with me
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  pictures hit the subscribe button down below that be super
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  awesome. And also if you want to download
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  my free Autism life Hacks PDF book you can do that
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  autismhacks.net Okay guys. So here 9 or autism in advocate
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  science, which I think are really important to know.
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  So the first one is difficulty with social interaction and
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  communication. Now, adults may struggle with
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  things like social cues because other adults are really well
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  versed in this, where artistic individuals would find it hard
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  to kind of keep up and understand a lot of the unspoken
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  about the unwritten social rules that you just learn by being
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  social growing up. This is a huge giveaway, and
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  it's definitely #1. So #2 is sensory sensitivity.
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  Now this could be a heightened sensitivity to certain smells or
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  sounds or environments. It could be noise, it could be
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  clothing, it could be heating, it could be cooling, it could be
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  a bunch of different things. Anything that interferes with
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  your senses. An autistic individual,
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  especially in that will find these things overwhelming and it
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  can be very disabling for someone who is on the autism
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  spectrum and they're an adult and you go to a restaurant and
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  they're cooking like seafood or something, and those spots could
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  be overwhelming and all powering for you.
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  That could cause an emotional artist, or you just want to
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  leave. This is a huge telltale sign.
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  I want some adults okay. So the next one is a specific
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  special interest. Now autistic adults will be
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  fascinated in having a topic of interest, which they love.
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  It could be like helicopters or trains or farming or anything,
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  and they'll just obsess over it. And Even so that they'll kind of
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  spend all of their time researching this one topic with
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  special interest and they could talk to you about it for hours
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  and hours and hours very interesting.
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  I find this really, really common and it only grows
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  stronger as a person ages, which is absolutely fantastic
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  actually. I think it's an amazing thing.
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  So the next one is a difficulty with changing in routine.
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  So autistic people love to do the same thing over and over
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  again, and they love routine. They love predictability.
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  Now, when you have a change in a routine, this is actually an
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  unpredictable kind of surprising circumstance, which is often
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  with autistic individuals, especially adults, something
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  that is uncomfortable, and it's the unpredictability that
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  creates a bit of chaos and havoc in the mind of that person.
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  So an autistic person would like things to be routinely done.
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  No changes after change does arise is quite catastrophic.
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  So the next one is actually challenges with executive
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  function and sometimes called executive dysfunctions could be
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  things like planning and organizing and time management
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  and decision making. All of these areas are very
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  difficult for adults on the autism spectrum because they
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  present challenges of magnitudes of a lot of abstract thinking in
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  terms of logistical problems or problematic logistical issues.
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  So these could be very difficult for people on the autism
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  spectrum and is very telltale tiny someone who is autistic in
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  an adult. This next one is speech and
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  language difficulties. Now this may be something that
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  you you could come across where a person on the Austin Spectral
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  could have a different accent to the place where they were born.
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  A lot of people think I'm American and I'm actually not
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  American. I'm actually born in Britain and
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  I was raised here in Britain, but I actually have a slight
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  American accent. And this is because I learned to
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  talk watching television and a lot of television and cartoons
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  when I was a kid. You're all kind of like
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  Americanized cartoons. So a lot of individuals on the
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  Austin special have maybe differences in the way they
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  speak. They'll be unusual speech
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  patterns, there'll be unusual ways that they talk, or some
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  unusual characteristics or mannerisms that go along with
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  speech and language issues. It's very fascinating, and
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  there's a whole row of stuff to go with speech and language
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  pathology specifically for autism, but I highly recommend
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  checking that out. If you all and more.
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  There is a brilliant website called Speech Works by Alyssa
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  who who's one of my friends and she has like a bunch of
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  different information about that on her site.
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  So the next one is repetitive behaviours and restricted
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  interest. And what this means is that an
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  artistic person doesn't like to go outside of their comfort
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  zone. They like to know the things
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  that they know. Like if you have hot dogs every
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  day for dinner, they'll continue to have hot dogs every day for
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  dinner. Like an autistic person will
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  like to stick to that repetitive routine or repetitive behaviour,
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  which is quite interesting. And they'll be quite rigid on
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  this as well. And to deviate from us again,
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  like I was talking about with change would be detrimental to
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  that person and so they don't want to do that.
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  It could cause mental health issues, could cause a whole
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  bunch of stuff. So having a rigid routine is
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  very comfortable for a city person because it's predictable
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  what sorts of people love predictability.
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  So the next one is emotional regulation difficulties.
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  Oh my goodness. This is probably the biggest
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  issue I have is trying to emotionally regulate or
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  understand my own emotions for to be regular and and kind of
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  find regulation within emotions. It's very hard.
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  I can go from really calm to really, really like distraught
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  to them really, really calm. It's very difficult.
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  But having a lack of managing emotions and coping with stress
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  can sometimes be a telter sign of someone on Nelson's Spectrum
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  trying to deal with those issues.
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  Guys, before we go any further, I just want to say that if you
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  are struggling with mental health issues and you have you
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  know you want to reach out to a counselor, but don't go do face
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  to face. There's an app called Better
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  Health which I will link down below.
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  Now the app actually connects you within 24 to 48 hours with a
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  therapist that you choose in a specific category.
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  Like I used it and I found someone who specialized in ADHD
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  and autism and they found me within two days.
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  And basically you do also the apps.
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  So you can have a phone call through the app, you can have a
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  video call through the app, or you can just type, you know, and
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  chat away. It's really good.
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  It's exceptionally affordable, but it's most importantly
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  accessible. You can do it from comfort your
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  own home. If you do use my link, I do get
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  a benefit from it. But you don't have to use my
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  link, but definitely check it out.
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  I have linked it down below. That'll be super dope.
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  OK guys. So the last one on top here is
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  difficulty with employment and being independent, like
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  independent living. So people in the opposite
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  spectrum struggle massively with employment because it's how you
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  follow tasks and rules and verbal commands.
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  These are all very difficult for autistic people to kind of get
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  most of the time. And not only that, being
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  independent means that you have more executive function issues,
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  which I said was an issue before.
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  So not only that being independent with executive
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  function issues then also trying to work executively in a job
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  role is very difficult for autistic individuals and it's
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  something that I'm going to cover in my specific VIP members
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  group. If you are interested in that
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  drop me a comment down below and I will send you a message how to
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  how to get into that. But this is a big one, you know,
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  problems of work, problems of keeping work, problems of
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  working hard in a specific area can be really difficult.
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  So these are all tell some size of people with autism.
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  Love you guys. See you next time.
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  Peace. Hey guys, thank you so much for
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  See you in the next one. Peace.