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5 Odd Autism Signs (MUST SEE) · 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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  So here are 5 odd autism signs that you're going to find really
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  interesting all that coming up. Hey guys welcome back to the
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  aspy world. My name is Dan and I have autism
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  and ADHD and I make videos like this every single week.
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  OK, so autism is really interesting in the fact that it
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  displays itself in many interesting ways.
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  And we all heard of like the typical ones, you know, they may
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  be selected new, they may have, you know, lack of eye contact,
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  bad in social situations. And all those things are more
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  commonly known and commonly accepted with autism.
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  But there are some things that autism presents that you
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  probably have never seen before or not even heard of that I find
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  a really quite odd in terms of like how you understand autism.
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  And I'm going to go through all those right now.
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  So I'm going to go through five of the most interesting ones
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  that I think are quite oddly interesting.
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  So the first one is sensory processing disorder where you
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  smell everything. Autistic people will have
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  something called sensory processing disorder or SPD.
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  An SPD, which is sort of a sensory processing disorder,
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  will make sure that the person may have hyper or
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  hyposensitivity to certain things, could be smell, sound,
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  light touch, temperature, all these things.
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  Now, what's really interesting is that an autistic person who
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  has hypersensitivity, which means that they smell things
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  really intensely. So you could be in supermarket
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  and the deli is overpoweringly smelly or like maybe you, you
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  know, when you smell sandvages, it's like really, really strong,
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  all those things really interesting.
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  But autistic individuals will smell items and objects and
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  everything, smell an object to understand it, kind of like a
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  dog would smell something, right?
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  I'm not calling autistic people dogs.
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  Please don't think that. What I'm trying to say is that
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  I'm giving you an example like, you know how dogs want to smell
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  stuff to understand it. Autistic individuals with SPD
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  will do the same thing. I find this just absolutely
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  fascinating. The reason I find it fascinating
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  is because when you think about autistic individuals having
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  sensory processing disorder, you never think that they're going
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  to smell like a pair of glasses or like a pen.
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  Like, oh, I have a pen. I go, yeah, this pen smells OK,
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  but it's very interesting. I do all the time.
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  I'm for rabbit smelling things like I often smell like my
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  hands. I often smell like, you know, if
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  you give me anything, I'll want to smell it to understand it
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  more. You know, it's, it's hard to
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  explain, but it's something that's very, very interesting.
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  OK #2 is when an autistic person is socializing, they're not able
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  to know when to say hi or goodbye.
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  So how do you initiate a conversation with somebody?
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  You, you walk in and be like, hi, I'm down.
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  I'm going to talk to you about something, but if you're in a
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  conversation with other people, how how do you initiate that
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  initial hi, you know, that's very interesting.
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  And then when you want to leave, if you want to like go, if
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  you're, if you're like ready or I'm bored of the situation, I'm
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  bored of the conversation, I'm going to go.
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  How do you say goodbye? You, you, you, you just walk off
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  or you have to announcement everybody.
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  I will be leaving shortly. Departure is imminent.
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  You know, so autistic individuals have an issue with
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  saying hi and goodbye and knowing those kind of social
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  norms where other people just seem to know.
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  They kind of just get, they're like, yeah, what's going on?
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  Like they just melt. They just understand it.
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  This is just fascinating. Like I, I find it just super,
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  super interesting. OK, so #3 are vocal stems.
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  So stemming is short for self stimulatory behaviour.
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  Now this means that an autistic person may like flap their hands
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  or like, you know, rub their fingers together or flip their
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  fingers and they could be doing something rocking backwards and
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  forwards side to side. This is self stimulatory
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  behaviour, which is kind of like a self soothing behaviour and
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  it's self soothing because an autistic person will do this
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  when they are nervous or excited or maybe they're anxious.
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  But what's really interesting is that an autistic person can also
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  have a vocal stem. A vocal stem could be a noise
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  that they make, like they could make a noise that makes them
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  feel happy, content, comfortable, regulated.
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  This is interesting and, and I've seen this in children quite
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  often and I see it in adults sometimes as well where all the
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  adults will say certain words, obviously not echolalia, which
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  is kind of repeating words, but more like they want the noise or
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  the sound of the the word to be resonant in their mind so they
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  can hear it because it makes them feel comfortable.
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  Super interesting. But you could be next to an
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  adult on the spectrum and they'll say like a noise or do a
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  noise and making what on earth is going on, you know, but it's
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  because they're stimming or self symmetry behaviour.
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  OK, so #4 is object obsession. I love this.
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  So object obsession is quite interesting.
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  Autistic individuals don't look at an object and think, oh, just
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  an object, right? Like I don't look at my Apple
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  Pencil and I go, OK, it's just an Apple Pencil for my iPad.
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  I look at this and I say, wow, this is the Apple Pencil that I
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  got from eBay for my iPad because I wasn't prepared to pay
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  the right prices on Apple's website.
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  So I got a second hand because I'm a cheapie, but also it's got
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  a little bit of a nick in the corner, but it looks to me like
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  a person. When I look at this pencil, it
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  looks like a person. It's like a thing, it has a
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  personality or, or kind of some kind of aura around it, right?
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  It, it, it's more, it has a personality.
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  It's, it's more than just a pencil.
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  It has something to it and everything is like that.
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  Everything I, I look at, look at this Easter Island pen that I've
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  got to write on. It's amazing because I, I love
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  the Easter Island, but this looks like a person.
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  OK, it actually does look a little bit like a person, but
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  you know what I mean? You know what I'm trying to say
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  here? Everything has a personality and
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  because of that, I get very worried if things break because
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  it's like losing a pet. It's like losing something
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  that's important to you that actually has personality and it
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  has, you know, it's a part of your life.
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  And that kind of scares me. I'm like, wow, you know, like I
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  don't, I don't want to, you know, lose my pencil because
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  it's, it's almost like a part of the family, if you will.
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  I find that fascinating. Now, if you're agreeing with
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  this, if you understand what I'm trying to say, please leave me a
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  comment down below because I'd love to know if you experienced
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  this as well. OK, so #5 this is really
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  interesting. Is monotone talking.
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  Now I'm talking to on a camera, but yours truly, that's right,
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  me, I've been to drama school to be able to do this, to talk to a
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  camera in a way where I can talk to you with inflection in my
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  voice and make it really exciting because it's like
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  acting, right? That's what it is.
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  However, authentic individuals, including myself will have a
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  monotone talking type, which means that we will just talk in
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  a very low monotone for everything.
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  If I'm talking to somebody in the certain way when they want
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  to talk to me, there will always be 1 tone or monotone talking,
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  which is very black and white and Gray.
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  That type of monotone talking is fascinating because we do this
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  as individuals and what I think is happening because autistic
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  individuals, not just individuals, autistic
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  individuals will do this because we're thinking.
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  We're thinking ahead. We're thinking in our minds
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  about all the, all the things, all the variables and the axioms
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  that exist around the conversation that we're not able
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  to put that effort into the conversation to make the sound
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  of our voice more colorful and exciting because it it's the
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  least thing that you need to be worrying about.
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  You need to be worrying about the actual concept of what
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  you're saying and in which context it's being said.
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  You don't need to worry about the inflection of the tone,
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  which I find absolutely fascinating.
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  Now, if you agree with this and you understand what I'm saying,
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  give this video a thumbs up and I'll see you guys in the next
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  video. Peace.
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  OK, guys. See you in the next one.
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  Peace.