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5 Aspergers Symptoms You Don_t Know (But Need To!) · 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 Asperger's symptoms or traits,
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  characteristics that you don't know but you definitely should
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  know. And the last one, by the way,
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  guys, is going to blow your mind.
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  OK, what is going on guys? Welcome back to the channel.
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  So I've done a few videos on different things like, you know,
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  how how you understand Asperger's and how, how you kind
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  of can spot it kind of quite commonly.
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  There's some underlying traits and characteristics of
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  Asperger's syndrome that you probably don't realize are part
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  of Asperger's syndrome. So I'm going to go through those
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  with you right now. And just before we get into it,
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  guys, just want to say that Asperger syndrome is autism,
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  right? There is no difference anymore.
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  Well, there's never any difference anyway.
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  But there's no difference between Asperger syndrome and
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  autism. It's just a nomenclature or a
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  naming type of thing that was used up until 2013 in the DSM,
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  which is like the main way that they diagnose people on the
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  autism spectrum using this manual.
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  Anyway, all that changed. However, people still use the
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  term sometimes, hence why we're still using it here.
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  So let's get on the video #1 these are ticks.
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  Now, what are ticks? Ticks are involuntary negative
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  or positive movements that can occur through things like nerves
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  or anxiousness or excitement. So an autistic person may feel
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  maybe worried about something, right?
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  And this worry could cause them to kind of jerk.
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  Like they could have a tick where they like maybe make a
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  noise or they scream or they tick their head back or they
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  close their eyes or they, for me, I, I hit my chest in a
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  cough, I go like, and it happens all the time.
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  Now the ticks always increase when I'm in more heightened
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  areas of kind of like anxiety or worry or if I'm getting really
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  excited to do something really fun, like I'm like at the theme
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  park, we're going to a roller coaster or something.
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  Then that kind of happens. But ticks are very common now.
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  A lot of people don't associate ticks with autism.
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  They'd associate ticks with something called Tourette's
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  syndrome. And Tourette syndrome is a
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  condition that mainly impacts a person's life with these
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  involuntary ticks or, or tick behavior that would negatively
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  impact their life mainly. Now, ticks are not coming with
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  everybody on the autism spectrum, but I am not familiar
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  with most people who are diagnosed with level 1 or level
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  2 autism, which used to be called Asperger's syndrome, will
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  have these ticks. So again, everything that we
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  talk about is not that everybody's going to have every
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  single one, but they're going to have most of those.
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  So just bear that in mind. OK, so #2 is hyposensitivity.
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  What is hyposensitivity? Well, this is really
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  interesting. Like everything, we have two
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  sides, right? We have like North and South,
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  we've up and down or whatever. And hyposensitivity is the
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  opposite of hypersensitivity and hyper means that you are more
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  akin to feeling things heavier than other people.
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  So hypersensitivity being like if I picked up this cold bottle,
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  I'd feel that coldness a lot more because I'm hypersensitive.
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  But we all know that because we, a lot of autistic individuals
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  have issues of sound and sight and smell.
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  However, what we don't talk about, which is the underlying
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  one, which you can have both, you can have hyper and hypos
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  sometimes at the same time, but sometimes just have
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  hyposensitivity, which is where you don't feel the things.
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  So you could be putting picking up something that's completely
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  frozen solid and it's so cold that it'll give fingers
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  frostbite, yet you don't feel it.
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  So you may come across somebody who's on the odds on the
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  spectrum who would be outside and AT shirt in the middle of
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  winter. It's snowing and you're like,
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  dude, like it's freezing. Like what are you doing?
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  And they're saying, oh, I don't really feel the cold.
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  They're not trying to be like cool, they're actually like
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  hyposensitive to the temperature.
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  Now there are some things that people can be hyposensitive to
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  and other things that they can be hypersensitive to in the same
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  person, which is a whole new thing.
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  Now, if you'd like me to do a video specifically on hypo
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  versus hypersensitivity, pop me a comment down below and let me
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  know what your thoughts are on that and if you'd like to see
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  that because that'd be really interesting.
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  So #3 is trouble sleeping. Oh my goodness.
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  I can't tell you the amount of medication and potions and and
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  herbal things I've taken to try and help me sleep at night,
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  right? And just for the information
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  guys, if you don't who I am, my name is Dan.
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  I have autism and ADHDI was diagnosed with Asperger's and
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  ADHD back in 2013. If you're new around here and
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  you want to learn more about this kind of stuff, make sure
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  you hit the subscribe button down below by hitting that
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  notification bell to stay in with all these videos and upload
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  daily videos across all platforms.
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  So that being said, I have not yet found anything other than
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  sleep relaxation therapy. So autistic individuals will
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  have a super hyperactive mind. That mind is going 10 times
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  faster than anybody else's mind, right?
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  Why? Because their brains work at
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  differently. OK, so the, the wiring of the
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  neurons are are slightly different in people on the
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  autism spectrum, right? Which means that their brains
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  are kind of not using certain functions of neurological
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  transfers and they're using others, which is a fancy time
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  for saying that like, hey, rather than being on the highway
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  just doing kind of normal speed, wherein like a hover cast, like
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  zooming across the universe. And this is all well and good
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  when we're trying to solve problems and learn new things,
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  like maybe a talented like as a musician or, or or an engineer
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  or you're a program or something called that.
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  However, when you're trying to sleep and you're trying to rest
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  that brain that's going like 10 to the dozen, there's no sleep
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  to be had. And this is very common with,
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  with autistic individuals. And it hence it leads into the,
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  the next trait which I'm going to talk to you about.
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  But mainly people who have this level 1, level 2 autism will
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  have trouble sleeping. Now, not to say that people who
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  have Level 3 autism or more profound needs with autism have
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  trouble sleeping. Quite On the contrary, I'm sure
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  they have those as well. But just for people on the
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  autism spectrum who have Asperger's syndrome, this level
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  2, all right, low support, needs autism, definitely sleep is
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  going to be interrupted. And this is actually quite
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  debilitating because it actually impacts all your other things.
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  And you can't, you don't have enough mental capacity and
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  energy to go forward, which means you're going to hit
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  burnout and you're going to hit meltdown.
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  And yeah, life's going to be difficult.
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  So one of the best ways I found to manage this, and this is a
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  pro tip, guys, I use an app called Balance.
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  I'm thinking get it free for a year.
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  And it's like sleep meditation. You just put it on and listen to
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  it and by the time you finish listening to it, you're already
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  asleep. That's the only thing I found
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  that actually helps me go to sleep.
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  Before that, I used to have to listen to rain sounds, you know,
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  like a like a background, like a white noise thing.
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  Anyway, if you're looking for online counseling directly from
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  think this is a valuable service and I've used this myself so I'm
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  just handing that over to you OK let's get on with it so back to
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  the video. The thing that comes on if
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  you're having trouble sleeping, the next thing is going to
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  happen. This is a common trait of people
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  on the autism spectrum who have been diagnosed with Asperger's
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  or level 2 to level 1 autism, which is junk food addiction.
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  Like don't get me wrong, everybody loves, loves junk
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  food, right? I love junk food, but but I also
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  find myself addicted to junk food because my brain is going
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  too fast and it's not getting enough sleep.
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  So it needs all this carbohydrate and sugar to keep
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  it going because it wants its energy.
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  And you may be asking a question or why don't you just drink
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  caffeine? Well, this is the interesting
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  thing. Most people with autism also
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  have ADHD. Now to treat ADHD, to get more
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  focused, usually people will have stimulants.
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  Now what is caffeine? Caffeine is a stimulant, but why
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  would a stimulant help ADHD? Because ADHD brains are so
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  hyperactive that when you take on board a stimulant, it
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  actually calms you down, which is really interesting.
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  So you have to have something else.
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  What could you have? Sugar.
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  Sugar is going to give you short term small burst of energy.
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  Carbohydrate rich, it's great. The downfall of it is all of the
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  food that is carbohydrate rich is also really bad for you.
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  And junk food is not the most nutritious food.
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  So you end up filling up on things that are giving you good
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  brain chemistry activity, but low in the nutritional value and
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  overall content of your body is no good.
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  But how many? OK?
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  Like, OK, if you know somebody who's on the autism spectrum or
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  you are on the autism spectrum yourself and you're addicted to
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  junk food, probably comment down below and give this for your
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  thumbs up. I feel like I'm calling you out,
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  but I'm not calling you out. I'm just saying like, I'm there
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  too, guys. Like this is me.
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  OK? So #5 I promise this won't be so
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  bizarre. And like it's going to shock
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  you. It's going to blow you away.
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  This one is autistic individuals always look younger than they
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  are. Now.
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  This is really interesting. You might be like, damn, what on
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  earth you talking about? No, no, no, we all look our age.
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  No, we don't. So a friend of mine is a really
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  good example of this. So first of all, I'm 38, right?
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  I'm close to 40, but a lot of people think that I'm in my late
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  20s, early 30s, but I'm actually in my late 30s, early 40s.
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  Now a friend of mine, Chloe Hayden, she's a an autism
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  advocate and she was a YouTube, but now she's an actress and
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  she's on Netflix in the heartbreak high.
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  I think that's what's called an Australian kind of two show.
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  Anyway, Chloe's autistic and Chloe is in her late 20s, but
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  actually looks like she's in her early 20s, maybe like 19, right?
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  She looks super, super young. And why is this?
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  I'm not entirely sure. There is no real explanation.
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  Why do autistic people look younger than they should be?
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  Or why do they look younger than an actual age?
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  I don't know. Is it genetics?
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  Is it because the neurological path?
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  We don't know, but we just know that it is it for no one of that
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  does actually happen, which I find just fascinating.
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  If you'd like my Autism Life Hacks PDF book for free and go
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  to the link down below or go to autismtips.net right now and get
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  your copy. Hey guys, thank you so much for
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  Make sure you subscribe. OK guys, see you in the next
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  one. Peace.