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5 Ways Autism Shows Up PHYSICALLY (You Didn't Know) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So here are five real traits of autism that are completely mind
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  blowing. You definitely not seen as
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  before. OK guys, welcome back to the
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  Asperger. My name is Dan and I have
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  Asperger syndrome and ADHDOCD and dyslexia and make weekly
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  just like this. OK, so 5 weird things.
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  The first one I'm going to talk about right now is involuntary
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  Terry mirroring of others. What does this mean and what
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  does it look like? Autistic individuals have issues
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  with social conventions, right? It's no kind of mystery that
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  autistic individuals deal with social issues and cannot
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  understand social formats as easily as neurotypicals.
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  So what does this mean? Autistic individuals will find
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  themselves mimicking other people's behaviour to sort of
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  create a acceptable social stance.
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  And what this means in basic English is if somebody has stood
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  a certain way or maybe they're smoking or maybe they're on the
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  phone, then the autistic person will try to mimic that because
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  they believe this is how somebody should be in a social
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  situation and it can be involuntary.
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  The mimicking can actually happen because they're just
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  thinking maybe that's the facial expression I should be using.
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  And so by looking at it, if you have any questions or anything
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  to ask me, pop in a comment down below right now, because I read
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  and respond to every single comment.
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  The autistic person will involuntarily make the face of
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  the person. They're trying to figure out
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  what face that person is doing, if that kind of makes sense.
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  And this is really interesting. A lot of the time people can
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  think that you're maybe making fun or you're mimicking someone
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  just to be weird. But actually, if you're an
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  autistic person, you're doing this to try and understand more
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  about the social situation so that you can gather more
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  evidence to support the fact that, hey, what do I do in
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  social situations where this occurs?
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  So that being said, if this is something you do, let me know in
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  the comments down below because I do this sometimes, especially
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  with people's speech patterns. This is very interesting.
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  OK, moving on to the next one. OK, so #2 is the inability to
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  feel hunger until it's extreme OK, so I, I really want to kind
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  of break this down a little bit. Autistic people will feel
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  hungry, yes. However, they won't realize
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  they're hungry almost until the last minute.
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  And this is because if you are an autistic individual, you'll
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  get really involved with something.
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  You'd be like, wow, this pen is really cool.
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  How does this pen? And you might take the pen
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  apart. And when you're looking through
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  all the things, you're taking the pen apart and then you're
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  like stuck down this rabbit hole of looking at the pen and three
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  hours have passed and you realize I am absolutely
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  starving. I need to eat something.
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  I haven't drunk in three hours. Oh my goodness.
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  That is what I mean by not understanding hunger, because
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  hunger gets sidetracked because the thing you're interested in
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  takes all of that energy and you kind of move in that position to
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  go, Oh yeah, yeah. I really love this thing.
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  And I get really involved and you get hyper focused and the
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  hyper focus pulls you away from everything else.
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  OK, so #3 is extreme sensitivity to internal signals.
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  We look at things like sensory processing disorder, like the
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  lighter too bright or it's very noisy in here or something is
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  happening that is causing me to be distressed or or unhappy in
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  external stimuli. External stimuli.
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  But actually there is internal stimuli that happens as well.
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  And this is the feeling of like maybe your tummy's rumbling, or
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  you can feel your heartbeat or you really need to go pee.
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  You can feel all of these things intensely inside because your
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  senses are heightened inside and outside.
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  It's not just external stimuli that kicks you, but it's also
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  internal stimuli that you also feel really intensely.
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  Sometimes it could even be the pulse of your blood moving
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  around your body. And you'll feel that very
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  intensely. And you can understand it.
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  And you get a sensitivity awareness from this, which is a
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  sponsor, which is me. OK, so #4 is time blindness.
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  As I was talking about before, hyper focusing can cause you to
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  miss out on drinking and eating and maybe even going to the
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  toilet if you really need to. However, what it also does is it
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  pulls your brain away from knowing what on earth time it is
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  or where you are in the day. You have no idea.
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  Because when you're hyper focusing on something, when
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  autistic people are hyper focusing on this one thing, this
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  one task, they will forget everything else.
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  Everything kind of drifts off into the atmosphere and then all
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  of a sudden you go, Oh my goodness, I totally forgot what
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  I was doing. And Oh my God, five hours have
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  passed and I've done nothing but just sit here and do this one
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  thing. So time blindness is something
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  we experience a lot of the time, hence why autistic individuals,
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  you'll probably feel not always on time.
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  They can never keep to timing and they sometimes will forget
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  even what time it is. You know, they'll they'll have
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  no kind of sense of the time around them because of this
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  actual factor of hyper focusing, because you can hyper focus on
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  many things many times, quite often during the day.
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  And that means that you will have time blindness quite rapid
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  through the day. OK, so #5 is unusual or what
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  likes to call hidden empathy. Now, the word empathy means that
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  you can see something from somebody else's point of view
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  and you can put yourself in their shoes and go, oh, I really
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  understand how they feel about it.
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  However autistic individuals cannot attain empathy through
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  the typical channels like that. Whereas A neurotypical person
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  would be like, yeah, put myself in their shoes, I'll think about
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  what it's like from that position and then I'll
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  understand it. Autistic individuals can't do
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  that, but they do have something very special.
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  They have a deeper understanding of empathy from the fact that
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  they can understand the logical distribution of what is going on
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  in that person's life and come to a conclusion thinking, hey,
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  logically, if this is happening, this is happening, this is
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  happening, that person should feel like this.
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  And if I felt like that, I'd probably be crying or I'd
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  probably be happy or whatever. So it's not that they can
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  actually put themselves in the other person's shoes, it's that
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  they can feel more intensely deeper.
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  The empathy, not the actual empathy, but the empathy style
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  of the person by logistically looking at the parameters and
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  the peripherals of what's going on.
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  Now this is definitely interesting.
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