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Do I have ASPERGERS (7 MOST Common TRAITS) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In this podcast, we are discussing seven ways that you
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  can identify. If you have Asperger's Syndrome,
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  a lot of people say, like, you know, do I have Asperger's
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  Syndrome, I artistic, How will I know?
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  So I've taken this audio from a video, I made outlining seven.
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  Most common traits that you should always align yourself
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  with if you have Asperger syndrome.
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  So, you should know if you should have about 90% of these.
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  If you have Asperger's Syndrome, it's a good indicator again.
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  It's not Not the most accurate one, but it's going to be very,
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  very close. So, I hope you enjoy this and
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  this podcast. Thanks for listening guys.
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  Do you think you may have Asperger's syndrome in this
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  video, you're going to find out. Hey, I'm Dan.
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  I have Aspergers Syndrome, ADHD OCD and dyslexia.
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  Ask me World Superheroes. So awesome to have you guys back
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  check me out on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and I have
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  a lot of people, my comments asking I'm Autistic.
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  Do I have Asperger's Syndrome because X or a my artistic
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  because this so today's video, we're going to look at seven
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  ways that you can actually tell if you have Asperger syndrome
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  because these are the most common traits characteristics of
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  somebody with Asperger's Syndrome.
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  Now, these are taken from a range of different things I do
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  videos on this quite often. So if you want to check out some
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  other videos, that will be links in the description below where
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  you can see more videos. So people may be coming across,
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  Asperger syndrome in the news in the media in other types of
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  places like Cleveland. Clinically or document of
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  suggested it or somebody, you know, may have it and you might
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  find some parallels with it and you and maybe thinking yourself
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  do I have Asperger's Syndrome, you know, is this a thing?
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  Like I want to know more about it.
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  So in this video we're going to cover it like seven traits, like
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  I said. And so we're going to start off
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  with those and then I'll leave a link to in the end card to a
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  playlist that I created a three-part miniseries on how to
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  get an Autism diagnosis or how to get an Asperger's diagnosis.
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  So before we get started, if want to shoot me a comment in
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  the comment section below Where you're watching from in the
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  world, I'll be super awesome because I like to know where
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  people are watching from cuz I'm right here.
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  Now, in Wales in the United Kingdom.
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  So let me know where you guys are coming from.
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  Let's start off. Okay, so number one is eye
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  contact. Not people with Asperger's
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  Syndrome. Usually have a difficulty in
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  making eye contact that. They avoid looking directly into
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  your eyes, they will avoid eye contact during conversations and
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  they find this difficult. There's two things here, they'll
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  they will avoid eye contact. You'll notice that people with
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  Asperger's Syndrome will avoid eye contact.
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  So I avoid eye contact. And there's a reason for that.
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  There's a second thing is because it is uncomfortable to
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  do. Ooh, that so there's a feeling
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  of uncomfortableness and a feeling of just discomfort in
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  actually looking somebody in the eye because I did a video
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  specifically on this where I was talking about how it makes it
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  feel like, you know you're reaching in somebody's Soul, if
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  you look into the eyes, you know.
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  Like and I find that really disturbing because every time
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  you want to talk to, somebody always want to look in your eye
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  and I like stare at you dead in the eye.
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  I found it really unnerving and I avoid it at all costs.
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  So people with Asperger's Syndrome will have an issue with
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  eye contact. So, if you think, you know, you
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  may have Asperger's syndrome when you have an issue eye
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  contact, and you may be on the right track here, This video.
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  Now, number two, I find this one most interesting and this is
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  special interest or obsessive interest or obsessions.
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  So people with Asperger's Syndrome have excessive of
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  sessions where they obsess over things.
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  Like, it could be Minecraft, it could be Pokemon, it could be
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  things. Like, Thomas the Tank Engine, it
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  could be math. Puzzles science, it could be
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  anything. Now to me, I have a bunch of
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  different obsessions. Like I go through different
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  things, so sometimes I'll be like, really obsessed with
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  chemistry that I did a degree in chemistry.
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  And then like, right now, I'm really obsessed with like
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  cameras and Lighting. Ting and audio and stuff like
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  that. And people with Asperger's
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  Syndrome have a very narrow special interest.
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  So what will happen is they'll be really, really into something
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  very specific and that specific interest will be there complete
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  and utter kind of like the all our attention will go on that.
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  They'll, you know, they'll want to learn about it every single
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  time, every down time, they've got that.
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  We literally learning about that topic that we obsessing over it.
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  Like, literally just dig, just can't get enough of it.
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  It's like they're filling up on this thing that they really,
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  really enjoy. Now, this is very, very common.
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  I actually don't know anybody who has Asperger syndrome, who
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  doesn't experience this because it like, it's just something
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  across the board that we all have in common.
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  So some of mine are like Fight Club.
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  I'm super obsessed with Fight Club, chemistry also YouTube
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  making videos. I'm really, really obsessed with
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  this and then I get obsessed with SEO is like this thing at
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  the moment, I'm obsessed with called search engine
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  optimization, I love it. So my girlfriend gets really
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  annoyed because I just talked about endlessly constantly
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  talking to her about it. More in research, and it was
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  looking at videos I'm like, just Google and stuff.
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  My phone, every chance I get To make sure I can just like, oh no
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  overdose on this information. So you'll definitely be aware
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  that when somebody has Asperger syndrome, or if you have
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  Asperger syndrome, this is a very, very common
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  characteristic. So number three is something it
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  gets me in trouble quite a bit. Actually, it's literal thinking
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  or literal interpretation from communication with others.
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  And what I mean by this is people with Asperger's Syndrome,
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  take things very literal. So if you said to somebody like,
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  oh, it's raining cats and dogs. Side.
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  They will have an issue with actually understanding, what is
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  going on outside. They may actually think that
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  you're saying there are cats and dogs falling from the sky.
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  This is something that took me a while to understand what people
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  run about. When you say, it's raining cats
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  and dogs, I had one the other day, which I still don't
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  understand where they say, they're throwing the baby out
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  with the bathwater. I have no idea what this is, but
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  these are kind of like social conditions that people already
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  know. People just pick up these things
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  because they their brains act in a neurotypical way.
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  And they pick up these things along the way and like a
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  learning pattern of them in school or high school or
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  whatever. So people I will Asperger's
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  Syndrome miss out on this part because their brain doesn't
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  function like in your typical obviously, to neurodiverse.
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  So, it does something a little bit different.
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  Now, I've been in places where, you know, somebody said to me
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  before, like, oh can you put this in the bin?
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  And it was really like a banana and they have like a cup of tea
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  and then they put the banana peel inside the cup of tea, or
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  the cup of tea was in. And I said, hey can you go put
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  this in the bin for me? So just do the whole thing in
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  the bin with the cup and I got in trouble because we like, hey
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  don't tell the cup in the bin. I you know why did you throw the
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  banana peel on the bin and stuff like that.
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  So it's kind of like taking things literal and non-literal
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  Not knowing this one is joking so that depth of understanding
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  like either being sarcastically joking, like all those things
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  are completely lost and it's very difficult song with
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  Asperger syndrome. So if you're having difficulty
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  with that, then that may be why Okay, so number four is rigid
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  routine now rigid routine means that like people with Asperger's
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  Syndrome have this this thirst for complete and utter routine
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  like I love doing the same thing I get up in the morning, I do
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  the same thing every single morning, then I get up the same
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  kind of clothes on. I have the same type of I've
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  like a Wardrobe full of just the same stuff just black and gray
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  plane stuff and I like buying the same thing.
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  And if I find like a t-shirt or if I find like a jumper
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  something I really like, I'll just buy loads of them and I
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  like, I just bought Like to the same pairs of jeans because I
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  know I like them and I know they fit me and I love him.
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  So I just bought two of those same players.
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  I just bought like, five of the same t-shirt and this is super
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  common with people Asperger syndrome, it's having that
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  thirst routine, because it becomes familiar and it's it, I
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  don't know, I just love routine. I love having the same things.
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  I love having them in the same way.
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  You take them out, you put them back.
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  It's almost like it's just like the perfect scenario and and
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  people with Asperger's Syndrome thrive on this so routine, like
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  how they brush her teeth are the get up in the morning, they have
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  the same thing for breakfast, they'll have they'll put on the
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  bag the same way they met. Small rituals where they'll sit
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  down in a certain place every single day, T their breakfast.
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  And that kind of that stuff is very, very hard way than to be
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  with Asperger syndrome. But on the flip side also has an
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  issue. Where if something changes
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  suddenly from that routine, they can't deviate from that too.
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  Well, and they'll have an issue with it.
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  It will cost something like an Autism meltdown or an Asperger's
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  meltdown and, you know, it's because it's called by deviating
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  from this specific routine of this pattern of this flow.
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  And when you deviate from that, then it becomes this A bigger
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  issue and the chance of change and the idea of change and the
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  not been able to carry on with that routines and we will be
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  very distressing for that person.
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  So sometimes watch out for and think about as well.
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  If you thinking that you like a routine, how are you like with
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  the change? You know, people with Asperger's
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  Syndrome don't like the change typically.
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  Okay, so number five is a sensory processing issues.
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  Now, this is common across, all autism spectrum, conditions, and
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  I feel like most people with Asperger's Syndrome will
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  experience this. I'm actually not aware People
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  who have us very soon, you who don't have this.
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  And what I mean, I'll break it down into little pieces.
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  So, sensory processing is the way that your brain inputs, the
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  sensory stimuli from around you so that, you know, sight, touch,
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  smell, all that kind of stuff. So, people with Asperger's
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  Syndrome may have an issue with like touch.
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  So I know that when people touch me lightly, I jump on it, I
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  can't be touch lightly, I like firm pressure touch.
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  So you know my girlfriend tries to search for me to touch my leg
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  and I'll jump out of my seat and like a few times were driving
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  the car. I'm like driving the car and
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  she'll tell you I like G. You know, because it's like a
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  light soft touch and I can't deal with that but it's A Hard
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  Solid good touch. That's awesome.
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  And I can deal with that and I don't mind that but soft touch.
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  I have a really big issue with soft touch.
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  Now other things like smells like I can't be around certain
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  smile so if we go to the store will be going to like a
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  department store and then they'll have a good Deli counter
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  at one side and the deli counter have things like garlic, and
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  onions and vinegar and all crazy, horrible stuff and those
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  Smiles will be so overpowering that I actually try and avoid
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  the store in general, but I'll avoid that section completely.
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  I like walk around the other side and I won't go.
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  Near that side of the store because I don't want to smell
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  those things because it kind of upsets me that the only way to
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  explain it at this smile. Actually upsets me and it's hard
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  to explain but that's the closest I can get to with
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  explaining what happens. Another essentially processing
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  is you is textures. So where people with Asperger's
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  Syndrome may like have dinner in a restaurant somewhere, the
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  texture of the food, maybe like overpowering and the texture May
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  trigger them. So they make even let me feel
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  sick, they you know, the textures too overwhelming and
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  all really kind of distress them.
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  So I know that some Sources. I have issues with sources in
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  my, I was just saying this yesterday with my occupational
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  therapist that I like having green smoothie.
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  So, I want to make a smoothie and I try and drink it.
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  I kind of get really, I don't know, I'll get effect by
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  sometimes if it's too early in the morning and I have the
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  Smoothie, the type of texture to it, and it makes me gag almost
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  to throw up. So I have to wait a bit and wake
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  up with my mouth a little bit and then I can have it.
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  So having issues with with textures is a huge, huge one and
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  last for the sensory processing issues are light and lighting.
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  So a lot of people with Asperger's Syndrome will have
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  challenges with light certain lights at you being, and lights
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  and shops, and stuff like that. It will be bright and they will
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  Flicker. And this over sensory,
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  stimulation input will definitely impact them when
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  they're trying to do stuff like if they're trying to do shopping
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  in a store, or if they're trying to be in someone's house.
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  When the lighting is horrible, this will be super distressing
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  and it'll just irritate them so much that they'll get really
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  annoyed and I may be super anxious and super nervous and I
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  get super annoyed and that is a big issue.
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  And I have an issue with lights. And you might see people doing
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  this sometimes because they're trying to like out phase the
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  light. So if you're having an issue
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  with light and all this kind of stuff than is a possibility that
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  you do have Asperger syndrome because of these specific things
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  I'm talking about in this video, Okay.
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  So number six is repeating people's words, it's called
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  echolalia and that there's a few different forms of it and it's
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  how people with Asperger's Syndrome learn the vocabulary
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  because their vocabulary is different to that of like the
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  classic autism type of condition where they may be nonverbal or
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  they may have limited vocabulary people with Asperger's Syndrome.
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  Actually have usually a very high vocabulary and they learn
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  this from TV and movies. And, and how they do that, as
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  they watch the TV and film and then pick up the language and
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  Repeat that language all, repeat it and repeat, it almost like
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  trying to mimic how a person talks.
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  So and then they pick up the language and they'll also
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  research at work and figure out, you know what the where they use
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  the word in context. And another way is that the
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  sometimes repeat their parents or the spouse or the person
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  who's next in the me, say something.
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  And then that person will repeat them.
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  So if we say, we're going to take the dog out and then the
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  person will be like we're going to take the dog out and then
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  they'll say, okay we're gonna put this inability or going to
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  put this in the bin and so they'll repeat everything you
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  say. And this is a form of echolalia
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  and it's just a way of that person registering that date.
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  ETA to then repeat it. So I also have a version of that
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  where I'll say something and then after I see it in my mouth
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  on move and then I'll kind of like, mimic it under my breath
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  at that. After I actually say the word
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  and this is quite interesting. I like a lot of people that's
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  biggest in and do this. And you may find that people
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  with Asperger's Syndrome, actually have a slight American
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  accent, even if they're not American because they're
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  learning this vocabulary and language from TV and film.
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  And most, you know, 90% of TV and film are American, you know,
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  these days. So it's some things are very,
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  very much look out. For and if you're watching this
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  video and you and you may think that you know somebody you know
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  has Asperger syndrome. Then this is a common
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  characteristic across the board. Okay, so last but not least, is
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  number seven, and this is difficulty with social cues, and
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  I'm going to break this down into different parts, so you can
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  understand what I mean. So people Asperger Syndrome have
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  a difficulty with social communication because there are
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  Unwritten rules that you pick up through just like learning
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  things socially, but because people with Asperger's Syndrome
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  is brain works slightly differently to the Avenue
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  typical person. They don't really pick up on all
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  these social Clues. Things like knowing when it's
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  their turn to talk in a group conversation and all when do you
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  talk when that person's Stop talking.
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  Then you talk or you talk over them, I have an issue with
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  talking over people and not know.
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  When is my turn to actually talking a lot?
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  Prompting is missing and there's other issues like knowing when
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  to stop talking. So, a lot of people with
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  Asperger's Syndrome, we'll just talk and talk and talk and talk,
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  maybe about the specific interest and then they'll not
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  know when they should stop talking to let somebody else
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  talk or when it's enough time that they finish talking.
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  And this is the issue I actually have no idea when it's just stop
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  talking and I just kind of go all out of it and just talk and
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  talk and talk for ages and ages and ages people get really
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  annoyed me but hey, ho, you know, that's the top.
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  Goes another one is like issues with knowing if someone's losing
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  interest in the conversation. So you may be talking to
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  somebody and you don't know if they're losing interest of that
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  actually interested in your conversation.
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  Now, this is a difficult concept to grasp and it's something that
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  is learned socially, but, of course, because of the
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  condition. You don't technically, learn
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  those social conditions and the last one I'll talk about on here
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  is issues with nonverbal communication.
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  So 70% of how we communicate is nonverbal to they'll be gestures
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  with your hands like signals a gestures body poses, all this
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  kind of stuff, all of these. These are social conventions
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  that you pick up doing again like the development socially
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  but if you've got Asperger's Syndrome, you kind of miss out
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  on these things and they are really hard to grasp.
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  So if you have issues with social communication and things
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  like that, then there's a possibility, a strong
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  possibility that combined with the other things.
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  We talked about here that you may have Asperger syndrome.
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  I will leave a link to my next video over here which isn't as
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  big as test video. So you can check that out.
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  And also in the link in the description below, you'll be
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  able to check out how to get an Autism diagnosis video series
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  that I made because that would be very, very helpful to some of
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  you if you want to pursue it. So enjoy my next video I'll see
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  you next time guys. Peace.