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5 Physical Signs of Autism (Wow!) · 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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  We ever sat down and thought, hey, are there any physical
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  traits of autism? Hmm.
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  In this video I'm actually describing 5 physical signs of
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  autism. That was just gonna wow you
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  completely gonna be like, well, I didn't know that was a
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  physical sign. So yeah, buckle up.
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  Let's go. Hey guys, welcome back.
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  My name is Dan and I have autism and ADHD and I make quickly
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  videos too. OK, so physical signs of autism
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  in autism and the diagnostic process and the diagnostic
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  criteria, a lot of it is done through asking you interview
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  type of questions and theorizing and seeing how you live your
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  daily life, right? This is typical of autism
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  assessments. And if you go to my website,
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  theaspyworld.com/autism test, you'll be able to take that test
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  and kind of see, you know, what are things in life.
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  And these are all kind of like theoretical things, you know,
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  how you see the world, what's your vision of the world?
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  One thing we never really discuss is the physical
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  attributes to people on the autism spectrum that are
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  blatantly obvious and we display these as autistic individuals
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  and those are physical. Those are non things that you
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  could pick up if someone's just talking to you socializing.
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  These are physical things. So I'm going to go through 5
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  right now. OK guys, before we get into it,
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  disappointed. 5 physical signs of autism.
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  So the first one I'm going to talk about here is probably one
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  that you may have seen or heard about a lot.
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  I'm just getting my notes up here.
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  Is eye contact now autism? Eye contact or avoidance of eye
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  contact is very interesting. Now you might be like, OK, down.
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  That's just a typical symptomatic trait of autism,
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  right? People don't look people in the
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  eyes. It's not just not looking you in
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  the eyes, it's actually avoiding eye contact.
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  So an autistic person would be seen talking to somebody and
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  they'll look at the ground when they're talking or they'll look
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  past you, or they'll kind of look at your forehead and not
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  really look you in the eyes. You know what I mean?
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  Like so if I was to look you in the eyes, I'd be looking at you
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  like this. But if I to look at you in the
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  forehead, I'd be like this or like past you, I'd be like this.
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  And this is very symptomatic or a trait of autism.
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  The word symptoms doesn't really sell it up, but the word trait
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  really takes it. Now, this is very prevalent.
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  Now if you're around people and somebody who's like looking at
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  the ground or not being able to make eye contact, which is
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  basically avoiding eye contact. This is a physical trait of
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  autism, 100% physical trait of autism, Very, very common in
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  autistic individuals and pretty much every autistic individual I
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  know suffers with this inability to make eye contact comfortably.
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  OK, so #2 is fascinating. It's tiptoe walking now tiptoe
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  walking or walking on your tippy toes as some people say, but the
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  the tip of your toes, which is lifting your heel off the ground
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  and walking on your tip toes. This is so common in autism.
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  Now more often than not, you'll see autistic people doing this
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  when they're not wearing shoes or not wearing socks.
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  If they're barefoot or in socks, they may do this tiptoe thing in
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  autistic individuals. It is more prevalent in females,
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  but I do see autistic males doing this so much like my
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  partner, bless her soul, she also tiptoe walks.
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  And she said it's because and you know, and she's in her 30s,
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  right. But she says that it's because
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  the, the sensation and the feeling of the floor is, is
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  uncomfortable for it. Now, what I didn't realize is I
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  also tiptoe walk sometimes, but only if I have no socks on.
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  But if I'm, if I'm wearing socks, I'll, I'll just, and I
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  have flat feet. So I just walk around like a,
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  you know, Penguin or a seagull. But if I have no socks on, I'm
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  like tiptoe walking. I'm like a ballerina.
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  You can see me like just dancing across the floor.
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  It's crazy. But it's really interesting
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  because a lot of people don't see this.
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  And if you have other traits of autism that kind of stacking up
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  and you're thinking maybe this person's on the spectrum or
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  maybe I'm on the spectrum, or maybe tiptoe walking is one of
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  these like dead giveaways that the person may actually be
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  autistic. Because tiptoe walking is very
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  common for autistic individuals. They find this fascinating and
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  it's something that comes out often and time and time again.
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  Now, if you've just realized, hey, man, I tiptoe walk and I'm
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  OK, so the third one is autism and looking younger.
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  This is crazy. Like this is super crazy.
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  Autistic individuals look way younger than they actually are.
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  I was talking to somebody the other day.
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  I went to see an ADHD comedian in Liverpool and these two Gen.
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  Z kids were sitting next to me. I was just talking to making
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  sure they're okay. And they said, oh, I think
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  they're in their 20s. They were like, oh, how old are
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  you? And I said, well, how do I look?
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  They said, you look about 25. I was like, dudes, I'm 39.
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  This is really interesting. And so many people I know have
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  this same issue, like a friend of mine, Chloe Hayden, she's
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  quite a famous autistic actress now.
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  You know, years ago we were hanging out and she was saying
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  that a lot of people think she's like a teenager when she was
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  like in the mid 20s. So interesting and I hear this a
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  lot from autistic individuals. If you're one of these people
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  who look way younger than they actually are, popping a comment
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  down below. Let's open this discussion.
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  Man I read and respond to every comment.
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  I love it. The next one is stemming but
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  rocking backwards and forwards. Now autistic people will stem
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  which is the word stem. STIM is short for self
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  stimulatory behavior. Now what this means is that
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  you'll do something repetitively to make sure that you are
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  feeling comfortable or regulated, meaning you're
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  feeling grounded and normalized or feeling a little bit more
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  like relaxed in a situation that could be detrimental to you.
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  A lot of autistic individuals will just rock backwards and
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  forwards. Now this could be rocking back
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  and forwards on a chair like this, or you're stood up and
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  you're rocking from side to side, right?
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  This is kind of, again, this movement is a stem movement and
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  that movement is a way for the autistic individual to regulate
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  themselves and feel a little bit grounded and more calm, right?
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  This is so interesting. Happens all the time.
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  I'm, I'm yet to meet autistic individuals who don't experience
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  rocking in some form or stemming through rocking like this.
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  And This is why because it's part of these physical traits of
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  autism. And I think it's, it's super
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  interesting. OK, so the, the, the, the 5th
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  and final one I have for you now is autism and unusual posture or
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  awkward posture. Now, autistic individuals
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  sometimes find it really difficult to hold themselves in
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  reality. Like, how do I because social
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  conformity means that, you know, people pick up ways of like
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  leaning or being cool or like smoking or doing something, you
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  know, socially acceptable in a social environment.
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  But autistic individuals may feel out of place and then
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  they'll be like, well, how do I stand?
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  I actually have the same experience when I'm trying to
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  watch television. I'm like, do I cross my arms?
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  Do I lay down? Do I sit like this?
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  Like, how do I, how do I sit? How do I sit to watch TV?
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  Like, what's the, what's the, you know, the conditions in
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  which one sits down to watch television.
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  I don't know those. If you do know those, pop it in
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  a comment down below. Or if you know exactly what I'm
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  is this something that you deal with?
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  But yes, autistic individuals have really unusual posture or
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  awkward posture. They may look kind of out of
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  place or they may look like they're feeling very awkward in
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  a, in a social situation and not know how to stand.
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  Very interesting. And actually one of the most
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  interesting things because autistic individuals are
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  thinking about how they're standing up, not just standing.
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  They don't know how to do it and it's really interesting.
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  autistic individuals to get themselves from being like
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