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Tourette’s And Autism What Do YOU Know About These · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Sub Tourette's Syndrome and autism.
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  What do you know about this? All that's coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the ASP world.
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  My name is Dan, I have autism, ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia, and I
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  Banana and peanut butter would be like.
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  It's good. Right about now, banana and no
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  peanut butter and apple kind of go together right?
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  But I've never had that apparently.
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  Anyway, guys, moving on from that.
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  So Tourette's Syndrome and Autism.
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  So Tourette and autism have a a relationship.
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  Right. And I want to talk about it
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  because a lot of people ask me questions you know and pretty
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  much all my videos are from people ask me questions Hey do
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  you know about Tourette syndrome and and do you know about autism
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  and is autism and Tourette's and them linked together and so
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  let's let's let's just right down to the basics.
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  So Tourette syndrome and autism are two different conditions.
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  They can Co occur in some people.
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  I know of one person personally who has Tourette's syndrome and
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  autism. But Tourette syndrome is usually
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  diagnosed independently of any other condition, which means
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  it's just on its own right. And so Tourette syndrome is when
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  someone has the inability to control certain outbursts, which
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  are called ticks. Now, these could be verbal,
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  there could be noises that you make, like grunts or whatever,
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  or it could be like your arm moving or or like throwing your
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  arms sideways and thrashing out. And very, very interesting.
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  There's no kind of cause for this.
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  They don't really know what causes it.
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  It's definitely kind of neurological.
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  But there's no, there's no real cause like they they they can't
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  pinpoint it to being a 'cause. Right.
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  So in terms of are they linked to autism?
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  Well, neurologically, well, yeah.
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  You know, autism is a neurological neurodevelopmental
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  condition. And so it is possible that
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  autism and Terete are linked together because well, of
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  course, you know, autistic people have ticks as well.
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  I actually have ticks where I like, hit my chest and I go all
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  the time and you know, it just takes, man, I get loads of
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  ticks. I also get ticks where I just
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  kind of I like, I like shower and I kind of like tense up all
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  the time. That's kind of an interesting
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  one that really annoys me. But it's just a tick and we
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  learnt to just deal with the fact that it's just a tick and
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  that's it. So Tourette's syndrome is super
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  interesting that it actually impacts one in, sorry, one in
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  163 people on average. And it's a difficult condition
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  to deal with at times because you could be kind of physically
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  lashing out at people and shouting the verbal abuse of
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  people, but not trying to, you know, must be horrible for the
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  people who have that condition. Just horrible.
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  But those impulse ticks who are like involuntary noises and
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  stuff, they could be anything from burping, farting to to
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  shouting to sniffing. Like there's there's so many
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  different things and it's usually things that are like
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  seen as kind of like aggressive or kind of a bit like taboo in
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  in Western civilizations. Like you wouldn't like want to,
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  you know, have someone shouting at you whilst walking down the
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  High Street. So you know, the the link that
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  exists between them, the both conditions, that they're both
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  neurological and that they both have ticks.
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  Now you can have autism and kind of Tourettes together, but I'm
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  thinking that it'd be harder to diagnose the Tourette's in
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  autism because autism does encompass ticks, you know, like
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  random ticks and involuntary tick actions and stuff like
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  that. And so I would say that it it's,
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  it's less common to be diagnosed with autism, but it is quite a
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  common condition to be diagnosed.
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  I actually know of a couple of people who do have Tourette
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  syndrome, actually a really good friend of mine called Pamela,
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  She's a comedian and a YouTube. I'll leave a link for a channel
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  down below. And she has Tourette syndrome.
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  And I met her when I was doing a like a thing in.
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  I met her when I was doing this thing in MIT in America.
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  We were doing kind of like a disability symposium or
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  something for like 10 days. It was really, really good.
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  But she was so interesting and the fact she has threat syndrome
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  and she does comedy was just great.
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  Because one thing that I did notice that was the same between
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  autism and Tourette syndrome is barking now.
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  She barks in her sleep and so do I like, I back in my sleep.
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  It's crazy. I my girlfriend is always like,
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  dude, you're barking and you sleep again.
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  I'm like, oh man, it's so like bizarre.
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  But it's something that happens, you know, barking in my sleep.
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  I just do it. I don't know why.
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  I don't even know I'm doing it right.
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  Backing, growling like a dog. But she also backs and growls in
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  a sleep like a dog. And it was really funny because
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  she said, you know, I back in my sleep and, you know, she was
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  making a joke about it and I was like, dude, I do it too.
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  So I guess, you know, Tourette and Austin do have kind of
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  similarities of the way the brain works and the function of
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  the brain work because it's neurological, right.
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  But at the end of the day, they are separate conditions and they
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  can be diagnosed separately. But it's really fascinating.
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  Definitely check out Pamela's channel, man.
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  She's really interesting. Now guys, if you found value in
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  next time guys. Peace.