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5 Aspergers Symptoms in Adults (What No One Tells You) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So here are 5 symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome that nobody
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  talks to you about or even knows about.
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  All that's coming right up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  Asperger world. My name is Dan and I have
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  Asperger syndrome and ADHD making weekly videos all about
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  this. So if you're new around here and
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  you're watching on another platform like Facebook, TikTok
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  or Instagram. OK, so here are five ways in
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  which Aspergers can be spotted through symptomatic traits.
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  But these are sometimes things that people don't think about or
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  they're kind of maybe sometimes left off of their mind when
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  they're thinking about, oh, is this person on their own
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  spectrum? Do they have Asperger syndrome?
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  So let's go through it right now #1 is a masking and
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  camouflaging. And what this means is that as
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  an adult, as an, as a, an autistic adult, you kind of
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  learn ways around doing things. So you have a tendency to try
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  and problem solve. Obviously the autistic mind
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  wants to problem solve all the time.
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  But what this means for somebody on the autism spectrum is that
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  they also problem solve their own issues with things.
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  Like maybe they are hypersensitive to certain
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  smells, but rather than actually going to a store that has those
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  smells, they will avoid it, which is kind of like
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  camouflaging because you if you were in that situation, they
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  would know that you have an issue with it, but you avoid the
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  situation. So nobody knows.
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  And masking is kind of putting on an axe, putting on a front,
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  pretending to be somebody else so that when you're actually
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  around other people, maybe it's a social situation, maybe it's a
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  gathering of friends or whatever.
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  You will act normal in the case of kind of like acting typically
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  neurotypical or not autistic just to kind of feel like you
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  fit in so that they don't kind of question you and stuff like
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  that. Now that is masking and
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  camouflaging. Now masking is a huge thing and
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  it happens way more prominent in females than the old inspection
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  than it does males. Whereas males would typically be
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  like, oh, whatever, you know, I'm just going to go home.
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  I don't care what this pie sucks, but females want to kind
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  of fit in socially a bit more and thus wanting to use the
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  masking technique just a little bit more.
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  OK, so #2 is autism sensory sensitivities.
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  Now a lot of the time autistic people will have a comorbid Co
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  occurring, which means a diagnosis alongside autism of
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  sensory processing, sensory processing disorder or SPD.
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  Now this basically means that they could be more susceptible
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  to smells and sight and lighting and certain textures, clothing,
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  temperatures, touch, like if somebody touches them and like
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  oh, and this can be really heightened, but you don't really
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  notice it because nobody really talks about it.
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  They don't say, Oh, my friend who's got autism is really, you
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  know, has a bad time making eye contact, but they never say, oh,
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  he also has a bad time with smells or touch or room
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  temperatures and he's always hot.
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  He's always running hot. I see you.
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  If you're always running hot, give this video a thumbs up.
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  I'm always running hot, right? And so this is something that is
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  kind of missed because we don't really talk about it that often.
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  OK, so #3 is autism black and white thinking?
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  Now, this doesn't mean not thinking in colour.
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  What black and white thinking means is it's either this or
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  that. The autistic individual will
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  have a very struck, a very strict structure on what they
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  can accept as being yes or no, like it is or it isn't.
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  You know, there's no in between. There's no Gray area in terms of
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  what we're thinking about thought process, because that is
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  something that impact the autistic brain in a way where
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  they need to understand certain ways in which the person or the
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  activity they're doing has to fit into either this or that.
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  It can't be like a mixture of both, if that kind of makes
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  sense. Now, this black and white
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  thinking process also gives way to something called a rigid kind
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  of mindset. And a rigid mindset is where an
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  autistic question will be either, you know, of an ilk
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  where they say I'm going to the store or I'm not going to the
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  store. Somebody can't be like, well,
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  why don't we like, hang out for a bit and then go to the store
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  later? That's kind of like the Gray
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  area. But the assisted person will
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  want to be rigid in the fact that they're to go now or they
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  don't go at all, right? And so that can actually really
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  occur and people will think that they're ignorant, arrogant, kind
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  of less fun or something silly like that when it's actually
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  just an autism spectrum way of thinking.
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  processing. And what this means very simply
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  is that when an autistic individual or someone with
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  Asperger's syndrome, as this video is titled, they come
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  across something where they emotionally distressed or happy
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  or, or euphoric, or maybe they are crying, maybe they are
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  laughing in hysterics. The feeling of that emotional,
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  the processing of that emotion will be delayed.
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  And this can come out in many ways.
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  This often used to come out with me where if people tell me a
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  joke, it may take me a week or even a month to figure the joke
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  out. And then I'd be sitting at home
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  like ha ha, like a super delayed response to the joke.
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  This is really interesting because it is so common for
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  assisting individuals to experience this and this delayed
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  in emotional processing can be really difficult for them to
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  navigate more serious romantic relationships or more complex
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  friends relationships because we have a difficulty understanding
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  the emotions within the moment in the in that moment in time,
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  which is kind of like Alexa Finia, another word that is
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  associated with this type of issue.
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  But it's very prominent with people in the autism spectrum,
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  especially people who are adults who kind of maybe were like
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  diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, because it's kind of
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  like one of those things where, you know, they, they can talk,
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  you know, they, they have speech and language and they can pull
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  down a job, right? So it's kind of like sometimes
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  myth. OK, so #5 And definitely not
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  least because it's the last one we're going to talk about is
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  socializing. But exhausting from socializing.
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  So to autistic individuals who are more on the lower support
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  needs, which is kind of like the Asperger's all diagnosis, they
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  will be more wanting to go out and socialize because they feel
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  like, hey, this is the thing we need to do.
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  We have friends, we have work colleagues, we have other things
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  going on, maybe family reunions, birthday parties, all that kind
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  of stuff. And they will attend these
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  things and they may seem like they are very kosher, calm and
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  able within that setting. However, when they go home, they
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  have what I like to call the sensory hangover or the social
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  sensory hangover, which is the input from all of those people
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  being around you. Socializing is so sensory over
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  stimulating that you then have like a hangover the day after
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  because you kind of just will bring all that effort in to make
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  sure that you seemed normal or OK in that situation.
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  Which is something that's really, really interesting but
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  very prominent in autistic individuals.
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  Kind of like if they go to school or university and then
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  they come home, they'll meltdown at home or have an exhaustion at
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  home. They can't get on with anything
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  else because they try all day trying to put up with
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  neurotypical people trying to fit me into those environments.
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  OK guys, if you like this video, leave me a comment.
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  I'd like to know your thoughts. I can't.
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  Back to everybody, so I'll see you in the next one.
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