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Autism In Girls (5 Obvious Traits) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived, welcome to the as be 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.
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  Daniel Morgan Jones. So here are five of the most
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  obvious autism and girls traits that you can identify autism and
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  females relatively quickly, all that's coming up right now,
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  guys, what's going on? My name is Dan.
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  I have autism ADHD OCD in dyslexia and I make weekly
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  Nothing's ever a problem, guys. What's going on?
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  On, I wanted to do this video because a lot of the time people
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  are always think that women can't be on the autism spectrum.
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  We know, women and girls are not in the autism spectrum.
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  The can't be autistic, blah, blah, blah.
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  That's an old kind of hat, old news, forget about that, then he
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  the way it is is that yeah, there's actually probably a lot
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  more autistic females than males in the world.
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  It's just a, the, the diagnostic criteria and the capacity to do.
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  It hasn't updated yet, but we're getting there.
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  Anyway, regardless of all of that nonsense, I wanted to do
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  this video because I want to be able to help you guys and that's
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  why autism in girls. Females that you are, suspecting
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  could be autistic. So here, the most obvious signs
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  I wanted to do so it's really relatively easy for you to go.
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  Okay. Well, maybe I should put them in
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  for an assessment. See if those, you know, we can
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  get a diagnosis to then get support.
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  Anyway, let's jump into right now, start with number one.
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  So, number one is lack of eye, contact autistic, people might
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  have the male or female will have issues with creating eye
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  contact in a social convention. This could be talking to
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  somebody. It could be trying to look at a
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  speaker in and I'll actually theater in the eyes.
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  Any type of eye contact is going to be uncomfortable.
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  Edible and avoided, by all costs, by an autistic individual
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  because of the uncomfortable feeling that comes from looking
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  in somebody's eyes. So if you know, avoiding eye
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  contact, then it's a typical autistic trait.
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  Very, very interesting. Okay.
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  So number two is issues, keeping front.
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  Now, autistic females will want to make lots and lots of
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  friends, but they will kind of feel a bit out of the loop.
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  A lot of the time with the types of issues that keep them up with
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  the friends. Like, it could be a lack of
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  emotional understanding because it's a sick, individual slack,
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  emotional kind of Development, A lot of the time how they promote
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  themselves emotionally or how they understand their own
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  emotions. You know, emotional regulation
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  is something quite difficult for autistic individuals especially
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  females. So they may want to make other
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  friends because girls want to be quite social and hang out with
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  other girls. Those girls will have problems
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  and conversations. That you may not understand an
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  autistic female, and then it could cause friction.
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  And then you could just ignore those friends or off move on, or
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  they may do the same thing. This is quite common and you'll
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  see autistic individuals who are female wanting to kind of recap
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  me Friends. But then also probably only have
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  one friend that it will last in their entire life.
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  The rest on can't just fizzle out very, very common to see
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  this obvious sign to see this issue, a struggle with making
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  and retaining friends in autism and females.
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  Okay. So number three is collecting.
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  Now, autistic females will collect everything that they
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  enjoy. So the might collect all the
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  books of Twilight, they may collect every DVD of the Batman
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  series. They may collect every single
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  hairpin that they've ever had an entire life.
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  It could be, you know, a collection of scrunchies or Is
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  it no matter what it is, it will be a collection that we have
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  that you can never ever part with.
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  It could be collection of troll dolls from the 90s, it could be
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  anything and this is very, very common with autism and females,
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  it could be like that stack of teddy bears that will never ever
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  be played with what it's on your, you know, in the wardrobe
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  and a spare room collecting dust that your child will never ever
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  separate with, because she is on the autism spectrum and now he's
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  part of her collection, very interesting.
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  And this one always gets yet I can see if this resonates with
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  you give this video a thumbs up right now or even comment saying
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  Dan, you hit the nail on the head.
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  I totally get what you're saying this.
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  Is my kid or this is me, right? I want to know.
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  Okay, so number four is obsessive interest and obsessive
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  interest is, where an autistic person will have an obsessive
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  interest in a topic or genres. So they could be really, really
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  interested in filmmaking or photography or movies in
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  general. I could be a movie critic, or
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  whatever. They could be obsessed with a
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  certain kind of Pop Style or movie star and they'll know
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  everything about their life or, you know, even down to the stuff
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  like, you know, where they have their first sandwich and stuff
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  like that. And in the high school, they
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  attended all those fine. Details are very Much something
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  that will be honed in on someone who has an obsessive interest.
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  But also see people, especially girls inspection, will have an
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  obsessive interest that they would just want to research all
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  time. Talk about all the time and we
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  were really just absorb anything they can from that topic of
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  Interest. Very interesting.
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  Okay, so a number five is masking to overload.
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  Oh my goodness, this is probably the number one.
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  The number one, Telltale sign that and I'll do a female is on
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  the autism spectrum, right? It's because masking is more
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  prevalent in females and what masking is Is the ability to
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  kind of pretend and act that you're happy and safe and going
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  along with something. When inside you pretty much
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  dying and riddled anxiety. What's happens.
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  Is, you know, an example would be say ago, goes to school and
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  she's on the autism spectrum undiagnosed and she'll hang up
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  the old friends and do all the things there which is masking,
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  you know, you hire jokes and trying to get all these things
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  and do all these social kind of conventions of how your friends
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  and talk about boys and whatever.
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  And then you come home and crash, you just like hit the
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  deck. And you can't cope anymore, your
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  burst out crying. You're in a mood, you'd only
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  doing your homework, you have no motivation that just ditch right
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  down that is an overload caused by masking all day, masking can
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  be used in some good situations, where it's a firefly or survival
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  technique, but masking all day. Every single day is no good.
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  And this is a Telltale sign. If your kid is completely
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  exhausted to the point where they're just completely broken
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  down, when it come in from school or anywhere that they've
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  been socializing, this is a Telltale sign that they could be
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  on the autism spectrum. Jim guys, if you are interested,
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