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What is Autism in adults - 3 Common Sign (You NEED To Know) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  OK, So what is autism in adults? Here are three common signs that
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  you need to know all that's coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the aspy world.
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  My name is Dan. I have autism, ADHD, OCD, and
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  dyslexia, and I make weekly videos on this type of content.
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  content from me. OK guys, let's get on with it.
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  Awesome. Love making these videos,
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  downloads videos like this. But before we get into that
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  video, I just want to say if you want to download my free PDF
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  Autism Life Hacks book, you can do at autismhacks.net, that'll
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  be super awesome, right? OK, so I've done loads of videos
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  talking about like common signs, like how to identify autism in
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  people, and I still get asked the same questions.
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  How do I know if this, I don't know if that.
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  And so I want to do this video just talking about 3 most really
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  common signs in in adults that you could really tell someone's
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  on the autism spectrum. And so I think that this is much
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  needed, and I think that a lot of people will benefit from
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  this. So let's dive right into this
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  video. OK.
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  So the first thing we're going to talk about here is socially
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  awkward. Now, when we're talking about
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  autism, we always think about autism in children, but we're
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  looking at adults in this picture, and we're talking about
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  autistic adults, right? And there's a lot of autistic
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  adults who didn't get diagnosed because of one thing or another.
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  So one more thing about autistic adults, I'm thinking about this
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  in particular thing, which is social awkwardness and socially
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  awkward people. Obviously, neurotypical people
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  can be socially awkward. But when you're when you have
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  social awkwardness or issues with social boundaries and
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  social situations, for example, like not knowing when it's your
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  turn to talk, not knowing what's the right thing to say, not
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  having a filter to stop you saying things that may upset
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  somebody when you when you're unaware of upsetting somebody.
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  These skills, these unwritten social boundaries, learn by
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  neurotypical people over time. But with autism, it's somewhat
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  missed because of other things that go on inside the autism
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  brain. So the the idea of having social
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  awkwardness but having real difficulties with social
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  interaction and social communication on a whole is
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  something that is so unique and so interesting about autism that
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  it's a very, very big telltale sign that the person in question
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  could be on the autism spectrum. OK, so #2 is difficulty
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  communicating. Now, communication is typically
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  at the heart of an autism spectrum disorder because autism
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  is a communication issue at the end of the day.
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  But this causes a lot of autistic people to have
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  difficulties in communicating their needs and their emotions
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  and how they feel to other people.
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  Now, autistic people may not have the ability to express how
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  they feel. If they're angry or upset about
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  something, it may come across in different ways.
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  If they don't like the texture of food, it may come across in
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  an anger outburst or they might flip the table.
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  There's loads of different things that can go on here, But
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  knowing that somebody has real difficulty communicating how
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  they feel, telling someone how what is going on in in them, how
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  they're feeling, how they're thinking, is definitely
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  difficult for people on the autism spectrum.
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  Thus a good way to identify someone, you know, he's having
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  difficulty to communicating, then, you know, it could be
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  related to an autism spectrum disorder, and that's really
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  interesting to find that out. OK, so #3 is quirky behavior OK?
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  I know it sounds kind of like a broad spectrum because I know a
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  bunch of people got quirky behavior.
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  I mean, everybody's got a grandfather who's a bit crazy
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  and you know, he's got quirky behavior, right?
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  But there's a difference between having quirky behavior that's an
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  autistic trait and just being quirky for the sake of being
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  just a bit out there, you know? So quirky behavior is sometimes
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  characterized within a few different things.
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  And I mean, it's in the lightest and nicest sense.
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  So autistic people love routines, right?
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  And they love repetitive behavior.
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  So they may rock backers and forwards and have stems where
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  they, like, put their hands in front of their face or do
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  certain things like listen to a record and just that one piece
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  and rewind it just to hear that one bit of the record.
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  They may have a routine, a daily routine, that they follow
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  rigidly, that they follow that structure.
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  They leave work at the same time.
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  They have lunch at the same time, they the same thing at
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  lunchtime. They come home at the same time.
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  They wear pretty much the same clothes all the time.
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  They have the same shoes every single time.
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  They may just like cab and copy every single day.
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  Now that may be quirky behavior to people, but it's typical for
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  someone in the Austin Spectrum to want to eat the same thing
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  every single day. You want to do the same thing
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  every single day. And that's why a lot of autistic
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  people find themselves in jobs that are somewhat repetitive.
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  And if they're lucky enough to find a job, then they'll find a
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  job that is repetitive, because that repetitive notion is
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  comforting and it's it's expected.
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  They they like expectation, but they don't like unexpected
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  surprises. So this is a good way to
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  identify somebody who's on the odds on the spectrum by just
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  knowing that noticing their behaviour may be slightly quirky
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  or maybe odd, but it's not really odd.
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  It's different. It's just a different way of
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  doing it because they're wide neurologically a little bit
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  differently to neurotypical people.
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  see you in the next one. Guys.
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  Peace.