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Aspergers Syndrome Get to Know the Key Symptoms · 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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  Pretty curious about Asperger's Syndrome.
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  We want to know if you're on the Alton and Spectrum.
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  We'll stick around this video. I'm going over some of the key
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  aspects of someone on the Alton spectrum who would possibly be
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  diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.
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  Let's get into it guys. What's going on?
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  My name is Dan. I have a diagnosis of Asperger's
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  Guys, what is going on? Yeah, Asperger's syndrome.
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  And now it's a term that people don't typically use anymore
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  because back in 2013, the DSM 5, which is like the American
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  Health Associations, kind of like guidebook for doing stuff,
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  They kind of threw out the name Asperger Syndrome and changed it
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  all to ASD, which is just autism special disorder.
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  But just as an umbrella term, it does work very well, just ASD.
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  But some people were diagnosed with the term Aspergis, and
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  people still get diagnosed with the term Aspergis because the
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  DSM 5 is not the only way to diagnose people with autism.
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  OK, So now that's all the way. Let's get into the nitty gritty.
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  I wanted to put down some key points, some key indicators,
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  some key kind of relevant factors and characteristics of
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  people who are on the autism spectrum who would be
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  characterized as having Asperger syndrome.
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  So if you're wondering and you're wondering with somebody
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  else for yourself and these are going to be useful, OK, let's
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  get into it. So the first one is that knowing
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  that individuals with Asperger's syndrome may experience
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  challenges in understanding non verbal communication.
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  And what I mean by this is like facial expressions and hand
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  gestures and social kind of signals that would be typically
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  not set, you know, where people would like you know, gesture
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  with their hands or whatever. Those things, those commutative
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  patterns are something that difficult for people with
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  Aspergers to really fully understand because those are
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  learn through social environments, which are
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  difficult for people with their spidges because they would be
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  more reclusive from those environments and have less
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  exposure to those social environments.
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  Which is really interesting because when you're thinking
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  about somebody who is autistic and they don't make eye contact,
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  they're not looking at the frame of the person, they're looking
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  around the frame of the person. So they're going to miss out on
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  gestures. They're going to have a harder
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  time picking those things up and learning, but it doesn't mean
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  that they can't ever learn those things.
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  It just means a little struggle with those things, if you know
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  what I mean. So the second one is people with
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  Asperger syndrome may struggle with maintaining friendships and
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  expressing their emotions to friends and partners and loved
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  ones. This includes things like small
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  talk and social skills, because that part of the brain is is
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  kind of busy occupying something else, like learning about
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  spaceships or or kind of like obsessing with Pokémon or
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  something. And I'll get on to that in a
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  minute. But there's there's a whole kind
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  of deficit for social interaction and meaningful
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  relationships and understanding emotions because it's hard for a
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  person on the ocean spectrum to express their emotions outwards
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  and understand other people because this is all part and
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  parcel of having this condition. OK, so #3 is that people with
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  answer register may have a very narrow range of interest and
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  kind of focus intensely on specific subjects.
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  So, you know, like, I'm obsessed with like conspiracy theories
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  and like UFOs and stuff like that.
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  And I'm obsessed with. I can't go out for days and
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  hours. I'm actually really obsessed
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  with SEO, social media building, funnel building and online
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  marketing. I love all that kind of stuff
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  because I'm so passionate about it.
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  You know, I get super sucked into it.
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  And this is, you know, no different from anybody else on
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  the Olsen spectrum who is diagnosed with Asperger
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  Syndrome. Because I don't know what the
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  reason for this is, but there's a passion for something that is
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  very specifically niche. Like, I knew a guy who was
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  obsessed with Marilyn Monroe and like, just loved everything
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  Marilyn Monroe did. You know, think about a life.
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  You went to a house, flew out to see a house which was buried and
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  all this kind of stuff. Really interesting, but very
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  important to him and the things that he wanted to do in life and
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  the things that he was interested in.
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  So it's kind of like having a hobby or an interest, but being
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  intensely super focused on that. Like nothing else comes close,
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  you know, your whole room becomes this like shrine to the
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  thing you're into. OK, so #4 and the last I wanted
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  to talk about here is that autistic individuals with
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  Asperger syndrome may show engagement in repetitive
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  behavior and repetitive patterns, such as like doing the
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  same thing every single day or eating the same food every
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  single day. But this also includes but not
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  exclusive to stimming self stimulatory behavior.
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  But it'd be like flapping their hands or rocking backwards and
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  forwards. And all those repetitive
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  behaviors are ways of self soothing and are very, very
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  prevalent in Asperger's Syndrome.
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  Now guys, if this sounds like you, drop your comment down
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  below and let me know. I'd love to have a discussion.
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  the next one. Peace.
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  Peace.