Latest / Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD / What is Asperger's Syndrome - Everything YOU Need To Know

Transcript

What is Asperger's Syndrome - Everything YOU Need To Know · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

• 0:00
  So what is Asperger Syndrome? Here are everything that you
• 0:03
  need to know about Asperger Syndrome.
• 0:05
  Boom. Hey guys, welcome back to the
• 0:13
  aspy world. My name is Dan, I have Asperger
• 0:15
  Syndrome, ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia and I make weekly
• 0:18
  videos on this type of content. So if you're new around here and
• 0:21
  like to learn more about that, then remember to hit the
• 0:23
  subscribe button by clicking that notification bell.
• 0:25
  If you're watching on Facebook, we should give this page of
• 0:27
  follow. And if you're watching on
• 0:28
  Instagram, make sure to follow this account for more autism
• 0:31
  content. Boom guys, what is going on?
• 0:33
  Love making videos. Love being back here in the
• 0:36
  swing of things. What are you guys up to?
• 0:39
  Lovely to have you all here. My dog is here as well and he's
• 0:41
  just hanging out. You know, Randall the vandal.
• 0:43
  What's going on? So basically I want to do this
• 0:45
  video talking about what Asperger's is and kind of like
• 0:47
  all the things you need to know about Asperger's syndrome,
• 0:48
  because I feel like there's a lot of people don't really know
• 0:51
  about Asperger's syndrome. And since, you know, I want to
• 0:54
  just cover all those things. So yeah, that's why I made this
• 0:58
  video. But if you're only around here
• 0:59
  and you haven't already downloaded my free PDF Life
• 1:01
  Hacks for Autism Book, then you can do autismhacks.net.
• 1:05
  Go there right now and download your book for free.
• 1:07
  Super dope. OK guys, so you know, let's be
• 1:10
  frank about it at the beginning. Asperger Syndrome is now
• 1:12
  referred to you as Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• 1:14
  Let's just be super frank, right?
• 1:16
  Autism used to be a split off into several different kind of
• 1:19
  naming conventions and nomenclature like high
• 1:21
  functioning autism, low functioning blah blah blah,
• 1:23
  classic autism and all this kind of stuff.
• 1:25
  And you basically get the picture.
• 1:27
  But all this changed in 2013 when the DSM, which is basically
• 1:32
  the American kind of like dossier for how you diagnose
• 1:37
  neurological mental health conditions, then referred to an
• 1:40
  umbrella term for all those conditions called autism
• 1:42
  Spectral Disorder. So it took away the kind of need
• 1:44
  for just Asperger syndrome, just classic autism and all these
• 1:47
  kind of like terms. And there's a good reason for
• 1:49
  all those things as well. But they kind of changed it.
• 1:51
  So, you know, what is Asperger syndrome?
• 1:54
  If you're saying that's OK, so part of awesome or Asperger
• 1:56
  syndrome. So basically it's an also
• 1:58
  spectrum diagnosis that's characterized by quite a few
• 2:01
  common personality traits that have lower support needs than
• 2:04
  other spectrum disorders. So there could be somebody on
• 2:06
  spectrum. He needs a lot of support daily,
• 2:08
  going to the bathroom, getting around, maneuvering, there's
• 2:12
  kind of all kinds of stuff. But in terms of Asperger's
• 2:15
  syndrome, it was a well, what you used to be called Asperger's
• 2:19
  syndrome. It's just an autism spectrum
• 2:21
  disorder with low support needs. Now I have listed out four ways
• 2:25
  that you can identify these type of traits of Asperger's syndrome
• 2:27
  in people. Right.
• 2:28
  So the first one was eye contact.
• 2:29
  Now autistic people generally have issues in me making and
• 2:33
  maintaining eye contact because eye contact can be difficult for
• 2:35
  people on the spectrum. It's something that's quite
• 2:37
  personal. When you're dealing with
• 2:38
  somebody and has autism communication issue, then, you
• 2:41
  know, having that communication deep kind of eye contact, it's
• 2:44
  difficult for people. And that difficulty stretches
• 2:47
  across the board because it's not just eye contact that they
• 2:51
  have issues with, you know, communication skills across the
• 2:53
  board. But eye contact is probably one
• 2:55
  of the most common ones to kind of look and say, Oh yeah, that
• 2:57
  person's not really making or maintaining eye contact.
• 2:59
  And it kind of sticks out, you know, because people generally
• 3:02
  do make eye contact. Now the next one is talking
• 3:05
  constantly. Now talking constantly is quite
• 3:08
  interesting. So autistic people will have an
• 3:10
  obsessive topic of interest, like a certain topic or genre
• 3:13
  that they'll just love and they'll dive right into and when
• 3:16
  they get talking about it, they will talk non-stop.
• 3:18
  Now if somebody comes over to me and starts talking about social
• 3:22
  media strategy and SEO and web marketing and digital media
• 3:25
  marketing, I will not shut up. I just kind of I love this
• 3:29
  stuff. I love talking about all the
• 3:30
  books I read, all the podcasts, listen to all the the YouTube
• 3:32
  channels that I'm subscribed to are all about the subject
• 3:35
  because I love it. I love that subject.
• 3:36
  I'll talk about it for hours and hours and hours, and people get
• 3:38
  really bored of that. So this is a very awesomely
• 3:41
  common topic of Asperger's syndrome, where it's a common
• 3:46
  trait where you kind of just talk about your obsessive
• 3:49
  topical interest just indefinitely all the time.
• 3:52
  So #3 is social skills issues. Now socializing is difficult for
• 3:57
  people on the autism spectrum due to the lack of the
• 3:59
  understanding of the unwritten social rules.
• 4:01
  Like, you know, the hand gestures and distance to to be a
• 4:05
  part of when talking to them. When your chore turns to talk,
• 4:08
  when do you talk, when do they talk, What's your volume level
• 4:11
  to talk out? All these things are unwritten
• 4:13
  social rules of social conventions that I just picked
• 4:16
  up by people on the autism spectrum that are just picked up
• 4:19
  by people who are not on the autism spectrum just because
• 4:22
  they are something that they pick up.
• 4:25
  Now, people with autism don't typically pick these up because
• 4:27
  it's difficult for them to do that, right?
• 4:29
  So you can always tell when someone's really having a
• 4:32
  difficult time. When you are in, in the midst of
• 4:37
  a social communication, they're having a difficult time
• 4:39
  communicating socially. This could be down to the fact
• 4:41
  that they're in the autism spectrum.
• 4:42
  Now, #4 is quite an interesting one.
• 4:44
  This is not understanding jokes. Autistic people take everything
• 4:48
  literally. My friends use this to their
• 4:49
  full advantage and just absolutely tell me all kinds of
• 4:52
  garbage. And I believe them for ages, and
• 4:54
  then they make fun of me for ages for it because they're just
• 4:56
  like that. But I love them to bits and they
• 4:57
  mean no harm or malice with it. They're just being funny.
• 5:00
  But jokes and sarcasm can be so difficult for someone on the
• 5:02
  autism spectrum to kind of really understand and get, you
• 5:05
  know, take everything at face value, take your word for it and
• 5:07
  really take it literally. So if you are confronted with
• 5:10
  somebody who may not understand jokes and what you're kind of
• 5:14
  putting out there is in terms of jokes and sarcasm, then this
• 5:16
  could be the fact that they are on the autism spectrum,
• 5:19
  basically. Now if you found this video
• 5:22
  interesting, please share it on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram
• 5:24
  and if you liked it, give it a thumbs up and I'll see you in
• 5:26
  the next one. Guys, Peace.