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Autism vs Social Anxiety Here Is 5 Ways YOU Tell · 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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  So is it autism? Is it social anxiety?
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  Oh, here are five ways that you can tell which one it is.
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  All that's coming up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  I have autism and ADHD. So if you're new around here and
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  Five things. The first one is root cause of
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  social struggles. Now let's talk about autism.
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  In autism, social challenges often come from a difficulty of
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  lack of understanding social conformity or social norms or
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  social rules, right? Whereas social anxiety comes
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  from a fact that those people know all these social
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  conventions, they just don't feel comfortable.
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  Being in those. Situations because social
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  anxiety is a more of a mental health condition, whereas autism
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  is primarily A neurological communication disorder.
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  So where you can have therapy to become better at being in social
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  situations. If you have social anxiety, if
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  you're autistic, it's kind of like you're missing the inherent
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  kind of like unwritten rules that we just pick up socially
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  video. So #2.
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  Is the desire for social interaction.
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  Now this is quite interesting. So autistic individuals a lot of
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  the time enjoy just being on their own and doing their own
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  thing. Like just.
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  Being. Alone, reading or being alone,
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  playing games or writing music Making.
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  Images. Doing something but as the
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  social anxiety person would want to go and socialize and be
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  social and really have a social experience.
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  However the anxiety holds them back from doing this.
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  It's almost pulling them back and it's kind of disabling them
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  from actually going out and being social because they have
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  an actual want for this. So autistic individuals are
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  happy to not go out and socialize, whereas social
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  anxiety kids or social anxiety people would want to go out and
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  socialize. That's really interesting, isn't
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  it? Because the autistic individuals
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  don't want to socialize and don't really enjoy social
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  interaction, whereas the social anxiety people really enjoy that
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  and they want it but they can't do it.
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  It's a fascinating concept, but that was really interesting.
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  OK, so #3 is consistency of the traits.
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  Now, people with autism will display traits of autism early
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  on because it's a neurological disorder.
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  It doesn't develop over time. It is ingrained in the DNA of
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  that person. And they're what we call
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  phenotypes, which is how the brain's neurological pathways
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  kind of mend together. Now, those specifically are
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  present as soon as your kid is able to develop some kind of
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  typical social kind of interaction.
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  So when a kid's development would be progressing along the
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  lines an autistic child or autistic person, should I say,
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  as a child would come across these unusual roadblocks and it
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  would be quite present. And you could see that.
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  That's why we're able to diagnose autism in children as
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  young as two and three years old because you can see this and how
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  it interacts, you know, with the child and the environment that
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  they're in. Whereas people who have social
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  anxiety, this develops over time.
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  It could be from a trauma or it could be from another mental
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  health condition. It could be a bunch of different
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  things, but it actually develops.
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  It doesn't just like it's not there from the start, it
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  actually develops later on, which is actually fascinating
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  because that's really interesting to see kind of like
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  how they both, you know, parallel to each other because a
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  lot of people think like, am I autistic or am I?
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  Or do I just have social anxiety?
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  Well, this is you'll know the exact difference.
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  OK, so #4 is interesting. This one is sensory
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  sensitivities. Now autistic individuals will
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  usually, and I'd say 98% of the time, have a comorbid condition
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  of sensory processing disorder or.
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  SPD. Now this means that the sensory
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  experiences of being somewhere can become over stimulating like
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  the sounds, the smells, the the lights, the temperature, the
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  feeling of clothes. All these factors can cause
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  difficulties within social situations.
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  If you have to dress up in a suit and go to a gala, there may
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  be a lot of different sensory input activities there that are
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  going to be triggering for the autistic person to not want to
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  be in that situation. Whereas a social anxiety person,
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  we'll be able to attend these events, but none of those
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  factors will come into consideration of why they don't
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  like it or why they have issues with social interaction.
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  Because they don't have autism and they don't have the sensory
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  processing disorder unit that's comorbid or Co occurring, which
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  means coming alongside the diagnosis with with autism,
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  they'll just have the social anxiety part.
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  And that's fascinating. That's something that's very
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  individual to autistic individuals.
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  OK, so #5 is the response to structure and routine.
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  Now autistic people love structure, routine and they
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  thrive from having that kind of like predictability in a
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  situation, right, where social events, social gatherings don't
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  really have predictability. It's quite difficult to do that.
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  Whereas people who just have social anxiety, they will
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  obviously want to plan ahead for up and coming events and, and
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  they may worry about these and, and kind of get anxious about up
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  and coming events, but not because the routine change or
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  because there's any surprises in the routine.
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  And this is fascinating as well because autistic individuals
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  will find those events with social interactions extremely
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  overwhelming because they don't want to predict to happen next
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  and it could change at any moment.
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  Whereas a person with social anxiety just feels anxious or
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  worried, which of these like mental health emotions that are
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  crippling them in that moment, not to do with the fact that
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  they love routines. This isn't necessarily doesn't
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  even come into their mind. This is not something that they
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  kind of think about. Now, all of these are really
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  fascinating. I want to know your opinion, if
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  you have anything or any insight to add to this.
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  Let's open the discussion because here we have a community
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  of a lot of people talking about different things.
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  And if you like that guys, I'll see you in the next one.
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