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7 Most Obvious AUTISM Signs (INTERESTING) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So here are 7 most obvious signs of autism.
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  All that plus more. It'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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  Super dope. OK, guys.
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  So I want to do this video about signs of autism because I've
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  done loads of videos on it, but I wanted to come back and start
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  doing some more because I feel like a lot of people are, you
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  know, they don't really get a lot of it and maybe they haven't
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  seen the older videos. And I thought I'd want to spruce
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  it up a bit and do some new videos.
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  And I just thought, hey, let's do a new one.
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  Let's just do it. So we're going to run down seven
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  of the most common signs of autism.
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  And yeah, it's going to be lots and lots of fun.
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  OK, So number one is issues with socializing.
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  Now autistic people have huge issues with understanding social
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  cues, unwritten social rules, and that kind of general back
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  and forth in social situations that people just learn and
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  understand as a given because they're just typically grown up
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  in an environment where it's just easy to just learn and
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  understand those things. But for autistic people, being
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  neurodivergent, having that ability to suss out those
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  reading between the lines of a of an unwritten social
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  communication can be quite tricky, difficult, and also
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  leave them feeling a bit kind of left out because it's a
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  communication disorder at its core.
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  Autism really impacts these areas and it's something that
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  can really stick out. OK, so #2 is lack of eye
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  contact. Now a lot of people know that
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  eye contact is very difficult for autistic people, but you may
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  be aware that to look not for signs of autism in a person,
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  then you may be able to notice that they're not making eye
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  contact regularly or be able to maintain eye contact during
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  conversation. This could be down to the fact
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  that they may be on the autism spectrum.
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  This is a huge giveaway, probably one of the most common
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  ones, and it's probably one of the things I get asked about.
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  Most of all I actually remember being on television when I had
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  my book was released. I was talking on a Good Morning
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  Britain with Pierce Morgan and Pierce Morgan was talking to me
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  and I was sat next to him and but a lot of people then in the
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  in the comments and the feedback in the press was that I wasn't
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  looking him in the eyes. And they said it was
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  disrespectful, but of course it was just because I'm on the
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  spectrum. It's not something that I can
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  generally do quite, you know, comfortably with somebody I've
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  never met before, let alone on television.
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  So it's definitely an interesting 1:00 and 1:00 to
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  look out for on a huge giveaway. OK, so #3 is delay in speech and
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  communication skills. Now autistic people will usually
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  have a delay in their speech and almost always have issues with
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  communication. It could be a stutter or a
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  stammer. Some kids can be non verbal, but
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  they're all, you know, communication issues and issues
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  with communicating in general. And you may come across just a
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  number of different things. Could be reading, could be
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  writing. It could be talking one-on-one
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  with somebody and not understanding the premise of the
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  conversation. It is a communication disorder
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  at the very very heart of autism.
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  And this is what it is. So this is the best way to kind
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  of look into that. You know, you're looking at
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  speech delay or communication delay or communication issues.
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  OK, so #4 is difficulty understanding people's emotions.
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  Now people with an autism spectrum disorder will have huge
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  issues understanding emotions in other people as it's difficult
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  to know, you know what, what's not spoken about.
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  You know if somebody's feeling upset, but they're not telling
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  you they're feeling upset, that isn't an unwritten kind of read
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  between the lines. I don't know what's going on.
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  You know, is this person upset? Is this person sad?
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  Those things are really difficult.
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  They they have a difficulty understanding those people's
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  emotions. And so trying to communicate
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  emotions with autistic people, you'll have to be direct but
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  autistic people won't understand if you are unhappy, sad or or or
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  really happy, you know, without the laughter.
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  Obviously if someone's laughing then they could be happy, but
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  then again it comes into many waters.
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  Some people could laugh hysterically, but hysterical in
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  a negative way. So it's very very difficult in
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  murky waters. But it's something to look out
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  for if somebody has a difficulty understanding emotions from
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  other people. This could be due to an autism
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  spectrum. Condition #5 is quite an
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  interesting one. This is upset from minor
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  changes. Now a change in someone's
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  routine who is an autistic person, It can have a huge
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  impact no matter how minor the change.
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  So autistic people love routine and love knowing what's ahead,
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  what lies ahead, their schedule, their routine, the thing that
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  they're going to do and the thing that they do pretty much
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  all the time. But then if there's a small bump
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  in that road, then there could be a possibility that they are
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  going to really have an impact from that small sudden change.
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  So because like if the the personal inspection expects to
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  do something but then something like a bump in the road happens
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  then it kind of completely throws out their entire day and
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  then they feel really like you know what I do now it's almost
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  like a feeling of despair like how do I even you know it's it's
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  a difficult thing to do and and yeah minor changes upsetting a
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  routine something we've seen small to somebody else is huge
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  to somebody on the spectrum. OK.
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  So number six is sensory processing disorder or SPD.
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  Now SPD comes hand in hand with autism, and it can show issues
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  and things how people with autism kind of interact with
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  sight and smell and sound and textures and sitting down and
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  heat and being in a room with people at all.
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  These things that impact your senses and your ability to be in
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  a place can be impacted by the sensory processing disorder, and
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  it's the way that you communicate the senses from the
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  external stimuli into you. Where I hear certain words and
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  actually feel physical pain. I can't walk down certain aisles
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  in. I can't walk down certain aisles
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  in the supermarket because the smells overpowering from their
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  deli and things like that. These are very, very common.
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  So if you know somebody who has sensory issues and all these
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  other ones, then they're probably more than likely on the
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  autism spectrum. OK, so #7 is no shock.
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  It's the love to follow routines.
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  Autistic people love to follow routines.
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  They love to have routines. They love to have rigid routines
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  and strict structure in the way of creating safety,
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  predictability, because at the end of the day, there's very
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  little in life that is predictable other than things
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  like death. But in terms of having like, you
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  know, to predict, oh, you know, how something is going to
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  happen, nobody knows what's going to happen, you know,
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  because that's the beauty of life.
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  It's a never changing thing, right?
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  But autistic people love to have some kind of predictability,
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  some control and calm in that situation.
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  And So what can you control is the routine.
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  You know, you know that you're going to get up, You're going to
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  have conflicts for breakfast. You're going to go downstairs
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  and watch, I don't know, Dexter or whatever that is what's going
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  to happen. And that's in your control and
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  that's your comfortable, predictable ability.
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  So following routines, having a love for routines, this is just
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  a huge common giveaway that someone who's on the autism
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  spectrum. Now.
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