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5 FACTS about AUTISM YOU Have To See! · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  OK, so here are 5 facts about autism that you have to see.
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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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  Right guys? So fact about autism.
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  I think this is such an interesting subject.
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  Oh man. This is why I love doing what I
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  do. So welcome back guys.
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  If you're new around here. This is where we think
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  differently daily. What's up my different think of
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  fam. Hope you guys are feeling
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  awesome and just. Really.
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  Yeah, just live in it. Oh, before I forget, if you want
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  to download my free PDF Autism Life Hacks book, you can do at
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  autismhacks.net. The link will be description
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  below and on the screen here hopefully.
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  So with that, let's get into today's video.
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  OK, so I wanted to do something really different in this video.
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  I wanted to do something quite interesting.
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  I wanted to put down 5 interesting facts about autism
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  that people probably wouldn't really know.
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  And I'd like to share that with them because I feel like the
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  more you know about a subject, the more kind of, I don't know,
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  the more affinity you have for it.
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  So if you're learning about autism, or if you have autism
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  and you want to learn more about it, then hey, this video is
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  perfect for you because you're going to learn a little bit more
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  facts about it. So if you have anything to add,
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  if I'm halfway through this and you think, oh, I've got
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  something to add, please pop it in a comment down below.
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  I'd read and respond to every single comment so it's never
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  wasted. And if you are enjoying the
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  video, just give it a thumbs up because that would mean the
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  world to me. And just, yeah, double heart
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  that IG post, yo, OK, so number one, this is fact #1, the
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  history, right. So autism was first studied in
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  the 1940s. When you think about the year
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  2020, it's a far cry away from 1940s.
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  But autism was studied as far back as 1940s.
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  And actually, if you look further back than that, you will
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  see hallmarks of autism because it didn't just appear in 1940s.
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  You know, it's been around since the humans have been around.
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  But in terms of the actual studies, it was started the
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  actual study started in 1940s, which is crazy thinking that
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  like the the, the current situation of where we are with
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  psychotherapies, neurological conditions and what we know
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  about the brain now compared to 1940s.
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  It's a it's an amazement actually that we actually did
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  start studying autism as early as 1940s because just like it's
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  like wow, you know, that's not a lot of people know that.
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  You know, I think it's actually fantastic.
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  You know, close to the Second World War, we're starting to
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  just think about autism. It's a fantastic thing.
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  Anyway, so there you go. So you cool.
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  Fact, you could probably whack that one out in a pub quiz or
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  something. Awesome.
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  And yeah, you can thank me for that later.
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  If you think that was cool, you have to go to your thumbs up.
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  I mean, come on. OK, so fact #2 is that autism
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  had a name change. Right?
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  This is really interesting. I find this super fascinating.
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  So autism was originally called early infantile autism because
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  it was named. It was named from the research
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  that was done by Leo Kenner. Leo Kenner actually dubbed it as
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  tennis syndrome initially, but then also he then they changed
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  it to early infantile autism, which is really interesting
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  because he kind of dubbed it what it is today.
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  Even I went through a few name changes.
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  It is very, very interesting. And that was the kind of in its
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  early stages. It was early infantile autism,
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  but they just dropped the early infantile part because, well, I
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  just figured I just felt better just being autism, right?
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  Because it wasn't just early infantile people who were being
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  diagnosed. It could be diagnosed at any
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  age. It's just that they were
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  studying children at the time. OK, so factor #3 is more common
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  in males, right? This is really interesting and
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  it kind of bugs me a little bit, but we'll get through it.
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  This is an actual, this is an actual fact.
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  So autism is 3 times more likely to be diagnosed in males than
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  females. And this is, you know, there's a
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  lot of skepticism around them because it's due to the fact
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  that the the males display traits differently to female
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  traits, right. But the the males research has
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  always just been the main focus. So focusing on males with Norton
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  spectrum disorder became like the way that they diagnosed it.
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  And so when you put females up against it, you think, well how
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  does a female fit into the male categories for it just doesn't
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  really make much sense. And that's kind of like where a
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  lot of people kind of get a little bit, I don't weird it out
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  by I actually kind of get, you know a three to one ratio.
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  I don't think that's real. I think that's because we're
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  only diagnosing males because we only have historical documents
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  to kind of go through diagnostic documentation for males and we
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  need to adapt and evolve that females inclusivity as well.
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  But that's a different video. If you'd like to see a video on
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  that type of subject, please pop it and comment down below.
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  Let me know your thoughts on it and I'll see if I can get a
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  video out. OK.
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  So #4 is diagnosis is on the rise and this is really
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  interesting. There are a large increase in
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  the amount of people diagnosed with autism.
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  And this could be down to a few factors, right?
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  The rise of understanding about autism, like the rise of
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  education and people know more about it and the learning more
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  about it. And then it's a development in
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  the diagnostic approach, whereas the diagnostic approach may be
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  quite niche. Like I was saying earlier about
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  just looking at males and and not doing any female diagnosis,
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  but now really not. The females do have an autism
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  spectrum disorder. So they're kind of just forcing
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  it onto the male diagnosis, but really diagnosing females as
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  well, which they should be diagnosed with females.
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  What I'm saying is that they're kind of like trying to fit this
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  puzzle together and that could account for the increase in it.
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  A lot of people say there's all kinds of things like the
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  environment or whatever. They don't really know what
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  causes autism get into that next.
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  But in terms of like the the diagnostic on the rise, it's
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  very interesting that there are a lot more people now diagnosed
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  with autism per year than ever has been ever in the history of
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  it being diagnosed. So this brings me to fact #5.
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  There is no known cause of autism.
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  A lot of people kind of spouted off all this rubbish about like
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  environment and then like food poisonings and vaccines and
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  there's all kinds of garbage that is around, you know, autism
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  and the cause of autism. But there is no known cause.
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  The closest thing you can get to is that there is a genetic
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  thing, that it follows A genetic path and it is genetic and
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  hereditary. It can be passed down through
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  generations, is as far as it can understand it's genetic, but
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  that's as far as it goes. There's no known cure for it,
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  despite what anybody may tell you.
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  And you know, there's some horrific things that happen to
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  people because of the fact that they think that they can cure
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  autism, which is an incurable condition.
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  It's it's a neurological developmental disorder.
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  Nothing else. Guys, if you think that you have
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  anything to add, please pop in a comment down below.
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  And if this video is interesting, please share it on
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  Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. That'd be super awesome.
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  OK, guys, please double heart that IG.
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  I will see you guys in the next video.