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What Is Aspergers 5 known Facts YOU Need To Know · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So what is asperges? Here are five known facts that
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  you definitely need to know. Oh, that's coming up.
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  worth it. So yeah, let's go on the video.
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  Enough me rambling down, let's go on okay.
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  So I have detailed out five facts or five noon facts about
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  Asperger Syndrome. I feel like a lot of people
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  don't know what Asperger Syndrome is and I want to clear
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  something up that Asperger Syndrome is now called Autism
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  Spectrum Disorder and there is no real difference between
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  Asperger Syndrome and autism. It's one in the same thing.
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  Asperger is autism. Just had a weird nomenclature
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  changeover and some the whole thing, right.
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  I'll do a story all about the change, but that's not important
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  for now. The important part is that
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  autism is Aspergers and it's interchangeable.
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  It's just that the title of video is Aspergers and stuff.
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  Anyway, let's go on with these five facts because I'm really
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  pumped to get them going. Okay.
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  So #1 Asperger syndrome or autism is a neurological
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  disorder, and that's what it's classed as.
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  It's more like a neurological condition than a disorder
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  because disorder makes it sound like something bad, but it's
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  actually more of a condition. So Asperger is a neurological
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  neurodevelopment mental disorder which is present in people from
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  birth. It's something that happened.
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  It's the way your neurons, your neurological path and your brain
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  infused as you're being like created, you know and that kind
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  of like rush of like universe like whoa, doing all this cool
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  stuff That's kind of like what happens at the conception of
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  your life, which is pretty amazing at that at that moment
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  in time, you kind of get fused with like you know who you're
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  going to be. And part of that is your
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  neurological kind of bitmap. And that map is, yeah.
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  Is neurodevelopmental for people on the autism spectrum.
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  And it causes this, what we know as a condition, autism.
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  So that is very, very interesting.
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  A lot of people think that it's a mental health issue when it's
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  not. But it definitely is a
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  neurological disorder or neurological condition, which is
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  why, Yeah, it's all to do with brain activity, which I find
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  absolutely fascinating. And yeah, let's move on to the
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  next fact. OK.
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  So Asperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder.
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  Now, Asperger syndrome and autism are the same thing.
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  It's part of the autism, neurological conditions that's
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  known as this disorder. Right.
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  And this, this is the interesting figures.
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  One in 100 people in the United Kingdom are actually diagnosed
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  with autism. And one in 60 people in the
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  United States of America are diagnosed with autism, which is
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  crazy numbers. Like that's a lot of people,
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  which is fascinating and probably a lot more, but a lot
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  of people go undiagnosed. So it's kind of like, you know,
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  it's just one of those things where a lot of people aren't
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  diagnosed at the moment. But I think we will catch up
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  with it and those figures will change and will vary and maybe
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  they'll get shorter or maybe they'll get bigger.
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  Who knows about a moment in time.
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  As I tell you this video, that's what the statistics are.
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  So if you're watching this in the future and like, you know,
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  3020, 25 hello from the past, this is a cool echo of all the
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  cool things we did in the past. When, you know, I don't know,
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  2020 is not the best year in the world.
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  But yeah. Anyway, let's get on with the
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  rest of this video. OK, so #3, behavioral traits,
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  right. So Asperger's syndrome is
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  characterized by behavioral traits in a person, and these
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  include lack of eye contact, obsessive focus on an interest
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  of topic, and difficulties with social interactions.
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  That's kind of like a really crude but very to the point
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  version of how the the trial of impairment kind of impacts
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  somebody and that's how they get the the office and diagnosis
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  because in those areas they they have issues or they struggle in
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  those areas and that's kind of like how it works.
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  So there are behavioral traits that will create hallmarks and
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  identifiable markers for people on the autism spectrum and kind
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  of how you diagnose it, Okay. So #4 Hans Asperger.
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  Now, Asperger's syndrome came from a body of research done in
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  like the 1940s and it was like 1947 developed by a guy called
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  Hans Asperger who was an Austrian physician or doctor or
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  whatever. And he he was publishing work
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  and information back then on behavioral traits of boys in
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  particular, which is quite interesting.
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  He didn't really study girls, just boys.
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  And this is kind of what the condition was named after.
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  And it wasn't actually named after him until like 2002
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  thousand. What we're talking about wasn't
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  actually named after him until like the 1980s when he died.
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  I think he died in like 1984. And then after that they started
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  naming the condition Asperger's syndrome, which is fascinating.
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  I didn't really know that until I was researching for this
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  video. So yeah, how cool is that?
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  OK, so #5 is name change. Now this is interesting.
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  I was kind of talking about this in the beginning of the video
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  and I wanted to kind of go over in more detail.
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  So Asperger Syndrome found its name change in 2013 due to the
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  change in the DSM 5, which is basically the the the book, the
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  guide book for diagnosing people.
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  It's American. It's like American Psycho, I
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  don't know therapy book that comes out every single edition
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  has different like things in it and and tells you like Oh well
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  you know you can't call this anymore this.
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  It's not like language based and terminologies and stuff like
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  that. But basically it's the criteria
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  that you use to diagnose somebody with conditions like
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  autism. Now, the DSM 5 actually changed
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  the nomenclature from Asperger's Syndrome to Autism Spectrum
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  Disorder, and it's now formerly known as Autism Spectrum
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  Disorder and not Asperger's Syndrome.
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  And the reason they did this is because there was basically this
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  uproar where Asperger's people who diagnosed Asperger's have
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  lower support needs than people who diagnosed with autism.
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  But people who diagnosed with autism and Asperger's still
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  needed support and have special educational needs, and both need
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  equal amounts of care taken to the specific area of their life
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  that was giving them issues. But of course, when you have a
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  diagnosis of autism, you're able to access autism support when
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  you ASK Pages. A lot of people weren't able to
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  access the ask Pages support because it wasn't autism and all
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  this kind of stuff. So basically they did away with
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  all this nomenclature and they just said it's autism spectrum
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  disorder and everybody can access the support as much or a
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  little as they need, which is a great move.
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