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5 Weird Autism Traits You Never Noticed (MIND-BLOWING) · 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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  Here are five real traits of autism that are completely mind
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  blowing. You definitely have not seen use
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  before. OK guys welcome back to the Aspy
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  world. My name is Dan and I have
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  Asperger syndrome and ADHDOCD and dyslexia.
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  OK so 5 weird things. The first one I'm going to talk
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  about right now is involuntary mirroring of others.
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  What does this mean? What does it look like?
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  Autistic individuals have issues with social conventions, right?
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  It's no kind of mystery that autistic individuals deal with
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  social issues and cannot understand social formats as
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  easily as neurotypicals. So what does this mean?
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  Autistic individuals will find themselves mimicking other
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  people's behavior to sort of create a acceptable social
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  stance. And what this means in basic
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  English is if somebody has stood a certain way or maybe they're
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  smoking or maybe they're on the phone, then the autistic person
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  will try to mimic that because they believe this is how
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  somebody should be in a social situation.
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  And it can be involuntary. The mimicking can actually
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  happen because they're just thinking maybe that's the facial
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  expression I should be using. And so by looking at a person,
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  well, just make the face of the person, they're trying to figure
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  out what face that person is doing, if that kind of makes
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  sense. And this is really interesting.
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  A lot of the time people can think that you're maybe making
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  fun or you're mimicking someone just to be weird.
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  But actually, if you're an autistic person, you're doing
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  this to try and understand more about the social situation so
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  that you can gather more evidence to support the fact
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  that, hey, what do I do in social situations where this
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  occurs? So that being said, if this is
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  something you do, let me know in the comments down below because
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  I do this sometimes, especially with people's speech patterns.
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  This is very interesting. OK, moving on to the next one.
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  OK, so #2 is the inability to feel hunger until it's extreme
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  OK, so I, I really want to kind of break this down a little bit.
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  Autistic people will feel hungry, yes.
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  However, they won't realize they're hungry almost until the
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  last minute. And this is because if you are
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  an autistic individual, you'll get really involved with
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  something. You'd be like, wow, this pen is
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  really cool. How does this pen?
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  You might take the pen apart. And then when you're looking
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  through all the things, you're taking the pen apart.
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  And then you're like stuck down this rabbit hole of looking at
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  the pen and three hours have passed and you realize I am
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  absolutely starving. I need to eat something.
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  I haven't drunk in three hours. Oh my goodness.
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  That is what I mean by not understanding hunger, because
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  hunger gets sidetracked because the thing you're interested in
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  takes all of that energy and you kind of move in that position to
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  go, Oh yeah, yeah. I really love this thing.
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  And I get really involved and you get hyper focused and the
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  hyper focus pulls you away from everything else.
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  OK, on with the video. OK, so #3 is extreme sensitivity
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  to internal signals. And this can be when we look at
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  autism, we look at things like sensory processing disorder,
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  like the lighter too bright or it's very noisy in here or
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  something is happening that is causing me to be distressed or
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  or unhappy in external stimuli. But actually there is internal
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  stimuli that happens as well. And this is the feeling of like
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  maybe your tummy's rumbling, or you can feel your heartbeat or
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  you really need to go pee. You can feel all of these things
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  intensely inside because your senses are heightened inside and
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  outside. It's not just external stimuli
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  that kicks you, but it's also internal stimuli that you also
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  feel really intensely. Sometimes it could even be the
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  pulse of your blood moving around your body.
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  And you'll feel that very intensely.
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  And you can understand it. And you get a extreme
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  sensitivity awareness from this, which is a fascinating concept.
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  OK, so #4 is time blindness. As I was talking about before,
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  hyper focusing can cause you to miss out on drinking and eating
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  and maybe even going to the toilet if you really need to.
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  However, what it also does is it pulls your brain away from
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  knowing what on earth time it is or where you are in the day.
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  You have no idea. Because when you're hyper
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  focusing on something, when autistic people are hyper
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  focusing on this one thing, this one task, they will forget
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  everything else. Everything kind of drifts off
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  into the atmosphere and then all of a sudden you go, Oh my
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  goodness, I totally forgot what I was doing.
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  And Oh my God, five hours have passed and I've done nothing but
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  just sit here and do this one thing.
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  So time blindness is something we experience a lot of the time,
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  hence why autistic individuals you'll probably feel not always
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  on time. They can never keep to timing
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  and they sometimes will forget even what time it is.
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  You know, they'll they'll have no kind of sense of the time
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  around them because of this actual factor of hyper focusing,
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  because you can hyper focus on many things many times, quite
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  often during the day. And that means that you will
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  have time blindness quite rapid through the day.
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  OK, so #5 is unusual, or what it likes to call hidden empathy.
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  Now, the word empathy means that you can see something from
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  somebody else's point of view and you can put yourself in
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  their shoes and go, oh, I really understand how they feel about
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  it. However autistic individuals
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  cannot attain empathy through the typical channels like that.
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  Whereas A neurotypical person would be like, yeah, I'll put
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  myself in their shoes. I'll think about what it's like
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  from that position, and then I'll understand it.
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  Autistic individuals can't do that, but they do have something
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  very special. They have a deeper understanding
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  of empathy from the fact that they can understand the logical
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  distribution of what is going on in that person's life and come
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  to a conclusion thinking, hey, logically, if this is happening,
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  this is happening, this is happening, that person should
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  feel like this. And if I felt like that, I'd
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  probably be crying or I'd probably be happy or whatever.
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  So it's not that they can actually put themselves in the
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  other person's shoes, it's that they can feel more intensely
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  deeper. The empathy, not the actual
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  empathy, but the empathy style of the person by logistically
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  looking at the parameters and the peripherals of what's going
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