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5 Ways Asperger’s Shows Up in Real Life You’ll Relate · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Five ways that you can show yourself in real life, and I
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  think you're going to relate hard to these.
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  Let's go through them all right now, don't go anywhere, guys.
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  Let's go on and welcome back to the Aspy world.
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  My name is Dan and I have autism, ADHDOCD and dyslexia,
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  and I make weekly videos all about this stuff every single
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  day actually. So if you're new around here and
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  So you see all of the videos I offload daily.
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  Super dope. OK, so I'm going to go through
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  five ways. Asburgers rears his head and
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  shows you in traits in real life that you will definitely relate
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  to. And so if you think, oh, maybe
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  I've got Asburger syndrome, you know, maybe I'm on the spectrum.
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  And just for your information, guys, FYI, Asburger syndrome is
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  autism. It's now called autism spectrum
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  disorder level 1 and it is the term that they now use just
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  because it was easier for insurance and therapy and
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  medical professionals to have autism in an umbrella rather
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  than faction terms. And that's basically all it is.
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  Perhaps pages syndrome does relate to autism spectrum
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  disorder at level 1, which basically means you have social
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  impairments and cognitive issues or or social issues that are
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  neurological based that are just like autism, but you don't have
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  any cognitive delay and you have full speech.
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  The only other thing that's pages includes is a, an above
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  average intelligence also. OK, so here are the the five
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  main ones. Number one is eye contact.
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  Actually trying to maintain sustain eye contact and make eye
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  contact is very difficult for people on the autism spectrum
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  with let's say Asperger's syndrome.
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  And this is because it feels uncomfortable.
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  It's almost like someone's reaching into your soul when you
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  look at them and it's so intense, almost too intimate
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  that you can't look at them for long.
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  And you will look around through the face or away from the face
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  or look down or find it really difficult to make eye contact.
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  And this is really fascinating because it's something that
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  autistic people kind of share. Not every single autistic person
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  shares this, but most do. And especially people have
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  Splurger syndrome will feel this.
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  Even if they push through it their best they can, they'll
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  still kind of feel us a little bit.
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  OK, so #2 is routines and the love of them.
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  And I love the routines. You might be like, well, I'm an
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  adult. I don't have any routines.
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  You know, like, these are for kids.
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  It's not the same putting coffee the same every single day.
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  Oh, I add Creamer and I do a couple of sweeteners and I add
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  in like some vanilla kind of flavage.
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  You do you do your coffee every single time the same way.
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  And don't tell me, don't tell me when you go to Starbucks at Tim
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  horton's that you order a different coffee every time.
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  That's BS. You know it If I've just called
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  you out, hey ho, drop me a comment and say, Dan, you call
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  me out. My routine is my coffee or my
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  tea or my matcha or whatever the hell it is you take.
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  I know you routines are amazing. And why are routines amazing?
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  Because they give you predictability.
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  They lower anxiety and it gives you dopamine and that dopamine
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  helps you go well, I know it's expected out of this situation
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  so I don't have to worry about it.
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  And so that's why routine are predictable patterns.
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  That's why we do it uses dope for it makes us feel good.
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  OK, the number 3 is food sensitivity issues.
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  Now you might be like, damn, I have no food sensitivity issues.
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  Don't be so silly. This is I'm not a picky eater.
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  I love food, but oh, you are a picky eater.
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  And let me say this. You can only have certain foods
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  warm. You can only have certain foods
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  cold. You can only drink certain
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  things with certain things, like you can only drink milk with
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  ice. You can only drink beer with
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  ice. Maybe you only have milk when
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  it's warmed up. You will eat lasagna and pizza
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  in a restaurant, but you won't have lasagna and pizza at home
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  because it's not the same. I'm I can see this if you're
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  smiling behind the screen right now.
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  This is why, because I know this, I know this about people,
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  right? Food sensitivity issues.
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  It can be situational, it can be environmental, it can be down to
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  temperature. It would answer so many things.
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  I did a video all about this actually, where I was talking
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  about how ketchup and tomato based things I have to have them
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  warmed up to eat them, whereas when they're cold, it's like too
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  difficult for me. And I'll try and link that down
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  below and and in the description this video and I'll try and link
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  it on the comments section on YouTube as well on Facebook as
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  well. Sorry guys getting really
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  confused, but you'll be able to find that video and that kind of
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  discusses this longer, but basically that's it.
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  OK, No 4 is depressive episodes. Oh my goodness, because Asperger
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  syndrome is the same as like any of the awesome special kind of
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  like classification other than like you said, it has no
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  cognitive delay and it has speech, a full lexicon.
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  And obviously it comes into compass with like an average to
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  above average IQ set, which means that like you have more
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  intense thought and intense thought actually comes with a
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  lot of responsibility and pressure and demand.
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  And that is mental strain and a middle strain also can lead to
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  depression. And the depression can also
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  because of the starvation from dopamine, because we're burning
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  through dopamine, all the things that we'd like to do very, very
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  quickly. And this ends up in depressive
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  episode. My golly, the amount of
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  depressive episodes I have is quite, quite shocking actually.
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  And the amount of autistic individuals I know that relate
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  to this, but never really talk about it.
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  Mental health is real and we should talk about it.
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  And you should obviously seek some of the therapeutic help and
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  definitely reach out if you're in a depressive episode, you
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  don't want to stay there. And if it's me, you want to
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  reach out. So you can always e-mail me down
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  at the aspyworld.com if you're feeling depressed or down, I can
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  always help you. That's not a problem.
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  That's all. And that's a good thing
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  actually. I actually offer.
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  I do have a service. I do like talk therapy.
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  I'm a trained counselor as well, but I do have a mentorship as
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  well. So if you're interested in that,
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  you can always just like e-mail me down at the Aspy wolves.com
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  and say down, I'm interested in mentorship with you one-on-one.
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  But anyway, that's besides the point.
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  Depressive episodes very prevalent in autism and if you
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  are experiencing those, definitely seek medical help
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  because you don't stay in that too long.
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  It's dangerous, detrimental, and it's not good for you.
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  You know, you want to get out of that.
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  The last one I want to talk about.
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  It's probably the biggest one that I love.
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  This is an obsessive interest. Obsessive interest is an
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  obsessive interest in something, a genre or a thing.
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  Like it could be anything with jewellery, Harry Potter
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  technology, it could be coat fashion, it could be anything.
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  And you get so obsessed that you know you'll learn everything
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  about it. You know everything about it.
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  You buy all those things. You know, when the new releases
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  are coming out, you know everything that's all about it.
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  You basically an encyclopedia on that thing.
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  And I have many. I've had many over the years and
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  I love that social media, digital marketing, one of my one
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  of my many obsessions, I did a degree in chemistry because I
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  was obsessed with science and rocket science and things like
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  that. Technology, robotics, virtual
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  reality, augmented reality, I've worked in many fields with this.
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  Now I actually own a bunch of different like virtual reality
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  headsets and AI glasses because I love this stuff.
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  This tech just speaks to me, right?
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  And that obsessive interest is kind of like the thing where,
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  you know, when you have like way too many rocks in your house and
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  people are like, dude, why there's so many rocks in your
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  house? I just called you out.
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  I get it, guys. If you feel like this video can
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  help somebody, please share it. Give it a thumbs up if you
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  enjoyed it. And I'll see you in the next
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  one, guys, please.