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5 Signs Of AUTISM In Toddlers (MUST SEE) · 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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  To have 5 signs of autism in toddlers, you definitely need to
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  see all that and more is 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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  All right guys, on the video. Let's go guys.
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  If you know around here. My name is Dan.
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  What's going on? Welcome to the aspy world where
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  fam. You guys are awesome.
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  OK, guys. So I wanted to do this one about
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  toddlers because I feel like toddlers are such an interesting
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  age for autism. You know, the youngest you can
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  diagnose somebody with autism is typically around three years
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  old. That's when you kind of start
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  looking at somebody. And so, you know, three to five
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  years old, you know, these toddlers and these little tots
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  walking about and, you know, they're becoming their own
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  people. And I think it's really
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  interesting if we can kind of home in on specific traits of
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  autism and see if we can identify something early on
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  because the earlier you get help, the better conditions life
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  can be. And that's a good thing.
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  So I've listed out five the most interesting actually signs of
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  autism in toddlers, which I think you definitely do need to
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  see. And if thinking, you know, hey
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  my toddler, you know it's on the spectrum.
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  Or if you're watching this and you know your toddler's already
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  And you also get a monthly course from me and a little
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  little workbook and stuff and a download PDF guidebook.
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  I mean like it's completely free.
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  It's just like educational content.
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  And if you're interested in that, head over to level of
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  autism.net right now. Click the join button.
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  It's going to be super awesome. OK, guys, so let's go for the
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  first one. Now, the first sign of autism
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  toddlers is non responsive to name.
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  But typically people on the autism spectrum when they are
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  toddlers, they won't be able to respond to you calling their
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  name. So if you're like, hey Jonathan,
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  Jonathan, Jonathan. And you could be like asking
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  them like 100 times like for their name and they'd be like
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  just not listening. Like it's if they're deaf, like
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  they can't hear, like they have no kind of like way of hearing
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  you. And a lot of times some kids are
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  actually diagnosed as deaf when they're actually not deaf.
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  It's just that they are having an issue with the communication
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  because they have an autism spectrum condition, right.
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  And so this is one of the most early kind of signs is that non
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  responsive to name is something that is really common in autism
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  in toddlers, but it's something that people can't just forget
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  because they think, oh, they're just toddlers, you know they
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  minded they're only have selected hearing and all that
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  stuff. So I think it's quite
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  interesting but definitely want to look out for.
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  And it's definitely one of the more common ones like an early
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  like warning sign basically. OK.
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  So #2 is not wanting hugs and emotional kind of contact now as
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  autism impact kind of like social communication and
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  emotional understanding in people.
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  Autistic toddlers probably won't want to have hugs all the time.
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  They'll be kind of adverse for you, kind of wanted to hug them
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  all the time or give them kisses and, you know, sit them on your
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  knee and tell them stories. They don't want that kind of
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  social interaction. It's quite heavy on them.
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  It's quite, it weighs on them and that gets them a bit shock,
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  I guess. And they don't have to respond
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  to that. And this kind of lack of
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  emotional connection can be a good early warning sign that
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  this person is on the autism spectrum.
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  It doesn't mean that they don't love you as a parent or anything
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  like that. It just means that they have an
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  issue with understanding that emotional communication, which
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  is a typical trait of autism and it has nothing to reflect on
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  parenting at all. So please, mums and dads, that
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  you're doing the best you can. And I know you guys are amazing,
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  so please don't worry about that.
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  You guys are awesome. Big shout out to awesome
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  parents. I feel like parents have kids on
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  the spectrum, don't get enough recognition.
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  And I just want to let you know that I find you so valuable.
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  Thank you so much for doing you doing.
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  You guys are amazing. All right, so moving on too, #3
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  actually fall down to #3. If you have anything to add in
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  this sort of going through these, please pop them in a
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  OK, so #3 is lonely play. Now autistic children will favor
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  isolated play then playing in groups of other kids or playing
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  with one-on-one with another kid.
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  And it's not because they are arrogant or they just don't like
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  other kids. It's because the social
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  interaction that impacts people on the autism spectrum is
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  present in everybody from day one.
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  So when they're trying to play, they are unaware of the social
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  constructs, these unwritten social rules that people pick up
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  just by being social commutative.
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  That's kind of a bit of a miss of people on the autism
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  spectrum. So if you notice that a child is
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  being more isolated, play lone play and have difficulty
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  inviting children into play with them and vice versa.
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  When children invite them into play in their circle, they have
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  a bit of an issue trying to adapt to that social circle.
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  And this is a common autism trait and it's actually very
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  prominent of people on the autism spectrum.
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  OK, so #4 is a very easy one and very common.
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  And it's like it's, you know, it's no secret, but lack of eye
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  contact and issues with maintaining keeping eye contact
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  is a huge, huge giveaway for people on the autism spectrum,
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  as making eye contact is a huge issue for people on the autism
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  spectrum. It's something that you will
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  typically notice and so on because it's it's a very strange
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  thing to a newer typical person or a non autistic person who's
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  trying to talk to somebody and they don't make eye contact and
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  they find it very strange where autistic people find this quite
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  comfortable to not make eye contact.
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  So that is a huge red flag and there's a good indication that
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  the person may be on the autism spectrum.
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  OK, so #5 is quite an interesting one.
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  This is not smiling back at you when you smile at them.
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  So autism comes with a whole host of things and one of the
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  things is like facial blindness, which is like emotional
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  connection. So knowing if someone happy or
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  sad by the facial expressions is very difficult for someone on
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  the autism spectrum to grasp and understand fully.
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  So when you smile, that's one on the autism spectrum, they may
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  not understand that you're smiling.
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  So they wouldn't really necessarily smile back.
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  And this could be loads of things, could be the fact that
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  they can't communicate their emotions, It could be that they
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  can't read your face and it could be that they had just a
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  completely zoned out of the situation and unaware of what is
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  going on. There's so many factors that
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  come into it, but this is a huge one.
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  You know, not understanding and repeating that, you know that
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  emotional connection will actually reflect in someone on
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  the autism spectrum. I find it very, very
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  interesting, but it's a huge red flag.
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