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The AUTISM Meaning And What It Means For YOU! · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So I wonder what the autism meaning is in this video.
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  I'm discussing all of that and we're starting now.
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  Guys, let's get started. I wanted to do a video.
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  This is Monica. A shorter video I think like let
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  me grab some water guys. This is more like a shorter
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  video than I normally do. I wanted to just do a video on
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  the the autism meaning because we we hear the term.
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  We hear the words autism. Yeah.
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  Yeah. OK, OK.
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  But then we we never really take the time to go, OK what does
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  autism mean? Like what what is the meaning.
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  And. And I just thought I'd go over a
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  little bit about what autism is. And so anybody who's watching
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  this for research purposes, this may be absolutely perfect for
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  you guys. But anybody who's watching us,
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  because you watch every video I put up, I love you from the
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  bottom of my heart, Thank you so much for supporting me.
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  You're the real MVP. So what is the meaning of
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  autism, right? Or what is autism?
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  What is the, what is the autism meaning?
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  So we should really start at the beginning, right?
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  So autism is a neurodevelopmental condition
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  that impacts the lives of people who are impacted by a condition.
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  It's characterized by the inability to fully function in a
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  social environment through communication and sensory
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  triggered issues. So it's kind of like there's a
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  triad of impairment, which is social issues, communication
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  issues, social issues, communication issues and living
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  in with functions of executive functions, living in the reality
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  of functions, executive functions.
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  So it impacts a lot of areas of the world because it's
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  neurological. It impacts your ability to
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  communicate with the world around you, basically.
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  That's that's the premise of it, right?
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  And autism currently impacts the lives of one in 100 people here
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  in the United Kingdom and even more so one in 60 people in the
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  United States, which is quite a high number.
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  And it seems to actually be on the rise.
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  There's probably a lot more people, but just who are
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  undiagnosed for one reason or another.
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  But the interesting thing about autism is, like I said at the
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  beginning, it's a neurological developmental condition.
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  It's not a mental health disorder because people think
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  that autism and mental health disorder, when actually it's
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  neurological, even though it is taken care of by mental health
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  teams, It's not mental health, it's neurological, which is
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  fascinating, Which also means that there's no cure for autism
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  and we don't know the cause of it, which is also fascinating.
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  So moving on from that, autism comes from a Greek word.
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  So the word autism comes from Greek word called autos, which
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  is basically alone or the South or you know, alone.
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  Basically the word and autistic people that seem to be by
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  themselves a lot, you know, so neurotypical people or people
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  who are not autistic seem to be quite social although they'll
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  gravitate towards social groups and stuff.
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  But people who are on the autism spectrum will gravitate to being
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  on their own, which is that self aloneness and which is again the
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  auto for autism. But the name actually used to be
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  called early Infantile Autism and Kennel Autism because back
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  in the 1940s which is when the condition was actually started
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  to be studied. So it wasn't actually until
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  1940s the condition wasn't actually studied properly and it
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  was Leo Kenner and Hans Asperger who started studying this.
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  But it wasn't until the late 80s, early 90s they actually
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  started using it as a diagnostic criteria for people with these
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  kind of impairments in their life.
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  Now this is all really fascinating and the two main
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  players, like I said in this was Leo Kenner and Hans Asperger.
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  Now Leo Kenner dubbed the the term early infantile autism, but
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  then obviously had to drop the early infantile because they
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  realized that autism was like this lifelong thing that impacts
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  everybody. So it can just be for children.
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  And then took lifelong and then it became autism.
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  But then it also was nicknamed Kanner syndrome.
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  And also in the 80s and 90s after Hans Asperger passed away,
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  we saw his body of research then uses diagnostic criteria and
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  then called people in in that bracket Asperger's syndrome
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  which is very very interesting. I found that just absolutely
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  fascinating. So that is typically the the
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  kind of the, the meaning behind autism and and the kind of where
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  it came from. Not if you think that you have
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  Peace.