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9 AUTISM In Girls Symptoms (YOU Need To Notice) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  But in this video, I'm talking about nine, autism, and girls
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  symptoms that you definitely need to notice coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the ask me.
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  Well, my name is Dan. I have autism ADHD OCD and
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  dyslexia. And I make weekly videos on this
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  this one guys. In this video.
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  I'm talking about nine. Super awesome, very interesting.
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  Autism in girls. In terms that you need to know
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  if you're looking to diagnose or understand girls on the autism
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  spectrum. So watch until the end to make
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  sure you get the full picture super important.
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  Hey guys, welcome back. My name is Don.
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  You guys know, I just told you which is super awesome.
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  And I'm super pumped to do another video with you guys.
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  Today. I'm super pumped.
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  We got nine specific, autism in girl, symptoms.
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  That is just well. Yeah, I love it.
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  It's good to have you all here. Let me know in the comments if
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  you are a mom and dad searching for like, you know is my kid on
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  the Spectrum or friend bah blah, blah.
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  Me know, if you're searching for someone else, or if you are on
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  the Spectrum, yourself in a comment down below.
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  I read respond to every single one, the top of the
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  conversation. You're amazing.
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  Okay. So I've done a few videos on
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  autism and females and autism, and masking and all this kind of
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  stuff. So, if you are wanting to look
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  at the other videos in my catalog, all about female
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  autism, spectrum, condition, then there is a link in the card
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  above here, for a playlist on that.
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  And it will be a link in the pinned, comment down below so
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  you can check that out. But in terms of this video, I'm
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  going to go through nine specific autism symptoms in
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  girls so that you can have Best chance of identifying it, by the
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  end of this video. Okay, awesome.
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  super dope. Okay.
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  So the first thing we're going to talk about here.
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  The first symptom is selective mutism.
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  Now selective mutism, something that comes very, very common
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  with autism, but more common in females on the autism spectrum,
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  and I'm not entirely. You sure why?
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  Because I'm not a brain surgeon or a neurological scientist, or
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  a new development or scientist. So I don't actually know the
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  reasons, but I do know that it happened.
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  So this basically means that a person could be very, very, you
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  know, outspoken about going with a certain group of people that
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  I'm, when they're faced with somebody new or someone or a
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  place that they're not. So familiar with, are you going
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  to place? They are familiar with, but
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  they'll do the same thing. Every time I go there, they're
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  just quiet, just mute. I've nothing to say people on
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  the autism spectrum. Always have a lot to say just
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  like me and every Video, I upload.
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  I just talk and talk and talk because I know I want to talk
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  about something, but in terms of girls and selective mutism, it's
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  really bizarre, because they will talk and talk about their
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  favorite subject again, and again, and again, and again, but
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  in terms of certain situations and certain crowds, that just
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  completely silent, which is pretty interesting.
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  And I find that so fascinating, because selective mutism.
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  I mean, yeah, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
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  Let's get on to number two. Number two, is masking that are
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  masking his way. A female on the autism spectrum
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  would be pretending to be a Persona putting on a front, if
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  you will like, acting out during the day to kind of get through
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  awkward situations like being around.
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  A lot of people social anxiety situations.
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  I can school or work or traveling because they are
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  wanting to overcome this because it's kind of like that human
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  nature. Is overcoming girls are just
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  expert at this masking, which is obviously one of the reasons why
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  it's difficult or more difficult to actually diagnose females on
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  the autism spectrum because of the masking.
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  Here behind it because they can't really see the symptoms of
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  their traits all the characteristics because they're
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  masking at the time, which is very, very interesting.
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  And and masking is something that's very, very apparent.
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  And there are a bunch of really interesting information that
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  about masking and girls on the Spectrum, which I have put in a
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  video in my playlist or I want to check out that playlist.
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  I was talking about earlier because I'll leave it on the end
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  screen as well because it's really really interesting to see
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  my friends who are also female on the Spectrum talking about
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  their experiences with masking. Because I feel like it's
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  something that everybody on the Spectrum does.
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  Dude, from time to time, but females on the autism spectrum
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  seem to do it consistently which leads me to a number three,
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  which is the next one in this set.
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  Right? Because this kind of comes into
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  play with this, and this is the end of day meltdown.
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  Now, if you're a female and you are on the Spectrum and you've
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  got about your entire day, masking from a soon as you leave
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  the house or soon as you come back, it's exhausting.
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  You're exhausting all that resource like a mental capacity
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  to deal with the fact that your Kind of like freaking out inside
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  and you're trying your best to act is kind of calm as possible,
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  is to overcome these things, as possible in work.
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  As you want to do your best and work in schools.
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  You want to do better in school in University or in like a a day
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  out with friends or whatever. Because at the end of the day,
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  you're trying to, you know, fit in as much as possible in your
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  mind to that situation or scenario that you're in.
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  But when you come home and you just lash out because you just
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  had all this but it's like, holding all this stuff and you
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  kind of get home and you just kind of you dump it.
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  All down and then you say, you know, enough is enough and that
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  the smallest thing could take you off or you just kind of get
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  so overwhelmed emotionally that you just have this huge
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  meltdown. It, you're crying for a panic
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  attack and then it takes you all night to recover and then the
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  whole process starts again, which is not a good cycle to be
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  in, which is why it's important to have diagnosis because then
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  you can have access and help and support, you know, where you
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  need it, really. But the end of day meltdown is
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  something that is very, very apparent.
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  And anybody who knows exactly what talking about.
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  So yeah, thank you. Okay.
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  So number four is obsessive collection.
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  Now people on the autism spectrum, typically have an
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  obsessive interest rate, put specific special interests.
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  Like they might be in really interested in race cars or
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  airplanes or music or whatever and they kind of Niche down into
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  that and they learn all the things about it, and they'll
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  read about it and they'll talk about it.
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  And that's the thing. Like, minus Pi clip as you can
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  see by my hat, but girls on the autism spectrum.
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  Actually take it. A little bit of a step further,
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  and it actually do like an obsessive collection of stuff,
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  like maybe profession of teddy bears or Care, Bears or books,
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  or DVDs or, like small trinkets from kinder eggs, or it could be
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  anything. Could even be nail varnish.
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  You can be like, shoelaces. It could be anything, but they
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  have collection of it and they collect all of those things.
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  Now moms and dads looks like that.
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  I mean, because their basements garages and their Loft and
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  attics are full of the collectors items of the people
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  that they know are on the Spectrum.
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  And yeah, it's quite interesting and I think this is one of the
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  most interesting ones. They'll know everything about
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  this, like the Twilight, your thing, you know, the little
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  everything about why all the characters and spin-off stories
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  and they'll have all those DVDs and yeah, I love it.
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  I'm Harry Potter is a big one for people on the Spectrum as
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  well. They're probably really tired
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  but you guys know exactly what I'm talking about leaving.
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  Drop me a comment if you know exactly what I'm talking about
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  done nailed it. Okay guys, number five is issues
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  with friends don't girls on the Spectrum.
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  May find it really difficult to maintain friendships because
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  they have a really bad hard time relating to another person.
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  And you know who people who are Typical because their brain
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  works slightly differently to other people and that's
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  absolutely fine. But what is the outcome or the
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  outcome is that they're going to have difficulties making friends
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  and or maintaining friendships, which is absolutely fine.
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  But, you know, helping support is definitely needed in those
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  areas. Okay?
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  Number six is exhaustion and fatigue.
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  Now, think about it. If you're a Selective mute and
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  you're trying to mask and you for all the things going on in
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  your mouth and down the end of the day and you're, it's
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  exhausting exhaustion and fatigue and your female end of
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  the day, your body's gone. What kinds of changes and you
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  growing up and, you know, females have like the, the the
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  like the rough end of the stick and if the bear children and all
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  that kind of stuff, so, it's kind of like all of that mixed
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  in with, on top of a neural development or condition, like,
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  autism can be very exhausting and fatigue written because it's
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  just exhausting. It's a lot to deal with a lot to
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  do with, you know, and hormones racing all that and the other
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  especially growing up in teenagers.
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  And, uh, so if you know exactly what I'm talking about guys,
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  just yeah, you know, you know, exactly but thinking About it
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  looks awesome. Fatigue.
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  It goes along with this list as a good way to figure that out
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  and something I'll probably people have never really spoke
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  to you about but it's definitely in there on that list.
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  Okay, number 7 is difficulty with eye contact and we all know
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  what people on the autism spectrum have difficulties what
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  I contract, but in an actual terms of actually trying to
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  maintain eye contact in the conversations and and social
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  situations is super difficult for people on the autism
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  spectrum and is no exception for the females, females have the
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  exact same issue and they more or less prone to just like me.
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  Our with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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  So if the other things match up and this one is also there on.
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  This is why because the definitely leaning towards the
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  fact that may be on the Spectrum.
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  Okay. Number eight, is Extreme shyness
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  of just being like, super quiet. Now, this comes from the fact
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  that it's selective mutism and also a personality of an
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  introvert, like an introverted person wants to just be quiet
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  and do their own thing and potentially is shower on you
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  people. And that shown is can also come
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  come up with Lee with the selective mutism and cause this
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  kind of thing. So you know that if your kid are
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  you Best friend or somebody is like a female who's on the
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  Spectrum and the quite quiet and certain situations on the quite
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  reserved. It's because of the fact that
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  they have extreme shyness and that I know like they are people
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  who set all time. You know, my parents are all,
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  she's really really shy and because she's more of an
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  introverted person and she was to think about things that are
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  more stimulating, rather than things that are not stimulating.
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  Like, if you go to your friend's house, to watch them, you know,
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  eat scones and go outside in the garden and listen to Mom and Dad
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  talk. It's not and stimulating thing
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  ever, especially for kids on the Spectrum, still just zone out
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  and do their own thing. That is your shyness in a
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  nutshell. Okay.
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  So number nine. Ultimate one is basically forsee
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  eating fancy eating. It's not really fancy eating.
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  It's actually a sensory processing disorder where they
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  have difficulty with eating certain foods because it's more
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  like a picky eater. Because taxes are certain smells
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  and certain kind of, formations of food can freak them out,
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  cause meltdowns shutdowns and all kinds of stuff that you
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  don't really want happening to you in your life.
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  So first you eating you guys know exactly what I mean because
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  you call it for seating but Actually not, I didn't video
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  literally just on eating issues with autism, always around
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