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7 ASPERGERS SYMPTOMS (YOU Never KNEW Were TRAITS) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys, welcome back to this week's podcast in this episode.
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  I'm talking about 7 and Asperger's symptoms that you
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  probably didn't know we're actually traits and a lot of fun
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  with this because you know, it's something that people aren't
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  always aware of and I find out like yeah, this is this is
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  something that could we have benefit to somebody.
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  So please let me know how you thought of this podcast by hit
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  Let me know what you thought. It'd be super awesome to hear
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  from you. Okay?
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  Enjoy. I'm talking about seven.
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  His symptoms that you didn't know we're actually traits
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  coming up guys. Let's get into it.
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  So that's what your symptoms that are like kind of not just
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  uncommon just things that people wouldn't normally associate as
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  being something for asperger's syndrome.
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  Okay. So the first one is repetitive
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  behavior and you might be like Dan everybody knows that people
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  on the autism spectrum love repetitive Behavior because they
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  love routines and routines are everything right what there are
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  some people who have be able to to create coping mechanisms for
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  other things like, you know, they may have an Autism Spectrum
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  condition, but they may not show that because they have made
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  coping mechanisms and then me mask and mm you do all these
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  things. So this video is just a kind of
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  a just an interesting video to show insight to things like you
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  may have like a skipped over in people's lives.
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  So one of them is repetitive Behavior not repetitive Behavior
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  could be down to things like if someone likes to make the same
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  thing to eat every single day and then they get up they go to
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  work they come home for lunch and then they have the same
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  thing every single day than Come home from work at the end of the
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  day and then they may be play about with like a see racing
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  cars and then they you know, go upstairs watch their favorite
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  show read the same newspaper and then you go to bed and do that
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  same thing every single day. Now this repetitive behavior is
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  something that becomes kind of almost not obsessive but
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  something that they rely on and so when that is taken away from
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  him or there's a change in that routine, they may become
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  distressed a me feel like overwhelmed and this is a huge
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  one. This is like This is like autism
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  101. But in terms of people who may
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  not already be diagnosed, you know, this kind of behavior is
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  super super interesting. So repetitive behavior is
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  something that I was always doing before I was diagnosed
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  that I didn't realize was associated with an Autism
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  Spectrum condition, which I find just fascinating.
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  Okay. So number two is something that
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  we don't really talk about a lot in their tics now ticks and a
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  little bit different to stems. So when people refer to autism
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  and they talk about stimming stimming is like
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  self-stimulatory Behavior, which could be like Rocking in the
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  chair or flapping of hands or using you know, looks like
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  fidget Spinners or something to show soothe themselves and
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  having kind of like just sensory stimuli basically from things
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  that sensory pleasing. Now in terms of text takes that
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  involuntary like flicks or store like small things that happen
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  when you don't realize that happen and so in Tourette
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  Syndrome ticks are very commonly associated with like aggressive
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  shouting or they may use swear words or they cuss or something
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  like that other make weird noises.
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  And those those typically are ticks.
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  That's what we know as takes bit with Asperger's Syndrome.
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  You can have ticks. And for instance.
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  One of my tics is I hit my chest and I got like ice and I hit my
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  chest. I don't know why I did it just
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  kind of like streaming. I streamed myself and I pushed
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  my shoulders back and externally put my test.
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  I guess sometimes it's into a stem where I like rock my arms
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  back but usually it's it's a tick and on a cough and a hit my
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  chest all the time haven't all the time and this take that.
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  I've had the stick for years and years and years and I was made
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  apparent me when We're going to the diagnosis process at my
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  girlfriend had to like write a list of things to show with the
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  doctor. You know, what why do you think
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  you know, what evidence would you say?
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  What kind of unusual quirks does Dan have that, you know,
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  typically neurotypical people wouldn't have and this was one
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  of them. Okay.
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  So number three is antisocial Behavior.
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  Now, I lie social behavior and I don't mean this in the fact that
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  you know, you're a yob and you go outside with like, you know,
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  alcohol Canton to shout at people that's not like the other
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  social behavior. I'm trying to talk about
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  antisocial behavior in the way where you are more likely to
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  spend. Your afternoon in a library
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  researching something than going out with friends and have a link
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  like, you know a fun time and in a bar or going to play sports or
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  something like that or you're really obsessed with video
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  gaming you're not really bothered about friends as much
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  as you are your research topic or your gaming that you're into
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  now, let's type of thing comes from a mixture of anxiety and
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  also a mixture of social misunderstanding.
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  So people with an Autism Spectrum condition have a
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  slightly different understanding of you know, how to communicate
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  socially with other people. So this makes it difficult for
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  them so it could lead to them wanting You be more reclusive
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  and being their home and also they enjoy the secluded nurse of
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  just quiet time having that time to just chill out and not really
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  have to worry about, you know, noise and smells and sounds and
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  other stimulator could really trigger you.
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  So, you know, if you're a person, you know who is on the
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  Spectrum and you enjoy that you know that reclusiveness.
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  That's awesome. I absolutely love it.
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  I'd love to just sit down and research something when go out
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  to a party. That's my personal one.
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  So again, this is kind of a treat UIUC in somebody and again
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  in myself when I was going through my diagnosis process.
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  I was going through this and my girlfriend was like, okay well
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  dance until we have to go anyway, you know, he loves to
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  just do his own thing in his room or when I was there not a
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  parent's house and that's kind of very interesting.
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  And again, it's super top on that people don't really talk
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  about when we talk about and Asperger's like traits and
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  things like that. Okay.
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  So number four is one of my personal favorites.
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  This one is fussy eating now the first eating can overlap with
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  repetitive Behavior. So for instance when I was a
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  child, I was super fussy eater. I am super fatigued.
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  When I was really young my parents have a hard time trying
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  to find food that I really liked but I really like one type of
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  food which is like roast vegetables with gravy and stuff
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  like that. And I just wanted that all the
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  time and so my mom actually like prep meals like made loads of
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  them and like we froze some and then like I'd have that every
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  single day and it was one of like the best experiences in my
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  life was having that same meal every single day and I loved it
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  now having you know fussiness with food is super super
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  interesting because it relates directly to something called
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  sensory processing disorder now when someone is fussy with the A
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  food through textures or smells or temperatures?
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  All of this stuff is down to how their body is perceiving the
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  sensory input from this thing. Now this again is a super super
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  diagnostic fact that when you're looking at diagnosing criteria
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  for people on the Spectrum and it's super interesting.
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  I found it just just fascinating.
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  Okay. So number five is depression.
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  Okay. So this isn't that we don't
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  really talk about a lot but very very commonly occurring and most
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  mostly all the time could occurring with Asperger's And
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  Rome is that when people have Asperger syndrome, they do
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  suffer from depression. Unfortunately, it's a it's
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  something that happens because of the way that the the autistic
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  brain interacts with the world around them.
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  They are susceptible to things like depression and high anxiety
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  and things like that and stress and all kinds of stuff.
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  I mean for me personally I've had like alopecia my hair look
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  falling out in different places and I've had depression been an
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  antidepressant but it's so common that you know people just
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  they do treat it and they don't really say, oh goodness you have
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  this Is another causing factor that is a comorbid a
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  co-occurring condition within an Autism Spectrum diagnosis.
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  So if you're somebody you know who has a lot of these traits
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  going on like I was and also had like depression this again leads
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  to a more strong and successful diagnosis of Asperger syndrome
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  or now is autism spectrum disorder.
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  That is something to always remember that depression a
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  strikes people with Autism and it's super it's like almost like
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  a like a really obvious straight if that makes sense.
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  Okay, so number six is something that This is super interesting.
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  That's number six is short term memory loss.
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  Now short-term memory loss is simply something that's very
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  very common with autism. Now when you have you know,
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  you're on the Spectrum and you're having issues with
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  short-term memory, but you have a great long-term memory, like
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  for instance. I can remember most of the stuff
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  that happened to me all of my life are going to the 90s
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  growing up, you know, even when I was a little kid growing up
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  growing up and it's you can conversations I have with people
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  at my most like bizarre kind of like just me.
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  Conversations that you probably wouldn't even think of I
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  remember pretty much every single thing about those and
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  almost like an picture format. So I minded it in a picture
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  book. It's black and white to a
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  certain extent because I don't really remember things that well
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  in color but it is picture for my I can definitely pick up the
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  details and I love that but if I go walk into the house and my
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  moms like hey, can you go to the kitchen and get me that cup like
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  walk into the kitchen and be like instantly I have no idea
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  what I'm doing. It just forget instantly or
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  somebody says to me. This is the worst on some people
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  say hit down on the 12th of this state you need to go.
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  Here look if I don't write that down and get Siri on my iPhone
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  to tell me when that is going to occur.
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  It's not gonna happen and I just absolutely fail at it.
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  And this is really common with the way the autistic brain
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  processes information. They will start filtering
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  information into the long-term memory bank, but in the short
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  term it just forget that information and it's quite
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  clumsy with it and it's super interesting and it's a huge
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  trait of an Autism Spectrum condition and something that we
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  should always be aware of on dealing with new diagnosis.
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  So looking at yourself, even if you already diagnosed there is
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  help available for building a short-term memory resilience and
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  like, you know helping overcome issues that it may have like I
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  use different types of apps and okay guys so number seven and
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  this is the final one is stuttering, right?
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  This is this is super interesting stuttering is a
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  trait that I had all my life growing up were so I was about
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  15 or 16. I do stutter sometimes still but
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  I've overcome that because I'm be more conscious about it now,
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  you know stuttering or having a stammer is when you kind of like
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  You can't get the word out and you suspect it a little bit.
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  Now when I was a kid. This was really bad in my
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  brother used to make fun of me and all this kind of stuff
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  because you know, all the siblings are horrible sometimes
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  and yeah, the the stutter was a huge role for me because like I
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  didn't really know what was going on.
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  It kind of gets worse when I'm under pressure.
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  I'm under stress it gets worse when I'm trying to do things
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  that I'm flustered and it was really really strong when I was
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  a kid, I would say up until I was about 15.
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  It was super bad and it stopped me doing a lot of things that
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  kind of gave me some Some issues with like wanted to go out and
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  actually met friends and socialize or wrong with the all
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  the other stuff that comes with an Autism Spectrum diagnosis,
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  but in terms of having a stutter, this is another key
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  indicator that a not inspection condition does come with a
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  stutter because of simple things like it is how your brain is
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  communicating your brains running faster than your mouth
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  can get out and you can cause all kinds of you know,
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  neurological conditional issues that come up come up with Lee
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  with it and stretching is definitely one of those.
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  Okay guys at number 8, and this is I don't normally do This is
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  like a bonus one for you. Want to give you guys a number 8
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  so number eight for me. It's obsessive interest.
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  Like I feel like this isn't it gets missed a lot of the time
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  because they look for things like, you know, they do they
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  socialize can they communicate do people make eye contact?
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  These are how they categorize in autism diagnostic at the very
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  basic level not talking about this is like the clinical kind
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  of academic version. I'm just saying that this is
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  like typically how people kind of identify all those many
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  people but one of the things that I think is greatly missed
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  is the obsessional interest and the obsessive interest of some
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  people that they get like dive. Directly into something in the
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  like wow, this is amazing and they just dive straight in and
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  they just love the subject that they just get completely
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  overwhelmed and I'll buy everything to know on that
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  subject will read about it. They'll visit that that place of
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  this subject interest and it becomes an obsession and
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  Obsession Obsession and then they'll just click that and go
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  to another Obsession and this is very very common that will have
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  one session and then move on to another Obsession.
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  And yeah, so this is very very common.
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  And I think this is something that we all should take note of
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  as well when an awesome special condition and it should always
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  be encouraged because having that knowledge base could lead
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  to you a really good Korean. Maybe I don't know.