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7 Weird Autism Traits You Need To Know · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In this video, I'm talking about 7 weird autism traits that you
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  definitely need to know to get a bigger picture.
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  Hey guys, what's going on? Welcome back to the Aspy world.
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  My name is Dan and I have autism in ADHD.
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  I'm making videos like this on this subject every single week.
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  So if you're new around here and you haven't already, make sure
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  to hit the subscribe button to see more videos like this.
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  OK, so 7 weird traits. Why are there weird traits?
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  Well, autism comes with many different issues and many
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  different quirks. OK, so we call these traits or
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  symptomatic characteristics. Now, I've labeled out seven ones
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  I think are kind of like, I say weird, but they're more like odd
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  or quirky are a little bit different off the norm of
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  typically saying like, OK, they have issues with communication
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  or eye contact. All those things are typically
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  given right For autism. These ones are completely
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  separate. So let's get into the first one.
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  So the first one here is smelling everything.
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  Now with autism, you get something called sensory
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  processing disorder. And that means that autistic
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  individuals will find that the smell or the taste or the
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  texture or the temperature or the situation of something may
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  be heightened or hypo reactive, meaning it's either overly
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  sensitive or underly sensitive to those things.
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  Now that being said, what would happen in the situation is that
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  things like objects, inanimate objects would have like a smell.
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  We as autistic individuals will smell many things like my mum
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  always used to be like, damn, why are you smelling everything?
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  A lot of the time it would be maybe food stuff like the smell
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  of food would depict if I'm going to particularly want to
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  try it or not. But then there's other things,
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  like I just smell like the water smells nothing like it tastes,
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  but that's interesting to me, right?
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  But then I smell other things, like smell my hands smelling
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  like the table, smelling my iPad.
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  All those things are smells that will characterize what that
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  object is within the autism brain.
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  So autistic people, yeah, we smell things.
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  But we smell things because we're trying to categorize them
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  so we can understand what they are kind of like.
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  I have a difficulty recognizing people's faces, but I recognize
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  their shoes and their voices. OK, Number 2 is collecting a
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  trash, Garbage or rubbish. OK, Not every autistic
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  individual goes out and collects garbage, right?
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  Not like we're going to like the bin and taking out all the
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  rubbish and put it in a big bag and take it at home.
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  That's not what I mean. What I mean is simply this.
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  But to take their videos, we'll find interest in things like
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  certain colours or types of things or could even be logos of
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  a company could be like cereal boxes, right?
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  So then they're obsessed with looking for cereal boxes that
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  have been thrown out in the trash.
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  So then they might go out and find the cereal box and then
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  take that cereal box home, but it's from the trash.
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  So a lot of parents I know are like, my kid collects rocks.
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  I know I see you, right? If you're a person who collects
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  rocks and you're on the spectrum because video thumbs up because
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  I just called you up, I see you. But the parents, like my son is
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  literally collecting like garbage or cans, like tin cans
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  or, or food boxes or packages or something that's now taking over
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  my house. But it's not that they're
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  collecting rubbish because it's dirty or it's gross.
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  They're collecting those things because they like something
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  about those that gives them joy, kind of like that Maria Kondo
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  thing where that sparks joy. They want to surround themselves
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  in life with that thing. That thing where like you're
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  walking to the kitchen and you're going in for something
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  and you get to the kitchen, you forget that you're actually
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  there. Or you have so many things to do
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  that you get none of them done and you get that inertia.
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  It could be that you have ADHD and it's undiagnosed, but the
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  people at ADHD Now dot IE are doing online ADHD assessments to
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  help you with the correct diagnosis for the correct level
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  of help and maybe medication that you need.
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  Now. If you are interested in finding
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  out how you can be assessed for ADHD from the comfort your own
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  home with skilled professionals in an incredibly comfortable
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  environment online, you can go to ADHD now dot IE or you just
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  go to the link in the description down below.
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  I will also leave a link for this in the link in my bio.
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  All right, guys, back to the video.
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  OK #3 is food plus situation equals perfect down What on
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  earth has mean? Let me characterize this in a
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  very simple way. When I was in primary school, so
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  I was about four or five years old, I'd eat custard in the
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  school, at lunchtime in school. But if my mum had that custard,
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  the exact same custard, it's made the same way.
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  Even if she got it from the school and heated it up and gave
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  it to me at home, I couldn't eat it because the situation, the
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  environment for the food didn't match up.
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  So autistic individuals will have a invite, a food and an
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  environment for that food where they'll feel comfortable.
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  Like they may sit on the couch with a certain bag of like
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  snacks that is for that show or they will eat dinner in a
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  restaurant of a certain ilk and then at home they won't eat
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  that. Like maybe they love pizza in
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  Pizza Hut, but at home don't even touch pizza, let alone even
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  if even if you order the pizza from Pizza Hut.
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  This is really interesting. Situational food environments
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  are so interesting. This thing like blows my mind,
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  but it's so interesting, so quirky.
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  We all have it as autistic individuals.
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  Don't lie to me and say you don't.
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  I know you do yes, comment down below.
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  I want to know right now what is your quirk, right?
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  Let me know down below, guys. I actually have a course like an
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  online program called How to turn your Obsessive interest
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  into a career for Autistic individual.
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  You can go to the link in my description right now or the
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  link in bio. And if you're watching on
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  Instagram, just comment career and I'll send you Adm with this
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  information. So definitely check it out.
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  If you wanted to learn more about sending your special
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  interests into a monetized platform, then I can teach you
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  how to do that. It's all online on demand.
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  You're awesome. OK, so #4 is only hard physical
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  touch. What does it mean?
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  Well, soft and light physical touch is like somebody brushing
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  up against you or touching you lightly.
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  Those are awful for artistic individuals.
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  We can't deal with that. But we can deal with people
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  really giving us like some strong deep pressure, muscle
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  activated proprioception hugs because light touch is hard to
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  understand what is going on. So somebody touches you lightly.
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  Your brain is kind of trying to understand this communication,
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  right? Whereas if you hard touching
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  somebody, we know exactly what's going on.
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  Somebody grabbed me, it's touching my arm.
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  This makes sense. So autistic individuals prefer
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  some really strong physical touch rather than light, soft
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  physical touch. This did become a big issue in
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  one of my previous relationships, my romantic
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  relationship with my last partner.
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  And I wrote about it in my book Autism for Adults.
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  So you can get it right now autismforadults.com if you want
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  to go to that right now, you can get a copy of your book and if
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  you sign up for the street team, you get a free digital version
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  of the book as well. So Autism for Adults covers this
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  quite in detail about the kind of like romantic relationship
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  side of it and touch. But for this video, I'm just
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  talking about the fact that physical touch can be difficult
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  for autistic individuals unless it's actually hard pressure
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  physical touch. OK, so #5 is synesthesia.
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  Now synesthesia is where an autistic person or any any
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  person can have this, but autistic individuals have this.
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  It's a condition that is very common or comorbid Co occurring
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  comes alongside autism where you will see things differently to
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  the average person. So what this is, is like, you
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  will hear sound and see color or you will hear a word and see
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  like a color or an image, right? And it can vary from things like
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  a guy I know when somebody slams the door, he sees like sparks of
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  blue light everywhere. But for me, when I hear the
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  months of the year or the days of the week, they're in certain
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  colours and like a block in my mind.
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  And this is really interesting. And I didn't realise that nobody
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  did this until I started talking about it.
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  And people were like, yeah, done.
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  This isn't something that we we do typically.
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  If this is something that you've heard of before, I want to know
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  what do you experience with synesthesia?
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  OK, number six is quite a funny one.
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  It's delays in jokes or delays in understanding jokes.
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  What this means is simply this, this is an example.
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  I'd be like in work, I was sitting, somebody tell me a joke
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  like, hey, done, you know, like what's brown and sticky?
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  And I'm like, what? And they go a stick.
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  I'm like, type it away, right? And then after a while I was
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  like, damn, I don't know. Anyway, a week went by, two
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  weeks went by and I go to the bathroom.
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  You know, I go to the bathroom and I'm washing my hands and I'm
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  like, oh, I get it, stick because they thought I was going
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  to say poop, but they said to stick and I laughed
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  uncontrollably. This happens pretty much in
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  every joke. If I hear a new joke that I
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  don't know the person properly who's telling me, if it's just
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  an acquaintance, then I'm going to be really delayed in
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  understanding this. Now, this comes with something
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  called Alexa thymia, which is a term, a broad term within an
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  autism special disorder. But in a very short, simple,
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  typical sentence, it's the delay in understanding the joke,
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  right? Which is really interesting.
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  OK #7 is really interesting. This one is giving personality
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  to an animal object. And I did this a lot growing up.
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  Like I couldn't throw away a pair of shoes because those
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  shoes had meaning, right? Those shoes had like a
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  personality. They weren't just shoes.
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  They were part of me or part of my life.
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  They were here on this journey with me.
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  They carried me across the floor.
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  You know, like not just shoes, could be anything, could be
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  clothes. It could be a tech deck that my
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  mum gave me. Everything has like a specific
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  kind of personality almost, and it's so interesting that I find
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  it difficult to understand some people's personalities when
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  they're human beings. But I find it quite easy and
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  simple to give a personality to an animal object, which is
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  really interesting. Now if you have experience this,
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  drop in a comment down below. And if you haven't already, hit
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  the subscribe button. Okay guys, peace.